Chapter 1805 Undersea Industrial Revolution! (Monthly Ticket Requested!!! Subscription Requested)
In fact, it is not just Xiaobawang who is surprised and horrified by what happened today.
Other countries are also like this. A new fighter jet, from research and development to actual combat, requires a country to invest a lot of resources.
Let's take the F35 as an example. The F-35 fighter jet originated from the US Joint Strike Fighter Program. The program is the last major military aircraft development and procurement project in the 20th century. It is also the largest fighter jet development program in the world. It is designed to replace the F-16, F/A-18C/D, AV-8 and other military aircraft of the US Air Force, US Navy, US Marine Corps and the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. The program is positioned as a low-cost weapon system. This is because the cost of modern advanced fighter jets, such as the F-22 fighter jet, is constantly rising. The United States and other countries feel that it is financially unbearable to rely solely on such high-performance and high-priced fighter jets to form a fighter force. Therefore, the various branches of the US military changed their previous tradition of developing fighter jets and joined together to jointly develop a low-end fighter jet with a wide range of uses, advanced performance and affordable prices.
In 1993, the US Department of Defense launched the "Joint Advanced Attack Technology" JASF verification aircraft research, and established the JASF Research Program Office in January 1994, hoping to develop a series of light combat attack aircraft common to several military services to replace the US Air Force's F-15E, F-16, F-15C and F-117, the Navy's F-14, the Marine Corps' AV-8B, and several outdated models. At the same time, the United Kingdom also expressed great interest in this plan and proposed to join the plan to replace the Harrier fighter and its Sea Harrier series with this aircraft. In order to integrate resources and highlight key points, the US Department of Defense also included the ongoing US Navy "Joint Strike Fighter" JAF plan and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency "Common Low-Cost Light Fighter" CALF plan into the JASF plan, and officially renamed the JASF plan to "Joint Strike Fighter" JSF in March 1996. The JSF project was officially launched on November 16, 1996.
The F-35 looks like a single-engine, smaller version of the F-22 Raptor, and it does draw some elements from it. The F-35's exhaust nozzle equipment was inspired by the Model 200 vertical take-off and landing aircraft designed by General Dynamics in 1972. The first F-35 to be tested was the Air Force version of the F-35A, numbered AA-1. It made its first successful flight in Texas on December 15, 2006.
Although the United States is the main buyer and funder, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Australia and Turkey have also provided $7.5 billion in funding for the development program. The total development cost is estimated to exceed $40 billion, mainly paid by the United States, and the purchase of 2,400 fighters is expected to cost the United States another $200 billion. The nine major participating countries plan to obtain more than 3,100 F-35s by 2035. However, in 2009, Israel, Turkey and Singapore were also negotiating with the United States on the purchase of F-35s. According to further optimistic estimates, the total sales volume of F-35 fighter jets will exceed 6,000 in the future, making F-35 one of the most numerous fighter jets.
Just think about it, the country spent so much resources and energy to make advanced weapons, but it was turned around and turned around. This would be a nightmare for anyone!
So the White House contacted Kai and Tony that day. They hoped that these two superheroes with the closest relationship with the government could give answers.
Tony was more irritable, and his research was stuck in a bottleneck again, so even with Pepper's comfort, Tony still satirized the White House directly and hung up the phone.
And Kai... There has been almost no news about Kai recently, and no one knows where he has gone.
Only a few people know that he is in Atlantis.
Because Atlantis also had an accident.
Just after the loss of the Dark Trident, Kai and Meira rushed to the Mediterranean-Atlantis Outpost as soon as possible, because when Kai and Meira left Egypt, they received an emergency distress signal from the outpost.
But when they arrived, the entire outpost was destroyed. Everyone was missing.
Only a damaged human body was left.
According to the news from the White House, the human body was confirmed to be the defected artifact holder of the Little Overlord.
Although they didn't understand what happened, Kai and Meila knew that the underwater world was in trouble.
