Chapter 13: Will people around the world welcome the drop in sea level? (Part 2)
Currently, Hong Kong's "Gateway to Another World" that is being flooded is roughly located in the southeast of Stonecutters State, on the west side of the Kowloon Peninsula, about one kilometer outside the New Yau Ma Tei Typhoon Shelter, which is being flooded with seawater. The main entrance is facing West Kowloon Highway and Jordan Road.
This sea area happens to be the shallowest place in the entire Victoria Bay. At the "gate" position, the average water depth is only about eight meters.
And how big is this "Gate to Another World"? According to long-distance observations, it is currently known that its width is twenty meters, and its height, including the roof, is about twelve meters. The actual cross-sectional area of the rectangular passage underneath is ten meters (height) times twenty meters (width) , with an average height of eight meters submerged in the water, leaving only a rectangular stone roof, barely exposed on the water, like a small uninhabited island.
From this, according to the potential energy and kinetic energy conversion formula, it can be concluded that under ideal conditions, the flow rate of seawater flowing into the "Gate to Another World" is about nine meters per second. Considering that a vortex has been formed on the sea, there may be a certain Acceleration effect, so it is more relaxed and tentatively set at ten meters per second.
In this way, if the "Gate to Another World" is regarded as a large river flowing from the earth to another world, then the average flow rate at its mouth (doorway) is 1,600 cubic meters per second... How much does this number actually mean? How old is it? Here are a few examples for comparison. The Amazon River, the world's largest river in South America, has an average flow rate of 220,000 cubic meters per second at its mouth. The average flow rate at the mouth of the Yangtze River is more than 30,000 cubic meters per second, the average flow rate at the mouth of the Pearl River is more than 10,000 cubic meters per second, the average flow rate at the mouth of the Nile River is 2,300 cubic meters per second, and the average flow rate at the mouth of the Yellow River is more than 30,000 cubic meters per second. The flow rate is more than 1,700 cubic meters per second, and the average flow rate at the mouth of the Qiantang River is more than 1,300 cubic meters per second.
——In other words, the rate at which Hong Kong's Victoria Bay, the "Gate to Another World", discharges seawater from the earth to another world is only equivalent to one-twentieth of the average flow of the Yangtze River Estuary and one-seventh of the average flow of the Pearl River Estuary. , approximately between the Yellow River and Qiantang River...
It is conceivable that compared to the vastness of the global ocean, this can only be said to be an extremely thin small water pipe.
Further extrapolating further, the average drainage speed of the "Gateway to Another World" in Victoria Bay, Hong Kong, is 1,600 cubic meters per second, which means it is 140 million cubic meters per day and approximately 50 billion cubic meters per year. . The total surface area of the earth is 510 million square kilometers, of which the ocean area is 360 million square kilometers. If you only rely on the drainage speed of this "Gate to Another World" and do not consider any other factors, how much time will it take to lower the sea level of the entire earth by one meter?
——The correct answer is: seven thousand two hundred years! ! !
Well, that was a hopelessly long date.
Then, if according to the setting of "Fantasy Self-Defense Forces", the "door" can remain open for only five years from beginning to end.
Therefore, in such a short period of time, the amount of seawater discharged by the "Gate to Another World" is not even enough to lower the global sea level by one millimeter... Since relevant records were recorded in the 20th century, the average annual rate of global sea level rise has been There's also a point and four millimeters. The latest data provided by NASA claims that after entering the 21st century, the global ocean water level has risen at a rate of three millimeters per year.
In other words, even if the "door to other worlds" in Victoria Bay in Hong Kong remains open, the height of the global sea level will still only rise, not fall... Therefore, there is no need for those coral island countries in the South Pacific to rejoice , mistakenly thinking that their home will not be submerged underwater and become Atlantis. Discussions on the Internet about dock reconstruction and canal digging are purely sentimental and unfounded.
Because even if this "door to another world" is kept open and water is released, the global sea level will not drop at all! ! !
——For the huge earth, such an opening is really too small...
Some environmentalists always imagine that humankind's homeland is very fragile. In fact, the earth's biosphere is really tenacious... If the earth is really like a glass greenhouse and breaks with a poke, how can it survive billions of years? Time, to survive all kinds of huge catastrophes?
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When Political Commissar Guo listed all the above numbers on paper, Wang Qiu and others suddenly realized:
——The so-called opening of Hong Kong's "Gate to Another World" will cause the earth's seawater to drain and the sea level to drop, thereby affecting the global ecological environment. Strictly speaking, it is a false proposition and a hype concocted by international hostile forces in order to suppress and discredit China. Gimmick.
