Chapter 457: Meteor Strikes
Astronomical observers on Earth have observed the sudden appearance of meteors near Pluto, which is a very peculiar astronomical phenomenon. Because the movement of the stars is traceable. For example, Halley's Comet which is visited regularly.
However, it is normal for meteor swarms to be easily overlooked by astronomical observers at great distances due to their very small size. But the problem now before everyone is not a group of small meteors that have been neglected.
Because there is a large number of 'shooting stars' flying towards the earth at super high speed near Pluto!
"How big is this meteor shower?!" Zofie, the head of NASA, asked his subordinate, Dr. Ohtani, "Why didn't you find it before?!"
"I'm sorry sir, but this meteor shower seems to have appeared out of nowhere. There were no signs of meteors moving in the orbits we had observed before, and they seemed to have suddenly appeared in that area. And the speed of the flight is fast. Dr. Otani, who was the first observer to discover the scene, carefully reported.
"As for their size? I can only say big, very big. ”
"Be specific. ”
"Do you know the meteor that made the dinosaurs extinct?"
The conversation between the two fell into an awkward silence, one of the last things the Director wanted to hear.
Zofie pondered for a while and asked, "What about the orbit, did this meteor pass by the Earth or?" Zofie didn't finish his words, but the meaning was already obvious.
He still retains a glimmer of hope that things are not as bad as he thought.
"If they don't change course, then at their speed, it will only take seven days. In seven days, they'll hit the Earth directly!" Dr. Ohtani said the worst news.
This was the worst news, Zofie's face twitched several times in a row, as if his facial muscles were cramping. He asked relentlessly, "Can you assess the loss?"
"Yes. ”
"How much?"
"All!"
It was as if a hand in the void had choked the throats of the two of them, and the suffocating silence made the air seem quiet.
His Excellency the President received the news at one o'clock in the morning, when he finally fell asleep. As the president of a big country, the pressure on Mr. Pu is very high.
Compared to his predecessors, he felt that his life before retirement was the worst. It's clear that he is about to withdraw from the core of the supreme power, why are there so many things every day?
What new energy, what hyperloop, what battle for Eastern Europe, what Earth Federation. And it also caught up with the construction of the first starport and the invasion of alien civilizations or something. I had more things to do before I retired than I had ever faced in my previous years in government, and it was more troublesome.
Now President Putina just wants to stay up to retirement quickly, then he can go to the countryside to write a memoir, and then he can eat his wife's baked cookies and brewed black tea in the afternoon while he writes.
"Hurry up, what's going on again. In a small conference room at the White House, President Pin met with NASA President Zoffie and Dr. Ohtani brought by Zofie.
"Is something wrong with Starport?" President Pu thought that there was something wrong with the construction of Sky City, otherwise there was really no need for the director of NASA to wake himself up in the middle of the night. The most important task on NASA's hands now is to build Sky City.
But the construction of Skycity was outsourced to Stark Group, and it was built very quickly. Logically speaking, there should be no problem. And you need to wake up the president of a country in the middle of the night, unless Sky City falls.
That's why President Putin said, "Could it be that Starport Sky City fell from the Earth's orbit?"
Zofie's face was ugly, and he said in a tone that was even more uncomfortable than his own, "It's worse than this, Your Excellency." We're about to face an unprecedented cataclysm!"
The president cast a puzzled look: "Do you mean "The Day After Tomorrow"?"
Dr. Otani interjected before Zofie could speak, "Your Excellency, it's actually "Heaven and Earth Collide". ”
THE PRESIDENT: ...... "It's not April Fool's Day!"
Zoffie: "We didn't play pranks either. ”
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A large swarm of small meteors was flying at a very high speed, thinking about the news of the Earth flying quickly. At least it's spreading rapidly in the upper echelons.
Less than 10 minutes after the President of the United States learned the news, several other leaders of the P5 countries also learned about it. And the leaders of several other important countries in the world will not be much slower to learn about the news.
