Chapter 7 The Rescue Operation Begins
Chen Xin was also sitting in front of the TV at this time and paying attention to this operation, after all, it was a matter of life and death for all mankind, and at this moment, all the media on Blue Star were reporting this matter 24 hours a day.
Although the meteorite is getting closer and closer to the blue star, and all countries have issued disaster warnings, but now the meteorite is still approaching the lunar orbit, and the blue star has not been substantially affected, so Chen Xin did not hide in the shelter he dug.
And although the shelter is safe, there is no Internet and TV because it is buried deep underground, so Chen Xin wants to know about the rescue operation, so he still has to stay at home and watch TV.
As for the rest of Chen Xin's city, they have been evacuated one after another during this time, entering the shelter that has been largely renovated in batches.
If the action goes well, they will leave the shelter after successfully intercepting the meteorite, but if the interception fails, everyone will have to spend the rest of their lives in the shelter.
Chen Xin did not live in the city due to personal reasons, although there were government officials who mobilized him to go to the shelter before, but because he had already dug the shelter, Chen Xin still stayed at home and did not go to the shelter built by the state.
In addition, although the state has done its best to renovate the shelters and make them accessible to all as much as possible, not everyone can actually enter the shelters because some of them have not been completed on time and the capacity of the shelters is limited.
According to Chen Xin's prediction, a city like his one is fine, because the population is not very large, and the vast majority of people can still enter the shelter.
But for the whole country, being able to get more than 80% of the population into shelters is already very remarkable.
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After completing the refueling, the spacecraft of the Yan Kingdom and the Federation left the Tiangong space station and the International Space Station to set off again.
They will first orbit the blue star, use the gravitational pull of the blue star to complete a phase of acceleration to the moon, and then use the moon's gravity to accelerate the second stage of acceleration in lunar orbit, so that the spacecraft can accelerate to a synchronous speed close to the meteorite's travel speed when the meteorite arrives, so that it can accurately land on the meteorite.
Looking at the three spacecraft that left the space station and became smaller and smaller as captured by the space station camera in the picture, Chen Xin couldn't help but silently pray for the warriors on these three spacecraft.
Now, the hopes of all mankind are on them, and if their actions fail, then humanity will face the global extinction caused by the meteorite that the dinosaurs faced 65 million years ago.
Some people may say that the extinction of the dinosaurs is not sure to be caused by a meteorite impact, but Chen Xin can say with certainty that if the meteorite that is coming to the blue star really falls down, more than 90% of the existing species on the blue star will be completely extinct, whether it is on land or at sea, it will be the same extinction catastrophe.
As the last descendants of the dinosaurs, birds may have escaped the last disaster, but this time they may not be so lucky, the heat and poisonous gases brought by the fire storm that swept the world, and the ensuing extreme cold night, will wipe out all the birds flying in the sky, the large creatures on the land surface, most of the plants, and all the fish in the shallow sea area.
Only tenacious animals such as rats and cockroaches, which are good at burrowing, may have escaped the catastrophe, but it is also unknown whether they will survive the long cold nights when food is scarce.
As for marine life, there is no need to worry, although the ecology of marine life in shallow waters will be devastated, but the marine life that lives in the deep sea will not be extinct, and even some shallow sea life can survive if they are lucky.
And humans, it's a matter of luck.
People who live in countries where the social order has not collapsed will at least have the government to organize evacuation, and after escaping the disaster caused by the initial stage of the meteorite impact, there is still a high probability of surviving and passing on the fire for human civilization.
But people living in countries where the social order has collapsed are not so lucky, and if they are far from the place where the meteorite hits, and can find a solid basement and store enough food for the next time, they still have a certain chance of surviving.
Otherwise, they are likely to die a painful death in the ensuing catastrophe within a few days of the meteorite impact.
Of course, if they were unlucky enough to be near the site of the meteorite impact, they might not survive even a day, and they would die without pain.
As for this vicinity, it is a circle with a radius of at least one or two thousand kilometers or more.
Because it takes a long time for the spacecraft to fly to the lunar orbit, Chen Xin did not keep staring at the TV all the time, although the TV station has been broadcasting live all the time, but is making the final preparations before entering the shelter.
Although this is a matter of life and death for six billion people around the world, Chen Xin also hopes that this operation will be successful, but he is not optimistic about this plan.
The two countries of Yan and the Federation plan to use nuclear bombs to blow up the meteorite, and then use thrusters to push the meteorite off the impact trajectory, this plan sounds really good, and the feasibility is not low, and the current technology of mankind can do it with the efforts of no matter the cost, and is doing so now, but there are not many uncertainties in it.
For example, before landing on a meteorite, there was a debris flow around the meteorite, which prevented the spacecraft from landing or destroyed the spacecraft, and after going up, the meteorite was too hard to drill......
The meteorite is not a sphere with a uniform texture, and the irregular shape and uneven texture may survive the nuclear explosion and not be blown apart under the blasting of the nuclear bomb, or it may be blown too open and split into several pieces.
If it hadn't exploded, the texture of the meteorite might have been harder than expected, and the mass would have been much larger, and in this case, the heavy spacecraft prepared by the Yan Kingdom would probably not be able to push the meteorite, or the thrust would have been insufficient to completely change the meteorite's orbit.
In this case, one can only hope that the Lucians will be able to smash the meteorite with all the nuclear bombs in the world.
But in this case, the best outcome is that the world will suffer a huge wave of meteorite rain, causing huge losses to human society.
And if it explodes and shatters into several pieces, that's the worst-case scenario.
Because there is only one heavy spacecraft prepared by Yan Guo, it can only push a meteorite.