Chapter 1093 Mars Strategy
The square colonial cabin is like an upside-down building. As the center of the entire colony, it is the main place for colonists to live, work, socialize, and entertain, with all facilities available.
Around this colony cabin, there are four spherical buildings made of graphene material, connected to the colony cabin by pipes as thick as a person's hug. Don't underestimate these four spherical buildings, they are the lifeline of the entire colony.
As we all know, Mars is a planet covered by deserts and volcanic ash. The intuitive impression is that it is an extremely arid planet.
However, the fact is exactly the opposite. A few years ago, NASA concluded based on the data returned by the "Curiosity" Mars probe that Mars not only does not lack water, but also has abundant water resources! However, most of this water is brine, and most of it is buried underground or seeped into the sandy soil layer, making it impossible to drink directly.
But this is not a problem for Star Ring Trade. As long as there is water, there must be a way to turn it into drinkable water. Those four spherical buildings are nothing else. Their significance is equivalent to the colonial water pumps, which are the ones with built-in filtering capabilities.
The site of the colony was originally located on the lake bed where ancient sedimentary phases could be observed, so there must be no shortage of water under the feet. These four spherical water pumps first pump underground brine into the spherical water storage tank, then filter it, and finally transport it to the colony cabin through pipelines.
Water is the source of life. Whether we can achieve self-sufficiency in drinking water is the key to achieving self-sufficiency in the Mars colony.
After water, there is oxygen.
The oxygen content on Mars is appallingly low. The oxygen over billions of years has either escaped or interacted with the iron elements on the ground. Fortunately, there is an atmosphere here. There is no oxygen but there is carbon dioxide. Solving the oxygen problem is much easier than on the moon. There is no need to use electrolytic water to waste electricity. After all, there is no helium 3 to mine on Mars, and energy is still quite expensive.
The oxygen problem can be solved with food.
The main component of the Martian atmosphere is carbon dioxide, followed by nitrogen, with almost negligible amounts of oxygen and water vapor. For animals, this is hell, but for plants, this is heaven!
Of course, this does not mean that plants can be planted directly on Mars. Not to mention how cold the surface of Mars is, being in a pure carbon dioxide environment for a long time will also cause plants to undergo "photosynthetic adaptation phenomena", thus hindering crop growth.
However, as long as nitrogen is used to control the carbon dioxide concentration in the plantation, it is easy to maintain the crops in the plantation under the optimal carbon dioxide concentration. With an appropriate amount of water supply and ultraviolet light, the growth rate of the crops should not be too fast!
The only drawback is that the initial investment is a bit high.
Just for the rations of these twenty people, the entire equipment cost hundreds of millions. If it were placed on earth, 100 million Singapore dollars would be enough to cultivate hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile farmland.
In the future, Jiang Chen still plans to position the Mars colony as an industrial base. When the shipbuilding technology of Future Human Heavy Industry is improved, Star Ring Trading will acquire a few more "Seagulls" to expand its transportation capacity. Food and other things can be transported directly from the earth. If such a large granary is left undeveloped, it would be simply uncomfortable to have to farm in the desert.
Apart from anything else, Guanghan City at least has the advantage of low electricity costs, so it is understandable to grow some food to ease the supply pressure. There is neither helium 3 nor pure water on Mars, so we will suffer losses no matter how much food we produce.
Of course, Jiang Chen had never thought about transforming Mars into an Earth-like planet before. In other words, it's not just him. Someone has proposed a plan to transform Mars a long time ago.
The most famous among them is Spacex CEO Elon Musk, who has always been obsessed with Mars. I have to say that this guy is a genius. He came up with the shocking method of continuously dropping nuclear bombs on the poles of Mars. Nuclear explosions melt dry ice and thicken the atmosphere, causing the greenhouse effect. Melting more dry ice will continue to thicken the atmosphere... The central idea of the whole method is to use nuclear bombs to lever the greenhouse effect. Although it sounds like a heretic, But it makes sense in theory, and it's simple and crude.
