It was another ordinary and boring day. Luo Shu stood at the Mauna Kea Observatory and looked at the desolate scenery around him.
Experts know that Mauna Kea is a famous astronomical observation resort, but those who don't know think it is in a desolate mountain group.
However, Mauna Kea is indeed desolate. The observatory is the only building around, and the shape of the dome is quite reminiscent of the alien architecture in the American science fiction movie.
Mauna Kea belongs to the Hawaiian volcano group, and volcanic eruptions have left the mountain without vegetation.
Luo Shu hasn't been back for two years because of the epidemic. His classmates in college all envied him for enjoying Hawaii's desert beaches and sunshine all to himself, but he was the only one who knew how hard he was.
I spent most of my time with the wind and sand, guarding the radio telescopes at the Mauna Kea Observatory, observing tiny galaxies, submicron, infrared, and fast radio burst phenomena.
Graduating with a bachelor's degree in astronomy means unemployment. It's very difficult to find a satisfactory job. If you want to go to a domestic astronomical observatory to keep a telescope, you still need a master's degree. Another thing is to talk about astronomical observatories in remote locations that no one wants to go to.
Like the Purple Mountain Observatory in Jinling, a doctorate is the threshold (formal editor).
Fortunately, Luo Shuben had good grades and had two laboratory internship experiences. He applied for a PhD in astronomy from the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
Many public universities in America are university clusters, composed of many branch campuses, such as the famous University of California, Berkeley, which is a branch of the University of California.
The US ranking of the Hilo campus is not very good, probably close to 300 in the United States, but because it is backed by the Mauna Kea Observatory, its astronomy is top in the world.
America's PhD scholarships are quite high, but the cost of living in Hawaii is also high, making it difficult for Luo Shu to be comfortable.
Therefore, he took over the task of guarding the Mauna Kea Observatory from time to time, and was responsible for observing whether there were any abnormal signals. If there were any abnormal signals, he would analyze them first and report to the professor after analyzing the abnormal phenomena that he could not understand.
After standing by the window for a while, he returned to the laboratory and continued to face the observation interface.
Regular radio signals began to appear on the interface, and Luo Shu felt unperturbed because radio signals were always there.
Humanity has launched too many satellites into space, and even eight exploration orbiters and four landing rovers are currently in operation on Mars.
China's Zhurong successfully landed last year.
It was not surprising that regular radio signals were coming from outer space, but Luo Shu took a closer look and found something was wrong.
Because observations show that radio signals are attenuated a bit.
To know that electromagnetic waves will fade in the transmission path, Luo Shu recalled the calculation formula of electromagnetic wave free space loss in his mind:
Lbf=32.5+20lgF+20lgD.
This calculation formula assumes an ideal situation of 25 degrees Celsius and 1 atmospheric pressure.
In fact, there must be errors in radio signals transmitted back from outer space.
Luo Shu assumed the intensity of electromagnetic wave emission. After careful calculation, he found that something was wrong. In terms of distance, this series of regular radio signals came from 6 billion kilometers away.
At this location, humans have not launched any observers, let alone any satellites.
Luo Shu was a little confused for a moment. He began to count in detail the cosmic observatories that Blue Star had launched. Did any of them return signals from a distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers?
"Pioneer? No, Pioneer 11 is almost at the constellation Aquila. Voyager? That's not right either. Voyager 2 left the heliosphere and left the solar system two years ago."
"It's about 6 billion kilometers away from the earth, and it's still in the solar system."
"Voyager 1? That's even worse. Voyager 1 left the solar system in 12 years."
"The New Horizons probe is somewhat similar. The problem is that the New Horizons probe has already entered the center of the Kuiper Belt, and the distance is also different."
Luo Shu counted all the observers that humans had launched into deep space, but none of them met the requirements in terms of distance.
He began to think carefully: "This distance is roughly the distance of Pluto, and it is daylight saving time in Hawaii."
"I'll do the math again."
After detailed calculations based on the geographical location of the Mauna Kea Observatory, Luo Shu found that the source of the signal was roughly within the first generation of Pluto.
He was certain that at this point in time, there was definitely no human device capable of transmitting radio on Pluto.
"After excluding all impossible situations, the only remaining possibility is that there are really aliens?"
By the time Luoshu calculated the electromagnetic wave attenuation signal, the sun had already set on Mauna Kea.
Radio observation devices in deep space continue to receive repeated radio signals, proving that the phenomenon just observed by Luo Shu is not an illusion.
Luo Shu recognized this as an opportunity to decipher the radio signals before other astronomers did.
After the idea came to him, he did not report the phenomenon to his mentor immediately.
"???" Luo Shu's mind was filled with questions, "Aliens also use Morse code?"
Luo Shu was shocked after translating the radio signal. Isn't this thing Morse code?
The long signal was - and the short signal was . Luo Shu was disappointed. He suspected that his calculations were not accurate. Maybe the radio was located on Mars.
He now suspected that this was a radio signal sent back from Mars.
But Luo Shu wanted to see what the Morse code was decrypted, and he spent an entire afternoon on this.
"It's simply unforgivable to hinder my ability to paddle and fish."
".... stands for h"
"- stands for t"
"Another one-"
".--.stands for p"
"http? Is this string of radio signals a website address?"
"--represents m"
".-represents a"
"--. stands for g"
"..stands for i"
"-.-. stands for c"
“Another c”
"---represents o"
"Then another m"
"httpmagiccom" Luo Shu wrote the deciphered plain text on the paper, "
Luo Shu was completely intrigued, "Magic? Magic?"
He turned on his computer and opened the website he had finally deciphered.
The content inside was a bit disappointing to him. There were only three lines of text in it, which seemed to be the entrances to three documents. From top to bottom, they read:
"The Nature of Will and How It Affects Reality"
"On Methods of Proving the Existence of the Soul"
"Intelligent life: body, will, soul"
Luo Shu thought to himself, "Can it really be nonsense? Will the will affect reality? Does the soul exist? Isn't this all nonsense?"
"Who makes this joke with a rover on Mars."
But he didn't stop the mouse and clicked on the first document: The nature of will and how it affects reality.
The signature of the article made Luo Shu couldn't help laughing: "Merlin? Merlin?"
"Why not Gandalf?"
"Forget it, Merlin and Gandalf are not popular anymore, Scarlet Witch is popular now."
Before he could continue looking down, Professor Philip's voice came up from the first floor:
"Luo, it's not good!"
