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Chapter 1069 Cannons in the World

"We are their slaves!!"

"——Well..."

Catherine got up from the bed.

She had a rare nightmare...

"It's rare to wake up at seven in the morning, Kate."

When Catherine appeared in the bathroom, Elsa looked at Catherine in surprise.

"Well... I had a nightmare."

All in all, it's definitely not a good thing...

"By the way, Kate, Mr. Cheng Long has already shot the fourth video."

Elsa talked about the news she just got today.

"Really? Okay."

Catherine got up unsteadily.

This is Cheng Long's fourth film. Catherine had killed all the previous films.

Well...it doesn't count as dead, because when he becomes famous in the future, these "dark histories" will all be Chapter 1069

Human cannons can be sold for money.

Think about it, the once arrogant big stars also had such a youthful period, how interesting is this?!

After Catherine reviewed the film, she was finally satisfied.

Cheng Long probably already understands what he means. In this film, Cheng Long expresses many artistic conceptions that are similar to those of later generations. His acting skills may not be good enough, but the conveying of the spirit has arrived, and Cheng Long's style has also been established.

, this is completely different from Bruce Lee's style, and Catherine can just promote it as the opposite of Bruce Lee.

"That's almost it."

Catherine squinted her eyes and smiled.

"Let's wait until the summer release to release it. It will be just right."

Catherine determined Cheng Long's "Police Story" in just a few words.

"Elsa, tell him what you want to film. Write a script for me first. If I think it's suitable, I'll let him film it."

"Written and performed by yourself?"

Catherine shook her head: "I just want to see what his strength is. And he will still have to develop on his own in the future."

It’s impossible for Catherine to take care of someone else’s life...

(Well, in this way, we are all here with only one Li Lianjie left, eh, eh, they can all play The King of Kung Fu Chapter 1069

A cannon in the world~)

The bad taste in Catherine's heart is erupting...

This matter passed quickly. After all, relatively speaking, this matter is no longer that important.

Catherine was more concerned about other things now.

Technology, space and the like.

Well……

"Guan Xing(tu)

esat) plan?”

When Catherine saw this Sta

When I read aft’s opinion letter, I was really interested.

sta

Due to the current high cost of satellite launches, aft proposed a very practical initiative: changing the way satellites are launched and reducing the launch quality of satellites.

Satellites can be divided according to weight: picometer satellites below 1 kg, nano satellites between 1 and 10 kg, micro satellites between 10 and 100 kg, small satellites between 100 and 1,000 kg, and general satellites above 1,000 kg.

"Tube Star" is a nanomicro with a total weight of 7.5kg.

Loads and tasks suitable for the tube type include: space-to-Earth video imaging, geomagnetic field mapping, satellite orientation detection (horizon, gyroscope, accelerometer, etc.), orbital environment measurement (temperature, pressure, radiation intensity, etc.), hardware and

Software on-orbit testing (microprocessors, etc.), monitoring migratory animals from space, testing satellite stabilization technology, biological experiments, space advertising, space art and space funerals, etc.

STA

AFT wants to create a popular business model, and Guan Xing is their plan.

According to the design. "Guan Xing" will be transmitted to a self -reduced orbit of about 310 kilometers above sea level, and runs for several weeks along the track (the duration depends on the actual situation of the track and the situation of space weather).

Declars team.

"The name Guan Xing is not good ... um ..." Catherine translated it into Chinese in his mind and found that it seemed similar to the syllable of "Star Watching".

"Well, this plan can be changed to the Star Gattleer Program!"

"Stargamin? Will it be too worse ...?"

Elsa feels that there are some words.

"It seems like this ..." Catherine nodded, and the name was not so simple. If you don't think about it, you may make a joke.

"And TU

ESAT seems good? "

"Oh ... forget it, just a satellite plan ..."

Catherine shook her head.

"But although this plan is very good on the surface. However, it is actually not possible ..."

Catherine looked at this plan, but shook her head.

It is really low to look at the launch cost of each satellite -but also relative.

For most people. The cost is going up. There is no 100,000 US dollars, and it is almost impossible to launch at a time!

