The intelligence and talents of the new humans are worthy of recognition, but their experience and knowledge still limit the upper limit of their wisdom.
The tea party ended abruptly in less than forty minutes. In addition to the big plan about the pocket money for the five people, they also discussed several "current affairs" and "gossips". Unfortunately, there was no further content, and the few little tricks prepared by Catherine were not used.
Such a tea party is just a microcosm of the cooperation and confrontation between the five major families. For a few girls, just over 30 minutes of fun can determine the fate of hundreds of millions of people. If we expand our view to the entire human world, perhaps just a small group of people chatting can determine the future direction of everyone, and even the destination of the vast majority of people at the bottom of the society for several lifetimes.
This era is far darker than any other time in the past. A spontaneous class division has occurred between the new humans and humans. No matter how well they disguise themselves, the new humans have already clearly grasped most of the world's wealth and used it to oppress and enslave their own kind - of course, they cannot possibly think that ordinary people belong to the same kind.
When people repeat almost the same life day after day, they may never know that everything they have is planned!
Lin Ke disconnected the link with the observer "Qin Kelin" who was far away at 67.73 AU and had just finished the tea party, and instead aimed the "Sky Eye" radio telescope with a diameter of about 11 kilometers in the synchronous orbit at 82G Eridanus again - that was one of the actual directions of the Spark Project.
This Linko is not that Linko. It's one of many copies of Linko, and Linko created it without imbuing it with emotional algorithms, allowing it to remain stable during its near-eternal work. It has been stationed on the distant, cold, and dark dwarf planet of Ceopernes, 70.1 AU from the Sun, in the Kuiper Belt, for 2,600 years, since the departure of the "Spore" seeding mothership and the "Planetary-class" interstellar carrier. This location is far enough away from the estimated experimental impact range, yet not subject to light pollution from the Sun Ring V and Project 2901, making it ideal for long-term observations both internally and externally.
The light waves emitted by that stable main-sequence star need to travel in a vacuum for 20 years to reach the solar system. It takes a few milliseconds for the ancient light beam to be converted into an electrical signal through a telescope. It takes a few minutes for the electrical signal to be transferred from the sky to the ground. It takes more than ten minutes for the computer to use an algorithm to decode the signal into an image and display it on the large screen in the main control room.
Lin Ke's clone sat in front of the big screen. It was the only living thing in the entire control room.
The screen flickered, and a star map centered on 82G Eridani illuminated the control room. Below the approximately 6-billion-year-old yellow dwarf star, a dark-gray filament stretched horizontally, curving slightly downward on either side. Zooming in on the image, several reddish dark spots appeared above the filament. They were roughly the same vertical distance from the filament, meaning each should be approximately 1.8 light-years apart. Yet, on the image, they were only separated by 2.4 control grids.
The journey of the sparks was so long that the great experiment had been iterated seventeen times, while the mothership closest to the destination had only traveled less than half the distance.
Too slow, too slow, like a turtle crawling.
At their speed of less than 0.1%C, completing a practical interstellar journey is basically equivalent to a dog licking all the noodles, a chicken pecking all the rice, or a candle burning out the lock.
From an economic perspective, this is a foolish feat. But Lin Ke's database does have records of fools. Those fools in the community plan to colonize the entire galaxy in 100 million years!
One hundred million years is too long for life!
One hundred million years is a very short time in the universe.
Lin Ke curled up in the chair, and the colorful stars on the screen were reflected in his eyes.
It's lonely.
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