Catching a meteorite is just a small thing in scientific research, as long as the detection of microorganisms is good.

But the capture of an alien probe has risen to the point of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations and has become a diplomatic event.

So, in less than a quarter of an hour, many scientists, military personnel and members of the think tank have concentrated in the captain's room.

“Be careful, try not to break it!”An expert is directing the operation.

Drones cannot automate such complex captures, and people must specify relevant targets and send corresponding instructions to plan.

From the calculation data on the screen, it can be seen that this ancient space probe is moving at an inertial high speed, at a speed of about 36.8 kilometers per second.

This speed is already dozens of times that of ordinary gunpowder bullets, and the kinetic energy is quite amazing.In order to avoid directly breaking it, people want to use a more gentle capture method.

“Keep it at about the same speed, yes, that’s it.Slowly approaching, a little closer, a little closer... see that pole, it should be a load-bearing pole... What is the distance between the two sides now?”

“89.9 meters!”

“Okay, keep that distance...launching the miniature hook claws at the target position!”

“Three, two, one, launch!”

Because of the delay of the signal, a few seconds later, the micro-hook claws were launched.

The silent universe, without any sound, can not hear the sound of metal collision.However, people can see from the screen that the metal hook claw has successfully surrounded the pole, circled several times, and successfully circled the pole.

Suddenly, the captain's room gave a small ovation and cheers.

The soft nano-rope is tied to the load-bearing rod, and then the detector is driven by the drone, slowly turning in direction, trying to pull it closer to Deep Space.

“Do you want to be faster or slower?”We suspect that this detector is too old for a load-bearing rod to withstand a very large force.”

"Take it slow, with a more conservative program."Yu Yifeng pondered for a moment and said, "Anyway, the Deep Space still needs to stop here to replace the engine, no hurry."

Soon, the military estimated the specific data, and the entire pullback process took two days.

"Two days, so everyone, go back and work as usual."

But the crowd did not disperse immediately, but discussed with great interest.Many people are in front of the screen, curiously looking at the detector.

Under the irradiation of the strong light of the drone, the external structure has been clear.

This is a typical deep space detector, engine and energy device, accounting for the vast majority of the volume.

The distinctive feature of deep space probes is that they fly in the universe for a long time, and the ground cannot be remotely controlled in real time, so they must have certain autonomous navigation capabilities; they must fly outside the planetary system and away from the stars, so they use solar solar light sails and nuclear energy systems at the same time.

Finally, it needs to use a special protective structure to withstand very harsh space environment conditions.

“The only difference is that the device behind the engine seems to be loaded with a ... gearbox?”This probe has the ability to land on planets with atmospheres.”

“But in its general structure, it is very likely that it is an external detector of a low civilization.A very powerful low civilization wants to use a detector to visit another planet in another star system... this whimsy may take tens of thousands of years.How many years have they been waiting?”

“However, they seem to have failed ... the probe did not reach another star field, and it was damaged, a failed expedition.”

Hearing this discussion, Yu Yifeng turned his eyes to the distant starry sky...

He lamented: "Like us, the civilization of the earth, this civilization is curious and confused about the infinite universe, and then the probe launched outside ... wants to find some truth in the underworld."

One expert nodded, “Yes, and this detector seems to have something in it... it should be some data...”

“Information on its own civilization.”

When this answer was discussed, there was a sudden silence in the captain's room.

Humans have discovered an external detector of a low civilization!

Many first-generation old people, recalling the distant memories of the past, Qisensen has produced almost the same association.

This feeling is hard to express in words.

In the heart of the heart, there is also a little emotion.

During the human Earth period, the same detector was launched, representing the beautiful fantasy and expectation of the universe.

For example, the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 detectors carry a gold-plated aluminum metal disc.

On the metal plate, some patterns and information are recorded to tell possible extraterrestrial intelligent life: where the probe came from, and when it was launched.

On the Voyager 1 probe, it carries a copper disk record, which is said to be in space and not damaged for a billion years!

There is a lot of content on the record, there are the greetings of the then President of the United States, the President of the United Nations, there are greetings in different languages, various music and so on.

Today, such a similar gift, sent by another low civilization, to the hands of a new human civilization.

This detector, like a diplomat of a low civilization, speaks silently to human beings, their curiosity, confusion and loneliness of the distant stars.

They may be wondering why the stars are so dark.

Maybe they’re fighting for the stars too.

This feeling is very wonderful, and everyone has a touch of touch in their hearts.Not because human beings are the dominant party at present, but because human beings, who were also low-level civilizations, also had the same emotions.

Slowly, because of fate, we can meet each other...

From the size of the probe, the data inside may be more than the human launch.And they seem to be more prepared than humans, but it is strange that, on the surface, their technology is no better than the earthlings, no better than the Knicks, not even worse than the Diggers.

This is an extraterrestrial civilization, at great economic cost, a voice alone in the vast universe.

People are strange, curious...

Of course, moving, the necessary safety inspection, or to do.

Two days passed quickly, and the probe was drawn to a distance of three thousand kilometers from Deep Space, maintaining almost the same speed as the mother ship.

Then we flew over a medium-sized transport ship.It is an unmanned research spacecraft, which is loaded with a large number of safety detection equipment and robots, which will conduct a full range of safety inspections of the detector.

A large number of staff are already waiting.

The specific test results are almost identical to what people think.

“Just an ordinary instrument, there’s nothing particularly dangerous ... the engine uses nuclear fission energy and solar energy, and all the energy is exhausted.”

