Ye Han chatted a few more words about home affairs with the two people. The earth suddenly appeared outside the porthole, which aroused Ye Han's thoughts. He chatted with the two about the changes in the past two years. The two chatterboxes immediately opened up and talked about this.
All the changes over the past few years were discussed.
Two years is not a long time, but the changes are really big.
Ye Han already knew about the changes in Beiyuezhou from Bai Xiaoting, but Bai Xiaoting slept for two years, and when she woke up, she was busy taking care of Professor Qin. She didn't care much about time and didn't know anything except what she could see around her.
Both Xiao Chi and Xiao Chi were officers leading troops and were very knowledgeable about current affairs, especially the military aspects that Bai Xiaoting had no knowledge of, and this was precisely one of Ye Han's greatest concerns.
Ye Han had already heard about the surface changes in Beiyue Continent from Bai Xiaoting. The number of residents as high as 100,000 made Ye Han very surprised. He still did not understand how the ground used to send so many people to the moon.
In fact, it is much easier to launch a spacecraft now than it was two years ago. The reason is that the country has spent huge manpower and material resources to build an electromagnetic ejection track that is more than ten kilometers long in the Qiongzhou mountainous area!
This thing has the same principle as the moon's ejection orbit, but the gravity of the earth is much higher than that of the moon. Coupled with the resistance of the atmosphere, the Qiongzhou orbit is shorter, making it impossible to directly send the spacecraft into space.
But this thing can give the rocket a very high initial level. The rocket itself only needs to carry a small amount of fuel to successfully lift off.
This was originally the job of the Feitian rocket carrier aircraft, but the cost of launching the Feitian once is not small, and the energy consumption and cost of the electromagnetic orbit are much lower than that of the Feitian.
It is easy for rockets to launch into the sky, but it would be strange if the population of Moon City does not increase.
If the Qiongzhou orbit had not been put into use, the military would not have the confidence to create orbital airborne troops. Otherwise, every airborne training would have to be sent up to the sky with a launch vehicle. The astronomical training costs would make anyone vomit three liters of blood.
In addition, the application of shallow hibernation technology has greatly improved the safety of the spacecraft during the launch process and avoided accidental risks for special personnel during the launch process. As a result, many elderly people left the earth and settled on the moon, and at least one-third of the lunar residents
This is the case.
Ye Han was very curious as to why the country allowed this situation to happen. After asking carefully, he found out that these people are basically old experts and professors in various industries, and they are the kind of masters who deserve the title. There are a few exceptions.
If you have made special contributions to the country, you will not be qualified to settle on the moon.
Today's Beiyuezhou is no longer the place with nothing back then. Being far away from the earth means being far away from giant insects and dangers. Who in the world doesn't want to immigrate to the moon?
However, the artificial ecology of the moon is very fragile. Although the base has been expanded repeatedly, immigration to the moon cannot be unlimited. Special abilities and special contributions are the only stepping stone for Beiyuezhou.
Beidu has also considered the feasibility of large-scale immigration. After all, the threat of aliens has not been eliminated, so it is best not to put all your eggs in the same basket.
In order to solve this problem, as early as a year ago, Beiyuezhou organized manpower to open the "Nanyuezhou Base" to seize the South Pole of the Moon ahead of the base group.
Beiyuezhou's operations cannot be hidden from the international base, but from Beiyue to South Yue, the straight-line distance between the six places is more than 10,000 kilometers. If the terrain is taken into account, 15,000 kilometers cannot stop it.
Beiyuezhou made full use of its own advantages. The materials sent to Nanyuezhou were launched into the sky using electromagnetic orbits. They flew half a circle around the moon and then landed at the south pole of the moon. This greatly saved transportation costs and at the same time made the international base's teeth ache with anger.
The Americans are also eyeing the Antarctic, but the scale of the international base is never as good as that of Beiyuezhou, and they cannot compete with Beiyuezhou.
One step at a time, one step at a time, the Americans were so regretful that their intestines were turning green. Why were they so obsessed with it in the first place that they had to let Beidu explore any other way?
In fact, the so-called path exploration is not the main reason. The most important reason is that the Americans are superstitious about their own industrial and technological strength and believe that no country except the United States has the strength to build a moon base.
After the Moon Palace plan was fully rolled out, it was too late for the Yankees to realize that something was wrong.
No one cares what outsiders think. In short, Nanyuezhou is occupied.
The Americans have never given up on Nanyuezhou and want to get a share of the pie. They have contacted Beidu many times in public and privately. However, the Beiyuezhou base is stronger than the international base, and the Beiyuezhou fleet is stronger than the international fleet, even twice.
The Battle of Jupiter was completed independently by China's formation of an expeditionary force, and Beijing definitely had the confidence to disobey Washington.
In terms of comprehensive national strength and technological level, Beijing must also recognize the leading position of the Americans. However, China can concentrate its superior resources on aerospace to engage in aerospace competition, but the national conditions of the United States do not allow Washington to concentrate resources on the aerospace industry.
Beidu also wants to build more lunar cities to transform the lunar base from a purely military purpose to a colony. However, only the two poles of the moon have ice mines, so lunar cities can only be built on the two poles of the moon. In other areas, unless the current scale is underground above the horizontal line
Lake, otherwise there would be no conditions for building a city.
According to Beidu's plan, ten or eight lunar cities can be built on the south pole of the moon. However, resources are limited, and it can only support 100 million people. Moreover, the deterioration of the environment cannot be considered, and a sustainable development path can be adopted to support thousands of people.
Thousands of mouths.
Of course, it makes no sense to consider these now. Qiongzhou's transportation capacity is limited, and it will take at least several years to fill a moon city.
Even so, Beidu was no longer satisfied with opening up lunar colonies and began to set its sights on other stars.
In Ye Han's opinion, the stars with the best conditions for colonization should be Ganymede and Callisto. These two moons have a lot of water and a large area of land, which can obtain enough mineral resources to support development.
, unlike Europa, which is nothing but ice, it seems very suitable for colonization, but immigrants can't live on just water and ice, right?
Mars also seems to be a good choice. Various evidences show that Mars has a large amount of underground water.
However, where the groundwater is exactly and how abundant it is is still an unsolved mystery. Before enough water is found, colonizing Mars will be a joke.
Asteroid belt? There are no asteroids rich in water resources, right?
Saturn's moons may also have the basic conditions for colonization, but those places are far away from the sun, and the temperature is so low that the air will turn solid. Even if there are water resources, they cannot be regarded as colonization targets.
Under the current level of technology, colonizing the Galileo satellites is an impossible task, even if those satellites do not allow aliens to occupy the magpie's nest.
Ye Han could only think of this, but the answer Xiao Yuan gave him surprised him. The military's next target was actually Mercury!
