Alien Relic Hunter

Those who mine minerals are these autonomous collection robots, those who build smelting plants are these autonomous collection robots, and even those who repair damaged parts of engineering ships have been manually modified, added with welding guns and multi-functional robotic arms, and written new tasks Programmed autonomous collection robot.

As for the humans on this engineering ship, they have never appeared in this memory.

But Ke Lan knew that there must be living people on this engineering ship - the core authority of these autonomous collection robots prohibits them from modifying their bodies and writing new programs. This restriction is also to prevent criminals from using Engineering robots modified into fully automatic killing weapons - it is not that the resistance organizations on the earth have never done this, but all they can get are relatively low-end goods. The modified armed robots can be used in battle. The effect is far inferior to that of a real person who has only received the most basic training.

As for the robot breaking the restrictions and modifying itself - Ke Lan directly ruled out this possibility: If the robot can really do this, an omnic crisis has already broken out on the earth, and even the artificial intelligence on the Ark does not have this ability. Such abilities, let alone these old-fashioned robots from a thousand years ago.

Ke Lan has lost count of how many zombies he has devoured. One hundred...or two hundred? In short, the zombies outside are still pouring in continuously, and the living armor I simulated is like a bottomless pit that can never be full. I accept all the "food" that is delivered to my door... incomplete The memory fragments are being pieced together piece by piece, becoming more complete.

The engineering ship docked on this asteroid for six full months. Ke Lan didn't know what the humans on the ship relied on to survive, but in these six months, the asteroid was dug up close to One-third of the volume, and the engineering ship that was originally only 100 meters long was transformed into a 500-meter-long special-shaped airship...

The appearance of this airship is very rough... or rough is not an exaggeration to describe it. It is full of a strong "dieselpunk" style: the power pipes with pits on the surface are directly exposed to the outside of the hull, and a large number of irregular The steel plates were crudely riveted together, like an old patched piece of clothing. Not to mention the modular design that is now highly recommended, there is almost no compatibility between these newly added components, and the tolerances between parts are also horribly large...

Twelve giant thrusters that look like horizontal chimneys are set in a support frame made of steel pipes. Although Ke Lan doubts whether this thing can provide thrust to the spacecraft, at least those connected to the thrusters are used. The power tubes that carry fuel don't look like decorations.

If Ke Lan was asked to use the shortest possible language to describe this alien spacecraft, it could probably be summed up in one sentence: "I think this thing should be able to move."

But no matter what, the fact that this group of people was able to survive in such a harsh environment and transform... no, it should be said that they built such a "thing", can really only be described as "miraculous" describe.

Within six months, all available resources on the asteroid were explored. The people on the engineering ship not only mined all the ore, but also used tens of thousands of tons of smelting residue as fuel, refined it and filled it into those "big chimneys".

"Burning stones? Is this... heavy nuclear fusion technology?"

You know, in the old era, the technological ceiling of mankind was just touching the threshold of controllable nuclear fusion. Even the nuclear fusion reactor on the Ark was only a so-called "trial type"... and the so-called "heavy nuclear" "Fusion" is much more difficult than the "nuclear fusion" that is often mentioned in daily life.

The nuclear fusion mentioned in the general population should be accurately called "hydrogen fusion", which refers to the nuclear fusion of isotopes of hydrogen atoms, that is, protium, deuterium and tritium, to produce helium, and obtain a large amount of released energy in the process.

The reason why we start to study nuclear fusion from hydrogen atom isotopes is because hydrogen atom is the first element in the periodic table of elements, with the smallest atomic number, the smallest number of neutrons and protons in the nucleus, and its relative atomic mass is "light", which makes it The minimum initial energy required to perform fusion...in short, is the "lowest threshold".

For those elements that are at the back of the periodic table and are "heavy" in terms of relative atomic mass, although they require much more initial energy than hydrogen, the energy released during the fusion process is not comparable to that of hydrogen fusion - this is "Re-fusion" is a typical high-investment and high-return model.

But according to the technological level of human civilization in the old era, even controllable hydrogen fusion is only half-baked, let alone the extremely high threshold of re-fusion... Otherwise, humans would not have regarded this kind of thinking after discovering energy crystals. The energy supply method that seemed a bit "primitive" has been changed to the main energy supply method of the Ark.

If the fusion reactor can be miniaturized and portable while achieving high stability, there is a high probability that there will be no need for energy crystallization. But because it cannot be done, this type of fusion reactor is essentially the same as a battery. Energy crystals occupy the mainstream.

If the humans on this engineering ship have mastered the fusion technology, it means that their technological level is at least five hundred years ahead of the current Ark... No, it may even be more than a thousand years!

But on an engineering ship that was drifting in space and faced problems with survival and supplies, how could they develop fusion technology?

Even eating is a problem, how can you still have the energy to do other things?

What's more, there are no conditions for such experiments on the engineering ship at all - if you want to master heavy nuclear fusion technology, there are countless technical difficulties that need to be overcome. Each difficulty requires the investment of massive manpower and material resources, and the time and resources consumed are simply Astronomical figures, things that even the earth civilization of the old era, which concentrated most of the resources of the entire solar system, couldn't do. How could a small, dilapidated engineering ship do it?

Ke Lan stared closely at the alien spacecraft in the picture. He was waiting for the people on the spacecraft to light the twelve "big chimneys" - in his opinion, even if there was no explosion, the thrusters would not be able to get any output at all.

[P.S. Heavy nuclear fusion technology is the principle of "burning rocks" of the planetary engine in Da Liu's Wandering Earth. The knowledge related to heavy nuclear fusion technology in this chapter basically comes from science fiction works. If there are any fallacies, please point them out, but don’t take it for granted... I have to look up tens of thousands of words of dry information to write a thousand words. I already have a headache. Already...]

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