Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1401 Moon Route
"Okay." Atlas said without hesitation, "Now that I've said all this, I'll also tell you the true principle of submarine navigation. I'll be frank. Submarine navigation relies on celestial bodies."

"And then?" Shangluo asked, "Even the indigenous people of the Pacific Ocean use celestial bodies for navigation, right?"

"That's true. But sailing over when the moon appears on the horizon requires the power of the sea god."

"???"

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“???” Not only Shangluo, but also Victoria and Zhu Ling who came with them were stunned.

Everyone was stunned. The moon was there, so they could just sail over there. Since the ship was the carrier of the voyage, they had to sail when the moon was level with the sea surface. As long as they kept going forward, the route would extend infinitely until they reached the moon.

No matter how simple a ship is, it can sail all the way to the moon using this method. Even the ancient Greek galleys could reach the moon in this way if necessary.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Just drive over like this. Let me show you - for example, the moonrise time tonight is 18:05, so just sail west the moment the moon appears. This way you will be on an invisible course, and the moon in your field of vision will not continue to rise but will slowly get bigger. Then just drive all the way to the moon, it's that simple."

Shangluo covered his forehead and said, "Why do I feel like this is some kind of mad dog out of the cage fighting style?"

The dog is out of the cage - suppose the technology for hyperspace travel is as simple as a windmill, and humans are just unlucky enough not to have discovered it, but in fact humans' technology level is already ridiculously high for space travel, resulting in humans being able to expand like a dog out of the cage once they enter space.

Recalling the aerospace means he had accumulated before, he once thought that this mass accelerator composed of combustion, rotation and throwing was the mad dog out of the cage. Because the mass accelerator can indeed establish a stable connection between planets.

He found that he was still too conservative. The method of "the moon is there, so drive there" would really make humans enter the stage of "mad dog out of the cage". Because the former still requires at least a spaceship to sail, while this plan can directly drive to the moon even with a sailboat, and then fly back at another time.

"So how did they do it?" Shangluo was puzzled. "Did I miss something? If we head towards the moon, we can reach the moon. Throughout history, countless ships have been stranded on the moon."

"First of all, you can't assume that there are no stranded ships on the moon just because you haven't seen any. In fact, many ships have been stranded on the moon, but it's difficult to observe directly from Earth. As for the specific principles of the method, we have to consider it from another perspective." He put his hands flat and gestured to Shangluo:

"If the moon is right above the sea right now, and your ship is heading towards the moon, can it get closer and closer to the moon?"

"At least it feels like we are getting closer. After all, it is very reasonable to move towards a target and then land on it. However, there is a problem: the moon is not fixed on the ground. The moon will rise. When the moon rises, the moon will only stay on the horizon for a moment."

"That's right." Atlas nodded. "The moon will rise and stay above the horizon for only a moment. This is the limitation of the technology itself. But it's not difficult to solve. Although we can't fix the moon on the ground, we just need to make the sea surface rise with the moon."

"???"[? ? ? 】

Shang Luo found that he couldn't quite understand Poseidon's thinking - but fortunately, because it was too intuitive, after getting used to it, he actually found it very reasonable:
You can sail to the moon by heading straight for it. Although the moon is moving, as long as the sea level rises with the moon, the bow of the ship can always be aligned with the moon.

“How many ships can be transported like this?”

"A lot. In fact, this is similar to the canal, and it needs to be raised in stages. And there are not many places where magic can be performed, because it requires a vast, unobserved area of ​​the sea. So we usually raise it at Point Nemo."

Point Nemo, or "the point of inaccessibility in the ocean", is the most remote place on the earth's surface from land. Nemo means "no one" in Latin. A place without people is a wilderness suitable for using magic.

Point Nemo is currently in the South Pacific, nearly 2700 kilometers from the nearest land. Casting a spell here will not be discovered by anyone. If the experiment is conducted here, the only ones who can come to watch are whales that also live in the waters around Antarctica.

"So your plan is to first have these ships sail to Point Nemo, then put them into a standby state, create a local reality, and then adjust the sea level so that the bows of the ships always point to the moon, and finally reach the other side of the sea of ​​stars?"

"We call it magic."

[No wonder there are so many submarines on the moon all of a sudden. This is indeed necessary, similar to the canal lock method to transport them to the target. The transport capacity is indeed huge, but this navigation method also has disadvantages. First of all, it is not universal. ]

"Indeed." Shang Luo nodded. "This can actually only be used to sail to the moon, right? At most, we can add the five planets that can be observed with the naked eye. It will be difficult to 'align' with places farther away. But then again, even if we can only establish a connection between the earth and the moon, it is already very useful."

This was different from what Shangluo had imagined. He thought the technology of Atlantis would be more universal - but it turned out that this was actually a technology specifically prepared for the inner solar system, especially for Earth-Moon navigation. This could indeed establish a close connection between the Earth and the Moon, but it could not be used elsewhere.

"But there is a problem." Shangluo changed the subject, "Why did your people attack us?"

"Maybe it's because Atlantis didn't sign an alliance with Zhendan. After all, it was the Roman Empire that signed the alliance with Atlantis. But now that the King of Rome is from Zhendan, I think we can also expand the scope of cooperation to Zhendan."

"Will we cooperate in the future?" Shangluo asked.

"We have only one goal - to wage war against the spirit world. Apart from that, there is nothing unusual that is worthy of us fighting each other. Sooner or later, we will capture Oberon and Titania."

(End of this chapter)