Chapter 246 Homeland Plan

Wei Ming plans to take over all the fish ponds on Mars.

No one can object.

And considering that it was easy for him to find a lot of water underground on Mars.

The most conservative estimate is that there will be no problem if 1 million people immigrate in the future.

Then, build several colonial cities similar to black hole towns on the surface of Mars, with a giant tower in the middle, and then use the tower as a support to build a hemispherical closed ecosystem to make the environment in the ecosystem suitable for human habitation. Develop agriculture and achieve self-sufficiency.

Then use these colonial cities as bases to vigorously develop mineral resources on Mars and collect more water.

also!

The asteroid belt, which has more than 500,000 meteorite resources, is just between the orbit of Mars and the orbit of Jupiter, and is even closer to Mars, even less than 50 million kilometers away.

The so-called first-come-first-served approach to the moon, and using Mars as a base can also more conveniently mine meteorites in the asteroid belt.

If the mining of meteorite resources is not enough.

OK!

A little further ahead, Jupiter, 2 to 3 astronomical units (AU) away from the asteroid belt, is the largest planet in the solar system and the place with the richest resources.

Jupiter's mass is one thousandth that of the Sun and accounts for approximately 70% of the mass of all planets in the solar system.

The main component is hydrogen, accounting for 75% of its total mass.

In addition, there are a large number of satellites around Jupiter, eight of which have a diameter of more than 100 kilometers. Among them, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto all have a diameter of more than 3,000 kilometers. They are almost as big as the moon and Mars. .

Europa is recognized by scientists as "the most promising place to have life in the solar system, except for blue stars." Because in addition to clay minerals that can breed new life, Europa's surface also has a layer of hundreds of kilometers thick. ice sheet.

Under the ice cap is an underground ocean covering the entire world, which is 96 kilometers deeper than the deepest ocean on Blue Star and contains massive amounts of liquid water resources.

Europa's atmosphere is rich in oxygen. This oxygen is not formed by living things. It is most likely caused by the impact of charged particles in sunlight on Europa's icy surface, producing water vapor, which is then divided into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen breaks away, leaving the oxygen behind.

Some scientists have shown through research that Europa's ocean is absorbing a large amount of oxygen. The amount of oxygen it absorbs is much higher than previous simulations predicted. Scientists believe that this oxygen is enough to support the existence of a variety of life forms. Theoretically, there should be at least 3 million tons of fish-like creatures in Europa's ocean.

Therefore, as long as the resources on Jupiter and its satellites are developed, we can at least open up a hundred times more living space for mankind and meet the resource needs of a trillion people.

It is possible to build a huge new home around Jupiter.

Therefore, the development direction and route are clear and clear.

Get Mars first.

Then use Mars as a springboard to develop minerals in the asteroid belt.

If you still feel that it is not enough, take down Jupiter and its surrounding satellites to build a huge human home.

It can be called "Three Steps to Interstellar Colonization in the Solar System"

If all are realized, there will be no problem in increasing the resources available to humans in the living space by a hundred times.

If Wei Ming's Black Hole Group occupies the extremely important key node of Mars in advance, it will not affect the final realization of the "Three Steps", but the one who will benefit the most from it will definitely be the Black Hole Group.

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Black Hole Universe Development Corporation.

at high-level strategy meetings.

Wei Ming put forward his idea and said: "Is it possible for us to open about 10 colonies on Mars in the next ten years, build 10 colonial cities, immigrate about 1 million high-quality people, and build a A basically self-sufficient industrial system that enables our company to have absolute control over Mars and build it into our own private home without any doubts?”

Ten years, millions of people?

Everyone present looked at each other, trying their best to digest this information.

Wu Chenwu looked embarrassed. The big boss was launching satellites again. He had to say: "Mr. Wei, our space shuttle aircraft 'Pioneer' is expected to make its first flight by the end of this year. Through the electromagnetic catapult orbit, it can at most launch 10 tons of materials sent into space.”

"Next year, the number of launches of Pioneer should reach 100, and the year after that, it should reach 1,000... In five years, it should be able to reach about 10,000 launches per year."

"But even if it is launched ten thousand times, it will only transport 100,000 tons of materials into space."

"You said you would send one million people to Mars within ten years. Let's assume that sending one person to Mars requires 100 tons of various materials. One million people means 100 million tons. And this is only the material resources to reach Mars. On the way The consumption is not included. If it were included, even if N5 full nitrogen fuel was used, it would require more than one billion tons, so..."

Wei Ming's idea is simply unrealistic, more than ten thousand times worse.

"Unless we wait for the realization of controllable nuclear fusion, use large-scale colonial spaceships to transport millions of tons of supplies and carry tens of thousands of people at a time, and make several more trips, your idea can be realized. But I personally think that, This will have to wait until at least 2050.”

Chief Engineer Long Tianhao said... Long Tianhao is a top engineer who has perfectly executed many aerospace projects, such as the famous "Beidou-3 Satellite" and "Chang'e Lunar Exploration", for which he served as the first vice president. Engineer, and in the prime of life, he is only 58 years old this year.

He changed jobs from the Aerospace Group to the Black Hole Universe Development Company in June this year (his job change caused a stir within the Aerospace Group, which will not be discussed here). He is still in the investigation period, many inside information is not clear, and the cognitive system is still relatively old.

"What if I help you solve the material problem?"

Wei Ming said: "100 million tons of materials are not too much. There are places on Mars with water. I can also provide a few detailed coordinates... If I help solve all these problems, can you train 1 million qualified and high-quality talents to meet the needs of immigrants, and then use spacecraft to send them to Mars?"

Wei Ming's meaning is very clear.

Similar to the so-called chicken game, they provide personnel and land with a parachute. Wei Ming provides all materials and equipment and prepares enough "supply boxes".

"No problem, Mr. Wei!"

Wu Chenwu's eyes lit up, and he said immediately: "China has five or six million undergraduate graduates every year. We can recruit one or two million and train them well for three to five years. It is not a problem to have one million high-quality immigrants... China lacks everything, but it does not lack high-quality talents. Don't worry about this."

"If we don't consider returning, and just send people there one way, sending one million in ten years is not too stressful."

Another expert also said.

"Okay!"

Wei Ming made the decision and said: "This is it! I will solve the materials, and you will solve the personnel. The Black Hole Group's "Mars Home Plan" will be launched!"

"Yes!"

Long Tianhao said with everyone.

But he still felt that this plan was too hasty and even child's play.

First of all, it is unknown how 100 million tons of materials will be transported to Mars, but no one of the experts present questioned it; training one million college graduates is a good idea, but all one-way immigrants to Mars, not to mention whether those college students are willing to immigrate, what if the safety redundancy design is insufficient and something unexpected happens, and a large number of them are killed on the ground?

Isn't this a joke with human lives?

Seeing that he was somewhat resistant and had raised questions and criticisms many times in private, Wu Chenwu talked to him and whispered some inside information in his ear. All his doubts were immediately dispelled, and all that was left was expectation... Of course, this is a story for later.