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As mentioned earlier, Lu Wen's last contribution in the field of scientific research was to deploy 12,000 gravity field fluctuation detectors on the asteroid belt during the construction of the International Space Station. {%%Net[..com]

..com}(..com,%%net) The most fundamental purpose of this vast project is to promptly enter the alien civilizations that enter the solar system.

At that time, many people thought that this project could not be completed at all.

In fact, the cost is likely to exceed China's national affordability, and even far exceeds the affordability of human civilization.

Among the skeptical people, there is Lu Wen's Mu Haoyang.

Fortunately, these problems did not stump Lu Wen, but were solved one by one by one by her.

In the end, the project was not only successfully completed, but also cost much less than everyone expected, and did not have an excessively serious impact on China's economy.

In fact, just a little calmer can be done, and there is really no need to worry about financial affordability.

The cost of the Deep Space spacecraft built during the war was about 12 billion yuan, while the cost of a similar spacecraft can be reduced by one third in mass production, and controlled at about 8 billion yuan. In fact, the final cost is much lower than that of 8 billion yuan. The main reason is that the most critical controllable fusion reactor in the spacecraft is spot stock and does not require special manufacturing, that is, the excess materials of the Chinese team during the war.

At the end of the war, the Chinese team had a total of nearly 20,000 small controllable fusion reactors, of which 14,000 were in the hands of the Army and the Marine Corps, about 4,000 were in the hands of the Air Force, and the other 2,000 were in the hands of the Navy. After the war, China began to disarmament on a large scale. Even if it retained 2.45 million permanent troops in the end, it would need to be cut by 90% of the combat troops, so a large amount of equipment had to be decommissioned.

At that time, most of the excess military supplies were disposed of in an extremely rough manner.

For example, in the Navy, more than half of the aircraft carriers were directly dismantled and sold at the price of scrap steel, while the Army provided a large amount of equipment to friendly countries for free.

In short, the Chinese team has a very firm attitude towards dealing with excess supplies.

This is understandable. A large number of equipment needs maintenance in the warehouse, which is a considerable expense, so it is better to deal with it directly.

The result was that Lu Wen easily obtained 12,000 small fusion reactors.

At that time, some people were also making the idea of ​​these small fusion reactors, such as thinking that they could be converted into civil power stations to serve life and production.

The problem is that China and almost all the allies have oversupply of electricity, and the second generation of controlled fusion nuclear technology has been launched, and previous fusion reactors will be eliminated. Even if there is a civilian need, it will mainly help the defeated countries to rebuild after the war. The United States and Australia, which were severely damaged by the war, only need about 4,000 small fusion reactors in total. As for neutral countries, even if many countries still lack power, China will not be able to sell military reactors containing a large number of top-secret technologies.

There is no doubt that it will cost a lot of money to dismantle these reactors.

The result is that it is better to use it for aerospace detection and use it directly.

It can be said that Lu Wen got 12,000 small fusion reactors without spending a penny. These reactors are used in aerospace engineering and only require some appropriate improvements, such as changing the output power, dismantling some additional equipment that is not very useful, etc.

In this way, the remaining work is to produce 12,000 sets of gravity field fluctuation detectors, which are already enough anti-gravity field propulsion systems.

As mentioned earlier, the anti-gravity field propulsion system is actually very simple and is not very difficult to describe in engineering.

In the human era in the universe, as long as there are raw materials, almost every adult can create an anti-gravity field propulsion system.

Of course, the key lies in the manufacturing process of raw materials, especially the anti-gravity field shielding baffle.

Fortunately, after the war ended, China had mastered the large-scale production process, and the cost was reduced to an acceptable range. Otherwise, China would not have taken the lead in launching aerospace engineering activities to build an international space station and open up a lunar base.

According to the information disclosed later, the project led by Lu Wen actually cost between 20 trillion and 30 trillion yuan.

It is undeniable that this is still a huge project, but compared with the end of the war, China's foreign debt of tens of trillions of yuan, that's not all.

The question is, is it enough to just establish a set of passive detection alert networks?

After Lu Wen left her scientific research position, Heideqin, the general manager of China's national scientific research project, proposed that in addition to passive detection, a comprehensive search action must be carried out to target alien civilizations in order to establish a more complete and provide more vigilance systems.

Heidechin's proposal was immediately supported by senior leaders.

Of course, Lu Wen also agreed to do this, but she no longer had the energy to be responsible for these huge projects, and decades of scientific research have exhausted her.

