This time, the company's targets are Ganymede and Callisto. Io is an active lava world. This planet is so active that its crust is unstable. Its core is even hotter than the Earth. There are frequent volcanic eruptions of thousands of degrees. This is absolutely a huge fiber network. The "baking" experience. Also, there is no water on it. Water is essential to transforming the planet into a habitable planet. It is better to have more and float on the water than less. Judging from current human technology, we really are not afraid of a world entirely made of water. Of course, there is another very important reason: Io is too close to Jupiter! And Jupiter’s gravity is too great!
Although Ganymede and Callisto are slightly larger, they are far away from Jupiter, and their gravity is relatively weak, making them easy to be dragged. Of course, there is also the fact that more than half of these two planets are frozen water; this frozen water is just conducive to cooling down and replenishing water on Venus. What's more, the sum of the two, plus the previous weight of Ceres, is almost enough to make Venus almost the same as the Earth. According to calculations, it can increase Venus' gravitational acceleration to about 9.5, which is equivalent to the Earth's gravitational acceleration of 9.8.
Such a planetary environment is truly luxurious enough in space; in fact, I don’t know when someone has already said this on the Internet: Venus is naturally the sister planet of the Earth. However, some people also have other speculations about the earth's environment. The earth's environment is too special - if humans want to enter space, they have the resources of the moon; if humans need to immigrate, there is a Venus. These are such a coincidence! Of course, such remarks have been prevalent on the earth for more than two hundred years. Ever since humans used modern means to observe space, there have been such and such remarks, so they have not attracted much attention from humans now.
After a month-long journey, the fleet finally arrived at Jupiter again. Some expedition teams directly bid farewell to the Master Company team and flew to Europa; naturally, everyone has unknowingly accepted the escort of the Master Company - in other words. Unknowingly, Gaoshou Company has become a solid backer in space. By the way, when Gaoshou Company announced that it would abandon Europa, many people were rejoicing. A planet with such strange life is an inestimable treasure.
Especially the promotion of life research has made this planet full of gold, which can well promote the development of early human space exploration.
The first target of the master company this time is Callisto. Compared with Ganymede, Callisto is much smaller, almost a quarter smaller in mass; coupled with the long distance from Jupiter, the cost of dragging Callisto and the time, technical support, etc. required, Far and easily more than double that. On the periphery. It’s also much easier.
The huge flight formation just floated quietly above Callisto, and the occasional sweeping ion wind made a magnetic field protective layer that became elliptical under the influence of Jupiter flicker dimly. A powerful magnetic field covers space with a diameter of more than 20,000 kilometers, providing protection for the fleet of the Master Company.
In the empty space, with the huge Jupiter in the background, the situation is changing. Almost filling half of the field of view; due to close observation, the satellites and rings are somewhat hazy due to the dimming of the light, giving Jupiter a little shyness and softness in the wild.
On the other side, through the porthole, looking at the cold world - Callisto. Mu Xinghai is making final calculations. Of course, at such a historic moment, Li Canglan and Liu Haibo were present, including their descendants: Mu Tianhe, Li Xinghui, and Liu Kaixing.
"The weight of Callisto is about 1,076 billion tons, and its current speed is about 8,202 meters per second. At this distance, if Callisto wants to escape the gravity of Jupiter, its speed must reach at least 12 kilometers per second (not rigorous). However, I want this The energy required to accelerate a 1,076-billion-ton object from 8 kilometers to 12 kilometers per second is enough to keep us busy for thousands of years. Obviously, it is impossible to drag away Callisto solely by the power of a spacecraft. .
But the clever thing is that we really have a helper and an ally, and that is: the sun!
According to calculations, if we use the gravity of the sun, we can drag Callisto away in just one year. In about two years, it will fall to Venus as planned.
That is, everyone has to work hard for a year; this process will be a boring, rigorous, and repeated task. And this will be the most difficult year since Gaoshou Company entered space development. For one year, we cannot relax at all. If there is a slight deviation, all previous efforts may be wasted. By then, Callisto will not only be unable to land on Venus, but may also destroy the earth. ”
‘Don’t worry, Captain! "Uncle..." "Dad..." There was a confusion of various titles.
"Very good." Mu Xinghai was very satisfied with everyone's attitude. "After this thing is successful, I will ask the boss to give you the rewards you deserve. Of course, I hope that this reward will be after completing all the plans for Callisto and Ganymede. Now, these core personnel are For those who have cultivated above the sixth level of Qi Refining, there is no problem at all if they stay in space for three to five years; of course, I don’t want to see any problems either.
The company usually gives everyone a lot of benefits, and I don’t want to see anyone fall behind. "In the end, Mu Xinghai's voice was cold, and the momentum of a master in the golden elixir stage suddenly broke out.
"Three years! It's only three years at most! We have already gone through the most difficult thirty years! Now, it's time for us to create our own era and glory. Everyone, after the construction of Venus is completed, I think hundreds of years There will never be anything like this again, we can’t miss it!
People, when they come to this world, always have their own mission. I believe that it is our mission to transform Venus and make it a second paradise for mankind. ”
"Can't miss it! Can't miss our mission!" All the people replied loudly, their eyes filled with a sense of glory of the mission.
"Now, act!"
