Chapter 924 Completion of the Space Elevator
As long as the weather is good enough, even if you stand on the island of New Guinea hundreds of kilometers away, you can still see the giant tower that goes straight into the sky.
No one knows what it is, as if it appeared there overnight, and "grows" toward the center of the earth day and night, falling below the skyline.
From a distance, it looks like a strand of hair. Only by using a high-magnification telescope can you see the patchwork textures on the tower.
If it is on Anga Island, the southernmost island in Xinguo, even with the naked eye, you can get a glimpse of the macroscopic picture of this tower. It is precisely because of this that many spaceflight and alien enthusiasts have traveled thousands of miles to Xinguo just to see this incredible spectacle.
Yes, only the word "spectacle" can describe this magnificent project connecting heaven and earth.
"Dad! What's that?" Standing on the beach of Anga Island, the little boy pointed to the white line connecting the sky and the earth in the distance, and asked crisply.
"That's an elevator." Looking at the space elevator in the distance, a fascinated expression appeared on the face of the man in beach shorts.
"Elevator? Where does such a tall elevator go?" the little boy looked at his father and asked with a puzzled face.
"Go to space," the man rubbed the little boy's head. "When Dad was a child, he had to use a very high rocket to fly up in the back. Now, an elevator is enough."
"Space? Is there a chance for me to go?" the little boy asked, looking at his father with his eyes shining with hope.
"Of course. Not just space, maybe you will have the opportunity to go to more distant places." The man smiled and looked at the cloud pierced by the space elevator, "Son, you have caught up with a good time."
The sea area near the space elevator has been included in the military restricted area by the star ring trade. A frigate equipped with J-type 50-type electromagnetic guns cruises in the nearby waters, and with the help of coast guard ships, drives away ships entering this area. A sea platform equipped with a laser air defense system is deployed in the sea at a distance of two kilometers from the space elevator to defend against missiles or aircraft that may threaten the space elevator.
Under the long and narrow space elevator, there is a cuboid several kilometers long and wide floating above the sea.
As the sea base station of the space elevator, it can dock cargo ships with a displacement of 10,000 tons, and the runway next to it also allows civil aviation airliners to dock.
The currently completed space elevator has six passenger passages on the inside and six freight passages on the outside. There is a vertically upward "car" placed in the passenger passage, and the passenger capacity of a single "car" is 60-80.
The principle of electromagnetic drive is used. The entire carriage is like a projectile from an electromagnetic gun, accelerating on the electrified guide rail.
As for the cargo passage, the principle is similar to that of the passenger passage, except that because it is transporting goods, the acceleration of the carriage will be above 10G, which is unbearable for humans, and the vertical running speed will also approach the acceleration of the first universe.
Each freight car can push 50 tons of goods to the synchronous orbit, which is equivalent to two Long March 5 launch vehicles. As for the transportation cost per ton of cargo, it has completely exploded spaceX's Falcon series rockets.
Countries seem to know something about this "giant tower" that connects outer space and the earth, but they all keep silent. I believe that even if they don't say anything, the Future Group will reveal this secret soon. They are waiting for the Future Group to speak first, and then make their own demands based on the chips in hand.
Compared with the silence of the governments of various countries, the Internet has exploded.
Space Elevator!
This concept that originally only existed in fantasy literature and film and television works has been moved to reality by the Future Group? !
What completely ignited public opinion was a video uploaded to YouTube by a newly registered user. In the video, the employees of Xinghuan Trade operate the engineering vehicle, load the unknown cargo into the cargo box of the space elevator, and then send it into space.
The footage from the video capture is clear and edited. This anonymous user is likely to be an insider of Xinghuan Trading. It can even be said that this video was released under the instruction of Xinghuan Trading.
Regardless of the purpose of this video's outflow, it has caused enough sensational topics on the Internet. Not to mention other online platforms, just below the comment area of this video, netizens expressed their shock in different languages.
"My God, I can actually witness the human beings entering the interstellar era in my lifetime!"
"Come on! It's just a broken elevator. Even if Armstrong's cyclotron super warp engine hasn't been built, how dare you claim to be entering the interstellar era?"
"What kind of crap are you talking about upstairs? Don't say anything, just take some medicine first."
"I heard that Japan's Obayashi Construction Company plans to start building a space elevator in 2050? Please ask the company's president's psychological shadow area."
Not only the spontaneous discussions among netizens, major newspapers, TV, and Internet media have also made follow-up reports on this century-old project of Future Group.
"The breakthrough of graphene technology has paved the way for the completion of today's space elevator. The height of 36,000 kilometers will exceed any tall building in the world, and it will also exceed any building in the next fifty years. It is worth reflecting What's remarkable is that when we are trying to build higher buildings and make buildings more valuable, so valuable that most people can't afford them, a small country far away in the Pacific Ocean has already extended its hand to what we can only look up to. place.” BBC News.
"The contradiction of the rocket is that most of the rocket's fuel is consumed on the fuel itself. The space elevator can send what we need to push to the synchronous orbit only by relying on electricity. Peter, the president of the International Space Elevator Association, believes that space Elevators are an amazing technology that will allow us to open the door to the solar system. A few years ago, we all thought he was whimsical, but now I am afraid that no one will doubt this." CBS.
"...Behind this great project is an extremely creative entrepreneur. His contribution to modern civilization is far greater than that of Jobs and Gates combined, because he has dabbled in an astonishingly wide range of fields. And so A great entrepreneur was born in a small county called Hucheng in the Jiangnan area of our country. What kind of living environment gave birth to such a genius? Let us walk into this small county together, and walk into his past The school where I lived, to explore..."
Flipping through the newspaper in his hand, Jiang Chen burst out laughing halfway through.
Aisha walked over to his side with the coffee, put it gently on the table, tilted her head and looked at the smirking Jiang Chen in confusion.
"Did something good happen?"
"That's right," Jiang Chen shook his head, throwing the newspaper aside.
As an official media, People's Daily reflects the position of the Huaguo government to a certain extent. Over the past few days, People's Daily has been trying its best to package him as a "four good youth" who went from China to the world and won glory for the country. Although he was happy to see someone bragging about him in his hometown, he had to think about the deep meaning behind it.
"I hope they will stand by our side at the United Nations Summit on the Rational Development of Outer Space in a week's time." Jiang Chen thoughtfully picked up his coffee, brought it to his mouth and took a sip.
There is no doubt that the space elevator will definitely be a key topic of discussion at the United Nations Outer Space Summit. And what kind of vote the five hooligans will make around this issue is also a question that the Future People Group has to pay attention to.
If there is no accident, China and Russia should send people to contact him in private. The United States should also send people, and Britain, which has left Europe, should also do the same. As for the EU, they may be a little more reserved. After all, the relationship between the Future Human Group and the EU is a bit delicate.
No matter what kind of vote the United Nations will make at the summit, the plan of the Star Ring Trade will not change.
On the second day after the summit, the space elevator will officially open for the first time from the sea platform to the synchronous orbital space station - Star Ring City.
This time it is not goods, but people. (To be continued.) Enable new URL