Chapter 385: Iron Man

The original Iron Man of Marvel Comics is a teenage genius who was born on Long Island, New York, and entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the age of fifteen, where he studied in the undergraduate department of electrical engineering and graduated with the highest grades.

At the age of twenty-one, his parents died in a car accident, and Stark inherited the Stark Enterprise, which his father owned. In the process, he showed incredible talent and kindness, and the first thing he did was buy a car company, fix the design flaws of the cars it produced, and get rid of the flawed brake systems that his parents had ridden in.

Alex didn't bother to modify these settings, he changed the next content. In Stan? In Lee's version, Stark is perfect, not only smart but also kind, witty, and so on. As a result, people have a lower sense of identification with him, after all, people who are too perfect will seem unreal.

In Alex's version, Stark, despite his extraordinary intelligence and kindness, also has a lot of nasty flaws. For example, Stark is a playboy who owns many women and has had scandals with many female celebrities.

For this, Stan? Lee: They also realized it very later, and it was only then that it was reflected, making Stark more human.

In the new version, Stark, in addition to the initial background introduction, spends a lot of space highlighting his flaws and showing his depraved side. Let the reader think that such a person is real and the plot is believable.

Immediately after, the evil Stark embarked on the road of selling arms! At this point, the storyline deviates greatly from the original comics. After all, in the comics, Stark only sells chips, not weapons. However, this overlaps with future movie versions, setting Stark on the path of a bad boy who does nothing evil.

Stark during this period made readers grit their teeth with hatred after reading it, and it almost made people think that he was a super criminal.

It wasn't until Stark went to the battlefield in Vietnam that he was captured by a local Vietnamese warlord in the process of selling weapons, and then recreated the classic scene of the movie. Relying only on the rudimentary equipment in the cave. He made an iron man armor. Stark, who wears the armor of an iron man, with the help of his friend's sacrificed life, fights his way out.

This technique of wanting to promote and suppress is used in many works of art. But in the comics. But it is used less. At least. In this era, readers didn't expect the plot to have a shocking reversal.

Especially in the part where Sterk kills out of the cave, it is simply unforgettable. The blood all over his body was boiling with excitement.

When they regain their freedom and see the sun outside, everyone feels a burst of joy, only to find that they are almost as exhausted as the protagonist except for sweat.

But it's just a small orgasm, bigger ones are in the back!

When Stark returned to the United States, he went headlong into the laboratory and perfected his design in the cave to create a more advanced set of armor, which is the red version. Then he put on his body and flew into the sky to kill Vietnam, slaughtering all the Vietnamese warlords who did all kinds of evil.

In the process, he prevented a village from being slaughtered and helped many villagers flee the war zone.

At this time, the United States was at war with Vietnam, and there were many people who opposed the war, and naturally many people supported the war. Alex did not shy away from this question, he looked at the war from the standpoint of the United States and from the standpoint of civilians.

The Vietnamese warlords killed by Stark were the big villains who did all kinds of evil in the local area, and naturally they would not be opposed by the Americans. Stark, in particular, stopped a massacre of a village by U.S. troops and helped villagers flee the war, making it reasonable for many.

Commenting on the war, Stark lamented to an American colonel: "No matter who wins the war, it is always the people on both sides who are hurt!" ”

In this ingenious way, Stark expressed his views on the war and avoided the embarrassment of standing in the ranks. However, after returning home, Stark made a change of company, trying to change Stark's main business from arms to civilian direction.

Of course, Stark was subjected to all sorts of confusion and hostility during this period, and the media ridiculed him, saying: "Mr. Stark has become insane since he was kidnapped, and it was as if he had suddenly become a different person." ”

In fact, the entire story framework has largely not changed, except for some details and the comic style has become more American heroic.

Alex gives the manuscript to Stan? After that, Li didn't care about this matter, all he wanted was to adjust the trajectory and direction of the development of American comics in order to achieve his own goals.

