Chapter 77: Observatory Warning

The Baiyun Mountain Observatory of the Xia Academy of Sciences is located on Baiyun Mountain in Baiyun District, Yangcheng City, Guangnan Province, adjacent to the Zhongshan Scenic Area. It is the first modern astronomy research institution established by Xia people and is known as the "cradle of modern astronomy in Xia."

Its predecessor was the Institute of Astronomy of the National Academia Sinica, which was established in February 1928; in August 1934, the Baiyun Mountain Observatory was completed; in May 1950, the Baiyun Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was established.

The completion of the Baiyun Mountain Observatory marked the beginning of Xia's modern astronomy research. Many branches of Xia's modern astronomy and astronomical observatories were mostly born, established and expanded here.

On March 28, 2017, the Baiyun Mountain Observatory of Xia Guo Academy of Sciences was selected as one of the “First Batch of Xia Guo’s Top Ten Science and Technology Tourism Bases” by the National Tourism Administration and Xia Guo Academy of Sciences.

On March 1, 2017, Baiyunshan Observatory discovered a new comet and named it "Baiyunshan".

According to information on the official website of the observatory in December 2015, the Baiyun Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has seven field operational observation stations. Each field station operates a 137-meter millimeter wave telescope, a 1-meter near-Earth object telescope, and multiple sets of equipment. Space target and debris observation network, h? Solar fine structure telescope, solar radio spectrum analyzer, near-infrared solar spectrometer and other observation equipment; among them, Delingha Observatory has large-scale astronomical observations such as mobile submillimeter wave telescope and space debris detection photoelectric telescope. Equipment, Xuyi Observatory has large astronomical equipment such as the 112 Near-Earth Object Detection Telescope and the Space Debris Detection Photoelectric Telescope.

The Baiyunshan Observatory Library of the Xia Academy of Sciences has more than hundreds of thousands of books and periodicals (bound and single volumes). The library has the largest collection of documents in the Xia Dynasty and is the largest and most comprehensive astronomical library in East Asia.

The collection is divided into two parts, astronomical documents and Chinese and foreign subject journals. The museum collects film star maps and astronomical publications on various carriers. It also completely preserves many important Western astronomical serial publications. Many of them have been collected since their inception. It is complete and has important research and reference value.

Baiyunshan Observatory of the Xia Academy of Sciences has a total of 310 employees, including 255 scientific and technological personnel and 147 scientific and technological support staff, including 3 academicians of the Xia Academy of Sciences, 51 researchers and senior engineering technicians, and 47 associate researchers and senior engineering technicians. people; there are 12 winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

Humanity has established astronomical observatories not just for scientific research or to study the mysteries of the universe, but more importantly for the safety of all mankind.

Yes, humankind's own safety relies heavily on observatories, which can detect threats to the earth from the universe.

Creatures on the earth have experienced five major extinctions and countless minor extinction events. The most recent mass extinction was the mass extinction that occurred 50 million years ago, which completely wiped out the dinosaurs, the overlord of the earth. This mass extinction event is Caused by the impact of an asteroid from space on the Earth.

This impact was devastating, and 90% of all living things on the earth were devastated. Since then, mammals have officially entered the stage of history, and humans have gradually ascended to the dominance of the earth.

With the development of human science and technology, in order to face the threats from the universe, especially the orbits of asteroids not far from the earth, major countries use supercomputers to calculate the probability of those asteroids hitting the earth and prepare files. Daily monitoring, just in case, after all, an asteroid with a diameter of ten kilometers can destroy 99% of all living things on the earth, not to mention the extinction of human beings.

Near Mars, 200 million kilometers away from the earth, an irregularly shaped asteroid with a diameter of more than ten kilometers in a normal orbit around Mars was hit by an asteroid flying from nowhere. The asteroid instantly It broke away from the normal orbit around Mars and flew towards the Earth at a speed of 77 kilometers per second.

Not long after the asteroid left the orbit of Mars, its flight trajectory was observed by a national observatory that had been alive since the end of the world.

National Observatory of the United States and Italy.

"Oh my God, guys, there's an asteroid ten kilometers across heading towards us."

"Hurry up and calculate its speed and flight path."

"Come on, shit, Charlie, stop being in a daze."

"Go and do the supercomputer calculations."

"Hurry up, I've calculated it. It's heading towards the Earth at a speed of seventy-seven kilometers per second. It's expected to collide with the Earth in a month."

Eagle Empire Royal Observatory.

"Alert, alert, an asteroid is heading towards Earth."

"O, is this God trying to destroy us?"

"Humanity is already miserable enough. Isn't the biochemical crisis not enough? There will be a great collision between heaven and earth."

"Report to the Prime Minister and the Queen quickly."

The researchers at the Mount Fuji National Observatory in Japan also saw the scene displayed on the observation screen and the results calculated by the computer. Everyone was a little desperate.

You must know that due to the outbreak of the zombie virus, the vitality of this country has been severely damaged, and the population is only more than 10 million. You must know that before the end of the world, there was a population of more than 200 million, and now less than one-tenth is left.

Now there is another crisis of an asteroid hitting the earth, Director Kato said a little frustrated.

"God bless our empire, I will report the situation to the Prime Minister and the Emperor, please keep an eye on me."

France, India, the Bear Country and other major countries have received reports from their own observatories, and each country is holding an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures.

After the outbreak of the zombie virus, small countries were basically destroyed, and even large countries suffered heavy losses. Only a part of the zombies in the country were cleared, and it was impossible to clear all the zombies. Nuclear countries could not throw a large-scale killer on their own territory. Now that an asteroid that is rare in a million years has hit the earth, the leaders of major countries know that they can't rely on their own countries alone. The major countries can only unite to find a solution, especially the five major countries in the United Nations.

Other countries can quickly receive the alarm of the observatory, and Xia is no exception.

Xia Baiyun Mountain Observatory was the first to observe the abnormal situation. After calculating the trajectory of the asteroid and the time of arrival on the earth, it immediately reported to the upper level. The elders of the central government held an expert meeting as soon as they received the intelligence.

All the academicians of Xiaguo in Beijing arrived at the venue, including several elders of the central government, leaders of the military at all levels, and leaders of various ministries and commissions of the government. The meeting was of the highest standard, after all, it was a major event related to the survival of mankind.

The meeting lasted for half a day, and finally decided to make several preparations. The first plan was to build a spacecraft with other countries, send astronauts to the universe, land on the asteroid and make holes there, and blow up the asteroid with a nuclear bomb. Of course, this is the most ideal solution.

But now, whether it is building a spacecraft or sending a spaceship to space, there are great difficulties. You must know that now because of zombies, industrial production in various countries is basically stagnant.

If the first plan does not work, the second plan can be implemented, that is, a nuclear country will bomb an asteroid with a nuclear bomb when it approaches the earth, and blow it into pieces when it enters the earth's atmosphere. In this way, the asteroid that has become fragments will not cause so much damage to the earth, at least humans will not be destroyed all at once.

Of course, there are still many details that need to be improved in this plan, otherwise humans will become history if they are not handled well.