"The metal material used is an ordinary titanium alloy... The composite material is the result of a layer of viscous synthesis of fiber textile materials and synthetic resins, which are basically all damaged and have a very long history..."

One biologist suddenly wondered, “Well... there are some low-level life-sustaining devices in it, do you want to carry living things?”

"Strange, inside these glass balls, there seems to be a very small microbial ecosystem, using light to replenish energy.What’s the point of putting so many micro-ecological circles?”

“But after the energy runs out, it seems that all the species inside have died ... for too long, and it is not clear whether the genetic material is damaged.”“Captain, do you want to open it?”

Everything has its own life span, whether it is protein or genetic material, it has its own shelf life.Some scientists have proposed that DNA can be preserved for up to 1 million years, but it must not exceed 5 million years or 6 million years.So it’s impossible to clone a dinosaur egg or dinosaur blood, because the genetic information has been lost.

Now people just don't know how long the probe's launch time has been, and whether the genetic material in the ecosystem has been preserved.

If anything, you can also see the alien microbes sent out by the other party.

Yu Feng thought about it or shook his head.If you use robots for biochemical control, it is still somewhat uninsured.

“These small ecosystems are set aside and opened by our biologists.No hurry!”

Under the vigorous search, then a robot carefully removed an aluminum box.

This is... the most important discovery.

“There seems to be some information in this box!”It can be easily removed, it should be the specific information of each other's civilization.The rest of the equipment, the detection device, the circuit board, the nuclear engine, etc., looks very old, and some lines have been damaged.”

After a few hours of kung fu, people have initially explored the detector, and the space inside is not large, that is, a large suitcase.

“Captain, do you want to completely disassemble the detector?”A staff member asked.

He thought about it and frowned.

A low-level civilization object, from the current point of view, seems very rough, and there is no technology to analyze.

From the specific era of science and technology, it is not as high as the beginning of the 21st century.

Slowly long road, fly here, so that it is removed, it seems that there are some unbearable.

"Forget it, first temporarily isolate and keep it, when a historical artifact remains is also good."Take all the information out and read it!”

Inside this box of data is a piece of high-purity uranium-238, some of which has decayed into plutonium-239.

To do so must be moral.

The answer is simple, this high-purity uranium-238 represents the age of the detector.

This is ... a small tacit understanding between civilizations, and humanity has done almost the same thing.

“If the purity of uranium-238 was close to 100%, and its half-life was about 4.17 billion years, then ... from the existing decay phenomenon, it has passed ... 150 million years!”

“This is a copy, from 150 million years ago... Drifting Bottle!”

After reaching this conclusion, everyone's heart is slightly surprised, the vicissitudes of history are coming, a long, long-distance detector!

Such a history, inexplicably, adds a heavy weight to the detector.

150 million years ago, the earth was still in the age of dinosaurs, right?

Just like this across the ocean to come here, not swallowed by the stars, nor captured by the planets, so it is transmitted to the hands of humans, it is really a kind of fate in the underworld...

This also makes people more curious about the content inside the information.

150 million years ago, the Milky Way already had... intelligent civilization!

Soon, the robot carefully removed a sheet of gold-plated aluminum in the metal box, very thin, very thin, less than a millimeter, but a sufficient number of more than two hundred pieces!

Between the gold-plated aluminum sheets, they cleverly stand up to less than a millimeter, so the metal flakes between each other are not connected because of the time relationship.

At the bottom is also a metal disk more than 30 centimeters in diameter, which seems to store a lot of data.

The scales painted on the metal plate are also very rough, like a classical old-fashioned record.

Only this kind of rough stuff, which can withstand the test of time, can transmit information to 150 million years later.

Something too delicate will lose information because of the interaction between atoms.Like human electronic disks, it is absolutely impossible to ban the journey of a billion years of time.

People first look at the thin gold-plated aluminum sheet with a large number of pictures and text.This unknown civilization seems to be passing the entire dictionary.

The first picture is a color image drawn with different colors of metal.

It is an abstract, artistic starry sky.

A glazed sky, a large bowl of stars rising in the top left of the picture.On the right are two “moons,” one is falling and one is in mid-air.

It is easy to identify that these two are the moon, "so this unknown planet should have two large and small satellites."

The most amazing thing is that some of the stars in the image are just a small spot, some of them are the size of grapes, they rotate and churt, want to compete with the sun, and reluctantly fall with the moon.

It is impossible to guess that these large and small stars are artistically treated or real.

At the bottom of the image is a black shadow, a cluster representing a shadow of despair... Such a powerful lineup of light, still unable to illuminate the shadow.

It is a bit confusing, but it is also this shadow that sublimates the idea of the image.

"If the distance between the stars is relatively close, it is indeed possible to become such a grape size."Or there are red giants in the vicinity, and it looks like a big one...” One astronomer wanted to force an explanation, but his words were only half said, and art cannot be interpreted by science.

This image undoubtedly represents the top art of a civilization.

Only the most important and proud of this kind of thing will appear in the scarce and precious data.For low-level civilizations, sending every gram of space material requires a lot of economic resources.

A beautiful image.

Through the stars outside, everyone felt a silent mood.

This feeling is not sadness or loneliness, but understanding.In the world of all kinds, there are always some lonely souls, there are always some things that cannot be solved.

And lonely souls can have strong resonance, although we are not an era, not even a region, but we have had a common mood.

We are just an ordinary person among the living beings.