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"Is it true that an asteroid hit the blue star?" - Suzhou users

"@苏州用户, nine times out of ten it's true, haven't you seen that there are exercises all over the country these days?" - The Martian

"It's as if the area where that asteroid hit is from the Mediterranean to the North Atlantic, and the Mi Lijia and the Western Union are now in chaos." - The ancient god King Jing Ze

"The Space Development Committee won't come out to explain?" - East Island users

"Woooooooooooo I haven't broken the child's skill yet, so I'm going to get a lunch box. "—Straight man of steel

"@钢铁直男, little brother?" - Professional kidney cutting

"I'm relieved, I don't have to pay the mortgage." - Snail dwelling

"@蜗居, rejoice and rejoice!" - Max out your credit card

Huang Haojie had already received Zhong's prompt, he didn't expect this matter to be exposed so quickly, which gave him a headache.

Hurriedly communicated with Dongtang on the phone.

December 10 at 11 a.m.

The Eastern Tang Dynasty and the Galaxy Consortium issued a joint announcement to explain the matter to the domestic public.

Keelung, East Island, the headquarters of the Galaxy Consortium.

Ai Heping stood on the podium meticulously, and he said solemnly to all the news media:

"Regarding the impact of the WX asteroid on the blue star, it is true."

The audience at the scene and watching the live broadcast was in an uproar, although many people had already watched the joint announcement, but now the joint announcement has only been released for less than ten minutes, and many people have not seen it.

Ai Heping pressed his hand and asked the reporters at the scene to be quiet: "Don't worry too much, the Space Development Committee has made a strict plan, and we are at least 99% sure that the WX asteroid will hit the blue star, and we will intercept it outside the atmosphere." ”

After speaking, Ai Heping showed everyone the planetary railgun plan, the barricade plan, and the mushroom umbrella plan...... and other four plans.

"So you can now rest assured that even if a small part of the asteroid debris will enter the Blue Star, it will be safe in the Western Continent and the North Atlantic region, and the East Asia and Pacific region."

"Mr. Ai, are you sure you can successfully intercept the asteroid?" The New York Times reporter asked nervously.

"Even if the first three plans all fail, in the end, the mushroom umbrella can destroy at least 95% of the asteroid's volume, break it into pieces, and minimize the harm." Ai Heping explained.

"Then why didn't you announce this in advance?" The Global Times reporter asked.

"The main reason why it was not announced before was because it was afraid of causing panic among the public, and all the space agencies were studying how to intercept the asteroid." Ai Heping said helplessly.

Although many people are not satisfied with this answer, they can only pray for the success of the interception now.

NASA also followed suit and held a press conference, but unlike Ai Heping's restraint, at NASA's press conference, Maxwell was so angry that he was speechless by reporters with long guns and short guns.

Although many people know that the probability of an asteroid being intercepted is very high, it has become a consensus for everyone to escape the coastal area of the North Atlantic for safety.

In the Mi Li family, many people drove their cars to the west.

And the most bitter thing is the John's family and the Xizhou Alliance, most of the entire Xizhou area may be the impact area, and the people don't know where the safe area is for a while.

The Xizhou Alliance can only open bomb shelters and the like once to give people temporary refuge.

And those sesame mung bean countries in the West Indies of Central America can only pray for the success of the Space Development Committee, otherwise the first wave of asteroid impact can wipe them out.

In order to give the world peace of mind, the Space Development Commission has announced some progress from time to time, such as the mass projector of the Bazhong base, which has been successfully transformed into a planetary railgun, and the tungsten steel warhead is ready to deliver a fatal blow to the WX asteroid at any time.

And those thick launch vehicles of various countries have also been pulled out to show the whole world their strong muscles.

Kaohsiung base.

In the lobby of the main control room.

"Wang Ju, according to the astronomical telescopes around the world and the electric telescopes in outer space, now our three airships are about to meet with the WX asteroid in about 30 minutes." Zeng Baojiang pointed to the holographic projection star map and said.

Wang Tu looked at his watch, it was 13:49 Peking time, and he nodded to Zeng Baojiang: "According to the predetermined plan." ”

"Okay." Zeng Baojiang replied solemnly.

About 1.63 million kilometers away from Blue Star, the olive-shaped WX asteroid rushed towards Blue Star without a single edge.

About 63,000 kilometers in front of it, three Xuanwu-class spacecraft are heading towards the WX asteroid in a zigzag arrangement.

However, at this time, the three Xuanwu-class spaceships suddenly braked, and adjusted the flight direction through the auxiliary engines, changing from the previous relative flight to flying in the same direction.

By the time the three Basalt-class ships completed their U-turn, the distance between them and the WX asteroid was less than 24,000 kilometers.

Due to the deceleration U-turn, the speed of the three Basalt-class ships dropped to 11 kilometers per second, and at such a rate, the WX asteroid would soon overtake them.

For this situation, the ground general control center has long anticipated.

"In 3 minutes, the WX asteroid will meet the ship formation."

“2：30…… 2：20…… 2：05”

"Start the ship's main engines at full power immediately."

Due to communication delays, the WX asteroid had already appeared less than 500 kilometers behind the spacecraft formation before the spacecraft received a command from the ground.

In the main engine of the Xuanwu-class spaceship, the light blue tail flame suddenly gushed out, and their speed soared wildly.

When the WX asteroid and the spacecraft formation met, the speed of the two was almost the same.

At this time, Zhong's artificial intelligence subbody "Star" officially took over the control of the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft, and with the assistance of the spacecraft computer, Xing successfully allowed the three spacecraft to fly with the WX asteroid.

"The first step was successful." Zeng Baojiang clenched his fists and said.

"Don't let your guard down, we're still close to success." Wang Tu was still staring at the holographic star map.

At this time, the world can observe the WX Asteroid Astronomical Telescope, and three Basalt-class ships have successfully flown with the WX asteroid.

Look back at the WX asteroid.

I saw that the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft were flying with the WX asteroid while being corrected by the auxiliary engines, and the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft slowly merged into one, and the "star" began to carry out the mission according to the established procedure.

However, there are no mushroom eggs or anything like that on the three Xuanwu-class, after all, the consequences of bombing the asteroid are very serious, and the Space Development Committee will not choose it unless it is absolutely necessary.

Because the bombing of the asteroid at this location is successful, that large pile of debris will definitely be a catastrophe for the spacecraft in the orbit of the blue star.

As for the spray paint track change method once proposed by Mi Li's family, it is too late now.

The so-called spray paint orbit change method is to spray white paint on the asteroid, the principle of this method comes from the radiation pressure, solar radiation will produce radiation pressure (light pressure effect) on the white, through the radiation pressure slowly change the asteroid orbit.

The problem is that this method will take a very long time, and it will take at least 20 years to change the orbit of an asteroid based on the radiation pressure that can be generated by current solar radiation.

If there is 20 years, the Space Development Committee will be idle and will use this method.

What's more, now it's a situation where the eyebrows are burned, and there's time to waste.