Chapter 2 Culture·Society·Science and Technology

Ever since it was known that the Lagrangian point, the setting point of the space colony in the New World, which was expected by human beings, has the problem of instability, the speed of space colony construction has slowed down considerably.All new planets are moved to places where the atmosphere has stabilized, so all construction is prohibited except for some that are used for research. Although the residents of the space colony have been given removal incentives as quickly as possible, and the policy of using public funds to promote relocation has been adopted, there are still residents who continue to live in the space colony.Their reason is that the safety of the new planet has not yet been determined, and some people say that it is "very suitable" for living on a space colony, and there are even various sentimental reasons for not wanting to move away because the tomb of the dead wife is here.However, there are already tens of thousands of people who admit that the era of space colonies is completely over.

Space colonies that have exceeded their service life have been abandoned one by one, but even so, after entering the 26th century, according to the results of the immediate census, it is estimated that nearly 300 million people are still living in space colonies with.Although some of them strongly expressed that they would continue to stay in the abandoned space colonies, most of the space colonists did not think about themselves for the time being, but only hoped that their children would consider new planets or the earth to lay the foundation for life. The earth government has also wanted to use tough measures to abolish the space colonies for a while, but now it has been converted into that if the residents of the space colonies want to, they will provide routes to plan to move to various planets, etc., and wait for the other side to propose a relocation attitude. kind of policy.This is because the independence movement on some of the new planets is becoming more and more intense, and they do not want to make changes that will cause too much stimulation to the residents of the space colonies.

In 2063, the element transformation technology discovered by Dr. Lin Bowei has achieved fruitful results in the super gigantic cause of "creating new planets by disintegrating Jupiter" in the 23rd century. At the beginning, the adjustment of the element conversion reaction was not carried out smoothly, and there was a period when it was considered an unachievable technology. However, the technical personnel group of the frontline research institute located in the orbit of Jupiter solved all the problems one by one. solved.In the end, they finally achieved the great feat of creating a real planet with almost the same mass as the earth.However, due to the opposing views within the earth government on the completion of the element transformation system, the characters who have no use value have gradually surfaced, and in the end they only got the worst result.

On November 9th, 2323, the fateful day, the element transformation system that had been activated before it had been adjusted lost control due to distorting the surrounding space and began to move wildly.The researchers predicted that if this continues, the entire solar system will eventually be involved in extremely tragic events, so they resolutely decided to let the twenty-four element transformation devices floating in the orbit of Jupiter land on the Jupiter On the falling runway that went up, destroy them all in one breath. At this time, the research team and the front-line research institute share the same fate, so before destroying all the element conversion devices, it is required to delete all the archives in the main computer in the element conversion research institute on the surface of the moon.Therefore, although it is not clear why there was such an order, on this day, a member of the Lunar Surface Research Institute not only deleted all the data files, but also destroyed the main computer at the same time and disappeared.

At present, the frontline research institute has also been destroyed, and the data files on the surface of the moon have also been eliminated. As a result, it is already quite difficult to regenerate the element conversion technology.Of course, it does not mean that it is completely impossible, but scientists have said that even if this technology is restored, it will not be of any benefit to humans. The communication network connecting the various planets is managed by the communication company invested by the earth using a monopoly system.In particular, the "Planet Link Agency" (IPP), which has received funds from the Earth government forces, is not only attached to large-scale military facilities on Venus, Mars, and the moon, but also has a fully equipped communication base.In addition, communication bases are set up in the orbits of each planet.

To carry out interplanetary communication, it is necessary to use the Internet for generally small news agencies.And among these news agencies, because there is competition in terms of quality and price on the line, it is difficult to fully introduce the principle of market demand, so they are almost always operating in a state that is not conducive to users. In addition, when the Earth government forces are conducting exercises, all communication companies except the Planetary Link Agency are also obliged to "assist" in the work, so the number of lines for ordinary users is also obviously limited.When it goes too far, it will even block the communication with a specific region of the universe.

Generally, the communication lines between planets are formed by combining powerful output power and highly directional laser light.At the beginning of the twenty-fifth century, neutrino communication with penetrating planetary characteristics was repeatedly tested repeatedly, but in the current situation, because the conclusion obtained is that with the current funding, it is impossible to achieve a balance of advantages and practicality, so In the end, the introduction of this technology was given up.However, there are many speculations that this is caused by the fact that the military has monopolized the new technology.

Also, the long-advocated use of heavy wave force as the ultimate means of communication has so far been unsuccessful in making it practical.Although in the past, some people reported several successful cases in the society, but they have not succeeded in the experiment according to the original form. In the twenty-sixth century, which is now, most of the spaceships sailing among the planets are equipped with nuclear fusion propulsion mechanisms.The principle of pouring propellant into a nuclear fusion furnace, using a large amount of hot gas to expand, and then ejecting it, has been confirmed in the 21st century.

Now the standard spacecraft has a nuclear fusion furnace in the back half of the hull that can react deuterium and helium 3, and the propellant uses water.The propellant ejected at the maximum acceleration can reach a speed of 120 kilometers per second, but this is only limited to the maximum acceleration.After breaking away from the gravity circle near the planet, the jet speed switched to a cruising speed of thirty kilometers per second. Generally, if the occasion of the gravity aircraft ejection take-off device is not used, the final speed of the military ship after the cruising acceleration ends is 60 kilometers per second.At this speed, it usually takes a month to travel to the "same-orbiting adjacent planet" or so in Earth's orbit.

