Chapter 50: Glass Beads
Liu Weiping was thrown into the earth's parking orbit under the action of the railgun and the earth's centrifugal force, where it was successfully docked with the orbit change engine, Liu Weiping did not understand why the expert group of the League of Nations designed such a complex launch plan, the space power station runs on the sun-synchronous orbit, which is actually the polar orbit, and it can be successfully launched from a high-latitude launch site, why launch on the equator, it is simply redundant. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Liu Weiping checked that the hydrogen fuel cell in his backpack was still full, and looked back at the earth, where thick atmospheric clouds obscured the ground scenery and reflected a snow-white sun, which was much more spectacular than the scene of landing in Incheon. Liu Weiping couldn't help but feel a sense of pride, his fate was changeable, he didn't expect to become a space visitor now, which he couldn't even imagine when he looked up at the starry sky at Shanghai Jiaotong University.
The orbit change engine is still a chemical rocket, Liu Weiping hid in the docking module, flying towards the sun-synchronous orbit, on one side of the docking module is the sun that allows him to camera the CCD explosion point, and on the other side is the dark starry sky without the background. When Liu Weiping was enjoying the gorgeous space scenery, the docking cabin was lightly paused and the hatch opened.
A huge saucer-shaped machine appeared in front of him, the plasma engine under his feet was intermittently spewing hot plasma gas, Saturn Energy had installed all the information of the space power station in his hard disk, Liu Weiping knew that this was the space power station adjusting the orbit to avoid the space power station descending, but this could only delay the speed of the power station's orbit descent, the design life of the plasma engine is fifteen years, and then the engine could only be replaced or the space power station crashed into the atmosphere.
Liu Weiping carefully controlled the jetpack to walk forward along the truss, and a small dish antenna appeared in front of him, which was the wireless power supply device provided by the space power station for space robots, and Liu Weiping turned on his receiver to confirm that the power supply was working.
"Houston, confirm safe arrival at the intended location." Liu Weiping gave the first signal to enter space. Not far away is a long needle-mounted antenna pointing at Earth, which will be the only way for him to communicate with Earth. Looking along the antenna, the space station should have flown over Australia, and such a small point would not be able to cast a shadow on Earth.
Liu Weiping imagined what it would be like for the shadow of a real space station to pass over Australia, and that visitors to the Gold Coast would have to watch the alien warships attack every hour and a half.
"Please hurry up and check for damage to the power generation film." Houston's order came over, interrupting Liu Weiping's reverie. Liu Weiping hung the safety rope used by the space robot on the truss around his waist, sparing the huge main antenna, which is the key to transmitting electric microwaves, although the power of the space power station was severely exhausted, Liu Weiping still did not dare to take that risk and directly passed through the main antenna.
Liu Weiping carefully checked his body again, Asimov's synthetic fiber material is really good, and he can't see any deformation in the baking of more than 100 degrees facing the sun, he tested 256 degrees of freedom for each action, all of which are normal, Liu Weiping is relieved to float towards the broken power generation film.
The 36-meter-diameter organic film is like a grimace, full of holes, the original fist-sized hole has expanded to the size of a basketball, under the action of surface tension, the edge part is still slowly shrinking, if not remedied, about another week these organic film will all disappear.
"Houston, report, the conductive filament of the space power station is intact and can be repaired!" Liu Weiping reported the situation to the ground after the inspection. In fact, the delay of the signal reaching the ground is almost negligible, and his camera has sent the inspection to the Houston control center.
Prime Minister Karl was also nervously following the progress of space on the plane returning home, and when he heard Liu Weiping's report, he was a little relieved and fell asleep.
Liu Weiping took out the organic film repair liquid in the docking cabin and sprayed it at the damaged edge, and the repair liquid condensed into round liquid beads in space and stuck to the edge of the damaged film.
The reaction force of the spray can pushed Liu Weiping away, making Liu Weiping very uncomfortable, and had to repeatedly open the jetpack to control his posture, and after practicing for a while, Liu Weiping found that properly adjusting the angle of the spray can could allow him to slide to another hole, which made Liu Weiping like the repair work.
