Chapter 309: Rapid Development

Two wagons of the Interstellar Migration Project – sit on two giant electromagnetic catapult tracks in China and the United States. From the day it was officially opened, the www.biquge.info has been working day and night, exerting unimaginable efficiency.

Powered by the surging power of a controlled nuclear fusion power station, each giant electromagnetic catapult orbit can complete ten launches in one minute and 1,000 launches in a row.

The standardized unit parts of the space city are sent to the space dock in outer space on the earth through a giant orbit like cargo on an assembly line.

It's hard to believe how much work it would be if all of these parts were launched into space by rockets.

Although the construction cost of the giant electromagnetic catapult track is indeed huge, the average cost of a single launch is also declining as the launch volume rises sharply. The standardized unit of the space city is launched only with electricity and some auxiliary fuel, which can greatly reduce costs and achieve relatively cheap space transportation.

Around the space dock, a large number of shuttles can be seen everywhere, and they are like industrious little bees, working tirelessly to collect the standardized units of Space City launched into the space dock area by the giant electromagnetic catapult track, and transport them to the space dock for deep welding assembly.

The sheer team of engineers is also working hard, and sparks can be seen dancing everywhere in the spaceyard. Thanks to the ingenious design of the Interstellar Migration project team, the entire space city is designed as standard units of different models that are easy to disassemble and assemble, and have high strength. Once the engineering team has these standardized units, they can follow the design drawings and spend less effort to break them up in space, just like children playing with Lego. Moreover, in the future, when repairing and replacing Space City parts, it can also be operated on a unit-by-unit basis.

The space city, which can accommodate 300,000 people, has reached the level of 100 million tons in total design.

Therefore, in the later stage of the construction of the space city, the space dock will gradually accelerate away from the earth with the prototype of the space city. Because, if the huge space city is too close to the earth, its different structural areas are affected by the earth's gravity at different angles, and when the force in different directions exceeds a certain limit, the space city will be torn apart by the earth's gravity.

At this time, Spaceyard 1 has completed the main framework construction of the first space city in human history, and it is about to take the space city away from Earth and complete the final assembly process.

Spacedock 1 has received an urgent notice from the Interstellar Exploration Alliance that the first space city in human history must be completed within a month!!

Today, in the entire No. 1 space dock, a total of 100,000 top engineers are working hard to build a space city that is related to the future of Earth civilization. Including the Mars base, the second and third spacedocks, and the fourth spaceyard under construction, the total number of humans in space is nearly 500,000.

This was previously unimaginable, but it is the crisis of the end times that has forced the civilization of Earth to move forward at a rapid pace. In addition, the earth civilization is very fortunate to have access to some of the creator's science and technology, so in fact, the earth civilization has made a great leap forward in a short period of time.

According to Hara's point of view, the Earth civilization has completely surpassed the level of the Level 1 cosmic civilization (mastering the resources of its planet) and is approaching the level of the Level 2 cosmic civilization (mastering the resources within the solar system).

It is only when the earth's civilization reaches the level of Level 2 that it can be called powerful and difficult to destroy, and it has the ability to carry out large-scale civilization migrations and defeat huge cataclysmic attacks such as supernova explosions at close range, or gamma-ray bursts.

However, from another point of view, the current civilization on Earth is actually a civilization that has developed abnormally.

First of all, for nearly a century, in order to survive the apocalyptic crisis, the entire human world has focused its scientific and technological development on space technology and space exploration. Although there has been considerable improvement in other areas, they are at least nearly half a century behind.

Secondly, although the science and technology of the Creator is indeed very advanced, it has also directly raised the core scientific and technological level of the earth's civilization. However, the development of science is actually a process of accumulation, which requires a lot of time and manpower to build a solid foundation. In short, if the earth's civilization wants to fully absorb and master the Creator's advanced science and technology in various fields, it must rely on the joint efforts of a large number of scientists and engineering technicians, and it will take a very long time.

However, the current earth civilization lacks time the most, so the earth civilization can only be forced to embark on this path of abnormal development without any other choice.

Of course, if the earth's civilization can survive this crisis smoothly and have a certain population base and maintain a certain vitality. Then, the earth's civilization will usher in a new era, and show explosive, curvilinear growth!

As Yuan Haochen said, the earth civilization is approaching the level of a second-level cosmic civilization, so how to make full use of the resources on other planets in the solar system has also become the next direction of the interstellar migration team.

Because, the ultimate goal of Space City is to leave the solar system in the near future and make plans until the crisis is over. Therefore, in the process of this interstellar wandering, the space city must have the ability to continue to make blood and maintain basic survival.

Where does the massive consumption of resources come from, it is clear that humanity will eventually have to reach out to the vast universe.

Then, building a fleet that can efficiently collect the resources contained in other stars in the universe as soon as possible will be a task of great significance.

At the same time, the interstellar migration team has also begun to formulate a resource extraction plan within the solar system. On the one hand, it can accumulate experience for resource collection in the process of interstellar wandering in the future, so that on the other hand, it can also alleviate the resource pressure brought by the large-scale construction of space cities and geocentric cities to the earth.

After discussion, the initial plan of the Interstellar Migration team is as follows:

Moon: Energy Base, Spaceship Factory, Mineral Base. Helium-3 is abundant in lunar soil, and helium fusion using deuterium and helium-3 can be used as an energy source for nuclear power plants. The lunar crust is composed of a variety of major elements, including: uranium, thorium, potassium, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, titanium, calcium, and aluminum. According to surveys, there are more reserves of rare metals on the Moon than on Earth. Moon rocks contain all the elements and 60 minerals found on Earth, 6 of which are not found on Earth.

Mercury: steel base, heavy industrial area. Mercury is extremely high in precious and heavy metals, 80% of which are minerals.

Jupiter system: It can be used as a base for organic polymer materials, a base for nuclear fusion fuel, and a base for propellant supply. Since Jupiter itself may be composed of a solid nucleus and a sea of high-pressure hydrogen. From time to time, large storms appear, coupled with a high escape velocity, it is still more difficult to use Jupiter's resources, such as the hydrogen sea. However, several moons of Jupiter are ideal. In addition, Jupiter has a high potential as a place for interstellar spacecraft to refuel and refuel.

Other near-Earth asteroids: become targets for Earth capture, a special source of minerals. (To be continued.) )