His purpose is very simple, that is, to create a set of "Iron Man" armor. Before that, even if he had this idea, it was possible that it would not be realized. After all, the level of scientific and technological development has not yet reached that level, even if Tesla is resurrected, it is estimated that it will be difficult to create "Iron Man" by means of pure technology.

Now it was different, he had Lord Newton's "all-round metal" and Marie Curie's "energy gem" in his hands, and with these two things, a very bold idea gradually emerged.

After careful calculation and consideration, he felt that it was feasible to use alchemy to combine "all-powerful metals" and "energy gems" to create a set of armor that could fly.

However, the problem remains. That is, the method he uses is not technology, but the alchemy of ancient civilizations, plus the remnants of ancient civilizations. If you do this, you will probably be in conflict with mysterious organizations such as Freemasonry and Illuminati.

He could make Iron Man, but he couldn't get it to the public. What's the difference between this and brocade night walking, Alex doesn't do this kind of thing.

"We have to find a way to get the people above to acquiesce to this kind of behavior!" Alex thought to himself, and he knew how dangerous it would be for him to do this.

For another person, perhaps thinking about the conflict that is about to be encountered. I gave up immediately. After all, this is tantamount to working against the top of the pyramid.

For Lord Newton, Marie Curie, and Jonathan, among others, the existence of mystical forces is the source of life for them to continue to live in this world. Once everyone is researching and developing in this area, the mystical power will inevitably be enjoyed by more people, and the source of life will be depleted at an accelerated rate, and it is very likely that they will not be able to continue to stay in the human world.

This is also the reason why Lao Dao does not want Alex to embark on the path of immortal path, because this road has become narrower and narrower, so that there is no way forward, and if more people are squeezed in, their production space will become smaller and smaller. It's really that time. Needless to say, whether they can maintain the status of the system of governance. Even survival is unsustainable.

In this case, Alex had to think of other ways to make ordinary people mistakenly think that the "Iron Man" he created used science and technology. As for those who really know the secret, they will certainly not tell it. Just let him be like Tesla. It's good to be a god stick in the scientific world.

Launched the Iron Man comics. I just want readers to have a preconceived idea that Iron Man is built with science and technology. In this way, no one will think about the truth of this. I don't think of something mysterious.

Of course, Alex can't use all the mystical power to create armor, and he also needs to use some science and technology in it. The best way to do this is to integrate some feasible scientific theories into it, so that those scientists mistakenly think that Alex has reached this level, so as to guide scientists to think and realize in that direction.

"I guess Tesla also wants to do this, otherwise, why did he put forward so many scientific theories, but no one will come up with them until later generations. If there are any design drafts in his manuscript that are conceived against the sky, I am afraid that the development of science and technology in this world will not know where the road has gone. ”

The more Alex thought about it, the more it made sense.

Tesla studied many things and put forward many theories during his lifetime, and the most successful one was alternating current. However, there are many other things, and he is only able to make his own samples and derive the basic theory and direction, but he can't write out the implementation steps in detail.

On the one hand, perhaps Tesla, like Alex, can only achieve steps in the mental space, and in reality, it can only be completed by itself. This shows that Tesla's scientific theories are all top-down, and they all make things first and then deduce their scientific principles.

As long as one of these steps is not in place, it is likely that other scientists will not be able to reproduce it.

On the other hand, Tesla is also a sage who inherited the ancient civilization, and he was able to make so many mysterious things, but he used scientific methods to achieve them. During this period, it was gradually rejected by others, probably because the things that Tesla made contain mysterious power in them.

These things can only be truly understood when Alex is in such a position. He is not worried about rejection by others, only that he is not doing as well as Tesla.

For the manufacture of the "Iron Man" armor, there are two difficulties.

One of the difficulties is the material of the metal armor, if it is just a copycat shape, according to Alex's knowledge, someone once spent $4,000 to make a set of almost real "Iron Man" armor.

More than 1,500 rivets were used to combine pieces of high-density urethane material.

In addition, clay and liquid resin were used, and a number of miniature motors were installed in the armor to manipulate the armor's panels. It is a set of armor that can be worn by people, just like the real thing, and there are no flaws in it except that it cannot fly or fight.

