Chapter Four Hundred and Eleven, Impact Experiment

In the void somewhere in the solar system, a huge Qinglong-class spacecraft dragged an asteroid with a mass of 450 million tons and flew rapidly in the void.

This Qinglong-class spacecraft was branded with a red flag and the logo of the Galaxy Technology Group. Obviously, it was a spacecraft belonging to the Galaxy Technology Group.

Poyang Lake is one of the third batch of Qinglong-class spacecraft produced by Galaxy Technology Group. Because he wants to transform Mars, Qin Yi has been slowly hoarding spacecraft, basically every batch produced. For spaceships, Qin Yi will keep a few for himself.

The three spaceships, Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake, and Taihu, are the same batch of spaceships, and they are also spaceships that Qin Yi kept for himself.

The flight trajectory of the Poyang Lake spacecraft is not towards the earth, but towards Mars. In the outer space of Mars, the Dongting Lake spacecraft has already arrived and is waiting patiently. .

Behind the Poyang Lake spacecraft, in the area of ​​the small belt, the Taihu spacecraft is also dragging an asteroid toward Mars.

Using three spaceships at one time, it is clear that this time, Galaxy Technology Group has made a big move.

Among the Dongting Lake spacecraft, many scientists are busy. The quantum computer is constantly calculating the Poyang Lake spacecraft's flight speed, flight trajectory, flight angle, etc., and is also constantly simulating the impact of asteroids on Mars in the computer. experiment of.

Qin Yi, Lu Qingwei, Liu Peiqiang, Qiu Feng, Shen Gongbao and others were among them, and they all came to Mars.

"Haha, I didn't expect that at my age, I still have a chance to come to Mars."

Professor Qiu Feng looked at Mars outside, and the whole person was in a very good mood. The development of the times is too fast, and things that I didn't dare to think about before are now very common.

"What is Mars? I will go to the alien planet to see it in the future."

Professor Shen Gongbao, like Professor Qiu Feng, both research quantum technology, and they communicate with Qiu Feng often, and they are old friends.

"Alien planet?"

"Even if the development is fast, we should not be able to get out of the solar system within a few decades. I am afraid that we will be really old by then."

When Professor Qiu Feng heard it, he was obviously very excited.

But after thinking about it, he said helplessly, wishing he could borrow another five hundred years from the sky.

"Anything is possible, don't say old things."

Professor Shen Gongbao looked at Mars in front of him and seemed to think far.

Qin Yi looked at the void outside the spacecraft. Mars stood quietly in the void like a ruby. Unlike Earth, the atmosphere on Mars was too thin, and there was no halo like the Earth.

Qin Yi came to Mars this time, and naturally he didn't come to play.

It is definitely not an easy task to transform Mars into an asteroid suitable for human habitation. It requires a lot of asteroids to continuously hit Mars, adding mass to Mars, adding water, increasing atmosphere, activating the core of Mars, generating magnetic fields and so on.

Now the conditions for transforming Mars are not mature, and there are not many spacecrafts on the entire earth, and it is far from enough to pull all of them.

However, this does not prevent scientists from conducting some experiments on the transformation of Mars first. By hauling some asteroids to hit Mars, and then collecting relevant data, they can more scientifically and accurately calculate the feasibility of transforming Mars, the cost, etc. .

This time, the Galaxy Science Research Institute came here to use the asteroid to hit Mars, collect the relevant data of the asteroid impact on Mars, and then input the data into the computer, and use the computer to simulate the entire process of Mars transformation.

In this way, more accurate numbers can be obtained, and it can be known in advance how feasible it is to use asteroids to transform Mars.

All the preparations are in place. The entire Mars, the space of Mars is full of various monitoring satellites, monitoring everything on Mars.

On Mars, from the north and south poles of Mars to the equator of Mars, from the vast plains of the northern hemisphere to the ancient plateaus of the southern hemisphere, there are various monitors, data receivers, etc. everywhere.

