The autumn sunlight streamed through the spacious glass windows, bathing everything in a warm, cozy glow. Adam, who had spent a fortune here, still felt like he was in a dream as he gazed out at the garden landscape under construction.
Sophia explained seriously, "Let me break it down for you. The main building of the laboratory—you can think of it as a giant square sheet of paper standing upright. This sheet is 18,425 meters long and wide, and 597 meters thick."
So it's not just ridiculously tall?! There's width and thickness too!
"A sheet of paper... a sheet of paper... Ha! Haha, what a sheet of paper!" Adam's face twisted in disbelief, speaking rapidly: "Let me do the math—the thickness is almost six hundred meters, so that's like two aircraft carriers end to end. Now the width—an aircraft carrier's deck is about 70 meters wide, so you'd need 260 of them side by side. Stacked vertically... I can't even calculate it! That's the size of over 400,000 aircraft carriers piled up!"
Adam was on the verge of losing it. Pointing at his still-under-construction pride and joy, he made one last desperate plea: "Look at this—this thing we're building, that cost a fortune—what even is it?"
"Peripheral facilities, support base." Sophia earnestly patted the blueprint. "This is the real Tiberius Laboratory. Adam, don't let poverty limit your imagination—this is nothing, just Phase One of the project."
Don't let poverty limit my imagination?
That's a new one, seriously!
Alright, deep breaths... focus... Let me try to accept this—a sheet of paper... a sheet of paper... If I dug up the entire Olympus Mountains, kneaded and squished them together, I'd get a sheet like this... Fuck!! Screw your sheet of paper!! And this is just Phase One?! There's a Phase Two and Three?!
Sophia really is Sophia—her way of thinking is on a whole other level than us mortals. One minute it's ultra-fast communication networks, the next it's a Cybertron processor with 5.8 million times the computing power. Aren't those impressive enough? Why does she keep bringing up radio telescopes, lunar accelerators, and stratosphere labs?