"We have used a variety of triangular structures at the joints to resist shocks from all directions."

Geng Bo introduced the structure of the space platform that will start construction soon.

This is the first time in thousands of years.

Before this, human beings had no experience in building space creations on such a large scale.

Although there was also experience in the construction of space stations before.

However, that's more like building blocks.

Combine several different cabins together.

And now, for the first time, they're going to build a space creation like never before, starting with parts.

The initial mass is expected to reach more than 10,000 tons of super large star port.

It is designed to accommodate more than a hundred small spaceships.

In addition to this, Starport itself is a large space processing center.

Be able to use raw materials to process and manufacture all the materials you need.

"The high-strength titanium-nickel alloy can withstand the impact of explosions even with high-nitrogen explosives."

Geng Bo opens a video that he had recorded earlier.

The video shows the blast impact test of a titanium-nickel alloy.

A small piece of solid high-nitrogen explosive, the size of a palm, was placed on the side of a titanium-nickel block.

The chemical properties of high-nitrogen explosives are not very stable, and a lot of passivating agents are added to prevent it from exploding at the first touch.

Under the action of electrical signals, electronic detonators quickly produce high temperature and high pressure.

Ignited the already irascible high-nitrogen explosives.

The explosion hit the laboratory, which had long been pumped into a vacuum.

Although it has not yet reached the so-called "true" vacuum state, it is very close to the space environment.

The flash of fire was not visible, but the explosives exploded in a powerful shock wave visible to the naked eye.

Cameras deployed inside the walls and behind the tempered glass showed a series of shaking.

The force tester clearly detected the equivalent of this explosion.

Equivalent to the explosive power of 24 kg of TNT.

Ignore the kinetic effect of regular shells.

This is already comparable to the explosive power of a large-caliber heavy artillery.

Because it is a vacuum environment, there is almost no material splashing.

After the explosion, you can see it clearly through the camera view.

The Titanium-Nickel Alloy Column, which was used for the experiment, appeared in a small yellow area near the center of the explosion.

"Within the range of less than 20 centimeters long, the color of the titanium-nickel alloy changed because of the high temperature generated at the moment of the explosion."

Geng Bo pointed to a small area circled in red within the video.

"When the temperature drops, it will return to its original silvery white."

"And there hasn't been a big impact on performance."

"It's proof enough that the keel of the space platform we designed is very tough."

"Enough damage to a normal weapon."

All the bigwigs in the audience nodded their heads one after another, expressing their satisfaction.

Although this unprecedented space giant is internally known as a nuclear-powered starport.

But it actually has a more formal name.

A large-scale integrated platform for space production, manufacturing, and scientific research using nuclear power.

In terms of its design function, it does not contain attack attributes.

At least judging by the published information, there are no weapons.

But who would have thought that such a large platform does not try to equip weapons.

That's a waste.

Even if it doesn't think about attacking others, it has to take into account being attacked by others.

Because it's so big, it's like a hill hanging over everyone's heads.

It's easy for others to attack it.

A space creation with a diameter of ten kilometers.

It has surpassed any machine that humans have ever built before.

Whether on land or sea, there has never been such a behemoth.

The longest train on land is just over half the length.

That train used more than 600 carriages, but it was only more than 7,000 meters.

It's like, alone, a giant peak that is taller than Mount Everest.

Throw into space.

Even if it runs on the track, tens of thousands of kilometers away on top of the synchronous orbit.

It will still be like a small spinning top that never stops, spinning and swiping overhead.

With the naked eye, you can see its huge figure in the bright night sky.

Such a sword of Damocles hung over his head.

No country with ambitions can sit idly by.

In the event of a conflict, they may attempt to destroy the massive creature that could inflict divine punishment on them.

In fact, if the entire construction plan of the nuclear-powered starport is announced.

Few other countries would have thought that it could have been actually created by humans.

It's too big, it's too scary!

How to build such a behemoth in space is not to be said for the time being.

Just how to launch tens of thousands of tons of various building materials into space.

It will be able to stump 99 percent of the countries in the world.

Throughout the world, there is only one dragon country that can have such a huge transportation capacity.

After more than ten years of development.

Whether it is a recoverable rocket or a super-thrust rocket, there has been great progress.

This gives us the ability to launch these tens of thousands of tons of material into space.

And the development of domestic engineering construction capacity.

It also gives us the ability to complete this unprecedented work in tens of thousands of kilometers of space.

Although other countries will not be able to complete the construction work, it does not mean that they will not be able to launch a strike against Starport.

Starport itself does not have the legendary energy shield.

Zhang Xingyang's mind, although there is such technology.

However, with the current level of science and technology, it involves various field applications.

Apparently still fantastical.

If you want to strengthen the protection of Starport, you might as well add two more armor plates.

Or on the starport, add some more self-defense weapons.

"This is the self-defense weapon we are involved in for the nuclear-powered starport, the high-energy laser."

After demonstrating Xinggang's ability to resist blows, Geng Bo began to introduce Xinggang's strong muscles to everyone.

"It is well known that the role of kinetic weapons within space is greatly limited."

"The biggest reason is their speed."

On the huge integrated non-splicing display, a short video of everything from arquebuses, to flintlock pistols, to bolt-action rifles, and automatic rifles was released.

"Almost all of our current kinetic weapons are powered by gunpowder chemical energy.

The speed is generally around twice the speed of sound, of course, there are some faster, but it will not exceed ten times the speed of sound.

The vastness of the universe far exceeds that of any battlefield in our history. ”

"From the surface, it is 36,000 kilometers away from our star port."

