Chapter 114: A Sudden Opportunity (Two Chapters in One)

A report from the Hawk Island Academy of Sciences was sent to the Duke's mansion.

He Xiao opened it and saw that it was the latest observation by the lookout of the Hawk Island Space Telescope.

The report is generally that a massive space rock has broken into the solar system and has now entered the orbit of Jupiter.

However, according to the calculations of the Academy of Sciences, this space rock will not have any impact on the main celestial bodies of the solar system.

The solar system is really space, and the eight planets and satellites only occupy a small space, and a single celestial body wants to hit the eight planets or their moons, the probability is very small, and it will basically not be hit.

As for why there are so many craters on the Moon and Mars, one is because there are too many celestial bodies in the universe that are rampage, and the other is because it has been too long, billions of years, and there will always be some that will hit ......

After the orbit calculation of this space rock by the Academy of Sciences, this space rock came from outside the Coyinbo belt, passed through the orbits of Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn in turn, and will continue to pass through the orbit of Jupiter, and then pass by Mars, and then return to the orbit of Jupiter, meet Jupiter, and be accelerated by Jupiter's gravitational slingshot, shooting out of the solar system......

In fact, the closest distance to Mars is 4.2 times that between the Earth and the Moon, and when it "meets" with Jupiter, it is 9.5 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

However, Jupiter's mass is so great that its gravitational pull is 3,000 times that of Mars, so Jupiter's influence on it is much greater than that of Mars.

He Xiao didn't pay much attention to this report at first, after all, there are too many space rocks in the universe, and it is not uncommon for many to break into the solar system every day.

It wasn't until he noticed a sentence in the report: "According to the analysis of observational data, this space rock is about 15 kilometers in diameter and weighs 550 billion tons in mass, and the main cost is likely to be water ice and ammonia ice ......".

He suddenly thought that he had seen a paper on the transformation of Mars before, mentioning a whimsical idea, that is, using an asteroid to hit Mars, and an asteroid hitting Mars can release energy countless times stronger than a nuclear bomb, so that Mars will continue to heat up, release dry ice and water on the surface and underground of Mars, and dry ice will turn into carbon dioxide into the Martian atmosphere, forming a greenhouse effect and increasing the surface temperature of Mars......

At the same time, the water ice and ammonia ice carried by the asteroid itself can also provide more water resources and ammonia for Mars' biological needs, making Mars a habitable planet at a very fast speed!

But there are certainly some problems with the program, such as how to collect asteroids from the asteroid belt, although with Bluestar's current technology, it is possible to land a spacecraft on the surface of an asteroid and use its thrusters to push the asteroid in one direction, or even push the space rock directly towards Mars, but the thrust is too small to push an asteroid or space rock with sufficient mass at all.

According to estimates, transforming Mars would require pushing an asteroid with a diameter of 15 kilometers and a mass of 500 billion tons to Mars, which is much larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs......

With the current level of human technology, including Hawk Island, it is simply impossible to do it, and it is too far behind.

He Xiao also tried to edit the entry to achieve this, but the results showed that the difficulty of this entry was as high as 380 million readers, which was impossible to achieve at this stage......

However, during the test, he found that if the asteroid only slightly changed its orbit or velocity, the difficulty of the entry was not so difficult, and he also tried to change the orbit of the known suitable asteroid through this method to see if it could crash into Mars, for which he also specially found some astrophysicists and mathematicians from the Academy of Sciences to help them find suitable asteroids and calculate the trajectory.

It turned out to be too difficult.

All known asteroids in the solar system with sufficient mass are too far away from Mars to change their orbit or velocity slightly, not to make them hit Mars, but only to make their orbits more elliptical or round......

And now, when he saw the quality and composition of this extraterrestrial object in the report, he naturally couldn't help but think of the original test......

In fact, the reason why this report was sent to He Xiao was because of his previous tests, which let the Academy of Sciences know that he was very interested in this information, so he sent this observation that was not very important.

With a diameter of about 15 kilometers and a mass of 550 billion tons, the main costs are likely to be water ice and ammonia ice, both of which are perfectly suitable!

