Chapter 311: The Real City That Never Sleeps
The announcement here in Huaxia is an action plan to make Beiping the world's first real city that never sleeps, and has once again attracted the attention of the world.
Since the beginning of the year, the master company has begun to formulate the Space Mirror plan, which is really a twist and turn, and the world has never been so lively.
According to the number announced by Huaxia, in order to show the greatness of science and technology in the new era, the plan to light up Beiping has been carried out for more than three months, but it has not been adjusted until now.
There are many, many reasons why it is so slow. First of all, this is the first city in the world to truly implement the Space Mirror program, no one expects anything to happen, be careful, of course, check and check, calculate and calculate! There are some things that cannot fail, but failure can cause uncontrollable adverse effects.
Then this is the capital of China, and taking the capital directly requires not only courage and strategy, but also absolute confidence in technology. If an accident happens, there will still be a blow to Huaxia. It's impossible to estimate how much, but it's obviously not going to be a good thing.
And the last one, but also the most important: national pride!
Only with national pride can a nation and a country be cohesive, and only in this way will a more powerful force burst out.
The entire urban area of Beiping has been expanded to 1,000 square kilometers, in order to achieve the greatest effect, that is, to cover 1,000 square kilometers of lighting at one time, the master company is also desperate for a period of time. Considering the carrying capacity of the new Rise and the difficulty of space installation, the film assembled on the ground is all covered with titanium plated aluminum foil with plastic plates, and then a thin aluminum profile is used as a bracket to form a 10-meter-long and 5-meter-wide reflector.
These molded sheets are only 3mm thick, but they are strong enough because they are lightweight thanks to the use of grille technology, and the technological advancements are lighter and less costly than originally designed. Such a thin plate only weighs 1.2kg/㎡, and the cost is as low as 20 yuan, which is still the cost after inflation.
The cost of 1,000 square kilometers of reflectors has been reduced to 2 billion Chinese dollars, which can be called cheap; The weight is only 1.2 million tons of total weight. It's just that with some supporting adjustment facilities, fasteners, etc., the total weight is about 1.3 million tons. This allowed the newly designed Space Shuttle Rise to take off thousands of times. At the same time, it is necessary to use the already very tense scientist force in space. For this reason, the construction of the space base had to be appropriately slowed down. Fortunately, almost all of the current space base construction relies on automated machinery, and the role of people is not particularly large.
Ordinary people are excited, and some romantic teenagers are even ready to be here and in this situation today privately for life......
But at this moment, in the control room of the master company, in the control room of the Huaxia country, and in the space station, the personnel in the three places are all tense and are conducting the final inspection.
The autofocus system is ...... properly
The rotary positioning system is normal......
The power adjustment system is normal......
The space positioning system is working properly......
The temperature dispersion cooling system is normal......
The power supply system is ...... normal
The solar system is working properly......
The solar wind sounding device is normal......
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Hundreds of staff members of the Ministry of Space Environment and some scientific and technological operations are working in an intense and orderly manner, and thousands of instructions are being carried out for final verification.
Zhang Jingyuan and the senior management of the company, a total of more than 50 people, are fighting on the front line.
Zhong Yuanxing was even more busy with his feet on the ground, this was the first action of the Ministry of Space Environment, and it was of great significance; Albert Gore is leading his team through the final simulations to see how such an action would affect the planet's environment. The rest of the more than 300 experts from the Ministry of Space Environment, except for the workbench, were all busy putting the final touches on their work to make sure there was nothing negligent.
Behind every scientific and technological invention and application is the hard work and wisdom of countless scientists and workers.
Zhang Jingyuan and the others did not speak. However, Zhang Jingyuan came here today, not just to watch, in order to create pressure for everyone, but: "Everyone, the third great action in the history of the master company is about to be carried out."
I know you're excited and nervous. I am too, to be born in this great era, to be able to contribute to the entry of mankind into space, is something that everyone is proud of; And we are proud to be able to see with our own eyes that our nation and country are becoming stronger.
Of course, perhaps because of this layer of pride, we may not be able to bear the consequences of failure.
But I, Zhang Jingyuan, say a word here: don't be afraid of failure, failure is success for its mother! We've all come through failure.
And if it fails, all the responsibility is on me! And if you succeed, all the glory belongs to you!
Everyone, work hard, a brilliant tomorrow is waiting for us! ”
At the same time, the mirrors in space are 200,000 kilometers away from the Earth, and relatively speaking, the distance from the Earth is not as close as the distance from the Moon - if the Moon passes through this space position at this time.
There is no way to do this, in order to reflect the light, it must not be placed in the shadow area of the earth; And to reflect 24 hours a day, it is even farther away from the earth. However, with a distance of 200,000 kilometers, if you want to always be fixed at a fixed point in space relative to the earth, you must have an engine to adjust the orbit at all times. But there is also a mortal danger in this location - it is too far away, it is beyond the protection range of the Earth's magnetic field, and once it is attacked by the solar wind in space, the consequences will be bleak. These weak things simply can't withstand the impact of the high-temperature solar ion wind. Therefore, the protective facilities should also be complete - if necessary, you can run away, in the shadow zone of the earth.
Time passed minute by minute, and quietly came to 23:50 on the night of the 20th.
And at this time, the whole of Peking began to turn off the lights in a planned way. Fortunately, everyone had been notified before this, and the police were in place, and there were even more than 300,000 troops stationed to prevent chaos; All those who commit crimes today are punished with death.
One by one, the lights were turned off, and the whole of Beiping seemed to have come to the desert era of science and technology, and even the most basic rainbow lights were turned off - the city's power supply, except for the necessary ones, was cut off.
20th 23:57......
"Let's go!" Zhang Jingyuan gave the order.
The command is issued, and three seconds later it arrives at the mirror base in space, and after receiving the signal, the machine starts to start according to the automatically set program.
Pieces of 10×5-meter mirrors slowly flip from a position parallel to the sun's rays to a vertical ......
On the ground, only a bright light appeared in space, as if a sharp sword had pierced the sky—it was the result of a mirror that had just been flipped upside down, and it was seen from the side.
Then the light in the sky gradually widened, and a little bit of light penetrated the atmosphere, leaving beautiful spots of light; The stars in the sky began to disappear, and the dark sky began to appear a little blue, and a little white cloud came from afar; And with the flipping of the reflector, it is like an invisible but existing curtain, gradually opening from a distance; Bright sunlight gradually swept across the earth, over the buildings, over the fields...... It swept the heart of Huaxia......
And in just two minutes, less than the early hours of the morning, the mirror of 1,000 square kilometers is completely normal, and the strong sunlight, the sunlight from the back side of the earth, after reflection, illuminates Beiping!
At 12 o'clock in the evening, the sun illuminates the earth!!
Cheer...... It quickly spread from Peking to the whole country!
In the distance, here in the master company, only a bright pillar of light can be seen, like a pillar of heaven, falling from space, illuminating Beiping...... Ignited Huaxia!