A Bountiful Harvest
Next, the two sides negotiated for several months and finally finalized all the details before entering the formal contract execution phase.
The situation is roughly the same as in the previous negotiations. The Nair Civilization obtained General-purpose Quantum Computer technology and supporting Artificial Intelligence technology, the complete technical guide for the Life Elixir 1.0 version, No. 1 Alloy Material technology, blueprints for a super-large Electromagnetic Cannon, and that 'basic common sense about the Milky Way Galaxy's that is nine parts fake and one part real.
These are some of the more specific major technologies. In addition, there are other supporting related technologies, totaling thousands of various branches of technology.
Humanity, on the other hand, obtained from the Nair Civilization a complete set of technologies and research data on Space Elevator, a complete set of technologies and process research data on Photon Computer, all kinds of living plants and animals and specimens on the Pot Lid Vastness Star, and thousands of other related technologies.
Aside from that, the biggest gain was a Research Team from the Nair People. This team consisted of a few scientists who were not particularly successful in their daily lives, plus more than 300 ordinary Research Personnel; there were no top scientists among them.
However, accompanying them were three thousand ordinary Nair People. The Nair Civilization specially provided a large transport ship for this group to live and reside in. The official explanation was that this was to ensure the three hundred Nair People who had volunteered to follow humanity on their Starry Road journey wouldn't be lonely.
What puzzles humanity is that the Nair Civilization's "Research Team" seems to have been handed over directly to humans, without sending any warships along with them.
This saves humanity from having to resort to force when the time comes.
The recruitment process was unknown to humans, but experts speculate that those who volunteered to embark on the so-called "space exploration" journey with humans probably genuinely didn't know that they had been betrayed by their own civilization.
Humans didn't ask the Nair People's Grand Governor, since they would naturally find out once they left the Pot Lid Vastness Star.
The truth is just as humans think: the Nair People in this "Research Team" were unaware that they had been betrayed by their own Main Civilization and believed they were actually participating in a space exploration mission by an Alien Civilization.
Humanity felt they had struck gold by trading 110 million Transaction Points for such a Research Team. Similarly, the Nair People's leadership also felt they had made a great deal, because those were not top-tier scientists, and because the truth had been concealed, the three thousand ordinary Nair People who had been selected were still celebrating their good fortune.
I wonder what these people will think when they find out they've been sold to aliens by their own Main Civilization.
Time passed slowly, and a year had passed since their first video negotiations. During this time, both sides were busy analyzing and verifying the various scientific and technological advancements they had acquired from each other.
Meanwhile, the supplies that the Nair People provided to humanity were continuously transported by human transport ships from the distant orbit of Pot Lid Five Planet to the Great Fleet outside the Meteorite Belt.
There, all resources will be categorized and used, and then pulled into long-awaited space factories to become batches of industrial products needed by humanity.
Factory debris and rocks containing little to no minerals were transported to warehouses to serve as Heavy Nuclear Fusion fuel. As for Cold Nuclear Fusion fuel, it was produced in local Nair People factories, with humans directly receiving pre-packaged fuel packages.
Humans and the Nair People belong to the same level of civilization, but the other's science and technology cannot be used immediately. It also takes time to digest them, since they are all things that we do not have. We need people to learn, engineers to learn, and all relevant personnel to learn.
Only in this way can science and technology be truly mastered.
For humanity, the most important technologies gained from this exchange were Photon Computer and Space Elevator. The former was an unexpected surprise, while the latter was something we had long awaited.
Therefore, after obtaining the complete set of technologies and research data on Space Elevator, top scientists from various disciplines immediately plunged into related work.
Xu Zhenyi, especially, a materials scientist, has been excited for several days.
Previously, they couldn't make a suitable cable no matter what they tried, but now, using the technology and craftsmanship of the Nair People, they have directly produced the cable material in the laboratory, and succeeded on the first try.
This shows that it's not that human technology is incapable, but rather that we haven't found the right direction and haven't mastered the core technology of this process.
Similarly, after absorbing the complete set of Space Elevator technology, humanity also discovered it.
The Nair People's Space Elevator design is very similar to those in human history; what humanity lacks is indeed the technology to manufacture cables.
However, what humanity did not expect was that, judging from the data alone, these cables weighed 140,000 tons, far exceeding the total mass of any Space Station in Earth Era.
From the research and development process, we can see that when the Nair People first built their Space Elevator, their cables were constructed in sections according to different heights and tensile strength requirements, and then connected sequentially. However, due to advancements in nanotechnology, they were finally able to manufacture a single Carbon Nanotube that was 200,000 kilometers long.
Yes, it's Carbon Nanotube.
Although it is still far from the True Nano Technology that humans imagine, the technology to manufacture these Carbon Nanotube undoubtedly surpasses any current human technology in the nanotechnology field.
So after obtaining the complete Space Elevator technology, the nanotechnology field, which had blocked humanity for countless years, finally saw a glimmer of hope.
Humanity has seen a glimmer of hope for True Nano Technology in the manufacturing technology and research process of Carbon Nanotube used in Space Elevator.
The Technology Barrier Level 3 Civilization, which had stood before humanity for countless years, finally showed a crack.
According to scientists, Level 3 Civilization, for humanity, has gone from merely seeing the direction to having found the path to the other side.
They believe that as long as they fully understand Nair People's research in nanotechnology and continue to explore in this direction, they will surely be able to break through that Technology Barrier and truly master Nanotechnology.
That being said, the reason why humanity discovered this as soon as it obtained the Nair People's research data on the field of nanotechnology is not because the nanotube manufacturing technology for Space Elevator is the key to breaking through the Technology Barrier of Level 3 Civilization, but because humanity realized that it had previously fallen into some kind of misconception.
Humanity has long believed that the key to breaking through the Technology Barrier of Level 3 Civilization lies in Materials Technology, since Nanotechnology is essentially about materials. However, humanity now understands that it's not just about materials, but rather the entire industrial system's nanoscale processes and manufacturing technologies.
It is not only necessary to have the ability to produce real nanomaterial robots, but also to achieve nanoscale precision in various fields, whether it is the precision of primary equipment, secondary equipment, industrial equipment, or the precision of technological creations, equipment operation, and mechanical command response.
Level 3 Civilization is not merely one that has mastered the manufacture of true Nanobots, but a civilization that has achieved nanoscale precision in every aspect.
To put it another way, if the transition from Primitive Civilization to Tier 1 Civilization, and from Tier 1 Civilization to Level 2 Civilization, is a matter of brute force and Miracles Through Brute Force, then reaching Level 3 Civilization is a matter of micro-management, precision, and accuracy across all technological dimensions.
True Nanobots are merely a superficial marker; a true Level 3 Civilization represents a comprehensive upgrade of the entire civilization.
And this may be the powerful force that technological civilization gains in the microscopic realm.
May all our compatriots in Gansu be safe and sound!