In fact, this can't be said to be a coincidence, there are too many asteroids or space rocks of this level in the universe, maybe there are many passing by the solar system every year, but ordinary people don't care about it at all, after all, it has basically no impact on the solar system.

This space rock, if He Xiao hadn't read this report, would have come quietly and left quietly, except for a few observation records on the blue star, it would not cause any splash.

It is not uncommon to pass by Mars, and it is not uncommon for asteroids to pass by Blue Star, and every year there will be several asteroids that almost hit Blue Star, and no one cares at all, because it is said to be "almost", but in fact, it is at least a few million kilometers away......

For the solar system, Mars and Blue Star are too small, like two sands on the surface of a sandbar, and if you use a machine gun with bullets much smaller than the sand to strafe, even if you shoot 10 billion bullets, it will be difficult to hit these two gadgets......

But now it's different, and He Xiao noticed it.

He Xiao asked for an electronic version of the report, and then began to edit the entries based on the information inside.

This space rock was first discovered on Hawk Island, and it was numbered as 372768 according to the rules, because it had just been discovered, there was no entry in the Dimension Encyclopedia at present, and He Xiao directly made up an entry for [Space Rock 372768].

In the beginning, everything was true, and the uncertain information used words such as "estimate" and "probable", so the number of readers requirement was naturally 0......

He then deleted the word "probably" from the description that "the main costs are likely to be water ice and ammonia ice".

If it is not deleted, this sentence is actually an invalid description, which will reduce the exhaustiveness of the entry, and the final result is likely not to be this ingredient, after all, it is only possible, which means that it can not be this ingredient.

The reading requirement became 40,233.

Based on past experience, He Xiao easily knew that this difficulty showed that this speculation was inaccurate, so he changed this sentence to "the main ingredient is water ice"

The number of readers requirement is back to 0.

What does this mean? Does it mean that this space rock has no ammonia ice or very little ammonia ice?

Not necessarily, but there is also a possibility that there is another ingredient that exceeds ammonia ice, but less than water ice......

Therefore, the first sentence is deviated from reality, and the second sentence is in line with the facts.

This is the difficulty of word determination, and many things are not just yes or no.

Fortunately, He Xiao is now very experienced and knows the importance of the words used.

He thought about it for a moment and changed the sentence back to "the main ingredients are water ice, ammonia ice and some other substances".

The number of readers requirement is still 0, and there is no change.

It seems that in addition to water ice and ammonia ice, there is another substance with a relatively large proportion.

Considering that in the universe, water ice and dry ice often coexist, He Xiao changed this sentence to "the main components are water ice, dry ice and ammonia ice......

The number of readers required is still 0......

The results of this test prove that the main components of this space rock are water ice, dry ice and nitrogen ice, which accounts for the highest proportion of water ice, followed by dry ice and nitrogen ice......

Probably because the dry ice is mainly inside it, it has not been analyzed by the Academy of Sciences.

Next, is the most important step.

He Xiao found two astrophysicists and asked them to do calculations to modify the orbit of the space rock, so that it could be slightly deflected, and finally crashed into Mars......

The two astrophysicists didn't understand the significance of what he did, but considering that the other party was a duke, it was still very face-saving, and it only took a few hours to remake a trajectory map according to He Xiao's request.

In this trajectory map, the orbit of the space rock 372768 changed slightly, and the end result was not a passing by Mars, but a direct collision with Mars......

He Xiao ordered the audience to thank and entertain the two scientists, and then uploaded the picture to the entry.

The number of readers requirement suddenly became 16401422......

Obviously, looking at the picture, only a very small change has occurred, but I didn't expect it to directly increase the difficulty by more than 16 million.

That's right, after all, it's a map of the solar system, and a slight change would mean a deviation of millions of kilometers......

And it's a big 550 billion ton guy, and it takes a lot of energy to deviate from it even a little bit......

If it hadn't been on its original trajectory and brushed by Mars, it would have been impossible for them to collide......

He Xiao modified the entry again, added more details, and increased the exhaustiveness to more than 55%.

