Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Just as journalists from all over the world were shocked by the news in Penglai City, similar scenes were also happening on the synchronous tracks 36,000 kilometers apart.

However, it is not the reporters from all over the world who are touched by the scene in front of them, but the members of the Space Elevator Construction Committee who took the shuttle to check the project and the engineers and scientific researchers who are responsible for the design work.

"Here, is it the heaven ..."

Sitting on an open-air shuttle to Tianting, and looking directly at the towering space fortress outside the porthole, Li Guangya's eyes were filled with excitement and could not help but sigh.

As the named general manager of the Space Elevator Construction Committee, his signature for the entire project means the final red stamp on the project delivery documents.

Therefore, after hearing the news of the completion of the space elevator, he immediately asked his secretary to push off all the itinerary for himself, and he took this non-stop flight to the first flight to Tianting.

"Yes," glanced at Li Guangya standing next to him, and Lu Zhou standing next to him casually replied, "How do you think compared to the one in mythology?"

Originally this sentence Lu Zhou just said casually, but Li Guangya, who didn't expect to hear this sentence, seriously thought about it for a long time.

After a long time, he shook his head and said softly with emotion.

"There is no comparison at all. The imagination of the ancients is still too scarce on the proposition about the universe. Even if I go through all the myths and stories I know well, the palace on the cloud looks shabby compared to this towering fortress That ’s a bit. Whether it ’s from the perspective of artistic value or from the perspective of practicality, I can only use the word incredible to describe it ... "

A cylindrical structure of several kilometers long is steadily suspended in the synchronous orbit, and the central axis points straight to the blue planet. The four curved cantilevers on the outside flared outward, like the propellers at the rear of the submarine, spinning silently at a slow speed.

From a distance, the towering space fortress is like a spinning top, dragged inertially by the motion of the two motion systems, and it can achieve a dynamic balance that can be adjusted at any time with gravity.

Unsurprisingly, this is probably the largest and most complicated space project in the history of human space under gravity.

Although the scale is slightly inferior to the space base at Lagrange Point, the interfaces left outside the Tianting provide unlimited possibilities for the future of this space station.

It should be known that from the original berth hovering near Lagrange Point to the current scale, the Lagrange Point Space Base took more than half a century.

For the Tianting, it has at least a century to plump its wings, like the world shows its prosperity ...

"It's so exciting."

"What to expect?"

Looking at Lu Zhou, a smile appeared on Li Guangya's face.

"Of course when the sky elevator is complete."

Long before he took the position of chairman, he worked hard to realize this dream. Whether it is for the purpose of leaving a name in history, or for some ambition that has been said, this space elevator is an indispensable and important part of the blueprint in his mind.

Although he has also considered that, with the current technical conditions, maybe he will not necessarily see the space elevator really completed on this planet until he retires.

However, no one expected that in his lifetime, he really saw his dream shine into reality.

It was like he had never thought that the greatest scholar a hundred years ago would wake up from the tomb and lift the coffin plate to help him "dream".

All this is so untrue ...

Squinting this guy, although he vaguely felt that he might be thinking about something rude, but Lu Zhou didn't say anything.

Although he didn't express the emotion in his words, Lu Zhou still could feel the shock of the man who was squeezed by the scientific charm from the clenched fists.

For taller, stronger and more magnificent buildings, it is the eternal pursuit of the Chinese civilization that originated in the two river basins. In the years of thousands of years, this emotion has long been integrated into everyone's blood, and is inscribed in the genes of culture.

And on this space station called Tianting, these elements are undoubtedly reflected to the extreme.

Standing in the vast cold night, it is like a star that never falls, covering all the shining in the entire night sky, and the crystallization of all the wisdom of all civilizations in history.

It is not just a spectacle.

It is also a milestone of civilization ...

...

Through the circular hatch at the bottom, with the docking of the connecting arm and the fall of the air brake, the shuttle quickly and firmly leaned on the berth of the space station Tianting.

This place was originally connected to the elevator.

However, the most important middle section of the entire space elevator has not yet started construction, so it is now temporarily used as a temporary berth.

"The entire space station Tianting can be divided into two parts, the central axis and the cantilever. And our current location is the side of the central axis area ... that is the first floor of the entire space station."

After getting off the shuttle, he led a group of people to the direction of the control center. While admiring the near-perfect "artwork" he designed, Lu Zhou introduced the situation here to others behind him.

"If the central axis area is the heart and brain, then the cantilever area is the torso."

"The outer cantilever compensates the space station's gravity through motion inertia, but also provides a 'approximate gravity' that passes through the center of the circle outside the cantilever because of its own rotation. This gravity is not caused by gravity. It is provided by centrifugal force, but it can produce a similar effect. "

"Therefore, when designing the cantilever part, the definition I gave on the blueprint is the living area, and the excuse of this part was specially designed."

"When the living space is insufficient, we can dock the new space station on the outside of the cantilever, and adjust the rotation speed of the cantilever and the position of the center of gravity of the space station, so as to let this motion system reach the state of balance again ..."

Listening to Lu Zhou's eloquent talk, the whole expression on the face of Li Guangya in the clouds and fog.

Finally, when this introduction came to an end, he took a quick cough and found a chance to intervene.

"The cantilever is the living area. I already know ... what about the central axis? I don't care about the specific theory, you say it simply ..."

"This is not a complicated theory originally, aside from the details, I think even the junior high school students of the 21st century can figure out these things."

After glancing at Li Guangya, Lu Zhou continued.

"My positioning of the central axis part on the blueprint is the industrial zone and the experimental zone. This part of the area is stationary relative to the earth, and the gravity in the longitudinal or vertical axis direction is close to zero. If the outer cantilever The district is for people to live in, and this part is a factory and a logistics transfer base that provides residents in the cantilever district with the necessities of life. "

"At the same time, it is also the place where Tianting is connected with the space elevator."

As he said this, Lu Zhou's face involuntarily put a smile on his face, and his eyes fell unconsciously on the floor-to-ceiling windows.

There is the moon.

It is also the direction of Guanghan City.

As a bridge between heaven and earth, his expectation of this space elevator is not only a fast passage for exchanging matter, or a bridge that allows people to travel to and from the space at a faster speed.

The second-generation controllable fusion reactor has been completed on the moon. The huge reserves of helium III are being converted into endless energy. However, the industrial capacity on the moon alone is not enough to completely digest these energy sources.

In order to let this energy enter the atmosphere-filled surface from the vacuum environment with lower losses, he needs an optical cable extending from the surface to space to carry the huge energy from the moon.

And this is another meaning of this space elevator which is the most important value for human civilization in addition to the elevator itself.

That is, an energy and information corridor that spans between heaven and earth!