Chapter 351: A New Journey Coming Soon
This battleship is the most important task of Zhu Lei's Yongan Group in the near future, after all, this time mankind is preparing a real expeditionary fleet, and this battleship is the most important firepower and projection force of the expeditionary force Zhu Lei They must face it seriously, in addition to this battleship, of course, there are many secondary warships under construction, including twelve cruisers and five space carriers, but the role of these aircraft carriers is very different from that of the Earth period, in addition to the same use of fighters for combat as the Earth period, These aircraft carriers are also responsible for the energy supply of the entire fleet and the delivery of ground forces, and it can be said that the Humvee in the universe has become a comprehensive warship integrating aircraft carriers, supplies, and landing.
After all, although the functions of comprehensive warships are very many, due to the limited number of shipyards that can be manufactured by human beings, especially the warships with a tonnage of more than five million tons, so the aircraft carriers can only be built five, after all, the first thing to ensure in this expedition is that the human fleet can defeat the other side before considering landing operations, so relatively speaking, the role of other large warships is much stronger.
Second, there are many more warships below 5 million tons, after all, relatively speaking, warships below 5 million tons, both this technology and the manufacturing cycle are much shorter, and the technical difficulty is much simpler. However, all the warships built this time are all above the megaton level, after all, these warships are going to fight in distant alien systems, so the warships below the megaton level are useless at all, and now there are many spaceships below the megaton level in the Ming Empire.
At the same time, the human Mars program is also being carried out in an orderly manner, after all, the Mars program is still the top priority of human unloading, and at this time the human population has reached nearly 30 billion, so at this time human beings can actually say that there are signs of an existential crisis, but fortunately, due to human technological progress, space agriculture is no longer a matter that appears in science fiction or movies.
Because at this time between the Earth and the Moon space, there are already patches of space farms, although the space farm due to the space environment and various unfavorable factors, the crops in the space farm are still relatively single, and the yield is also very low, but compared with more than ten years ago, it is much better, and with the technological progress of human beings, there will definitely be more and more space farms in the future, and the yield will be higher and higher.
But in any case, humans are still terrestrial creatures, and I may have lived in space all the time, so the transformation of Mars and Venus is a necessary condition for the development of mankind.
Mars has been transformed by human beings for more than ten years, first of all, the surface of Mars has basically cooled down, although the temperature on Mars is still very high compared to the earth, especially the temperature on the surface of Mars will be nearly seventy or eighty degrees, but compared with the years when Mars just collided, the average temperature of one or two hundred degrees is already much better, although there are still some places on Mars where the temperature is very high, but overall it is very good, And there's a lot less volcanic activity on Mars.
And because there is a large amount of water resources on Mars itself, coupled with the water resources on Ceres, now Mars is full of rivers and lakes, and the sea has also been formed, at this time the sea on Mars has accounted for more than 60% of the surface of Mars, and because the temperature on Mars is still relatively high, there will be huge storms and lightning on Mars from time to time.
Even because the air pressure on Mars is lower than that on the Earth, the Earth is much stronger in various bad weather on Mars, just like the hurricanes on Mars, although the power of these hurricanes is much smaller than before the transformation, but it is still much stronger than the Earth, but now there are no global hurricanes on Mars, after all, due to the increase in air concentration, various water vapor on Mars, and volcanic reasons, Mars no longer has the conditions for global storms.
Moreover, the magnetic field strength of Mars, after more than ten years of recovery, has finally been fixed at a level equivalent to one and a half times the Earth's magnetic field, which means that the magnetic field of Mars is now stronger than that of the Earth.
However, this is only temporary, after all, it has not been long since the collision of Mars, so according to scientists' inference, after the peak of Mars' magnetic field, it will slowly weaken until it is equivalent to a level of 0.98 times that of Earth.
However, since Mars is relatively far away from the sun, 0.98 times the strength of the Earth's magnetic field is already enough.
The concentration of the Martian atmosphere has increased a lot after more than ten years of hard work, but because the atmosphere in Mars is transported from Venus, the content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has exceeded 98%, so Mars is still extremely unsuitable for human life.
However, human beings have begun to release all kinds of algae to Mars, after all, although the atmospheric concentration on Mars is not yet the same as that of most organisms on the earth, a small part of the algae can still survive on Mars, especially these algae have also been genetically improved by humans, and their survival ability is much stronger than the original one.
After all, the scientists of the Ming Empire believe that it is very necessary to modify the carbon dioxide content in the Martian atmosphere from now on, although the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere on Mars is very high, but because the atmosphere concentration on Mars is not enough.
After all, once the concentration of the atmosphere of Mars reaches a certain level, if the carbon dioxide on Mars is still as it is now, the carbon dioxide reaches more than 98%, then the water vapor and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will gradually form highly corrosive gases and liquids such as sulfur dioxide.
At that time, if you want to transform, it will take more time and money and energy, and now the Ming Empire doesn't care in other aspects, the most important thing is time, and even if someone puts forward any suggestions that are conducive to improving the speed of Mars transformation, they will be rewarded with the official honor of the Ming Empire.
