As the countdown number gradually decreased, He Ruiyin and Tianhuo were a little excited, after all, it was the first time for them to ride the space elevator, and such an experience had never been experienced for them. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

On the contrary, Lu Ze looked like he was facing a great enemy.

As a science fiction writer, Lu Ze knows that it is not easy to go to space, in that era a hundred years ago, in order to adapt to the huge acceleration during the ascent of the rocket, every astronaut had to undergo extremely harsh adaptation training on a centrifuge, and in the process of the rocket ascent, the astronaut must also maintain a supine position, because only in this way can he still maintain consciousness under such a huge gravity.

However, after seeing He Ruiyin and Tianhuo's relaxed appearance, Lu Ze reacted.

In the past, manned rockets were more about how to send people into space with as little cost as possible, even if the acceleration was one-tenth lower, the extra fuel consumed was an astronomical amount, and the rocket must be built larger.

The space elevator does not need to carry fuel, so more consideration can be given to the comfort of passengers, since the space elevator is an ordinary person, of course, it is impossible to rise with such a large acceleration.

Although it is still necessary to consider the issue of carrying weight, in general, it is easier to travel abroad in this era than in the past.

Thinking like this, Lu Ze was no longer nervous.

When the countdown reaches zero, the space elevator begins to slowly ascend quietly and smoothly.

The space elevator does not use thrusters directly at the start, but uses electromagnetic ejection to provide thrust, which is to prevent the high-temperature plasma ejected by the space elevator thruster from damaging the base station.

The acceleration during the ascent is not large, Lu Ze only slightly feels a little overweight, although the gravity is greater than the gravity of the maglev elevator he took before when it rises, but this feeling of overweight is not even obvious when the plane takes off, and the estimated acceleration is less than 0.2g.

The acceleration was not large, but it was steady, and in less than ten seconds, they were outside the base station, and the thrusters began to eject plasma.

At this time, when you look out, the entire sea surface is illuminated with golden light from the plasma ejected by the space elevator.

The speed of the space elevator rose steadily, and the floating island below was obscured by the floor in the blink of an eye, and the bits of golden light reflected by the sea water on all sides quickly disappeared, turning into darkness.

The speed of the space elevator is getting faster and faster, and in the blink of an eye, the space elevator passes through the clouds, but Lu Ze has not had time to enjoy the strange scenery of the sea of clouds reflected by the tail flame of the space elevator and the light scattered by the laser, and the sea of clouds is also instantly thrown far below the space elevator and blocked by the floor.

As for whether the clouds will hinder the laser, there is no need to worry at all, the clouds are made of water vapor and will be vaporized before they get close to the laser, and will not have any effect on the space elevator at all.

The whole acceleration lasted about three minutes before stopping, and the space elevator began to rise steadily at a speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour, after all, with the "fat" body of the space elevator, it was obviously not designed to break through the sound barrier in the atmosphere.

When the speed stabilized, everyone was free to move around from their seats.

It was the first time for all three of them to ride a space elevator, so they all chose to stand by the wall and use the illusion generated by the brain-computer interface to enjoy the scenery outside.

Although it was a moonless night, and the space elevator base station was built on the sea, it was dark outside, but a vague halo could be seen on the horizon, which was the halo scattered in the atmosphere by the lights of coastal cities at night.

With this halo, Lu Ze found that the horizon was no longer a straight straight line at this time, but a slightly curved arc.

In just three minutes, they had risen to a height of 30,000 meters above the ground.

The three of them felt the incredible sight, and none of them spoke.

Lu Ze was shocked by the scientific and technological power created by this human being with his own wisdom, while He Ruiyin and Tianhuo were inspired by this situation.

The space elevator maintained a speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour, and at first the lights from the coastal cities could only be seen on the horizon, and after 5 minutes, the outline of the continent began to appear.

And the horizon is getting more and more curved, and although it is only a small area of the earth's surface that can be seen at this time, it can already be seen that the earth is a huge sphere.

As the altitude continued to rise, the greater the extent of the earth's surface that Lu Ze could see, and after about an hour, with the lights in the city, he could already distinguish the outline of the entire Eurasian continent.

Although Lu Ze also had a scene of looking at the earth from space in the virtual world, when he was really on the space elevator, it was a completely different feeling, and his whole heart was really shocked.

