The Science Fiction World of Xueba

Pang Xuelin said with a faint smile: "You should take care of Xinghuan City first. As for the next war or peace, it depends on whether the countries can accept our conditions... Wade, you should inform the leaders of the countries now that I want to be in Xinghuan City." Ring the city for a Wallface Project hearing."

"Project Wallface hearing?"

Vader was slightly taken aback.

Pang Xuelin nodded and said: "I am still a Wallfacer. Even if the United Nations and the PDC are close to disintegration, the Wallfacer plan is still valid for the Trisolaran civilization or human civilization. The current situation is within the framework of the United Nations and the PDC. It is in the best interest of Star Ring City to have dialogues with other countries."

Vader said: "Okay, I'll arrange it right away."

Apparently, the countries did not expect that after Pang Xuelin woke up, the first request was to hold a hearing on the Wall Facing Project.

At present, the United Nations has long existed in name only, and the Planetary Defense Council has been completely disintegrated. What's more, most countries in the world have fallen into a state of war. African civil strife is frequent, the Middle East is in a mess, Europe is also in war, and the eastern and western governments of the United States are in civil war. , India-Pakistan War and so on.

It is impossible for countries to coordinate and straighten out these relations without a month or two, let alone organize a hearing on the wall-facing plan.

Taking advantage of this time, accompanied by Cheng Xin and Wade, Pang Xuelin began to visit Xinghuan City in more detail.

After 25 years of hibernation, the overall technical level of Xinghuan City has been greatly improved.

In the field of people's livelihood, folding mobile phones, which were similar to sci-fi products 25 years ago, have basically been completely popularized.

Moreover, this kind of folding mobile phone is not the folding mobile phone with a thickness of nearly ten millimeters when folded twenty years ago. Its folded thickness is only about one millimeter. A four-inch folding mobile phone is equivalent to a twelve-inch folding mobile phone. The tablet computer is as thick as a sheet of paper.

In addition, televisions have been replaced by holographic projections, which can present ultra-high-definition three-dimensional images under naked-eye conditions.

At that time, it was quite expensive to use the V-suit for virtual reality, but in Xinghuan City, everyone even had one.

However, due to climate change and frequent wars around the world in recent years, coupled with the increasingly stringent regulations in various countries, entertainment activities are not as popular as before. Many people play games and watch movies and TV series almost ten years ago. The product.

traffic field,

The public transportation in Xinghuan City is quite developed. The trams, light rails and driverless buses extending in all directions organically connect the whole city.

Therefore, private cars are not popular in Xinghuan City. Instead, the single-person folding quadcopter has become the most popular means of personal transportation.

It's a bit like electric cars that were quite popular in China more than 20 years ago.

Pang Xuelin flew once after a short period of training.

This kind of quadrocopter is very safe. It adopts the fool-style plus artificial intelligence operation, and can plan the route independently. The pilot only needs to input the destination, and the rest of the work can be done by the gyroplane for you.

In addition, even if there is a power failure and all engines lose power, as long as the flight altitude does not exceed 500 meters, the emergency backup power supply of the personal aircraft can still allow the aircraft to land safely.

In addition to learning about people's livelihood facilities, Pang Xuelin basically spent the rest of the time doing research in various research institutes under the Xinghuan Institute for Advanced Study.

In the past twenty years, the Transwarp Institute for Advanced Study has become the largest scientific research institution in the world.

Especially in recent years, the political situation in various countries around the world has been turbulent, and many scientists have moved their families to Halo City to seek refuge, so that the scale of the Halo Institute for Advanced Study has expanded dramatically.

At present, there are more than 20,000 researchers with the title of associate professor or above in the Xinghuan Institute for Advanced Study, and more than 50,000 researchers with the title of doctor or above.

Coupled with the family members of these people, as well as senior talents engaged in other industries, the average education time of the entire Xinghuan City, including the elderly and children, reached an astonishing 17.8 years.

You must know that in some universities in other countries, the average education time of teachers and students combined is only this level, not to mention, this is the per capita level of the 2.13 million people in Xinghuan City.

