Chapter 129 Super Drilling
The sheer size of the Siddeley Hill drilling project is not visible from the outside, and you can only see four huge metal pillar towers from a distance, although it is also very spectacular, but when you walk into the inside of the drilling platform, you will really feel its greatness, which is the first cry of mankind towards the new world, the first great attempt, and it can also be said that it is the first super building built by mankind.
Compared with it, the white tree building on the moon seems to be as simple and rough as building blocks, and the entire super drilling is not dug down in a line, like a straight tunnel like a well, but a spiral downward loop structure, like a ladder descending step by step, the top layer is its largest first order is the crater of a giant volcano, the entire top layer of the active volcano seems to have been cut off by a razor, carving out a ring structure layer after layer along the mountain, the further down the ring structure will be a circle, It wasn't until close to 10,000 meters underground that the drilling began to turn into a wellhead.
In order to find the most suitable wellhead, engineers dug a number of wells, determined the most stable and feasible one, and then redeveloped it, added wellhead cables, and excavated smaller annular steps.
At least hundreds of wells around the world are being investigated, and at the heart of their work is developing an advanced set of underground drilling techniques to pave the way for others.
Mark has seen many super buildings in the Alliance City, and the super buildings he saw when he first got off the ship are much larger than the drilling pillars, and it is impossible not to be shocked by the largest buildings that humans can create in the Super Rigs, but after seeing the technology of the Alliance, he will feel that the human buildings have a rough smell.
A screw, a piece of wall, a piece of building material, you can see the flaws with the naked eye, even if it is a standardized production part, there are still so many unavoidable defects.
The things seen in the world of the Alliance are almost perfect, making Mark wonder whether this sentence is the truth of the saying that there are no two leaves in the world that are exactly the same, or the inferiority hypothesis of human beings limited to their own technology, the technology of the Alliance has not yet reached the point where the Ascendant can modify and write microparticles, but it is still possible to make the parts completely consistent at the molecular level.
In other words, comparing the two bricks of the alliance world, even at the magnified molecular level, the two bricks are still exactly the same, what a terrifying technology, human beings can not even look at it.
After feeling the shock of such dominance, the super-drilling seemed too rough, but even so, Mark was proud that humanity had achieved such an achievement.
After an uncomplimented work meal, Nina took Mark down to the depths of the well, where huge building-like pipes were everywhere, where water pumped from the snowmelt lake below was transported, pressurized and pressurized, and the water could break up the rock formations and carry away the sediment and rocks that had accumulated at the bottom of the borehole.
Three giant lakes that had previously appeared below the Siddeli volcano, all formed by glaciers melted by volcanic heat, have now been emptied by super drilling, and when the nuclear power plant and water purification plant along the coast are built, the drilling can be switched to filtered seawater and nuclear cooling water.
"We have now exceeded the drilling depth of the Sakhalin wells, and with the improvement of cooling technology, the progress has become even faster, and now tomorrow we are breaking the previous record."
Nina was wearing heavy protective clothing, and they took an underground cable car to a depth of 4,000 meters, which is almost the limit of what humans can reach, and then they are all working by machinery, and the temperature around them is more than 300 degrees Celsius, and the pressure is 1 gipascal, 1 billion pascals, and the hard rock will also be softened under this static pressure. Even with precautions, humans can feel extremely hot and have difficulty breathing in such an environment.
The underground world is dense and compact, and in such an environment, everything on the surface is as ethereal as a shadow or a ghost, and if there is really life underground, it must be difficult for them to understand the existence of human beings.
In contrast, Mark was much more relaxed, he was wearing the hazmat suit he had brought back from the world of the Alliance, and he felt very relaxed in such an environment, this thin layer of fabric could insulate him from heat and pressure, and he didn't know what kind of magical material it was made of.
"Do you think we can get the eggs out?" Mark couldn't help but be a little worried.
"We're just going to have to try, no matter which way we end up doing it...... At least it's better than sitting still, isn't it? "Nina is an optimistic person, she can always bring a positive impact to the people around her, and Mark has settled down a lot after listening to her words.
"I don't know what will happen to the solar system now...... "Mark likes to look at the sun all this time, of course, the yellow-white sun above them now, from this position, it is much larger than the previous sun, no matter what time it looks like a huge disk, it will become larger when it runs to perihelion, so the earth is placed so far away from it, and some of the farther will be out of the range of this galaxy, if it still orbits according to the previous position of the earth, It is estimated that it has long been baked into a magma ball by now.
"No one knows...... Maybe it's a mess, the disappearance of the earth will break the gravitational balance in the solar system, such an unnatural upheaval is difficult to adjust, it will cause a chain reaction, other planets are okay, if you destroy the orbit of Mercury, it is likely to cause its flat orbit to crash into the sun, some people speculated a long time ago that this situation will occur after four billion years, but at that time it has nothing to do with us, and now the disappearance of the earth has greatly accelerated this process. Nina analyzed: "However, it is also possible to establish a new gravitational system in a short period of time, and the problem of star operation is difficult to solve, because the slightest interference factor in the universe will cause a strong chain reaction, and with our current technology, it is difficult to predict the final result."
"Are we going to go on?" Mark looked down, his gaze falling into the bottomless depths of the borehole, and he couldn't see anything in the darkness, as if leading to the legendary endless hell.