Zhang Tianyuan joined the others in clapping.
It's certainly good news that the unmanned spaceship was able to reach a new star system after that fantastic journey.
However, today's task is not over yet.
To be on the safe side, they launched three ships in total, with short intervals between them. Now, except for ship number 3 which is still en route, ship number 2 has already arrived at the wormhole.
So the next step is to send spaceship number 2 to the other side of the wormhole as well.
One of these two spaceships will become a professional communications relay ship, responsible for coordinating all information from the New Star and transmitting it back through Spacetime Tunnel.
Previously, because there was a wormhole between NASA and the New Star, the way data was transmitted back was very rudimentary. All the astronauts who participated in Lazarus missions and were located in the New Star would send information to a data relay station to collect the data.
Then this information relay station translates the latest news from each astronaut into binary sound pulses, and then transmits it back to the receiver on the wormhole Solar System side.
The kind of operation that Zhang Tianyuan could perform, which involves connecting a network cable between two different time periods through Spacetime Tunnel, is simply impossible in the face of a real natural wormhole in the universe.
Because this communication method was so rudimentary, the information that could be transmitted was very limited, so limited that astronauts could only use a few simple words or abbreviations to describe the situation on their planet. Xxs-②
It was under these circumstances that Professor Brand and his team determined that there were three potentially habitable planets in a star system on the other side of the wormhole.
The first and second stars both orbit a supermassive black hole that formed in the early universe and has a mass at least hundreds of millions of times that of the sun.
Because the first planet was too close to the black hole, time on it was already affected by the black hole's enormous gravity; one hour on that planet would equal seven years on Earth.
To put it simply, this planet's time is out of sync with Earth's; its time runs much slower than Earth's.
In the movie, Cooper and Amelia only stayed on this planet for a little over three hours. By the time they successfully escaped, twenty-three years had passed outside.
The second and third
Each planet has its own situation, but due to communication limitations, not much information can be transmitted back.
Now Zhang Tianyuan and his team are going to explore these three planets.
Of course, Zhang Tianyuan remembered the movie plot.
We know that the third planet is the only habitable one.
The message from the second planet was false. Mann, who was in charge of exploring the planet, had betrayed them. He didn't want to die alone on a cold alien planet. He wanted to return to Earth, so he sent a false message to get someone to pick him up.
Regarding this behavior, Zhang Tianyuan stated...
What business is it of his!
Although this person lacks vision and drags down their teammates, none of this has happened yet, has it?
Besides, this guy didn't just mess with the Mutual Aid Society. With someone like him who knows the plot around, Mann has no chance of messing with anyone else.
The current plan is for the Mutual Aid Society to take the lead.
So Mann can sleep a little longer in his little camp. The Mutual Aid Society might explore his planet in the future, and they can bring him back then to face the punishment for falsifying information. But the immediate focus is definitely on Planet No. 1 and the habitable Planet No. 3. Xxs-②
The reason for exploring Planet No. 1 is, of course, due to the time distortion phenomenon there.
Zhang Tianyuan wanted to know if he could open a Spacetime Tunnel to Planet No. 1. If so, how would he handle the problem of time asynchrony?
One second on Planet No. 1 is equivalent to one second on Earth.
In addition, there is a female astronaut on Planet No. 1, Miller.
In the movie, she died from a massive tidal wave that occurs approximately every hour on Planet No. 1, possibly even just minutes before Cooper and his crew landed.
It is now 2067. She arrived on Planet No. 1 in 2059, so she should have only been on the planet for a little over an hour. In other words, if she is lucky, she may still be alive.
Even better, if the Spacecraft No. 1, which was being prepared to be sent to Planet No. 1, had been faster, it might have been able to notify her to take off and evacuate in advance.
So after Spacecraft No. 1 passed through the wormhole, Zhang Tianyuan instructed it to adjust its orbit and fly directly towards Planet No. 1.
Planet No. 2 also passed smoothly.
It used the wormhole, then adjusted its communication channel and quickly connected to the communication repeater that Professor Brand had placed there.
It also stores the information it has received over the years.
All this information was transmitted back to the space base, where Jody analyzed it.
Amelia had somehow gotten behind Jody and was watching him recover the information he had received.
Zhang Tianyuan shook his head, knowing that she wanted to know about her boyfriend, who was Edmunds, who had gone to Planet No. 3.
According to Jody, Edmunds's information was cut off three years ago, and it's unclear whether the upload failed or something else happened, or he may have even died on the New Star.
Zhang Tianyuan knew it was the worst of the three possibilities.
However, he didn't stoop to shatter Amelia's last shred of hope.
Birth, aging, sickness, and death, the joys and sorrows of separation and reunion—these are all inevitable.
He had no interest in teaching Amelia these principles. Flowers grown in a greenhouse eventually need to experience wind and rain to transform, so let Amelia face these storms alone.
Zhang Tianyuan had other things to do.
That is, as the cooperation between the Mutual Aid Society and Yuan Heguang deepened, the situation in China gradually began to improve.
Although food is still in short supply, there is no need to store food for the future at this time.
The crops in the Legend Spacetime have been planted for some time now, and once they mature, they can be prioritized for support.
Therefore, Yuan Heguang had been directing the opening of granaries and the distribution of grain during this period. Although the famine had not completely disappeared, it had indeed been greatly alleviated.
Meanwhile, industry began to show results. With almost no need to worry about raw materials and transportation, factories finally started up, and a glimmer of hope appeared for the restart of trade and the economy.
Therefore, Yuan Heguang believed that it was time to start preparing for the future.
He decided to take the initiative to break the isolationism that is now rampant around the world, to send friendly signals to other countries, to inform them of the current situation at home, and to inform them of possible future changes.
Let them know that the country has resumed exploring New Star and has found a cheap way to migrate, so that future generations of humans will not be trapped on Earth!