"Mars is too far away, and it is definitely not as convenient as the moon." Xu Zhengping said, "I have thought about the plan to land on Mars this time. With the school as the leader, we will organize 10,000 people to not only land on Mars, but also to orbit Mars. Build a beam channel generator and a permanent base on Mars, so as to pave the way for the subsequent development of Mars."
"Ten thousand people! It is true that we need so many people, and we have the ability to do it." Fan Xiaoming said.
"Not a bad plan." Su Zhe said.
The three discussed landing on Mars for a while, and initially determined that they would land on Mars around December.
Su Zhe, Fan Xiaoming, and Xu Zhengping went together.
After talking about landing on Mars, the three of them talked about the Sanmen Project and the development of the moon.
After ending the call, the time for Su Zhe and Fan Xiaoming to be in orbit was coming soon.
At this time, the main engines of the solar energy collection station and light energy transmission station in the synchronous orbit started.
At the same time, countless light blue beams were emitted from the earth. These light blue beams continuously illuminated the solar energy collection station and the light energy transmission station.
Driven by the main engine, the two broke away from the synchronous orbit one after the other.
Fan Xiaoming looked at the countless blue light beams and sighed: "It's just us. Those small countries probably can't provide this amount of energy."
"That's the truth!" Su Zhe said, looking in the direction of the source of countless blue light beams.
Before, when we looked at China from space, the entire country was bright, but now it is completely dark.
"It's just this time. From now on, there will be a steady stream of cheap energy available." Fan Xiaoming said.
The two looked at the surface for a while, then adjusted their posture and looked at the accelerating solar energy collection station and light energy transmission station.
The destination of the solar collection station is the orbit of Mercury, a straight-line distance of 92 million kilometers.
In the beginning, it needs to rely on external energy sources to accelerate.
However, as it gets closer to the sun, the solar energy it collects can be used by itself, and there is no need for external supplementary energy.
Compared with solar energy collection stations, light energy transmission stations need to continuously provide external energy and consume much more energy than solar energy collection stations.
After all, the destination of the light energy transmission station is no longer on the ecliptic.
In the time the two of them watched, the solar energy collection station and light energy transmission station had already flown very far away.
The two could only see two shining bright spots.
At this time, the two people's time in orbit has come.
The two began to fly towards the Bluebird flying saucer docked in synchronous orbit.
In the Blue Bird UFO in the beam channel, Su Zhe and Fan Xiaoming were sitting on the seats, and their armored helmets were showing images of the solar energy collection station and the light energy transmission station flying.
At this moment, the distance between the two from the earth is more than one million kilometers, the former's speed has reached one thousand kilometers per second, and the latter's speed has reached one thousand five hundred kilometers per second.
And the two are still accelerating at an acceleration of one hundred g and one hundred fifty g.
Finally, the former flies at a speed of two thousand kilometers per second, and the latter flies at a speed of three thousand kilometers per second.
"To be honest, I can't wait." Fan Xiaoming said, "What is limiting the speed of our development of the solar system now? It's not technology, it's not resources, it's not lack of people, it's energy. For now, it's energy. It limits our ceiling.”
"Yes!" Su Zhe said.
"By the way! The space agency has built a new space station, let's take this opportunity to go and have a look!" Fan Xiaoming said.
They were not idle during this period, and neither were the space agencies and relevant departments.
The space agency took the lead in building a brand new space station in an orbit 500 kilometers above the earth.
To be honest, it is a bit inappropriate to call it a space station, but it is still called a space station and named Cangqiong Space Station.
Its total mass is one million tons and it can accommodate 30,000 people for a long period of time.
As far as he knew, when they were planning to land on the moon and the simplified version of the heavy photon aerospace engine had not yet been developed, the space agency was planning and making preparations.
To say that the strength of a country is its strength, it only took one and a half months to build the transportation belt of the Cangqiong space station with a total mass of one million tons.
The Cangqiong Space Station is a long giant.
It is three kilometers long, eighty meters wide and fifty meters high.
The main ones are various laboratories.
"Yes! I really need to go and see it. It's been a week since the construction was completed, and I haven't been there yet." Su Zhe said.
