After Su Zhe, Ning Qiaoqiao, and Si Wenbo exited the humanoid bionic robot in geosynchronous orbit, the three immediately took control of the humanoid bionic robot on the moon.
At the same time, a large number of humanoid bionic robots flew out of the humanoid bionic robot base next to the permanent base on the moon.
These humanoid bionic robots all flew in the same direction, towards the place where the super-large gold nugget was discovered.
The straight-line distance from the permanent base on the moon is one thousand two hundred kilometers.
Standing on the square of the permanent base on the moon, a large number of humanoid bionic robots are constantly flying over the permanent base on the moon.
In addition to humanoid bionic robots, people wearing armored space suits are constantly flying up from the permanent base to join the team.
In the humanoid bionic robot base, humanoid bionic robots are constantly waking up, and these humanoid bionic robots fly out as soon as they wake up.
Suddenly, three adjacent humanoid robots woke up.
At the same time, the names of three people were also displayed.
The humanoid robot that showed Fan Xiaoming stood next to the three humanoid robots and said quickly: "Let's hurry up. The principal and others have already gone. If we go late, we will be in trouble."
The time now is ten o'clock in the evening, most people are getting ready to go to bed, and many people have already gone to bed.
Who would have known that not long ago a piece of news cheered everyone up.
A giant gold nugget was discovered on the moon.
Through detection, it is known that the volume of nugget gold is 15,000 cubic meters. When converted into weight, it is close to 300,000 tons.
No, even when they were about to go to sleep, they stopped falling asleep. Even when they fell asleep, they woke up. They all remotely controlled the humanoid bionic robots through the game cabin to watch the fun.
"Then let's hurry up." Si Wenbo said, "I just looked at the data. There are already one million humanoid bionic robots where the nugget is, and there are five million humanoid bionic robots on the way. More people joined in later.”
"What can I say? There are too many people who like to watch the excitement." Fan Xiaoming said, "Anyway, everyone is idle, so it's good to watch the excitement."
Currently, there are 50 million people with the authority to remotely control the moon at any time, and there are currently 30 million humanoid robots on the moon.
Obviously, whether there is a humanoid bionic robot to control needs to be competed on a first-come, first-served basis.
"Such a large gold nugget is so rare that everyone wants to see it." Su Zhe said, "300,000 tons, which is twice the amount currently mined on the earth."
"This gold is like timely rain, we need it so much." Ning Qiaoqiao said seriously.
While communicating, the four of them had already flown away from the humanoid bionic robot base and flew with everyone to the location of the super-large gold nugget.
So far, there are five humanoid bionic robot bases on the front side of the moon, and the 30 million humanoid bionic robots on the moon are basically concentrated in these five bases.
At this time, humanoid bionic robots continued to fly to the five bases, and there were also a small number of people wearing armored space suits among them.
Fan Xiaoming looked at the large number of humanoid bionic robots around him and sighed: "It's so strange that just a gold nugget can attract so many people to visit. Based on this trend, the number of people visiting the gold nugget will exceed 10 million."
I can only say that the timing of the discovery of this nugget was a coincidence.
Found around 9pm.
During this time, most people are either already asleep or ready to sleep.
The most important thing is that this time period is already off work time.
Most of the people who developed the moon have also gone off work, leaving only some night owls, people who like to work at night.
Just like the group of people who discovered the gold nugget.
Just because it was off-duty time, most of the humanoid bionic robots were idle and were in the five humanoid bionic robot bases.
No, a huge gold nugget was discovered. After the news spread, everyone was eager to see the excitement.
The current scene appeared.
Si Wenbo said: "This is close to 300,000 tons of nugget gold. Everyone wants to see the excitement. Just watch, more and more people are visiting."
"With so many people visiting, the place is so big, it feels lonely." Fan Xiaoming said, "What's strange is why there are such large nuggets on the moon, and I don't know how they were formed."
It has not been more than an hour since the discovery, and no results have been given as to the cause of the formation of gold nuggets.
