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Hearing such blunt and fierce criticism from his peers, the smile on Frank's face showed no signs of fading. Frank smiled and said, "Excuse me, where is my plan not feasible?"

The head of state also frowned deeply, and looked at Frank with some doubts.

The scientist said: "Common sense alone is enough to deduce that your plan is not feasible. First of all, we do not have the ability to send such a huge mass of matter into space-if we had this ability, we would be directly on the moon. Let’s build a base here, so why bother? Secondly, even if we have the ability to send substances of sufficient mass into space, we cannot possibly have the ability to manipulate their orbits.”

Judging from these aspects, Frank's plan is indeed unexecutable. Even with the head of state's scientific literacy, the head of state knows that this plan is impossible. This is like a proposal like "Since the earth is not suitable for human survival, why not move human beings to live on another planet suitable for human survival?" Everyone knows that this can save human civilization, But it has no value.

At the same time, the Führer also knew that Frank could not be a lunatic. So why did Frank come up with such a plan?

Frank smiled and said: "The two points you said are not obstacles. Let me answer your first question first. I know it very well. I know that our human civilization has never sent such a huge mass object into space. ability, but I would like to ask, who stipulated that these materials must be transported up from the earth? Is it not possible to directly obtain materials from space?"

"Huh?" The head of state narrowed his eyes. At this moment, a word flashed in the head of state's mind, "comet."

"Are you talking about comets or asteroids?" said the physicist. "One, first, we don't have the ability to blow up a comet, and two, we don't have the ability to push a comet forward as we want."

"About this question..." Frank shook his head and said, "It's still not a problem. You probably haven't noticed that the comet numbered 2025C9 and officially named Arthur is already on its way to the sun, and it has passed The orbit of Jupiter, the visual magnitude has reached the sixth magnitude, and people with good eyesight can see it with the naked eye. I used the work authority I have to call the Loew Space Telescope for three hours of observation time to make a detailed study of it. Do you know what interesting things I found?"

Comet Arthur is an unknown comet. It is a long-period comet with a period of more than 400 years around the sun. At the same time, it is also a sun-grazing comet, which means that it will pass the surface of the sun at an extremely close distance and at a very high speed, and then return to deep space, and so on. Before its return this time, human civilization did not have any records about the comet. Only after it was accidentally discovered, there were some sporadic observation records in the database of human civilization.

Everyone knew about Comet Arthur, but at the moment the participants didn't know what Frank meant by mentioning this common comet. After all, it's all useless if you can't solve the two problems of "exploding the comet" and "controlling the progress".

The venue was quiet as usual, and everyone was waiting for Frank's answer.

"During the three hours of using the Loew Space Telescope to observe Comet Arthur... I was surprised to find that Comet Arthur is not a whole. Its nucleus has split into fifteen large fragments The mass of these fifteen large fragments is about 4 billion tons, and the smallest one is about 900 million tons." Frank said with a smile, "According to my speculation, the reason why it split may be in the last During the sun-grazing cycle, because it gets too close to the sun and gets shredded. Look, your first problem has been solved by the sun for us. We don't need to find a way to send a large-yield nuclear bomb to blow it up, because It's broken itself."

After Frank shared his findings, the conference room fell into a brief silence, and after a while, discussions erupted.

"However, how do we control the progress of these fragments? Its mass is too large. With our human technology, it is impossible for us to do this." Another physicist asked.

Frank still had a warm smile on his face, "I have also found a solution to this point. The method of controlling the progress of these comet nuclei is actually very simple, and we don't actually need to send a huge thrust engine to it."

The head of state asked in a deep voice: "Tell me, what is the way to control their progress."

"We can completely complete the task of controlling their progress within the framework of our existing technology." Frank said, "Prince, have you noticed the solar reflectors that bring warmth and light to the City of Life? They have Extremely high albedo, they are very light and thin, and with a new type of rocket, one launch is enough to send a square kilometer of solar reflectors into space..."