"So ... is this this?"

Catherine looked at the back, but found some more interesting content: the way of launching satellites.

"It's a earth cannon ... Should I say that?"

Catherine scratched her head.

Human beings have countless history of space for space. However, since human beings' moon landing has reached its peak, human exploration of space seems to have fallen into a dilemma.

Obviously the current situation of the real space travel is too far away from science fiction novels.

But why is space travel unrealistic?

In the final analysis, these truths are actually very simple: money!

In this plan, it turned out that it was unexpected to launch a satellite with a artillery, and it could directly reduce the cost to one -tenth of the original!

Catherine is really surprising.

After reading this plan, Catherine to STA

AFT's research began to pay attention to.

"Let Haiden come over."

Maxto Haiden. A mixed race from Austria, he is also STA

AFT's CEO.

Haiden was originally the management of NASA, but was later STA

AFT has been dug over, and recently he has become the president here.

"Do you plan to launch a satellite with a cannon?"

Catherine looked at the plan, and first asked.

"We have this plan, in fact. This is just the first step. We have a rough plan here. At the end, we are planning to use the electromagnetic cannon to be used as a tool for our moon to land on the moon.

Space, just the beginning. "

Heiden said that.

"Oh? Specific to me."

Catherine asked.

"If humans want to explore space, then establishing a base on the moon will be a must. Obviously, it is a bad choice to launch a satellite directly to the outer space from the ground.

The atmosphere is dense and has a large air resistance. If it is the establishment of a space station on the earth satellite track and as a base, it is not the best choice.

The impact of space radiation or space garbage is destroyed; secondly, there is no construction material on the satellite track, and all the materials of all construction bases must be transported by the earth. "

Headen paused, and then said: "The moon is a very good space base selection. It has a lot of advantages. It can be said that it is just to make up for the shortcomings I just called:

6. It is convenient to launch satellites out of the outside; the moon has almost no atmosphere. The air resistance is much smaller than the earth; if you dig a hole on the surface of the moon and build a base inside, the ground of the moon is an extremely good radiation protection, anti -collision protection protection, anti -collision protection protection

Floor, don't worry about the damage of the instrument; at the same time, there are rich resources on the moon, and the resources required to establish the base can be tapped on the spot. "

"Therefore, in order to explore space in the future, we must set foot on the moon first and establish a base on the moon. However, the key issue is how to launch a lot of materials to the moon, and at the same time, its economic cost is not as good as the existing rocket transportation method.

high."

There are many inherent shortcomings of traditional rocket transportation methods.

First of all, there is an inherent problem for the rocket transportation. It must keep burning fuel to accelerate along the way. This leads to most of the fuel at the beginning to accelerate the fuel.

The proportion of satellites is very low. As a result, each launching satellite will consume a lot of fuel, and its price is expensive.

Secondly, the safety of the rocket launch is not high. Although NASA has been working hard to control the safety, the rocket launch always has a 1%level accident rate that cannot be reduced.

Third, the quality of each transportation of the Rockets can only be small. If you want to transport large quality materials to space, this way is not a good choice.

"So, we think of the use of artillery firing. This method can reduce our cost in large quantities. From a artillery firing tube star.

. ""

"However, according to calculations, it is a little difficult to fired to the moon with artillery, but if you use an electromagnetic acceleration device, it is much simpler."

"On a long track, there are many levels of coils, and an ejection body installed with permanent magnets inside is moving forward among these coils.

Inside, only the effect of 4 coils on permanent magnets: the two previous two generate suction, and the latter two generate thrust. Each coil is generated by large capacitors discharge, and its discharge time and cycle are strictly controlled.

To ensure that the 4 coils near the throwing object are forced to move forward at any moment.

"When landing on the moon, you need to decelerate to land. There are many ways to decelerate. If you continue to uphold this idea of not carrying fuel, you can think of such a solution: when the throwing object is flying to the moon, it is along the moon surface on the surface of the moon.

If the cut line is flying, the density distribution of precise control of the density distribution along the way, the density distribution satisfies the force of the throwing body as a constant force, and the size of this force is within its tolerance.

