Chapter 395: The Empire Chasing the Moon
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When an asteroid hits the Earth, the natural disaster at the top of the list of the four sudden catastrophes, even the iron lion of Greater Germany cannot stop it.
Before observing the top secret meeting held in the palace, Adrian never knew that when an asteroid with a diameter of more than a thousand meters broke through the atmosphere and hit the surface or sea level, it released more energy than all the armaments of the empire combined, and would also cause many problems such as global climate change and ecological upheaval.
Adrian didn't want to believe it, but seeing the iron-clad evidence presented by the Royal Academy of Sciences, Adrian couldn't refute that the Earth had been attacked by asteroids more than once for billions of years, and there are still hundreds of large impact craters remaining on the surface of the earth, which cannot be erased by time.
The chief astrophysicist and chief paleontologist of the Royal Academy of Sciences have produced strong evidence that the dinosaurs, the former rulers of the earth, became extinct more than 60 million years ago because of an asteroid hitting the earth. Geologists also reported that Allied geologists had found the remains of an impact crater about 180 kilometers in diameter on the Yucatan Peninsula in North America, because the crater was buried deep in the ground and under sediments on the seabed, so much so that the crater was hidden until a few years ago when it was discovered during a survey.
According to scientific officials, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was about ten kilometers in diameter. And now, there is an asteroid with a diameter of 500 kilometers that is about to hit the Earth.
"We can think of it as a shell with a diameter of five hundred kilometers that is coming straight towards us at hypersonic speeds that exceed those of long-range artillery. From a physical point of view, this is truly an incredible miracle. No matter where we are impacted, the ensuing explosions, shocks, tsunamis, earthquakes, and other disasters are bound to destroy us. ”
These are the words of the Chief Astrophysicist, and this is also the opinion of most senior astrophysicists, while astrophysicists who hold different views believe that the human race on Earth will not survive at that time, and it will be destroyed directly by the Big Bang.
Whether it's the Holy Race, the New Humans, the Rebels, or the Allies, they're nothing more than a tiny speck of dust compared to this planet of destruction. The Dreadlord finally got his wish and planted the seed in the hearts of the Empire's higher-ups, leaving them in fear.
Overnight, all fighting in the Greater German Reich ceased, and the huge machine began to run at full capacity, sailing in the other direction at the behes of the Reich Lord. The command is: find a way to save the planet at all costs!
Gathering the most intelligent brains in the vast territory of the empire, and then giving the whole country the power to think about a problem, naturally all kinds of solutions were quickly obtained, but all of them were rejected without exception.
Some say that a spacecraft should be launched and equipped with solar sails to mount the asteroid, using the tiny thrust of solar radiation and the light pressure of sunlight to deflect the asteroid from its impact orbit. This plan seems feasible, since the science officers have likened an asteroid to a bullet or a cannonball, it only takes a small interference to deflect the "cannonball" from the target in the case of long-distance flight. However, the asteroid is moving at high speed and constantly tumbling, and this plan cannot be realized with current technology.
Some say launch a heavy spacecraft into the orbit of an asteroid and orbit the asteroid, using the gravitational pull between the two to pull the asteroid out of the impact orbit. But this will take several years of traction interference, and it will take more than ten years to build such a heavy spacecraft, not to mention, no one knows the impact orbit of the asteroid at all, and the prognosticators can only predict the time of the impact, but do not know which direction the asteroid will fly from, while the Royal Observatory can observe the asteroid that is about to hit the Earth up to two years in advance.
Others say that they will go all out to build atomic bombs, nuclear weapons and space rockets, and then blow up an asteroid when it appears, or use the energy generated by the explosion to push it off the impact orbit. This reckless idea seems to be the most feasible plan, but unfortunately, it is difficult to hit the asteroid at a long enough distance with a nuclear bomb, and once it is too close, even if the asteroid can be blown to pieces, but the explosion of the asteroid with a diameter of 500 kilometers is just an unrealistic fantasy, and the debris produced after the asteroid fragmentation will turn into a planetary rain and land on the earth, and the result is still human extinction.
Finally, the Chief Astrophysical Science Officer proposed to the Führer a desperate escape plan: to use all the power of the Greater German Reich, build spaceships and space shuttles, land on the moon, establish a lunar base, and make the moon the last human refuge!
Yes, the Earth does not need to be saved, it has undergone 4.6 billion years of changes, it has been hit by this magnitude more than once, it will still exist and will still continue to operate in a more or less orbital orbit, that is, the Moon, as a satellite of the Earth, will not be affected much, at least not fatally. All you need to do is build the moon base underground to avoid it.
The reason why this plan is crazy is because although the moon is large, in just a few years, even with the strength of the empire, it can only build a lunar base that can accommodate tens of thousands or thousands of people at most, in other words, fleeing to the moon with all its strength means giving up the remaining three billion people on the earth.
After hearing this crazy plan, the Führer and Adrian fell silent, of course, the silence did not last long, and after about half a minute, the Führer gave the order to start carrying out the plan and prepare to escape from the moon.
The next day, the Führer announced that he would vigorously develop astronautics, because the Great German Empire had conquered the earth, and the next step was to conquer the solar system, and the first goal was the moon that everyone could see when they looked up.
A huge project of labor and money was launched, in which millions of laborers, including not only coolie slaves but also high-level scholars with brilliant minds, were burned to death or executed, and the resources consumed were measured in hundreds of millions every month. People use ancient Chinese myths and legends to describe the moon landing project, and also make up a widely circulated folk proverb: praise the father chasing the sun, the empire chasing the moon.
The remnants of the Confederates were given a respite, mocking the stupidity of the new Führer and sending spies to try to find out the secrets behind the scenes, but Adrian's SS would not let them succeed, and the prestige of the Gestapo was not yet tarnished by these petty people.
Another four years passed, during which the Empire had lost more people and resources than the previous three world wars combined, the people were in danger, the situation was in turmoil, the Allies were eyeing each other, the uprisings and revolutions were extinguished, the rebels that had been just sparks had already set the prairie on fire, and the Empire was about to fall apart, and the two spaceships left the earth with brilliant tailfires, and by the time the Allies discovered them, it was too late to launch missiles to intercept them.
In 2007, the spacecraft of the Greater German Reich successfully landed on the moon, the construction of the near-moon space station was completed, and the first phase of the construction of the lunar base was completed on time.
More than 3,000 lucky people who passed the screening hid in the dark side of the moon, silently watching the three billion fellow human beings on Earth go to extinction.
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