"Of course I know these things," said the Führer.

"Then it's very simple, we don't have to send the engine to the comet, we just need to send enough solar reflectors to the comet." Frank snapped his fingers, "The rest of the work, Arthur Comet and the sun will help We're done."

"You mean..." The head of state fell into deep thought.

Frank said: "Führer, you are an outstanding human leader, but your scientific literacy is not enough to allow you to find out the intention of this behavior. Let me tell you the answer. What we need to do is simple. As you know, comets are not all made of rocks, and contain a large amount of gas solidified by the low temperature inside or on the surface. When it is close to the sun, due to the increase in temperature, a large amount of these gases will be sublimated and ejected from the surface of the comet Therefore, a huge and spectacular comet tail is formed. According to the most simple mechanical principles, we know that when these gaseous substances are ejected from the comet nucleus, they will inevitably give an opposite force to the comet nucleus itself. , just like a rocket, the tail of the rocket ejects gas, and the body of the rocket gains upward force."

"This is the purpose of transporting the solar reflector to the comet nucleus. We can selectively block a certain part of the comet nucleus, so that sunlight cannot reach it, and the gas in the blocked part of the comet nucleus cannot sublimate. , unable to eject. At the same time, the unoccluded part is still undergoing gas ejection, which will allow it to obtain the power to change the orbit. In this way, by blocking different parts of the comet nucleus, we can follow our will to manipulate the forward trajectory of the comet nucleus. Of course, we may also need to transport some engines to the comet nucleus, and use these engines to fine-tune and precisely calibrate the forward trajectory of the comet nucleus. The equivalent of these engines does not need to be too large, and I think it will The task of transporting them to the comet nucleus should be within the acceptable range of our human civilization."

"This is the general outline of my plan." Frank smiled and spread his hands, "Think about it, we control a dozen huge comet nuclei to hit the surface of the sun, clear all the reverse fusion layers on the surface of the sun, and destroy all Plasma life forms attached to the surface of the sun...we will usher in an earth suitable for human existence."

"One thing I need to remind everyone is that Comet Arthur will reach the closest point to the earth in three months. This distance is about nine million kilometers. If we decide to implement my plan, probably from now on, we will I need to start preparing. I'm done." Frank said, and sat down on the seat again. At the last moment, Frank also said: "Comet Arthur is a gift from God, isn't it?"

After Frank explained his idea, the conference room fell into silence again. After a while, the head of state broke the calm: "Department of scientific research, I need you to evaluate this plan."

"This plan is feasible on the whole...but is it really useful to manipulate a comet to hit the sun?" A physicist murmured, "According to statistical data, every thousand years The sun would suffer an impact of this magnitude, but we have not seen any impact of this magnitude on the sun."

Frank retorted: "The probability of an impact of the same size is once in a thousand years, so how long does it take for the reverse fusion layer to appear?"

The physicist was startled, and subconsciously replied: "Less than two years."

Frank shrugged his shoulders and said nothing.

"We can't find any reason to refute this plan." Another expert stood up and said, "The plan is highly executable. But I think we still need to consider two aspects. First, the solar civilization The ability to defend against comet impacts, and second, if the plan ultimately fails and the solar civilization is not destroyed, the solar civilization may have countermeasures."

Frank responded unceremoniously: "First of all, I don't think the solar civilization has the ability to defend against comet impacts, at least for now. Don't forget that the solar civilization didn't even have the ability to defend against the original Moth impactor. Secondly , no plan can be perfect, if we refuse to implement the plan just because we are afraid of failure and the counterattack of the solar civilization, then we might as well just wait and die.”

"I have decided to implement Frank's comet impact plan in addition to the plan to reshape the world for Zhao Huasheng and the moon base plan. These three plans will be carried out at the same time." The head of state said, "Department of scientific research, I want you to use the most Come up with the implementation details of the plan as quickly as possible."

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