Chapter 1155: The Second Floor Is Here

The radar operators of the 5th Fleet noticed that the two fighter planes had disappeared from the radar.

At first they thought that the radar was interfered by the solar wind or clouds, or they swooped into the blind spot of the radar, but after waiting for a few minutes, the fighter still did not appear.

Tried to call two fighter planes, but there was silence on the opposite side.

Just at this time a spy satellite flew nearby, they immediately logged on to the satellite and started searching.

Based on the time and flight speed of the two planes when they lost contact, as well as the possible targets of the two planes, they quickly confirmed the approximate crash site and successfully found the eye-catching umbrella flower hanging above the dense forest and covering the canopy of the primeval jungle. , the thick smoke caused by the crash and explosion in the distance, and...

"My God, what the hell is that!" The search personnel immediately reported to their superiors, and then the image was sent back to the Pentagon as quickly as possible.

The silver-gray H-shaped guide rail stands upright above the ground. It is no more than one meter wide and half a meter thick, but its length is indomitable and endless.

The track itself is actually as thin as a silkworm's wing. It is just an I-shaped structure, giving it a thickness of half a meter.

In the field of view of the optical spy satellite, there is a luminous bright band like a reflective band!

Dazzling!

What exactly is this?

Then, almost the entire Pentagon fell into a three-stage astonishment.

OMG! Is this a space elevator?

OMG! It really is a space elevator!

OMG! The lazy gods actually built a space elevator!

On this day, the generals and experts who filled the building almost became the most devout believers, and the gods they called out in one day were more than the sum of their entire lives.

If there is a constant in the nuclear physics community, it is called "50 years to controllable nuclear fusion".

Well, there is also a constant in the aerospace industry, called "the space elevator is still 20 years away".

Tsiolkovsky, the father of rocketry, proposed this concept in 1895. In the next hundred years, it has been 20 years away from human beings. Human beings have been advancing, but never approached...

Until now, he suddenly appeared in front of everyone.

What is a space elevator?

If you asked an ordinary person on the street, he might look confused and guess, "Probably... some kind of elevator."

Congratulations, you got it right, this is indeed a kind of elevator.

Everyone has taken the elevator, the sightseeing elevator in the shopping center, the ordinary elevator in the residential building, and the engineering cage used in the project are all elevators.

In essence, it is a sling and a box that can hold people and goods, and then use various powers to pull it up and put it down.

For every lazy person, the elevator is probably one of the cutest inventions in the world. Think about the world without elevators. People have to climb several floors, dozens of floors or even hundreds of floors with their own feet. Upstairs... Climb to the point where I can no longer lift my legs, and I raise my head out of breath, looking up, there is an endless loop of stairs, what a hopeless world this will be.

It is estimated that many people just gave up and jumped from the floors they had already climbed.

In modern society, elevators have covered all aspects of human existence, but if someone tells you that there is a kind of elevator that can directly pull things from the ground to outer space, you can take the elevator to outer space just like taking a sightseeing elevator. The space station, even... to reach higher and farther places, you must feel that this is a bragging.

So far, the tallest building built by humans is the Lazy God Tower, which is more than 1,300 meters high. If you climb the Lazy God Tower with your feet, it is roughly equivalent to climbing Mount Tai once.

Before that, the tallest was the Burj Khalifa, also known as the Burj Khalifa, with a height of 828 meters. People who have seen Mission: Impossible will definitely sweat for Tang Ge hanging on the Burj Khalifa. Not to the ground! If you fall down, you can make dumplings without chopping.

But the principle of the space elevator requires that its center of gravity must be in geosynchronous orbit, that is to say, its minimum altitude is... 3600 kilometers!

This is roughly equivalent to 2770 Lazy Towers or 4340 Burj Khalifa stacked up!

How can this be! There is no ground on the ground that can withstand this kind of pressure!

When everyone goes to school, they will be taught by teachers that basic knowledge is the foundation. If the foundation is not well laid, how can high-rise buildings be built?

But the space elevator is a creation that does not need a foundation at all, and its lower end can even be completely suspended.

Because it is actually built from the top down!

Just like the strongest iron wire, it is impossible to stand vertically 10 meters high, and it will definitely fall sideways and be bent by its own weight. But a 10-meter fishing line can be hung up, and even a big fish can be hoisted.

The same is true for the space elevator. Its principle is that a huge heavy object in geosynchronous orbit is stabilized on the outer space orbit by centrifugal force, and then a fishing line is hung down to lift the object on the ground.

The problem is, this fishing line can extend 3600 kilometers, even if it does not hang anything, even if it bears its own gravity, it must be 200 times stronger than steel! This is almost an impossible task for the current level of human technology! Not to mention, as the number of things it hangs increases, it will also bear several times the pulling force!

And what's even worse, the space elevator is possible because it's built from the top down.

But if you want to build a space elevator from top to bottom, you have to launch a huge amount of materials into space to build it.

It's like a chicken-and-egg problem.

How to build a space elevator without massive amounts of matter?

With that massive amount of matter, what space elevator is needed?

Isn't this cheating and painful!

But at this moment, the employees of Lazy God Yafei sitting in the elevator don't feel any pain at all.

They just feel comfortable.

Sitting on a seat that is more comfortable than a sofa, bearing about twice the acceleration of gravity, looking at the scenery, the receding earth and the distant horizon, no one would believe it, this is what requires professional training to be competent Space travelling.

In this world, it is estimated that there is only Silence, which can give people such a comfortable space travel experience.

The atmosphere in the elevator is very relaxed. Obviously, the builder of the elevator is very confident in the safety of the elevator.

A few physically strong colleagues didn't even sit on the seats, but walked around in the elevator. Twice the gravity is equivalent to carrying a person of the same weight as oneself, and the pressure is still evenly loaded. Human legs and spine are far stronger than human beings imagine. When walking, the steps are just a bit heavy.

At the deceleration stage, the gravity on the body gradually decreased until it returned to the feeling similar to the ground. Only a few minutes later, a voice sounded: "Hey, the second floor is here. Passengers heading to the food court and taking the subway, please Leave the elevator. This elevator goes up, and passengers going downstairs, please take the down elevator on the opposite side."

Elevator going up? Many Lazy God Yafei employees who had raised their feet to go out, stopped their steps again.

They looked up, and now the light on the second floor was on, and there was... 3456789... floor above!

Is there a down elevator on the opposite side?

A group of enthusiastic lazy God Yafei employees suddenly became happy, and their desire to explore suddenly swelled.

"I haven't taken enough elevators! If I go down again, will I lose weight?" An engineer dragged his companion and ran towards the waiting elevator opposite, "Hurry up, I'm going to be in space later." Take a space walk, you help me take a picture!"

"This floor is the food court. I'm not hungry. I want to go up and see what the other floors are. I'm really looking forward to it..."

"Take the subway? Take the subway in space? You're kidding!"

There were even more people who were not in a hurry to get up or down. As soon as the elevator door opened, they were attracted by the fragrance in the air.

"Food court! My God, what is this smell, the smell of barbecue? Can you eat barbecue in space?"

In the elevator room, the up and down elevators are facing each other, and the doors are open. Next to the elevator, there is a huge billboard. The face of the grinning space boy occupies half of the wall, and beside it is a huge photo of barbecue with attractive colors.

"When you come to Space, you can eat Space Brother's barbecue! Go straight ahead and turn left! Booth 201! Big bargain at the opening, buy ten and get one free!"