Chapter 538 Operation of Mending the Sky
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Earth time, June 2012.
The Kunlun base has long been reserved for Huaguo. After nine months of hard work, the Nuwa spacecraft has been completed.
This is a variant version of the Kunlun designed by Huang Ji.
The design concept and technology have been learned by Huaguo scientists, and they have even improved it according to the actual situation.
Of course, the improvement has gotten worse, all parameters have been lowered in an all-round way, and the various weapons originally designed have been directly abandoned and replaced with more sophisticated detection instruments and communication equipment.
The whole is also bigger, but the materials are cheaper.
This change is actually more in line with Huaguo's industrial foundation. The production time is short, the materials are cheap, and the overall cost has more than doubled.
But in any case, this is Huaguo's first self-produced nuclear-powered spacecraft.
It can carry six people and accelerate up to 20,000 kilometers per second, which is more than enough to traverse the solar system.
Today, traveling in space is no longer an unattainable luxury.
However, compared to freely exploring the solar system, compared to colonizing other planets, humans have heavier tasks to do... Reversing the anomalous activity of the sun!
There are still more than 30 years of gamma-ray bursts, but the solar coronal mass eruption in 2012 is already in sight.
Although this is not enough to exterminate human beings, it will destroy the existing human society. Most electronic instruments and communication satellites will collapse, and no radio communication will be possible for at least a year.
Scientists predict that this wave of eruptions will also increase the overall temperature of the earth by six degrees! Entering the era of extreme heat, the polar glaciers will melt on a large scale, releasing a large amount of carbon dioxide.
If the global temperature rises by three degrees, human beings will no longer be able to stop the trend of global warming, let alone six degrees?
At that time, seawater will submerge the continent, and at least 70% of land life will be extinct. As a result, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continued to increase, and the acidity of seawater increased significantly. Marine dinoflagellates became extinct, and juvenile fish could not eat. Within a month, 90% of marine organisms became extinct, and most of them died due to lack of oxygen and acidic water.
This disaster will be no less than any mass extinction in history.
Although with the current human technology, relying on nuclear fusion can continue, it will not become extinct, but this will obviously make people unable to resist future gamma-ray bursts. Even without gamma-ray bursts, human beings cannot accept a devastated world.
Of course, there is a candle dragon, and there is a guarantee measure. If the candle dragon is available, they will not be eligible to join the Star Alliance.
Therefore, it is imperative to prevent this big eruption of the sun.
In any case, human beings do not want to face the predicament of sharp population decline, social collapse, and only lingering.
At this moment, the great powers all over the world pin their hopes on Hua Guo, and Hua Guo pins their hopes on this Nuwa, this is an operation to mend the sky!
"The deceleration is complete, and it has entered the Mercury synchronous orbit."
"Not good, the intensity of the solar wind has seriously exceeded the standard! This is 30% higher than our estimated value!"
"How could it be so much higher! Increase the power of the magnetic shield!"
The six astronauts on the Nuwa were about to face a severe test just as they slowed down the spacecraft.
The orbit of Mercury is too close to the sun, and it will face the impact of high-energy particles released by the sun anytime and anywhere, and the concentration is much higher than that on the earth.
Technically, there is actually a material that can resist this solar wind. If it is used as the outer armor of the spacecraft, it will not only be fine if it is bombarded, but it can also be charged.
However, this material has not yet been mass-produced with Huaguo's existing technology.
Now that time is tight and tasks are heavy, scientists have to settle for the next best thing and use cheaper materials to cooperate with the magnetic shield module installed on the spacecraft so that Nuwa can get closer to the sun.
Although it can be close to the sun in this way, the source may become a problem again.
A magnetic shield is a magnetic field shield that requires energy to maintain it at all times.
The stronger the solar wind, the more energy they need to consume, although a 30% fault tolerance rate has been left at the beginning of the design,
Unexpectedly, as soon as it came, the intensity of the solar wind was 30% higher than expected, directly approaching the limit.
"This is just the orbit of Mercury! We put colorful stones at the estimated coordinates, and they must be close to the chromosphere, where the intensity will only be higher."
"The plan can't keep up with the changes, Captain Liu, we are now close to the sun, and the mission is very likely to fail."
While paying attention to the parameters, many crew members quickly reported, with cold sweat seeping from their foreheads.
This mission is only allowed to succeed, not to fail.
It is very difficult for the earth to build a second spacecraft in a short period of time. Even if it is built, it will only be more difficult than them, because the anomalous activity of the sun, the closer it is to the eruption period, the harder it is to stop it!
This is their first long-distance voyage mission. They did not expect to go directly to the sun instead of the moon or Mars...
Lack of experience, lack of data, and the burden of saving mankind is the burden of saving mankind. Even if they are elites who have been selected by thousands of people, they cannot help being nervous.
At this time, the middle-aged man named Captain Liu calmly said, "Get ready to land on the back of Mercury!"
"The intensity of the solar wind on the dark side of Mercury will be slightly lower, and Mercury has been bombarded all year round, and the surface itself is rich in helium-3."