"Let's assume that the velocity of a first-engine warhead is ten times the speed of sound, and that no velocity decay occurs in the process."

"It would take nearly three hours to cover such a distance!"

"For such a long time, Xinggang has long run away."

"On the other hand, laser weapons only take less than one-eighth of a second for the same distance!"

Geng Bo danced with his hands and looked very exaggerated.

"And the thin particles in space have also created enough conditions for laser weapons to show their might."

"The attenuation of one light second is smaller than the attenuation of a hundred meters on Earth!"

ONE LIGHT SECOND = 300,000KM

Many of the people present had experience in the military.

Even many people have experienced the battlefield many times when they were young.

They were also eye-opening.

I never imagined that war would one day turn into laser shooting.

"I remember, didn't we already have laser weapons?"

A middle-aged man in the audience frowned and raised his hand to speak.

Laser weapons exported to camel countries have achieved a lot of success in the past period.

It even shot down one of the opponent's Dassault fighters.

In front of the world media, he showed his face fiercely.

Geng Bo opened a new video, "The basic principle of the laser generator is indeed the same, but their energy source is completely different. ”

The video is split into two parts.

On the left is a laser weapon of normal exit - the Silent Hunter.

On the right is a newly developed laser weapon of the space model.

"The lasers used in the starport have eliminated the explosive generators we used before."

"On the one hand, the shock caused by the explosion is difficult to eliminate in the space environment."

"On the other hand, exploding generators need to consume a lot of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, which is nothing in a terrestrial environment.

But in space, every material is precious.

So we adopted a powerful nuclear reactor to act as its energy alloy. ”

Most of you have learned about the fourth-generation nuclear reactor that has just entered the development stage.

"The thorium-based molten salt reactor can not only provide enough power for the star port, but also provide enough power for the laser."

On the design sketch, the position and number of lasers are marked in red.

At the junction of the annular skeleton and the umbrella-shaped keel of the Star Harbor.

There are more than 120 laser generators in the area.

They are connected to the nuclear reactor at the top of the starport by means of superconducting wires.

In an instant, more than 100 megawatts of power can be supplied.

This is undoubtedly capable of countering the vast majority of the current weapons threats to humanity.

Even most meteorites that are encountered by accident.

"In the experiment, we used the electricity of an entire nuclear power plant to successfully vaporize a rock with a diameter of 1 meter!"

The large screen shows the scene of the experiment.

The seemingly huge stone was vaporized in an instant.

The naked eye has no way of knowing what happened in less than a second.

Only with a high-speed camera can you know what kind of blow the rock has suffered.

Invisible lasers, under special cameras, become visible.

A high-speed camera that can take tens of thousands of photos per second records the whole process completely.

In 0.2 seconds, the laser burned more than 1 meter thick of rock.

"Such a weapon can fully guarantee our safety in space!"

Geng Bo looked at the design drawings and said feverishly.

"From now on, we will be like the first navigators to go to sea in the Age of Discovery, and we will take the lead in the new era!"

You won't know until you've really gotten to the bottom of it.

What an amazing project.

It is a collection of all the most advanced technologies that mankind has ever had.

It is also the country's rapid development in machinery, electrical, manufacturing, aviation, aerospace and so on.

It was only in myths and legends that they created this creation.

If you take such a starport, go back hundreds of years.

It was enough to make people at that time believe that there were really immortals in the world.

And Xinggang is the fairy palace where the immortals live!

Geng Bo's explanation was undoubtedly a great success.

In the voting process in the second half of the meeting, almost all relevant elements were adopted.

Next, all departments will give them the green light.

In terms of funding, there will be no restrictions.

In fact, by far the most expensive is nuclear reactor research and development.

It's just that there are many related industries that can benefit from nuclear reactor research and development.

Therefore the passage is very fast.

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Gangnam Shipyard.

Vice President Yuan called a technician who had won the title of technical pacesetter many times.

"Lao Yang, a group of people will be dispatched to work on a new project."

"What project?" As one of the many senior engineers in the Jiangnan factory, Lao Yang didn't feel that he had anything special.

Vice President Yuan pushed him slightly, "I don't know yet, but it's said to be a good thing!" ”

"It's said to be a very large and confidential project."

Lao Yang frowned slightly, "But we are still building that super-large LNG ship." ”

"I don't have that much time to travel."

Vice President Yuan hated that iron could not become steel, "What LNG ship do you care!" ”

"If you can be selected this time, it will be much more important than LNG carriers."

Although Vice President Yuan didn't know what the selection was for, he still saw part of the specifications of the people.

Lao Yang hesitated a little, but finally nodded and agreed.

This situation is not just happening at the Jiangnan Shipyard.

It's not just about Lao Yang.

The Jiangnan factory alone was selected for a very special selection of more than 20 people.

In many construction groups, hundreds of people have been transferred.

In addition, nuclear power construction, chemical construction, and even the Ministry of Railways have all been transferred from dozens to hundreds of people.

Elite members from various industries have been drawn out.

Some of them have worked on supertall buildings, and some have built large nuclear power plants.

There are also people who personally guided the construction of the country's first high-speed railway.

Each of them is a top practitioner in their own industry.

It can be said that if a brick is smashed, there are two senior professional titles and a national model worker.

Among these people, if you don't have three or four national-level honors, you're embarrassed to say hello.

It took them less than a month to be found and brought together by the state.

In the end, these hundreds of people arrived at an extremely special place.

Beidu astronaut selection training base!

For the first time, they will participate in the astronaut selection as non-pilots.

Once selected, they will be directly involved in the first phase of the construction of the Star Port.

They will also be the first professional space builders in history! (End of chapter)