395. Chapter 395: The Story
Thanks to modern communication technology, the Duchess of Ron disappeared for 7 days without any problem, because she was often able to send telegrams to the Governor, and her servants also considered covering for their little lord for their own jobs, although the servants knew that the little master must be tired.
The Duchess eventually left, and no sooner had she left than Downing encountered the Canadian government, at the request of the British government, to nationalize Edmonton's oil. Scientists in the Entente have calculated that it will be more efficient to use stone as the main energy source than renewable energy, and in order to break the monopoly of the Windsor oil empire, they have decided to nationalize all the oil fields in the territory.
The Entente was a weak bloc, and they had to think of all kinds of tricks, otherwise they would not be able to fight at all. The aviation monopoly allowed their industry to develop and gave them confidence in this nationalization program. The United States and Canada were the most important oil regions of the Entente, so Britain immediately attacked Petro-Canada.
Downing was fortunate enough to see the oil company he founded with his own eyes being taken over and almost robbed. In response, he decided to cut off the Atlantic shipping lanes and cut off the maritime links between North America and Europe. The confrontation between the two major military blocs has intensified.
The Royal Navy of the British Empire went to war to protect the shipping lanes, and when their "Hundred-Eyed Giant" aircraft carrier was officially unveiled, everyone suddenly realized that the 20,000-ton aircraft carrier that had been claimed was a disguise, and the awesome Royal Navy was indeed the world's No. 1 veteran imperialism, and its real displacement was 40,000 tons, which was four times larger than the largest King-class heavy cruiser, and it was bound to regain its maritime supremacy in one fell swoop.
Like the Pelican aircraft carrier, the Centennial can also carry 100 fighters, and it is a fixed-wing fighter, to Downing's surprise, the first generation of British aircraft carriers is actually an oblique flight deck. This is too powerful, it is equivalent to having two runways, the main runway is relatively long, and if the arresting cable does not hook the aircraft when landing, you can also drive a distance and take off again, and can take off four fighters at the same time.
It can be seen that under the pressure of the Windsor military empire, the British engineers are really racking their brains, otherwise the opponent's twin-rotor fighters will be too fast to lift into the air, and the advantage is huge. The number of Pelican carriers has now dropped to 60 aircraft, while the Hundred-Eyed has reached 100, as twin-rotor helicopters require more power. The number of Pelicans taking off at the same time is 6, and the time barrier is slightly shorter, which is twice as fast as the other party.
The fact that a pure helicopter lifts off just twice as fast as a fixed-wing is not something to brag about. In particular, the opponent's fixed-wing aircraft has a larger payload and can accommodate more battery packs, but it wins the speed race despite the slightly inferior fuel cell performance, reaching a top speed of 650 kilometers per hour, greatly exceeding the 500 kilometers per hour of the AH73.
If you have a higher maximum velocity, you will be able to grab a better position when shooting at a counterpoint. The Hundred-Eyed Giant aircraft carrier battle group unexpectedly stood at the pinnacle of the times, pulling back a game for the Allies in the counterattack against the Atlantic blockade, and it violently harvested the Windsor Empire's waterway supply lines, and successively knocked out the arrogant Windsor Empire's three maritime hydrogen refueling stations.
The other channel platforms of the Windsor Ocean Empire, which has a hydrogen refueling station every 250 kilometers, fled one after another, hiding in the depths of the ocean, making it impossible for the other party to find it, but also temporarily lost the channel supply function.
The Pelican aircraft carriers were superior in maneuverability, and the Windsor Empire quickly mobilized three aircraft carrier groups, each dispatching 30 AH73s to carry out a tentative attack on the British aircraft carriers. After a total of three "stress tests" for each battle group, I felt the tremendous technological progress of the other side.
In unmanned mode, the opponent can fight with one enemy and two, and in manned mode, the opponent's fighter still has a clear advantage. The Windsor Empire did not have the habit of losing money, and after dropping 48 AH73s, the Windsor Army, which was dominated by Germans, withdrew from the battlefield and made some strategic concessions.
