Chapter 113: Preparing to Land

Ling Moyu leaned back in his chair and stared at the screen thinking, picked up the water cup on the side and drank the water, a stream of cool and pure water poured into his throat, which suddenly made him pause.

This cup is a jar, the bottle mouth is big and the belly is small, it is easier to drink water, this is like the engine vent of the rocket, usually the diameter of the nozzle is much smaller than the diameter of the fuel tank, if the diameter is too large, it will affect the jet speed, which will also cause the rocket speed to decrease!

But why does it have the effect of making the spout larger? Ling Moyu got up and found the operation log, which clearly showed that the operator had tripled the speed at which neutrinos were ejected.

The so-called vent on the asteroid is actually a hole left by drilling, not a real vent, so arbitrarily increasing the speed causes the material around the vent to be ejected along with neutrinos, causing the vent to become larger dramatically.

When he first made the spraying plan, he thought about the speed, and did not want to be perceived as increasing the spraying speed and causing unintended consequences.

Fortunately, it was easy to find the cause of the accident, and after recalculation, it was found that the remaining energy was no longer able to push the asteroid out of orbit or land it smoothly on Earth!

Ling Moyu immediately told the personnel in the control room about his discovery, and after calculating and checking, everyone agreed with him and decided to report it to the Emergency Committee, which led to the scene just now.

Because of Richard's mistake, Ling Moyu had a chance to land the asteroid on Earth, and the entire operation hall returned to a tense and busy state.

The people in the hall were no longer blindly happy, they knew that the process of letting the asteroid land was much more dangerous than pushing the asteroid out of orbit, and the speed of the asteroid landing was still very large, equivalent to a hard landing, in case the impact of the stalled asteroid would cause a huge disaster.

According to the requirements, the speed of the nozzle should be strictly controlled to prevent the occurrence of excessive jet speed and damage to the nozzle again.

After calculation, the speed of the asteroid hitting the earth is between 2,000 and 3,000 kilometers per hour, which seems to be very large, but compared to the speed of more than 100,000 kilometers per hour, it is much smaller!

That's not enough speed to shatter the Earth's shell, which is at least safe, but it will cause great damage to the surrounding area! Huge waves can be up to 100 kilometers high! Parts of New Zealand and Australia will be engulfed by a tsunami, and tens of millions of people along the coast will be devastated!

It can reach as far as both sides of the Asia-Pacific Ocean, and the aftermath of the impact can set off waves of tens of meters on the coast! However, the part of Asia that faces the Pacific Ocean and is composed of islands with many islands will greatly reduce the height of the waves, so that a large tsunami will not form.

New Zealand and Australia have about 20 million people to evacuate, but most of them are in Australia, and they can be moved to higher areas of the interior, with a focus on New Zealand's 5 million people, who must be evacuated to safety within three weeks. The United Nations and the two Governments held urgent consultations to make arrangements for the relocation.

The most unfortunate will be to lose to the New Zealand government, this impact is equivalent to the destruction of the country, from now on there will be no country on the earth, and the government will cease to exist.

The New Zealanders, of course, were reluctant to do so, and asked the United Nations to find them a place to re-establish their country, and to choose only the desert areas and the Antarctic ice sheet in Africa as territories.

However, in half a year after the impact, the sea will reced, the sea level will not rise much, and New Zealand can still return to their homeland and rebuild the country.

Despite their helplessness, they quickly accepted this fact, of course, not fast and helpless, because soon visitors from outside the world would be whistling.

Some of them were arranged to be picked up in Australia, the nearest country, and since Australia is also a disaster-stricken country, it is impossible to accept a large number of people, and a maximum of 1 million people will be evacuated. The five major powers of the UN will receive the remaining millions of people!

It's a daunting task for so many people to be picked up in three weeks! Airlines and shipping companies around the world have been mobilized, and long-distance transport planes from various countries have been urgently deployed to transport people.

For a time, on the sea of New Zealand, all kinds of large and small ships crowded the port, all of them came to pick up people, except for some luxury cruise ships, the largest number of all kinds of cargo ships, including container ships and bulk carriers. People don't care about comfort, they just need to get out of here.

Transport planes from various countries are also transferring people and supplies around the clock, with an average of 10 large transport planes landing at New Zealand airports every minute.

Some say it was the world's largest evacuation after the Dunkirk evacuation, mobilizing almost all the ships and planes available in the world, and successfully moving nearly 5 million people to safety.

After two weeks of deceleration, the asteroid's speed has been reduced to 50,000 kilometers per hour, and it will be about 30,000 kilometers per hour before it enters the atmosphere. This is the first cosmic velocity, below which the asteroid will fall vertically, which is the most harmful.

It has been calculated that the asteroid will hit at an angle of 60 degrees with minimal harm, and the whole process will take about 1 hour.

This speed will completely burn up the asteroid, but the friction in the atmosphere will still partially melt the asteroid, making it look as if the sun has set.

A large round ball flew between the moon and the earth, and from the moon, it looked even bigger than the earth's, like a big black ball trying to crush a small blue ball.

As we approach Earth, we have just entered the atmosphere, and the thin atmosphere causes the loose parts of the asteroid's surface to gradually fall off, forming a tail of cosmic dust in the tail.

As the atmosphere becomes denser, the surface of the asteroid begins to heat up, and the color gradually changes from black to red, and it is night when it passes along the way.

Since the impact of the asteroid had been predicted for a long time, people along the way rushed out to watch, and a red fireball fell from the sky, such a spectacle has never been encountered in ten thousand years.

One could see it without a telescope, it was so large that it was still burning violently, as if God had sent a fire to destroy those who disobeyed him.

Everyone who saw this scene was terrified, and the fire reflected the red faces of the people, and everyone seemed to feel its scorching temperature, and their big eyes were full of awe.

Many people think of the Bible account of Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities that were destroyed by God's fire.

As it got closer to the surface, a white fog was set off on the surface of the sea, which was evaporated and lifted up by the asteroid's heat as it approached the water.