Six Hundred and Forty Eighth Plan Changes (2)
Ye Han was taken aback. The extreme environment of Mercury doesn't even need a setting for hell. How could there be conditions for colonization?
He even couldn't figure out how Xiao Yuan and Chi Wei knew about this plan that must be classified as secret.
But to Ye Han's surprise, this news is not a secret at all, and the official attitude is very strange, neither admitting nor denying it, which seems to be a bit of a cover-up.
Ye Han felt that this news might have been leaked by Beidu on purpose, deliberately drawing the attention of the base group to Mercury, or it might be the opposite, a smoke bomb released by the Yankees to deliberately mislead Beidu.
Because the news that there is water at the poles of Mercury was first released by the Americans.
However, although the environment of Mercury is relatively harsh, Mercury is composed of 70% metal and 30% silicate, and the content of metal minerals is the highest in the solar system.
According to the existing theory of galaxy formation, when galaxies form, the heavier elements with larger atomic weights are easier to gather towards the center of galaxies. According to this theory, there must be huge reserves of uranium on Mercury. This thing can not only make nuclear weapons, but also An important raw material for the nuclear industry, and even a manufacturing material for depleted uranium bombs, it can be said to have many uses.
The resources on the earth are limited. If an industrial base can be built on Mercury, mining Mercury uranium mines seems to be a good choice.
In addition to the fruitful infrastructure construction of Beiyuezhou, the military construction is also extraordinary.
At present, the military has two space bases. One is the Moon Palace Base, which orbits the moon and is the home port of the Beiyuezhou Fleet; the other is the Tiangong Base, which was expanded from the Tiangong, and is an intermediate station for manned spacecraft to fly to the moon.
There is a space fleet stationed in each of the two military ports, which are the two major nodes in China's space defense system.
In addition, there is a space city under construction near the moon.
The Moon Palace and Tiangong are all pure military bases, while the space city is the opposite, a space city used to immigrate human beings.
It's a pity that the change of Io Zero forced Beiyuezhou to concentrate its resources on the military industry. The construction of the space city had to be suspended just after it started. It is still unknown when the construction will start again.
Speaking of Jupiter, Ye Han remembered the failed second expedition, and immediately asked about the aliens and Jupiter.
The two of Xiao Chi used to chatter endlessly, but now the chatterbox has opened up.
Aliens have nothing to say,
The aliens entrenched in Ganymede and Callisto are fully operating and have regained their foothold. The environment of the two satellites is changing with each passing day, and the harsh environment is evolving to a livable level.
Europa, which is full of water, was abandoned by aliens to a limited extent. It is not known whether there is any follow-up plan.
Under current circumstances, it won't be long before aliens can turn Ganymede and Callisto into new homes.
The base group originally planned to form an expeditionary force to conquer Jupiter and completely wipe out the aliens who occupied the magpie's nest, but Jupiter was crossing the asteroid belt, and worried that Jupiter would hit the earth, the international expedition fleet gave up the plan to expedition to Jupiter and changed to Go all out to intercept Io Zero.
The international expeditionary fleet is currently active in the asteroid belt, but so far there is still no sign of blocking Jupiter. Several countries, including China, have expressed doubts about whether the international fleet can block Jupiter.
Beidu publicly stated that Jupiter is not a matter of any country or group of countries, but the common enemy of all mankind. It is said that Beidu is considering forming a third fleet to go to the asteroid belt to perform blocking missions, but there has been no action. I don’t know what the rumors are. True or false.
It is also reported that all the actions in the northern capital have not been seen for a long time, because there is no weapon that can deal with Io Zero.
The nuclear bomb with the highest yield in human history is only 100 million tons, and the impact energy of the Penglai is equivalent to 300 million tons of TNT. It is not impossible to manufacture nuclear weapons with a higher yield, but the technical difficulty is not much lower. Instead of spending energy on nuclear weapons , it is better to get a few large iron mounds of high enough quality, and after installing a nuclear power engine, they can hit Jupiter with force, which may play an extraordinary role.
This is what the international expeditionary fleet did in the asteroid belt. Before the fleet set off, the base group placed an additional order for nuclear-powered engines, and used these nuclear-powered engines to manufacture two engineering ships.
There are dense engines on the tail of this thing. It is obviously only a small spaceship with a displacement of several thousand tons. The engines on the ship are enough to propel a space battleship of 100,000 tons!
The front end of the engineering ship is a huge metal shovel, so it is also vividly called a space bulldozer.
And the way to use this kind of engineering ship is to find an asteroid with a suitable mass, use the bulldozing shovel at the front of the battleship to push it against the asteroid, push the asteroid with full power, and throw the asteroid into the predetermined orbit of Jupiter. On, colliding with Jupiter in zero opposition.
Well, the method of use is similar to that of a bulldozer.
It's a pity that suitable asteroids are not so easy to find. The International Fleet only carried out three collisions, one of which failed twice and succeeded. The two successful collisions did not cause any damage to Zero, because the asteroid has not touched Zero. The edge of the alien fleet was disintegrated into pieces that could not threaten Europa.
This result made the international expedition fleet extremely painful, so the operation of the engineering ship was temporarily suspended, and the possibility of metal mound collisions began to be seriously considered.
With the moon's current industrial capacity, it's not easy to collect hundreds of thousands of tons of metal, but it's not too difficult. If Io can be completely defeated, let alone hundreds of thousands of tons of metal, even millions of tons are worth it. up.
The only problem is that the international base does not have such a high production capacity, and it is possible to gather so much metal only by relying on the smelting capabilities of Beiyuezhou. This also makes the base group very painful.
Americans firmly believe that thin light, like lasers, is an energy weapon that humans have not yet mastered. There must be some special material that can resist the cutting of thin light, at least to a certain extent offset the power of thin light.
But if you don't even know what fine light is, how can you know what materials are effective? I only know that except for dense metals, other materials are difficult to resist fine light cutting.
Ye Han didn't know that while he was talking with Xiao Chi, the negotiating team sent by the Yankees had already arrived in Beidu and had a series of meetings with Beidu on the issue of the Qiongzhou launch site.
The Yankees became ruthless and planned to use the Qiongzhou launch site to send up to 100,000 tons of depleted uranium into space, manufacture a giant armor-piercing core with an aspect ratio of more than 30, and install nuclear weapons on this super core. The power engine, use this thing to hit Zero Jupiter, and solve the threat of Jupiter Zero once and for all.
It's a very whimsical plan, but hitting Jupiter with 100,000 tons of depleted uranium...it seems very likely to succeed!