Chapter 306 Interstellar Immigration Train
The resources of the solar system are limited.
Some scientists have built mathematical models and calculated that if the resources are fully utilized, the upper limit of the population of the solar system is about 1 trillion... Compared with the current total human population of only 11 billion, there is still a lot of room for growth.
But the existence of human beings is not just for survival, but for a better life.
Everyone has a villa and lives in a big house.
Have more than one private car.
Have the conditions to go to various places for vacation and travel.
The material is extremely rich, the average annual meat consumption per person is hundreds of kilograms, the price of vegetables and fruits is cheap, and you can eat as much as you want, and even the food waste rate exceeds 30%.
Have good educational resources.
Affordable high-quality medical resources.
There are also rich spiritual and cultural products, etc.
If everyone wants to live a life with these good conditions, the upper limit of the population of the solar system is estimated to be only about 100 billion - if you pursue a high-quality life.
Based on the current human population growth rate.
In two hundred years at the shortest and three hundred years at the slowest, the total human population is estimated to increase to 100 billion.
Therefore, it is necessary to start preparing for the development of the outer galaxy in advance, prepare for a rainy day, and expand a larger living space.
The priority option is to target all star systems with heavy element planets within 10 light years around the solar system. Galaxies dominated by light elements that have not experienced supernova explosions are not considered.
Because heavy elements such as carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, iron, silicon, phosphorus, calcium, and sodium, which are necessary for the human body, can only fuse heavy elements inside massive stars at the end of their lifespans when gravitational collapse and supernova explosions occur, generating a large number of heavy elements and forming the "skeleton" of countless lives.
For example, the solar system is a "second-hand star" that was reborn after the supernova explosion, when the nebula and debris reunited and finally ignited again.
Among "first-hand stars", hydrogen and helium account for 99%, and heavy elements are pitifully few. Unless the technology of synthesizing heavy elements in large quantities is mastered, light element star systems can only be used as fuel supply stations and are not worth colonizing.
After years of observation, astronomers found that among the more than 20 stars within ten light years around the solar system, only 8 have heavy element planets.
Twenty years ago, the Chinese Space Agency launched eight deep space probes in those eight directions at a speed of nearly 100 kilometers per second. After about hundreds of thousands of years, they will reach the destination and take some valuable photos.
After hundreds of thousands of years, won’t the daylily be cold?
Fortunately, the Black Hole Group is powerful. Wei Ming personally took action and accelerated eight probes larger than a billiard table to 0.2 times the speed of light.
Now, twenty years have passed. Although they have not yet reached the destination, they have sent back a lot of high-value image data.
After research, experts from the Black Hole Universe Development Company believe that five of the star systems are worth interstellar colonization because a large amount of water has been discovered.
As for habitable planets, it is a good thing to find them, which is equivalent to winning the lottery.
It doesn’t matter if they are not found. As long as there is water, there is value in immigration, and they can work hard to colonize humans.
In addition.
Scientists from the Black Hole Group also conceived a crazy plan called the "Interstellar Immigration Train Plan."
This plan is very creative. It is to put immigrants into a 100-kilometer-long, pointed and long immigrant spaceship, which has its own nuclear fusion reactor as power and can carry up to 1 million immigrants.
When setting off, high-energy strong light is used to illuminate the umbrella-shaped reflector at the tail to continuously provide thrust acceleration, and the maximum speed can reach 0.1C.
Then rely on the power of the spaceship itself to accelerate to 0.3C, and then try to maintain a constant speed.
In terms of supply, Wei Ming will throw one (or several) round "supply balls" with a mass of 1 million tons, a certain elastic surface, and a speed slightly greater than 0.3C every year. The laser emitted by the immigrant spaceship provides guidance, and the "supply ball" with a certain power adjustment ability will not deviate from the course.
At that time, the immigrant spaceship can capture the "supply ball" and obtain a source of material, so as to survive the long voyage.
When it is about to reach the end, there is also enough working fluid for deceleration.
That's it!
With an average speed of about 0.3C throughout the migration, the immigration spacecraft will only take more than 30 years to reach the star system 10 light years away.
Due to the existence of the time dilation effect, for the millions of immigrants on the spacecraft, it may only take 30 years for them to reach their destination - the new home of mankind.
Thirty years!
Assuming that the average life expectancy of the immigrants on the spacecraft can reach 300 years, they have only consumed one-tenth of their lives and obtained a blank territory with unlimited potential.
There is no doubt that this is very cost-effective.
Even an expert has conceived a more extreme "immigration train plan". In order to reduce weight, the diameter of this train is only a little more than 10 meters, with one section every 100 meters, and then thousands of sections are put together to form a super space train with a length of 10 kilometers and a total of 1 million people.
First, one section at a time, using an ultra-long electromagnetic catapult track to accelerate to 0.05C, and then connect and splice together.
First, a "power locomotive" with a nuclear fusion reactor is launched in front, and a thousand "manned trains" are towed behind, totaling 1 million immigrants.
Afterwards, Wei Ming would send a million-ton "supply ball" every once in a while, or send multiple ones in a short period of time.
When the destination is finally reached, all the "carriage" structures at the back can be put into the reactor at the head and used as a working fluid for deceleration. It is even more crowded, with 1 million people squeezed into the front 20% of the "carriage" , the level of congestion reaches its highest level.
But the immigrants also saw dawn and victory.
The remaining nuclear fusion "power locomotive" and the remaining 20 kilometers long "immigration train" landed on the surface of the heavy element planet with a batch of tools, equipment, robots and other supplies.
It is enough to build a stronghold with simple conditions but capable of maintaining basic survival, allowing them to take root on alien planets and open a sub-base of human civilization.
Under this plan, it is like living on a stuffy train every day. The quality of life of immigrants is indeed very poor, but it can save 80% of material consumption. The maximum speed can reach 0.5C. In terms of time, it will take up to twenty years to reach the end point, just like nature. Labor was average, painful, but short.
also.
In the design drawings drawn by experts, you will find a huge "nuclear-powered locomotive" shaped like a bullet, with a slender tail trailing behind it. name, but very vivid and vivid.
Within 10 light-years around the solar system.
5 exploitable star systems.
5 sets of interstellar immigration trains.
Colonial population of 5 million.
It took about 20 years to complete.
The above data constitute the "Immigration Train Plan".
Nowadays, the Black Hole Group lacks nothing but a sufficient population.
Therefore, this plan can only find cooperation with China in order to capture several surrounding colonizable galaxies.