Chapter 7: Anti-Gravity Spacecraft

The launch of the "Mars program" was carried out against the backdrop of the invention of anti-gravity spacecraft by scientists.

The pursuit of speed has always been the dream of scientists.

Sci-fi fans should remember that in the sci-fi movie "Avatar", a huge spaceship flies in the vast universe for 6 years to reach the planet Pandora.

How do you spend these six years? The approach taken in the movie is to put people into a deep hibernation on a spaceship.

Of course, that's a fantasy, not to say whether a person can hibernate, even if he can hibernate, his weight will also drop significantly, such as a groundhog that hibernates for 163 days loses 35% of his weight; Bats that hibernate for 162 days can lose 33.5% of their body weight. It would be nice if people hibernate for 6 years, and there would be skin and bones left.

People going from Earth to Mars are subject to this restriction. Theoretically, the straight-line distance between the Earth and Mars is only 410 million kilometers, and the rocket speed is 11.2 kilometers per second, which does not take several days.

In fact, it takes about 300 days for people to get to Mars. Getting from Earth to Mars is not a straight line, but a curve - a Hohmann orbit, which takes about 7 months to fly. In practice, it may be longer and longer, for example, the Mangarion flew nearly 800 million kilometers and took more than 10 months.

Therefore, if it is to carry a bunch of robots to Mars, it will be much less difficult. But transporting a big living person like an astronaut has a lot to think about.

Because astronauts carry food, water, and oxygen with them, but these put weight on the spacecraft, and the spacecraft has to expand.

An increase in distance means more fuel. The more fuel, the heavier. And more weight means a bigger capsule and a bigger rocket.

In fact, the fuel problem is very easy to solve, after all, several human probes have successfully landed far away, and the most difficult thing is the material that astronauts need.

If the journey alone takes more than 300 days! If necessary, three astronauts. In this way, the astronauts' diet alone costs several tons, and how big does the spacecraft have to be?

And even if human beings go to an alien planet, they must have water, oxygen, and food to replenish human energy. These are unsolvable problems.

As a result, people hope for the emergence of a new type of aircraft, which has the following characteristics: take off and land anytime and anywhere; High speed; Good thermal insulation.

In the 20th century, the famous scientist Nikola Tesla attempted to use the principle of anti-gravity to make the world's first flying saucer.

At that time, in addition to the study of electricity, he also studied the anti-gravity system of the flying saucer, and a century ago, Tesla had already developed an anti-gravity device, but it was still at the drawing stage. It was only recently that people put it into practice.

There is also a very critical reason: launching a rocket requires a launcher, which greatly limits the development of the rocket. Many people think, can the rocket take off and land without a launch pad or launch site?

Private rockets are following this path.

Compared with state-owned companies, private companies are even bolder. It is designed to be able to take off vertically, land horizontally on ordinary airfields, and recover them.

In the eyes of the world, Minke is synonymous with "ignorance and fearlessness" and "liar". But private scientists also have the advantage of not having so many rules, no worries, and no imagination.

For example, the Martian boy said that the spaceship he was piloting at that time was triangular, a small flying vehicle, composed of 6 layers, the outermost layer is a hard metal material, and the innermost layer is the magnetic layer, as long as the energy is injected into the magnetic layer, the spacecraft can fly anywhere it wants.

Private scientists, on the other hand, are very interested, and they often get inspiration from science fiction.

For example, the infinite non-probability-driven spaceship in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", the hyperspace jump spaceship in "Base Series", the quantum wave spaceship in "Black Sun", the antimatter spaceship in "Antimatter Spaceship", the space curvature-driven spaceship in "Three-Body Problem Part III", the anti-gravity spaceship in science fiction, and so on.

If it were an orthodox state-owned scientist, they would scoff at it, and they would definitely not take this risk and believe it, but civilian scientists are not afraid of heaven and earth.

For example, for the speed of light at every turn, many orthodox scientists are worried about how many G's of gravity will be formed at the speed of a few kilometers per second. Unrealistic. Folk scientists say that if you think too much, as long as it is not an instantaneous acceleration, there should be no problem no matter how fast it is.

Private aerospace scientists don't think so.

An ordinary person without any training, flying by plane, thousands of kilometers per hour, did not say that he could not stand it.

To be more realistic, the geographic latitude of BJ is 39°54' north latitude and the linear velocity is 356.7 m/s. In other words, even if the inhabitants of BJ stand still, they actually move faster (rotation) with the earth than the speed of sound, does he suffer it?

The speed of the earth's revolution is 30 kilometers per second, and the solar system rotates around the center of the galaxy at a speed of 250 kilometers per second.

So, in 2024, Chinese physicist Liu Guanguan, with the funding of a fund called "Hongfu", uses the anti-gravity principle of flying saucers to invent a new anti-gravity flying machine, completely subverting his idea.

This anti-gravity vehicle is like a saucer, about 160 square meters in size, and its flight is achieved by the coordinated eruption of the top vertical downward vent, the bottom vertical upward vent, and the edge direction of the vent.

The new aircraft is very flexible in flying, and can fly on the ground and in space without adding or reducing any equipment, and it is very easy to take off and land without a dedicated field (basketball court or even a highway), and it is said that it uses anti-gravity technology.

What is Anti-Gravity Technology?

Popular science: The so-called anti-gravity force is to give an object a force beyond the ground, and when it is in the opposite direction of gravity, people and objects can be in a suspended state.

A simple way to do this is to use two special magnets to form two opposing electromagnetic fields to create an anti-gravity force.

The universe is full of magnetic fields, but it changes too much and too fast to be used.

High-speed computers make it possible. This is the basic principle of flying saucers moving fast.

At the same time, due to the high-speed flight of the aircraft, a large amount of heat energy will be generated, and the temperature on the surface of the aircraft can reach 4000 degrees, which can melt all metals. Fortunately, scientists have invented a new coat, AUK, that can resist the heat generated by high-speed flight.

Prior to this, a company called LINE-X in the United States developed a super tough black technology coating, and the latest coating AUk, its effect is 100 times that of LINE-X.

How strong is it? AUK protective coatings have an ultra-high level of abrasion and impact resistance under any severe conditions of use, and can withstand high temperatures of 8000 degrees. Exactly what is wrong with this is that the aircraft using this paint has an extraordinary electromagnetic shielding function.

This kind of aircraft that can take off and land vertically without a launch frame, or even a launch site, or even an airstrip, has a low-earth orbit capacity of up to 100 tons, which is far greater than the 64-ton load of the SpaceX Heavy Falcon rocket, a private American aviation company.

That's a staggering number of large rockets in the 20 to 30-ton class around the world, such as Russia's Proton, Europe's Ariane V, America's Atlas 5, Delta IV and Falcon 9, and China's Long March 5. Wait a minute.

If it weren't for this, it would be unimaginable for humans to land on Mars.

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, had previously predicted that SpaceX could send a man to Mars in 2026.

Musk said that this goal is achievable "about 6 years from now" and "maybe 4 years if we are lucky". That is, between 2024-2026.

However, 2024 and 2025 have passed, and Musk's trip to Mars has not been settled, and now, it is BIPU companies that take the lead. They launched the shocking "Mars Project", which surprised and delighted people.

Johns, chairman of BIPU, said that Musk must not be allowed to lead. After much consideration, BIPU finally decided that the vehicle to Mars was scheduled to depart on June 15, 2026, ahead of Musk.

Their landing on Mars this time is called "Landing on Mars and Return Experiment".

According to the plan, the astronauts will land on Mars in two people, "move" on Mars for two hours, and then return to Earth with 1,000 grams of Martian soil.