"It is estimated that it hit the moon, and it was not too long ago." Si Wenbo explained.
The data related to the discovery of nugget gold has been partially published.
It was found in the center of a crater, five kilometers underground.
As for the discovery process.
It was discovered by a five-man prospecting team.
This five-person team is said to be prospecting, but in fact, what these five people like to do most is digging for meteorites.
No, after digging and digging, I found a huge gold nugget.
"Almost yes." Su Zhe nodded, "After all, this nob-headed gold was found in the center of the crater during the Ko-headed Age. Unless there are special circumstances, this nob-headed gold came from space."
Gold nuggets of this size are extremely rare.
Speaking of which, 15,000 cubic meters is the size of two standard swimming pools and nearly 300,000 tons.
But this is gold, not iron.
"We are detecting the entire solar system. According to the current detection results, many asteroids containing gold have been found in the asteroid belt, but the number is not very large. Some have also been found in other places, including a small one on Jupiter. The satellite contains a large amount of gold. Judging from the detection data, the gold contained on this satellite alone exceeds 100 million tons, but in general, the total amount of gold contained in the solar system is still not high." Fan Xiaoming said.
Gold is rare on Earth and is equally rare throughout the solar system.
Take the satellite of Jupiter as an example. This is the only one that has been discovered in the solar system so far. The gold content of the others discovered is not high.
In fact, there isn't much gold in the solar system.
According to current theories, most of the heavy elements existing in the universe are produced by supernova explosions. No matter how many heavy elements there are in the solar system, they will never reach that level.
"As far as I know, the relevant departments have been planning to develop the satellite of Jupiter and use gold. With the advent of the space age, the demand for gold in industry is increasing, which is somewhat restricting our development. Now Well, the discovery of this Jingada on the moon can alleviate our needs, so we don't have to rush to Jupiter to develop its satellites. After all, our infrastructure has not yet covered it, and it is very troublesome to mine it." Si Wenbo explained explain.
Right now, the light beam project and beam channel are covering the scope of Mars in preparation for landing on Mars and comprehensive development of Mars.
It is still difficult to mine gold on Jupiter's moons.
After the Sanmen Project is completed, it will still be possible to launch detectors for the entire solar system, but large-scale development is still not possible now.
Large-scale development requires a long time of preparation.
Like mining gold on the moons of Jupiter.
The first thing to do is to cover the light beam project.
In this way, the communication network is covered, and the energy is covered.
Then there is the beam channel.
Only then can materials be transported in large quantities to mine the gold on the satellite.
Fan Xiaoming said: "The discovery of gold nuggets on the moon was indeed timely, and it also prevented us from hastily developing gold on Jupiter's satellites. We can develop the entire solar system step by step according to the big plan."
Develop step by step according to the big plan.
The first thing to do is to develop the moon.
For the development of the entire solar system, the moon can only be said to be an outpost for the development of the solar system.
Then there’s Mars and the asteroid belt.
According to the plan, Mars and the asteroid belt are the core of the development of the solar system.
Su Zhe nodded and said, "That's true. The demand for gold is constantly increasing. In many cases, gold is scarce and we have to find alternative materials, but the corresponding performance has also declined."
It was like this in the past and it is like this now.
After all, gold is too rare.
For now, the monetary nature of gold is no longer important. What is important is its industrial use.
Gold is an extremely excellent material in industry. Especially the research on the uses of gold in the past six months has caused the demand for gold to increase rapidly.
Si Wenbo nodded and said, "That's right. We have recently developed a solar energy conversion device whose solar energy conversion efficiency can reach 90%. However, the manufacture of this device requires a large amount of gold. If alternative metals are used, the The conversion efficiency is only 60 percent.”
The importance of gold can be imagined.
This is not a special case, it is common in industry.
For example, gold is a good lubricant in space.
Now that there are more and more space activities, the use of gold as lubricant will only be in very important situations, and alternatives will be used in unimportant situations.
If there is enough gold.
It is no exaggeration to say that the performance of many devices will be greatly improved.
