As long as the weather is good enough, even if you stand on the island of New Guinea hundreds of kilometers away, you can see the giant tower that reaches into the sky. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

No one knew what it was, as if overnight it appeared there and "grew" towards the center of the earth day and night, crashing below the skyline.

From a distance, it looks like a strand of hair, and only with a high-magnification telescope can you get a glimpse of the patchwork textures on the tower.

If you are on the southernmost island of Anga in the new country, you can get a glimpse of the macroscopic panorama of this tower even with the naked eye. It is precisely for this reason that many astronautics and alien enthusiasts have come to the new country thousands of miles to see this incredible spectacle.

Yes, there is only the word wonder that can describe this magnificent project that connects heaven and earth.

"Daddy, what's that?" said the little boy, standing on the beach of Anga Island, pointing to the white thread that connected the heavens and the earth in the distance.

"That's the elevator. Looking at the space elevator in the distance, a look of fascination appeared on the face of the man in the beach pants.

"Elevator, where is such a high elevator going?" the little boy asked with a puzzled look on his father's face.

"To go to space," the man rubbed the little boy's head, "when my father was a child, he had to use a very tall rocket to fly up in the back. And now, it is enough to use the elevator. ”

"Space, do I have a chance to go?" asked the little boy, whose eyes twinkled with hope, as he looked at his father.

"Of course. It's not just space, maybe you'll have the chance to go to more distant places. The man smiled and looked at the cloud that had been pierced by the space elevator, "Kid, you've caught up with a good era. ”

The sea area near the space elevator has been classified as a military exclusion zone by the Star Ring Trade. Frigates equipped with J-50 electromagnetic guns cruised in the nearby waters, driving ships into the area with the help of coast guard vessels. Offshore platforms equipped with laser air defense systems are deployed in the sea at a distance of two kilometers from the space elevator to defend against missiles or aircraft that could pose a threat to the space elevator.

Beneath the narrow space elevator is a rectangular body several kilometers long and wide, floating above the sea.

As a sea surface base station for space elevators, it is capable of docking cargo ships with a displacement of 10,000 tons, and the runway next to it also allows civil airliners to dock.

The space elevator has been completed with six passenger lanes on the inside and six freight lanes on the outside. There is a vertically upward "carriage" in the passenger passage, with a capacity of 60-80 passengers in a single "carriage", using the principle of electromagnetic drive. The whole carriage is like a projectile of an electromagnetic cannon, accelerating on an energized rail.

As for the freight channel, the principle is similar to that of the passenger channel, except that because it is transporting goods, the acceleration of the carriage will be more than 10g that humans cannot bear, and the vertical running speed will also approach the first cosmic acceleration.

Each freight car can push 50 tons of cargo to a synchronous orbit, which is equivalent to two Long March 5 launch vehicles. As for the transportation cost per ton of cargo, it is even more complete for SpaceX's Falcon series rockets.

Countries seem to know something about this "giant tower" that connects outer space with the earth, but they are unanimously silent. I believe that even if they don't say anything, the Future People Group will soon reveal this secret. They are waiting for the Future People Group to speak first, and then according to the chips in their hands, they will put forward their own demands.

Compared with the silence of governments, the Internet has exploded.

Space Elevator!

This concept, which originally only existed in fantasy literature and film and television works, was actually moved to reality by the Future People Group?!

What completely detonated public opinion was a video uploaded to YouTube by a newly registered user. In the video, Transwarp Trade employees operate engineering trucks, load unknown cargo onto the cargo box of the space elevator, and send it into space.

The footage of the video is clear and edited. This anonymous user is likely to be an insider of Transwarp Trade, and it can even be said that this video was released at the behest of Transwarp Trade.

Whatever the purpose of the outflow of this video, it has caused enough sensational topics on the web. Not to mention other online platforms, just below the video comment area, netizens expressed their shock in various Chinese languages.

"Oh my God, I can actually witness humanity march towards the interstellar age in my lifetime!"

"It's just a broken elevator, and even the Armstrong Gyro Super Warp Engine has not been built, and you dare to claim to be stepping into the interstellar age?"

"What kind of is upstairs? Don't say anything, take some medicine first. ”

"I heard that Japan's Obayashi Construction Company plans to start building a space elevator in 2050? ”

Not only the spontaneous discussions of netizens, but also major newspapers, television, and online media have also made follow-up reports on the century-old project of the Future People Group.

"The breakthrough in graphene technology has laid the groundwork for the completion of today's space elevator, and the height of 36,000 kilometers will surpass any tall building in the world, and will also surpass any building in the next 50 years. It is worth reflecting on the fact that while we are trying to build our buildings higher, to make them more valuable, to the point that most people cannot afford them, the small countries in the Pacific Ocean have reached out to places where we can only look up. BBC News.

"The paradox of rockets is that most of the rocket's fuel is consumed on the push fuel itself. And the space elevator, relying only on electrical energy, can send what we need to push to a synchronous orbit. Peter, president of the International Space Elevator Association, believes that the space elevator is an amazing technology that allows us to open the door to the solar system. A few years ago we thought he was whimsical, but now I'm afraid no one doubts it. "CBS.

“…… Behind this great project is a very creative entrepreneur. His contribution to modern civilization is far greater than that of Steve Jobs and Gates combined, because the breadth of his field of work is staggering. And such a great entrepreneur was born in a small county town called Hucheng in the south of the Yangtze River in China. What kind of living environment gave birth to such a genius? Let's walk into this small county town, into the school where he lived, and explore ......"

Looking at the newspaper in his hand, when he saw half of it, Jiang Chen suddenly laughed.

Aisha walked to his side with the coffee, gently placed it on the table, tilted her head and looked at Jiang Chen who was smirking in confusion.

"Did anything good happen?"

"Sort of," Jiang Chen shook his head and tossed the newspaper aside.

As a state media, the People's Daily also reflects the position of the Chinese government to a certain extent. These days, the People's Daily has been doing its best to package him as a "four good youth" who has gone from China to the world and won glory for the country. Although he was happy to see someone bragging about his in his hometown, he had to think about the deep meaning behind it.

"Hopefully, in a week at the UN Summit on the Rational Development of Outer Space, they will be on our side. Jiang Chen thoughtfully picked up the coffee, brought it to his lips and took a sip.

There is no doubt that the space elevator will certainly be the focus of the UN summit on outer space. And what kind of vote the five hooligans will make around this issue is also an issue that the Future People Group has to pay attention to.

If nothing else, China and Russia should send people to contact him privately. The United States should also send people, and the United Kingdom, which is separated from Europe, should also be there, and the EU may be a little more reserved, after all, the relationship between the Future Group and the EU is a bit delicate.

No matter what vote the United Nations will take at the summit, Transwarp's plans will not change.

On the second day after the summit, the space elevator will be officially opened from the offshore platform to the geosynchronous orbit space station - Star Ring City.

This time, it was not the goods that were delivered, but the people. (To be continued.) )