However, he did not submit it because he was not sure whether the plan would actually work.

After all, human beings still know too little about Mars, and the rules of the universe are only the beginning, and there is no guarantee whether this plan is feasible to let massive asteroids or space rocks hit Mars to transform Mars.

And whether the mass of 500 billion tons estimated in the early stage is accurate is also a question, in case such a large space rock hits it, it will directly hit the Martian environment worse, it will be embarrassing.

Therefore, the consequences of this plan must be tested before this plan can be implemented.

He Xiao re-compiled an entry [Martian Upheaval]

In this entry, he advanced the time of the 372768 of space rocks by 100 years, so in this entry, it and Mars have already collided...... Of course, its name has changed, and it cannot be the same number for 100 years.

The number of readers is 1.3 billion......

This is completely impossible at this stage, and even if the number of people reaches the target, the trust rate cannot reach the target......

But don't worry, He Xiao himself didn't want to submit this entry, he just wanted to test it.

In this entry, he writes about the changes in the Martian environment after the impact, as speculated in the previous paper.

The huge energy generated by the impact has heated up the surface of Mars sharply, with an average temperature of about 25 degrees, the water ice on Mars has melted, coupled with the melting of water ice carried by space rocks, and the crater near the Martian equator has reappeared in the ocean, Mars has a dense atmosphere dominated by carbon dioxide, because carbon dioxide has a strong greenhouse effect, so even if the energy of the space rock impact dissipates a little bit, the temperature on the surface of Mars can always be maintained at about 25 degrees......

The impact also rekindled the core of Mars,

The atmospheric pressure on the surface of Mars reached 0.95 standard atmospheres, which is almost the same as the surface of a blue star.

Temperature, water, atmosphere, and magnetic field protection, there is no need for a biosphere on Mars, and blue star plants can be planted directly......

The number of readers soared to 7.2 billion......

Out of the way, it's just a test.

The situation now is that he makes up the desired result and then changes the conditions.

Look at which condition makes this result the least difficult to achieve, which in turn means that this condition is the most suitable.

He changed the mass of space rocks from the actual 550 billion tons to 600 billion tons.

The number of entries read has decreased from 7.2 billion to 7.12 billion, a decrease of 80 million......

This shows that 600 billion tons is a more suitable quality......

It was changed to 700 billion tons, which fell by another 120 million tons......

changed to 1,000 billion tons, and this time it went back to 7.15 billion tons......

This shows that the most suitable mass should be in 7000-100000 billion tons.

In the end, he determined this mass at 830 billion tons.

Then, in a similar way, he determined that the most suitable composition ratio of this space rock was 52% water ice, 36% dry ice, and 12% ammonia ice......

Based on the results of these tests, he revised the indicators in the entry for space rocks 372768.

This also led to an increase in the number of readers required to 22.16 million.

It's not surprising, after all, it's not uncommon for the new entry to be more difficult to change not only the orbit of the space rock, but also the mass and composition of the space rock slightly.

To be honest, it was a little lower than He Xiao expected, and it seems that the system may have deduced a relatively easy way to increase this space rock, such as capturing one or several similar space rocks in the middle......

The 22.16 million readership requirement is usually difficult to achieve, to be honest.

But if it's blockbuster news, it's different, and there's every chance that it will happen within a month!

Again, this is a big plan.

First of all, he asked the hounds to lead some "spectators" to control all the researchers who knew about the real observations of the space rocks 372768, which was very simple, they were all from Hawk Island, and they were all arranged to go to the laboratory and not let them go online.

Then, He Xiao used a few small entries with very low difficulty to make space telescopes of the same level in other countries malfunction, for example, unable to observe the 372768 of space rocks, which was naturally to prevent several other companies from coming out to refute the rumors......

There are only three space telescopes of this level, including the lookout on Hawk Island, one is jointly launched by the United States and the Xizhou Space Agency, and the other is launched by the East, which is easy to get.

Next, the Hawk Island Academy of Sciences officially announced to the world: Mars is about to suffer a super impact at the extinction level of dinosaurs, which will completely change the ecology of Mars!

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