Chapter 108: Planetary Starships
To be precise, what Oliver observed was a huge, moon-sized dot!
It was surrounded by a dozen other small dots, each of which, according to the gravitational wave telescope's calculations, was about 150 km - 200 km in diameter!
"Is there such a strange celestial body?" Oliver was so confused that he unconsciously rubbed his eyes.
The distance of 0.6 light years is already very distant, even beyond the reach of human beings.
Voyager 1, the farthest man-made vehicle from Earth, was launched in 1977, and its distance from the Sun is about 17 billion kilometers ....
And a light year is about nine hundred and forty-six billion kilometers.
According to this calculation, the maximum distance explored by humans so far is ...0.002 light years. It is really hard to imagine that a light year is far away.
In contrast to this distance, the universe seems even larger.
The location of 0.6 light years is the realm of the Oort Nebula, and human exploration of this nebula, so to speak, is almost nil. So the appearance of a moon-sized planet in that region should not be too much of a problem, at least not yet in the category of being particularly surprising. Maybe the planet itself exists and hasn't been discovered yet?
But somehow Oliver felt a little strange. The dozen or so small dots around it, are they all meteorites and ... spread out in a single line? Too neat, too regular, too?
Oliver frowned and calculated its speed by hand, when he saw the results jumped out, his head "boom" a dizzy, as if he could not believe it, half a day remained frozen.
His hands trembled slightly, he repeated the calculation again, but the original result!
"What is this?" He immediately shouted, this kind of simple problem, he is not so wrong to calculate, this point is definitely a problem!
Hearing Oliver's shout, a group of scientists who were meditating stood up and went to Oliver's side.
When they saw Oliver's calculation, they stood frozen again, as if they had witnessed an incredible scene ...
Sublight speed!
A bunch of sublight orbs flying into the solar system!
This is definitely not an astral body, but ... a spaceship, definitely a huge spaceship! This is an incomparably powerful fleet ah, the smallest, but also a hundred and fifty kilometers, comparable to the Green Light Civilization's spaceship!
"What is this?"
"What the hell?!"
Scientists shouted and others shouted, but apart from this explanation, no astral body could reach sub-light speed!
Although still in a very shocked state in his head, Oliver immediately sent out a notice for an emergency meeting. At the same time, he asked Thomson and other astronomers to keep a close eye on the area and try to find the mega-fleet by other means.
"Everyone, this one is very urgent and we found it unintentionally. This fleet is moving at about 0.6 times the speed of light, and although the gravitational wave telescope found them 0.6 light years away, ... gravitational waves also travel at the speed of light, and the information is lagging, so we can say that this is a 0.6 year old picture!"
Oliver grimaced and played the observation image on the screen, "The largest main ship in the middle, with a size comparable to the moon, is around 3000 km in diameter!"
"There are 12 other smaller ships, each with a diameter of 150-200 km!"
Speaking at the end, the anxiety in his heart was almost uncontrollable, even as he pounded his fist on the table.
"A total of ...13 ships!"
A super ship as big as the moon! This is almost something that only exists in science fiction, but now it has come to life in front of people, giving them a shock that is beyond compare ... how much time is needed to transform a planet, into a spaceship, and how much industrial capacity is needed?
This oppressive feeling is the pinnacle of human's current technology unimaginable!
Insignificant!
Humans are really too small ...
Oliver doesn't know what this fleet means. Nor did he know what purpose it had in coming to the solar system aggressively ... He only knew that it was never good for humanity!
There is a green light civilization in front of us, and then there is a fleet behind us? What is the situation?
The main people sitting at the bottom of the meeting are the main people in charge of the major factories, the major scientists and the relevant parliamentarians, a kind of tarzan-like pressure appeared in the hearts of the people, pressing them to breathe up.
All of them are blue in the face and carry anxiety in their hearts.
The good thing is that ... did not collapse!
This is also the point that Oliver is most relieved. Over the years, the human race has experienced a bit more crises really, the ability to withstand seems to gradually rise, whether it is the various MPs or scientists, are just one silent thinking, not to outright wail of despair.
This is a lot better than two years ago, when people were still on the moon and the Noah plan had not yet been implemented. The same group of people almost all collapsed after hearing the imminent destruction of the moon, completely relying on Oliver even roared with a rant, just barely pulled back.
Oliver will always remember that scene, as if the sky had fallen, everyone was so desperate, so sad ...
But now that feeling is back, but in a different way, and it's progress for all of humanity! It's always a good thing to be able to think, whether it's anxiety, or anger is more useful than despair.
"I have to say, any battleship, is not something we humans can fight against ..." As the leader of the civilization, uttering these words, Oliver suddenly felt a pang of sadness, or rather a kind of grief!
"We observed them in advance, we must think of something early!"
One by one, people's brows were furrowed. Facing such a powerful civilization, human beings were really too humble and insignificant.
The dark universe, the boundless universe, contains countless crises, any wind blowing, can make the whole human race perish!
Technology, technology! We need stronger technology, even if ... at all costs!
He coughed lightly and said in a serious tone, "According to our calculations, that fleet is still 0.24 light years away from Pluto ... that is, in another five months, it will reach Pluto's position!"
"We have time, five more months."
Having said that, he sat down and thought hard about it.
The matter seemed strange ... It's just that a green light civilization that took refuge appeared, why did a huge fleet appear again? Is this a ghost of the green light civilization, or is it something else? Could ... continue to use the camouflage plan?
If the crippled ships of the Greenlight civilization could be scared by humans, then this huge fleet of ... could never be simply bluffed.
What to do? What to do?
At this time, Professor Thomson's side also came an even more unpleasant news: "We tried various methods, completely unobservable, the other side seems to have maintained a state of radio silence ... and, almost no reflected light and thermal radiation. With our radio telescope, there is absolutely no way to see!"
"No,... or not, we used the radio interferometer, still can not see, only the gravitational wave telescope can!"
Oliver listened to straight frown, he was a little depressed, but also a little glad. Fortunately, humans have beyond several levels of technology gravitational wave telescope, otherwise ... only wait for the other side to get close, which is too dangerous!