Realization, the most reliable landing method before that should still be carried with fuel to decelerate. "

Hayden thought for a while and added: "The main purpose of our plan is to prevent the launched object from using chemical fuel as its main power. The projectile does not need to carry no fuel at all. It needs to carry a small amount of fuel to make slight adjustments to the course.

"According to our calculations, when the satellite or the materials we need to transport have a minimum speed of about 10km relative to the ground

s. As long as this speed is reached, the object can be hit to the moon by launching at a specific angle at a specific location on the earth at a specific time."

"Has your plan started?"

"Not yet, actually, we are still discussing it."

"Still discussing? Why? I think this plan is pretty good..."

Catherine is a little strange.

"This is not our company's plan, this is a plan that someone sent to our company. We once studied the other party's harp system and thought it was feasible, so we discussed it with the other party for a while... This plan was given by the other party.

of."

Hayden replied.

"The Harp System? What is that? Wait, who gave you this plan? What's that person's name?"

Catherine asked strangely.

Hayden thought for a while and then said: "His name seems to be...Girard Bull."

It's actually Gerald Boole?!

Catherine was stunned.

"Cannon of Babylon?!"

Catherine almost blurted it out.

But she immediately said: "This man is good, and his plan is also very good."

Catherine approved: "We can support him and let him go to the school district to do research, or we can arrange him to go somewhere else and let him go to Sta.

It’s not impossible for aft to work.”

Catherine explained for a while, letting Hayden get in touch with the other party, and then let Hayden leave.

"I didn't expect it to be the guy who made the Babylonian cannon..."

Catherine really didn't expect that things would turn out like this.

The Babylon Cannon is a super cannon built by Iraq with the help of artillery expert Gilad Bull. It is the largest cannon ever built.

After the Iran-Iraq war ended in 1988, Saddam approached Bull, who proposed the idea of using cannons to launch satellites. Saddam was very interested and funded Bull. After receiving funding, Bull began to build the largest satellite in history.

The cannon, the Iraqis call it the "Cannon of Babylon."

The Babylon Cannon weighs 2,100 tons and is as long as --. This cannon can send 2-ton rockets into space and can be used to launch satellites. Fearing that it would be sabotaged by being suspected of being a military weapon, Bull began research in secret. He will

The cannon is divided into several parts, which were manufactured by Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and other countries. Bull first built a "Babylon Child" cannon as a model of the "Babylon" cannon. The gun was 40 meters long and was used for horizontal shooting experiments.

Although this person seems to be a bit unscrupulous for money, I have to say that this guy is indeed very talented.

As long as he can do research and give this guy enough support, that's enough.

But for Catherine, money is not an issue...

…

Gerald Bull is sitting on the sofa.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

He hurried over and opened the door.

"Hello, Dr. Bull, I'm from Sta.

Hayden aft.”

After being summoned by Catherine, Hayden immediately contacted Gerald Bull.

The use of electromagnetic launch is still a little troublesome to Hayden -too much money.

Therefore, Hayden thinks that it is a good way to use a super cannon to fire the artillery directly to the near -ground satellite for verification.

"Welcome, please come in."

Bur asked the other party to come in.

Gillard Boole

AFT's salary is also rich enough.

Whenever you talk about the topic of "Paris" (World War I), "Dora Artillery" (World War II), etc.

In the past ten years, artillery designers are still paying attention to this "super gun" of this change. Among them, a variety of super guns developed by Dr. Boolean can be regarded as typical representatives. At the same time, he also used his genius.

The development of artillery has had a profound impact.

The Paris cannon is a super -range cannon. It was first named after the "William cannon" because of the shells of Paris.

Its artillery mouth must exceed 10 floors of high -rise buildings. The maximum range: 131 kilometers.

The Dora artillery is a super -range cannon. It is a super giant artillery developed secretly after Hitler came to power. The Dora artillery tube is 32.48 meters long, full length of 800 mm, and artillery weighing 1329 tons. This is the world's largest diameter giant.