In the process of this ascent, the gravitational pull of the earth on them is also decreasing, and it has decreased to about three-quarters of the ground at this time, but fortunately, this weightless process is gradually generated, and it will not be difficult for people to adapt.

At this time, the space elevator sounded again to tell everyone to hurry back to their seats.

At this point, the space elevator has left the atmospheric range and will no longer be affected by the air, and the elevator will begin the second stage of acceleration.

Once everyone was seated, gravity began to increase again, this time not only more than when it was lifted off from the ground, but also for a longer period of time, until it stopped accelerating 20 minutes later, when the space elevator reached a speed of 18,000 kilometers per hour.

Although this process is accelerating, Lu Ze can still feel that the gravity is falling rapidly, and even if the gravity generated by acceleration is counted before the second acceleration stops, the gravity in the space elevator is only a little more than half of the earth's surface.

After this acceleration was completed, gravity suddenly disappeared completely, but the main thruster of the space elevator had stopped running.

It's not that the thruster is malfunctioning, but now this speed is sufficient, and the next step is to rise by inertia.

Fortunately, everyone is fixed to the chair by the wisdom fibers on their clothes, and even if they are completely weightless, they will not fly around or cause disorientation.

In fact, it is not correct to say that there is complete weightlessness, the space elevator also has a horizontal acceleration in the process of upward movement, and the faster the speed, the greater the acceleration, but even if the space elevator reaches a high speed of 18,000 kilometers per hour, this horizontal acceleration is only 0.03g, almost unfelt.

Since sitting in the chairs, the earth was obscured by the floor, and although the stars could still be seen through the window, as time passed, the novelty of weightlessness passed, and soon the three of them became bored.

Tianhuo had already connected to the Star Spirit Network at some point, and He Ruiyin began to hum the melody to himself.

This melody doesn't seem to be the melody of a specific song, but He Ruiyin casually started and then continued to hum as he wanted, occasionally humming some strange phrases, but He Ruiyin was able to circle it back immediately, and he hummed it for most of the hour without repeating.

Lu Ze listened with relish on the sidelines.

According to the melody of the previous sentence, it may be possible for even an ordinary person who has never studied music to do it, but it is not so simple to be able to continue as much as you want. For He Ruiyin's magical way of passing the time, Lu Ze could only express his admiration.

After more than two hours of inertial motion, the space elevator finally began to enter the deceleration phase.

At this time, the space elevator still maintains a speed of thousands of kilometers per hour, and at this altitude the gravity is already negligible enough to reduce the speed of the space elevator in the direction perpendicular to the Earth's surface to zero, so the thrusters need to provide a reverse acceleration.

And this reverse acceleration is equivalent to an upward gravity force for the people in the space elevator, Lu Ze and they are now equivalent to sitting on the ceiling, but the clothes and chairs are still connected together, and they will not fall down if they are hung on the ceiling.

But in fact, Lu Ze and they don't have this upside-down feeling, because they have been sitting on the chair since the beginning of weightlessness, and the sense of direction weightlessness has not changed, for them, the direction of the top of their head is still up, and the direction of their feet is still down.

The acceleration is not large, and it does not cause people to feel uncomfortable.

Lu Ze only felt as if he had become a balloon, constantly flying upward, and the clothes on his body were like the rope of the balloon, pulling him on the chair, this feeling was really subtle, if he didn't take the space elevator in person, it was estimated that it would be difficult for anyone to imagine this feeling.

At this time, when you look out through the wall, you can no longer see a monotonous starry sky.

The first is the sun.

When they set off, it was night, the sun was on the back side of the earth, and after nearly 4 hours of travel, the earth had rotated 60 degrees, and Lu Ze was sitting by the window, just in time to see the process of the sun rising from under the floor, fortunately, the scene outside the space elevator that Lu Ze saw was an illusion generated by the brain-computer interface, and he would not be stabbed by the sun.

At the same time, as the distance to the geosynchronous orbit gets closer and closer, the large and small space facilities running in the synchronous orbit can be seen above under the illumination of the sun.

The elevator quickly passed through the synchronous orbit, and after continuing upwards for hundreds of kilometers, a huge space station in the shape of wheels, or space city, appeared above.

This is their destination, the "Nantianmen" space station.

The name corresponds to the "Heavenly Palace" space city built at the Earth-Moon Lagrange point L1.