Fortunately, Hydechin is a very organized person.

Strictly speaking, Hydeqin is not a scientist at all, because he only has a bachelor's degree and studies management. However, he assisted Lu Wen in working for more than 20 years. In the last five years, he has been responsible for the management of various projects and is Lu Wen's main assistant.

Otherwise, Lu Wen would not recommend him when she retired.

At that time, Heidechin submitted a very comprehensive planning report and was preparing to spend twenty years to complete the detection and identification of alien civilizations.

The first thing to do is to figure out where alien civilizations may exist.

To put it bluntly, it is to search for Earth-like planets in the vast universe.

At that time, this incident caused great controversy in the scientific community. The main question was, do alien civilizations with potential threats must live on Earth-like planets?

Obviously, the answer is also ambiguous.

First of all, it is certain that if alien civilizations are also carbon-based life forms, they must live on Earth-like planets, because only the gravity environment of Earth-like planets can adapt to carbon-based life, and for giant planets like Jupiter, the huge gravity field will not produce carbon-based life at all.

Secondly, it is also certain that the earth-like planets that can provide carbon-based life must be in the life belt. To put it simply, this planet must orbit a star with a mass similar to the sun and is in a stable period, and the distance from the star should not be too close or too far. At least it must be guaranteed that the water exists in the form of a liquid. In addition, there must be a sufficiently powerful geomagnetic field so that the atmosphere may exist. Of course, the last condition is unnecessary, because life bodies can exist in water, so there is no need for an atmosphere.

To put it bluntly, liquid water is a necessary condition for the existence of carbon-based life.

The question is, is alien civilizations necessarily carbon-based life forms?

In fact, scientists have already developed non-carbon-based life forms on Earth. For example, in some underground caves filled with sulfides, there is a simple life form based on sulfur, so it is very likely that non-carbon-based life exists in the vast universe.

In fact, there is also a higher level of civilization that is not dependent on materials.

On this issue, Heidechin's approach is very simple. What he is looking for is those terrestrial planets that can provide the existence of carbon-based living organisms.

According to him, if alien civilizations are non-carbon-based life, even if they evolve to a relatively high level, the possibility of direct conflict with humans is not very high, because the living environment of these non-carbon-based life is completely different from that of humans, so there is no conflict with humans in terms of resource needs. If alien civilizations are more advanced, such as having got rid of their attachment to matter, they will not become interested in humans, nor will they think that humans are a threat, nor will they take action to destroy humans. Even if such extremely high-level alien civilizations intend to destroy humans, any resistance behaviors made by humans will have no meaning, because humans cannot have such high technological means in the foreseeable future.

To put it bluntly, the biggest threat to humans is an alien carbon-based civilization with a comparable level of technology.

In fact, Hydeqin was only half right, that is, an alien civilization that surpassed the stage of cosmic civilization, and did not regard human civilization as a threat. However, there are indeed a large number of non-carbon-based civilizations in the universe, and these civilizations must have conflicts with humans in terms of resources.

Regardless of all, this management-oriented scientific research talent has made great contributions to China's scientific research industry by changing the scientific research policies of Lu Wen's era.

In a sense, if it weren't for Hydeqin, the scientific research work in Lu Wen's era would have ended in Lu Wen's hands.

After Lu Wen, no one can obtain scientific research funds from the country like her. The extensive scientific research development model is difficult to continue. If there is no change, then after Lu Wen retires, the scientific research system she established will definitely collapse due to funding issues.

In the long run, this is definitely a catastrophic consequence.

The contribution Heideqin made is to change the development model of scientific research work, no longer blindly conducting scientific research work, but to use every money carefully, and strive to use every money to achieve results, so as to obtain more scientific research funds.

To put it bluntly, it is to treat scientific research as an industry.

Of course, this has its benefits and disadvantages.

For this reason, Hydeqin also did a lot of incredible things.

For example, before the start of the lunar project, Hydeqin proposed to Mu Haoyang to auction the land on the moon to collect funds for the lunar project. At that time, Mu Haoyang was indeed moved because he was also worried about the funding. However, in the end, this crazy suggestion did not become a fact, because the other nineteen participating countries firmly opposed it, believing that the moon should be the common wealth of all participating countries, not private wealth, and it could not be auctioned. Fortunately, after such a fuss, the funding problem was successfully resolved.

However, Hydechin did not stop.

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