The armed equipment loaded on the spacecraft can be roughly divided into two types.One is the laser light weapon, which is the representative of laser, and the other is the destructive weapons such as space navigation missiles and space depth charges. The lasers emitted together with the electricity used in the nuclear fusion furnaces are simply used to close the structure together, or use low output force to make them oscillate into laser communication devices, and most of the merchant ships are equipped with firearms for self-defense. Another kind of space navigation missile is aimed at the front of the enemy plane and then launched. After exploding in front of the enemy plane, the fragments are scattered, and then use those fragments to destroy the enemy plane.In space battles, the speed of each other can reach hundreds of kilometers per second, so using tiny fragments can bring great destructive power.

This weapon is mainly loaded on military ships. In the "Great Civil War" that broke out in the 24th century, although the current Earth government has won an overwhelming victory, it has not wiped out all the defeated "Rebels".The surviving forces of these rebels are hiding in abandoned space colonies or asteroids in factories that have been shut down, peeping for opportunities for resurgence. Although the Earth government forces were aware of their existence, they had to give priority to reorganizing their exhausted forces, and thus missed the opportunity to eliminate them.Thus, "Space Pirates" was born. Space pirates will appear around all planets and new planets except for the strictly controlled areas of the earth, and invade their cargo ships or passenger ships.These victims are definitely not ignoring their existence, but if they are left alone like this, the ruling ability of the earth government will be doubted, so that the earth army can be expected to control these with their prestige space pirates. The way to power a computer first appeared in the twentieth century.At that time, silicon particles and electrical signals were used as the basic components, and then transformed into a combination of photons and optical signals, so the switching speed became extremely fast, and the timing frequency became extremely high.Even the basic structure favors parallel distributed processing. In addition, the secondary effect is that the energy required for driving is also reduced.Calculation devices and peripheral equipment are designed to be small, so that the isolation of external electromagnetic noise is also improved, and these are the reasons that support the popularization of optical element computers. The popularization of optical element computers began in the era of "great expansionism" in the early 24th century. However, it took about two hundred years for computers to fully penetrate into the lives of citizens.However, although citizens often benefit from computers in their daily lives, they no longer feel the physical existence of computers.All the things that need to be done by hand in daily life must be processed by computers. In other words, an environment where computers are ubiquitous has been reached. These computers use weak radio waves to form a wireless network, and then exchange the required files through this wireless network.Let's take a look at the details of these computers, they are composed of two kinds of magnetic core memory chips and magnetic core input and output devices. The magnetic core memory chip can be said to be the most basic form of computer, which can be installed on all items.It's also possible to mount wireless network mail antennas on simple memory cells, but they're generally not capable of high-level processing on their own. On the other hand, the magnetic core input and output device has a higher-level circuit than the magnetic core memory chip, which can write new instructions after rewriting the memory in the magnetic core memory chip.In addition, the information circulating on the network is given specific processing commands by the magnetic core memory chip and the magnetic core input and output device, which is also embedded in the "reading" mechanism.What is read by the magnetic core input and output device, the output command is simply converted into an electrical signal, which is a function that can also be used in the most basic computer. Even if there is no magnetic core input and output device for reading, it is possible to perform file reading after processing several magnetic core memory chips in parallel.It's just that it's time-consuming, so it can be said to be very impractical. The manufacture of magnetic core input and output devices is still the exclusive state of the earth.In this regard, although the earth government has made an explanation that "because the production in this area requires a high degree of technical ability, if there is a defect, it will affect the operation of the entire network", but it is often reported that It is because of the rumor that "as long as a certain operation action is performed, the secret function that can only accept instructions from the earth government" is installed on all magnetic core input and output devices. About what kind of message you want to send, or what information you want to get from other people, these must be input into the magnetic core memory chip and the magnetic core input and output device in advance.At the same time, when the magnetic core memory chip and the magnetic core input and output device form the connection point of the wireless network, it is also possible to transfer these files to other users even if the received information is irrelevant to the user. The magnetic core memory chip goes to function. Because the general magnetic core memory chip is not embedded in the power supply, the power generation mechanism compatible with all the various characteristics of the computer will provide the required power when driving.For example, after installing a high-efficiency piezoelectric element generator on the bottom of a food bag for one person, if these food bags are received in the cabinet, or the position in the cabinet is changed, or from Take it out of the cabinet and wait for the action to occur, and it will send out a signal.It will continuously signal its location or state.When the computer hidden in the cabinet sends out the message that the food bag has been opened (someone has eaten it), it will also check the inventory at the same time, and will place an additional order if necessary. This kind of information can also be said to be extremely private and confidential information, so some people don't want their private information to be used by others.At this time, as long as a sticker is pasted on the circuit of the magnetic core memory chip, the circuit can be "blocked".The magnetic core input and output device can also be installed with a "button" for the same purpose. If the button is pulled out, the function of the magnetic core input and output device will stop, but this is different from the magnetic core memory chip. If the button is put back on again, the function can be restored again and the action can continue.