"The speed is 45 kilometers per second, the impact angle is 76 degrees, and the impact location is the equator of Mars..."

Scientists are calculating over and over again the upcoming asteroid impact experiment, the impact speed, angle, position, etc. These are all very important and all information that needs to be collected.

According to the arrangement of the experiment, this time, asteroids of different masses and structures will be mined, and they will hit the asteroids at different angles, different speeds, and different positions.

Any experimental inference is based on a large amount of accurate information. Scientists are very clear about this. Modifying Mars is a huge project, and scientific methods may be able to greatly reduce the time and cost required for reconstruction.

"Come on~"

I don't know who called it out, and everyone turned their attention to the void.

I saw a huge spaceship dragging an asteroid as if it was flying rapidly from a distant void. At this time, the Poyang Lake spaceship has not yet separated from the asteroid, in order to be able to adjust the angle at the last moment. .

"Team 1 is ready~"

"Team 2 is ready~"

"..."

Inside the Dongting Lake spacecraft, the scientists became busier, and the voices kept ringing, everyone became nervous, and the experiment of the asteroid hitting Mars was about to begin.

"Poyang Lake was separated successfully~"

"Crash countdown 30 minutes~"

Listening to the voices, the atmosphere in the spacecraft became tense, and everyone looked at the void outside, at the asteroid that was flying towards Mars.

"This should be the first time in human history that asteroids are actively exploited to impact planets, right?"

Beside Qin Yi, Liu Peiqiang said thoughtfully.

"It's necessary to come up with it? We don't know how many firsts we have done."

Lu Qingwei pouted, this is no longer popular now. In the past, people would say how and what was the first time for human beings, but now no one is talking about this anymore, because the first time is really It's too much to be proud of.

"The asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, who would you say is bigger than this asteroid?"

"It is said that the energy released by the impact is equivalent to the equivalent of 100 trillion tons of TnT, which wiped out the dinosaurs and caused the mass extinction."

Liu Peiqiang smiled and even talked about the extinction of the dinosaurs.

"After a long time, who knows, maybe the dinosaurs were not killed by the asteroid impact at all."

Lu Qingwei shook his head and said that scientists have many speculations about the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs. The asteroid hitting the earth and causing the extinction of the dinosaurs is just one of them. As for the facts, we don't know at all.

"Of course we don't know, but this time the asteroid hit Mars, we can measure the power of the asteroid impact. If the dinosaurs are really going to be wiped out, we can also calculate the asteroid that year. The power of planets and comets."

Liu Peiqiang glanced at Lu Qingwei, then turned to look at the asteroid in the void.

"The mass of this asteroid is only 4.5 billion tons, and the mass is very small. I estimate that we may not be able to obtain something that is too useful. If we can, it is best to be able to drag tens of billions of tons of asteroids. Hit Mars, and that would definitely be better."

Lu Qingwei touched his chin and said after thinking about it.

"Then you should hurry up to develop a more powerful second-generation anti-gravity engine. An asteroid with tens of billions of tons might smash Mars into pieces."

Wang Songling, who was on the side, also interrupted to come in. The wait was very long, and the chat time passed.

"Don't worry, these tens of billions of tons of asteroids are insignificant compared to Mars. Eggs and stones collide, can they break the stone?"

Lu Qingwei is very confident. Although the difference between planets and asteroids is only one word, the difference in quality is not known. Even the most massive asteroid, Ceres and Mars, still has a huge gap. Not to mention other asteroids.

Time passed slowly, but 30 minutes made everyone feel extremely long.

When the asteroid became bigger and clearer in the field of vision, and the alarm on the spacecraft began to sound continuously, everyone stopped talking, took out the telescope and looked at Mars and the set impact position, ready to watch this artificially created big impact.

In the outer space of Mars, although the mass of this asteroid has reached 4.5 billion tons, the mass is very huge, but it is still an irregular body shape.

At this time, its speed was very fast, and it was constantly flipping, and the speed of its autobiography was also very fast.