With the strategic shift of human civilization from "survival" to "development", a series of grand construction plans began to be quickly planned and placed in front of Zhao Changxing.
There are many construction plans - more than 10,000 of them, most of which are concentrated in the fields of scientific research and military. Moreover, every construction plan among them seems to be full of necessity and urgency, and has huge potential benefits.
For example, the deep space radio telescope array construction plan. In this plan, relevant scientists hope to build at least 100 giant radio telescopes in space to form an array, and then conduct the most thorough observation of various types of radiation filled in the universe with the highest observation accuracy. Research to determine more physical parameters in various aspects such as cosmic expansion, black hole evolution, black hole physics, cosmic microblog background radiation, galaxy evolution theory, physical characteristics of neutron stars, white dwarfs, etc., and once again deepen human civilization's understanding of the universe.
This may even give rise to a new physical system and allow human civilization to complete a leap.
It is indeed very necessary to carry out this project.
The only thing is that this project may take hundreds of thousands of people to work for decades to complete.
Or, the Human Genome Project. Biologists hope to allocate enough manpower and resources to use the current technical level to comprehensively and thoroughly study every gene in human beings, their role in the human body, and their relationship with other genes. Interaction and so on.
This research is certainly necessary. Because as scientists deepen their understanding of human beings themselves, they will be able to formulate more effective genetic improvement plans to significantly improve human physical fitness, life expectancy, etc.
However, this plan requires at least 150,000 biologists to participate in the plan, and it requires the construction of no less than five supercomputing centers and supporting large-scale nuclear fusion power stations.
Or, Project Dock One. The spacecraft engineers plan to build an unprecedented super dock, and in this dock, they will study the manufacturing method of new spacecraft, and cooperate with the military to develop the highest performance combat spacecraft at the current stage.
This plan is also necessary, but it also consumes too many resources and manpower.
Almost every plan has this necessity and potentially huge benefits. But the most critical issue is...
The total population of human civilization at the moment is only over 8 million. Among them, all people in various disciplines who can be called "scientists", even interns who do not have the ability to carry out independent research and can only follow their tutors to do some auxiliary work, add up to only 1 million. Get ahead.
Human civilization does not have the ability to carry out many projects at the same time. Even if there are enough scientists, there are not enough skilled workers.
Zhao Changxing had to make a choice.
But the palms and backs of my hands are all flesh. Zhao Changxing looked at it for a long time and couldn't make a decision in his heart.
"In the final analysis, the population is still too small."
He sighed softly.
After discussing with other civilization leaders and relevant experts for a long time, Zhao Changxing finally made up his mind.
"At this stage, the focus is still on basic science research. Some application aspects should be postponed for the time being."
Under the guidance of this idea, up to 99% of construction plans have been eliminated. But even if there is only the remaining 1% of the construction plan, it is still not enough with the manpower and material resources available at this stage. With no other choice, Zhao Changxing had to reluctantly eliminate dozens of large-scale construction tasks before finalizing the plan.
After that, after a period of preparation, a huge industrial spacecraft, fully loaded with thousands of workers and engineers, carrying a lot of mechanical equipment, left the orbit of Planet 3 and flew away from the star.
It took five days for it to reach its destination.
It is an irregular asteroid with a maximum length of 137 kilometers and a narrowest point of only 68 kilometers.
It orbits the star Lakai 9352 at a comparatively slow speed. It takes thousands of years to orbit this star.
It's cold, dark, barren and desolate. No matter from any aspect, this asteroid has no value. Especially at this stage, when the development of Planet 3 is only in its early stages, and Planets 1 and 2 are basically undeveloped.
There are three large planets that are several times larger than the earth, and the resources needed cannot be found. There is really no need to develop this asteroid.
But now, human civilization has sent extremely valuable engineering and scientific research forces here.
The huge industrial spacecraft slowly landed on a relatively flat place on the asteroid numbered "7".
Generally speaking, a spaceship as large as this industrial spacecraft at this moment does not have the ability to land on the surface of a planet. Because they have too much weight. On the planet's surface, they would collapse under their own weight.