Cannon, a soldier can be squatting in the cannon. The Germans called the artillery as "Dora artillery". There are two types of shells fired, one is a grenade, which weighs 4.81 tons and the range is 47 kilometers; the other is concrete; the other is concrete.

Destroy the bullet. The bullet weighs 7.1 tons and the range is 38 kilometers.

It is worth mentioning that these two cannons are used to fight Paris ...

"I have seen your plan, and it is completely feasible to use a super cannon to launch the satellite to the near -ground track." Heiden said to Bur.

In fact, this plan was not proposed by Boolean, but after noticing the plan to use the super cannon to launch a satellite plan, Boole had a strong interest in this.

Now STA

AFT supports Boer's research because of this.

"We have studied your harp system at McGir University in Montreal. We think this system is very potential."

"Yes, super cannons can reduce the launch cost of satellite to one -tenth of the original. This is something that can only be done by artillery."

Boolean was born in 1928 in Nosbe in Ontario, Canada, ranking ninth among 10 brothers and sisters.

When his mother died at the age of 3, when the lawyer's father ran away from home, he was brought by his uncle. The misfortune of his childhood became Boolean's sensitivity. The sense of loneliness and anger, but he was in the school.

Students. At the age of 22, he obtained a doctorate degree in the University of Toronto with his outstanding grades, becoming the youngest doctorate in the school's history. Soon, he can emerge with the outstanding artillery technology and the outstanding creation.

The magazine claims that he is the "Junior Rocket Expert". In June 1961, he was hired as a professor of engineering at the University of Mormor's McGir University. In 1964, Boer, who was in his early 36 -year -old, was already the director of the university's universe.

The research on super cannons began here.

While working at the Institute of Astronautics, he designed a "super-efficient harp system" with a tube length of 40 meters and a diameter of 1,000 millimeters, which could launch a 2,000-kilogram warhead into low-Earth orbit. This achievement made him famous.

Boole's expression was modest, which was somewhat inconsistent with his usual behavior, but after experiencing previous failures, Boole understood the principle of humility.

The U.S. Army Research and Development Department and the Canadian Department of Defense have cooperated with Bull and proposed cooperation projects. With strong support from the US and Canadian military, Bull established a test site on the Caribbean island of Barbados and began a test project codenamed "High Altitude

The secret mission of the Harp Research Program.

In addition, with the help of the U.S. and Canadian governments, Boole even established his own research laboratory in the hard-to-reach Quebec region. The Quebec region is close to the border of Canada and the United States, making it easier for Boole to communicate with the United States. Boole believed that based on the force and

Based on the principle of reaction force, if the projectile of the giant cannon is a thrust rocket, its range will be greatly extended. So, in a short period of time, he welded two cannons from the U.S. Navy to create a

It is a 36-meter-long cannon with a caliber of 424 mm.

In subsequent test firings, the cannon successfully threw a 90-kilogram shell into space 180 kilometers high. This giant cannon was also called the "Barbados" cannon because of the place where it was tested. It is said that this cannon can also

Launch a 100-kilogram artillery shell to a distance of 4,000 kilometers. Launch a 214-kilogram rocket extended-range warhead.

It can be fired to a distance of 2,570 kilometers. A slightly lighter carrier can be sent to a vertical height of more than 250 kilometers. Among the existing practical cannons in the world, this "Barbados" cannon still holds the record.

Still unbroken. This work laid the foundation for Bull's later "super gun" design.

Despite the great success of the Barbados cannon, Canadian officials suddenly announced the termination of the "High Altitude Flight Research Program" in June 1967. There were two reasons: first, Canada was unwilling to connect the space program with military engineering; second, the United States and Canada*

Both sides believe that compared with missile systems, artillery-launched rockets are outdated.

But the main reason is that Bull himself was too arrogant and offended many people, especially some politicians.

The sudden blow left Bull at a loss and he was depressed for a time.

In 1968, Boole was awarded the "Macdie Award", Canada's highest cosmic research award. Boole was inspired and quickly cheered up, determined to go out alone and develop a super cannon again. In order to raise scientific research funds, he was even willing to use the

He sells his knowledge and skills to anyone willing to pay, but the result is unsatisfactory.

