Hibernation Plan

If it really takes antimatter to start this engine, then humanity is helpless right now. If charged antiparticles would work, then there's still some hope.

After all, if humanity makes another breakthrough in magnetic confinement technology, there's still hope of separating out some charged antiparticles. But the most crucial thing is to figure out the operating mechanism of this fuel storage device first.

In any case, this time we really struck gold.

Although it can't solve the immediate crisis, Yue Yuan, Liu Miyan, and the others are still very happy.

In the following time, Liu Miyan continued to tell Yue Yuan about their work progress during this period. Yue Yuan also gradually understood the general situation of the engine through questions and answers.

In general, the core components of this engine are intact, and components such as the nozzle have been repaired by the Engineering Department and can be considered to have returned to their original state.

As for things like force field generators, there is no in-depth understanding yet. It is only speculated based on existing human theories that this thing should be the core component of the Warp Engine, the component that generates the Warp Bubble or Curvature Field.

As for the fuel storage device, humans currently know that it is an engine-supporting component, which means that the fuel must first be placed in the storage device, or fuel pack, before it can be used by the engine.

Understanding this, if we know how to use the fuel storage device in the future, then the research direction on how to replenish fuel will be clear, which is nothing more than how to put the fuel into the device. The staff discovered that the fuel storage device has a special slot with the engine.

One engine has two slots. Because the material of the fuel storage device is very advanced, although humans currently only have one engine, they have four fuel storage devices.

If it is discovered in the future that these four sets of fuel storage devices really have residual fuel inside, as Yu Nanfeng said, that would be even better.

After encouraging the scientists, Yue Yuan left the underground base and returned to his daily work.

For more than two years, with the joint efforts of the surviving humans, many technologies that had regressed due to the disaster have slowly been recovered, but there are still no signs that Controlled Nuclear Fusion can be broken through in a short period of time.

In this case, Yue Yuan had to consider bringing back the Hibernation Plan that had been temporarily shelved.

In another year, Callisto's energy consumption will reach the critical point predicted by experts. If it continues like this after one year, then humanity will only have the last two paths left.

One is to stay on Callisto for seventy years, betting that humans can turn Controlled Nuclear Fusion into reality within seventy years. Success means survival, failure means extinction due to energy exhaustion.

The second is to build a spaceship and set off directly, betting that humans can rely on the remaining nuclear fission fuel, lie through Interstellar Dust, cross the Star Sea, and reach the nearest star system.

Actually, strictly speaking, there are only these two real paths.

As for the Hibernation Plan, it is an optimized version of the second path, allowing most people and most engineering and research projects to enter hibernation, only retaining projects related to building spaceships.

Experts estimate that if this plan is launched, two-thirds of the population will enter hibernation, and three-fifths of the engineering and research projects will be put on hold.

What is exchanged is a more secure fuel inventory.

Compared to the first path, Yue Yuan prefers the improved version of the second path.

Because the first path involves too much gambling, and scientific research progress and breakthroughs cannot be said to be achieved in a predicted number of years. Sometimes, it is common to be just one step away but unable to achieve it. As the leader of civilization, he dare not gamble when there are other more stable options.

Of course, there is actually another hope now, which is to bet that humans can figure out how to use that Warp Engine within seventy years, and bet that there is enough fuel in its fuel storage device.

"It seems that the Hibernation Plan is more stable." Yue Yuan retrieved the content of the Hibernation Plan from the computer, reviewed it, and then walked out of the office.

After being improved by relevant experts, the Hibernation Plan is no longer as simple as it was at the beginning.

Now, its content includes a detailed industrial plan, including which people enter hibernation, which people continue to work, and a set of related hibernation rotation plans has been established.

Of course, it is necessary to rotate, otherwise it would be too unfair to those who have been working all the time.

Think about it, you work hard for decades to build a spaceship, and others wake up after a sleep and directly enjoy the fruits of your labor, and you are decades older. No one would feel comfortable with that.

Of course, the government can indeed forcibly stipulate who hibernates and who works, but that would undoubtedly leave resentment in people's hearts, which may eventually become an unstable factor in future society.

You can't expect everyone to be a saint, you can't expect everyone to be selfless.

Therefore, work must be rotated, and for work to be rotated, it must be ensured that the people who rotate understand the work and can seamlessly connect to the ongoing work when they wake up.

In this way, the requirements are very high.

Therefore, it is impossible for all humans to rotate work, only those who have passed functional training can do it.

To this end, the Hibernation Plan also proposed a supporting plan, which is to conduct professional functional training for suitable groups of people, including how many workers an expert leads, how many apprentices an engineer accompanies, all matters are arranged in detail.

However, even after this, there will still be some people who cannot participate. This cannot be forced, such as those who fail the functional training, scientists and experts in other majors, and so on.

In order to alleviate the contradictions here as much as possible, the Hibernation Plan also stipulates a compensation plan.

That is, after the spaceship is manufactured and humans start the Voyager You plan stage, those who originally hibernated and did not contribute to the construction of the spaceship will be arranged for more awakening time, the purpose is to let them maintain the various instruments and equipment on the spaceship during the voyage to ensure the safety of the voyage.

To cooperate with this plan, more than a dozen supporting laws and regulations will be promulgated.

Involving labor remuneration, skill appraisal, social welfare, resource allocation and many other aspects.

In addition, to motivate people to work hard, the new government also threw out a grand pie-in-the-sky promise, namely the White Paper on Application Standards for Life-Related Technologies.

It roughly outlines the standards for using life-related potions once they become available in the future, stipulating things like what kind of contributions qualify a person to use them.

To prevent the pie-in-the-sky promise from looking too much like just a drawing, the White Paper on Application Standards for Life-Related Technologies also made special provisions for those who meet the conditions but are already aging. If the technology isn't mature enough, preventing those whose lives are nearing their end from waiting, then these people may be allowed to undergo long-term hibernation to wait for the day the technology matures.

Thanks to the Ultimate Ruler of the Multiverse and Nuan Songyan for the rewards, thanks to Fan Xingju for the 2000 coins reward, and thanks to Voyager You for the 10000 coins reward.