Chapter 166: The Problem of the Asteroid Belt

The dozen or so people present were being treated by the medical warehouse, perhaps due to the influence of Luo Tian's telekinetic world, and everyone's hearts had become calm. After the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info mentality returned to normal, everyone still stuck to their posts. However, unlike before, everyone is no longer so nervous, just very relaxed staring at the display or controller in front of them.

The capabilities of the "Celestial" are still very strong, and so far there have been no problems with the ship. In terms of fine control ability, the intelligent program still has its inherent advantages, and the displacement accurate to the millimeter is not even possible for An Ruoxuan. For the "Celestial", the "Morning Star" is its body.

An Ruoxuan has always felt that there is something strange about the "Heavenly God", including that the information about herself stored inside the "Heavenly God" is vague, as if it is hiding something. There are two main control systems on the entire spacecraft, one is a quantum intelligent computer codenamed Celestial, which is in charge of Johnson; The other is a neural intelligence computing system attached to the brain of the Titan beetle, which is in charge of Susan.

However, unlike the other ship system modules, Johnson and Susan were only responsible for the repair and maintenance of the Celestial and Chain, and the two of them were not involved in the design and manufacture of the Celestial and Chain. There is information about these two core systems, even within the Federation, which is top secret.

There is not much time for An Ruoxuan to investigate the secret behind the "Heavenly God", and everything can only be investigated after leaving the asteroid belt. The complex gravitational field in the asteroid belt has always had some influence on the spacecraft's own gravity generator, although the impact is not too great, but it has been interfering with the stable operation of the gravity generator.

After coming out of the medical chamber, Vasily went directly to the core power room located in the center of the ship, where not only the ship's main power furnace was placed, but also the ship's core gravity generator. Vasily was involved in the decipherment, imitation and redesign of the gravity generator, and he knew every part and every parameter of the gravity generator in front of him.

Due to the limited scientific research capabilities of human beings, it is not possible to design and adjust the gravitational field generated by gravity generators in detail. For the entire spaceship, the gravitational field generated by the gravity generator is actually slightly larger than the size of the spaceship. In a complex asteroid belt, a human gravitational source can easily disturb the equilibrium that has been maintained for hundreds of millions of years.

Of course, there are two sides to everything. On the one hand, during the journey of the past few days, 60% of the tiny interstellar matter that attacked the spacecraft was attracted by the gravitational field, and most of these interstellar materials that were less than the size of tennis balls were destroyed by the laser guard system, and a small part broke through the defense and smashed on the protective shield composed of nanorobots on the surface of the spacecraft, which was intercepted and decomposed by the nanorobots.

On the other hand, these interstellar substances floating in the starry sky of the universe are not worthless, and for An Ruoxuan and them, the value of these interstellar substances is still very high. These interstellar materials may contain many precious metallic elements and non-metallic substances, which have extremely high scientific research and practical value.

In the course of the ten days of navigation after leaving Earth, the nanobots have decomposed and stored about 120 kilograms of interstellar dust. All interstellar matter, regardless of size, will gradually decompose into a micron diameter of dust upon contact with a protective shield composed of nanobots, which will be stored in a dedicated chamber.

These interstellar dusts go through a series of screening processes to separate the different substances within them. Some common metals such as iron and manganese are smelted into ingots, while other rare and precious elements are carefully refined and purified before being stored directly in the corresponding containers.

Rare metals, especially some rare metals with special functions, An Ruoxuan will definitely not have too much. A sword and a gun can be made from copper and iron, but a gravity generator or power furnace can never be made. The average content of rare metals in the material parts of the ship's top-notch equipment exceeds 45 percent of the total.

No matter how careful An Ruoxuan and the others were, it was impossible for the equipment on the spacecraft not to be worn out and consumed. After leaving the earth, An Ruoxuan and the others had no logistical supply source, and all the non-recyclable materials on the spaceship had to be replenished by themselves. The universe itself is a great treasure trove, and of course everything needs to be collected by themselves.

Compared to landing on an alien planet or catching an asteroid, this method of collecting iron sand like a magnet is undoubtedly much safer. After entering the asteroid belt, it was proposed to reduce the force field coverage of the gravity generator, but after An Ruoxuan's explanation, everyone no longer questioned An Ruoxuan's approach.

Time flies, and the spacecraft has been safely navigating the asteroid belt for more than a month. The ability of the "Heavenly God" was far beyond An Ruoxuan's imagination, and if it continued at this speed, the spacecraft would only need another twenty days to pass smoothly, which would not take half a year or even a year as long as they expected.

In fact, the probability of encountering an asteroid through the asteroid belt is really not high, and the attacks encountered by the "Daystar" are largely caused by the gravity generator. In a complex gravitational environment, the impact of an artificial gravitational source is not something that can be analyzed and understood by the technology available to mankind today.

The gravity generator is not something that human beings should have mastered with the current level of science and technology. If it were a civilization that had developed its own gravity generator, at least the energy shield technology would have appeared. Although the energy shield of this civilization may be far from mature, it will not be a problem at all to protect against ordinary interstellar impacts such as asteroids.

To put it bluntly, the sixteen people on the "Daystar" now seem to have very comprehensive abilities, and they can basically cover all aspects of the spaceship system. But for interstellar navigation, An Ruoxuan still lacks a very important professional, a navigator who is proficient in astrophysics and astronomical knowledge and other cosmic sciences.

If there is such an astronomer on the spacecraft, they will know before entering the asteroid belt that the asteroids in the asteroid belt are indeed very dense relative to space; But compared to such a small spaceship as the "Morning Star", the asteroid belt is too sparse.

Before the destruction of the earth, mankind had nearly 300 deep space probes of all kinds successfully passed through the asteroid belt into the deep space of the universe, and none of these deep space probes were hit by an asteroid when they passed through the asteroid belt. The asteroid is about 200 million kilometers wide, which is larger than the distance from the Earth to the Sun. The density of the asteroid belt is very low, and the probability of a probe colliding with an asteroid is less than 1 in a billion.

However, no one is sure because extremely low-probability events such as meteors hitting artificial satellites have also occurred. Then maybe sometime, the probe was hit through the asteroid belt, and if it really happened, then you can only consider yourself unlucky. For An Ruoxuan and them, although the volume of the "Daystar" spacecraft is much larger than that of ordinary probes, there are also defensive weapons on the spacecraft that probes do not have, and even if they encounter risks, they will basically not be in danger.

It can be said that if An Ruoxuan and the others turn off the gravity generator, then they may not even encounter an asteroid along the way, not to mention the danger of impact. But now the situation is complicated, and the "morning star" is like a pebble thrown into a pond, which has already caused ripples in the asteroid belt.