Chapter 21: The Space Elevator
The worship and belief in Luo Ji spread little by little, which also made the influence of China's great power in the era of crisis also continue to increase.
As for those who are a little familiar with Luo Ji, they are suspicious, and Wang Miao is one of them, so he asked Zhang Xuan like this.
Zhang Xuan smiled: "Whether it is or not, he must be, I hope this thing, whether it is true or false, but it must exist!" ”
Wang Miao and Ding Yi were also staring at the earth below.
This is their home, with jackals and tigers and leopards, and they don't have shotguns in their hands.
After the news of the Trisolarans appeared, the earth fell into civil strife, and about three layers of the population died, and two more layers of the population fell into a life of drunken dreams and death, just like Luo Ji before.
Of the remaining half of the population, less than 3 percent have received higher education, and this is still the level after universal education in the land of China.
And in the major capital countries, although they have a high proportion of higher education, because they are highly urbanized and the guns are proliferated, more people die.
People in other countries of the world don't have a good level of education.
With the advantage of population, resources, and the number of high-level talents, Chinese civilization has become more and more powerful.
But even so, human beings are still in short supply, and the basic materials such as grain, vegetables, meat and eggs, are insufficient.
Agriculture is modern, but someone has to farm the land.
Aerospace is a big spender, and this space war, the space fleet, such a thing that is beyond the times, is even more expensive, and all countries are tightening their belts.
On the one hand, there is a brilliant cosmic war in the sky, and on the other hand, there is a sharp contrast between the people on the ground who are shrinking their clothes and dieting, and this sharp contrast does not bring much hope, and the first children of the crisis era have already begun to enter elementary school.
Ding Yi took Zhang Xuan and Wang Miao to see the base of the Battlestar:
"Look, that flat building is a nuclear power plant, and it powers the entire fortress and elevators!"
Even in space, the heat still radiates out, and people feel drier and drier.
The principle of nuclear power is to use the heat of nuclear energy to boil water.
Yes, you heard it right, it's boiling water, using hot steam to push it to the generator to run the electricity;
This is a huge waste of energy, and every time energy is converted, a part of the energy is lost.
"Until now, haven't you miniaturized nuclear energy?"
Zhang Xuan raised his eyebrows, he has a technology, which is the Ark Controlled Energy Technology, which directly converts nuclear energy into electrical energy, and it can be made to the size of a fist.
Nuclear energy is the fusion and splitting of atoms, which will carry electrons and neutrons and protons, while electrical energy is the movement of electrons in a fixed direction.
"As a weapon, it can naturally be miniaturized, and in fact, a nuclear bomb the size of a grenade has appeared, but if it is used as an energy source, it needs a transformation mechanism, and it must be made so big!" Ding Yi said.
"Why is the flow of electrons considered disordered? With the current conditions, you can confine the electrons in the reaction and directly generate an electric current! ”
Zhang Xuan said with a smile: "Now that the space fortress has been built, the next step is the production of the spaceship, with the current technology, I am afraid that the production is only a space target!" "16 Reading
"Restraint on electrons? Can you elaborate on that? Ding Yi pushed his glasses,
Zhang Xuan only replied with two words: "Mirror." ”
Light, which is the flow of electrons, is the reflection of light, which is a simple constraint on particles, and solar panels, which are also directional constraints on the flow of electrons.
Zhang Xuan will not reveal too much, this is unfair, the next time he makes a move, it is Zhang Xuan to give the earth a chance to live, a three-body problem, a earth, fair and reasonable.
In addition to Zhang Xuan, there are many research centers in the space fortress, and the next step for mankind is to officially start building spaceships.
Now, in the aviation system, there are two major factions for the construction of spacecraft, one is the old chemical aerospace school that advocates working fluid spacecraft, and they have the right to speak.
The second is the new type of nuclear fusion radiation, which uses nuclear energy and sine waves as propulsion, and theoretically, such a spacecraft can fly at the star level.
However, it is only theoretical, the theory is not very mature, and the technology is still in the conceptual stage, which makes it impossible for the Defense Council to make up its mind, and in fact, it is also a game of capital behind this.
Zhang Beihai, who had discussed these things with Ding Yi a few days ago, was about to take his team into hibernation, and in the future he would wake up and carry out the task of victory for the earth and mankind with firm faith.
Such reinforcement plans for the future are not only being made in China, but also in other countries, either explicitly or covertly.
It's just that some of the capital countries are developing nuclear fusion radiation spacecraft, and some are developing working fluid spacecraft, and they will occupy space first.
A few days ago, Zhang Beihai spent a huge amount of money to buy a meteorite, a dark red meteorite, mainly composed of iron and nickel, with a specific gravity of 8.7 grams per cubic centimeter.
Now that the space elevator and the space fortress have been built, if the industrial spacecraft is developed, then Zhang Beihai and his team members' plan to reinforce the future can only be to reinforce the future fishing boats.
In order to ensure that he can reinforce the future and reinforce the future spacecraft, Zhang Beihai needs to determine the research direction and ensure the smooth progress of the research of the radiation spacecraft.
And today, he and his teammates came to space for the first time for adaptive training, and this time is very special.
Because during this time, those old astronauts of the industrial quality school will go to the space station to conduct research.
Zhang Xuan and Wang Miao were looking at the space station dozens of kilometers away, which was the Yellow River space station, Wang Miao smiled and said:
"The Yellow River Space Station is the largest space station, and technology iteration is underway inside, if the Dao Chief is interested, I will take you to see it tomorrow!"
"No need, tomorrow it will be under martial law, now is one of the turning points in history, such an opportunity is not much in the long history, take a closer look!"
Zhang Xuan smiled: "In the middle of the eighteenth century, Spain was still building the fastest sailing ships in the world, but the French have set their sights on steamboats, which makes France one of the hegemonic powers!" ”
Wang Miao was also shocked, in the space station dozens of kilometers away, it was just a point, but it could be seen clearly with a telescope, and he saw more than a dozen participants walking out of the space station.
Zhang Beihai hid behind the surrounding space junk, waiting quietly, and took pictures as usual after the conference, the bullet can be launched in space because it has its own oxidizer.
A bullet can hit a person more than a dozen kilometers away, because there is no air resistance and gravity in space, the trajectory is an extremely stable straight line, and the speed does not decay.
After the shooting, Zhang Beihai quickly left, these people are actually innocent, they did not commit a crime, but they must die.
In the telescope, Wang Miao's face changed greatly, because he saw that when the participants were taking pictures, they were suddenly broken into spacesuits, evaporated blood by the air pressure under the vacuum and died, and some were frozen to death by low temperature.