Even if the plan is recognized by the Ming Empire and the Yongan Group and the military of the Ming Empire, you can also get the title of the military, you must know that this is not an ordinary title, it is a military title, these titles can be inherited, although the level of the title may not be too high, but compared with the ordinary title, the impact on future generations is very different.
So in some places on Mars has begun to appear a little bit of green, these are the traces of the survival of the algae on Mars, although the gold on Mars is now very bad, but these algae are some algae plants on Earth that can survive in extreme environments.
Only some algae are the Jurassic algae that the scientists of the Ming Empire finally developed after decades of hard work, and the algae of the Jurassic period are all restored through ancient fossils and various materials on the earth.
Compared to the algae on the earth today, the environment is more suitable for the survival of these algae, because the environment of the earth is too cold for these plants.
In addition to these, even the Ming Empire has now begun to send robots to build various infrastructure on Mars.
And the living environment on Mars is different from that on the earth, because Mars will be used as a standard agricultural planet, all the land on the ground will not be used as residential land, but all will be used as agricultural and animal husbandry land, after all, the human population is developing so rapidly, if Mars is the same as the earth, then it will not make much sense to transform Mars.
And the environment of Mars is also different from the Earth, after all, due to the artificial transformation of Mars planet, and because the Mars collision has only been more than ten years now, Mars is actually quite unstable, if human beings inhabit the surface of Mars, there will definitely be a variety of geological disasters, and these geological disasters will definitely be much stronger than the Earth, after all, the Earth has begun to calm down after hundreds of millions of years of evolution, and Mars is now the most drastic time for geological changes in various plate movements.
And the period when this kind of change is most drastic, according to scientists' inference, will last at least tens of thousands of years, so for the safety of human beings, the cities on Mars will not be on the ground, but will build various suspended cities.
In the future, all the cities on Mars will be suspended in the air hundreds to thousands of meters above the surface of Mars, so as to avoid violent geological movements on Mars, and also avoid the situation where residential land occupies agricultural land.
After all, human beings have already mastered anti-gravity technology, and even began to build space cities not long after humans walked in space, so although the suspended cities are only suspended in the atmosphere of the planet, and compared to space cities, these suspended cities will undoubtedly be much larger, but in terms of technology, human beings have all of them, and these technologies are very mature, so it is not difficult to introduce suspended cities. It doesn't even take a long time to build a suspended city, and it takes 5-6 years to build a suspended city that can live with tens of millions of people.
On Mars, the Ming Empire's plan is to build 108 super-large-scale suspended cities, each of which can remember a population of about 10 to 20 million, and it can be said that such a suspended city can accommodate ten times the population of the space city compared to the space city.
Of course, in addition to super-large-scale suspended cities, small and medium-sized suspended cities are also needed, so for each super-large-scale suspended city, there will be 36 medium-sized suspended cities within his jurisdiction, and the population size of these medium-sized suspended cities can accommodate one million people each.
For each medium-sized suspended city, he has jurisdiction over 12 lowest-level suspended cities, which can only accommodate a maximum of 200,000 people, but this is quite remarkable.
So the entire Mars can accommodate about 15 billion people, of course, this is only temporary, after Mars has built all these cities, there will be more ultra-small suspended cities, the Ming Empire plans that the entire Mars can accommodate a maximum of more than 20 billion people, if it exceeds this data, there is nothing that can be done.
In addition, the Ming Empire is now doing a similar suspension urban planning to Mars to some less populated areas on the earth, after all, these less populated areas are due to the policy reasons of the Ming Empire in the past few decades, because these less populated areas are actually the most important grain producing areas of the entire human race, or the entire Ming Empire, and 50% of the food of the entire human race comes from these places.
If there was no restriction on land by the Ming Empire a few decades ago, then the Ming Empire might have collapsed due to a lack of food more than ten years ago, how could it be like now, the entire human society has a population of more than 30 billion, but it is still quite stable.
It can be said that the land policy of the Ming Empire is quite correct.
However, because the human population is growing at an unprecedented rate, even if the Ming Empire has promulgated a new population policy, the population growth is still very rapid, after all, the average life expectancy of the Ming Empire has reached more than 1,000 years old, so the Ming Empire can not stop on the road of population growth.
It's just a slight decrease from the original rate of doubling every five years, after all, the promulgation of policies is not completely useless.
Therefore, in addition to the continued implementation of the Mars plan, the gold plan of the Ming Empire has also begun to be prepared, and even the expeditionary force plan proposed by Zhu Lei has successfully passed the consent of the cabinet and the military of the Ming Empire, and the expeditionary force plan will be doubled compared with the original.
In Zhu Lei's original plan, there will be more than 100,000 spaceships of all kinds on this expedition, including one battleship of more than 10 million tons, various cruisers and aircraft carriers of more than 5 million tons, and comprehensive supply ships will reach the scale of nearly 10,000, and the remaining spaceships are all kinds of small and medium-sized space warships, as well as various transport ships.
Therefore, all the personnel of this expedition will add up to about 100 million, of which about half are active soldiers of the Ming Empire, and the other half In addition to various scientists and technicians, there are also some other personnel.
And this time Zhu Lei's proposal doubles the size of the entire fleet, that is to say, the population of the entire fleet will reach 200 million, and the number of warships in the fleet will reach more than 200,000, which is unprecedented for the entire human race.