Chapter 518 - Before the Testimony

It was 7:45 a.m. local time on January 17 in New Zealand.

"Anyway," Motota asked suddenly. "I remember that the United States launched the Hubble telescope into outer space, right?"

"yes, what's wrong?" Mitsuhiko nodded.

"Then why did Uncle Okita say ...... Do they want to get observations from Africa? "Yuan Tai spreads his hands." In terms of observation capabilities, the Hubble telescope should be much stronger than those telescopes on the ground, right? ”

"Uh......" Mitsuhiko was momentarily speechless. This ......"

"It's because of the speed," Ayumi replied softly at that moment, sitting on Conan's side. "While it is true that the Hubble telescopes are very efficient – like other observing systems that observe in space – their biggest drawback is the efficiency of data transmission."

"Transmission efficiency?" Mitsuhiko and Motota looked at Ayumi together.

"That's right," Ayumi nodded. "In the case of the Hubble Telescope, this big guy doesn't output data anytime and anywhere β€” twice a day, and it's not directly to the ground, but to a transit station in the same space, and then to a New Mexico ...... The White Sands Test Facility is scaled up before it becomes useful information and is archived. ”

Conan raised an eyebrow and looked at Ayumi with some surprise. "Ayumi you ......"

"What's wrong?" Ayumi looked a little nervous. "I, I, I...... Am I saying something wrong? ”

"No," Conan shook his head. "I'm just surprised, I didn't expect you to know so many things."

"No~" Ayumi scratched her head with a smile. "I just happened to have studied these ......"

"......" Qian Yu and Gray Yuan Ai exchanged a look, and then sighed in their hearts.

At this moment, the screen in the movie screening room was turned on – what appeared on the screen did not look like a real image, but an electronic analogue image. At the same time, a string of paragraphs mixed with English and numbers appeared in the upper right corner of the screen.

"What's that?" Mitsuhiko asked, pointing to the passages.

This time, Ayumi didn't give an answer - this kind of thing was still a little too difficult for her.

"A debris is expected to collide at 20:13 UTC on the 16th." In the end, it was Conan who answered. "The current time is 19:51 UTC on the 16th."

"What's going on with this image?" Genta looked at the picture on the screen. "I thought we could see the images that the telescopes saw......"

"I don't know." Conan shook his head.

"Don't worry," Sonoko Suzuki, who was sitting next to them, yawned and shook her head. "Now the most basic data transmission cable has just been connected, and the follow-up advanced transmission cable has not yet been connected, as long as it is connected, you can immediately see the live broadcast screen with a delay of only a few seconds."

"It's pretty much the same anyway," Conan said. "The astronomical spectacle is nowhere near as exciting as you might think, and the fact that even now there are a large number of academics who believe that the collision in Sumeklevi will not have a particularly big impact, which means that for laymen like you and me, the collision may be quite boring – or even nothing at all."

"Why?" Maorilan, who was sitting on the other side of Conan, asked.

"Because of the location," Conan shrugged. "This time the landing point of Shoemaker Klevy is actually on the back of the ground, which means that the location of the collision is not on the side that we can see. Despite the fact that the location of the collision is still very close to the ground, and Jupiter's rotation speed is very fast, which means that we can see the situation of the landing point in a few minutes, if Sumeklevi does not cause any major movements, we still have no visual impact and no trace - after all, it is a fragment about a kilometer in diameter, and even if it can really hit the ground and come out of a one-kilometer diameter crater, it is difficult for us to observe. ”

"I hope it won't be like that," Thousand Feathers shook her head. "If that's the case, it's a big joke."

At the same time, the screen flickered and then turned pitch black, and the stars began to appear in pitch black after a few moments.

"That's it," Ayumi said. "This is supposed to be the observation base in Cape Town – the local time they use should be ...... At 8:54 p.m., and their sun set around 6 p.m., it should be as dark as it appears above! ”

"21:54," Conan reminded. "Cape Town is in Zone 1 East, but they are a special case because they are using the time zone setting of Zone 2 East."

"Is that so?" Ayumi was slightly stunned, but quickly regrouped. "That'...... Can you teach me later that there are other places in the world where this is a similar special case? ”

"No problemβ€”" Conan said halfway through, startled by what was on the screen.

"Radius?" Gray Plains muttered. "This is talking about ......"

"Jupiter's radius, like?" Qian Yu said uncertainly. "I feel that the distance from this A fragment on the screen to Jupiter seems to be about the same as the radius of Jupiter's sphere?"

"That's right," Mori Kogoro, who was on the other side of them, clasped his hands over his chest and said with interest. "It should be said that the A fragment is only a distance of one Jupiter's radius from Jupiter - so the debris could be traveling at about 60 kilometers per hour?"

As if receiving a signal, all the staff stopped working almost at this moment, and left the screening room in silence and quickly.

"How about them?" Ayumi was a little surprised.

"They're going to look at those observations," Kogoro Mori explains. "We look at these things that are easier to see, but as professionals, they analyze all the first-hand information in the first place – which is not so convenient to do here."

After Mori Kogoro said this, the entire movie screening room fell into a long silence for an inexplicable time, and everyone just maintained a silent atmosphere, looking together at the red fragments of Jupiter that were gradually approaching the screen.

As the clock approached 20:13, everyone was in a pretty nervous situation, perhaps because they all had a hunch that they were about to witness something very important.

Gray Yuan Ai suddenly showed a somewhat stunned look, and then looked to her sideβ€”before that, she had been interlocking her fingers with Qianyu, but now she suddenly felt Qianyu's hand holding her suddenly tremble.

"Take it easy," the corners of Gray Yuan's mouth curled slightly, and he whispered comfortingly. "Don't be too nervous, you're not a staff member, just watch the show."