Chapter 547 Triton
In the same year, because of the demand for the establishment of the Mars Industrial Center in these years,
It is also an indirect impact caused by the expansion of Qiusu Research Institute during this period.
The former permanent base on Mars has become the largest extraterrestrial human base besides the moon.
The number of people permanently stationed at the Mars base and the space platform near Mars exceeds 50,000.
Most of them are researchers and technicians affiliated with Qiusuo Research Institute.
However, the difference is that at this moment, the permanent personnel of the Mars base and the near-fire space platform,
They only account for a small part of the total number of people on the near-fire space platform and Mars base under normal circumstances.
Under normal conditions, the space platform plus the Mars base has a total population of more than 200,000 and close to 300,000.
The extra 200,000 people are tourists from the ground.
After entering the smart era, China has gradually lowered its application requirements for extraterrestrial tourism.
Up to this point, with the support of Mars industry,
Interstellar tourism to Mars is basically semi-open to the general public.
As long as you apply and meet some basic conditions such as no criminal record, you can basically pass.
It's just that you have to wait in line for a long time before you can get in.
At the same time, the time everyone can spend on the Mars base is limited.
By 1965, this limit was no more than seven days in a year.
Even so, as the Mars base continues to expand, the number of tourists on Mars every day continues to increase.
And it will include Mars and the moon,
The total number of human beings everywhere outside the earth,
At this moment, the total number of human beings outside the earth has exceeded one million, and is continuing to rush towards the figure of two million or three million.
To this end, due to tourism needs, resource transportation needs, and permanent base expansion needs,
Centered on the Earth, Moon and Mars industries, the interstellar routes belonging to human civilization in the solar system are also becoming increasingly busy.
In the near-Earth space platform, the connecting port of the interstellar spacecraft,
Starship flights carrying only crews are tight on the Starship schedule for near-Earth space platforms.
Basically every hour, more than one interstellar spacecraft sets off from the earth to the moon, Mars, and permanent bases on other planets.
At this time,
Public perception and Mo Dao are contradictory and completely different.
For Mo Dao, after the smart era, he has been stuck in newer technological breakthroughs for a long time.
For the public, the entire world has been changing rapidly in recent years, and is still digesting the huge dividends brought by entering the intelligent era.
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66 years.
The latest model of interstellar spacecraft jointly built by the Mars Industrial Center and the Lunar Industrial Center has been assembled in Mars orbit.
It also carried a permanent personnel team of more than 200 people, setting off from Mars to Neptune's satellite, Triton.
This is after the permanent base on Triton and the intelligent industrial cluster are built to a certain scale.
For the first time, the Qiushi Research Institute has sent permanent personnel to the orbit of this distant planet.
The main tasks of these personnel will still be responsible for the nearby research of Neptune, as well as the observation of Neptune beyond, the Kuboy belt and the much more distant Oort cloud.
After that, the Research Institute will also build a large number of space observation equipment in the orbits of Triton and Neptune.
When these two hundred researchers set off, Mo Dao also arrived at Mars to see them off.
In May of that year, these people set sail on the starship as scheduled.
After nine months, in February of the following year, it reached the orbit of Neptune and its permanent base on Triton.
During the nine months of the voyage, these people basically spent their time in human hibernation.
According to the plan, these people will stay at the Triton permanent base for two to three years and then return to the ground for a rotation.
Of course, during this period, Triton will not only have more than two hundred people, there will still be new personnel going there.
So far, in the orbit of Neptune, there is the farthest human activity area from the human home planet, the earth.
Although the distance of Neptune is several orders of magnitude compared to the distance of Proxima Centauri in light years,
But for the permanent personnel in Neptune's orbit, it will take up to four hours for the ground to receive the information sent back to the earth, and eight hours for the reply to be received.
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68 years.
While exploration and development within the solar system are progressing rapidly,
Within the Qiusuo Research Institute, Mo Dao presided over and participated in two important projects, the research on the long-distance propulsion system and more advanced energy technology, but progress was still slow.
This year, not only in terms of physical age, Mo Dao was already forty-five years old.
"...Mo Yuan, should we try to build a very large mobile base first and send more than 10,000 people as advance personnel to try to reach Proxima Centauri in a relatively long period of time? At present, our productivity is also It is enough to support us in building such a mobile base... After that, if we have new technology, we can catch up with a mobile base later. "
After another meeting between core researchers in the aerospace field,
A core researcher who was relatively familiar with Mo Dao mentioned to Mo Dao.
In fact, this was the plan proposed by Suigu at the beginning, to build an interstellar spacecraft large enough, stuff it with enough people and materials, and spend a long time to travel a distance of 3.43 light-years.
After listening to the core researcher's words, Mo Dao turned his head and looked at the researcher,
If it is just to reach Proxima Centauri, this is actually a way.
However, this method has little significance for the development of human civilization.
For Mo Dao, it doesn't make any sense.
Mo Dao shook his head,
"If there is still no breakthrough in technology, there is no need to arrive in order to reach Proxima Centauri. The goal of long voyage can be postponed until the new technology is realized."
In this life, Qiusuo Research Institute, and even the entire human society, have been even more seriously affected by Mo Dao.
Mo Dao's pursuit of Proxima Centauri has largely affected many people's judgments about Proxima Centauri.
Even though astronomical observations indicate that this neighboring star is relatively well understood, Mo Dao's attitude towards it inevitably still makes people have some unrealistic expectations about it.
"Proxima Centauri is a goal of the voyage, nothing more."
"I understand, Mo Yuan."
The core researcher responded.
Mo Dao said nothing more, turned back and looked out the window at the clear sky at the moment.
In fact, for a target like Proxima Centauri,
A more appropriate way is actually for human beings to continue to expand outward little by little based on the current territory of Neptune.
Dozens or a hundred astronomical units moved forward, exploring routes, establishing new intelligent bases and even supply bases.
Instead of trying to reach Proxima Centauri with a long-distance spacecraft directly across a distance of more than three light years like now.
It's just that Mo Dao really doesn't have that much time to wait for the human route to extend forward little by little.
Fortunately, for technological breakthroughs at this time, progress is slow;
Mo Dao is not too anxious.
This has been expected for a long time, and it will not be that simple to achieve a light-year voyage.
In addition, there is not much time left in this life, but compared to other lives, it is still a lot.
Mo Dao has also gone through a lot, a longer and more difficult time than now.
The spiritual leader of the Kerner youth died more than once in his early life.
The initial research on controllable nuclear fusion also took a lifetime on the same problem.
For Mo Dao, it's just one more time.