Zhao Xiaofeng put on his work gloves and began to carefully study the metal that the warehouse robot had brought out.
It was an irregular-shaped piece of silver metal. Its surface was slightly curved, and its edges were irregular.
It was about 1.2 meters long, about three centimeters wide at its widest point, and about five centimeters thick.
This was undoubtedly a piece of metal fragment, and it was an extremely strong metal fragment that had been separated by a certain division!
Judging from the smooth curvature of the surface, such metal fragments could only be created through extremely advanced technology!
And now, the metal fragment was found on an asteroid from an unknown place. What did this mean?
"Tomcat, how far away is the orbit of the asteroid that we shattered?”
" Please tell me," Zhao Xiaofeng asked calmly." Is its curved orbit out of the solar system?"”
"It has an orbital distance of about four trillion kilometers. Its rough orbit extends from the Oort Cloud to Saturn! We haven't left the solar system yet!"
Tomcat replied.
The Oort Cloud was the most dangerous region in the entire solar system. It was located at the outermost layer of the solar system and was filled with many inactive comets. They were made up of the remnants of the nebula that formed the sun and its planets five billion years ago.
These comets were similar to asteroids, but because they were affected by the gravitational pull of large planets, such as Jupiter, they were expelled from the solar system, causing them to have extremely oval or parabolic orbits, and some interstellar dust scattered in the outermost layer of the solar system.
At the same time, this process also prevented them from completing the growth process of developing into planets, and formed an unstable state.
In short, it was a restricted area for interstellar travel. Most of the immature comets were in a semi-solid and semi-gaseous state. Coupled with the powerful pressure in the core and the traction of the inner solar system planets, there would often be some inexplicable energy explosions and material chaos such as comet self-destruction.
"What is its speed and orbital period? Have you calculated the perihelion and aphelion?”
As a qualified space captain, Zhao Xiaofeng wanted to minimize the range of the star field where this metal object appeared.
"I'm sorry, I can't completely confirm these things, but based on the data we have so far, it doesn't orbit the sun. It's just an asteroid that keeps changing its orbit due to external forces.”
Zhao Xiaofeng was a little disappointed by Tomcat's answer.
Because if the calculations determined that the irregular asteroid was orbiting the sun, then a lot of things could be analyzed through its distant orbit.
For example, by calculating the range of his trajectory, he could determine the most likely range of the location where the metal debris was produced.
This metal debris was most likely the debris of the Human Alliance's spaceship!
Of course, this would require further examination of the metal wreckage before a conclusion could be drawn.
With Tomcat's help, Zhao Xiaofeng used the various scientific instruments on the Galaxy to conduct the most detailed examination of the metal.
By measuring the decay of the elemental cycle that made up it, the fragment was created about 1.2 million years ago.
Based on the results of other tests, Zhao Xiaofeng confirmed that it had been torn off from a larger object after receiving an extremely violent impact.
"Its strength is very high. Its material is even sturdier than our Galaxy's anti-collision armor!“
" The reflective coating on the surface is also a little more advanced than our technology. It can reflect 99.765% of cosmic rays and other light radiation as well as microwave radiation!”
"One side of it has extremely weak signs of reacting with oxygen, but the other side doesn't!“
" This means that this material has been in contact with oxygen on one side and the vacuum of space on the other side for a long time. From this, it can be determined that it may be the external material of a spaceship!”
"At the same time, it also implies that the civilization that created this material also needs oxygen to survive!”
"This civilization's aerospace technology is about 50 to 200 years ahead of ours!”
Tomcat was like a detective, analyzing the data on the metal fragment to come up with many logical conclusions.
It probably came from the outer armor of a spaceship from a million years ago. Because of an explosion or war in the solar system, it was torn apart and splashed into space, embedded in the asteroid.
After over a million years, it was finally discovered by the Galaxy and was in his hands.
Of course, Zhao Xiaofeng felt that there were many problems with this conclusion.
The technological level of the Human Alliance had almost reached the level of a level 3 civilization a few hundred years ago, but there had never been any signs of an intelligent civilization on any planet in the solar system!
Of course, some coincidences could not be ruled out. After all, the universe was too mysterious!
No one could guarantee that there wasn't an alien civilization with advanced technology in a corner of the universe. The spacecraft that they built had a disaster far away from the solar system, and the wreckage of the spacecraft wandered all the way into the solar system for unknown reasons. Eventually, it collided with the asteroid and was embedded in the asteroid's body.
However, Tomcat's further analysis of the metal gave Wei Feng and Zhao Xiaofeng an unbelievable answer.
"Captain, the test results tell me that after examining the detailed composition of this metal object, I have come to this conclusion: This metal might have been made by the Human Alliance!
"The possibility is as high as 94%!”
"Because its material composition is more than 99.99% similar to the material in our solar system! The results of the reverse engineering analysis also supported this point!”
Old Cat grabbed his hair and said,""It might be a product created by the Human Alliance more than a million years ago!”
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