The reflection of the space power station is not so strong, Liu Weiping knows that the power station has entered the polar region and will soon fly to the back of the earth, and the temperature sensor shows that the temperature is dropping sharply.
"Houston, report, repair fluid sprayed complete, request to prepare for hibernation." Liu Weiping and the space power station are about to fly to the earth's umbra, and the temperature will drop to more than 100 degrees below zero, which is a huge test for his electricity.
"Agree to hibernate and wake up in 50 minutes!" Houston agreed to his request.
The dazzling reflection of the space power station disappeared, and the sunlight reflected from the moon was still producing a weak current on the film, which was only enough for the operation of the power station control system, Liu Weiping had switched to the hydrogen power battery, and he glanced at the lights of South America, at extremely low temperatures, the fuel cell started the self-heating program, and the power consumption was faster, and Liu Weiping hurriedly entered the sleep program.
Prime Minister Karl's plane was also heading north along the polar route, and the smooth flight put him to sleep. Jerry's hurried voice woke him up again, making him sick.
"What's so urgent? Can't even let me go on the plane? Could it be that the space power station has had another accident? Carl asked, frowning.
"No, this time it's not in the sky, it's on Earth, and the president of the World Bank is online." Jerry cuts into the World Bank president's scene.
The governor looked anxious, "Mr. Prime Minister, in an emergency, people all over the world are asking to exchange the bitcoins in their hands!" Even the retired old ladies pressed the physical bitcoins at the bottom of the box, and they offered to exchange them immediately. ”
"What's all the fuss about, isn't that a good thing?" Karl was puzzled.
"No, it's not a good thing, you should look at the cause of this." The president's face disappeared, and out came Shimazu's Hitomi face, and behind it was the World Bank building, and apparently, she was broadcasting live again.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am now at the World Bank to give you the latest updates on the Bitcoin theft, after the robot Liu Weiping was sent to space to repair the power station for mankind, his quantum computer team that was sealed by the Swiss police was suddenly activated recently, and a large number of Bitcoin addresses that were not converted into Union Coins were lost in the database of the Bitcoin Commission for the Restoration of Bitcoin. People are in a panic and are demanding that banks in various countries exchange bitcoins immediately, and the holders of the lost bitcoins have already begun to protest, so let's talk to one of them. ”
An old lady cried loudly at the camera, Karl was impatient, and the face of the president of the World Bank appeared again, "Mr. Prime Minister, I have informed the central banks of various countries to arrange the exchange as soon as possible, you can rest assured, I will take care of it." Why did Liu Weiping's quantum computer team restart, and the Swiss police have already intervened in the investigation. ”
"I see, the bad thing is still to make it a good thing, and it's time for Bitcoin to retire from the stage of history." Carl yawned, and the World Bank president turned off the phone playfully.
"Jerry, what do you think?" Karl raised an eyebrow at Jerry, and his chief of staff was sitting at the conference table not far away, waiting for his orders, and when he saw the prime minister test his intelligence, he replied, "Liu Weiping has been sent into space, he has no motive." ”
"Could it be that we really wronged him earlier, but how to explain the bitcoins in his account." Carl was really sleepy, and he began to snore gradually.
Before the Carl plane began to descend, Liu Weiping flew out of the Earth's umbra with the space power station, and the wake-up program woke him up.
Liu Weiping reported the situation to the ground in accordance with the operating procedures, "Report to Houston, the space power station has woken up." ”
"Check the growth of organic films!" Liu Weiping received the order to float from the truss to the saucer-shaped film, under the sun's rays, the repair solution on the broken edge began to grow slowly, and after a while, the small hole had completely closed, which was even more wonderful than human skin.
"They're growing!" Although I have also seen this wonderful phenomenon when receiving Saturn energy drills on the ground, it still feels different in space, and Liu Weiping's speed of speech is obviously faster than usual.
"Watch and report at any time!" Houston and Liu Weiping's call was interrupted, but they could actually monitor the repair status of the film in real time through Liu Weiping.
Although a circle has not yet been completed, Liu Weiping has calmed down from the initial curiosity, there is no difference between the starry sky and the projection of the planetarium, do you have to work here day after day? Remembering Karl's promise, he turned on the ground control center.