Therefore, the central government does not take these ongoing environmental protests seriously at all. Anyway, the Western media has always been nitpicking and trying every possible means to smear China. It has been doing so for decades. Now, even if there are a few more accusations, it doesn't seem to matter.
If we have to obey their wishes in everything, then I am afraid that the Chinese people will have to be exterminated to satisfy those bird people.
——Didn’t the Soviet Union and Russia after its disintegration almost fall into the eighteenth level of hell by a group of “social consciences”?
Of course, despite the small amount of water released by the "Gate to Another World", even if it is left for a thousand years, it will not have any serious impact on the earth's ecological environment. However, the central government quickly formulated a plan to build a sea dam around the "Gate"... This is not to say that because Victoria Bay has a large whirlpool connecting to other worlds, Hong Kong will become a dead port - just With the development of urban construction, Hong Kong's most important dock loading and unloading docks have been moved to the Drunken Bay area in the northeast. Its shipping routes are not affected by the "alien whirlpool" of Yau Ma Tei. Even among the pier berths in Central, Hong Kong Island, more than half are not affected by the ban and can still be used as usual. Considering the current situation in Hong Kong where all industries are depressed, trade volume is declining year by year, and the economy is declining day by day, the remaining terminal berths alone are actually completely sufficient.
The real problem is that if the environment around the "gate" is not changed from ocean to land, and the "Alien Water Gate" is now in a state like a waterfall, how can we send people to explore there? Do we really want the Expendables to row a rubber boat over and surf the waterfall?
Moreover, even if someone can successfully cross over, how can they come back and report against the waterfall after finding out the information about the other world?
In fact, in the past few days after the "Gate" appeared, the Hong Kong Garrison has dispatched military helicopters carrying several special forces to risk their lives by rappelling to the "roof" above the water for survey, but because they did not dare The end result of making a hasty hole in the roof is nothing.
The scouts who forcibly climbed to the top originally planned to cut some stone chips from the roof of the "Gate" and send them to the research institute for sample analysis, so that they could get some useful information. But what was shocking was that even if they used the hardest diamond tools, they could not cut through the roof of the ancient Roman-style temple that seemed to be made of ordinary marble. In the end, they had no choice but to retreat with empty hands.
In addition, the Navy also took out a batch of underwater unmanned detectors that look like torpedoes, trying to let them follow the water flow to the other side of the "door" to collect information. As a result, before they could actually pass through the "door" and reach the other side, inside this ancient Roman-style temple, they were swept up by the rapid water and hit the walls or pillars, smashed into pieces and shattered into pieces... Anyway, just a little bit. No valuable signals were transmitted back.
Therefore, at present, Wang Qiu and the others have not been able to figure out whether this "gate" is the one in "Fantasy Self-Defense Forces", and whether the opposite is a fantasy world or another parallel world in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan. clear. I can’t even guarantee whether a group of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers from a parallel world will emerge from the "door" - if such a scene really happens, it will feel very embarrassing...
Obviously, faced with such a confusing situation where everything is unclear, a country that is accustomed to trying to control everything is very dissatisfied. Therefore, it is currently preparing to implement reclamation projects and significantly increase the garrison in Hong Kong. Preparation is impossible Unexpected changes - no one can confirm what will come out from the other side of this "door". At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen supervision and control over Hong Kong, and even enter a wartime state. However, once military control is imposed on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, it will be equivalent to tearing up the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and violating a series of commitments made by the central government to allow Hong Kong autonomy when Hong Kong returned to China. It is no longer just an issue between the central government and local governments, but has risen to the level of influence. The level of Sino-British diplomatic relations (the unshakable commitment of the 50-year basic system is not only to Hong Kong, but also to the United Kingdom) can be said to affect the whole body.
Under normal circumstances, these issues can probably be left to be discussed later, and most of the time they won't cause any trouble. However, the situation around the South China Sea is so tense now. The fleets of China and the United States are still at war with each other in the Nansha Islands. Who knows if the Yankees will get excited and order the aircraft carrier battle group to move north towards Hong Kong. The diplomatic relations between China and the countries in the Western camp have also become extremely bad because of this. Other countries are jealous of China for monopolizing the passage to other worlds, and they are also jealous and clamoring on various international platforms, which makes the Chinese diplomatic department very anxious. The feeling that everyone in the world is the enemy. Under such circumstances, once you act hastily and give others credit for certain matters, you may cause unexpected troubles. Therefore, the relevant departments have to be cautious and cautious, and straighten out these messy things first. . Moreover, the preparations for the deployment of engineering troops, construction site surveys, design of sea dams and construction plans will take some time. Wang Qiu and the others couldn't exert much effort before the passage was opened, so they could only continue to wait patiently...