Chapter 499 Spaceship?

Wait...

An exploration mission to the solar system?

With a look of surprise on her face, You Lan asked cautiously: "Spaceship?"

Li Meng nodded, indicating that yes, it was a spaceship, a scientific research ship.

Looking at Li Meng in a daze, You Lan was silent.

She was not that kind of ignorant woman. She knew what a scientific research ship that could explore the solar system meant to humans. This was completely unimaginable and incredible.

You Lan knew that Black Flag City had technology far superior to that of the new humans, but she didn't know that the man next to her had unknowingly walked ahead of everyone.

Should she be happy?

Li Meng didn't know what Sister You was thinking. He grabbed Sister You's hand, and with the other hand, he took Yan'er and led the two women to the rear hatch of the scientific research ship.

"Meng'er, are we going to get on board?"

"Of course, otherwise why do you think I would take you with me."

"Where...where?"

Although she realized something, You Lan couldn't help but confirm.

Stepping on the hatch at the rear, Li Meng took the two women's hands and boarded the research ship.

Following the passage inside the ship, finally, as an automatic door opened at the end of the passage, Li Meng took the two women into the main control room of the bridge.

This research ship is called "Explorer 1". It is a research ship specially designed by Black Flag City for exploring the universe. All the cutting-edge technologies of Black Flag City are used on this research ship. Although the power engine still uses a pulse engine, considering that the exploration range of the research ship is limited to the solar system, it is barely usable.

Although Black Flag City can develop a more durable interstellar engine with its current technology, such as the human Hall effect plasma thruster, the thrust of the Hall thruster is too small and the acceleration time is too long. For engines of the same size, the thrust of the pulse engine is one million times that of the Hall thruster.

Neither the Hall thruster nor the pulse engine can allow the spacecraft to leave the solar system. In this star system, the pulse engine is more practical than the electric thrust engine.

As for the future... of course, it is the world of the fluidless plasma engine.

Although there are many types of plasma engines, and the human Hall effect plasma thruster is also a type of plasma engine, the plasma engine mentioned by Black Flag City is a completely different concept.

Once the commander level is upgraded to level three, Black Flag City will be able to possess plasma engine technology.

Whether it is thrust or durability, it is not comparable to the pulse engine. By then, although Black Flag City still cannot have the ability to sail far, it will still be no problem to spend several years or even more than ten years exploring the surrounding star systems.

If the commander is upgraded to level four, Black Flag City will have hyperspace engine technology, which is the legendary jump engine. By distorting time and space to enter hyperspace to escape the laws of physics, the spacecraft has the ability to exceed the speed of light.

Of course, all this is still a long way for Black Flag City at the moment, and it will take hundreds of years or even hundreds of years.

The "Exploration No. 1" research ship is not a spacecraft controlled by AI. Although there is ship-use AI, it is only used as an auxiliary. At the beginning of the design, this research ship was driven by people, and there is a complete life support system inside the ship.

Although Black Flag City has advanced robot technology and biosynthetic human technology, if Li Meng is willing, he can mechanize everything and build a mechanical army to expand on the earth like locusts. All it takes is time.

Although Li Meng has thought about this, he will not do it.

In the future, there will be no robots in Black Flag City, let alone biosynthetic humans.

The reason is very simple, because the ancient human consciousness in the Black Flag Empire's forward base is limited. Li Meng asked Tessa, there are about 10 million ancient human consciousnesses in slumber, which are the only remaining people of the Black Flag Empire.

The brain of Black Flag City and the AI ​​of the airship, as long as they are AI, are biomass brains, with formatted ancient human consciousness as AI, through a series of technological equipment, so that they have computing power beyond artificial intelligence.

If artificial intelligence is used, it will sooner or later become a disaster for any civilization entering the star sea.

Li Meng remembered that Tessa said that there was an iron man rebellion during the heyday of the Black Flag Empire. Since then, the Black Flag Empire has completely abandoned the need for artificial intelligence and adopted biomass brains instead of artificial intelligence.

With the Black Flag Empire as a precedent, Li Meng will naturally not develop in the direction of artificial intelligence.

Although the Sky Eye fighter is controlled by AI, it is not intelligent. It has no ability to learn. Its code of conduct is designed. In the face of any situation, it can find the corresponding behavioral commands from the command library.

Moreover, the AI ​​program of the Sky Eye fighter is fixed and closed, not open, and the possibility of self-evolution is zero.

More than 10 million, this is a number, and it also represents 10 million units.

It seems to be a lot, enough for now, but there will always be a day in the future when it is not enough.

Although biomass brains can be manufactured, human consciousness can be stripped from the body, formatted and put into the biomass brain, so that Black Flag City can have sufficient biomass brain AI.

Of course, things will not be so simple. It is not an easy task to strip consciousness from the body. This kind of technology has exceeded human imagination. Only when Li Meng's commander level reaches level five can he have the technology to strip human consciousness from the body.

If he has this kind of technology, Li Meng will use it. He will not refuse to use it, but he will not abuse it.

Although this is terrible, it is a waste utilization for those death row prisoners.

As for whether the biomatter brain AI will get out of control, there is no need to worry about it, because once the consciousness is formatted, its memory will be saved separately, and the saved memory will not have any connection with the consciousness. Only when the memory returns to the consciousness, the biomatter brain AI will get out of control.

This is also one of the reasons why Tessa allowed Li Meng to use the consciousness of the people of the Black Flag Empire. If one day the Black Flag Empire's forward base can leave the subspace, the people of the Black Flag Empire can wake up through memory.

666, as well as the soldiers of the Imperial Guard, although they are very smart, they have no consciousness before their death, and their memories have been stripped away, which makes their every move, which seems smart, very rigid.

Of course, there is an exception, that is Engineer No. 1.

Engineer No. 1 is the only engineer recruited by Li Meng. Since then, Li Meng has never recruited engineers again, because there is no need at all, and the second engineer is redundant.

All military units in Black Flag City were designed by Engineer No. 1. Tessa said that Engineer No. 1 was a famous master craftsman in the Black Flag Empire. Although Tessa did not tell Li Meng his name, Li Meng knew that Engineer No. 1's consciousness was not formatted and he had memories.