Chapter 8 Relics of Civilization
The dark red planet rotates silently, and it would be difficult to connect the planet to Earth if it weren't for the familiar continental shelf structures on the planet's surface. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Someone had already placed an atomic clock on the satellite to tell Noah the current time, it was the year 3220 in the Gregorian calendar, and he had slept for a full 1004 years.
1,000 years is almost eternal for any life on Earth, but it is insignificant for the evolution of the Earth, but in just over 1,000 years, the Earth has become unrecognizable.
As a large number of gamma rays enter the earth's atmosphere, dispersing the molecular structure of nitrogen and oxygen, which are the most abundant in the earth's atmosphere, chaotic nitrogen atoms and oxygen atoms collide round after round in a violent environment, and a large number of nitrogen oxides are produced in the atmosphere, and most of the nitrogen oxides are highly toxic to living beings, but this is only some by-products.
In this catastrophe, the tiny fraction of the lives that were poisoned were lucky, meaning they survived the first round of gamma-ray bursts.
Gamma rays are one of the most powerful rays known to damage the cell structure, when the human body is exposed to gamma rays, gamma rays can enter the inside of the human body and ionize with cells in the body, ionization produces ions that can attack complex organic molecules, such as proteins, nucleic acids and enzymes, which are the main components of living cell tissue. Those who are lucky enough to survive this radiation may be some microorganisms that are in some extreme environments and are extremely adaptable.
The disappearance of the ozone layer has led to a large amount of ultraviolet rays reaching the ground unhindered, the greenhouse effect has increased dramatically, the sea level has risen, a large amount of seawater has been evaporated by high temperatures, and the unusually frequent stellar winds have plundered the earth's atmosphere again and again, resulting in a large amount of water being thrown away from the earth into space.
All this only tells Noah one conclusion, that this is a dead planet.
Noah's phantom appeared next to the satellite, floating over the entire planet, and she was the only child of the earth who was not changed by this natural disaster. The girl looked down at the nightdress designed by the person on her body, and found that it seemed to be very incompatible with this scene, and the next second, a set of large white coats was put on the outside of the nightdress.
Although the nightdress and the white coat don't look very compatible, a thousand years ago in the laboratory, someone asked the girl to explore the world's extreme principles with the most outstanding scientists of that era, and now, she will awaken the relics of civilization in this way.
Although Zeus 1 is a satellite, its designers almost designed it as a spaceship, both the power system and the self-defense system are the military standards of that era, and most importantly, the satellite carries the Explorer 11 robot.
Explorer 11 is the most cutting-edge sea, land and air three-purpose research robot in the 23rd century, its drone-sized size, powerful performance and environmental adaptability, can almost cope with various emergencies during the expedition, which is undoubtedly the key that Lin Xuan left to Noah to open the human relics.
Noah retrieved important information inside the satellite.
[Energy]: 5% (solar charging)
[Self-Defense Weapons]: Sea Serpent-100 rockets (remaining ammunition: 12), G-10 floating laser cutter (7 pieces)
[Defense]: Floating Armor (108 pieces)
[Carry]: Explorer 11
Noah turned the camera around and placed the subject in orbit around the satellite. After seeing the existence of that behemoth, Noah felt a little relieved.
In the open space above the planet, a huge black shadow shrouded nearly half of the sky.
The federal space station, but also the largest colony of human beings outside the earth except the moon, has nearly 1.8 billion people distributed in the orbital station around the earth, the entire space station is connected to central Indonesia through the space elevator, it has taken countless manpower, material resources, financial resources and a century, one of the greatest projects of the 22nd century, this is the fortress of human civilization.
Such a behemoth, at the moment still towering over the equator in a synchronous orbit. After all, gamma-ray bursts bring more radiation than devastating impacts, and sophisticated electronic instruments will become relics of history, but the main body of the space station has been preserved.
Restarting it was Noah's first step.
Noah ignited Zeus I's engine, and the satellite's velocity slowly increased, and the gravitational pull from the Earth was no longer enough to provide the centripetal force for the satellite to move in a circular motion around the Earth, causing the satellite's orbit to gradually rise and coincide with the orbit of the federal space station. Now that the Earth satellites have all been scrapped, the only way to connect to the space station is to connect to it by close wire.
[Noah requests a connection...... Noah requests a connection ......]
No one responded, not even the space station's auto-response AI, and Noah couldn't help but feel a little lost.
"Sure enough, I'm the only one left."
The girl's phantom caressed the shell of the space station, and the unevenness in some places may be due to the impact of space junk for thousands of years, and Noah, who is also a machine, can't help but feel a trace of sympathy for the space station.
"I'm sorry."
Bang!
A Sea Serpent rocket hit the outer shell of the space station, and even the outer wall of the space station made of nanoalloys could not withstand a frontal attack from a rocket designed to penetrate the armor of a warship.
The hole was opened, and a large amount of gas was ejected from the space station with debris, which made Noah admire the designer of this space station, and stopped operating for a thousand years, but the gas seal was still intact.
Since the various parts of the space station were completely isolated, the gas leak did not last long, and Noah began to manipulate the satellite to approach the space station loophole, and from that position, [Explorer 11] was projected.
This fortress of civilization is a huge treasure, and there are many things that Noah desperately needs to obtain.
First and foremost is energy!
In the 23rd century, controllable nuclear fusion, as the main source of human energy, because its nuclear fusion does not produce the long-term and high-level nuclear radiation that occurs in nuclear fission, does not produce nuclear waste, and of course does not produce greenhouse gases, basically does not pollute the environment, and can output the total amount of energy that chemical fuels cannot match, so that it gradually replaces fossil fuels and nuclear fission, becoming the mainstream of energy, and green energy such as solar energy, tidal energy, wind energy and other green energy occupies the energy market.
The main raw materials for controlled nuclear fusion are the isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, and the space station, there is a large amount of liquid deuterium, Noah's first goal is to restart the space station's nuclear fusion power station, with the energy reserves of the entire space station as a backing, you can start the repair of the space station and ground facilities.
The entire space station has 3 nuclear fusion power stations, and as an artificial intelligence that once spread all over the human world, of course, it is very familiar with this fortress, and it is easy to arrive at the nearest power station. For the convenience of transportation, the energy storage center and the fusion power station are in the same area, which makes Noah's operation more convenient.
Noah began to try to connect the fusion power station, but as expected, it was completely quiet. Noah didn't hesitate, and the explorer changed from flight mode to land mode and began to physically enter the power station.
As long as the fusion power station is restarted, Noah will have no worries and will have enough energy to repair the space station.
The relics of civilization that have been sleeping for thousands of years are being awakened by the girl......