Free Web NovelChapter 1546: Chapter 731: The Spaceship Helps Transport Supplies!
Chen Weimin was very surprised to hear Zhao Yi say that he wanted to join the interstellar mission of the starship, but after thinking about it carefully, it actually made sense.
The starship was indeed Zhao Yi’s design, and all the core technology was his own research.
Interstellar travel sounds incredibly exciting, so it was normal for Zhao Yi to want to be involved.
Many people would probably want to join in, even if it was very dangerous and they might even have to sacrifice their lives. There would still be many eager to be part of it.
It would definitely be a great mission, a grand journey.
Zhao Yi indeed felt that way; witnessing humanity leave the solar system with his own eyes would be an astonishing and glorious event. However, he did not actually have the intention of paying with his life. He merely wanted to accompany the mission because he could direct the work and use his system capabilities to preemptively address safety issues.
Of course, there were certainly risks involved.
The two then continued discussing the starship’s interstellar mission.
This was already a foregone conclusion.
The starship would definitely carry out the interstellar mission in the future because it was built for this purpose, not for simply loitering within the solar system; for that, a starship would not be required.
After discussing it, Chen Weimin and Zhao Yi felt even more impassioned.
He had been looking forward to this for a long time.
From the moment he took on the role of captain of the starship, he longed for an interstellar mission. Unfortunately, even as captain, he was unable to initiate the mission directly, as the starship was entwined with too many considerations.
It was not just a ship, but a vessel embodying humanity’s most advanced technology, watched by countries all around the world.
He, Chen Weimin, did not have that level of prestige.
If there was anyone who could step forward to initiate the voyage, it would only be someone like Zhao Yi, who had immense domestic and international prestige and could instill complete confidence in others.
Zhao Yi, on the other hand, was thinking even further ahead. frёeωebɳovel.com
The starship’s interstellar mission was not merely about showing off technological sophistication or demonstrating the functions of the starship; the most fundamental purpose of the mission was to find another habitable planet for humanity.
Just one successful interstellar journey would carry immense significance.
It would bring great confidence internationally, and both domestically and internationally, more resources would be poured into space exploration. It would also assist in the critical step of finding new human settlements.
This was mainly because finding another habitable planet for humans was crucial for the development of humanity.
Everyone understood this point.
If a new planet suitable for human life could be found, it would represent vast new lands and resources, the driving factors behind modern conflict. Nations would be driven to frenzy by the acquisition of new territories and resources.
Then, human technology and civilization would undergo massive development.
Conversely,
as human technology continued to advance, international tensions deepened, fundamentally over land and resources. The earth’s limited lands of value and habitability were long since claimed.
Without new lands, resources too became greatly constrained.
And technology continued to develop.
Technological progress led to massive consumption, just as in ancient times when various ores were meaningless, but now have become indispensable resources.
Once resources became the focus of competition, the absence of new resources to exploit would trap humanity in a cycle of self-depletion; peaceful development together would be impossible, and conflict would be ceaseless.
Even if all of humanity became peaceful, limited resources and continuous technological advancement would raise the demands for living and survival, eventually reaching Earth’s carrying capacity.
Even between individuals, competition is ever-present, rooted again in the scarcity of resources.
Such as opportunities for education or employment, and so forth.
Humanity has developed through continuous competition, not out of a fondness for strife, but due to limited social resources.
If there were new lands, new resources, the contradictions born of competition could be shifted elsewhere, and many may even wish to migrate to a new planet.
And so on.
In short, new lands, new resources are very important.
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After discussing many things and envisioning the future of space exploration, even imagining finding humanity’s second habitat in the universe, Zhao Yi and Chen Weimin eventually stopped since further speculation had no purpose.
Chen Weimin then brought up gravity generation technology.
Zhao Yi also gave him a brief introduction, "Our research has made significant breakthroughs."
"We are now preparing to build a large-scale gravity generator, expected to create a gravitational force over five times that of Earth, and it will be adjustable."
"This will serve as a model, from which we can construct reduced, adaptable devices suited to various environments."
"Just like the once colossal computers."
With Zhao Yi’s simple explanation, Chen Weimin was deeply shocked, even finding it incomprehensible, for before coming here, he had only heard about the development of devices capable of creating thirty percent of Earth’s gravity and had no idea the research had advanced so quickly to such a breakthrough.