The British government hyped up its excellent results, but the Times did not buy it at all, believing that the Germans had sent drones, without any casualties, and that there were more than a dozen good guys sacrificed on their side, and there was nothing to brag about. It seems that the Windsor empire is not so scary, and the London stock market has recovered slightly. The war entered the phase of small chaos.
The Windsor Empire has adopted the strategy of the North Atlantic route for everyone to stop cooking, anyway, the route from Brazil to Africa can be saved, the maritime logistics is still alive, the South Atlantic route is far from the land of right and wrong, and the Entente countries do not dare to attack lightly, and the battle for the shipping lane is so deadlocked. The United Nations has maintained its position with ease by virtue of its large territory.
The self-confidence of the Entente also begins with our beautiful Duchess of Ron. It is said that after she returned to the Governor's Palace in Ottawa, she has been at odds with the Governor. The Governor always felt that something had happened in the time that Madame had been away, but he could not say it explicitly.
In order to clarify herself, the Duchess had no choice but to tell her mind about studying physics. What the? Are you kidding? My wife is still a physicist? Why don't I know? The Duchess deduced the special theory of relativity in a serious manner, and wrote a few pages to the Governor, who was also a top student at Cambridge University, and still had some vision, as if the Lady was not joking.
The Governor was too busy with his official duties to examine his wife's physics, so he called in Canada's most famous physicist to help.
The physicist was not very sure of the results of the special theory of relativity, but he suggested that he should submit it to the journal Science, because this inference seems to have great potential, because the current physics community has gradually become suspicious of Newton's view of space, because the absolute view of space-time requires the ubiquitous medium of the ether, and some physical reality proves that the ether should not exist zài.
Things have developed to this point, and Louise has no choice but to ask Tang Ning if she can publish a paper on the new physical space-time view that Master Tang has privately taught? Tang Ning laughed, saying that he didn't care about this at all, let her be.
As a result, a paper that dared to deny Newton's view of space-time was published a month later in the Allied journal Science.
Any revolutionary breakthrough in physics will be viewed with suspicion by scientists, and the Four Princesses who have become female scientists are no exception, almost 90% of physicists have a skeptical attitude, feeling so awkward, time and mass are variable? It's counterintuitive.
Scientists at the United Nations, in particular, hardly believe this. This time, the scientists of the Entente countries were ahead of the curve, and because of their positions, they preferred to have a friendly attitude towards the paper. The major media of the Entente countries have reported on this important event that originally belonged to the academic community.
What made the people of the Entente even more crazy was that the identity of the female scientist was exposed, and it turned out to be the wife of the Governor General of Canada! At this moment, everyone was amazed, regardless of whether the theory was correct or not, the gossip spread first.
What the? My girlfriend is a physicist? No way! When Linfield heard the news in Seoul, she jumped up from her couch and studied with great interest the paper that she had not paid much attention to denying Newton's view of space, because she felt that Newton could not be wrong.
It doesn't matter if she reads it, she is open-minded and immediately realizes the value of this paper, it is simply earth-shattering, the first reaction, she went to ask the opinion of the god-level scientist Teacher Tang. Mr. Tang directly explained the principle of the atomic clock correction of their satellite system to Lin Feier.
A theory could be wrong, but it would be great if it had been used precisely in engineering, and she finally wondered, "Did you sue Louise?" ”
Downing naturally refused to admit it, because he had agreed with Louise that he would keep it secret, and he couldn't say it to anyone.
Linfil is skeptical, and can't believe that his girlfriend will be gorgeously transformed into a super physicist. She also asked where Downing was now, and where did Downing dare to say that it was in Canada? I had to say that I was exploring in the North Pole.
Well, since the advent of satellite networks, the Tang Emperor has become more and more capricious, because he can rule his vast empire anywhere. Downing also takes the trouble to tell the story of a British Arctic explorer, which happened not long ago in 1845.
