Chapter 342: A New Atmosphere in Space
After Yang Zhi and everyone went crazy for a while, they came to their dormitory, which was marked Room 1-7-102.
The New World space base under construction is too large, with a diameter of 560 meters, except for the middle 60 meters as the completed space dock, the rest is divided into 5 floors and 5 concentric rings, each ring has a height of 50 meters and a thickness of 180 meters. Of course, the real number should be shrunk a bit, at least with enough thickness for defense.
As for the length of each floor, it varies, and it all increases outward around the center of the ring.
Room 1-7-102 represents the outermost space (the first floor of space), the seventh district, room 102.
The outermost space is the largest in the entire space base, with a circumference of 1,445 meters in the inner circle and a length of 1,759 meters in the outer circle.
Opening the door, Yang Zhi was surprised to find that the facilities inside could be called luxury—luxury in space.
There are 120 square meters of rooms with a height of 5 meters; In one corner, there were ten beds topped by white sleeping bags with straps—artifacts for resting in space.
But the bed of the master company is a little magical, surrounded by a circle, suspended on a rotating centrifuge, which rotates through guò and can create centrifugal force up to 3 times the gravity.
There is still a complete 80-square-meter exercise room, which has almost a full set of sports equipment, which is enough to meet the needs of 10 people exercising at the same time; In space, if people want to live a healthy life, they cannot do less than 2 hours of moderate high-intensity exercise every day, otherwise their bones, muscles, heart, etc. will atrophy. This is the lesson that astronauts have learned with their lives.
All that's left is a full bathroom and a fully functional dining room.
Such a facility can only be considered good on the ground, but in the space environment, it can already be described as a luxury. Yang Zhike, who has a little understanding of today's aerospace environment, knows that the most mainstream space base technology in the world is the space station, each cylinder, with a diameter of only about four meters.
In this era of space development, all costs need to be calculated in "grams", and only master companies have the luxury of sleeping space to build capacity.
found his own bed, with his name on it, Yang Zhi took the key on it, and this is his room in the future.
Everyone communicated together, and then rushed out in a swarm, ready to visit the most expensive and representative building in the world today - the New World space base.
So far, there are only master companies in space, to be precise, the Eastern Bloc is building such a space base; Other countries, such as Switzerland, which has more than 100 space shuttles, and the United States, which is capable of producing alternative versions of space shuttles, are only building traditional space stations -- mature technology, sufficient foundation, low cost, modular production, and so on, so that traditional technology can be continued.
Only master companies have the ability to build a space base.
When the door was opened, the noise came to the face, and the current space base was a huge construction site, with all kinds of machinery and equipment on the field
After turning around, Yang Zhicai found the passage to the sixth district at the top of his head; To be exact, Yang Zhi doesn't know, this position is considered the top of the head or under the feet, anyway, in this space without gravity, up and down, left and right, front and back, etc., all of them are chaotic, and everyone can only use numbers, markers, words, etc., to indicate the direction. For example, the location of the accommodation is a accommodation area, except for a plant area here, and a life-supporting equipment area, the rest of the place is blank.
The entire 7th arrondissement is 50 meters high, 180 meters wide, and 170 meters long. Yang Zhi is a little unaccustomed to this name, 170 meters is obviously less than 180 meters, why is it called length! However, the official explanation is that 50 meters and 180 meters are inherent in space itself; The 170 meters are in the direction of the entire Great Circle, which is intercepted from the whole; This length also represents a direction - the overall circular direction.
The botanical area is of course a variety of plants, but probably because it was just established, most of it is only a few small saplings and flourishing flowers. And, of course, food crops.
Yang Zhi understands that planting plants in space is conducive to relieving human tension and depression, and green is the color of life. This small point of knowledge has been obtained by scientists all over the world with more than ten years of sweat and wisdom.
As for the life-support device, it is a forbidden area, and it is not allowed to approach without permission. The quality of the equipment here is directly related to the lives of all people; And because of the cost and other reasons, this life-sustaining device is not backed up.
Following the 170-meter rope, Yang Zhi slowly crawled towards the sixth area; The sixth arrondissement is already a residential area for scientists and so on; With the gradual completion of the space base, many scientists who once lived in the space station lived and exercised here, and the spacious space was the biggest temptation.
There is no gravity and no difference between up and down, as long as Yang Zhi moves his fingers slightly, he can easily float forward, as long as he does not encounter obstacles, he will not stop.
Of course, no one dares to do this, and it must be a bad feeling if you accidentally hit a steel wall; Yang Zhi gently grabbed the rope, and with a slight force, his body had a speed of more than ten meters, and floated towards the sixth area.
Compared with the 7th district, the 6th district, where scientists live, is a bit busier and more well-built; The main attraction is a huge studio full of screens, where many scientists are working without sleep or food. This is the heart of the entire space station today, where the equipment is responsible for calculating orbits, adjusting engineering, adjusting life-sustaining systems, and so on.
However, now there are many more curious students in the sixth district watching here, and all of them are curious about the qiē here. This space base built by the master company has gone beyond the imagination in science fiction. Everyone is flying all over the sky here......
The loud noise around couldn't stop Yang Zhi's curiosity, and even after this period of time, Yang Zhi had adjusted and somewhat adapted to the huge noise here.
Curious students ran around all day, and then were scolded by some staff members for delaying other people's work.
In space, the time of every staff member is very tight, because the cost in space is too high, and the country and the Eastern Bloc have to speed up as much as possible to reduce costs. Only a master company can be so leisurely, have such qualifications, and give 1,400 people a three-day holiday.
When Yang Zhi arrived in the fifth district, he was really stunned, it turned out to be a whole green space, the space was divided into a 2-meter-high plane, and one side of the plane was planted with various plants, even including a large amount of rice and wheat. Rice is grown using a viscous jelly-like water with the addition of a non-toxic biogel-like coagulant.
And in this space, it is also soundproof, and the noise is almost inaudible.
In the space, the effect of the guò reflector is very comfortable with the intensity and brightness of the sun, as well as the slightly stuffy temperature. Because it is suitable for plant growth, the temperature is a little higher; And the evaporation of plants makes the air a little humid.
But there are quite a few locations here, and a large number of staff are sleeping; Humans can't do without plants, and in today's space, it's perhaps the world's most luxurious place to rest. Even without the need for life-sustaining equipment, plants can meet the breathing needs of humans.
The space is also 50 meters high, 180 meters wide, and 170 meters long, but it is divided into 25 floors with a height of two meters, a width of 180 meters, and a length of 170 meters, all of which are planted with plants, mainly food crops.
"Young man, let's try the little melon in space." A 50-year-old staff member who was managing the plants here, saw Yang Zhi coming over, and picked a small ripe melon from the side, only three centimeters in size, but it emitted this fragrance.
"Thank you, uncle, it's delicious."