Originally, Americans valued his research very much.

But by 1969, the Bretton Woods system collapsed. Boer's dream turned to dust.

After the Soviet Union landed on the moon, American research changed from artillery to rockets, and Boer was even less taken seriously.

The successive blows made Bull more mature.

After several wasted years, Bull finally got another chance.

In fact, if no one comes to him again, Bourdu has decided to go to the Middle East from Canada. Although there is chaos there, there are more opportunities there. The term Middle East is always associated with war.

There, your skills are more likely to be valued.

Boole himself may not know it, but in actual history, Boole played a very important role in the Iran-Iraq war.

It was precisely because of Bull's help that during the Iran-Iraq War, the firepower of the Iraqi army's artillery was greatly strengthened. It finally took the initiative on the battlefield. According to statistics, half of the 200,000 Iranian officers and soldiers killed in the eight-year war were killed in the war.

Killed in gunfire.

But the butterfly effect is so strange.

The economic crisis in advance caused the United States to give up its cooperation with Boer for a time, but the Soviet Union's actions also diverted their attention. Therefore, in the end, Boer did not produce any famous weapons, so he also lost a lot.

The spirit of cooperation with major enterprises.

The wasted years made Boole more mature and taught him how to think.

This is different from history - in history, as a talented artillery designer, Dr. Bull lacked basic political vision. Even though he suffered a setback due to this in his early years, he still did not learn the lesson. In April 1976,

With the secret assistance of an officer from the CIA, Bull worked with a state-owned arms manufacturing company in South Africa that was subject to an arms embargo by the United Nations due to the apartheid system at that time——

The South African Ordnance Company signed a contract to export advanced military technologies such as the GC-45 155mm howitzer. Unexpectedly, on August 25, 1977, Bull's company was exposed by the news media due to an accident while transporting artillery shells to South Africa.

.The incident immediately caused an uproar in the United States, and Dr. Bull was involved. Afterwards, Bull was prosecuted for arms smuggling and sentenced to six months in prison. His company was also forced to declare bankruptcy.

Develop ultra-long-range unconventional weapons that can launch small and medium-sized artificial satellites.

This is a subject that Boole faced in this era.

"You also know, our sta

AFT is committed to the management of space products, but space products must be in space."

"Yes, I understand. So please look at this."

Bull presented his plan.

Bull divided his plan into three parts. The first part is to send satellites into low-Earth orbit. In this, Bull proposed a super artillery with a caliber of one meter, which can send satellites into space...

As for the series of formulas and arguments below, Hayden couldn't understand them.

But he didn't come here to see the formula.

The second plan proposed by Bull is to launch small rockets through super artillery, so that satellites can be launched to farther orbits, and small rockets will also help with subsequent research - after all, the accuracy of artillery

Compared with the Rockets, there is a big gap.

Putting things into low-Earth orbit is fine, but the problem is how to put things into the orbits that people want them to be in.

In the third part of the plan, Bull envisioned developing a new type of electromagnetic cannon and sending a satellite into lunar orbit. This was also the document that Catherine saw.

Although gunpowder is awesome, this kind of cannon will inevitably be eliminated in the future, and electromagnetic cannons represent another way...

Boole originally did not consider electromagnetic cannons, but when using cannons to launch into the moon, Boole made calculations, and the results turned out to be that this did not seem to be an easy thing to do.

Boole racked his brains for this.

It happened that at this time, Bull saw someone's conjecture about electromagnetic weapons on the Internet.

Although Boole was not specialized in this field, Boole quickly discovered that this seemed to be a good path.

Bull then proposed an alternative plan of using electromagnetic cannons.

…

Just when Hayden approached Bull, Catherine was also looking for someone to calculate the feasibility of using an electromagnetic cannon to launch.

Catherine needs to calculate the maximum acceleration achievable using existing technology.

"We take the magnetic field to be 20t, and the maximum magnetic field generated by capacitor discharge can be of the order of 10t, and the maintenance time is of the order of seconds... Then, the magnetic field can reach 5t, and it only needs to be maintained of the order of seconds...

