The Wandering Plan was finally approved by the world, but not because the sun was going to have a helium flash, but because this incident was used to blackmail and stimulate the increasingly slack global economy.

In this special era when we cannot fight but still want to survive, the powerful countries are trying their best to come up with various things to redistribute the world's resources and want to control the global distribution power. But which country can last forever? If there were no nuclear weapons or an absolutely safe air defense system, World War III would have started long ago.

Unfortunately, because there are nuclear weapons and there is no absolutely safe air defense system, countries cannot fight wars. Even if they see that other countries have rich wealth, they cannot directly use strong ships and cannons to rob them, and they cannot ask others to cede territory and pay compensation. So other means can only be used.

But no matter what the purpose is, there are a large number of industries in the wandering plan that cannot be stopped once it is advanced and can create a large number of jobs. Because starting from digging the pit, each planetary engine requires a large amount of materials and skilled workers. This is not a simple pile of materials, but a test of the entire industrial industry and the ultimate application of human industry.

And in the application of these technologies, new technologies will emerge.

Engineering companies, design companies, building materials companies...it's like piranhas gathering after smelling the smell of blood.

There are only three planetary engines in the first batch, and they are built in the three major countries. They must set an example so that subsequent small countries will follow suit. Of course, there is a lot of wrangling within the US imperialists. The two parties are engaged in various confrontations, political parties are constantly fighting, and cronies are criticizing them. Therefore, their country’s planetary engine has never been implemented.

The other two engines completed the site selection very quickly, and then came the land acquisition, relocation, renovation, and cooperation between various departments. Because this project is much more complicated than building a community, the requirements for cement and metal are completely different, and it is very challenging.

Duran transformed into a construction worker and joined in to participate in the construction of this spectacle. The process was full of problems. It was not easy to implement the things on the design drawings. Duran was worried about mankind. At this rate, four hundred years would not be enough to build 10,000 planetary engines.

Because the project is really too big, a five-kilometer-deep pit must be dug first, and an underground city must be built first. Because once you start wandering, the surface temperature will drop sharply, and even the atmosphere will freeze. You will have to hide underground and rely on the earth for insulation.

The first one to start construction is the civil underground city, which will accommodate about 300,000 people. It must have sufficient facilities, including schools, hospitals, police stations, sports fields, museums, commercial streets, etc.

The construction environment is unprecedentedly difficult. A five-kilometer pit is not something we talk about casually.

Therefore, as a novel, The Wandering Earth is a romantic science fiction imagination. But to implement it step by step is unprecedentedly difficult. Not just social issues, technical issues, economic issues, and even religious issues. Anyway, this problem, that problem, so we really can’t blame Western science fiction for building spaceships and running away, leaving the masses behind, because this is really the lowest-cost method.

Although it is difficult to build a spacecraft, in the research institute, the test site, and the workshop, no matter how bad the environment is, it will never be worse than five kilometers underground.

Ventilation alone is a huge project and requires a compressor to compress the air to transport it, otherwise it will be full of carbon dioxide. Not to mention the various uncertain geological and hydrological environments underground.

Walking out of the research institute, walking out of the workshop, walking into the construction site, facing the mud, facing the construction site that is exhausted every day, and facing all kinds of "unruly people", it is really a splitting headache.

The underground project is too difficult, but it must be done even if it is difficult. This is the first underground city, and there will be 10,000 more in the future. If we cannot overcome it, there is no hope at all.

However, the underground city project is only one of the difficulties. In the future, there will be engines with heavy nuclear fusion technology. To ensure the stability of the engine, in addition to outputting thrust, it must also be able to boil water to generate electricity to provide electricity for the underground city. Therefore, although the engine is one level higher It is more than 10,000 meters long, but there are also various facilities inside, including not only engines, but also generators and machines that generate heat.

Of course, in order to ensure that the engine does not sink into the ground, the entire 20-kilometer radius of the ground needs metal reinforcement.

Anyway, the materials used and the technology are terrifying just thinking about it.

So it would really be a miracle if humans could actually move the earth.

Heavy nuclear fusion technology only requires stones to carry out reactions continuously. But starting the engine requires a huge amount of energy.

Just like a nuclear bomb, if you want nuclear fission to occur, you first need to detonate a large amount of explosives to stimulate nuclear fission, and then a chain reaction will occur to release the energy of the nuclear bomb. The same goes for hydrogen bombs, which also require a starting energy. The same is naturally true for engines, and the initial energy of the engine is the nuclear bomb. By detonating the nuclear bomb, the entire heavy-atom nuclear reactor is started. In other words, the engine must be able to withstand a hit from the nuclear bomb.

Therefore, the requirements for materials science are also unprecedentedly high. It must continue to withstand the burning of plasma flow. This kind of material is really amazing.

Anyway, the first engine was manufactured regardless of cost. However, with the advent of heavy nuclear fusion technology, electric energy is no longer a problem. It can provide unlimited power, so it does not matter how energy-intensive the manufacturing of materials is.

In short, the first engine had many problems. After overcoming these problems, it ended up wandering. It is estimated that humans no longer want to have children. In the original work, there are still many people who want to have children through lottery, but if they are really homeless and living in a closed underground city, having children may not be such a good thing.

Dulan listened to the workers and engineers chatting at the construction site and knew how difficult the entire project was. The budget for this first underground city alone had already exceeded the budget by a lot. However, various mechanical design institutes and factories around the world often send people to look for business. After all, looking at the world, this planetary engine project is really the largest gold-swallowing machine at present. A steady stream of financial budgets are invested in it, and everyone wants a piece of the pie. .

Everyone makes money, so various manufacturers gathered from all over the world and said they could provide technology to help build parts for planetary engines.

At the same time, many people are worried about whether they can get their money back after spending so much money? What is the value of this dungeon and planetary engine? Do you still want to fight a nuclear war? It is good as a nuclear shelter. It is five kilometers underground and has an engine that can withstand nuclear bombs. It can be used as a headquarters after a nuclear war.

Not many people really believe that helium flash will happen. The big chess party believes that this is the country preparing for a nuclear war. Once the people across the country can hide, they will no longer be afraid even if nuclear bombs wipe out the land.

Of course, the real intention is to control distribution and make small countries obedient. If a small country wants a share of the pie, it can open schools, learn skills, and then accept language education and technical standards. This can be regarded as the same track as books and articles. Everyone can communicate with each other and their thoughts are in line. Then a community with a shared future for mankind will be It’s done.

In fact, now it seems that the first planetary engine is a spectacle. The altar was erected, and everyone lined up around the altar. The symbolic meaning is far greater than the practical meaning.

This is the reason why ancient emperors liked to create spectacles so much. First, they can convey benefits through infrastructure construction. Second, they can monopolize the power to interpret myths through spectacles. Third, they can establish a benefit distribution plan through spectacles.

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