Chapter 24 Dismantling and dismantling
Just do it.
The crew of the "Hades" was divided into two routes, one way back to the prospecting ship to dismantle the line, the members of the dismantling team were Dai Yue, Liu Peijia, Zhao Mumu and Zhuozhi, and the other way to the communication tower, with Steng taking Ge Zi.
The two teams split up in front of the airlock room in the main Cassini station building, and Ge Zi and Stong followed the yellow safety rope to the communication tower.
The communication tower is one and a half meters in diameter, the thickness of two or three adults hugging each other, it is a white pillar standing on the ice, the two of them stand under the pillar and raise their heads, they can barely see the top of the tower, Shi Teng left Ge Zi on the ground and climbed up by himself.
Ge Zi sat on the hatch of the communication tower's access door, which was quite narrow, so she had to hunch down and hold the edge of the hatch with both hands, like a woodpecker burrowing into a tree trunk.
There was a "clanging" sound overhead, it was Steng climbing up the gangway, Ge Zi shrunk his shoulders and looked up, and he could see a white pillar of light dangling in the dark maintenance passage.
"Brother Shi, have you arrived?"
"Here we are." Steng finally climbed out, leaned out of the tower with half of his body, and let out a sigh, "Suddenly enlightened, the internal space of the tower is very small, but the top is very wide, is this really a communication tower and not a chimney?" There's nothing on it, why is that? โ
He sat at the top of the gangway, one foot propped up the inner wall of the communication tower, and sat up straight and looked around, the top of the tower was extremely high, about twenty floors, he had expected that there would be an antenna at the top of the tower, but the truth was disappointing, it was just a hollow pillar that went straight up and down.
"Because the communication tower was hit by a volcanic eruption back then." Ge Zi replied, "Twenty years ago, Moyu was hit by a volcanic eruption here, and the top of the tower was destroyed along with the antenna. โ
"Hit by a volcanic eruption?" Shi Teng was slightly surprised, "The probability of such a low probability has been encountered, it is incredible, the target of the communication tower radome is so big that it can catch up with the precision-guided strike." โ
"There's a volcano just below Cassini Station." Ge Zi said.
Sten's feet slipped, "It's kind of scary." โ
He noticed that the fracture at the top of the tower was uneven, and it appeared that a volcanic eruption twenty years ago had completely destroyed the radome at the top of the communication tower.
"It's okay if it's gone, save us trouble." Stong said.
"Huh? Why? โ
"Because the communication tower is often struck by lightning, the original radome has the function of electromagnetic shielding, and at the same time, it also has to direct the current to the ground, which is equivalent to a grounding wire." Stern explained, "We need to disconnect the ground wire from the ignition on the top of the tower to direct the current into the fusion reactor, and my original plan was to remove the radome, but now we don't have to do it ourselves, Volcano does it for us." โ
With that, Stong stopped, and the small raindrops were slapping on his helmet by the wind.
It's raining again.
Shi Teng seems to be standing at the top of the mythical Tower of Babel, the tower leads directly to the heavens, looking down can only see the tower disappearing into the clouds and mist, Shi Teng is in the rich atmosphere of hundreds of kilometers thick on Titan, he can't see the sky, can't see the ground, and can't see Ge Zi who stays at the bottom of the tower.
"Xiao Zi, do you want to come up and have a look? The view from the top of the tower is spectacular. โ
"Thanks, no."
Ge Zi sat bored at the bottom of the tower, staring at the direction of Cassini for a long time.
She wondered, had the dismantling crew already finished its work and returned? Or did someone return to Cassini Station on a temporary basis? Who, exactly, is dangling there with the lights on?
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Meanwhile.
The dismantling unit is in full swing.
All of them are Diablo.
Dai Yue commanded in the communication channel: "Demolition! Dismantle! I've dismantled them all! โ
They can't help with repairing the spaceship, but they all have a hand in dismantling the spaceship, and there is such a concept as "whale fall" in biology, which means that the whale sinks to the bottom of the sea after death, and the corpse can feed a large area of life, and the "Hades" prospecting ship is a dead giant whale at the moment, motionless stranded on the Titan, Daiyue Liu Peijia are all worms drilled around in the whale corpse, in the barren world of Titan, whether they can successfully survive depends on how much nutrients the spaceship's corpse can bring to them.
The data bus and cables were densely distributed under the skin of the spaceship, and Dai Yue had a plasma cutter in his hand, carefully cutting open the shell of the spaceship.
The four people of the dismantling unit worked together, Dai Yue and Liu Peijia were responsible for cutting, and Zhuozhi and Mu Mu were responsible for dismantling the cable.
As the blue flame of the cutting gun slowly moved across the flat hull of the Hades, the whale's skin was cut open at regular intervals, peeling off piece by piece, revealing the bones and veins underneath.
"How long of cable do we need?" Mu Mu sat on the bow of the spaceship, "How long is the cable in the spaceship?" โ
"We need at least 300 meters of cables, because the straight-line distance from the communication tower to the fusion reactor is 250 meters, and they are located at exactly opposite ends of the Cassini station." Dai Yue replied, "The total length of HTSC inside the Hades is dozens of kilometers, but I don't know how many are left now, so you should pay attention to keeping the cable intact as much as possible when removing the wire." โ
"But the current of a thunderstorm is 500,000 amperes." Zhuo Zhi was a little worried, "The average current carrying capacity of a superconducting cable with a cross-section of one square centimeter is 20,000 amperes, and we need a superconducting cable with a total cross-section of 25 square centimeters to withstand a current of 500,000 amperes, 25 square centimeters, which is as thick as a human arm." โ
He glanced at the superconducting cables inside the spaceship, which were as thin as a strand of hair.
How many strands of hair do you have to tie together to be arm-thick?
"That's why I said I couldn't hold it." Liu Peijia said in the channel that he was lying on his back on the bottom of the spaceship like a mechanic, burrowing into a narrow air intake channel, "Anyone who has studied physics knows what a number of 500,000 amperes, the current is not the voltage, it doesn't matter if the voltage is high, the little electricity when your gas stove is ignited is technically high-voltage electricity, but if the current is high, it really wants to be fried." โ
"Fry it." "We only need it to work for 0.01 millisecond, and after lighting the reactor, it can blow up as much as it wants." โ
"It's not going to blow up the reactor, is it?" Mu Mu asked.
Dai Yue was stunned, and then waved his hand.
"How is that possible? They are just wires, not explosives. โ
Mu Mu turned his head to stare at Dai Yue, revealing a suspicious gaze.
"Really โโ?"
"Really." Dai Yue is quite determined.
Zhao Mumu stared at him for a long time, then buried his head and continued to work, removing the threads is a tedious and meticulous work, the superconducting cable inside the spacecraft is as thin as a hair, Mu Mu wrapped the stripped cable around his hand, and has accumulated a thick circle, like a silkworm farmer who reels silk.
The HTSC inside the "Hades" prospecting ship is dozens of kilometers long, but unfortunately they only have half a spacecraft in their hands, and most of the lines are burned during the landing.
Incredibly, although Titan's gravity is as large as the moon, this planet has the thickest atmosphere in the solar system, a phenomenon that has not yet been perfectly explained.
Relying on the mechanical exoskeleton of the Iron Float, Mu Mu was able to barely keep her movements flexible, and in most cases, even the Iron Float carried her around.
Cold raindrops fell on her mask, and Mu Mu glanced up at the misty sky.
"It's thundering and it's raining, comrades should go home and collect their clothes!"
Dai Yue frowned.
The weather rarely stopped for a while, and it started to rain again.