"We can try to resupply, and...Old Zhang, pass on the situation here to the Kunlun Base."
He arranged in an orderly manner, made a decision on the fly, changed the plan, and landed on the back of Mercury first.
Captain Liu, full name Liu Tengkong, rank of colonel, is actually over fifty this year, but after being injected with a genetic drug, he became twenty years younger.
Not only him, but others as well, which made a group of them look very young.
"Everyone, don't be nervous. The Kunlun base has also considered this situation. We have a plan B. In short, we will land first." As the captain, he is the god of the sea on the Nuwa, and he must be calm and calm.
"Yes!" Everyone carried out his order without hesitation, and saw Nuwa flying around Mercury and starting to land.
It can be seen that the 3,000-meter cliff terrain on the surface of Mercury can be seen everywhere, and there are a large number of craters and radial stripes made of volcanic lava.
After finding a relatively flat area, the Nuwa landed steadily.
The performance of this spaceship is much better than that of the space shuttles in the past. It can be used like an arm, and it is extremely strong. It doesn't matter if it bumps occasionally.
At this moment, five crew members put on their space suits and walked out of the cabin.
Their space suits are divided into two layers, the outer layer is the same as before, but the material is better and lighter. As for the inner layer, it is an advanced light gold nano-film.
If the outer spacesuit is damaged, only the inner nano-membrane can survive in a vacuum.
"Old Zhang, you stay here and keep in touch with the Earth."
"The others followed me to collect helium-3."
Liu Tengkong drove out directly in a crawler truck. This car had its own drill bit and collector, and it had a load of over two tons.
It was unimaginable to put such a large car in the spaceship before, but now it is easily realized.
They were driving, galloping on the surface of Mercury, watching the soaring light curtain on the distant horizon, their hearts pounding.
This is the first time they have landed on an extraterrestrial planet. Although they have simulated many times on the earth, the simulation is a model. If it is done on the ground, the depression and shock brought by this environment are unimaginable.
Mercury is very small, but the sun is very big, and the distance between the two is very close!
Although the place where the sun is at the moment is the dark side, which is equivalent to night, the horizon in all directions is still full of sunlight!
The whole world is like a dark island in the center of the beam of light!
Mercury has no atmosphere, so this scene is very different from the sunrise on Earth.
No matter which direction you look in, there is an obvious wall of light, as if the whole land is surrounded by the brilliance.
"call……"
"Captain... I... I'm dizzy... I can't breathe..." a crew member said out of breath.
Liu Tengkong said warmly: "Close your eyes, don't look, don't think too much, take a deep breath, treat this as a training ground, and find a suitable collection location as soon as possible."
Everyone is in good health, and those who can be selected to participate in this mission, in fact, their physical fitness has been genetically optimized to reach S2!
However, even so, the mental pressure brought by the task and the environment still made them almost go crazy. They couldn't calm down for a long time, and couldn't help thinking wildly.
The panic and tension made them stretch their heartstrings to the extreme, which almost crushed them and even triggered a physiological reaction.
This is a genetic defect of human beings. They cannot adapt to space, even with the protection of spacesuits.
The gene has been uploaded on the earth for countless generations, and when it suddenly comes to Mercury, it feels the great terror from the environment as if it has a thought.
Constantly prompt the brain to secrete hormones, tune and stimulate human minds, hoping that they will seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
However, the human mind is forged by culture and thought, how can it succumb to instinct at this moment, and must complete the task no matter what.
"Here! Helium-3-rich rock and soil layers were detected, with an abundance as high as fifty-seven percent."
"Enough! Collect now!"
Despite the panic, everyone collected nearly two tons of helium-3 minerals in an orderly manner and returned with a full load.
When he returned to the Nuwa, Lao Zhang had already contacted the earth for three rounds.
Microwave communication travels at the speed of light, and it takes fifteen minutes to reach the earth and return.
Therefore, the communication between the two sides is concise and concise. One side explains the situation, the other side gives proposals, and the other side expresses difficulties based on the suggestions, and the other side gives better suggestions.
After full communication between the two parties, a new plan was quickly finalized.
"The gravity generator was disassembled and transformed into an energy shield module to enhance our resistance to the impact of high-energy particles from the sun."
"Dig as much helium-3 as possible on Mercury, and finally abandon the mining vehicle and free up all the warehouses for fuel storage."
"The solar activity is much stronger than the calculations on the earth, and it is getting stronger and stronger. According to the latest data estimates, we will open the energy shield when the time comes, and we will last for a maximum of 30 minutes."
"We must put all the colorful stones into the designated positions within 30 minutes."
Liu Tengkong talked about the plan seriously, and everyone felt the difficulty of the task.
The original plan was one hour, but now it has been cut in half.
The sun is fickle, and everything was considered good at first, but after field inspection, everything was wrong, and there was no way to reason.
Thirty minutes, whether you can find the X coordinate is enough...
And once the time cannot be completed, human beings do not know how many people will die.
The pressure was so great that they couldn't breathe.
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