Chapter 988: Cosmic Life Discovery Project

After arriving at the villa, Cai Ruichen nodded and greeted Hawking, then his eyes were attracted by a bald man next to Hawking,

"Dr. Cai is very welcome. I'm Milner." The bald man stepped forward and greeted Cai Ruichen with his right hand.

"Mr. Milner, I've heard of you for a long time." Cai Ruichen naturally stepped forward and shook hands with him.

At this time, another car stopped at the gate of the villa, and a young man in his thirties got out of the car. After seeing Cai Ruichen, this young man was a little surprised.

"Dr. Cai, nice to meet you here." Zuckerberg got out of the car and walked directly towards Cai Ruichen.

Seeing Zuckerberg, Cai Ruichen finally confirmed the purpose of Hawking's invitation to come here.

Just a few days ago, Minard and Hawking jointly released a plan called Breakthrough Exploration, which is expected to invest 100 million U.S. dollars to detect the Alpha star in the constellation Centaurus, which is the closest to the solar system, to see if there are planets with life or civilization .

Cai Ruichen has also paid attention to this plan. According to the content released by Milner and Hawking, the whole plan will use thousands of camera satellites with a mass of a few grams or tens of grams to go to the Alpha galaxy.

All satellites will use optical reflection as thrust, and it is expected to reach one-fifth of the speed of light, but it is 4.2 light-years away from Proxima Centauri Alpha Star, that is to say, even if it is one-fifth of the speed of light, it takes at least one-fifth of the speed of light to reach Alpha Star. Twenty-one years.

And even if accidents and dangers can be avoided, it will take four years for a satellite to arrive at Alpha Star and take photos at the same time, and it will take four years to send them back.

The fastest time to see the results of the whole plan will be twenty-five years later. However, Cai Ruichen is still quite interested in such a plan.

And Zuckerberg also participated in this plan, and also joined the board of directors of this plan, together with Hawking and Milner. The three key figures of this plan. That's all there.

After a brief greeting, everyone quickly entered the villa, and the arranged dinner began immediately.

This surprised Cai Ruichen very much, because these three people were all in the board of directors of a plan. There was also no fifth person on the scene, that is. It was these three who invited themselves alone.

If this were replaced by the previous Cai Ruichen, she would definitely feel full of vanity, taking a photo and posting it on the Internet. You can become a world celebrity in an instant.

The three who dine with him now,

But none of them are small people. Stop talking about Hawking.

Zuckerberg was once the youngest rich man in the world and one of the co-founders of Facebook. No less than the current Cai Ruichen.

At a young age, he is also a veritable super rich man with a net worth of over tens of billions of dollars. And he just got married recently, otherwise he would be able to compare with Cai Ruichen's status as the fifth diamond king.

Relatively speaking, the outside world knows less about Milner. But in Russia and the United States, he is quite well-known, an investor and rich man who is keen on space exploration.

So far, Milner has also carried out several space exploration projects, all of which are long-term projects. The investment in each project is at least hundreds of millions of dollars, and all of them are non-profit investments.

To put it bluntly, this kind of investment is purely based on imagination, pouring money into it to satisfy one's own curiosity.

And Milner's large amount of investment is also in this area, which is one of the reasons why Milner is famous. After all, there are really not many investors in this world who are not purely for making money.

With these people, Cai Ruichen is also very relaxed. Today's gathering does not involve any money, it is all about interest and feelings.

So Cai Ruichen is also very open. After studying with the base in the past few years, he is not afraid of showing his feet, and he is not at all afraid of various academic discussions.

Soon, the four of them began to blend together and discuss many future-related academic issues.

And all the problems are all around the field of space.

As soon as this topic was mentioned, it naturally began to shift to the breakthrough exploration plan released a few days ago.

At present, this plan has just started, the funds have not yet been in place, and the research and development of small satellites has not yet officially started.

Cai Ruichen was specially invited here. Of course, it is impossible to come here for academic discussions. Milner began to say: "I don't know if Dr. Cai is willing to join this project."

Milner is a very direct person, and the invitation is as soon as he opens his mouth.

Regarding this, Cai Ruichen did not refuse. After all, for such a plan, there is no benefit at all during the period. Everyone is able to come together for interest, which can be regarded as another exploration of the mysteries of the universe.

For humans, such an exploration plan will be of great benefit in the future.

"I can provide the necessary help in terms of funds and technology. As for joining, I'm afraid I don't have the time." Cai Ruichen accepted the invitation. As for himself, it is impossible for him to have time to personally participate in such a plan.

It is impossible for Hawking to have any expression on his face, while Milner and Zuckerberg all have a little bit of disappointment on their faces.

At this time, Cai Ruichen continued: "Although I can't participate in person, there are still many researchers in this field in our company. I believe their participation will be more effective than mine."

The disappointed face was immediately replaced by surprise, both Milner and Zuckerberg were very happy.

With the participation of Future Technology Group, the uncrowned king in the high-tech field, the success rate of the entire plan will be greatly improved.

The most important thing is that the Future Technology Group is still very rich, and there is no need to worry about this plan not going on in the future.

As long as Cai Ruichen agrees, everything else will be easy to handle.

"I believe that with the participation of Future Technology Group, this plan will surely achieve more fruitful success." Milner said very happily.

Although he is the main investor of this project and has successfully reached a cooperation with Hawking, but compared with the strong technological strength of Future Technology Group, there is no comparison between the two. Being able to get the support of Cai Ruichen, he feels that he is incomparable lucky.

"At present, there is only one problem surrounding this plan, and that is the research and development of micro-satellites. With the current technology, it is still quite difficult to successfully develop such satellites."

Zuckerberg simply and directly stated the key direction of the current plan, and the purpose is also very simple. I hope Cai Ruichen will be willing to undertake the research and development and production of this miniaturized satellite. (to be continued.):