However, this kind of armor is not useful, in order to reduce weight and make the wearer feel comfortable, the kind of copycat Iron Man uses too many soft materials.

In the movie, that kind of armor worn on Stark must be able to withstand a huge impact, if an ordinary person is inside, it is estimated that a blow can make the person inside vomit blood and die. In other words, armor should not only be strong but also flexible, as well as have the ability to cushion impact.

"Almighty metal" may be the solution to this problem, and Alex has a way of making it do all of the best, and his idea comes from the armor worn by the Saiyan warriors in Dragon Ball. All you need to do is make the "all-rounder metal" have two completely different properties, one is as strong as the eternal Edelman metal, and the other is very flexible, like rubber.

Theoretically, this is possible. The all-powerful metal can be infused with the concept of "life", and naturally it can also be injected with the concept of the characteristics of two sides of the same body.

With Almighty Metal in hand, this difficulty is naturally not a difficulty, Alex just needs to come up with something that can fool people, so that ordinary readers and scientists can understand and accept it. Just like the magical object of "Edelman Metal", even if it does not exist, it can be accepted.

Of course, Alex didn't make an Edelman metal out to fool people, he decided to come up with the concept of "nanomaterials". In this way, it is absolutely possible to cripple the scientist's legs. After all, nanomaterials can be realized, and the properties of nanomaterials are infinitely possible.

Whether or not anyone will be able to make it happen is another matter.

Now that the material problem is solved, there is another difficulty, the energy problem!

As early as the 50s of the 20th century, the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, the Soviet Union, invented the equipment, but its volume is so huge and heavy, it is very different from the "Ark Reactor" small energy source in the movie.

At the end of World War II, the former Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain had been conducting research on nuclear fusion in secrecy for military reasons. What container is packed in tens of millions or hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius has always been a difficult problem.

In the early fifties of the twentieth century, scientists from the former Soviet Union proposed the concept of tokamaks. Tokamak is a combination of the words "toroid", "vacuum", "magnetic" and "coil" in Russian, which is a circulator shaped like a loaf (Dona) coil, which relies on the plasma current and the strong magnetic field generated by the toroidal coil to confine the fusion material in the extremely high temperature plasma state in a ring container, so as to achieve a fusion reaction.

In 1954, the first tokamak was built at the Kurchatov Atomic Energy Research Institute of the former Soviet Union.

After the concept of magnetic confinement was proposed, the research on magnetic confinement nuclear fusion progressed smoothly in some aspects, and the hydrogen bomb was quickly and successfully tested, which made nuclear scientists in many countries once have an overly optimistic attitude towards controlled nuclear fusion.

But it soon became clear that the magnetic field confined to the plasma, although not afraid of high temperatures, was very unstable. In addition, the plasma continuously loses energy during heating.

In the center of the tokamak is a circular vacuum chamber with coils wound around the outside. When the power is applied, a huge spiral magnetic field is generated inside the tokamak, and the plasma in it is heated to a very high temperature to achieve the purpose of nuclear fusion. Controlled thermonuclear fusion has been achieved on conventional tokamak devices.

However, conventional tokamak devices are large in size, inefficient, and difficult to break through. Scientists have applied the emerging superconductivity technology to the tokamak device, which has greatly improved the basic theoretical research and system operation parameters.

Alex can't make a miniaturized tokamak, of course, but he has "power gems" on hand. Just inlay it on top of the armor and make it look like the "ark reactor" in the movie, and you can scare the others.

"As for weapons or something, Iron Man, who has energy gems, is definitely not afraid that weapons have no energy. Besides, the Demon Breaker Gun in my hand is not an ornament, just a good time to study. If the spells in it can be studied thoroughly, wouldn't it be ten times more powerful than the Demon Breaker Armor? ”

It's really exciting to think about it, if you can really make a magical version of Iron Man, who can stop him in this world. (To be continued......)

PS: Iron Man is about to appear, although it's only a magic version, but it's much stronger than the technology version!