Chapter 580
"I guess Lin is here too."
Musk pointed to the yacht he was on, the sea area was crowded with passenger ships of all sizes, and all the passengers were crowded on the deck, so it looked extremely crowded.
He took only Tom and his two sons with him, and steered the yacht far away from the other big ships.
The risk of a large ship may be even higher than that of a small boat in calm waters, and if it sinks, it will form a huge attractive vortex that will be dragged into it even if you jump into the sea.
Tom Mueller: "No, he should be on some warship, I'm sure there's a bomb on the bottom of every ship here, and once it's determined that Lin is on it, any one will detonate, and those guys will definitely do it." β
Musk nodded approvingly, but he was well aware of those dirty methods.
A few years after the rise of virtual currencies in the original world line, a large number of billionaires were created out of thin air, but most of them died, and Musken himself had to frequently tweet that he would never "commit suicide", although none of this has happened yet, but he has seen a lot of these things.
"Lin is a genius, and the longer he lives, the better it will be for humanity.
Just like the CZ18...... I'd rather call it the X4B, and now that we're sure the fuel flow problem can be overcome, he showed the way to SpecaX. β
After NACA received the first superweight booster and assembled it for launch as the SL-X, Robert placed a long-term order with SpecaX to deliver one booster every month for the next 12 months, and now the fourth B14 has been shipped.
NACA is so pleased with these cheap and easy-to-use grades that it doesn't care if they can be reused, but Muscen is always improving them and never giving up on recycling.
A very big problem with the recovery of giant rockets is the uneven pressure and impact of the pipeline caused by the residual fuel flow caused by the change of attitude during the fall, the larger the rocket needs more recycled fuel, the more serious the problem, and they have no reliable solution to the problems that Starship Boosters have encountered in this regard.
However, the Long March 18 needed to reserve more than 100 tons of fuel for recycling, and it was also a very dangerous liquid hydrogen fuel, but they still overcame this problem.
The new NACA order has injected another $3 billion into SpecaX, and Musk, who has been greatly encouraged, is already preparing to conduct another launch test at the end of December and try to recover the first stage booster to a height of 10 kilometers.
For him, XAP is an opponent, but it is also a strong partner that constantly inspires his beliefs.
Lao Ma was born in South Africa and only became an Aramco citizen in 2002, so he doesn't care what Aramco is first.
Tom: "I think ......"
"Daddy, look at the sky!"
The conversation was interrupted by the voice of the youngest son, Sachs, who were lying on the railing with their necks stretched out, their eyes unblinking at the meteor looming in the sky.
The distance from the explosion is 25 kilometers, which is very close for a hydrogen bomb with a yield of 340,000 tons.
However, the first two are ground-penetrating bombs that explode at a depth of more than 100 meters, and most of the power will be absorbed by soil and seawater, in fact, the radius of the danger zone demarcated by the IAEA is only 7 kilometers, although there are still some residual effects, but they can be resisted by the protection facilities of warships.
In a few days, the airburst bomb will be different, the safety distance will be directly doubled to 50 kilometers, and the entire circuit in the land control area will be affected.
Don't worry about visibility, the mushroom cloud of the 200,000-ton hydrogen bomb is also tens of kilometers high, and it can be seen even from 100 kilometers away, so there is no need to doubt whether the ticket is worth it at all.
Now the Dongfeng 15C has completed the first and second stage detachment, and the warhead begins to dive from the highest point of the parabola, because the violent friction with the atmosphere produces bright light, which can be clearly seen even during the day.
This was the first time that almost everyone at the scene had seen a real ballistic missile strike, and the noisy crowds on the ships had strangely quieted down, opening their mouths but not making a sound.
Because they all understand that if the Third World War really comes, then the people of all the major cities of the world will see the same scene, the Grim Reaper descending from the sky is rapidly approaching with the most cruel malice of mankind, and the dark cone body of less than one person is a terrifying force capable of destroying hundreds of thousands of people.
This is not an imagination or a science fiction movie, but a ballistic missile warhead with a real hydrogen bomb, and all the military bases along the route are instinctively on the highest alert when it flies, and I don't know how many radars are locked on this target, because the price of deviation could be the heaviest loss in human history.
Most of the tourists who bought the package to see it were full of excitement before, but when the Grim Reaper did approach from space, even the distance of hundreds of kilometers could not suppress the terrifying coercion.
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Musk's eyes began to lose focus, and the brighter and brighter points of light in the sky had taken up the entire field of view of his pupils, and at this moment his brain was empty, completely unsure of what to react to.
In the eyes of nearly 100,000 people, the conical warhead of the Dongfeng-15C, which is less than half a human size, is getting brighter and brighter, like a blazing meteor smashing straight into the land from the northerly direction.
The meteor disappeared the moment it made contact with the black line in the distance, but just over a second later, the sun was seen rising over the ground.
Although it was detonated deep underground, the path of the warhead smashed into it was along the sinking route of the core, and the surrounding soil was nothing compared to the energy released by the atoms, forming a space that rapidly expanded to the surroundings a few meters above the No. 1 core, and the accumulated terrifying pressure was released in this small area, and the frantically squeezed the surrounding space also poured out along the gap when it entered, and the pressure of the eruption was much greater than that released by the air explosion.
The shock wave that reached the ground through the soil instantly shattered all the buildings and ground within a 2-kilometer radius, and then the expanded air, heated to extremely high temperatures by soft X-rays, ejected a large amount of soil and debris into the air, like a bullet ignited gas gushing out of the chamber of a gun.
The temperature of ultra-high air currents and matter that has been heated to the extreme in an instantaneous manner exceeds 100 million degrees Celsius, which is already well above the 15 million degrees Celsius in the center of the sun, and they form a bright fireball at the most time, and the observed brightness will completely overshadow the sun.
In the eyes of the passengers on the ship, everything in the original field of vision was replaced by bright firelight, and the whitening fireball completely became the new sun, as if the sky was seen in front of them.
These high-temperature, high-pressure hot air masses then rise rapidly, and only at an altitude of nearly 20 kilometers do they come into contact with the cold air and spread horizontally, forming a slender cloud of smoke in the middle and spreading out like a mushroom at the top.
This is the most common mushroom cloud in the apocalyptic movie, because of the rapid drop in temperature, the brightness also quickly decays, and it is no longer a dazzling white light like before, but like a flowing magma from the underworld, dyeing the entire sky a fiery red.
(End of chapter)