Chapter 20: Crisis

All sin comes from the greed for life. Who doesn't want to have a better physique, a smarter head, and a higher lifespan? In particular, the emergence of Yu Yifeng's successful example has inspired everyone's greed......

However, after all, the number of perfection elements is limited, and it can only be used by less than one thousandth of the people in the world, and once the secret is made public, it will inevitably cause turmoil in the whole society, and even more serious, the third world war is not impossible!

Therefore, there is some truth to the fact that the coalition government strictly guards the secret of perfection, and it is not entirely wrong. Governments have secretly fought a lot around perfection, and many inexplicable geopolitical conflicts have been well explained from now on, that is, the distribution of perfection.

In the end, the five most powerful powers reached a consensus, "Shelving disputes and developing together!" As a result, a coalition government was formed, which sealed most of the perfect elements in a lunar base, guarded them with nuclear bombs, and required the approval of the coalition government for any experiments.

No one could have imagined that the earth would explode like this...... All intrigues and intrigues have vanished with the destruction of the earth. It seems that there is little point in holding the previous government accountable, since most of those responsible are dead, and the few who are alive are only accomplices, just following orders......

A sloppy trial ended in this way, and before Calvin's verdict even came down, the court chose to adjourn the trial and "sentence another day."

This kind of demoralizing thing, people invariably choose to intermittently forget, all of it, let's talk about it later......

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The work in the base is still going on in an orderly manner. One approval is a small thing for the entire base.

Thomson, male, 33 years old, former Swiss physicist, has published more than 60 articles in SCI, 7 of which have been included in the most authoritative journal Nature.

At the same time, he was also a well-known astronomer and had his own laboratory on the moon base. Thomson's job is to monitor the entire starry sky.

After the Earth exploded, a large number of rock fragments were released, and when these rock fragments were close to the Moon, they may be captured by the Moon's gravity and turn into meteorites to attack the Moon.

In astronomy, the equilibrium point of gravity of two planets is called a Lagrange point. On the Lagrange line, the gravitational pull between the Moon and the Earth is exactly canceled out, and the meteorite is able to maintain a state of equilibrium. Meteorites beyond this limit could hit the moon and bring disaster to mankind.

On the first day of the Earth's explosion, more than 3,000 meteorites from the Earth hit the Moon! These meteorites are not large, and for humans far away at the south pole of the moon, they can only feel a few small earthquakes, which is nothing.

But it was a terrifying and desperate day for the astronomers, who kept an eye on the sky, and when a meteorite hit them, it was like it had hit them, and their hearts beat for fear that they would suddenly be destroyed.

An asteroid impact is a huge threat to life! 65 million years ago, a meteorite with a diameter of 10 kilometers hit the earth, creating an overwhelming cloud of dust, melting polar snow, destroying plants, and filling the sky with volcanic ash, all of which led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, thanks to which the mammals were able to rise.

If a meteorite of the same magnitude falls on the moon, then there will be an earthquake of magnitude thirteen or more in the entire earth's crust! If the meteorite had landed on Bailey Crater, there would be no doubt that the equivalent of 100 trillion tons of TNT would have wiped out the entire Antarctica by the energy released by the simultaneous explosion of 100 trillion tons of TNT.

There are eight such threats, and the largest one is more than 20 kilometers in diameter...... Now Thomson can only pray that God willing, these giant meteorites do not hit the moon.

The nuclear weapons in the base pose no threat to these meteorites, only slightly changing their direction...... This sense of powerlessness to pray to God is very uncomfortable for scientists. But there is no way but to pray.

However, as time passed, Thomson's heart also relaxed little by little. The likelihood of such a catastrophe is becoming less and less, because the earth is shrouded in a thick atmosphere, and meteorites will constantly rub against the atmosphere during their movement, and their kinetic energy will continue to decrease.

When the kinetic energy of these asteroids decreases, they are attracted back by the Earth's own gravity, and the Moon becomes safer and safer.

