There are those laying waste everywhere, those digging reservoirs, those building forts, and some mages trying to use magic to stabilize the plates.
But none of these can stop the floating island process from advancing.
Akeem had just come out of Nam Pang Hun and had just gone to Elte to plant trees when another earthquake occurred and the first floating island within the sight of the route was born.
The location is a swamp on the road from the airport to Salt Island.
After the flight visually confirmed that the land was unusually elevated, an exploration team was sent there. But it's very uncomfortable. This section is the main habitat of swamp dragons, and there are quite a lot of them. It's very unsafe for planes to approach, and the exploration team can't work with peace of mind. After two attempts, they were targeted before they got close, so they had to give up. Make ground observations nearby.
On the first day of the land survey, the elevation of the grassland swamp was 200 meters, and the total altitude at this time was about 700 meters.
After getting this number, more exploration teams were immediately dispatched, and the second regiment and the first company were also mobilized to support the observation to avoid interference from the demons and swamp flying dragons.
The average altitude of the grassland area is less than 60 meters. The speed at which the grassland swamp plate is being extruded has exceeded the intensity of previous geological changes. There is a high probability that the bottom has been completely disconnected from the asthenosphere.
Its final height has great reference significance. Even if it is only one month in advance, knowing which direction to focus on can always save more people.
Also because of Wang Qi's attention, a report was sent to the palace every day.
As a result, it took a lot of effort here, but there was very little change when the altitude reached 1,200 meters.
The change has not completely stopped. There is still a vertical displacement of twenty meters every day, but sometimes it will in turn reduce some height.
"Does this mean it floats to more than a thousand meters?"
"Isn't more than a thousand meters enough? There are three or four hundred floors." Li Xiang refused.
Wang Qi shook his head: "I think the changes are not over yet."
"Why?"
Wang Qi took out a piece of white paper and said as he drew: "We have already obtained the curvature of sea level. As expected, this world is a ball with a radius of nearly four thousand kilometers. You see, peel off a layer from this scale. If it is raised more than a thousand meters, is there any distance between the plates?”
Although the world has not been completed, with the airplane, there is a basis for guessing the general shape of the world.
It is relatively small, but the gap between the acceleration of gravity and the previous life is very small. It is probably the result of a combination of factors.
As the distance from the center of the earth gets closer, gravity will increase. An average difference of 10 kilometers can bring about a gravity difference of nearly 2.8‰... Mathematicians also use this concept to find the height of the synchronous orbit. Of course, the mathematical proof will be complicated. many.
Therefore, a smaller planet does not need to have the same total mass. As long as the overall density is slightly higher, the surface can have similar gravity.
As for the specific density, Wang Qi doesn't know how to do it at all, and he doesn't have enough astronomers and mathematicians to calculate it, nor does he have extra-atmospheric tools for auxiliary detection.
Now that the entire earth's crust can fly, the mass of the planet itself is not necessarily the only factor. Gravity may be affected by microscopic magic particles, which means there may be certain differences in the underlying gravity formula of the universe.
Back to the topic, in short, based on the current world scale, it is meaningless for the plates to fly more than a thousand meters. If all the plates fly to the same level, the total circumference of more than 20,000 kilometers will only increase by less than ten kilometers, which is the same as the original Some land structures are basically not much different.
If the formation of floating islands is really completed in this way, then the distance between islands, including the collapsed part of the plate edge, will hardly exceed 500 meters.
"Do you think the distance is too short to fit the description of fragmentation?" Li Xiang also knew what Solaris had said.
"One thing, in fact, I am mainly afraid of water vapor." Wang Qi smiled bitterly, "If there is no threat of water vapor, of course I have no objection to this height. It's good."
From the start of the floating island process to the present, the biggest foreseeable threat is that after large-scale separation of the earth's crust, the ocean will be boiled or even dried up by the earth's core.
Even if there is only a small piece of land in the entire penal colony, and the rest is the ocean, the surface layer of water is insignificant compared to the earth's core with a radius of several thousand kilometers. It can even be said that the drying up of sea water is an inevitable result.
This process will bring a total amount of vapor that is far greater than the total amount of the existing atmosphere. Depending on the shape of the ocean, the difference is between tens to thousands of times. If the intermediate value is only calculated as a hundred times, a thickness will be formed. An atmospheric environment dominated by vapor for tens of kilometers, and the closer to the bottom, the higher the temperature and the greater the proportion of vapor.
In this case, if the floating island does not fly higher, wouldn't it be the same as steamed shrimp?
To be honest, compared to this way of death, Wang Qi would rather fly higher and suffocate to death.
At least if the overall thickness of the atmosphere increases, people may not be killed at an altitude of 20,000 meters, but at a height of 1,000 meters, the floor can burn people to death.
Li Xiang did not say anything like "nothing can be done" this time, but coaxed: "If it doesn't work, ask Solaris."
"If it really comes to that, this is the only way."
Magic can hold up the insulation film, and the density of natural magic power, which is still increasing, can withstand consumption, but it is not easy to hold up a cover that is enough to protect three plates.
Even if it is achieved, if the underground fossil energy is heated to too high a temperature and decomposes, it will be difficult to develop later.
...Maybe we still need to change our thinking.
Insulation is difficult, so is it possible to make the Ice Forest play a greater role?
The total area of the dark land and the adjacent grassland and woodland mixed plates is thousands of square kilometers.
The ice tree will condense water into ice. After freezing, it is actually fragmented due to the thermal conductivity of the ice, and the actual entropy reduction effect is not as good as that of a bare tree.
If we can melt the ice and snow in the entire ice forest and ensure that the overall temperature is not too high, we can absorb a huge amount of heat value. In addition, the thermal conductivity of the floating island rock itself is also very average. It will take some time for the central area to turn into a steamer. .
Is it possible to further slow down plate heating by accelerating the construction of central cooling towers?
The cooling tower of the Super Engineering Center has not slowed down before due to the cracking of the plate and the inability to reach the wind valley, because its other mission is to create a super artificial reservoir, and the artificial reservoir plays a more important role than other things in the process of floating islands. .
Looking back now, the main project is nearly completed, and the pipeline laying is still in progress in an orderly manner. If no more firewood is added, it will take about three months to complete the pipeline connection between New City, New Pettus, and Phoenix.
So now, as long as the interior of the Ice Forest is advanced, a central cooling tower with preliminary functions can be obtained within three to four months, which can be used to overall control the temperature of the dark floor.
As for the other two sectors, there is really nothing we can do. For such a large project, just the exploration, production pipelines and other facilities must be calculated on an annual basis, and the transportation and manpower installation parts are not included. Now that some sectors have taken off, the others will probably be completed soon. Things that are a few months behind schedule cannot keep up with the progress.
If it really falls into the vapor zone, then ask Solaris to put a cover on the other two sectors. If that doesn't work, we can only stop the slime mold system completely and free up some resources. We can save as much as we can.
