After the mining spacecraft captured the asteroid, it was quickly cut and packed into the ore cabin.
The mining spacecraft of the Mars Territory are all produced by Pengpai Dynamics Company. They are currently the largest mining spacecraft and can transport 8 million tons of ore at a time. Some smaller asteroids cannot reach this quality.
Chang Dashan, who was not far away, looked at the star map. He was very surprised that the mining spacecraft of the Mars Territory swallowed all types of asteroids in one bite. After all, icy-earth asteroids were not valuable at all. It was necessary.
Mining it back?
But this is an official act, and he doesn't dare to say anything nonsense. Officials always have official purposes.
In less than two hours, more than a dozen Mars-led mining spacecraft were fully loaded and headed back towards Mars.
Propelled by 3% light, the 12 fully loaded mining spacecraft returned carrying 9.6 million tons of ore. Masashi Kishimoto, who had been prepared long ago, asked the mining spacecraft to unload the ore at the designated location.
A space operation spacecraft was ready to drop ring-shaped tree seeds on the ore, and then the activated ring-shaped tree seeds grew crazily, but this crazy growth grew according to a predetermined framework.
By calculating the simulation parameters, these ring-shaped trees were connected to form a huge pipeline with a length of 96 kilometers and a radius of 3oo meters.
In order to prevent the orbit of the ring tree from running out of control and crashing into the Martian ground, some other space operations ships quickly approached and installed ion engines and nuclear fusion reactors in the ring tree pipe. This way, the orbit of the ring tree pipe could be corrected.
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This construction speed is really fast. During the Spring Festival, a ring-shaped tree pipe with a length of more than 3,000 kilometers has been built. This is part of the Mars orbital ring.
The construction of the first equatorial pillar has almost been completed. With the support of the mining spacecraft and Mars' own mineral resources, the construction work is proceeding in an orderly manner.
This time Sara and Fang Ping took the Flying Shark Mechanical Beast and arrived at the construction site of the Equator Pillar. At this time, the Equator Pillar was already towering into the sky.
The two of them stood on the upper deck of the Flying Shark Mechanical Beast and looked at the sky. Even with their enhanced vision, they still could not see clearly the top of the equatorial pillar. As for the orbital ring above, it was even more difficult to see. It was faintly visible.
A thin line can be seen hovering above it.
The area at the bottom of the equatorial pillar is obviously wider than the general equatorial ring, and looks like a continuous expanse of silvery gray.
"Connect the vacuum railway in Equator City, so that we can easily communicate with Equator Pillar, Equator City and Utopia City." Fang Ping said while recording his thoughts.
"District Chief Fang's idea is very good." Sara nodded and said.
Fang Ping suddenly remembered something and quickly reminded: "By the way, Sara, your Equatorial City needs to build several new reservoirs, otherwise the increase in population in the future will be a big problem with water resources. Expose the water resources left by those asteroids these days.
There are so many, you can take the opportunity to plan more underground reservoirs."
"Okay, I'll write it down." Sara also turned on the holographic bracelet and recorded the incident in the memo.
The flying shark mechanical beast slowly approached the equatorial pillar. As it approached the equatorial pillar, Fang Ping realized how huge this thing was. In order to enhance strength and stability, the equatorial pillar at the bottom is very thick. The radius of the bottom cross-section is at least 1o compared to the top.
About times, and then gradually shrinks as the height increases.
The two people got down from the Flying Shark Mechanical Beast and entered the interior of the Equator Pillar. Inside the Equator Pillar is an empty pipe. This pipe can be transformed into a space elevator. Of course, it can also be transformed into a mass projector.
The advantages of the space elevator are comfort and liftability, while the mass projector is fast, but can only go out in one direction. Both have their own merits.
However, Fang Ping and Sarah prefer mass projectors, mainly because for enhanced people equipped with genetic armor, even without an anti-load cabin, they can still withstand an increase of about 2oog, because the genetic armor can adjust the body's load resistance by itself.
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In this way, the comfort of the space elevator is dispensable. As for the ability to return to the ground from space, it is worth considering. Perhaps in the future, the mass projector will be used as a way to leave the ground, and the space elevator will be used as a way to enter the ground. Both
can complement each other.
The Soss people are even more experienced in this area, and they generally adopt the layout plan of projectors inside the outer elevator.
Several space elevator cables are laid outside the equatorial pillar. Although the outside of the equatorial pillar is large at the bottom and small at the top, this does not affect the use of the space elevator; while the mass projector is built inside the equatorial pillar, such an arrangement of the two will not
causing conflicts. In addition, since the height of the equatorial pillar has reached about 1200 kilometers, there is no need to seal the top exit at this height.
"It seems that the difficulty of the Equator Pillar is more difficult than the empty ring and the earth ring." Fang Ping said with emotion as soon as he walked out of the Equator Pillar.
"That is, the air ring can be constructed using asteroid resources. The microgravity environment in space has average requirements for raw materials for structures, while the earth ring can be combined with the ground. Only the pillars require very strong materials due to the influence of the planet's gravity and its own mass.
Big." Sara nodded and replied.
"Xiao Hei, come back." Fang Ping shouted loudly in the distance.
Suddenly, the Black Panther mechanical beast, which was having fun in the distance, sensed its owner's call and quickly ran back to Fang Ping.
"Speaking of which, the mechanical beast breeding industry can also become a pillar industry on Mars. There are many mechanical beast enthusiasts in the alliance now. It is better to hold some mechanical beast fighting competitions or sports games to attract some Blue Star tourists." Fang Ping
suddenly suggested.
"Yes." Sarah thought about this proposal for a while, nodded and replied: "Mechanical beast games and fighting competitions were very popular in the Z-Star era, but few people of our generation know about them.
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Fang Ping touched Xiao Hei's head: "I see, then you can catch this matter. This will be conducive to the promotion and industrialization of mechanical beasts."
"No problem." Sara quickly recorded this matter in the memo. Now the Helic Republic has changed from the previous centralized public ownership to mixed ownership. With the privatization of many things, the social system of the Sos people's wandering era,
Already starting to fall apart.
For example, due to the decline in fertility of the former Soth people, in order to increase the population, they did not have a real concept of family. The union of men and women was arranged uniformly. But now this concept is being broken, and the concept of small families is being formed.
The formation of small families leads to privatization. In this case, some Soth people must be self-reliant. Sarah is also worried about the employment of Soth people these days. Those scientific researchers have alliance wages.
, Don’t worry, but there are still some workers and the old, weak, sick and disabled among the Soth people, and he must arrange for these people properly.
If tourism and mechanical animal industries can be developed, this will be beneficial to the internal employment arrangements of the Helic Republic.
The two returned to the Flying Shark Mechanical Beast again and headed towards the canyon area of Mariner Canyon. They were going to inspect the canyon area.