Chapter 356: Interstellar Voyage
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It took a month to complete the first batch of 10 million volunteers who were about to settle for the first colony of Earth's civilization outside the solar system, and all of them were properly housed in the First Emperor spacecraft.
This efficiency is already quite high.
As many as 10 million personnel, before entering the Shihuang spacecraft, underwent a series of physical safety examinations and functional tests, and under the guidance of professional physicians, they safely entered the dormant chamber and began a refrigerated dormant life that lasted for more than 20 years.
With the assistance of special controlled drugs, the human body will be in an unconventional low-consumption dormant state, and the oxidation rate of time for the human body will be one percent of the normal state, which is tantamount to greatly reducing the life consumption of spaceship passengers.
However, this kind of dormancy mode, which violates the normal physiological state of human beings, and wants to carry out without barrier or damage, also requires a series of very strict professional guidance, and can only enter the best state under certain prerequisites, and it is not something that can be achieved immediately after a dose of medicine, and there are countless subtle details that need to be taken into account.
For example, before taking dormant drugs, it is necessary to keep an empty stomach and take special defecation drugs to empty the stomach and intestines as much as possible, so as not to cause the human visceral system to be pathologically pathologically and over-oxidized due to the presence of excessive digestive substances in the body in a long-term dormant state, thereby damaging the normal health and life span of the human body.
Similarly, the external environment of the human body must be thoroughly disinfected before entering the dormant chamber.
After all, although it is a low-consumption dormant state, but the human body in the process of long-term dormancy, there is still a certain degree of consumption, the body is stored in the dormant cabin for a long time, the body is sometimes in a trophic state inside and outside, if the external environment is not completely disinfected, it may also cause bacterial breeding and pollution, a bad word, decades of dormancy directly to half of the person's life.
In short, because of the problem of long sleep time, every passenger who wants to spend the dormant state safely must go through dozens of professional processing procedures before they can safely enter the dormant state. Such cumbersome procedures, as well as such a huge dormant population, have led to a high degree of complexity and cumbersomeness in dealing with related problems, and the spacecraft operation system has deployed a lot of manpower and material resources to solve the boarding problem of happy passengers.
In fact, it is impossible for passengers to log in to the ship's spacecraft in a conscious state and see what is going on inside the spacecraft until they reach their destination.
The internal space of the spaceship is too small, and the number of passengers who need to be arranged to enter every day is too large, on average, there are 330,000 people per day, such a huge number of people, if they are arranged to log in to the spaceship by themselves, the coordination and cleaning of the spaceship alone will be busy.
Therefore, for the sake of comprehensive benefits in all aspects, the passengers are changed into special sleep clothes in the dormant compartment outside the spacecraft, and are placed in the dormant cabin to enter the dormant state, and then the dormant compartment is automatically transported to the dormant compartment passage by the clean dust-free robot after a series of cleaning, disinfection and drying, and then the intelligent control system inside the spacecraft arranges the berthing position of the dormant compartment according to the operation and management mechanism inside the spacecraft.
The whole process is full of the sophistication of large-scale industrial collaboration, and the height, weight, gender and other factors of each passenger are used as reference data, which is used as a reference data that affects the berthing position of its dormant compartment, and is comprehensively controlled.
Although the whole set of boarding system procedures is quite cumbersome and demanding, it is undoubtedly definitely worth it in terms of the various benefits it brings.
For the passengers, although they lost the opportunity to see the interior of the spacecraft for the first time, it was undoubtedly a huge benefit to the value of their lives that they could save more than 20 years of normal life loss.
After all, no one wants to face a boring long interstellar journey, wasting their time in more than twenty years of idleness, and being able to save their lives until they can be used in a valuable place, is undoubtedly too much of a toss-up compared to this little toss. What's more, for any normal person, a sleep spans twenty years, but the normal life loss is less than a year, which is quite good news.
Compared with waking up twenty years old, most people are more willing to see their familiar appearance.
For the earth civilization, only in this case, can the spaceship stuff as many people as possible, on the one hand, it can more or less reduce the population pressure on the earth, and more importantly, on the new planet, every little more population of the earth civilization, the security degree on the new planet, the speed of development and other things that the earth civilization must take into account, will be more and more secure.
After all, the new planet, for the earth civilization, is not just a living space for population pressure to pass on, for the earth civilization, it is also a new civilization territory, a new production base, a new civilization heritage, the better the development there, the faster the overall development speed of the earth civilization, the greater the return on the investment in the earth itself.
At the very least, every time a new planet develops even a replication industry, the less key technologies and equipment the earth civilization needs to import to the new planet, and the additional cost that the earth needs to pay will be slightly smaller.
The distance of up to twenty light years is a huge expenditure for the transportation cost of each gram of materials, and the transportation cost is often hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of millions of times the value of the transported materials. The more the population on the new planet accumulates, the more capable it is to carry out large-scale industrial recovery and development, and one day if you want to make the new planet have the ability to survive independently, and even form a new industrial chain to support the overall development of the earth's civilization, without a population of hundreds of millions and billions, it is obvious that you don't even need to think about it.
For the team members of the spacecraft, this series of complex boarding procedures simplifies the internal management costs of the spacecraft as much as possible, allowing the crew to focus more on the control flight, safe flight, equipment maintenance and other links of the spacecraft itself, minimizing the difficulty of internal management of the spacecraft, and drawing a perfect start to the journey of the spacecraft.
