Chapter 370: City starship

Most of the members of Blue Home belong to the "Homeland School" and believe that the crossing technology will be successfully developed. In the past, they have provided large amounts of funds to the "101 Project" and are very enthusiastic about the progress of the project.
Seeing Wu Haibo's presence, everyone gathered around and asked about the status of the "101 Project".
"With your strong support, the 101 project has indeed made a breakthrough. I believe that after a while, the experts of our project team will be able to personally come to Blue Home to inform you of the good news."
Wu Haibo smiled and said, "Since today is a film and television appreciation meeting, let's talk more about movies. The movie just now is really magnificent and exciting. However, you all feel that the earth is full of engines and the whole planet is pushed out of orbit. , Pushing on a journey that spans tens of millions of years-is such an approach really feasible?"
Everyone glanced at each other, knowing that the appearance of the crossing expert could not be as simple as just talking about the plot of the movie.
Meng Chao also pondered the profound meaning of Wu Haibo's question.
After a while, Wu Haibo revealed the answer himself: "Movies are just fictional art. The'planetary engine' looks spectacular, but it is difficult to turn it into reality.
"First, the earth and most theoretically habitable planets must be rich in liquid water and atmosphere. The land is all suspended plates. If you imagine the crust of the earth as an egg shell, the entire planet is egg white and egg yolk.
"The planetary engine is like the tip of a needle, slamming heavily on the eggshell. The biggest possibility is not to push the entire egg forward, but to puncture the eggshell directly. Natural disasters have come one after another, and it is not the underground shelter that can withstand it.
"Secondly, according to the analysis of the thrust of the planetary engine and the resources consumed, the idea of ​​reaching a new home in thousands of years is too good. In fact, this journey is very likely to be extended to tens of thousands of years. Before, all the resources on the earth would be exhausted and reduced to a gradual cooling dust in the dark universe.
"Third, even if you get to a new galaxy by luck, a celestial body with a huge mass like the Earth, integrated into the movement of the galaxy's celestial body, it is very likely to change the orbit of the original planet of the galaxy, causing immeasurable consequences— -Two planets have staggered orbits, attracting each other or even colliding severely, which is a high probability event.
"Therefore, although the'Wandering Earth' project is romantic, it is unlikely to become a common cosmic civilization's way of navigating the stars.
"Please let go of your imagination and imagine it. If a civilization is advanced enough to fly freely on this side and the other side of the universe, what kind of vehicle are they most likely to use, a planet or a starship?"
Everyone discussed for a while, a young man wearing a black military uniform on the earth said: "Since it is not feasible to use planets as vehicles, it seems that there are only starships?"
"Yes, the planet is too big. It consumes too many resources to promote a planet for cosmic voyages, and the consequences are unpredictable. If it weren't for the critical situation in the movie where the star will expand in a short period of time, it seems that there is no desperate effort. necessary."
Wu Haibo said, "Compared with using the entire planet as a vehicle, using starships for interstellar navigation is a more conventional and technically easier idea to achieve.
"But Starship has its own problems.
"The size of the starship is too small.
"Humanity, or carbon-based intelligent life, after all, is a creature that originated on the planet, and innately needs vast space and a wide variety of resources to expand its civilization.
"In the vast sea of ​​stars, even the earth itself is just a tiny piece of dust, not to mention a starship that is billions of times smaller than the earth. It can hardly even count bacteria and viruses.
"It's really hard to imagine that a certain civilization can colonize another planet on the far side of the starry sea with a few hundred starships.
"Even on a scale like a starship, it is difficult to maintain the essence of civilization."
Meng Chao understood what Wu Haibo meant.
Just like the "Dragon King Town" that Ye Xiaoxing once introduced, on the scale of a town or a starship, it is extremely difficult for human civilization to maintain the laws, morals, life and reproduction methods of the earth age.
The terrestrial people who leave the earth, take a small starship, and the dark and cold universe, separated by a fragile shell, are destined to be eroded by the darkness, and gradually alienated into another civilization, another kind of creature, which is "the universe People" instead of "earth people".
Of course, as long as you can build a huge starship that can fit the entire city in, it may be able to solve the problem of "civilization alienation".
However, with the current technology of the Dragon City people, it seems that the creation of such a super starship is more distant than the successful development of controllable crossing technology.
"The size of the planet is too large, while the size of a conventional starship is too small. Is there a relatively compromised vehicle that can carry the sparks of civilization and spread to the entire star sea?"