With an order, tens of thousands of astronauts began to work. More than 5,000 people were resting and more than 5,000 people were busy. In the next three years, everyone will work according to this painful two-shift system.
A giant net fell down and hit Callisto hard. There were 200 rope ends extending over 4,000 kilometers around the giant net. In the middle was a large net with a diameter of about 5,000 kilometers. The ropes were 30 centimeters. Fiber rope!
These ropes made of vinyl fibers are only about 30 centimeters in diameter; but in such a rope, there are more than 3 billion tiny fibers tangled together. This gray and inconspicuous rope represents the most dazzling crown among fiber materials in the world today. The same weight of fiber costs. Already more valuable than rare earth metals. The carbon fiber of a hair is enough to lift hundreds of tons of gravity.
In order to drag Callisto and Ganymede this time, Gaoshou Company mobilized all its efforts and produced a total of 100 such ropes. The density of these fibers is around 1.5. 100 such ropes weigh nearly 15,000 tons; some people describe this as saying that these 15,000 tons of carbon fiber are more expensive than the 200 spaceships of the Master Company!
To weave such a large net, of course it is impossible to weave it in advance. Instead, it is weaved in the sky on the spot. The shuttles we make are like top-notch space shuttles.
Like busy bees, the space shuttle keeps shuttling between the spacecraft. The space shuttle, which is about 30 meters long, is like a small bee in the eyes of adults in front of the huge spacecraft. The proportions are too different.
It actually took half a month to compile a net; mainly the fixed nodes between each rope were a very tedious task. There are more than 20,000 intersections between one hundred ropes; in order to ensure the bearing capacity of the giant net, they cannot simply be overlapped together. Instead, it has complex locks. From a distance, this giant net looks like an extra-large Chinese knot.
In space, there is no such thing as "dark sky and white night", only the eternal and lonely starry sky.
"Get ready!" Mu Xinghai's eyes were fixed on the boss, today is the time that will be recorded in history. Although it is said that the master company already has sufficient data and data on dragging space objects. But the largest ones before were Ceres and Vesta. The rest are all small meteorites, the largest ones are about a hundred or ten kilometers away. Perhaps, an asteroid hundreds of kilometers across weighs hundreds of millions of tons. However, compared to the current behemoth, it is really not enough.
1,076 billion tons! This is a number that ordinary people have no idea about. Because it's too big! Like we said. So-and-so weighs 70 kilograms - very healthy data; so-and-so weighs 100 kilograms - a little fat. This stone weighs ten tons - it seems very heavy. A ship has a carrying capacity of 10,000 tons - it looks very big; a ship with a load of 100,000 tons - looks very big; a ship with a load of 500,000 tons - it looks very big. A mountain weighs tens of billions of tons - that's a huge number!
Yes, as it evolves step by step, everyone will feel that this "number" is so big, not that this object is so big. The reason why I feel like this is because it has exceeded the imagination of my brain!
but. Now GaoShou Company is going to do something like this: drag a planet that weighs more than the imagination of ordinary people from the Jupiter system, and then let it hit Venus to complete the transformation of the planet by GaoShou Company!
Therefore, Mu Xinghai needs to personally take charge of this matter; but even Mu Xinghai is a little guilty. In this matter, human power can only play a guiding role; more importantly, it is to end the natural power of the universe. The power of human beings is still too small now!
When Callisto is halfway between Jupiter and the Sun, it's an opportunity for expert companies. With such an opportunity, Callisto's orbit can be slightly changed. Once, twice, dozens or hundreds of times, Callisto will be dragged away from Jupiter's gravitational circle!
Callisto will rotate around Jupiter in about 16.689 days; with the help of expert companies, the time for one rotation in the future will be about 17 to 18 days on average. In other words, this time, this team only has one day of work time every seventeen or eight days. Only on a certain day, when Callisto is between Jupiter and the sun, is the ideal time for operation.
Everyone stared at the dashboard and listened carefully to the commands in their ears. There are too many things in space that cannot rely on machinery and computers and require humans to perform them manually. Only in this way can we ensure that there are no errors at all. This is mainly because space is complex and data needs to be recalculated before each execution. Otherwise, it is really a mistake and a mistake. No, in space, a small error can magnify the distance between Jupiter and Venus to a million kilometers! This gap may allow Callisto, which was planned to hit Venus, to eventually hit the Earth. This may be small, very small, but it is possible! ! !
Some accompanying scientists are making intense calculations, and advanced atomic clocks are measuring space with almost absolutely accurate time. This is the craziest plan since the birth of the Master Company - sniping Venus; and dragging the satellites of Jupiter is the most difficult plan to execute. In comparison, both Ceres and Vesta are "planets" - revolving around the sun, and their movements are much simpler.
But Callisto is a satellite, one of four huge satellites, and its trajectory in space is extremely complex. And every seventeen or eight days, you have to change a little bit by yourself, and in the complex space environment (Jupiter + Callisto, Callisto and other moons, Jupiter + the sun, Callisto + the sun), it will be magnified geometrically. . It brings constant challenges to the work.
A little sweat seeped out from Mu Xinghai's palms. How long has it been since you came to the master's company and became successful in practice? How long has it been since you were so nervous? Mu Xinghai had almost forgotten. But at this moment, I once again found the passion to fly to space for the first time!
ps: It’s so stressful to be naked