Chapter 15 It's Not Time to Celebrate

"In space, we Lucians are invincible! Ulla! With such slogans, the Lucian spacecraft was launched.

Along with it, there are more than 20 nuclear bombs with a yield of 10 million tons launched by the Blue Star Powers.

Because this mission is to use nuclear bombs to intercept meteorites in outer space, the orbit of the nuclear bomb launched by the Blue Star Five is different from the parabolic orbit under normal circumstances, and the nuclear warhead does not fall after leaving the atmosphere, but flies in the direction of the meteorite attack with the Lucian spacecraft.

After being blown up by the Federation people and pushed by the Yanguo people, the meteorite was divided into two pieces, one large and one small, and flew towards the blue star at the same speed from two adjacent but different orbits.

The larger meteorite, driven by the gravitational pull of the moon and the thrusters installed by the Yan Guo team, has now deviated from the impact orbit of the blue star, and will pass near the blue star, but the smaller one will still hit the blue star according to the original trajectory.

However, this situation was still expected by the countries, and the third part of the rescue operation was for the Lucians to use a spacecraft to guide a nuclear bomb to saturate the small meteorite that hit the blue star, destroying it in outer space.

The original meteorite had a diameter of more than 10 kilometers, and after the explosion of the nuclear bomb, the larger one was about 7 kilometers in diameter, and the smaller one was only a little more than 4 kilometers in diameter.

It sounds a lot smaller, but if it hits the Blue Star, the damage caused is just as serious, but it is just from the destruction of the whole world to the destruction of most of the Blue Star.

So even if a large piece of meteorite has been pushed off the impact orbit, this small piece of meteorite cannot be allowed to fall on the blue star.

And the best way to solve it is to intercept it in outer space and blow it to pieces directly with a nuclear bomb.

As the most powerful and destructive weapon ever invented by mankind, the power of the nuclear bomb is undoubted, but the effect of detonating a nuclear bomb in space is completely different from that on the blue star.

Due to the fact that the nuclear bomb used on the Blue Star has air as the medium, the main damage is caused by the shock wave generated by the explosion and the continuous secondary disasters caused by nuclear radiation.

However, in space, due to the lack of medium in the vacuum environment, a nuclear bomb explosion will not cause a shock wave and will not form the iconic mushroom cloud.

As for why the Federation was able to blow away the debris flow on the surface of the meteorite when they detonated the nuclear bomb twice, it was because the debris flow was the debris stripped from the meteorite, which itself could act as a medium to transmit the impact of the explosion.

As for radiation, to be honest, the nuclear bombs used by various countries are actually very clean, and will not cause a large amount of nuclear radiation, let alone form a no-man's land that cannot be inhabited for decades like Chernobyl.

Moreover, the radiation produced by the explosion of a nuclear bomb is nothing compared to the radiation that is already abundant in space.

But even so, the energy released by the nuclear charge carried by the nuclear warhead when it produces a fission reaction can still cause astonishing destructive power, after all, the maximum yield of strategic nuclear warheads used by various countries has reached the level of 10 million tons.

More than 20 tens of millions of nuclear warheads bombed a meteorite with a diameter of four kilometers was enough to blow it to slag.

It is also for this reason that most of the countries on the Blue Star are actually more relaxed after the astronauts of the Yan Country and the Federation have completed their missions.

After all, the previous missions of the Yan Kingdom and the Federation were very successful, and the Lucian people's tasks were very simple, and they believed that the matter of saving the Blue Star had basically been successful.

In the eyes of these countries, after the Yan Country and the Federation have completed the tasks they are responsible for, in fact, this meteorite crisis has ended, and the next thing is nothing more than waiting for the meteorite that was pushed away to pass through the Blue Star, and completely shattering the meteorite that crashed into the Blue Star with a saturation nuclear strike.

While it may be risky to claim that the crisis is over, the impact of previous global crises has been very heavy for all countries.

In this crisis, both the economy and people's livelihood, all countries in the world have suffered huge losses, and some small countries have simply fallen into chaos and collapse, and the whole country has suffered heavy losses.

Especially in Southeast Asia and Latin America, several countries have simply fallen into anarchy, and the whole country is in chaos, as if the end has come.

Under such circumstances, countries around the world are looking forward to an early resolution of the crisis so that they can devote their energies and resources to post-disaster reconstruction.

Moreover, for countries that are still able to perform government functions, it is the most important thing for politicians to be able to enter the state of post-disaster reconstruction as soon as possible, and to enjoy the political dividends brought about by successfully handling the apocalyptic crisis and guiding post-disaster reconstruction.

Therefore, it is normal to start guiding people's emotions and preparing them for post-disaster reconstruction, after all, the damage caused by chaos and emergency is incalculable every day that lasts.

However, for the top five Blue Star, they did not relax their vigilance, not only because there was another meteorite in the sky flying towards Blue Star, but also because the meteorite that was pushed off the impact trajectory was still in danger of hitting Blue Star.

This is not to say that there are gaps in the completion of the tasks of the Yan Kingdom and the Federation, but because the countries at that time were completely desperate, and did not strictly calculate the volume and orbit of the meteorite, and the thrusters and nuclear bombs that could be found and sent were the largest that could be sent.

As for how effective these things can be and to what extent, neither the scientists in charge of commanding nor the astronauts who go up to work actually have no bottom in their hearts.

Although the mission has been completed with the efforts and sacrifices of the astronauts of the Yan Kingdom and the Federation, because the mass of the meteorite itself has exceeded the estimate, the large meteorite is still in a very dangerous position even though it has been pushed off the impact orbit.

When it passes through the orbit of the blue star and is closest to the blue star, it will be disturbed by the gravitational pull of the blue star, in case the meteorite is affected by the gravitational pull of the blue star......

No one can afford that.

Therefore, the action team set up by the United Nations not only did not relax its vigilance at this time, but increased the monitoring of meteorites, completely 24 hours a day without interruption, measuring the orbits of the two meteorites, while providing data support for the Lucian people, for the meteorite that was pushed away from the impact orbit, all they could do at this time was to pray that it would not hit the blue star.

Because at this moment, humanity has no strength to deal with this meteorite.

All the nuclear bombs that countries can launch have been launched into space to block the small meteorites that are about to hit the blue star, and the space power has been almost consumed at this time, although it is not impossible to send spacecraft that can go to space, but the space shuttle that can drill holes in meteorites and the heavy thrusters that can propel meteorites are gone.