What makes the majority of melon-eating netizens unable to sit still is that this does not seem to be a fictitious play, but a real play, which makes it even more exciting.
Because even the previously scheduled lunar exploration projects were directly incorporated into the "Planet Defense" plan and became a subset of projects. The entire "Planet Defense" plan project has a detailed general outline, and the planning time scale is as long as a hundred years.
The most shocking thing is the sheer scale of the entire "Planet Defense" plan. The just-announced plan outline describes in detail the two major projects of "Lunar Smart Factory" and "Lunar Orbital Space Home Port".
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Now it has gone viral on the Internet. Many netizens quickly checked the date and found that it was indeed 2018. Those who didn’t know better thought it was 2081.
According to an interview with a reporter from Yangshi, the chief engineer of the lunar engineering department said that the lunar smart factory is a key link in the entire "planetary defense" plan, and it is also the most expensive link in the entire "planetary defense" plan.
To build a factory on the moon, which is an unprecedented precedent in human history, we first need to conduct a comprehensive map of the moon, and conduct a detailed exploration of the natural resources on the moon's surface. Only after mastering these important data and information can we determine the moon.
The location of the factory.
The focus of the Lunar Smart Factory lies in the word "smart", which means that the entire factory must be unmanned, intelligent, and fully automated. Matrix Quantum will provide strong support at the artificial intelligence technology level, which is currently being trained
A large industrial model, every machine and equipment unit that can move on the moon will be endowed with intelligence.
At the same time, industrial facilities and many intelligent mechanical equipment on the moon also have the ability to resist interference from solar storm activities, that is, the ability to resist electromagnetic pulses. After all, the moon is not completely protected by the earth's magnetic field, and the earth's magnetic field during the full moon cannot be completely protected.
Protecting the moon will result in the moon being almost completely exposed to the sun's radiation.
These problems have naturally been taken into consideration, and there are technical means to solve them.
According to the chief lunar engineer, the future lunar rover will be able to travel at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour on the lunar surface. This news is also shocking.
On the earth, it is quite amazing that a car can travel at such a speed, but the chief engineer said that this speed of the lunar rover is completely feasible, because the moon's gravity is only one-sixth of the earth's, which means that the lunar rover can
The power required is much smaller than on the earth, so driving in areas with flat terrain and good road conditions can achieve higher speeds.
Whether the lunar smart factory can operate normally, energy issues are also a key factor. There is no doubt that the most feasible method at the moment is nuclear power. The two major nuclear power giants, CNNC and Guangdong Nuclear Power, are on the list of participants.
In the initial stage, nuclear energy needs to be used. Solar photovoltaics are not cost-effective, which means that a large amount of photovoltaic materials must be transported from the earth. Calculating the cost and building a small nuclear power plant is the most economical method.
In the future, when the space photovoltaic power station high in the earth's orbit is established, the nuclear power plant can be decommissioned. The space photopower station will directly wirelessly transmit energy to the lunar factory via microwaves, and a receiving station will be built locally. The space photopower station on the earth's side will directly use light as the energy source.
Remote energy transmission at high speed.
Although there will be a lot of energy loss in the intermediate transmission process, once the space photovoltaic power station is established and absorbs energy from the sun around the clock, the energy will be incredibly cheap, and that energy loss is completely acceptable.
According to the introduction of the chief engineer of the Lunar Factory, he said down-to-earth that as long as the Lunar Smart Factory completes the construction of a few main core units, it can "slowly grow" on its own because it is fully automated and intelligent and does not require humans to
With direct participation, people only need to make comprehensive plans, and the lunar smart factory will collect resources on the lunar surface and continue to expand.
In the future, most mechanical equipment will be manufactured on the moon. Only some core components and small unit components such as chips that do not require high load will be transported directly from the earth.
In other words, for lunar smart factories, humans only need to make a start, and they will "grow up" later on, from the initial micro factories to small factories to large projects and finally to a huge comprehensive industrial cluster base.
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With the formation of the lunar smart factory, a solid foundation will be laid for the next "lunar orbital space home port". Relying on the natural resources on the moon, the lunar smart factory will produce various hardware facilities required for the space home port. Modules in the factory
Chemically manufactured and then sent from the moon to orbit.
The gravitational escape velocity of the moon is only 2.3 kilometers/second, which is much easier than sending materials from the earth to outer space. With the current technical level and industrial capacity, the economic strength is not enough to build a space home port from the earth. The main reason is economic
The cost of layer launch is unbearable.
But on the moon, launch costs will drop exponentially, and the economic investment is mainly in the early construction of the lunar smart factory, and the investment will be less and less in the future. In the end, it can be almost free of charge.
First of all, the natural resources on the moon are free. Secondly, the smart factory is fully automated and unmanned, which saves labor costs. When the scale effect is achieved, it is equivalent to using a spaceport for nothing.
With complete lunar mapping data and natural resource distribution data, we can build a lunar smart factory. With a lunar smart factory, we can build a space home port. With a space home port, we can build spacecraft with a payload of 10,000 tons.
A big thing of this level cannot be manufactured on the surface of the planet. It can only be manufactured in a modular manner, and then the modules are sent one by one from the lunar surface to the spaceport in lunar orbit, and then integrated through the dock platform on the spaceport.
Once completed, this 10,000-ton giant can only stay in space forever, and it will be over if it is captured by the gravity of the planet. After all, without the black technology of anti-gravity, it is impossible to travel to and from the atmosphere. If it is captured by the gravity of the planet,
That is a large man-made meteorite directly hitting the surface of the planet.
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When a spacecraft with a payload of 10,000 tons is in space, humans will no longer be helpless when faced with the impact of extraterrestrial asteroids. Even if there is a 10-kilometer-level asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, there is no need to worry.
You only need to send a few of these big ships out and apply the powerful thrust of the spacecraft to the asteroid through some indirect means, such as using new nanomaterials to create a huge net. You only need to slightly change the orbit of the asteroid to avoid
It directly collides with the earth and is directly thrown out by the "gravitational slingshot" effect of gravity.
The birth of large-scale spaceships with 10,000-ton payloads will definitely give rise to a series of new space industries and supporting businesses. For example, the asteroid mining industry will become possible. In the future, those extraterrestrial asteroids that may threaten the earth will be able to
It becomes a gift from nature, which can lead to the birth of space factories and even space cities.
Although the "Planet Defense" plan launched this time is nominally to respond to the impact of extraterrestrial bodies and asteroids, it is also a century-old plan. Once the "Planet Defense" plan is advanced, it will inevitably evolve in this direction.
With the lunar factory, there can be a space homeport. With the space homeport, there can be a spaceship with a payload of 10,000 tons. With a spaceship with a payload of 10,000 tons, a series of commercial activities such as space mining can be carried out, and then the factory can be
Moving from the surface of the planet to space becomes a space factory, which will inevitably give rise to huge space cities. As a result, human civilization will officially become a level 1 planetary civilization from the current level 0.7 civilization, and move towards a star level civilization.
Go ahead.
It can be seen that, in a sense, it is an inexplicable preference and favor that God can send a moon to mankind, allowing mankind to use the moon as a pedal to more easily advance into the deep space of the universe.
Without the moon as a stepping stone, it would be more difficult for humans to get out of the earth and achieve the same scale, and the price would be ten times, or even a hundred times, what it is now. The cost of fighting gravity alone is difficult to estimate.
