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Chapter 309 Rapid Development

The two carriages of the Interstellar Immigration Project - two giant electromagnetic catapult orbits located in China and the United States. From the day of its official operation, they have been running day and night, exerting unimaginable amazing efficiency.

With the surging electrical energy of controlled nuclear fusion power stations, each giant electromagnetic catapult track can complete ten launches in one minute and can launch 1,000 consecutively.

The standardized unit components of space cities are sent to the space dock located in the outer space of the earth through giant orbits, just like cargo on assembly lines.

It is hard to believe how heavy the work would be if these parts were launched into space by rockets.

Although the construction cost of the giant electromagnetic catapult track is indeed huge, as the launch volume increases sharply, the average cost of a single launch is also decreasing. Each time a standardized unit of the Space City is launched, only electricity and some auxiliary fuel are required, which can greatly reduce the cost and achieve relatively low space transportation.

A large number of shuttles can be seen everywhere around the space dock. They are like hardworking little bees, and are working tirelessly to collect the Space City standardized unit launched into the space dock area from giant electromagnetic catapults, and transport it to the space dock for deep welding and assembly.

The huge team of engineers has also put in full force, and sparks are jumping everywhere in the space dock. Thanks to the sophisticated design of the Interstellar Immigration Project Team, the entire Space City is designed as a standard unit of different models that are easy to disassemble and assemble and have high strength. After the engineer team obtains these standard units, they can spend less effort to turn these units into wholes in space according to the design drawings, just like children playing with Lego toys. Moreover, in the future, when repairing and replacing the components of the Space City, they can also operate according to the units.

The space city, which can accommodate 300,000 people, has a total design mass of 100 million tons.

Therefore, in the later stage of the construction of Space City, the space dock will gradually accelerate away from the earth with the prototype of Space City. Because, if the huge space city is too close to the earth, the angles of its different structural areas are affected by the gravity of the earth. When the force in different directions exceeds a certain limit, the space city will be torn apart by the gravity of the earth.

At this time, the No. 1 space dock had completed the main framework construction of the first space city in human history. It was about to take the space city away from the earth and complete the final assembly process.

The No. 1 space dock has received an emergency notice from the Interstellar Exploration Alliance and must complete the construction of the first space city in human history within one month!!

Today, in the entire No. 1 space dock, there are a total of 100,000 top engineers working hard to build a space city that concerns the future of Earth civilization. Including the Mars base, the No. 2 and No. 3 space docks, and the No. 4 space docks under construction, the total number of humans in space has reached nearly 500,000.

This was unimaginable in the past, but it was the crisis of the end of the world that forced the earth civilization to develop rapidly. In addition, the earth civilization was very lucky to have obtained the science and technology of some of the Creator's Creator, so in fact, the earth civilization has made a huge leap in the short term.

According to Yuan Shichen's view, the Earth civilization has completely surpassed the level of level 1 cosmic civilization (mastering the resources of its planet) and is approaching the level of level 2 cosmic civilization (mastering the resources in the solar system).

Only when the local civilization reaches the level 2 can it be called powerful and difficult to destroy, and it can be able to launch large-scale civilization migrations and overcome huge catastrophic attacks such as close-range supernova explosions or gamma-ray bursts.

However, from another perspective, the current earth civilization is actually a civilization with abnormal development.

First of all, in order to overcome the crisis of the apocalyptic times, the entire human world has focused on space technology and space exploration in the world for nearly half a century. Although other fields have also improved greatly, they have been lagging behind at least half a century.

Secondly, although the Creator's science and technology are indeed very advanced, it directly raises the core scientific and technological level of the earth's civilization. However, the development of science is actually a process of accumulation of strength, which requires a large amount of time and manpower to build a solid foundation. In short, if the Earth's civilization wants to fully absorb and master the Creator's advanced science and technology in various fields, it must rely on the joint efforts of a large number of scientific workers and engineering and technical personnel, and it will take a very long time.

However, what the current earth civilization lacks the most is time, so earth civilization has no choice but to embark on this path of abnormal development.

Of course, if the Earth civilization can survive this crisis smoothly, have a certain population base and maintain a certain vitality, then the Earth civilization will usher in a new era and show explosive and curved growth!

As Yuan Naichen said, the Earth civilization is approaching the level of a level 2 cosmic civilization, so how to make full use of resources on other planets in the solar system has also become the next direction of efforts for the interstellar immigration team.

Because, the ultimate goal of Space City is to leave the solar system in the near future and make plans until it passes through the crisis. Therefore, during this interstellar wandering, Space City must have the ability to continuously produce blood and maintain basic survival.

Where does a large amount of resource consumption come from? Obviously, humans will eventually have to extend their hands to the vast universe.

Then, it will be an important task to establish a fleet that can efficiently collect resources contained in other stars in the universe as soon as possible.

At the same time, the interstellar immigration team has also begun to formulate resource mining plans in the solar system. On the one hand, it can accumulate experience for resource collection and accumulation in the future interstellar wandering process, and on the other hand, it can alleviate the resource pressure brought to the earth by large-scale construction of space cities and geocentric cities.

After discussion, the preliminary plan of the interstellar immigration team is as follows:

Moon: energy base, spacecraft factory, mineral base. Moon soil is rich in helium 3, and helium fusion using deuterium and helium 3 can be used as the energy for nuclear power plants. The moon shell is composed of a variety of main elements, including: uranium, thorium, potassium, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, titanium, calcium, aluminum. The moon has rich minerals. According to investigations, the moon has more storage of rare metals on the moon than on the earth. Moon rocks contain all the elements and 60 minerals in the earth, of which 6 minerals are not available on the earth.

Mercury: steel base, heavy industrial zone. Mercury's precious metals have extremely high content of heavy metals, and 80% are minerals.

Jupiter system: It can be used as a base for organic polymer materials, nuclear fusion fuel base, and propellant recharge base. Since Jupiter itself may be composed of a solid nuclear and a high pressure hydrogen sea. From time to time, there will be large storms, and with a very high escape speed, it is still difficult to use Jupiter's resources, such as the hydrogen sea. However, several Jupiter's moons are ideal choices. In addition, Jupiter has a very high possibility to become a place for interstellar spacecraft to replenish propellants and supplies.
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