The base is located at the south pole of the moon, which is not bad, and few asteroids can pass through many obstacles to get here, so mankind has enjoyed a period of peaceful development.

"Mentor, this is the latest satellite imagery." His student Thomas sent an email.

"Okay, got it." Thomson clicked on it and saw that it was a satellite image of the Earth.

From the image, the original blue planet is long gone, replaced by a gray nebula-like envelope of sand, atmosphere, and water vapor, and the structure inside is completely invisible.

These nebulae matter are constantly moving, colliding, and in the future there will be turbulent currents that will cause rotation. But this process is extremely slow, maybe tens of millions of years, hundreds of millions of years later, under the action of gravity, a new earth can be formed here.

Perhaps, a new life will be born.

"Perhaps, only some microbes survived...... According to the spectral analysis, the innermost temperature is around 2000 degrees Celsius, and all the animals and plants are extinct. Thomson sighed.

Two weeks later, this mushroom cloud gradually spread behind the earth, spreading to a distance of five or six hundred thousand kilometers, forming a magnificent white curtain under the illumination of the sun.

In fact, this light curtain is very thin, not even one hundred-thousandth of the original earth's atmosphere, but it is better than the huge volume, under the illumination of the sun, there will be different colors, magnificent and gorgeous.

Now, as the moon orbits the earth, it is about to enter this curtain of light.

Thomson had a bad premonition for no apparent reason. This premonition came from the mystery and mystery, and he couldn't grasp what it was, Thomson pondered for a long time, and he didn't understand where this uneasy feeling came from.

"Maybe it's too much work."

He comforted himself that this light curtain was actually composed of sand, atmosphere, and water vapor, and had no special components, and could not cause harm to humans. Humans can't even perceive it because it's so thin.

He clicked on the video of the super explosion and watched it over and over again. The super-explosion that destroyed the home planet of humanity was a nightmare for the entire human race, and many scientists have studied it to figure out why it happened.

The same goes for Thomson, what kind of weapon can cause such an effect? Antimatter bombs? Neutron star? Black hole? Or something else?

In two weeks, he watched the video countless times and calculated countless times, and finally came to a strange conclusion: it was a kinetic weapon!

A vehicle with a mass of 100 tons and close to the speed of light can cause such an explosion! It's incredibly that he repeated the calculations on the supercomputer many times, and simulated them many times, and all came to the exact same conclusion.

Could it be that an alien spaceship accidentally crashed to Earth?

The results of this calculation have been reported to the Academy of Sciences, and together with many other results, the jury is still inconclusive.

If it's really a light-speed vehicle, what kind of technology would it be......

The speed of light, anyone who understands its meaning, knows that it is a speed that is desperate and desirable. Only at this speed can human beings rush out of the solar system and find a new "earth" in their limited life.

And the fastest spacecraft of mankind is only 20 kilometers per second, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the speed of light of 300,000 kilometers per second.

With the current technological progress of mankind, when will it be close to the speed of light? To this day, humanity is still struggling with a food crisis...... The gap is too big!

The more he understood, the more he realized his insignificance, and a heavy sense of hopelessness appeared in Thomson's heart. The ocean of truth, in its vastness, may be remote from the imagination of man.

"Alas," Thomson shook his head, shaking off some of his bad feelings, and although he was only 33 years old, he felt old.

"Look, Mentor, I've collected ice!" His student Thomas screamed outside the lab. A few days ago, he designed a simple water storage device out of plastic film, and when the water molecules encounter the film, they will condense and turn into ice.

You know, there is no atmosphere on the surface of the moon, it is almost a vacuum, and in normal times, this kind of experiment will basically not succeed.

"Our moon is starting to pass through that curtain of light, and there's a thin atmosphere near the ground, which is not enough to breathe, but we can get water from it!" ”

"It's good to be young!" Thomson thought so, his genius student Thomas is only 16 years old, but he is already a doctorate, but sometimes, there is a childish side, after all, he is still a child who has not grown up.

Suddenly, Thomson seemed to think of something, and his heart suddenly chuckled, and he finally caught that uneasy feeling!