Chapter 943 Is This Really Just a Space Station?
"Is this Star Ring City?"
The universe is cold, but standing here, Zhang Feng wearing short sleeves can only feel the coolness similar to that in an air-conditioned room. With his feet on the solid metal floor, he was somewhat surprised to feel the gravity similar to that on the earth.
This should be the gravity section of Star Ring City, that is, the "counterweight" part of Star Ring City.
Standing around him, except for the black American named William who was fiddling with his mobile phone, everyone walked to the transparent floor-to-ceiling windows, overlooking the honor of Mother Earth.
"A five-hour journey has grown into a century." Rudolf Clark reached out and stroked the reflection of the earth on the floor-to-ceiling windows, and opened the wooden box he had been holding in front of his chest. Inside is a photo, the old man in the photo is his grandfather.
The old man who had predicted this day with his imagination.
Although everything is almost twenty years late...
"Can I throw it into space?" Rudolph found the guide who was waiting for them at the exit of the space elevator, and asked seriously, "This is my grandfather's last wish."
The young tour guide shook his head, rejecting Mr. Rudolph's request.
"Can't."
Any space junk that leaves the space station will become a potential safety hazard, and it will even cost tens of billions of dollars to recycle it in the future.
"It's just a photo."
Rudolph tried to persuade the tour guide, but the tour guide still shook his head and rejected his request.
"A photo flying at 3.1 kilometers per second is no different from a blade."
And it's the kind of blade that can cut through steel.
Although it is a pity, Rudolph is not an unreasonable person. The tour guide nodded to him, thanking him for his understanding, then walked up to everyone, clapped his hands, and signaled everyone to look this way.
"Welcome all friends to come to Xinghuan City Space Station. My name is Lu Fengming, and I will be your tour guide. If you encounter any problems during your visit to Xinghuan City, please be sure to consult me. I will do my best to help you provide help."
"I won't say too much, I wish you all a pleasant journey."
The tour guide's succinct opening remarks,
Immediately won Zhang Feng's favor. He is a person who doesn't talk much, so naturally he doesn't like people who talk too much.
A group of people followed behind Lu Fengming, and walked into the space station under the leadership of the tour guide.
"From the side, the entire space elevator looks like a 'letter Y' inserted on the earth, and the opening that flares out grabs a ring. And the position we are in now is exactly in the middle of a ring. The interior is the so-called gravity section."
"We can feel gravity, but it's not gravity, it's pseudo-gravity created by centrifugal force. Yes, we, the floor under our feet, and the space we're in, are all orbiting the axis of the space elevator , spinning at a speed of several kilometers per second."
"Thanks to this ring that flares out and is constantly rotating, the center of gravity of the entire space elevator stays in a synchronous orbit, so that we can feel the gravity close to the surface. We are standing in this ring now, with our heads facing Circle center."
Speaking of this, Lu Fengming paused, tilted his head and thought for a moment, then continued.
"It's very troublesome to explain in detail. You can understand us as a group of hamsters running on an endless running wheel." Lu Fengming explained humorously, which amused many passengers.
They all carry future mobile phones with voice translators on them, and there is no communication barrier after wearing earphones. After boarding the space station, many people wondered why they didn't float up. Now that I have listened to the tour guide's explanation, although I can't say the specific technical connotation, I understand the general idea.
After listening to Lu Fengming's words, Academician Liu Zhusheng looked at the sky thoughtfully, and sometimes looked at the ground, his expression was stunned for a while, excited for a while, and sighed for a while, as if he was lost.
"It is indeed worthy of the name of a miracle... Is this really a project that humans can complete? If the entire star ring is to be accelerated, what kind of terrifying magnitude must the angular momentum at the center of the rotating shaft reach... What kind of metal can bear it? With this level of mechanical power? Titanium alloy? Impossible... even titanium alloy can't do it!"
Graphene? That's even more impossible.
Graphene is strong enough, but the commonality of carbon-based materials lies here. The wear resistance is generally poor, and it is impossible to make gears or spindles.
Compared to Liu Zhusheng's shock, Dimitri from ESA was completely numb. Unlike Liu Zhusheng, who is specialized in the field of rockets, he is also quite accomplished in space station research, and even participated in the design of the International Space Station himself. Compared with Liu Zhusheng, he felt the terrifying power contained in this giant space station more deeply.
If the International Space Station and the Star Ring City are put together, the International Space Station, which gathers the technical strength of many countries, is more like a flat boat in front of the port.
A group of people continued to move forward and walked down the corridor.
Here, the earth is not at their feet, but is always fixed outside the glass windows beside them, like vivid window grilles.
"This is the corridor of the ring city. We have living rooms next to us. Directly below us is the MRT channel that facilitates our rapid movement in this ring city. You can understand it as the star ring The city's subway, because it is literally under our feet."
The space in the star ring city is very wide, making it impossible for people to have the illusion that they are walking on a pipeline. After walking for about one kilometer, everyone came to a movable door. With the sound of air pressure adjustment, the movable door slowly opened, and behind it was an elevator.
Everyone got on the elevator, and the movable door slowly closed.
As the floors jumped from one to three, they were like moles that drilled out of the ground, and the scenery in their eyes suddenly became clear.
Stepping through the porch, Zhang Feng looked up.
Through the transparent dome, he saw the space elevator with the bright starry sky as the background, and the whole picture of Star Ring City.
Looking down to the front, the shock in his pupils became more and more intense.
It was a wheat field.
The golden yellow wheat waves are like the sea, bathed in cool-toned ultraviolet lamps, slowly undulating with the circulating airflow. At the end of the wheat field is a verdant green where other varieties of vegetables grow,
He didn't know how to describe the word endless, because he really couldn't see the end of this field, he could only see the green and black where the sky and the ground meet.
"People can live in pipes, but it is impossible to endure in a small space all the time. Eighty percent of the living space in Star Ring City is designed in the corridor we just passed. And every ten kilometers or so, we will design a Embedded space stations covering an area of about two thousand acres. They are like pieces of paper glued to a ring, on which we can farm, grow flowers and grass, engage in real estate, engage in light and heavy industries... all we can do on Earth everything that has come true.”
"Just by looking at it, you may think that it has a high technological content? No, no, no, in fact, their technological content is far inferior to the corridor you passed through before, not even one-tenth of it."
"If necessary, we can continue to expand its space. If we don't consider resources, we can even inlay this kind of external space station that has nothing but size on the entire ring."
Speaking of this, Lu Fengming paused again, and then added something.
"Of course, when I say useless here, I mean before it was developed."
Hearing what the tour guide said, Liu Zhusheng, who listened carefully to the lecture like a primary school student, twitched the corners of his eyes a few times.
Damn it, is it really just a space station?
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