During this time, they were busy with the three-door project. Every time they went up and down in space, they often saw the Sky space station.
Compared with schools and research centers, space agencies, or countries, are truly powerful.
When the Qiong space station was built, there were 30,000 professionals working on-orbit, and the number of remotely controlled humanoid robots reached 100,000.
Without such strength, it would be impossible to complete the construction of the Cangqiong space station in one and a half months.
"Yes!" Fan Xiaoming said, "In five more minutes, we can leave the cabin."
Five minutes later, Su Zhe and Fan Xiaoming stood in front of the opening hatch wearing armored spacesuits.
After the hatch was fully opened, the two of them flew out with a slight jump.
After the two flew out of the beam channel, they adjusted their posture and looked at the Blue Bird UFO in the rear beam channel.
When the Blue Bird flying saucer flew out, its altitude was 800 kilometers, and the Blue Bird flying saucer was slowing down at this time.
Su Zhe looked at the rapid altitude displayed on the helmet and the Cangqiong space station, and said: "There are still two hours until dinner time, don't delay dinner."
The main engines of his and Fan Xiaoming's armored spacesuits did not start, and their flight speed was constantly increasing due to the influence of the earth's gravity.
As for the location of the Cangqiong space station, the straight-line distance from them is nine thousand kilometers.
"I plan to take a walk around the Cangqiong space station. As for dinner, I can have dinner there. I ate the space meal during the moon landing, and now I'm craving for it, such as pickled radish and braised beef with potatoes," Fan Xiaoming said.
"Staying at the Cangqiong space station for dinner, when do you plan to go back?" Su Zhe asked.
At this time, the main engines of the two armored space suits started and began to fly towards the Sky space station.
The upgraded armored space suit not only has a greatly improved battery life, but also has an automatic cruise function.
As long as the destination is selected, the armored space suit can automatically optimize the flight route to fly there in the most time-saving and safe way.
"The size of the Cangqiong space station is equivalent to ten 100,000-ton aircraft carriers. How can such a large space station be completed in one or two hours? I have thought about it. We will go back at 11 o'clock in the evening." Fan Xiaoming said.
"Eleven o'clock is too late. Don't forget that we have to get up early tomorrow." Su Zhe said.
At around four o'clock tomorrow morning, the solar energy collection station will reach its destination, which is the orbit of Mercury.
Then, the light energy transmission station will also reach its destination.
They need to be involved in debugging.
You know, this is the first attempt at the Light Pillar Project.
"Yeah! I forgot about this." Fan Xiaoming said, "Then go back at nine o'clock. I can sleep for six hours."
"Okay! Then go back at nine o'clock." Su Zhe said.
Five minutes later, a slender behemoth appeared in front of the two people.
The closer you get, the bigger it feels.
From a distance, the two saw that the docking platform was full of people, all wearing indoor space suits.
As the distance approached, the cheers of the crowd rang in the ears of Su Zhe and Fan Xiaoming.
"Warmly welcome Professor Su and Professor Fan to visit the Cangqiong space station."
“It was an honor to meet Professor Su and Professor Fan.”
"This armored space suit is so awesome. I really want to equip it as soon as possible."
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Su Zhe and Fan Xiaoming came to the platform, and the people who greeted them were either staff from the space agency or teachers and students from other universities. Among them, the one they were most familiar with was Professor Si Wenbosi of Tsinghua University.
After the two greeted everyone, they entered the Cangqiong space station under the leadership of Si Wenbo.
The two first took off their armored spacesuits and began to visit in indoor spacesuits.
The Qiong space station is fifty meters high and divided into six floors, including work area, entertainment area, rest area and so on.
The main work area is the laboratory.
Su Zhe and Fan Xiaoming followed Si Wenbo around to visit.
The first thing to visit is the rest area.
To put it simply, the rest area is where everyone sleeps.
Everyone has a small private room.
This small single room is three meters long, two meters wide, and three meters high. It contains beds, chairs, tables, etc.
Of course, these things are different from those on the ground in that they are all fixed.
Si Wenbo looked at the bed in front of him and said: "These single rooms are only for use now. When your light beam project is almost completed, the energy problem is solved, and armored space suits become popular, we can go back and forth between the ground and the space station every day. After all, it only takes a few minutes for us to get there."
