Chapter 178 Approximate Location

Just as the entire human social system was undergoing a major overhaul, the renovation of the interior of the spacecraft was also not left behind.

The large smelting center is working overtime to purify mineral materials, and at the same time, various steels and alloys in stock are used to repair the "honeycomb structure" of the Noah.

Of course, people are only repairing part of it, and some holes do not need to be repaired. According to some biologists, the upper, middle and lower layers of the Noah are greatly connected, which is conducive to the formation of a large ecosystem. For this reason, a large number of ecologists have specially formulated a detailed renovation plan. If these technologies can be realized, real clouds and natural precipitation may form in the Noah!

Not only that, while the ecosystem is greatly improved, various functional blocks will also be rebuilt. In addition to the existing residential and industrial areas, commercial areas, entertainment areas, schools and other buildings will also be built.

Yu Yifeng sat in the captain's room and looked at a report. The construction of the thermal power station in the magma area was also proceeding in an orderly manner...

There were many difficulties in this regard, because the magma was in a high gravity area, which required a large amount of new materials, and it was very hot there, and the robots responsible for construction often went on strike...

But after stumbling, the first experimental thermal power station was finally completed within three months!

The first thermal power station has a power of about 2 million watts...

Yu Yifeng was not worried, but a faint joy filled his heart.

Not only him, but many insiders were also excited about the first thermal power station.

These magmas are precious energy left by supernovas. There are so many of them, and it must be good to be able to use them. Energy is something that humans never have too much of, because it can be used to extract people's scarce living materials.

For example, those oxides can extract oxygen from them, and hydrogen, as the most abundant element in the universe, is also very easy to collect. The combination of the two is water.

People use various chemical and physical methods, as long as they are willing to consume energy, they can still produce some scarce materials such as water, fertilizers, and organic matter.

Yu Yifeng put these reports aside for the time being, and wrote "approved" and "agreed" on those that need to be replied.

Then he looked at the scientists' reports again.

There was nothing particularly surprising about the scientists' reports, but there were a lot of them.

Now people are in a very stable research environment, and there are no UFOs or aliens to mess up, so all kinds of research reports emerge in an endless stream.

Humans finally have time to carry out various scientific research activities!

Other small progress aside, one of the reports particularly caught Yu Yifeng's attention. This is a report given by the astronomical team, in which the direction of movement of the Noah spacecraft was roughly calculated.

Yu Yifeng's heart moved, this is very important news, without the resources of a planet as a backing, flying around in space is always an insecure thing please...

The position of the sun is located on an arm of the Orion Arm, roughly between Sagittarius and Perseus, which can be said to be a remote place.

According to this report, the direction of Noah's movement is exactly the direction leading to the Sagittarius Arm...

It also happens to be the core direction of the Milky Way!

At the current speed of movement, it is estimated that it will take Noah one or two thousand years to reach the Sagittarius Arm. Taking into account the relativistic effect of time, people will feel that it will take two to four hundred years...

Seeing this, Yu Yifeng felt a little bad, and his brows frowned...

Hundreds of years are really too long!

Well, as for the Orion Arm or the Sagittarius Arm, it doesn't matter. What he cares most about is whether he can encounter a star or a planet.

Generally speaking, stars are accompanied by planets. As long as it is an earth-like planet, humans can obtain resources from it. Resource shortages and energy shortages are no longer a problem.

Their current resource shortage situation is a bit like the situation of the Green Light Man at the beginning...

The trajectory of Noah's movement can be said to be a straight line. With human capabilities, we can only use nuclear bombs to slightly change the direction of movement; of course, we can also use the method of throwing materials outward to slow it down or even stop it...

If this trajectory happens to sweep the range of a star, it would be great. Humans are fully capable of stopping the spacecraft and then slowly flying to a planet.

But if the route deviates from the star by 0.1 light years or 0.01 light years, human technology will be somewhat powerless. Even if the distance is 0.01 light years, the Noah can fly for hundreds or thousands of years... Whether you admit it or not, this is the case.

"The probability of encountering a star within the flight path is very slim!"

Yu Yifeng also knew that this hope was not great. Although there are many stars in the Milky Way, most of them are concentrated in the center of the Milky Way.

For the nearby cantilever, the star density in one cubic light year is less than one thousandth. How can humans be so lucky? !

So the best way is to use a nuclear bomb to slightly change the direction of Noah's movement, correct its direction of movement, and drive to a closer star system.

But... With such a high speed, how easy is it to change? The mass of the nuclear bomb thrown out cannot be too large, otherwise the speed of the entire spacecraft will be reduced due to the peculiar properties of Noah.

"It's really troublesome..." He scratched his hair and continued to read the report.

Because the Noah spacecraft moves at close to the speed of light, the particles in the universe can easily turn the scientific instruments into space junk. Even if the detector hides on the back of the Noah's direction of movement, with a thick protective layer, it can only extend the observation time, and it may be blown up by the gamma rays behind it.

Scientists have made various attempts to observe the outside world. However, one radio telescope was damaged, and the effect was not good.

Because the telescope can only see the stars on the back of the direction of movement, but cannot see the stars in the direction of Noah's advance... What's the use?

So people can only roughly calculate their position based on previous star maps. There is a star system called "187J3X1" 21.3 light years away from Noah, with four planets on it.

If Noah's current trajectory is followed, the closest distance is about 0.67 light years!

0.67 light years is still too much!

Yu Yifeng frowned. Rough calculations would not work in this situation. By then, even if the deviation was only 0.01 light years, it would be far beyond the navigation capabilities of humans.

Seeing this, he finally knew what these scientists wanted to do... A gravitational wave telescope must be used to make accurate measurements, and then a plan can be made!

After all, the gravitational wave telescope does not see straight light, but the ubiquitous "waves"! It can easily "see" the part blocked by the Noah.

But... isn't it too risky? What if this alien creation is blown up by high-speed particles?

Even with a gravitational wave telescope, there is no way to detect the outside world from inside the Noah, and it must be detected in the universe.

If it is damaged, humans will not be able to repair it at all. If it is broken, it will be completely broken!

Yu Yifeng's face was a little uncertain, and he felt that he could not make up his mind.

"No, we must first develop high-strength defensive armor, and we must ensure the safety of the gravitational wave telescope. The gravitational wave telescope must not be damaged!"