Because NASA has made so many "major discoveries" about "Shocking! This asteroid is actually...", the news two years ago did not stir up much excitement.
In addition, for a long period of time, only people in the southern hemisphere and low latitude areas of the northern hemisphere can observe "Ogun". The southern hemisphere has much lower population density and per capita income than the northern hemisphere, so even astronomy enthusiasts
Not many people in the circle discuss this matter.
"Because of its extremely irregular shape, NASA did become interested in it." David Klein continued: "NASA believed that its shape was very confusing and did not appear to be naturally formed. Therefore, on the 26th
In June of this year, the European Southern Observatory's VLT (Very Large Telescope) Sphere (High-Resolution Spectropolarimetric Exoplanet Search Instrument) was aimed at this area and obtained the first clear pictures of 'Ogun'."
In that photo, the appearance of "Ogun" becomes clearly visible.
It looks like a piece of casting that has been worn and rusted. Yes, it should have been a silver surface at first. However, under the friction of interstellar matter, cosmic dust, and the collision of various tiny celestial bodies, it
The surface gradually wears away.
Just like a metal surface that has been ground with emery.
Xiang Shan swallowed his saliva. He actually heard the sound of his saliva swallowing.
When some kind of reflection was first observed on the surface of Ogun, no one was surprised. It is too common for small celestial bodies to have reflective objects such as ice crystals.
But now, no one can deny that it is a man-made thing.
"Ogun" is a man-made creation.
Man has discovered an artifact that was not made by man himself.
Xiangshan heard a lot of swallowing sounds.
Klein paused for about a minute, seemingly waiting for everyone to digest the news.
Then, he continued: "Because the high-level officials believed that the news of 'human discovery of extraterrestrial civilization' would have an unpredictable impact on society. So they did not make it public at the first time, but secretly formed a special committee, hoping that
We can handle this matter in the safest way possible.”
"At the same time, everyone has also noticed one thing. 'Ogun' currently has no power. It relies on inertia and has been flying in space for an unknown length of time. NASA believes that even if Ogun is an alien spacecraft, it has
It may have used up all the fuel for some reason, or it may have crashed."
"In July of the same year, the United States urgently established the Space Force. This was once considered by the international community as a signal to restart the arms race. At the same time, NASA also launched a large number of Ogun-related projects."
"NASA's mission at the time included 'establishing contact with Ogun' and 'capturing Ogun.' However, 'Ogun' did not respond to electromagnetic waves in almost all frequency bands, and it did not actively emit any electromagnetic waves."
"The following year - that is, in January of 2027, NASA believed that 'Ogun' had entered the limit range that human space technology can touch, so it launched the SLS-9 rocket in advance to prepare to send the capture system to 'Ogun'
'place."
"It was at this stage that the Russians intervened in incidents related to Ogun - after they got the news, they blamed the United States for their attempt to monopolize Ogun and tried to interfere with NASA's capture plan."
"The boring struggle between the United States and the Russian Federation has been going on for quite some time. A few months ago, the Republic also got involved. Due to some geopolitical reasons, NASA's capture device did not send 'Ogun' to the North.
The Atlantic Ocean, but came here."
"You can see the ensuing conflict in the news, so I won't go into details. In short, after a series of complicated events, the United Nations Office for Project Services urgently became the 'Ramo Special Project'——
Incidentally, the name is taken from Sir Arthur C. Clarke's "Meet Rama."
The next thing David Klein said probably refers to...
The South China Sea Fleet and the Seventh Fleet are facing off nearby. The Northern Russian Federation is also making a high-profile entrance.
Although "Ogun" has not yet been opened, it has profoundly changed the world situation.
Xiangshan frowned slightly at this time.
"Were the Indonesian riots...premeditated?"
After the financial crisis in 2021, the country of Indonesia has fallen into a new round of turmoil, even worse than the financial crisis in the 1990s. Xiangshan vaguely remembered that there was indeed news last month... His parents were eating
Have we ever talked about it? About Indonesia.
It is said that there are also reports of civilians being killed by anti-government armed forces.
But now it seems that the Indonesian riots have given the United Nations an excuse to send peacekeeping troops.