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Now, everyone stays on the space station because of energy shortage.
When the energy is sufficient, you can go up and down wearing an armored space suit.
Who would want to stay in space war at that time.
Unless it is required for experiments, they are not willing to stay in space battles.
Fan Xiaoming nodded and said: "Energy will soon be available for free use, and everyone will soon be able to have an armored space suit."
"Five hundred kilometers! It's very convenient to get up and down wearing an armored space suit." Su Zhe said.
Next, we visited the entertainment area.
There are movie theaters, chess and card rooms, etc., the most common ones are game cabins.
Now the virtual universe is partially open, and people can play games, learn knowledge, etc. in the virtual universe.
After visiting the entertainment area, the three of them came to the work area. The first laboratory they visited was Si Wenbo's.
According to Si Wenbo, he brought his entire scientific research team to the space station.
"I really envy you!" Si Wenbo said, "This Cangqiong space station was built by universities like us who asked the space agency to use the power of the country. You can just do it yourself. I heard that your school wants to build it in space." A space city that accommodates one million people. Who is the test city of the Penglai space city? As for the same level as the Cangqiong space station, you have completed the design and are in the process of manufacturing it. When your three-door plan is completed, you will We will build three in orbit at an altitude of 800 kilometers, and we will build more powerful hadron colliders in space, and there are many more.”
"There's nothing we can do about it. We have an innate advantage." Fan Xiaoming said with a smile, "Besides, when the five beam channels built by the space agency are completed next year, universities like you will be able to freely develop whatever you want. you."
"Then we have to wait until next year, it's too late!" Si Wenbo said with some envy, "The construction of your school's permanent lunar base has not been completed yet. You have begun planning to go to Mars. You will bring 10,000 people to land. Not only will you land, There is also the construction of a permanent base on Mars and a beam channel generator. Alas! I can’t compare with you.”
"This...you all know this, and it spreads very quickly!" Fan Xiaoming sighed.
"Why don't you hurry up! Your school has given half of the places, which is 5,000 places." Si Wenbo said, "Everyone is vying for a place to go to Mars."
"Okay!" Fan Xiaoming nodded.
As they spoke, the three of them visited the laboratory and discussed related projects.
The reason why these laboratories are built in space is actually to repeat various experiments on Earth in a microgravity environment.
This is the most basic, and then there is the research of science and technology.
Soon, it was time to finish eating.
The three of them arrived at the cafeteria.
Fan Xiaoming got the space meal he wanted to eat as he wished.
After eating, Si Wenbo said: "In this kind of microgravity, it is not very convenient to eat, drink, go to the toilet, etc. We should simulate the gravity of the earth, so that it is no different from the earth. I can live in space for a long time.”
"This... currently, to simulate gravity, we need to simulate centrifugal force or use continuous acceleration simulation." Su Zhe said, "As for the other things, it is almost impossible to achieve at this stage."
Fan Xiaoming and Si Wenbo nodded.
"We humans are quite fragile and can only survive in the same environment as the earth." Fan Xiaoming said with emotion, "We can't survive without oxygen. Air pressure, water, gravity, temperature, etc., if one is missing, we will either die immediately or wait for a while. Even if you die, there will still be something wrong with you."
"There is nothing we can do about it. We were born and grew up on the earth." Si Wenbo said.
Su Zhe nodded and said seriously: "It is foreseeable that if humans want to get out of the earth and go to the stars, they must either change themselves to adapt to the cosmic environment, or change the environment to make it the same as the earth."
"What do you mean!" Si Wenbo thought for a while and said, "Just change yourself! Just think about it and you will know that the first generation of the transformation may still think that they are human beings, but by the second and third generations, they probably will not. You will think that you are a human being, and then you will feel that you are not a human being either mentally or physically. By then..."
"I think so too." Fan Xiaoming nodded.
Su Zhe nodded and said, "The only thing we can do is change the environment!"
After chatting for a while, the three of them left the restaurant and continued to visit the Sky space station.
It wasn't until nine o'clock in the evening that Su Zhe and Fan Xiaoming left.