But this asteroid is an exception. Because it is so small and has extremely low gravity, the structural strength of this industrial spacecraft can completely withstand it.
The spaceship door slowly opened. Professor Zhang Longfei, who was in charge of this mission, wore a spacesuit and carefully jumped directly from the hatch dozens of meters above the surface.
His body fell slowly, and it took more than ten seconds before he landed on the ground.
"The gravity is so low, I'm really worried about accidentally jumping into space."
Professor Zhang Longfei smiled and complained.
"Low gravity makes it more suitable for digging. Like those big planets, not to mention the ones here, even on the earth, if you dig a hole a little deeper, it will collapse on its own, but that won't happen here."
People chatted casually and cast their eyes on the "earth" in front of them.
In this pure darkness, the headlight can illuminate a distance of hundreds of meters. So Zhang Longfei saw the uneven surface, cracks one after another, and the vast and deep starry sky.
"let's start."
"yes."
Following this order, the thousands of people carried in this industrial spacecraft, except for those who needed to stay in the spacecraft, all carried corresponding instruments and dispersed to various places on the asteroid.
Zhang Longfei and others started a "global trip". Driven by the space suit's own power, they began flying like a car a few meters above the planet's surface, just like Superman.
This planet is so small that with the propulsion power of a space suit, it only takes one to three hours to orbit it once.
Every time they fly for a period of time, Zhang Longfei and others can see a "bright spot". When you land, you can see one or several people busy there. After occasionally chatting and asking about the situation, Zhang Longfei and others would fly away to the next location.
In just one day, Zhang Longfei completed the inspection of hundreds of observation points on the entire planet. By this time, he already had a rough idea of what to do next.
After returning to the industrial spaceship and seeing more detailed data, he determined his final choice.
"After comprehensive consideration of various factors such as the strength of the geological structure, the strength of the radiation resistance, and the depth of the formation, I believe that the final location should be No. 268."
The scientists participating in the meeting discussed in low voices for a while and finally passed this resolution.
So all the surveying and mapping personnel returned and transformed into construction workers, all gathered at surveying point No. 268.
This is approximately two-thirds of the way to the star on the side of the long asteroid.
The shortest diameter here is 85 kilometers.
Numerous parts were transported from the industrial spacecraft and assembled on site. This required thousands of skilled workers. Next to it, a medium-sized fusion power plant has also begun construction.
Obviously, this machine consumes extremely high energy and must rely on a special power plant to power it in order to operate.
Fortunately, both the fusion power plant and this machinery have been modularly manufactured in the space factory orbiting Planet 3. Here people only need to assemble them to operate them, which saves a lot of time. Manpower and time.
But even so, a full two months passed, and the large transport ship traveled back and forth between Planet 3 and the asteroid more than ten times before the two were finally completed. As a result, a strange machine with a circular shape, a diameter of hundreds of meters, and a total area of more than 7,000 square meters, and its supporting power plant appeared in front of people.
The bottom of this machine is full of sharp knives, and the top is a series of complicated pipes and cables. When the surging power from the fusion power plant was transmitted to this machine, people felt a low vibration from the ground beneath their feet.
Like an earthquake.
Zhang Longfei was sure that if there was air here, the noise emitted by this machine would even be enough to make people instantly deaf.
As the earth shook, tens of thousands of sharp knives underneath the machine began to operate. The hard rocks that make up this asteroid are easily cut like tofu cubes under the rotation of these knives. After that, the rubble was collected into the special "air outlet" under the disc-shaped machine.
The high-temperature plasma coming from the fusion power plant was violently blown out from the air outlet, blowing these heavy rocks directly into space in an instant.
They gained the speed to escape the asteroid's gravity and left, never to look back.
Zhang Longfei controlled the spacesuit and slowly flew up, looking down at the place. So, he saw a thick "light pillar" with a diameter of hundreds of meters, rising from the asteroid and spreading into space, as if it was installed on the asteroid Like a giant engine.