However, in the more than one month of passenger boarding time, not only a large number of passengers were continuously transported to the spaceship, but also a large number of various materials were also continuously transported to the spacecraft.
These things are relatively diverse, and they are roughly divided into two types, one is the maintenance consumables of the spacecraft itself, such as the spacecraft's fuel, spare parts, various consumables used for the spacecraft's flight, and daily necessities such as drinking water.
The composition of another kind of goods is relatively more chaotic and complex, that is, the first batch of planetary immigrants, the various key production materials needed on the new planet, and some raw materials for initial development and survival materials.
Among them, a large number of high-tech products, machine tools and equipment, core components of various key categories, a large number of production tools, etc., are quite large, and it can be said that they account for more than 60% of the cargo volume of the spacecraft.
After all, the earth civilization transports so many immigrants to the new planet, counting on this group of talents to open up a new base for the earth civilization on the new planet, some necessary, difficult to manufacture on the new planet in a short period of time, and will inevitably use various professional equipment and facilities in the next two decades. After all, it is impossible to say that it is not realistic or safe to let these people start from burning bricks and tiles on the new planet and copy the scientific and technological development route of the earth's civilization from scratch, which is neither realistic nor safe, but wastes manpower and material resources in vain, which is undoubtedly quite stupid.
After the First Emperor spacecraft finished boarding all the passengers on board, filled with all the scheduled cargo, and all the pre-takeoff work was ready, a sensational farewell ceremony was broadcast live throughout the solar system.
In order to bid farewell to the first emperor spacecraft, which has just been completed and has only been on trial for a short time, it is about to start its voyage, and it is also to pay tens of millions of passengers on the spacecraft and more than 20,000 members of the spacecraft operation team.
Among them, a large number of heavyweights attended the ceremony, including Sima Mulong, the head of the earth, the prime minister of the earth government, the vice chairman of the supreme committee of the earth military, and other top leaders of the earth's systems, representatives of passengers' relatives, spacecraft team family groups, etc., a total of nearly one million people, all participated in the farewell ceremony on the spot.
After a series of ceremonies and ceremonies, the ship set sail.
It is not like a normal spaceship, which relies on reaction forces for interstellar flight. As an entry-level qualified faster-than-light spacecraft, the First Emperor uses a space power engine.
Under the effect of a large amount of energy introduced by the spacecraft's power system, the space power engine formed a huge kinetic energy that was enough to drive the spacecraft to start at high speed, and this energy directly acted on the space level, distorting the normal space, making the spacecraft quickly "slide" on the distorted space.
In essence, this is similar to the effect of gravity, the same kinetic energy source without sound, light and color effects, can drive objects to move without sound, but the difference is that gravitational waves travel at the speed of light, while the space distortion caused by the space engine of the First Emperor spacecraft can drive the spacecraft to travel faster than light at up to three times the speed of light.
However, although this kind of flight is essentially three times the speed of light, in essence, the spacecraft itself is not moving, it is space itself that moves, and the First Emperor spacecraft moves with it as an appendage of space, achieving the purpose of faster-than-light flight while not violating the basic physical rules of this space-time.
This kind of super-technology, which reasonably circumvents the constraints of physical rules, is where the most powerful and valuable part of the First Emperor lies.
So as the space-time power engine started, the spacecraft started almost silently in full view.
It was really a silent start, the spacecraft was originally standing quietly on the berth, and suddenly, it flew up like a hydrogen balloon, as if it had no weight.
Only the close-up camera recorded that moment, under the super clear and super delicate close-up, some subtle substances attached to the ship's hull, captured and attracted by the spacecraft's own 100-million-ton volume, proved in disguise that the spaceship is not really as weightless as a light and fluttering hydrogen balloon.
The speed of the spacecraft is very fast, as if there is no acceleration process at all, the first second has just started, the next second has soared to a speed of several hundred meters, almost in an instant, it has already flown to dozens of kilometers above the clouds, if it is not for the existence of air resistance in the atmosphere, which greatly affects the flight efficiency of the spacecraft, otherwise, the speed of the spacecraft soars much faster.
Rao was like this, and there was a roaring sound in the sky, which was the sound of the spaceship cleaving the air and cutting through the air, and a hurricane was formed because of it, and there were also gusts of wind on the ground.
The speed of the spacecraft is too fast, only some satellite lenses that have been locked on the spacecraft can capture its figure, only to see that after flying out of the atmosphere at a high speed, the speed of the spacecraft has soared to a speed of tens of kilometers per second almost in a few seconds, which is the appearance of the space power engine gradually increasing the output power and distorting the space-time interface more violently.
Originally, the spacecraft could also accelerate at a faster speed, although the space-time power engine itself also has an afterburner, increasing the output power process, but its output power increase is quite fast, once the engine warm-up is over, after the afterburner process gradually becomes normal, it can even accelerate thousands of kilometers per second, and it does not take a few minutes to accelerate to three times the speed of light.
It's just that the surrounding area of the earth is the busiest shipping lane in the solar system, and ships of all sizes shuttle back and forth, and if the First Emperor spacecraft accelerates too fast, it will only have a serious negative impact on the surrounding shipping lanes, so it has to limit the acceleration amplitude.
After moving away from the normal course, the speed of the First Emperor spacecraft suddenly soared, and after just a few minutes, it had already soared above the speed of light, and the conventional, only optical observation method that could detect the trace of the First Emperor spacecraft had completely lost its target. (To be continued.) )