Rushing

The next week went by in a blur, Alex finished with her classes and then right after would meet up with the three professors as they would work on building the second communications device but this time with currently available tech, It did take a little longer than Alex was actually expecting, but on the day that they hit the deadline to meet with the professor, the device was completed, As well as the operating software, Through the last couple of days, Alex had little time to sleep.

As she was the only one that could write the program, Being that she wouldn't allow anyone to help her with it, It went slow, and took hours. Often the professors would send her to work on the program while they worked on the device, as she wouldn't accept their help on the program this was the compromise made.

But she needed AI Alexia's help to make the program so that they could function properly, simply because until the program was made, no one would have the knowledge required to actually get the devices to function in an acceptable manner. And not also incidentally potentially alert other civilizations for which Humanity was not yet ready for.

The group met in the deans office one again, Sitting in one of the chairs was a slightly overweight middle aged man in a grey suit. Alex assumed this was the man Greg that the dean spoke to the time they all were previously in the office. She decided to be the first one to speak up introducing herself "Hello Mr. Greg? I am Alexia Voss, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, and I appreciate you taking time out of your I'm sure busy schedule."

The man stands up and offers a hand to Alex, "No worries, I had been meaning to come pay a visit to Anderson for some time but couldn't get away from work, So him requesting that I come on official business certainly worked out." He looks at the rest of the group as they enter "So Anderson mentioned that there was something I absolutely had to see and put on the next launch heading to to resupply the space station? Well lets have a look shall we? If its caught Anderson's attention, I am quite curious as to what it is."

Alex smiles at Greg "Of course, I have the devices right here." She pulls out the communications device that the group worked together to make, and the broadcasting device. "These are a new form of communications devices, They do not work on radio frequencies, or electromagnetic wavelengths. But closer to operating based off of the theories of quantum entanglement. And a few other theories of physics, which I will spare you from the details.

For the short explanation, It is supposed to be a communications device with virtually no lag time between message sending and receiving regardless of the distance. As well as have a major quality boost to the audio transmission, much more clear than even our current phones, and certainly more clear than what you can expect from things like aircraft radio transmission, or any other such radio frequencies."

Greg looks at the device a bit shocked, "Are you sure it can do all of this? You've tested it?"

Alex however shakes her head. For the transmission lag, no we have yet to test it as there wasn't anything with any significant distance for which we could verify this actually being the case. But we did manage to run a test on them while working on the second device. And we can ensure you that they do in fact function, and we did do a bit of a distance test with them and the broadcasting device.

We took a day and just drove. one with just the communications device and the other with both. and drove in two separate directions, and then leaving the broadcasting device in the middle on a second test that same day. We drove four hours in two different directions on both tests and were in constant communication the whole time with no breaks, or degradation in quality.

It did not matter whether the broadcasting device was closer or further away. The total distance was a bit further than the altitude of the station above the surface, Whether it works at further distances, or higher speeds, that is something we hope you might be able to have the people on the station test out."

Alex finished her dialogue and watched the reaction of Greg as he listens intently. He holds up the communications device and the broadcasting device, the comm device weighing no more than a typical phone, and the broadcasting device just a little more heavy than a laptop "and both objects weigh less than I would have expected for what you claim they can do."

Alex nods "We would like for both of these to be sent to the station. I believe they are both small and light enough that their effects would be minimal to non-existent with the required delta-v needed by the rocket? even with the instructions on how to use them. and they are sturdy enough that no special compartments would be needed for them, you could simply strap them or tape them down on the seats or whatever, the vibrations of the rocket wont damage them."

Greg nods "What about the power supply? how would that be handled? the station can only operate with so much and it does not contain standard electrical outlets as what we have down here. so charging would be an issue no?"

Alex chuckles a bit "Actually that wont be an issue for, well for much longer than the station is likely to ever last. Theoretically the power source should last somewhere in the ball park of about 10,000 years. But the specifics are in the files." She pulled out multiple folders and a small pamphlet. "This pamphlet is the instructions manual. the folders are all the technical specifications, papers and schematics." She pushes them over to Greg and he starts to read through it.

After a few minutes he closes the folders "I'll have to admit that the technical stuff is beyond me, I'm simply the admin guy, better minds than me handle the technical details, I just make sure that everything on our end operates smoothly and check the budgets. But If what you say is all true, then even I can imagine just what this would do for our scientific community.

Just imagine the amount of data and time that could be given to research, and saved on the waiting for responses from rovers. Ah.. but I am getting ahead of myself, Lets get this on the supply mission. I do believe this is important enough of a research sample to get it on."

Greg stands up and collects the devices and papers "Anderson, It has been a pleasure as always. And I will personally invite you all to mission command for when we do the test." He looks over at Alex "After all, you as the inventor deserve to be there when we test it out, Even if it doesn't work quite like you proclaim it to, If it simply functions like a standard radio.

This could save quite a bit of money just on communications equipment I would think. Both for the space program and telecommunications. How much bandwidth can this thing handle?"

Alex looks a bit troubled by the question "To be perfectly honest, I am not quite sure. I haven't been able to test out the limits thoroughly yet, What we did manage to test though is that the download speeds and upload speeds are quite extraordinary. Oh..." she points to the comm devices

"they can plug into any standard computer. The operating system I designed for it is quite compatible with any other operating system around, It will install the necessary drivers automatically, so it is very plug and play. with your standard connection cables. The reason I mention this, is because when we did file transfers from computer to device.

We hit a bottleneck with the cables themselves being the bottleneck. the transfer rate capped out at the cables transfer rate. But when we transferred the same information packets to each communications device, there was no such delay. And the download speed... Well there was no lag time. It was pretty much instant. no matter what the size was we tested."

Greg became absolutely shocked by this "No download lag at all? what was the file transfer rate?... no, don't tell me, I want to see it in action now. Well, I will be taking my leave here, I will need to make sure this gets to the launch vehicle and gets installed. So I will be needing to catch the next flight out to get to the site." With that said Greg made his goodbyes and left.

Dean Anderson who had been quiet during the whole discussion looked at the professors whom also maintained their silence and let Alex do all the talking. "Your student is quite the individual. Greg had said he was going to give her a hard time just so that he could teach her a lesson about not using connections to jumping the line as it were.

Considering the huge backlog of requests from scientists to get things aboard the station to test things. She just jumped a que that is last I heard, years long. And she did it without giving Greg any room to chide her for it." He smirked "That man, I have known for years, and to leave him in a state of intrigue like that rendering him to a state of not interrupting. It was refreshing I must say."

Alex looks at the Dean, "Thank you for your kind words, Though I was just confident about the invention, for what it would signify. And felt that, much like you saw the other day when we caught you as you were leaving, that anyone even remotely associated with anything science related would have also seen the major value and importance of such a thing as this communications device and system."

The dean nods "Indeed, and as Greg stated, if the device works even half as well as your selling it to be. It would revolutionize science, not to mention the applications in everyday life. The power supply, that would solve many issues with space exploration with new probes, and would allow for the addition of many new scientific instruments that would have had to be scrapped due to weight and power restrictions."

Alex kept her appreciative smile on the dean, who then dismissed the group as he did have to get back to work, and one of Alex's classes was coming up. So she made her way to that class. and planned to make sure her schedule was empty for the couple of days after the launch of the resupply mission, so that she could travel to the mission command center for the day of the tests.