Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

November 1989.

The entire heavy nuclear fusion propulsion system has undergone several rounds of tests.

This includes the actual navigation test of the entire heavy nuclear fusion propulsion system.

A combination of heavy nuclear fusion demonstration reactor and Proximity-2 electric propulsion engine,

It was sent into space from the moon in parts, and reassembled in space.

Without adding all the other parts of a normal spaceship,

The heavy nuclear fusion demonstration reactor as a whole provides energy and working fluid for the Proximity series propulsion engines.

The Proxima electric propulsion engine propelled itself and the combination of the heavy nuclear fusion demonstration reactor straight from the lunar orbit to the vicinity of the Mars orbit.

When the monitoring equipment in Mars orbit observed that the heavy nuclear fusion propulsion system was approaching as a whole,

It announced the first successful actual navigation test of a heavy nuclear fusion propulsion system in space.

March 1990.

The problem of route pre-planning for long-distance spacecraft in ultra-high-speed interstellar navigation and the problem of ultra-long-distance navigation route detection,

Although technically no more perfect solution has been found,

But in terms of engineering, a relatively complete solution was obtained.

It's called a 'wingman plan' or an 'early warning plan'.

In actual operation, it is similar to the dynamic inspection vehicle in rail transit, which detects the navigation route in advance before the normal voyage.

Because the final voyage spacecraft must be extremely large and need to carry people,

Compared with an intelligent early warning spacecraft that is also equipped with a heavy nuclear fusion propulsion system and does not need to carry people, a long-distance voyage spacecraft only needs to install a large number of detection equipment.

The acceleration and even the final velocity must be much lower,

And through this speed difference.

It is completely achievable. In the construction plan of the long-distance spacecraft, the construction of several intelligent early warning spacecraft will be added.

They will arrive at a speed faster than the voyage ship itself, and then be distributed at different distances in front of the voyage ship's planned route.

Exploring the entire navigation route for the long-distance spacecraft itself, and providing information support for the advance planning of the ultra-high-speed navigation route of the long-distance spacecraft.

Some researchers suggested that the construction of the intelligent early warning spacecraft should be completed before the long-distance spacecraft sets sail, and the early warning spacecraft should be released earlier to the direction of Proxima Centauri.

Of course, the essence of the ‘early warning plan’ can only reduce some navigation risks during ultra-high speeds as much as possible.

It is definitely not as effective as the long-distance spacecraft itself, or in other words, the longer-distance and more accurate detection technology that humans have mastered.

However, the early warning plan has been improved and some of the technical problems involved have been resolved.

To a large extent, the voyage plan is still being advanced and a big step forward has been taken.

Then, in 1992, 1993...

After the two most important problems in the voyage have been solved,

The remaining questions finally couldn't stop Qiusuo Research Institute and Mo Dao.

In the past few years since 1989,

Under the leadership of Mo Dao, the Qiusuo Research Institute seems to have entered a harvest season on some research projects related to voyage issues.

All kinds of problems that were originally looming ahead were swept away by overwhelming force.

Even if no permanent solution can be found for some problems, feasible engineering alternatives can still be found.

final,

This research institute is highly motivated and launches the final sprint towards the voyage goal.

It lasted until the end of 1993.

This year,

Mo Dao's physical age has also reached 70 years old.

When it was really discovered that the last, more difficult problem that needed to be solved that stood in the way of the voyage was solved.

Not to mention the researchers at the Research Institute at the moment,

Even Mo Dao was rarely a little distracted.

The establishment of the Research Institute in this life has been more than eighty years.

The first batch of researchers at the Search Institute have all passed away except for those who chose to enter a long hibernation.

For Qiusuo Research Institute,

Sail to Proxima Centauri, or to a destination light-years away,

It has been the mission of almost every researcher at the Research Institute.

This is what Mo Dao initially imposed on Qiusuo Research Institute, but it is also the ideal and pursuit that every researcher at Qiusuo Research Institute wants to realize at this moment.

During the more than eighty years since the Qiusuo Research Institute has been in operation, the starry sky that can be seen when you raise your head at night has always guided the direction of the Qiusuo Research Institute.

This runs through the founding of Qiusuo Research Institute more than 80 years ago to this moment.

The goal of the voyage has been added to too many things by the researchers at the Research Institute.

And this target that can be seen when looking up is a long-term goal for the researchers at the Research Institute.

For Mo Dao, it was much, much longer.

At the end of 1993,

After Mo Dao was silent for a while,

We summoned the researchers from the Qisuo Research Institute who are currently distributed on the ground, the moon, and even the distant Triton base,

An overall meeting of the Qiusuo Research Institute was held both online and offline.

This is the first time such an overall meeting has been held since the number of researchers at the Research Institute expanded to tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands.

As for the content of this meeting, almost all researchers have already had a premonition.

final,

In the silence online and offline,

Under the gaze of countless eyes,

Facing the researchers at Qiusuo Research Institute, Mo Dao just announced one thing.

"Start the theoretical design of the long-distance voyage spacecraft and start the formulation of the long-distance voyage plan."

"And after the theoretical design of the long-distance spacecraft is completed, start the construction of the long-distance spacecraft immediately."

On this day,

After Mo Dao announced his decision,

Inside the Research Institute, there was only continuous applause.

The researchers clapped vigorously to express their emotions at the moment, and the applause lasted for a long time.

…

"Quest Research Institute, of the three phases of the voyage, the goal of the second phase is announced to be completed."

"Qiusuo Research Institute announced that it has officially entered the last phase of the three-phase voyage goal - the design and construction of the voyage spacecraft and the final execution of the voyage plan!"

The wheels of time are rolling forward, and the epic scroll seems to be slowly unfolding.

From the ground, to the moon, to the industrial center of Mars, to the orbit of Neptune... Mo Dao's goals in this life and many previous lives are in fact deeply bound to the fate of human civilization in this life.

Although Mo Dao knew from beginning to end that he was achieving a goal he wanted to achieve, that was all.

But the objective impact on human society in this life also exists objectively and cannot be erased.

At the end of 1993,

In the outside world, almost the entire human society burst out with high enthusiasm for the Research Institute to finally take this crucial step.

Researchers from the Qiusuo Research Institute,

There is no need to wait for the coming year. Just a year ago, the theoretical design work of the voyage spacecraft and the formulation of the entire voyage plan began.

If we say that the research on heavy nuclear fusion propulsion systems has already covered enough fields.

The design of the entire voyage spacecraft and the entire voyage plan is an even more exaggerated super project.

Throughout the Qiusuo Research Institute,

Naturally, Mo Dao is still in charge of the overall work.

Under Mo Dao, researchers from various fields of the Qiusuo Research Institute have almost never been mobilized in such a complete manner.

The degree of influence that Qiusuo Research Institute has on the entire human society at this moment is almost equivalent to mobilizing most of the scientific research productivity of the entire human civilization.

A giant spaceship that really wants to make a long voyage,

Even though most of the problems have been overcome,

But design and manufacturing still need to involve too many areas.

When the outside world is busy, be enthusiastic.

A group of researchers from the Qiusuo Research Institute, under the auspices of Mo Dao,

I also devoted myself to this super project with the greatest enthusiasm.