But Jiang Chen just thought about it and then gave up the idea.
There is no other reason. It is too slow to continue playing like this. It is easy to lever this "lever", but if you don't have thousands of years, don't even think about it. The most important thing is that there are too many uncertainties in this plan, and Mars is the most important part of Star Ring Trading's future plan to form an "Invincible Fleet". If one of them is not fun to take off, there will be no place to cry. go.
Of course, although Jiang Chen has given up his plan to change the landscape of Mars in the short term, this does not mean that Jiang Chen has completely given up his plan to transform Mars into an Earth-like planet.
Directly to the north of the colony cabin is the plantation, which is the largest building in the entire colony except the colony cabin. It is connected to the water storage cabin and the colony cabin by pipelines.
In this plantation, which covers an area of about two acres, there is also a small biological laboratory. Among the twenty colonists accompanying them were two biologists, and the research topic given to them by Jiang Chen included an arduous and great task.
That is to develop a bacteria that can survive in the Martian environment.
This kind of bacteria must be anaerobic, must adapt to a low-gravity environment, be able to withstand temperatures as low as one hundred degrees below zero, preferably be able to continuously generate heat, and must withstand continuous exposure to ultraviolet rays... This super bacterium may seem like a fantasy, but I have seen it. Jiang Chen, who has a "family history" of harmonious civilization, is quite optimistic about the prospects of biotechnology.
However, he will probably not be able to see the day when Mars is covered with grasslands. No matter how optimistic you are, this is still a thousand-year project. At best, he made a good start, but the actual implementation can only be left to his descendants to complete.
Before he can recreate the clear water and blue sky of Mars 4.3 billion years ago, he must first cover this desert with factories and use steel and blood to carve out a sky for future generations for thousands of years.
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After leaving the command center, Jiang Chen received a call from the Presidential Palace. Just half an hour ago, the White House called the New Zealand Presidential Palace to express its willingness to start a second round of negotiations. But they came up with an additional condition that seemed reasonable.
Since it is a negotiation concerning the fate of the earth, it should not be discussed behind closed doors by a few countries. Instead, it should be put on the table for everyone to participate in the discussion, and all countries should jointly discuss and formulate strategies to fight against extraterrestrial civilizations.
In short, we have also been convened to have a summit on outer space security, and the issue was directly discussed at the United Nations.
The call from the White House had just ended, and then there were calls from the United Kingdom and France, expressing the same meaning and adding that this was a prerequisite for the start of the next round of negotiations. The implication is that if this matter is not discussed at the United Nations, then we will not discuss it!
After hearing the news, Jiang Chen's lips curved into a sneer.
He knew very well what these people were planning.
If we want to talk about influence in the United Nations, I am afraid that no country in the world can match the United States.
Apart from anything else, the UK in the Five Permanent Standing Committee wears the same pants as the US. Although France has been at odds with the US from time to time, the two sides have reached consensus on key issues. Otherwise, Europe would have been independent in defense long ago. Where would it be? NATO thing.
Discussions at the United Nations may seem fair, but in fact they are a big pitfall.
Needless to say, once this issue is brought up for discussion at the United Nations, it will be absolutely impossible to achieve any results. First of all, the new country does not have the right to speak with equal strength, and then Star Ring Trading is a company and is not even qualified to appear in the United Nations.
The rightful owner is not here, and a large group of small countries who don't even understand aerospace are being held in a meeting. What result can you come up with? Does the United States think that Jiang Chen will hold his nose and accept any resolution made by the United Nations?
The United Nations is really so stupid, North Korea has long given up its nuclear weapons!
Why is it that I built the space elevator, the lunar colony, the entire aerospace industry with an output value of 100 billion in Star Ring City, I even led you on the asteroid mining journey, and now I still Do I have to go to your house to discuss how to use my own things? Let you be the boss?
Do you really think of it as your own NASA or the NASA of the Nixon era?
Thinking of this, Jiang Chen made a decision immediately without any hesitation. (To be continued.) Activate new URL