"No, Mr. Felix, I do not agree with you!" Just when people were desperate, a cold female voice came from the back, Oliver fixed his eyes and it was his own assistant, Yuriko!
To put it mildly, her real profession is actually a distinguished physicist, followed by her own assistant. But these days of getting along, Oliver often neglects this because of his age.
She was too young, after all, only 20 years old. It seems that Yuriko is also a genius.
Facing the skeptical gaze of the crowd, Yuriko continued, "Judging from the size of the crater and its depth, this ship cannot be as heavy as you say. If it was a billion billion tons of mass, it could easily smash through the entire moon even if the speed was not high!"
"And in fact, the ship only smashed a small crater, with parts of it still exposed on the surface."
Felix nodded as he listened, and although questioned, she did have a point. In fact, Felix would prefer to be wrong, if the ship could be a little lighter, then the human's chances a little more!
"What's more, assuming that the alien ship has great mass, it will certainly generate a strong gravitational force! We've lived here for so long and done so many high-precision experiments, and we've never found any gravitational anomalies."
"This means that it can't be very massive! We can't use our human level of knowledge to imagine alien technology!"
These words were like a ray of sunshine on a winter day, a clear spring in the desert, and everyone's mind came alive, even Oliver.
Everyone whispered and discussed that Yuriko's words were justified. Indeed, people had been building the base for so long and had not found any gravitational anomalies. So it can't be billions and billions of tons, just lower it by a few orders of magnitude and mankind will have a solution!
That's the hope! That's the hope! If this ship is really, really light, there might be real hope!
Light, mankind will be able to escape the moon; heavy, then we can only die. This is the mass that determines the fate of ah!
But what exactly is the mass of the spaceship? Discussion alone will not yield results, and soon some scientists began to design experimental programs aimed at weighing this alien ship!
The material of the ship was unknown, and there was no way to disassemble part of it, so there was no way to use the formula of "mass = density * volume", but it was not difficult for the scientists, they had plenty of ways, and after only one hour of work, there were more than twenty proposals submitted.
Oliver briefly looked at all kinds of ideas. The most fast and reliable or a similar "Cavendish twist scale" experiment, the small change in the amount of not easy to observe, into an easily observed significant change, and then according to the relationship between the significant change and the small amount to calculate the amount of small change.
Then look, the other programs also have their own characteristics, can not comment on which is better or worse.
Seeing that the scientists still had some hope on their faces, Oliver's heart was slightly reassured.
"So, that's it for this morning's meeting, please measure the mass of the alien ship before three o'clock in the afternoon. Also, all production in the base will continue as usual, and everyone must keep it a secret in front of the public to avoid causing a riot, please!"
Oliver had just announced the end of the meeting, and some eager scientists were already rushing out. They couldn't wait to conduct experiments.
He laughed bitterly in his heart, unexpectedly, in the end, he had to resort to the aliens' black technology. Although, this feeling of not being able to control the fate in his own hands was not pleasant, but Oliver was still anxiously expecting it to bring more surprises to mankind ...
"Mr. Yu, wake up! Wake up!" Just after a moment of daze, Oliver felt someone tapping his shoulder, and looked back to see that it was Yuriko.
Her expression didn't seem to change, even such a big thing didn't make her change her face, it was still the same cold and icy look.
"You still have five places to tour and twenty-one documents to approve. There are still more than thirty unread documents in your mailbox that need to be replied to, so please hurry!" Yuriko kept urging.
"Okay, okay, got it!" Oliver was very curious as to how Dr. Roman had raised such a daughter. In terms of looks, with arched eyebrows and big eyes, it's actually not bad, but in terms of personality ... it's almost like a robot! No wonder, and there are no gay men pursuing her.
He shook his head and walked towards another inspection site. Immediately after that, his face became cold and dialed a phone number.
The condition of the moon base was getting better day by day, and the plants in the food production base were growing day by day, but there were always those restless elements who were secretly making small moves.
Most of them are the original officers in the base, because hiding under the facilities in escaped Calvin's robbery. Now due to personnel changes transferred to the grassroots, they may be in jealousy, or perhaps in reluctance, always secretly make some small moves.
Anyway, to take this opportunity to suppress the last bit of instability.
"Drip, drip, drip," the phone rang three times, and someone picked up the phone.
"This is the third brigade of the Earth Alliance, the first special forces, Oliver!"
"This is Earth Alliance Third Brigade, First Special Forces, Wade!"
After the two of them connected in the form of troops, Oliver quickly asked, "Wade, how is it? The security in the base is okay now, right?"
"Report captain, basically not bad, relatively stable." Wade replied, "Originally the members of the security team committed some things and were willing to listen to our arrangements, after all, they were also rescued by us. Now, the military power in the base is all in our hands!"
"That's good, make sure to ensure the safety of the base ah!"
"Yes!" Wade hesitated for a moment, "Captain ah ... we are really too busy now, not enough manpower ah! The entire base is less than a hundred soldiers, but to manage 50,000 people, two shifts, basically no rest time, busy ah! We have to recruit a few police officers, right?"
"Don't think about recruiting, all the production teams are working hard now, there is not enough manpower, how can anyone be willing to become a soldier?" Oliver laughed and said, "It's good to survive."
"Yes, it's good to live." Wade nodded, although the conditions are countless times tougher than on Earth, but everyone still wants to live.
Oliver paused for a moment, not knowing how to speak. But finally, he organized his language, "the moon may be destroyed" to tell Wade this thing.
Wade silent for a long time, seems to be a bit dazed, he suddenly laughed a little, "Captain, what we have not experienced, are dead several times the people, the big deal is to die again. You said nothing, just leave it to the scientists, I trust them!"
"Yes, captain, there is still six months, early! Have not seen you for a long time, when to come to see us ah!" James, the fat black guy next to him, yelled up at the side.
"You shut up! You don't have the right to talk!" Wade said angrily.
Oliver suddenly felt a sour nose, his comrades are still the most lovely and closest people ah, "When this wave is finished, we will shoot drills on the ship! Feel free to try out the latest style of equipment!"
"Haha, captain you are super human, you need several to beat you one to be fair!" James seemed to have his mouth covered, but was still shouting there.
"Captain you ignore him, this is a big mouth, discipline so bad, must be a good discipline him." Wade said.
The two of them chatted casually for a few more minutes, and immediately afterwards, Oliver coughed gently, which was his customary action before saying business, "Okay, Wade, let's get down to business."
"Yes, Captain!" Wade's tone was also serious, and James' banter came to an abrupt end.
"Now there may be people who are displeased with us and want to make trouble at such a time, it's really hard to guard against villains, keep a close eye on them, I reckon there may be people spreading rumors, take this opportunity to arrest all this group of people!"
"Yes! Promise to complete the task!" Wade said decisively, with a hint of murder in his eyes, according to his understanding, these people were saved by them, how could they still turn over the sky?
The base has been messed up once, must not be messed up a second time!
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In the afternoon, after only five hours of time, the second emergency meeting began again, the moment to decide the fate of people!