Chapter 30, How to Catch an Asteroid
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"Now the price of steel is more than 3,000 a ton, you have not refined the raw ore pulled into space, I think 500 yuan a ton will still be wanted, this meteorite is 100 million tons, and it can be sold for at least 50 billion yuan after simple calculation!"
Someone next to him immediately calculated the number with a turn of his brain, 50 billion yuan, just an asteroid, a more common asteroid!
"Oh my God! How do you think that this asteroid belt is full of gold, any asteroid is worth tens of billions of yuan, and the number of asteroids with iron as the main component element has reached 15%, which can be found at will! ”
The scientist with his saliva hurriedly exclaimed!
"Bai Fengling, the baby is here, the key is how do you transport it to the other side of the earth?" As soon as Jiang Zhipeng came in, he heard everyone discussing the value of these asteroids, and shook his head with a smile, this asteroid is not so easy to carry.
Bai Fengling was the scientist who had been salivaing just now, and now his eyes were staring at the asteroid, and his mind was full of thinking about how to transport him to Earth.
"There is always a way, using the gravitational pull of the solar system, we just need to get the asteroid out of its original orbit at the beginning, and wait for the sun to help us move to the other side of the earth!"
"Harnessing the sun's gravitational pull is a good idea, but how much force does it take to start moving an asteroid out of its original orbit? This asteroid weighs 150 million to 200 million tons! It's not that easy to drag! ”
Jiang Zhipeng slowly guided everyone's thinking direction to how to drag the asteroid, to be honest, Jiang Zhipeng was also salivating in his heart at this time, this asteroid is a treasure, even if it is all silicon asteroid movement, the earth can sell for a lot of money, this space solar power generation is made of silicon materials.
If you can transport an asteroid with a lot of iron to the earth, any one of them can be worth tens of billions of yuan, and it is normal for hundreds of billions of larger ones.
"We can put engines on asteroids and push them into the orbit we want!" Immediately, some scientists said with a big brain.
"This is not good, asteroids generally rotate, so it is not easy to make the asteroid move forward according to the prescribed route, and it is also very difficult to install the engine, the power of the engine is small and useless, and the difficulty of installation and fuel is also a problem!" Jiang Zhipeng shook his head and denied the idea.
"I think we can create a nuclear explosion near the asteroid and let the shockwave propel the asteroid!"
"A nuclear explosion could interfere with the orbits of other asteroids and cause a butterfly effect, and you rely on nuclear explosions when you push them, and you don't want to rely on nuclear explosions when you get to Earth! This one doesn't work either! ”
For this scientist who has a big brain and uses a nuclear explosion to propel an asteroid, everyone can't help but sweat, it's really violent!
"You can install a solar sail device in front of the asteroid, relying on the power of the solar wind to drag the asteroid slowly, this method is safer!"
"No, this method is taking too long, and we are dragging an asteroid towards the inner circle of the solar system, are you sure you can do this solar wind?"
rejected the proposals and plans of several scientists one after another, and for a while everyone couldn't think of any other way, frowning one by one and thinking hard.
"I think we can wrap the asteroid in a huge grid first, and then use a high-thrust spacecraft to pull the asteroid!" Bai Fengling thought for a long time and said slowly.
"What material are you going to use for your grid?" Ordinary materials simply can't withstand such a huge pulling force! Immediately, someone raised their own questions.
"The rope made of carbon fiber material is enough, a hair-thin carbon fiber can hang several tons of things, and we make carbon fiber materials into thicker ropes, which can fully undertake the task of dragging asteroids!"
The carbon fiber material mentioned by Bai Fengling is a new type of fiber material with high strength and high modulus fiber with a carbon content of more than 95%. It is a microcrystalline graphite material made of organic fibers such as flake graphite microcrystalline stacked along the axial direction of the fiber, and obtained by carbonization and graphitization treatment.
Carbon fiber is "soft on the outside and rigid on the inside", lighter than aluminum metal, but stronger than steel, and has the characteristics of corrosion resistance and high modulus. More importantly, it not only has the inherent intrinsic characteristics of carbon materials, but also has the soft ~ soft processability of textile fibers, and is a new generation of reinforced fibers.
Other scientists also nodded, if the carbon fiber material is woven into a large enough rope, it can indeed be used to drag the asteroid, this material is strong, soft ~ soft and can be shaped at will, relying on the space shuttle can be very simple to weave a net on the asteroid, dragging the asteroid is still feasible.
"And how much thrust do you need to pull the asteroid?" The problem of materials is solved, and scientists come up with new problems, and one by one the problems are solved, then the thing is done.
"A spaceship equipped with nuclear fusion power is enough, we don't need to drag the asteroid all the time, we only need to pull the asteroid out of its original orbit, and then rely on the gravitational pull of the sun to calculate the position, so that the asteroid can re-form a new orbit through the earth, and when the asteroid is about to reach the earth, we drag the asteroid again, and then rely on the gravitational pull of the earth to capture the asteroid to form an orbit around the earth and become a satellite of the earth!"
"As long as it becomes a satellite of the earth, then all that remains is for us to slowly dig up the various resources on it!" Bai Fengling explained his plan in detail.
"Well, this plan seems to be really a good plan, and the feasibility is still very high!" Jiang Zhipeng pondered for a long time and nodded, Bai Fengling's plan is still very feasible, especially for those asteroids whose mass is not too large.
"I also think this plan is very good, especially those smaller asteroids, like those millions of tons of asteroids, I think there is no problem at all, as for pulling hundreds of millions of tons of asteroids, I think it is necessary to make a rigorous calculation first!" Other scientists nodded their heads.
"I think everyone is here to discuss and discuss, it is better to conduct experiments, our current Zheng He is currently the most powerful space vehicle, we can test it here first, drag one and try it!" (To be continued.) )