After all, the Dark Trident was missing.
So the two rushed back to Atlantis as quickly as possible.
However, before they could discuss anything with the Atlantis Kingdom government, bad news came from the Fisherman Kingdom.
They were attacked.
Their orichalcum was stolen!
To be honest, Kai didn't know what orichalcum was at first.
So he didn't quite understand what special meaning this thing had for Atlantis, but seeing a group of people like bereaved parents, they were in a panic.
Then he knew what orichalcum was.
Later, he learned that mountain copper is actually a common name. The scientific name of this thing is Orichalcum, which is a special ore that can only be produced in volcanic craters deep in the sea. This thing can provide a huge amount of energy. The way to use it is very simple, just burn it directly.
For Kai, this thing is equivalent to solid petroleum.
However, the energy it contains is much more powerful than petroleum.
At the same time, Orihakon is volatile and extremely dangerous. When it leaves the high-pressure environment, it will begin to volatilize, and when combined with oxygen, it will immediately become highly toxic! Even if this thing burns, it will produce highly toxic greenhouse gases.
Thousands of years ago, after Atlantis entered the deep sea, their civilization collapsed. After all, they used to be a land civilization. Even though they relied on the ocean, they were more of a land civilization. Their way of life has always been that of land people. lifestyle.
When entering the deep sea, it can be said that you are completely destitute. There is no civilization at all.
The emergence of orichalcum allowed them to start the first industrial revolution.
The original deep-sea civilization was actually more like a tribal civilization. They chased schools of fish and grazed seaweed. Doesn't tend to settle in one location.
But orichalcum revitalized their civilization.
They rebuilt their civilization in a very short period of time and began abandoning land habits that eventually led to what they are today.
It can be said that orichalcum is their key, allowing them to open the door to a new era.
But the consequences of this kind of thing are the same as the industrial revolution on land, both good and bad!
Just compare it directly here.
The British Industrial Revolution took place from the 1760s to the 1830s. Through the Industrial Revolution, Britain became the most productive country in the world at that time. Machine production replaced manual labor and laid the foundation for the British Empire to continue to dominate the world in the 19th century. A solid foundation. However, Britain had actually established an empire on which the sun never sets before the Industrial Revolution and realized its ambition to dominate the world. The completion of the Industrial Revolution continued Britain's hegemony for hundreds of years until the two subsequent world wars.
In the "Industrial Revolution" experienced by the United Kingdom, an industrial production system based on "coal, metallurgy, and chemical industry" was established. With the advancement of the Industrial Revolution, coal resources have unprecedented value, and coal has also become an important factor in the early stage of industrialization. main energy source. Although the role of coal is indeed greater than imagined, it will release a large amount of "smoke, sodium dioxide, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide" and many other harmful substances during production.
The billowing smoke containing harmful substances such as sulfur dioxide released when coal is burned has become a characteristic of the steam engine and the industrial revolution that people often talk about. Before the industrial revolution, Britain was known as "Happy England", which included the beauty of the natural environment. But now, it has become a different scene of billowing coal and smog. Another word associated with this is "black". Because of the thick smoke, the sky and buildings turned dark. Paul Manto said that due to the role of steam engines, factories will be able to gather together to form some huge and dark industrial cities, and steam engines will make endless clouds of smoke fly over these cities. In 1784, a French mineralogist wrote after visiting the Cullen Iron Works: “There are such a large series of workshops that the air in the distance is steamed and heated. At night, everything is illuminated by flames and light, so when People found so many piles of shiny coal at a considerable distance, and saw When the fire clusters erupted from the blast furnaces, when people heard the heavy sound of hammers hitting the iron drills mixed with the sharp hiss of the air pumps, people wondered whether they were at the foot of an erupting volcano, or were being sent to the fire by magic. The god and his one eye are at the mouth of the cave where he is busy with thunderbolts.”
French traveler Defoe once described Sheffield, the emerging center of the iron-making industry: "It has a large population, narrow streets, dark houses, and constant smoke from the continuously working iron furnaces."
