It is not difficult to push an asteroid that is in constant motion, as long as a certain amount of external force is continuously applied to this asteroid, it is enough to change the orbit of this small asteroid. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In fact, if an asteroid with a diameter of more than 30 kilometers collides with an asteroid with a diameter of 500 meters during its orbit, such a collision with a diameter of 30 kilometers to the asteroid is like a collision between a speeding truck and a bicycle, but even such a seemingly insignificant collision is enough to change the orbit of the asteroid with a diameter of 30 kilometers.

Of course, the energy generated by this collision is currently impossible for human beings to create, but human beings can change the orbit of the asteroid by constantly exerting external force on the asteroid.

If an asteroid with a mass of about 2 billion tons and a maximum diameter of about 1 kilometer is continuously applied more than 10,000 tons, then the asteroid will undergo a change in orbit in about a month.

Similarly, if the same asteroid were to be slowed down, it would take at least four months or more, if not longer. Therefore, if Tang Feng intends to transport an asteroid with a maximum diameter of one kilometer from the asteroid belt to the orbit of the Earth or the Moon, then from the time the asteroid changes orbit, it is necessary to slow down the asteroid until the asteroid reaches the orbit of the Earth or the Moon.

This result was obtained after Dr. Schmitz's rigorous calculations, and even if mankind has mastered the plasma thruster technology with a diameter of 60 meters, then at most it can only try this asteroid with a diameter of up to one kilometer. No matter how large it is, the thruster force of the thruster simply cannot completely reduce the speed of the asteroid to the specified speed when the asteroid reaches the Earth or the Moon.

In fact, the technology of this plasma thruster is not very difficult, and now the bottleneck that restricts the continued expansion of the caliber of this large-caliber super ion thruster is the power aspect.

This technology, which has long been obsolete by the Star Covenant but is still the top technology on Earth, needs to power the thrusters with the super power provided by the nuclear fusion reactor. And with the current technology of the earth, this super plasma thruster can only produce enough electricity from a nuclear fusion reactor.

In the case of a nuclear fission reactor, it simply cannot meet the power required by such a thruster.

Compared to the energy produced by a fusion reactor, the energy produced by a nuclear fission reactor is like the difference between a firecracker set off during the Chinese New Year and a shell fired by a 152mm self-propelled gun, so this super plasma thruster cannot work without a fusion reactor.

But even the technology of controlled nuclear fusion reactors was only obtained by Tang Feng through Eric. Wilson, a super nuclear genius, could not have developed a super-power in such a short period of time. forced controllable nuclear fusion reactors.

Now to Taylor. A group of nuclear power experts led by Wilson have developed the latest controllable nuclear fusion reactor, which can only support a 60-meter caliber plasma thruster at most, and if the caliber of the plasma thruster is larger, the power provided by this controllable nuclear fusion reactor will not be enough.

Therefore, the only plasma thruster with the maximum thrust that Dr. Schmitz can use now is this 60-meter caliber plasma thruster.

This kind of thruster is very easy to use to change the orbit of an asteroid, but it is a bit weak to slow down an asteroid. Therefore, if you want to transport an asteroid with a diameter of about one kilometer to the orbit of the earth or the moon, for the sake of safety, it is necessary to install at least two sets of controllable nuclear fusion reactors and two sets of plasma thrusters with a diameter of 60 meters on the asteroid, so as to ensure that the asteroid can become a satellite of the earth or the moon according to the will of mankind when it reaches the orbit of the earth or the moon......

In fact, when Tang Feng was talking to Dr. Schmitz in the asteroid belt, Dr. Schmitz was also worried about how to experiment with such a large-caliber plasma thruster.

This thing is so big in caliber that there is nothing on Earth that can use this caliber anymore, except for the three large spacecraft built for the immigrant Mars in the "Tinder Project" that can use such a large thruster.

Sixty meters in diameter, that's about the height of an eighteen-story building. Moreover, this thruster is currently only suitable for use in space, and if it were to be used on Earth, the Earth's strong magnetic field would destroy the frequency of the plasma generator.

When Dr. Schmitz was also worried about this matter, Tang's correspondence was answered.

"Doctor, what do you think would be if you put this plasma thruster on an asteroid? We use asteroids for experiments, not only to test the various properties of this super plasma thruster, but also to find some additional and sufficient sources of minerals for Earth. ”

Although the asteroid belt is dominated by carbon-rich Class C asteroids and silicon-rich Class S asteroids, there are no longer a few metal-rich Class M asteroids. After Tang Feng made a circle around the asteroid belt, there were no less than several thousand M-class asteroids with a diameter of less than one kilometer.

On the other end of the communicator, Dr. Schmitz seemed to be shocked by Tang's sudden proposal. Of course, Dr. Schmitz knew that he was a boss who loved to "play" and that he could play things that no one else could do. When Dr. Schmitz joined Tang's team a few years ago, he was originally aiming for Tang Feng to provide enough R&D funds, but Dr. Schmitz really didn't expect that the boss, who used to seem to be playing tickets, unknowingly played a huge "Tinder Plan" in the past few years.

Some time ago, this boss even played an even more amazing "genetic modification liquid", which is even more crazy than the "Tinder Project"!

Therefore, Dr. Schmitz now admires himself as a small boss.

Now, since the boss has come up with the idea of using asteroids to experiment with super plasma thrusters, needless to say, the boss must be thinking about something more "fun".

"Tyrant, in theory, your proposal is feasible. With the thrust of this super plasma thruster, it is no problem to completely capture an asteroid that is not very large, but if one is not good, we will go to two. However, if you want to implement it, the difficulty is not a little small. For example, how do our crews get to the asteroid belt? How to carry a super ion thruster and a controlled nuclear fusion reactor to the asteroid belt? That's all we need to consider. ”

Hearing Dr. Schmitz say this, Tang Feng was a little relieved, since this big man said that it could be done, then there must be no problems in scientific and technological means.

So Tang Feng smiled and said, "Okay, doctor, you will be affected again during this time, give me an exact data, and I can find a suitable asteroid according to the data you provided." As for how to get to the asteroid belt, this one is very simple, and my Nautilus is more than enough to handle it all. We can arrange for the super ion thrusters to be assembled in outer space, and then the Nautilus can completely drag the ion thrusters directly to the asteroid belt. Doctor, we are going to do a very important experiment, which is related to whether we can really go out of the solar system in the future, so Doctor, you must pay attention to this matter! (To be continued.) )