"Everything is working well in the space power station, what else do you need me to do?"
"Enter the power transmission mode immediately, pay attention to it, and report it at any time!" Houston's order remained unsentimental.
Liu Weiping's clock shows that it is ten o'clock in the morning Beijing time, according to the design, the space power station will transmit power to Wangwushan, Liu Weiping looked at his feet, the space power station has not changed, and he can't feel the microwave transmission, but the substation in Wangwushan is jubilant, and their cheers have pushed the stock price of Saturn Energy to a new high.
As soon as Liu Weiping raised his head, he looked at the entire power station again, can this wonderful guy save the earth? The picture of the Xinyang flood appeared in his mind again.
The strings of crystalline light at the repair of the film aroused Liu Weiping's interest, and he gently kicked the truss and floated towards the bright light.
The ground control center also got his picture, "Zoom in on the focus, did the space power station receive it?" Close the focus! ”
"The focal length is already close, but there is a flash of light, and I can't see it clearly." As he spoke, Liu Weiping had already floated to the top of the saucer-shaped film.
"Report, unknown substance found on the power generation film of the space power station." Liu Weiping and the ground control center both saw clearly the object on the film, which was a glass bead, only the size of a sesame seed, and the light refracted by the sun just now was difficult to see.
Liu Weiping scanned all the repair places, basically more or less stained with this tiny glass beads, some glass beads stuck together, as if melting at a high temperature, most of the particles were scattered on the film, and some glass beads were sealed with black stones, which were almost invisible.
"Space power station, go to the docking module to get a spectrometer for inspection." Liu Weiping returned to the docking cabin and took out the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer. He was not trained to use the spectrometer before the launch, but the ground control center immediately uploaded him a tutorial on how to use it.
Liu Weiping's fingers couldn't pinch the tiny glass beads, he flicked the film lightly, the glass beads jumped, he tried several times, and finally mastered the strength to let the glass beads levitate in front of him under his gravitational attraction.
"Report Houston, it's a silicate component, and the black inside is a magnet!" Hearing Liu Weiping's report, the people in the ground control center began to discuss.
"I didn't expect the composition of the impact meteorite to be so ordinary, and I thought there was something new."
"It's a stony iron meteorite, you can write a report, and it should still contain nickel."
"Wait, let the bot download the detailed data!" A bespectacled figure seemed to remember something, "Space power station, please download the spectral analysis data." Liu Weiping passed down the data of the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer in his hand as required.
"There's cobalt, you see, there's cobalt! I just don't think the ferrosilicon content data is right," the man in glasses shouted happily.
Liu Weiping also heard the sound of the ground control center, what is the fuss about, cobalt he also found in the spectrometer, but the content is almost negligible.
But the excited voice below was not finished, "Look, this is a record of ore samples collected in Tunguska in the fifties of the last century, how about it?" The ingredients are the same as this one, right? ”
"So are you sure that the Tunguska explosion was a stone-iron meteorite fall?" There was a heated discussion in the ground control center, and everyone forgot that Liu Weiping was still online.
On the morning of June 30, 1908, an inexplicable fireball descended on the Tunguska River in Siberia, the brightness was about the same as the sun, and a few minutes later, a strong light illuminated the entire sky, and the shock wave generated by the explosion shattered the window glass within a thousand kilometers nearby, and more than 2,000 square kilometers of trees were crushed, and the explosion was recorded by seismic monitoring points across the Eurasian continent.
For nearly 100 years, people have been speculating about what the cause of the Tunguska explosion was, some said it was a meteorite, some said it was a nuclear explosion, and some said it was an alien antimatter spacecraft, but there was a lack of direct and reliable evidence.
I didn't expect that my first trip to space solved this hundred-year-old mystery, and if I returned to Earth, I must find a way to let Junichi Nakamura know, but thinking that I couldn't reveal my true identity to Nakamura, Liu Weiping was annoyed again.
Liu Weiping was anxious to return to the earth again, but the darkness rushed up, and the space power station flew over the South Pole to the back of the earth again.