Wu Haibo smiled slightly and threw out the answer, "In fact, there is one, and that is the city.
"Cities are the crystallization of civilization. All production, organization and wars of human civilization are carried out around cities. In many language families,'city' and'civilization' are originally the same word, but only a specific city-state is discovered by archaeology. In order to confirm the real existence of a certain civilization.
"If we say that in ancient times, there were still many human beings living in villages and mountains, then, with the highly organized human civilization, social production activities and human life are increasingly concentrated in highly developed large cities.
"It is completely conceivable that when a planet's civilization develops to its extreme, more than 90% of its population, technology, and social production activities will all be concentrated in a few super cities.
"In terms of the quality of the entire planet, super cities and individual civilizations may only occupy less than one percent.
"The remaining ninety-nine percent of the quality, with the exception of a few farms, breeding farms and mineral veins, mountains, rain forests, deserts, and oceans have almost zero significance to civilization.
"If a civilization wants to spread across the stars and seas, there is no need to promote the quality of the entire planet like in the movie. You only need to build the most essential core of civilization-the city, into a super star that can travel billions of light years. The ship will do."
This whimsical way of cosmic navigation left everyone stunned.
Meng Chao's thoughts turned, but his eyes sparkled with excitement.
"The benefits of turning the city into a super starship are obvious."
Wu Haibo continued to say quietly, "First of all, the city is large enough to have at least millions to tens of millions of civilized individuals, enough to maintain the morals, laws, and lifestyles of civilization on the home planet, and to ensure the eternal spirit of civilization. No deterioration-at least no deterioration in hundreds of years.
"Secondly, the construction of the city is basically completed. When it comes to another world, it is not necessary to start from scratch and rebuild it again, but it can easily expand into the four wilds of the different world. As long as sufficient resources are found, it can expand exponentially. , Even if other intelligent beings are discovered, there is enough volume to communicate or suppress, and eventually, the fire of civilization will burn on the entire alien star.
"Third, the'fuel' consumed to promote an entire city is astronomical, and it is much more convenient than pushing a planet. Moreover, the mass of a small city cannot cause the orbital distortion of the entire galaxy, which is relatively controllable. And safety.
"To sum up, I personally think that when a civilization masters the stellar navigation capabilities, especially the space shuttle technology that exceeds the speed of light, it will definitely turn their city into a super starship, or expand a super starship into a city. The boundary between the two will become more and more blurred, and eventually, the two will become one."
At this point, besides Meng Chao, someone finally reacted.
A strategic analyst from the Institute of Foreign Lands said thoughtfully: "Researcher Wu, don't you mean that our Dragon City is a starship of the ancient civilization, right?"
Wu Haibo smiled slightly: "The time has not come, I didn't say anything. Today is a film and television appreciation meeting. I just felt it after watching the film, and just talked to everyone casually.
"Assuming, I mean assuming that Dragon City is really a starship of the Primordial Civilization, but it is a very reasonable explanation of the reason why Dragon City will travel to other worlds, because this was originally the mission of Dragon City. The so-called crossing is just It’s just one voyage according to the scheduled route."
"but--"
One stone caused a thousand waves of waves, and many core members of Blue Home became excited and babbled, "How can this be possible. It is understandable to use a planetary engine to propel a planet. It is understandable to transport a city unscathed." Isn't it incredible to be in a foreign land countless light years away?"
"It sounds incredible, but Dragon City has indeed passed through.
Wu Haibo shrugged and said, "Perhaps, in the eyes of a civilization with the ability to navigate the stars, the boundaries between quality and energy are not so clear. The entire city is purely energy, and then transmitted to three-dimensional space through high-dimensional space fluctuations. Another coordinate, "materialization unfolding" again-who said that the ancient civilization could not create such a miracle?
"The facts are in front of us. At the genetic level, we humans are not much different from alien monsters. We can breathe alien air, infect alien viruses, feel the warm light of alien stars, and cultivate aliens. The mysterious energy of the world, which shows that crossing is not random, this is our'destination'."
This problem has been plagued the people of the earth since the beginning of the journey.
At this moment, it also aroused the whispering discussion among the core members of Blue Home.
Meng Chao raised his hand and said: "Researcher Wu, the bricks and tiles of Dragon City are all built by us on earth. We simply cannot give Dragon City the ability to travel through high-dimensional space!"