Chapter 346: The Return of Apophis
Space competition is intensifying, and the countries on the ground are beginning to unite continuously. As space competition becomes more and more severe, the consumption of resources is becoming more and more severe, and the demand for science and technology and talents is also increasing.
In this regard, Huaxia also has high-tech companies that use cutting-edge technology to plunder resources around the world to support their own business. The United States, Russia and other traditional powers rely on their huge national territory, perfect economic system, solid scientific foundation, etc., to support their own space industry. However, there are still more countries in the world that do not have the ability to independently support the development of aerospace, and have to unite and unite!
The joint extent of the Arabian Peninsula region has extended to Egypt; Brazil in South America is annexing other countries. And here in China, we have also received requests from countries such as North Korea and Laos to join China.
People of insight have seen that the earth is undergoing a transformation, a transformation with no way out: in this space age, the failure, whether it is a country or a nation, will forever become a symbol in the history books! There is no other possibility.
Cuba, which is close to the United States, is also applying to be incorporated into the United States, getting rid of the remote-controlled China. There are also some countries, such as Canada, which have some foundations, and have established a super group to jointly develop the space industry with other countries. An atmosphere of unprecedented tension has enveloped the whole world.
As mentioned earlier, the space age is an era of globalization, and it is difficult to rely on the power of one country to support the huge and astronomical consumption. When hundreds of millions of dollars are used as the unit of calculation in space, the economic system on the ground has actually collapsed. If it weren't for the strong control of the state, I don't know what the chaos would be.
A large number of social resources, even talents, have all been siphoned off; The so-called democracy is also gradually declining, and the centralization of power is expanding step by step. It is an irreversible process, and it is also a process that cannot be reversed. This is not a decision made by a small number of people for their own interests, but in this era, it has to be so. Only in this way can we gather the strength of the whole country, form a fist, and rush out of space.
Many people have expressed confusion about the future, but there is nothing they can do. Fortunately, this does not include master companies.
And at the end of May 2050, when China and India clashed, Myanmar was finally unable to sustain huge international pressure, and with domestic calls to merge into neighboring powers in order to continue.
The fierce competition in space is the Cold War of the new era, a Cold War that spreads all over the world. For this reason, too many countries have already had to use up the last bit of capital in their treasuries. However, the world is never fair, and some countries are inherently weak, even if they have exhausted all their capital, they can only look up to space weakly. There are only three or two satellites, and I really can't get my hands on them.
But India didn't know how to get the news and took the initiative to reach out to Myanmar; At this time, Myanmar's application had already been submitted to the Chinese capital. India, which has reunited Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, and Bangladesh, is unprecedentedly strong, and it is not afraid of China's space-based weapons, and it shows a tough attitude.
Of course, Huaxia could not give in, and seeing that a conflict was about to be inevitable, the international community began to passive. Everyone said okay, you can play the Cold War however you want, but don't get angry!
If these two great powers really fight, there is a real possibility of triggering a world war.
The international situation, which was already tense enough, has become tense again.
The already fragmented Association of Southeast Asian Nations is not in a position to deal with it.
But sometimes things turn out really unexpectedly.
On June 2, the British Federation to Save the Earth issued a statement: Apophis is coming! It will be inserted into Earth orbit on July 14!
Oh! In a word, let the tension of the whole world be transferred in an instant, transferred to space!
Apophis, the Egyptian god of destruction, but in the space age, the name was given to an asteroid.
According to the available astronomical observations (the following information comes from the Internet, try to keep it as simple as possible and take up a few words), Apophis, an asteroid that poses the greatest threat to the Earth - is not one of them. The diameter is about 394 meters, it is elliptical, the estimated weight is 45 million tons (according to the rock texture, non-ferrous estimate), it revolves around the sun according to the elliptical orbit, and the orbit period is 354 days, but because the asteroid orbit is not very stable, even real experts have a headache (so I didn't calculate the orbit O(∩_∩)O haha~).
This asteroid once caused panic among humans, and on April 13, 2029, it handed over to the Earth's orbit and was directly inserted into 29,000 miles of space within the synchronous orbit (some say 3, 35,000 miles, etc.), which frightened the earthlings. According to the calculations of modern scientists, an asteroid of more than 10 kilometers will hit the earth and cause a global catastrophe, and this is how the dinosaurs finished (one of the modern scientific theories); And an asteroid of more than one kilometer will bring 1.5 billion deaths and injuries, which is a veritable grim reaper.
(The following passage begins by saying that I am guilty...... Many people now know that the solar system has an asteroid belt, which is an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, about the width of an astronomical unit (no exact information has been found), and there are hundreds of thousands of asteroids (some say hundreds of millions). This is what everyone knows.
However, both scientists and countries have deceived the public, but this is a white lie. In fact, strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an asteroid belt at all, but there are more between Mars and Jupiter. If it is really an asteroid belt, its exact range should be the space between the Earth and Venus, and between Jupiter, which is considered an asteroid belt. In the vicinity of the Earth alone, there are 1,106 asteroids (larger than 10 meters) that threaten the Earth, and the total number of asteroids that are in danger of falling to the Earth is about 47,000, and the Earth increases its weight by about 1.2 trillion tons and its diameter by 0.45 mm every year. Those so-called meteor showers are actually the surface of the asteroid after it crashes into the earth's atmosphere, but it is too small and disappears due to violent friction before it reaches the surface. (Will it be investigated...... )
In fact, the Earth is surrounded by debris that remains of the solar system's creation. Now, the asteroid is suddenly approaching, and it is estimated that it will pass again from tens of thousands of kilometers of outer space...... It's almost a scalp scrap!
It's just that scientists are a little flustered, according to estimates, Apophis should not come at this time, and the last time to threaten the Earth should be around 2071. However, at this time, a theory explained, because the solar system is entering or approaching the remains of a supernova explosion, the orbit of the asteroid with a small mass and unstable dìng is affected (don't panic, the plot of the novel, O(∩_∩)O~) deviates from the inherent orbit. And now the asteroid Apophis will be able to fall into the space keyhole under the Earth's gravity, and eventually fall to Earth, and then ...... There is no then.
Some may say, how can an asteroid less than 500 meters in diameter pose a deadly threat to Earth? Then let's look at the thickness of the earth's crust, the thinnest point is only 8.5 kilometers (ocean), the average thickness of the earth's crust is 17 kilometers, and the average thickness of the continental crust is 33 kilometers. And the diameter of the earth is more than 12,000 kilometers! What does this ratio represent? The earth is a lava ball, only a layer of rock with the thickness of a hair's hair on the surface, once the impact force is too large, the rock layer will break up, and even cause lava fluctuations, which may cause a large earthquake on a global scale......
At that time, the volcano erupts, the ash covers the sky for several months, and the cold rules the earth...... This is the reason for the extinction of dinosaurs, as proven by modern science.
Many people don't know why geologists are so pessimistic, but when they see this, they understand that the earth is a real thin-skinned dumpling!
And now, Apophis is back, and for a moment China and India can't care about it, and hurry to find a solution, because it is estimated that one in seven thousand hits the earth, which is already an extremely dangerous number in space.
For a while, the tense situation in the whole world because of space competition was provoked by someone with a heart, and the end of the world is coming again!
However, there are more people with insight and vision.
The United Nations approached the company and asked if it could destroy the asteroid. After all, the master company has destroyed comets with cores hundreds of kilometers in diameter.
Instead of worrying about it every year, it is better to destroy the asteroid completely!