Vol 3 Chapter 221 asteroid mining

A meteorite weighing one million tons falling on the blue star would definitely be a great disaster.

In fact, such a large meteorite can already be called an asteroid, and everyone should have an impression of the power of the asteroid.

In the history of Blue Star, several mass extinctions, including the one where dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, were all related to the impact of asteroids.

At the beginning of the last century, the mysterious Tunguska explosion, according to observations, should also be the result of a meteorite explosion.

This is an explosion with an equivalent of more than 10 million tons of TNT, which is equivalent to a thousand times the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

In that era, the most powerful battleship guns had a diameter of only over 400 millimeters and a charge of tens of kilograms. There was no explosive with such earth-shattering power.

At that time, if you want to obtain such power, you have to wait for about half a century, after the hydrogen bomb appears, otherwise more explosives will be useless, and at the end of conventional weapons, the cloud bomb known as the small nuclear bomb will appear even sooner. Far.

And the source of such a powerful explosion is likely to be an asteroid with a diameter of only 60 meters.

Originally, a rocky asteroid was only three times the size of the Eiffel Tower, and should not have a mass of one million tons. However, through the influence of nearby stars on it, as well as its own rotation and other factors, Xiao Ai was able to conclude that this is a bit of a surprise. Contradictory conclusions.

Originally, if it was just a rocky asteroid, Yang Qing didn’t have any idea. It is still far away from Blue Star, and it is still on the orbit of Mars. It will take at least a month for it to appear in Blue Star’s field of vision.

It’s just that this asteroid is quite special, it is very small and hidden, and there is almost no reflection. With Blue Star’s technology, it is impossible to see it, and the probability of discovery is relatively low.

Originally, if it was just an ordinary rocky planet, even if the speed has exceeded 60,000 kilometers per hour, but the distance is very far and the orbit is relatively fixed, it is very easy to destroy it or change its orbit .

But its weird quality made Yang Qing very interested, so he planned to capture it in space.

Although no one has ever formally mined the moon, there are a lot of precious metals such as gold and silver on it, but these things are not completely floating on the surface, at least within the range where the base is located, there is no large amount of gold and silver rich ore exist.

Not only is there no precious metals such as gold, silver, and platinum, but even the more important lead is not much.

Lead can be regarded as a relatively early metal used in Blue Star. It is said that the tap water pipes of the Roman Empire were made of lead.

In the era of black powder, lead, as a projectile, also played a huge role.

Also as the lead chamber method, the production of sulfuric acid also played a very important role in the initial stage of the chemical industry.

However, in modern times, because of the unique heavy metal toxicity of lead, there are many substitutes, which make it gradually stay away from ordinary life.

However, because of its ability to absorb various radiations, it is still widely used in various medical equipment and nuclear industry fields.

Even Yang Qing chose it as one of the main components of the aura isolation material.

It’s just that no lead mine has been found on the moon, so he can only rely on Blue Star’s reserves for the time being.

So even if the asteroid only has a lot of lead, instead of gold and platinum with similar atomic weights, his trip is worthwhile.

That’s right, Yang Qing planned to capture that asteroid directly.

Capturing an asteroid is actually not a very advanced job, as long as your speed is faster than it, and you can slow down its speed and change its orbit.

It just so happens that the base has both of these technologies.

A spaceship equipped with a fusion engine, combined with a protective cover, can easily fly thousands of kilometers per second, which is close to the limit of a sublight speed spacecraft.

Even if it is only 0.0003 times the speed of light, after all, the speed of light is involved, and it can no longer be measured by the number of cosmic speeds.

Of course, if there is enough acceleration time and distance, this number can be further increased. After all, gravity is a long-range force that requires continuous acceleration to achieve faster.

If there is one month to accelerate, the final speed that the spacecraft can reach is 5,000 kilometers per second, which is one sixtieth of the speed of light.

At this point, if the spacecraft continues to accelerate, it may cause the spacecraft to disintegrate, because the fusion engine of the spacecraft is already difficult to maintain the acceleration of the gravitational engine and the continuous energy supply of the shield at such a high speed.

Yang Qing’s plan is to send a spaceship to intercept the asteroid, then fly in sync with it, and use a high-power laser to cut the asteroid.

Anyway, this asteroid is small in size and suitable for this cutting method. Those big ones will not work, and may even need to land on it and then dig it.

But now the spaceship left by Yang Qing is not very suitable, because that spaceship is completely built for carrying people, not suitable for loading, especially these things cut from asteroids.

Wandering in the universe, it is essential to avoid radioactivity, and there may even be isotopes of heavy elements with strong emissivity.

So Xiao Ai needed to rebuild a spaceship for mining. If the mining activities at the base hadn’t been on the right track, and Yang Qing was also actively refining the miniature nuclear fusion core for the ship, she would never have passed this plan.

After all, guarding a gradually cooling planet, besides organic matter, what else in the world needs to be sought?

Even the raw materials for mushroom bombs such as uranium and plutonium can be obtained in the center of the moon by digging.

However, the base basically has no need for these~www.readmtl.com~ It has too many ways to obtain those amazingly powerful weapons, and even when necessary, it can make a fusion bomb that uses spirit stones to ignite and initiate fusion without pollution .

This is different from the laser ignition route on Blue Star, but the consequences are the same. It is just such a nuclear bomb that will not cause pollution.

However, this kind of nuclear bomb is still a weapon with low power for the base.

With the room-temperature superconductor obtained after the spiritual energy infection, Xiao Ai is planning to build an electromagnetic gun on the moon with a firing speed that reaches 1% of the speed of light.

There is one such electromagnetic gun on the base, but its speed is only 200 kilometers per second, and its speed and launch quality are much worse.

Don’t look at this electromagnetic gun, it is not as fast as the spaceship above, but the speed of the spaceship is accumulated gradually over a period of a month, but the initial speed of the electromagnetic gun is just like this.

At this speed, no weapon of Blue Star can escape its blow, and by the way, it can also be used to maintain the environment of the Earth-Moon system.

Because there are also meteorites on the asteroids close to the blue star, and few of them can withstand its blow.

Even the asteroid mentioned above is the same. Even if it is not directly shattered, it will deviate greatly from its current orbit.

However, Yang Qing is still going to show asteroid mining, because no matter from which angle, the moon cannot be over-exploited.

Every year, the moon moves away from the blue star at a speed of more than ten meters. If the excavation is excessive, to a certain extent, the moon will inevitably separate from the moon and become a new dwarf planet of the sun.

But if you want to conquer the solar system, a lot of resources are essential, so the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter has become the largest source of raw materials.