John of the British Royal Navy? Sir Fullin's 128 crew members of the Ghost and the Horror set out to explore the fabled Northern Passage, the one that bypasses the northern North American passage. The noble knight still maintained the lifestyle of a complete English gentleman after his trip to the polar regions, and even played with flowers such as changing clothes before dinner.
This brainless so-called explorer will pay for his stupidity, and the polar climate is no joke, and the season of freezing the waterways is much earlier than the explorers estimated, freezing the Ghost and the Horror. This wasn't a problem, because they had enough supplies for three years, but ......
The food was so contaminated that they could no longer survive the thaw of the waterways, so they had to leave their ship and set foot in the vast Arctic ice and snow.
Then the noble gentleman explorer disappeared and was not heard from for two years. Franklin's first wife had died, and his new wife had a good relationship with him, and two years later asked the Royal Navy to find her missing husband. The noble British knight naturally could not disappear in vain, but he disappeared for the Royal Navy to explore the Northern Passage.
As a result, the Royal Navy offered a high bounty of 20,000 pounds to lure a large number of ships to explore the north, and it was not easy for these seafarers to die in search of Lord Sir even more than the 128 men of the Goblin and the Horror.
Of all those who were not ordered to find Franklin, only one person succeeded, and that was John, the genius of exploration? Thunder. The methods he used were completely different from those of other British, and he soon discovered that the British equipment he brought with him was far less than that of the indigenous Inuit of the Arctic.
For example, Europeans wore thick and bulky shoes, while Inuit thermal shoes were made of soft leather, not strong, but light enough to fit and breathable, making them good for walking through the snow. If the snow is particularly thick, the Inuit also have a special skill - tennis racket-shaped snow shoes.
The structure of the racket shoes is wooden, and the net is not thick or thin raw cowhide, which is woven into a net through the holes that resemble a tennis racket, and the raw cowhide is quite tight after drying. Such snowshoes greatly increase the area of contact with the snow and allow one to walk all day in the thick snow without getting tired.
When the wind is quiet, more than 20 degrees below zero does not make people freeze, but once the wind rises, it can be fatal, so building an igloo in the snow is also a survival skill of the Inuit, obviously, John? Ray also learned this hand.
Staying warm is a central issue in the Arctic. People sweat when they walk in the snow, and lighting a fire in an igloo can also make people sweat, and sweat takes away heat when it evaporates, which is a serious problem in the Arctic, and the storage of reindeer fur clothes solves this problem very well.
Reindeer skin is sweat-absorbent, from one side of the skin to the side of the hair, when the traveler leaves the igloo, the sweat freezes into broken ice and falls, the clothes of Europeans do not have this effect, so they will be more frozen.
The Inuit had only one tool for building igloos: the all-purpose snow knife. It is very sharp and can also be used to chop wood and build various household utensils, such as harpoons. It's a kind of inverted thing, and fish that have been sluggish by ice water are actually easier to catch than we think.
As long as you peel the ice, you can catch fish, one of the secrets of Arctic survival. John? It was with these secrets that Ray became the first European to venture out to the North Pole on his own without relying on Inuit guides. It's a pity that John, who was supposed to be a hero? Ray became a tragic figure.
When he found Franklin and the others, he found them frozen to death in the ice and snow, and judging by the stumps of the corpses, in the last moments of their lives, these noble English gentlemen chose to eat people to survive. When he reported the result to his employer, the Royal Navy, the self-respecting British, who could not accept it, quickly fired him.
Franklin's widow also took Ray to court, and with the support of angry British public opinion, Ray was sentenced to an unfounded conclusion, and the most successful explorer was ruined and destitute.
A good story has to have an ending: Now John? Ray was serving in Boss Tang's expedition, and when Boss Tang was telling stories to Lin Fei through Guò Satellite, Ray was cooking the fire with everyone, talking and laughing.
Linfield liked the ending of the story and asked to give her a pair of Inuit snowshoes to show her. No problem! John? Ray's own hand-made, absolutely practical, original. This is the time to test whether Boss Tang's albatross can really deliver packages around the world without landing.
If even the Arctic climate mechanical albatross can make it, what else is there to live in it?