If she hadn't witnessed that moment with her own eyes, Angelina wouldn't have believed that a human spacecraft, under the control of some kind of technology, could cross 2.6 astronomical units in an instant and appear in the geosynchronous orbit of the Earth.
Not only did she witness all of this with her own eyes, but she also participated in this historic moment with 100 other passengers as one of the people who experienced it personally.
At this moment, Angelina couldn't say a word. Every inch of her face was full of surprise.
She swore that she would use her words to make this moment eternal …
Angelina wasn't the only one who was surprised.
At the same time that Torch appeared in the Earth-Moon system, the space observatory belonging to the North America Space Agency in geosynchronous orbit also observed this amazing scene.
The tip of Field's nose almost poked into the holographic screen. He stared at the starship that appeared out of thin air in the observation lens.
Standing behind him, Johnny whispered the words that he couldn't say.
"… They succeeded."
Yes, they succeeded.
No matter how unacceptable this reality was and how much despair Field and the others felt, the truth would not change.
From this moment on, human civilization had entered a new era.
In order to celebrate this moment, bright fireworks rose over the Yangtze River Delta city group, the Pearl River Delta city group, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei city group at eight o 'clock in the evening.
Not only in reality, but also on the Internet.
From the virtual reality online games of the Calan Empire to the academic exchange forums of major universities, almost every corner of the Internet, everyone was celebrating this great moment in their own way.
As the world's largest academic exchange forum, the boiling atmosphere on the LSPM forum began to brew as early as yesterday.
And now with the news of Torch's successful arrival, related discussion posts were like a waterfall, instantly flooding the page.
[Academician Lu is amazing!]
[Amazing! It took less than a minute to get from Mars to Earth?! Then wouldn't it be faster to go to Mars than to the Moon?!]
[It's more than amazing! This is amazing, okay! Forget about the starship, in terms of communication alone, this technology is amazing! It used to take a few minutes to send a letter to Mars, and 20 minutes if it was slow!]
[Haha, our Tiangong City will no longer be a local area network.]
[It's hard to say. We still don't know how much the communication cost of the stargate is. If every kilobyte of data costs 100 credits, even if you can achieve instant communication, not many people will be able to afford it.]
[I heard from Academician Lu that the cost of maintaining a stable hyperspace channel shouldn't be very high.]
[Heh, who knows?]
It wasn't just the netizens who were talking about it. The academic community had also started a heated discussion around this shocking news.
For example, Academician Wang Chuanzhe from the Pan-Asian Academy of Social Sciences updated an article of about 10,000 words in his LSPM personal space.
From the standpoint of an expert, he analyzed the possible impact of this technology on the world from a sociological perspective.
[According to the objective laws of historical development, a series of factors closely related to our lives, such as the scope of human activities and the boundaries of civilization, have always been inseparable from the development of transportation technology and communication technology.
[Since entering the space age, although a large number of complex technologies have been emerging, the area of our activities has not expanded because of this. We are still limited to the narrow asteroid belt.
[Now, the birth of hyperspace theory and the emergence of warp speed technology have fundamentally reversed this situation, expanding the boundaries of our imagination beyond the solar system.
[It is foreseeable that this technology will not only change our way of life, but it will also completely change the political landscape on Earth. Just like the changes that Columbus brought to the European continent, I can boldly speculate that the globalization process that ended in the last century will be revived again, and we will also move towards a greater alliance and integration, sharing weal and woe on the issue of future destiny.]
After this article was published, it immediately caused a huge response in the academic community.
Not only because of Academician Wang Chuanzhe's vision of this technology, but also because of his description at the end of the article, which reminded many people of the Human Alliance of the last century.
In order to deal with the threat from extraterrestrial civilization, countries formed an authoritative organization with more executive power than the United Nations to express the voice of human civilization.
However, because more evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization could not be found, and with the stagnation of the excavation of the remains of the Martian civilization, this alliance soon died for various reasons. Finally, it was passed on in the form of a regional alliance.
In the past hundred years, the academic community had demonstrated countless times that it was impractical to establish a unified political collective that included hundreds of countries around the world. In contrast, a small-scale regional alliance was more in line with the development needs of human society.
But now, Academician Wang Chuanzhe had put forward a view that was diametrically opposed to the mainstream opinion of the academic community. Especially at this particular point in time, it was difficult for people not to think about it.
Especially considering the political background of this old man, many people had begun to speculate whether the Pan-Asian Cooperation was planning something big …
…
No matter what kind of big moves were brewing, the mainstream public opinion atmosphere of the entire Pan-Asian Cooperation was in a jubilant mood at this moment.
However, in contrast, the mood of other regional alliances might not be so good.
North America Alliance headquarters.
Inside the chairman's office.
The chief of staff in a suit walked quickly into the room. He put his hands on the desk and looked at the chairman sitting behind the desk. He spoke in a hurried tone.
"There is news that the Pan-Asian Cooperation intends to restart the Human Alliance."
After hearing these words, the chairman was slightly stunned. He then sneered and spoke.
"Human Alliance? The thing that has been swept into the grave of history? Haha, what excuse do they plan to use this time? Jovian? Or Saturn? "
"None of them …"
The chief of staff gulped. He cut a report from the Pan-Asian News onto the holographic screen and gently pushed it in front of the chairman.
With a skeptical expression, the president cast his gaze on the holographic screen.
However, it was also at this moment that the expression on his face froze.
There was no excuse.
There was not even a warning or a threat.
There was only a simple but chilling soliloquy.
[Rumor has it that the Pan-Asian higher-ups are studying to expand the scope of economic cooperation and open the use of stargate technology to member states that join the cooperation.]
"I didn't expect them to use faster than light speed as a bargaining chip …"
The chief of staff lowered his head with a heavy expression. "Yes … I didn't expect them to be so shameless."
"…"
Leaning back slightly, the chairman gently leaned against the office wall. His slightly trembling index finger gently rested on the bridge of his nose.
The North America Alliance was not a country; it was just a regional alliance.
If the Pan-Asian Cooperation took joining the Human Alliance or similar community organizations as a prerequisite for the use of stargate technology and threw an olive branch to the member states of the North America Alliance, he could almost see the collapse of the entire alliance …
This was an offer that could not be refused at all.
The Chief of Staff, who was standing across the desk, gulped and spoke with difficulty.
"Chairman …"
"Get out." The voice was full of exhaustion, as if he had aged dozens of years in an instant. The man sitting on the office chair continued, "Leave me alone."
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