Chapter 50: Alien
Rashly introducing foreign scientific research forces will only make things more chaotic and uncontrollable, and will instead slow down the overall progress.
“We can only rely on ourselves…”
Sun Changhe was silent for a moment, then said solemnly again: “What was the reason you said it was not feasible before? Even if the entire nation provides full support, it’s still not feasible?”
Chen Yusheng’s expression grew even heavier: “Not feasible.
A single rocket involves up to millions of parts, which need to be assembled with extreme precision. A failure in any tiny part could lead to the overall failure of the mission.
Our current manufacturing mode relies on a large amount of testing and adjustments, iterating the rocket bit by bit to a perfect state, so as to ensure the launch success rate.
And testing is the most time-consuming. Not only does it consume time, the large devices involved in the testing process, such as test stands, vibration tables, vacuum tanks, etc., are also extremely limited in number in our country, fundamentally unable to handle completing a large amount of testing in a short time.
These devices are also highly complex large-scale equipment, with construction cycles measured in years, and it’s impossible to increase their numbers in the short term.
According to my department’s assessment, even with the entire nation as support, going all out, under extreme compression…”
His expression showed some struggle: “At most, at most, we can compress the production cycle of a single Giant Spirit God II Heavy Launch Vehicle to around 12 months.”
12 months…
This number plunged everyone in the entire meeting room into silence.
This almost completely blocked the possible path of launching satellites and lunar rovers to the Moon to investigate the truth of the high-energy neutrino outbreak.
It seemed that only one path remained in front of everyone.
Launch intercontinental ballistic missiles to indiscriminately bombard the corresponding area on the Moon.
But this was merely the last fallback measure, a desperate struggle after completely losing hope.
Choosing this plan would basically be equivalent to handing fate over to the heavens, resigning to destiny.
This was something people could not accept.
Sun Changhe was silent for a long time before lifting his head and saying word by word: “Since the testing phase is the most time-consuming, then don’t test!”
Chen Yusheng suddenly raised his head, his arm beginning to tremble uncontrollably: “No, no testing? That’s not possible, impossible…”
“Tell me, skipping the testing phase, with our country’s industrial capacity, is there confidence in mass-producing this model of rocket within five days?”
Sun Changhe’s voice was full of ironclad determination: “Make a hundred or two hundred of them. Even if on average it takes ten rockets to succeed with one, the total would still give twenty, enough to send satellites and lunar rovers!
Now, tell me, can it be done?”
Chen Yusheng clenched his fists tightly, his facial muscles twitching with a hint of ferocity: “I, I… can do it!”
“Good, go do it immediately!”
“Yes!”
The window displaying Chen Yusheng’s image immediately went black. Clearly, he had exited the online meeting room and begun gathering personnel to carry out the relevant mission.
Up to this moment, based on the intelligence Jiang Yang brought back from the previous cycle, the Apocalypse Project Command had confirmed two plans.
First, complete the manufacturing and launch of lunar launch vehicles within five days, arrive at the Moon within four days, and begin executing the detection mission to ascertain the specific situation in the Moon’s JH area and attempt to confirm the truth of the high-energy neutrino outbreak.
Second, immediately carry out modifications to intercontinental ballistic missiles to give them the capability to directly bombard the Moon, and based on the detection results from the previous phase, confirm whether to launch directly, and how many missiles to launch and what yield of nuclear warheads to carry.
The meeting seemed to have reached the point where it should end.
But Sun Changhe was silent for a moment, then turned to Lu Zhaoming, his tone growing even more serious: “Professor Lu, you seem to believe that the neutrino radiation source on the Moon is non-natural?”
Jiang Yang was stunned, then reacted.
Professor Lu Zhaoming had mentioned the word “destroy.” And what “destroy” corresponds to is usually something non-natural, artificial—whether made by humans or aliens, it falls under the broad category of artificial facilities.
Lu Zhaoming smiled bitterly: “I really find it hard to imagine that there would be a natural neutrino formation mechanism that happens to target Earth and happens to have an effect on the human body—at least an auxiliary effect; otherwise, there shouldn’t be a neutrino outbreak at the time of the apocalypse. I find it hard to imagine such a thing.
But if it’s artificial, then everything makes sense.”
“Are you saying… alien civilization?”
Jiang Yang found it somewhat unbelievable.
For a long time, so-called alien civilizations had only been hypothetical existences.
Although almost all scientists believe that alien organisms or even alien civilizations exist in the universe—otherwise, it’s hard to explain why organisms appear on Earth.
The environment where Earth is located is somewhat special, but relative to the entire universe—not, even just relative to the Milky Way—there should be many environments similar to Earth’s.
In the vast Milky Way, the number of stars is in the hundreds of billions. The number of planets can only be more, not less.
With so many planets, what kind of environment couldn’t be shaped?
There’s no reason life can emerge on Earth but not on other planets.
That said, in reality, let alone alien civilizations, even simple alien organisms, such as alien bacteria or viruses, have never been discovered.
Uh… probably haven’t been discovered, right?
Jiang Yang instinctively looked toward Sun Changhe. He heard Sun Changhe say seriously: “I can responsibly say that up to this moment, our country has not discovered any extraterrestrial life.
For foreign countries, I can’t guarantee 100%. But based on existing information, I can say with extremely high probability—over 99% possibility—that foreign countries are the same.”
Since no signs of alien life have ever been discovered, yet Professor Lu now believes there might be some alien creation on the Moon…
Lu Zhaoming looked at Jiang Yang, still with that hint of bitter smile on his face: “Even something like a time loop has appeared; what’s so unacceptable about a mere alien creation?”
Jiang Yang was startled.
Indeed!
Sun Changhe’s voice grew even more serious: “I agree with your view.
In any case, at least we can now have considerable suspicion that certain things located in Mare Tranquillitatis on the Moon are artificial objects, and the apocalypse is also deliberately caused by some alien civilization.
So, Professor Lu, how to verify this point?”
Lu Zhaoming thought carefully: “I think… as long as we find a way to check whether, at the time of the apocalypse, these high-energy neutrinos are concentrated only on Earth, we can determine if the apocalypse is a man-made event.”