This has also made Xinghuancheng an outstanding presence in the world in various fields such as medical care, education, biology, chemical industry, IT, and communication.

Of course, the field of physics is still locked down.

The theoretical research of the Institute of Physics of the Star Ring Institute for Advanced Study has been completely separated from reality.

Even many scientists who study applied engineering joked that the research of those theoretical physics researchers has entered the field of metaphysics.

But even so, the Institute of Theoretical Physics has published several papers over the years that may theoretically lift the blockade of sophons, but with the current level of human technology, they are not operable in reality and have little meaning.

In addition to the Star Ring Institute for Advanced Study, the place where Pang Xuelin went the most was the Institute of Aerospace Engineering in Star Ring City.

At present, the two most well-known products of the Institute of Aerospace Engineering, one is the "Halo" space plane, and the other is the "Oasis" space battleship.

The Halo aerospace plane is a slender delta-wing aircraft with a length of nearly 200 meters and a wingspan of over 100 meters. It adopts V-shaped double vertical tails and has an empty weight of 500 tons. A thousand tons.

Through the continuous acceleration of the electromagnetic ejection track up to 25 kilometers, the Halo can be given a take-off speed five times the speed of sound.

After leaving the acceleration orbit, the ion electric propulsion engine of the Halo with a thrust of 200 tons was activated, giving the Halo extra thrust, and within ten minutes, the Halo completely entered the 150-kilometer distance from the earth. earth orbit.

After Pang Xuelin woke up, Xinghuan City carried out another launch mission.

It was a clear evening, under the setting sun, the dark gray Halo was pushed onto the take-off end of the electromagnetic acceleration orbit near the coastline.

From a distance, the silhouettes of Halo and the electromagnetic orbital accelerator, two powerful industrial products, are wonderfully integrated with the natural beauty of Isabela Island.

Following the command of the commander, the Halo glides rapidly under the acceleration of the electromagnetic orbital accelerator up to 4.6G.

When the take-off accelerated to about 30 seconds, a foggy shock cloud suddenly appeared around the Halo, followed by a deafening bang.

This is the sound produced by the Halo accelerating on the ground to break through the sound barrier.

Subsequently, the speed of the Halo became faster and faster. In less than three minutes, the Halo quickly climbed up the Azul Volcano. The next second after leaving the acceleration orbit, the blue plasma flame was extinguished. light up.

Then for a very short time, Halo became a bright star in the night sky.

Although Pang Xuelin has seen many big scenes, the launch scene in front of him still makes him a little excited.

This is the space launch scenario most likely to be realized in reality.

Because the ion electric propulsion engine used by the Halo has a super-long specific impulse of more than 20 hours, the Halo has the ability to fly freely in the earth-moon space.

Compared with the aerospace planes of various countries that can only change orbits in low-earth orbits, the Halo is simply a product of another era.

Of course, compared with the Halo, the battleship Oasis is more feared by all countries!

This is a super battleship designed for the purpose of interstellar warfare. It looks like a huge cigar, with a total weight of more than 50,000 tons. It can accommodate more than 2,000 crew members at most. It is built in a modular manner.

The so-called modular construction is to launch sections of giant modules into space through the space electromagnetic orbital launch system, and then assemble them in space through reserved standard interfaces by astronauts.

Among them, the most important segment is the miniaturized fusion reactor.

It is precisely because of the fusion reactor that the Oasis has become the most powerful war weapon in human history so far. Using the powerful energy supply of the nuclear fusion reactor, it has initially possessed the ability to perform wide-area combat missions within the solar system.

The four heavy-duty electromagnetic guns equipped on the Oasis have conventional strike capabilities that have reached the level of nuclear weapons.

In addition, the Oasis has dozens of laser cannons, particle beam cannons, and small and medium-sized electromagnetic cannons for defense, plus hundreds of interstellar missiles using ion propulsion. It is simply a war fortress armed to the teeth. At present, no country can pose a threat to the Oasis.

This is also the reason why countries dare not use any tough measures against Star Ring City even though they have an overwhelming advantage over Star Ring City in the interior of the earth.

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