It is said that humans did not feel any obstacles when disassembling the complete alien machine.
There is no special structure that is commonly used by humans when manufacturing machines that cannot be restored after disassembly. It adopts the simplest and most straightforward assembly process. All parts can be easily disassembled, and the specifications are the same as those of complete parts on small machines outside.
Most of them are in common and the processing techniques are almost the same.
Presumably, aliens don’t care that their technology will be copied by civilizations on other planets, right?
Or, maybe it's because these machines can only do this level of manufacturing and assembly?
Moreover, the imitation process was also very smooth.
When designing the Alienware, it seems that the design idea was to "make the machine work in an environment with large component tolerances as much as possible", and the materials of the entire machine are unusually unified.
Sometimes, even if every part of a precision instrument is disassembled and placed in front of another group of people and asked to scan and record one by one, it is difficult to reproduce it.
Some machines are indeed so complex that "it is difficult to completely disassemble without drawings", and some parts are indeed "easy to deform during the disassembly process, and the measurement results will be affected." But even if these are not considered, there are still huge difficulties in replicating unknown machines.
Because reality is not ideal.
There are size requirements for the design of a part, but the design size is often marked with a mark such as "±**mm". Although the design size of this part is a fixed value, in actual processing, it is impossible for all parts to be exactly this
If the value is numerical, there must be an error. During the overall design of the machine, the errors of other parts that match this part will be taken into consideration, which is called "tolerance".
As long as the error of a part is within the tolerance range, the part is a qualified part.
All parts of machinery have such tolerances. Even if humans acquire an unknown machine, they can only measure the precise dimensions of the parts on this machine, but it is difficult to know the range of the tolerance.
The same goes for materials. Many parts have different requirements for the strength, toughness, and elasticity of materials, and they cannot be copied just by knowing the dimensions.
This is probably a 3D printer - it can only be said roughly, because there are many parts, and humans have not yet figured out what they are used for. But from the laser emitting device, the feeding device and the influence of the crystallization to the coolant delivery device or
Judging from the magnetic field and sound field generating device, this is indeed a mature machine.
At this point, humans have also confirmed one thing. This unknown alien civilization shares similar logic with humans.
Human beings can clearly see the design ideas of these components and their inherent logic from the creations of alien civilizations - of course, some components are too unfamiliar to human civilization. Perhaps it comes from the blind spots of human thinking.
, humans cannot see their specific functions for the time being.
Then, the next problem facing human civilization is obvious.
That is, "how does this machine work" and "what is recorded in the alien copper plate".
These two questions may be boiled down to one question - "How does the machine use the information in these alien copper plates to maintain its work?"
In any case, there is really too little information on these copper plates.
Although the aliens used special symbols to increase the information density of the copper plates, if those symbols were stored by a computer, they would only be about a few hundred MB.
Does a few hundred MB of information include a complete industrial production system?
No matter how you think about it, it's unlikely.
But realistically speaking, those aliens almost succeeded.
Although the mechanical activities inside the spacecraft stopped thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago, they had successfully operated for a longer time before.
The age of those mechanical wreckage, the age of this 3D printer, and the age of the main part of the spacecraft are all very different.
Even humans have observed that there are many traces of repairs on the main part of the spacecraft.
Apparently, these robots even know how to maintain the spacecraft.
Their design drawings, assembly processes, material information, and AI, all added up, only amount to a few hundred MB.
It may only be the amount of data for a dozen photos.
Several hundred MB...
Ingrid's comment on this is: "I don't think we can use 'code' to measure these symbols. They are obviously not codes. Codes, like human language, are linear and one-dimensional. But at least
It’s also a two-dimensional symbol system, maybe it’s still three-dimensional.”
Xiang Shan immediately came to Ingrid's side: "Tell me more, tell me more."
"Language is a linear thing, because time is linear. When humans speak, language is arranged into words and sentences along time. In fact, the symbol system of words does not need to be linear when it is placed on paper." Ingrid thought.
Moment: "In the East Asian continent, there were "Poems on the Plate" and "Xuanji Pictures", which were non-linear word games. Especially "Xuanji Pictures" was very exquisite."
A big question mark seemed to appear on Xiang Shan's head.
"Uh... I'm sorry." Ingrid hurriedly added the explanation: "The Xuanji Picture is a special... thing called a palindrome poem, right? The original poem has a total of 840 characters, twenty vertical and horizontal characters.
Nine characters, the middle is empty, the square matrix is vertical, horizontal, oblique, interactive, forward, reverse or backward, or read one character after another, it can become a poem. The poems can have three, four, five, six or seven words.
, the current statistics can form approximately 7,958 poems.”
"In this matrix of words, the two-dimensional spatial relationship between symbols is also meaningful. Language is one-dimensional, and a word often only has a linear connection with the content before and after it. Your first sentence
The first word of the second sentence, the second word of the third sentence, and the third word of the third sentence will not be connected into a new sentence in other people's consciousness, producing independent meanings that have nothing to do with the original content.
But text written on a two-dimensional medium does not necessarily need to follow such rules."
Seeing that Xiangshan was still thinking, Ingrid said: "Maybe... if I said 'crossword puzzle', you might understand it better?"
"Hiss..." Xiang Shan nodded: "You underestimate me, I completely understand."
"The reading rules on those alien stone tablets may be more complicated." Ingrid said: "If there is a 'next terminator invalid' symbol in the symbol, then the reading rules on this stone tablet can become even more terrifying.
.This is simply a maze. Even if we could disassemble each row and each group of symbols, I'm afraid it would be difficult to make the machine actually operate."