Voyage of the Stars

"Are we still inevitably destined to perish? If that's the case, what's the point of working hard now?" After hearing such news, some pessimists immediately couldn't stand it.

"That depends on Callisto's fission mineral reserves. As long as Callisto's uranium, plutonium, thorium and other mineral reserves are sufficient, we can still survive until the dust cloud in space becomes thinner." Xu Zhenyi answered meticulously.

Could we still be on Callisto for hundreds or even hundreds of years? But what if the reserves are not enough? Die together on Callisto?

A sense of pessimism is spreading.

"What if... I mean what if, what if we can create controllable nuclear fusion within thirty years? The original earth can do it, there is no reason why we can't!" The words of a young researcher dispelled the spreading pessimism.

Xu Zhenyi moved his butt that he had used for forty-three years, then looked deeply at the researcher, and said in a very serious tone: "I have participated in the room temperature superconducting project, and I have also been fortunate to participate in many core technology research and development. , although Callisto came later, but it was only ten years later.”

"Doesn't it mean that in this regard, we are at most ten years behind the Earth before?"

"You can say that." Xu Zhenyi replied confidently.

But the problem is that the core magnetic confinement technology of nuclear fusion has basically been lost. Callisto has no physicists or engineers who have participated in this area and are leading figures.

too difficult.

Only then did everyone realize that their group had not fully inherited the scientific and technological achievements of the original humans on Earth.

This is certain. After all, the Callisto base is not prepared for the continuation of human civilization, and it cannot have everything.

"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain." At this time, Yue Yuan spoke, and he continued, "Since room temperature superconductivity is expected to be recovered, then go study it. Technology is interrelated. We have only lost part of the technology, and we have lost some of it. Not all is lost.

We don’t have scientists who have participated in the magnetic confinement nuclear fusion project, but we all have its theory, and in addition to the core technical information, we have other information.

Just like what the young man said just now, the original earth can do it, and there is no reason why we can’t! I believe we can get through this! "

Although Yue Yuan's words did not give specific solutions, they had a calming effect.

"Yes, we will definitely get through this."

Everyone cheered him up.

This is the fact that the same sentence spoken by different people may have different effects.

In this enlarged meeting, although no specific solution to controllable nuclear fusion was discussed from beginning to end, many things were still determined.

For example, the determination of the new human government, the passage of the "Lie Down" bill, the direction of large-scale construction, and the decision that humans need to leave Callisto to find new stars.

There are also other fragmentary things that are related to the entire civilization, and they have also been determined one by one.

For example, determine the name: human civilization.

It is not a new human civilization, because this group of people feel that they carry the hope of mankind on earth and are always proud of their ancestors, so there is no need to add new words to separate each other.

Because of this, human civilization did not use a new chronology, but continued to use the AD chronology.

In fact, some people have proposed changing to the New Era, and the reason is quite high-sounding. They say that humans just emerged from the Callisto base, just like mammals just emerged from the disaster after the extinction of the dinosaurs. That day should be remembered as the first year of the New Era. .

Some people also proposed to use the Yellow Emperor's chronology. This suggestion had many supporters. After all, most of them were flower growers, but in the end the conference chose to continue the previous AD chronology.

The reason is that there are almost only flower growers left, so why can’t we be more generous? Humanity is one, there is no need to change everything.

In the future, besides organizing various meetings, Yue Yuan will also be working on decision-making documents.

Major events that determine the future direction of human civilization have been determined. New Callisto construction projects have gone from paper to construction. Conjectures about the background of the universe have also begun to brew in this environment.

Under the leadership of an absolute voice, humans in the crisis of extinction burst out with super power, turning Callisto into a bustling construction site.

Exploration robots flew out from the base one after another, and the blue flames they sprayed were like fireflies in the dark night on the completely dark Callisto, transmitting various information about Callisto after the disaster to humans.

Surface pictures, thermal images, mineral distribution characteristics, and reserves.

In addition, these small machines also function as temporary network nodes in the early stage, providing precise positioning for the engineering teams who go out to mine.

After that came various collection robot operations.

The environment of Callisto after the disaster is far different from before. At this moment, it has changed from an icy moon to a temporarily hot planet. Therefore, in order to adapt to the current environment of Callisto, engineers have modified these mining machines. .

The original rubber wheel was replaced by a crawler type that is more resistant to high temperatures, and other sensing equipment, mining blades, and circuit design were also processed accordingly.

Gradually, the prototype of industrial buildings appeared on the deserted Callisto.

The first power station, the first steel smelting plant, the first chemical raw material production workshop, and the first supporting parts production plant.

Amid the busyness of various construction machinery, industry once again returned to the surface of Callisto, and the dawn of human civilization once again ignited from the darkness.

From mineral mining to raw material processing, from raw material processing to parts assembly, from parts assembly to product delivery. Main ingredient processing, by-product extraction, and industrial production lines have restarted.

The raw steel produced by steel smelting is pulled into various secondary processing plants, and then turned into batches of alloys with different properties, and then transported to finishing plants to be turned into special steel, alloy steel, composite materials, and various other materials. kind of parts.

By-products and other by-products produced during the smelting process also flow into various types of chemical plants, and then batches of organic materials, inorganic materials, and various waste gases are produced.

In this process, plastics and synthetic rubber are also produced in chemical plants.

The moment a brand-new robot comes out of the automated machinery factory, human industrial power begins to grow like a snowball. Machines produce machines, and the machines that are produced are used to mine more mineral raw materials to produce machines.

After three years of vigorous infrastructure construction, mankind has finally taken steps towards the stars again - the Orbital Mass Accelerator project has officially started construction.

Because the escape velocity of Callisto is only 2.4km/s, the surface gravity acceleration is only 1.24m/s2, and there is no need to consider air resistance, the mass of the orbit built on Callisto is much larger than that on Earth. Much smaller.

Moreover, the current orbital mass accelerator is mainly used for cargo, so lengthy orbits that consider the limits of human beings' ability to withstand gravitational acceleration are omitted.

This undoubtedly greatly reduces the difficulty of construction.

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