"Sheffield is one of the dirtiest and smokiest cities I have ever seen. Because small blacksmith shops do not have tall chimneys, and the city has many hillsides, the smoke rises directly to the streets. This causes People keep breathing dust into their bodies. If people stay in the city for a long time, they will inevitably inhale the soot and accumulate it in their lungs, which will have harmful effects.”
Historian Paul Manto once described the industrial cities during the Industrial Revolution: ugly, dark, and surrounded by smoke. For example, in Manchester and some nearby small cities, there is soot everywhere. Their buildings are built with red bricks, but due to the erosion of soot, they have turned into black bricks, giving people a particularly gloomy impression. . In order to be close to water sources and water transportation lines, factories are generally built at the bottom of river valleys. Therefore, there are many factories along the river and the air is polluted. In the Birmingham area, the development of the steelmaking industry caused the city to echo with the sound of hammers all day long and glow red with furnace fires at night, and the entire area became a veritable "Black Country." In London, smoke and fog mix with each other to form a thick yellow smog that persists for many years. The famous novelist Dickens even called this a "London characteristic". The formation of this smog is caused by burning coal. caused by environmental pollution. Luke Howard, a 19th-century London meteorologist, noted that all of London's chimneys were involved in creating the clouds of soot that so regularly hung over the city. And when the atmosphere stagnated, the city did become almost uninhabitable. For example, on January 10, 1812, a windless day, London fell into darkness for a few hours. Lights were lit in the shops and pedestrians had to take special care to prevent accidents.
A writer also described the smog in London in the 18th century. Thick smog filled her countless streets and squares, shrouding 1.5 million people in misty water vapor.
The factories built along the river included tanneries, dye houses, bone meal factories, rubber factories and gas plants. The sewage and waste from these factories, including sewage discharged from nearby sewage ditches, all gathered in the Irk River. On the other side of the river, every house in the residential area was blackened by smoke. The river water was dark, full of sludge and waste, and stinky bubbles kept rising up, spreading a foul smell that was disgusting. The situation in the industrial center of Britain was basically similar. As people at the time said, new industries brought new sewage, but "the drainage rivers and ditches were still in a natural state" and the water quality was seriously deteriorated.
British scholar Cartwright also believed that by 1830, England's large industrial cities did not have a safe drinking water supply, and the rivers in these areas were seriously polluted, so that there were no fish in the rivers. The most typical example is the Thames in London. Because industrial sewage was discharged directly into the river without treatment, the originally clear and pleasant "mother river" became a sewage river with an extremely smelly smell. 1858 was the "stinky year" of the Thames. In June of that year, the stench was so horrifying that even the windows of the Parliament Building by the river had to hang sheets soaked in disinfectant.
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And these were nothing to the Atlanteans at that time.
They enjoyed the convenience of the "Industrial Revolution" brought by mountain copper, and naturally they had to bear the nightmare brought by mountain copper.
During that period, the global temperature rose, and a large number of marine life began to become extinct. At the same time, they themselves were also deeply affected.
Atlanteans began to suddenly fall ill and die.
Atlantis was a long-lived nation. Although they were not as young as the Amazons on Paradise Island, they lived much longer than ordinary people. So as more and more such examples became available, some people finally began to pay attention to this issue.
They began to investigate the cause.
Soon they noticed mountain copper.
At first they didn't believe it. After all, the Atlanteans would not be so stupid as to leave the waste and exhaust gas produced by mountain copper to themselves. Don't forget, there are still large tracts of land in this world! They used the barbaric land as their own landfill.
Just like modern people leave all pollution to the ocean, the Atlanteans left pollution to the land.
They didn't believe that this would affect them living in the deep sea!
However, soon the smart Atlantean scientists told everyone the concept of "environmental protection"... Their environmental protection knowledge was thousands of years earlier than humans!
Their pollution would eventually kill them!
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