An hour later, the P5 countries held an emergency video meeting of the top leaders to figure out how to solve the problem.
Because from the observation results, if these meteors collide towards the Earth at the current speed, then the Earth can directly restart civilization.
If they fall into the Pacific Ocean, they will set off a tsunami at least two thousand meters high and sweep the world. After the impact, the Earth will undergo violent geological movements, and a super earthquake will tear apart the original continental shelf system.
The civilization of the earth will be completely cut off, and it will be too difficult for mankind to survive after such a catastrophe.
"We need to fix this, we don't have much time left. The President of the United States was the first to speak: "If these meteor swarms hit the Earth directly according to their original orbits, we will not be able to hold on." ”
"None of the bunkers we have built can survive such a blow. ”
British Prime Minister: "How do you turn these meteor swarms?"
"Nuclear weapons!" said the U.S. president categorically, "I've discussed with Tony Stark that he's going to provide all the Ark ships, and enough unmanned steel armor to control these ships full of nuclear weapons to blow up these asteroids." This is the only way for us to survive, and the only question now is whether we have enough nuclear weapons!"
The president of the United States sent a document with detailed data to several other leaders, which was calculated by his scientists as the need for nuclear weapons. In any case, the US stockpile of nuclear weapons alone is completely insufficient.
Humans often say that they have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the earth several times, but in reality this destruction is only the destruction of humanity. For the earth, it's just a few more craters on the surface. What destroyed humanity was the nuclear winter and nuclear radiation that followed the nuclear war.
"Gentlemen, this time it's no joke. I need all your nuclear weapons to be used together. "The eyes of the President of the United States are sharp.
"We need to come up with a solution as soon as possible. Because this astronomical phenomenon will definitely be noticed by other civilians. This is our struggle, and if we don't solve this problem, the world will be doomed. And before the end of the world, civilians who have no choice but to wait for death because of the end of the world will go crazy first. All sorts of conspiracy theories will appear, and maybe before we can solve the problem, the earthlings themselves will be finished. ”
The President of the United States put it bluntly: "Seriously, this is no longer a political issue, everybody. We need to stick together, or we're all doomed!"
The scene became quiet, and after a while, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who is the main ally of the United States, spoke first: "Britain does not have many nuclear weapons. Our financial situation does not allow us to maintain a large-scale possession of nuclear weapons, and it is too expensive to maintain them. We have just over a hundred nuclear warheads. And there are fewer strategic-class nuclear warheads. ”
The Prime Minister made a statement, and then the French President said, "I can also provide all the nuclear weapons, but the problem is the same as that of the United Kingdom." France has tactical-class nuclear weapons, but there are too few of them. ”
The American president is a little disappointed, and he is now putting his hopes on Russia. This is because, apart from the United States, Russia is the country with the most standing nuclear weapons.
"It's a pity, because the Russian economy is not good for many years. We have been making the reduction of nuclear weapons conditional on financial assistance from the international community. Although China's stockpiles of nuclear weapons are higher than those of Britain and France, it is not enough to reach the amount on your paper. ”
The US president is a little disappointed, and now he suddenly wishes that Russia should not be so honest when it reduced its nuclear weapons, and that it would intercept a little more privately.
Now there is only China left, and the expression of the Chinese leader is complicated, as if he is hesitating something. It took a full five minutes before he spoke: "We don't have enough atomic bombs, and China doesn't always have atomic bombs. ”
Not surprisingly, even Russia does not have so many atomic bombs, so how can it count on China? The heart of the American president has fallen to the bottom, and perhaps he needs to go to Doom in Latvia, and I heard that he has another private arsenal, and maybe there are some good things in it.
The president has even begun to fantasize about how he should beg Doom.
And when the president's fantasies had not really begun, the Chinese leader continued: "Although we do not have atomic bombs, we have 56 strategic-grade hydrogen bombs on our disposal. ”
……………… It's a bit quiet.
All the leaders had mixed expressions, huh? Is this good news? It should be counted, at least for today, right?