Wonders harm the country, but ancient dynasties really cannot live without wonders. To a certain extent, wonders monopolize the right to interpret the communication between humans and gods.
The Egyptian Pharaoh built the pyramids, believing that if you die and are buried in the pyramids, you can communicate with the God of Death, and you can be resurrected when the time comes. Those who have mastered the pyramids are naturally the most powerful in the country. If others don't have it, they can show their differences.
There are also churches, which took hundreds of years to build and cost countless people's money and money, just to monopolize the communication with God. God has a spirit, and he must also like big houses. The bigger the church, the closer it is to God.
Pagodas, Buddha statues, etc. all have the same meaning. It is also true that the emperor's palace was built magnificently and was taller than all the buildings in the city.
The wonder is that I can create it but you cannot, so I am greater than you and you have to listen to me.
But in modern times, wonders are tourist attractions. Although they still have some political significance, they are certainly not as big as in ancient times.
The planetary engine must be an industrial wonder of this era. It goes deep underground for five kilometers, rises ten kilometers into the sky, and has a vertical distance of fifteen kilometers. The ground part also needs to be covered with a fixed plate with a radius of ten kilometers to prevent the engine from sinking due to the huge thrust. This way
The technology and funds required for the behemoth are unprecedented, more than building a space station.
Coupled with the various difficulties encountered during construction, other countries that have not yet built planetary engines have a toothache. When will they get their money back after spending so much money?
It’s not that it’s bad, the engine can generate electricity, people can live underground, and even if there is a nuclear war, such a building can withstand nuclear bombs, which has many benefits. But it is really too expensive.
Expensiveness is a customer problem, not a product problem. And any expensive technology product is basically expensive when you buy it, but it will definitely be enjoyable to use later. This engine is a good thing, even if it does not push the earth, it will prevent a nuclear war.
OK.
If everyone builds an engine, and a nuclear war breaks out, won't countries without engines be doomed? It seems that they have to build them, even if they are expensive. If others have them but they don't, then they can drop nuclear bombs without restraint.
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In the end, the U.S. imperialists stopped arguing. The two parties were worried about the nuclear bombs falling, and finally agreed to fund the construction to prevent the other two major powers from dropping nuclear bombs.
Construction of the second and third planetary engines finally started. Only after the construction started did we realize that it was really difficult.
At the construction site, Duran watched as the engineers' hair fell out, and the remaining hair turned gray. They were constantly trying new construction techniques and new materials.
This kind of steel must withstand not only low temperatures but also high temperatures, because there is a period of transportation during the wandering stage. Except for the orbiting engine at the equator, other engines will not run at full power. By then, the earth will be completely exposed to the low temperature of the universe.
Even the atmosphere will freeze completely, and the engine will have to withstand the test of the low temperature of the universe.
Of course, when starting, the temperature of the engine exceeds 10,000 degrees. At such a high temperature, most metals would have already melted. In short, this kind of metal is awesome, but very expensive.
Trisolarans mean that high and low temperatures alternate, and they are familiar with it. When the three suns of the Trisolaran system appear together, the ground is ignited. But when the three suns sink together, the atmosphere of the Trisolaran star freezes directly and becomes
The beautiful blue snowflakes are so beautiful, but when the atmosphere is completely frozen, the ground cannot survive. Therefore, the Trisolarans can only stay dehydrated and hide underground, or in heavy pyramids made of huge rocks.
However, the engineer will not give up. After all, he is a wanderer. He believes in the data collected by science and believes that the sun will definitely flash helium. The latest data proves that the sun is not getting better, so the wandering earth plan must continue.
As for other projects, such as the spaceship project, they are actually in progress. However, according to the current political situation, the planetary engine will bring the most short-term benefits, especially in terms of defense against nuclear bombs. In fact, according to historical laws, the Third World War could have started long ago.
But I have been holding back because no country can defend 100% against nuclear bombs. But if there is a planetary engine, it may become the starting point of a nuclear war.
Although spaceships are good, spaceships cannot directly transform into a force for nuclear war.
However, Duran knew how much his predecessors had sacrificed their lives and blood to implement the plan, and how ironic the stories that would happen on Earth in the future would be. In fact, it does not matter whether the helium flash occurs or not, it is ironic to humans, because they are all human beings.
Just a struggle.
In the end, mankind encountered problems, and mankind paid the price. It just depends on whether the problems encountered are big or not, and the price paid is miserable or not.
People living in the quasi-wandering era are still happy, because there is no military control, and all actions are carried out based on the existing social structure and economic activities. Using political competition as an internal driving force, people building planetary engines will not think that
The earth will really leave, they just think they are actually building power plants.
With the investment in planetary engines, a large amount of money has been put into operation. Each industrial chain can get a share of the pie, the economy is stable, and the employment situation is excellent. And industry insiders believe that the cost of engines will decrease in the future. When the entire industry chain matures, the engine will be completely
It can be produced in a modular manner. When the time comes, you can just dig a standard hole and assemble the engine.
This industry seems to be booming. Once they have money, more and more beneficiaries will start to fund wandering scientists, and they will continue to preach that the sun is hopeless, hoping that more people will invest in engines.
Maintain your own profits in the process of building engines.
Future generations of humans may not know that the Wandering Plan was political blackmail at first, and later became a capital flow. They were not trying to save the world, but just for their own benefit. They just happened to be on the right path. This is luck.
After seeing this, Dulan could only say that human beings are not unlucky. In fact, economic guidance is definitely more practical than some high-level rescue of mankind. After all, this is four hundred years, and even if this generation is willing to shed their lives and blood, then they
Where are the children? Where are the children of the children?
It is impossible to inherit hatred and ideals. It can be said that using profit as the guide is the best choice. Grandpa, father, and son all know that there is profit, so they will naturally move in this direction.
At this time, the capital that relies on engines for a living continues to promote the destruction of the world and allocates resources, which plays a positive role in the wandering plan.
As soon as everyone saw that there was money to be made, more and more people joined in, so the fourth engine was also put on the agenda. After fourteen years of hard work, Duran stood in front of the completed engine, and
Other workers visited the launching ceremony together.
In fourteen years, the Anti-Japanese War was victorious. Many people have grown from young to middle-aged and have acquired ailments. The aging chief engineer even had tears in his eyes.
Put flint in it, and it's actually a small hydrogen bomb.
Everyone was watching the ceremony from a very far away place, and it didn't matter how far away it was, because the engine towered into the sky, and if you got too close it would be evaporated due to the high temperature. Everyone put on sunglasses, as if they were watching the detonation of a nuclear bomb.
With the roar of thunder, a heat wave hit, and then an orange fire broke away the clouds. Everyone felt warmer than ever before. This is the wonder of industry, the planetary engine, which was successfully tested.