For example, the projectile mass is 10 tons, the coil spacing is 1m, etc. It can be calculated that the acceleration at this time can reach about 9. From the final speed and acceleration, the length of the track to be built can be determined: about 5000 meters.

Catherine roughly came to this conclusion.

This is indeed a long, long distance, but it is not unfeasible, as long as it is built diagonally based on the mountains. If necessary, you need to drill holes underground, and that's fine.

Moreover, as long as the magnetic field or capacitor discharge current becomes twice as large, or the load becomes half of the original, this distance can be shortened to half.

"Our moon plan needs a place long enough...perhaps tens of billions of dollars."

Catherine rubbed her chin.

However, this plan is not without its benefits.

This is a once-and-for-all project. Once built, future launch costs will be very low, and the launch frequency can be very high. The cost of each launch is nothing more than the power consumed by capacitor discharge and the cost of making the ejected permanent magnet.

The cost of electrical energy is completely negligible. The cost of permanent magnets is still unknown, but if it can be mass-produced in the future, its cost will also decrease.

In other words, with this thing, the moon landing means the construction of a lunar base and a reliable supply station.

"It would be even better if high-temperature superconductors were available..."

Catherine touched her chin and sighed.

The ejected permanent magnet can also be replaced by a superconducting coil. The magnetic induction intensity generated in this way can also be large enough. The magnetic field of the Tokmak device in the 21st century is generated by the superconducting coil, and its maximum intensity can reach the order of 10t. If using

For superconducting coils, because the launch time is very short, there is no need to worry too much about maintaining liquid helium or liquid nitrogen. If 21st century high-temperature superconductors are used, the cost is obviously much less than the cost of each rocket launch.

But so far, the best superconductor in the world is niobium-germanium alloy, whose critical superconducting temperature is 23.2 Kelvin, which is minus 249.95 degrees Celsius.

"But we can find someone to help...well, the federal government is good."

Catherine squinted her eyes.

The power of the country is still good. If you can draw on the power of this country, you can get twice the result with half the effort.

And digging a tunnel is not much different. For a five-kilometer tunnel, just use the subway, and the cost is not high.

The moon program is completely feasible.

At least in Catherine's opinion, this is a perfectly fine plan.

If you want to build a lunar base, you must first reduce the cost.

Why did Nixon want to cancel the moon landing plan many times?

Isn’t it because the moon landing plan consumes too much money?!

But Catherine’s plan is different. What this one-time plan can bring is a low-cost launch platform for the next ten years or even decades!

"Hey, it would be great if we could build an earth cannon and shoot it directly from the center of the earth..."

Catherine curled her lips, the Earth Cannon was full!

"Let's start with the artillery first!"

Catherine thought for a long time and decided to start by launching the satellite with artillery.

Artillery launching satellites is something that has been demonstrated in the 21st century.

Of course, the technology was more advanced at that time - people considered launching by air impulse.

Theoretically, this is a completely achievable approach.

But from a practical point of view, no one has put it into practice yet.

Catherine's current consideration is to first realize the action of the artillery launching satellites, and then Catherine can use this plan to seduce the Pentagon and NASA. When this plan completely seduces them, Catherine can come up with the next plan.

But artillery has its limits. Catherine can take advantage of the situation to propose a launch method for the electromagnetic cannon. When the time comes, Catherine can come up with her own plan.

The plan to build a tens of billions of launch platforms does seem a bit crazy, but on average over twenty years, it only costs a few hundred million dollars per year.

Catherine does not look at these developments from a monetary perspective. What Catherine observes is the future of this thing.

"That's it!"

Catherine has made up her mind, no matter what, space technology must be developed first.

Even if she spends every dollar from the Pentagon, Catherine will realize her space dream!

"Elsa, do you know what my dream is?"

Catherine asked Elsa with an intoxicated look.

"Eating and waiting to die, wreaking havoc in this world."

Elsa said casually.

Catherine's old blood spurted out...

"No! I am a person who has escaped from vulgar taste!"

"Then what's your plan?"

"When I have a Star Destroyer, I will sit on it every day. Whenever I feel bad, I will shoot the Earth..."