This is not nonsense, this is the truth.
Fan Xiaoming lamented: "Gold is too important. The more gold we need, the better."
"Not only gold, but those rare metals, especially those heavy rare metals, are now in increasing demand. Currently, there are not many reserves on the earth. A lot have been discovered on the moon, but the total amount is still not enough. Relatively speaking, The content of these heavy rare metals is much less than that of gold," Su Zhe said.
The importance of gold is clear.
Even if coins are not counted, its industrial application is equally important.
In addition to gold, there are also heavy rare metals.
In the past six months, not only the use of gold has been developed, but also new application fields for all other substances have been developed.
Among them, the most important thing is the heavy rare metals in the boarding system.
In the past, rare earths, that is, rare metals, have always been important, and rare earths were used in high technology.
During the past six months of research, it was discovered that adding heavy rare metals to the alloy can significantly improve the performance of the alloy.
Because of this willingness, the demand for heavy rare metals is increasing.
Fan Xiaoming nodded and said: "Materials are an important part of the development of science and technology. Now we have developed a lot of new materials, but the number of raw materials that can be synthesized into new materials is not enough. Take the humanoid bionic robot that needs to be upgraded. , which uses a lot of new materials containing heavy rare metals, as well as the brain machines we are developing, etc. The more technologically advanced a product is, the more new materials containing heavy rare metals are needed."
Humanoid bionic robots, mechas, engineering machinery, etc., require a large number of sensors, and new materials containing heavy rare metals are indispensable for manufacturing these sensors.
There are also current automated and intelligent manufacturing factories.
The more advanced it is, the more sensors are needed, and the more new materials of heavy and rare metals are used.
But the reality is that these heavy rare metals are rarer than gold.
To be honest, the development of science and technology is greatly limited by materials.
Take controllable nuclear fusion as an example. Theoretically it is very complete, but it is difficult to achieve in engineering.
One of the reasons why it is difficult to achieve in engineering is the problem of materials.
Generally speaking, the current development of science and technology has great limitations on materials.
Especially raw materials such as gold and heavy rare metals.
"By the way! Aren't you cooperating with the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Industry to build a nuclear fission raw material manufacturing accelerator? You can use this accelerator not only to produce nuclear fission raw materials, but also to produce these rare raw materials, such as gold and rare heavy metals." Si Wenbo reminded.
The technology of using accelerators to produce rare raw materials can be said to be very mature.
Just use an accelerator to continuously aggregate light atoms, which is called "nuclear fusion".
This method of producing heavy elements has been tried and is very mature.
In the past, some people used accelerators to aggregate light atoms to create gold, and they were successful.
The reason why we didn't do this before was mainly due to cost.
At that time, accelerators were used to produce gold. Not to mention the accelerator itself, the synthetic raw materials were not very valuable and required a lot of energy.
Comparing the before and after, it is found that the more gold produced, the greater the loss.
Things are different now.
With beam engineering, energy costs almost nothing.
It is also possible to use the development of accelerators to produce these rare elements.
"Accelerator production." Fan Xiaoming nodded and said, "There is indeed such a project, and the design has been completed. The main purpose of the accelerator is to decompose nuclear fission waste and produce nuclear raw materials. But if you put it this way, I think it is a good one. The idea is that those rare elements will be produced in the process of manufacturing nuclear raw materials, and we just need to separate these rare elements."
The process of manufacturing nuclear materials.
Take nuclear fission waste as an example. There are a mess of elements in it, ranging from light nuclei to heavy nuclei. Generally, there are very few super-heavy nuclei.
In the process of manufacturing nuclear raw materials, these fission nuclear wastes are ionized, and these ionized elements are accelerated through an accelerator.
It's enough to make them collide when they reach a certain speed.
In this process, a number of different heavy elements are synthesized.
After screening and collision, the required nuclear fission raw materials are finally obtained.
The same principle applies to making gold and rare heavy metals.
It mainly consumes energy, and other consumption is not large.
