Ten days later, the construction of a large and vigorous spacecraft began in a vigorous manner.

The discussion on Princess Belle Island lasted for three days, and hundreds of people who could be called the most elite people on the planet gathered together to preliminarily formulate a project plan that was N times larger than the Manhattan Project back then.

This meeting is known as the "Tinder Project Meeting" because at this meeting, although there were many differences, in the end, the huge plan of human beings to go into space, named "Tinder Project", was formulated.

Tinder occupies a supreme position in the entire human civilization. In ancient Greek mythology, lions and tigers had claws and fangs, eagles had strong wings, and even turtles had hard shells for protection, but humans had no effective weapons to protect themselves.

This situation of mankind worries Prometheus very much. So he pleaded with Zeus, the king of the gods, that he would give fire to mankind. However, Zeus thought that he could not give too much help to mankind, otherwise he would not be able to rule over mankind, and that mankind would conquer the universe and directly threaten the authority of God.

Despite Prometheus' pleas, Zeus refused to grant fire to humans. In desperation, Prometheus had no choice but to bring a hollow reed to Mount Olympus to steal the fire, causing a fire and finally bringing the fire to mankind.

After the fire, people began to become stronger, and human beings dug iron ore from the ground and used fire to make sharp weapons that were tougher than the teeth of lions and tigers. tamed the bison through the fear of fire and taught them to plow the fields and plow; Humans have also made many things out of fire. With fire, man is no longer afraid of cold and darkness, nor of birds of prey and fierce beasts; Mankind began to say goodbye to the days of Ru Mao drinking blood, and life became happy and beautiful.

And now, human beings have begun to migrate to the appearance, although this target planet is not suitable for human survival, but the meaning of this move is no different from the great development of human beings after they obtained the fire.

As long as this plan can be successfully implemented, then for mankind, there is no doubt that mankind will find a hope for development and sustainable development.

Therefore, this cooperation plan, which can be called the largest in human history, was designated as the "Tinder Plan" by Tang Feng, the executor of this plan.

The plan is simple, but it's also extremely complex. To put it simply, that's because the core of the "Tinder Project" is how to migrate to Mars, and all aspects of the entire plan revolve around this plan.

In order to complete the "Tinder Project", mankind will mobilize a huge team of at least 3 million people, and more than 160 countries and regions, including the five permanent members of the United Nations, will join hands to serve the "Tinder Project". All kinds of resources will be prioritized to the "Tinder Project" with the advantage of the first level, so as to ensure that the "Tinder Project" can be completed within the planned time.

The Hope Base obtained by Tang Feng can accommodate nearly one million people to survive in it for a long time, and the transformation of Mars also requires a large number of personnel and a long time to complete, so the completion date of the "Tinder Project" is when the Mars Hope Base is full.

Although Tang Feng's "Nautilus" can pull more than 20 earthlings at a time to complete the long journey from Earth to Mars in a few minutes, Tang Feng is not ready to do so.

The "Nautilus", which uses dark energy as the driving energy, has endless energy, as long as Tang Feng is willing, then he can completely fill the humans in the hope base in a short time. But doing so will not help the overall civilization of mankind at all, and it will tie Tang Feng to this kind of transportation of personnel, so Tang Feng decided not to use the "Nautilus".

In order to send a large number of humans to Mars, the spacecraft must be built large enough. Although there is almost no upper limit to the size and weight of spacecraft built in space, let's not forget that the distance of about 200 kilometers from the surface to space is a huge mountain in front of mankind.

Even with the capacity of the "Starry" series of heavy-lift launch vehicles, it can only send six astronauts into space at one time, and the construction of the "Prince Barnett" that can reach Mars with 12 astronauts has allowed the "Starry" rocket to carry out more than 30 launch missions.

According to this standard, let alone hundreds of thousands of people, even if hundreds of people are sent to spacecraft staying in outer space, it is almost impossible to do it, because the current launch vehicle technology of mankind simply cannot meet that kind of requirements.

At the time of the "Tinder Plan", some people raised such questions. No way, the capacity of the launch vehicle is definitely the biggest bottleneck facing mankind at present, whether it is to build a larger spacecraft or send dozens or even hundreds of humans into outer space at one time, it is a huge bottleneck that the current "Tinder Project" team cannot avoid.

It is in the face of this pressure that the "space elevator" plan, which has been discussed for a long time but has never been implemented, has been brought out again.

The so-called space elevator, in fact, is the same principle as an ordinary elevator, except that the space elevator does not transport people or materials from the ground to a certain floor of a high-rise building, but directly sends humans or materials from the ground into the spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit.

The space elevator looks very simple on the surface. The main component of the "elevator" is a cable, one end fixed to the earth's surface, and the other end stretches into space. It's definitely longer than you might think – 100,000 kilometers, about 1/4 the distance from the Earth to the Moon. The cable is tensed like a string under the action of two opposing forces—the earth's gravitational and centrifugal forces. And it is absolutely perpendicular to the ground, pointing directly to the center of the earth. The principle is like a child tying an iron lump to one end of a rope and swinging it in place.

We know that the closer an object is to the Earth, the more obvious the gravitational pull becomes; Conversely, the farther away from the ground, the stronger the centrifugal force. When the center of gravity of the cable is located at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers above the earth's surface, the gravitational and centrifugal forces it is subjected to will reach a balance, and the cable will stand in the air without falling, which is the altitude of the geosynchronous orbit.

In fact, back in 1960, the Soviet engineer Yuri? In his academic article, Alchutanov proposed the idea of building an "elevator". Later, American engineers and science fiction writers became interested in this idea. The famous science fiction writer Clark even turned the "elevator" into reality in his book "The Flowing Spring of Heaven".

It's just that the "elevator" has only existed in science fiction novels or science fiction movies because of various reasons. And now, for the sake of the huge "Tinder Project", this technology will immediately face the situation of moving from science fiction to the real world. (To be continued.) )