This inevitably makes people wonder whether there is a shadow of a big country behind this riot.
At the same time, Xiangshan also realized the strangeness of the welcoming team at the airport.
That is not "a peacekeeping force" at all, but a military force that monitors each other.
Perhaps the unrest in Indonesia not far away is real, and there are real peacekeeping troops. But the group that appeared at the airport was not peacekeeping troops sent by a certain country.
Although peacekeeping forces have always been criticized for their complex members, cumbersome management systems, weak strength, and insufficient response capabilities, which make it difficult to promptly stop some emergencies and humanitarian disasters, they are by no means limited within a small team.
It shows the wariness and estrangement between them.
Just like the behavior of the South China Sea Fleet and the Seventh Fleet outside. This "defense force" is not defending anything at all. They are just "supervising each other."
This is simply a matter of a few big countries temporarily setting up an organization and then naming its security forces as peacekeeping forces.
In addition, because the Republic entered the scene late in this incident, they did not have much time to form a team of scientists. They needed to screen out scholars across the country who were "potentially useful" and then ensure that these
Scholars are "absolutely trustworthy and will not leak information at will."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It is precisely because of this that Xiang Shan joined this super large project based solely on Liu Zhenghui's request.
At this time, the car has arrived at a brand new park. The park is surrounded by soldiers wearing blue helmets and is heavily guarded. Within the wall is a huge turf. Many construction machines are moving rapidly. At this time,
At the same time, several simple but magnificent buildings have been erected.
The edge of the lawn is a row of trees. Behind the forest of tropical trees is a huge white building - it looks like several connected tents, somewhat like the Sydney Opera House.
According to David Klein's introduction, the materials that make up this "building" were originally the "parachutes" that were fixed to allow the "Ogun" to land.
"Ogun" is a kilometer long, has a maximum radius of nearly 100 meters, and weighs hundreds of thousands of tons. With such a terrible mass, if it is allowed to fall freely, it will be called a natural disaster - and most importantly, it itself has no
He couldn't withstand such a terrible impact.
Therefore, humans have tried every means to install dozens of huge parachutes on this thing. The fixed ropes of these parachutes are the strongest carbon fiber, which comes from the Republic of Engineering Academy. It is a technology developed with the goal of "space elevator". It is said that these output
, which was piled up by the laboratory regardless of cost.
Most of the parachute canopy fabric comes from the United States.
NASA tried every means to limit the landing site of "Ogun" to shallow sea areas.
This can not only buffer the force of falling to the maximum extent, but also prevent such a huge object from falling into the sea and being unrecoverable.
It is said that the night when "Ogun" fell, steam and heavy rain covered this area. Even Indonesians in the distance could hear the roar of this giant beast.
A small part of the parachutes fell off when "Ogun" fell, but most of them were still there. So the "Ramo Special Project" committee urgently established under the United Nations Development Program used the materials of these parachutes to build this
A "tent"-like building to prevent prying eyes from unauthorized persons.
This park is the work area of "Rama Special Project".
After arriving at the park, David Klein immediately left and returned to his original work. Other staff members guided many scholars from the Republic to register.
Since the park is still under construction, the scholars can only live in temporary dormitories. According to UN staff, large apartments prepared for them are also under construction and are expected to be available for move-in next month. In addition,
A database and conference center will also be built within days.
Every scholar receives a key.
After completing the registration, they officially became members of the United Nations "Ramo Special Project".
After that, Director Xiao Hu appeared once. He gathered the scholars and once again emphasized the discipline of confidentiality, and emphasized in particular that the scholars were not allowed to contact the outside world at will before approval.
Since various countries were still negotiating on the ownership of "Ogun" a few days ago, the framework of the "Rama Special Project" has not yet been set up, so the project team cannot assign work to the scholars in a short period of time. At least for the rest of today
During the time, scholars can move freely in the project park.
"You guys can communicate more with your foreign colleagues and make more friends." Director Xiao Hu said with a smile: "This may not be a short-term project. In the project area, everyone must carry forward the spirit of the Republic of 'equality, mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence'
, work with colleagues from all over the world to unlock the secrets of 'Ogun' and contribute to the development of human science!"