Technology Bigshot Chapter 589: ：The crystal mine that haunts my dreams]
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As ESA announced plans to explore Mars, it also announced plans for Europeans to land on Mars.
As soon as the news came out, the current nasa and cnsa showed a lukewarm attitude, especially nasa. ESA knows its own weight and money, but some key technologies are flawed. At this time Naturally, I went to NASA to discuss cooperation.
And NASA is very clear that it is possible to cooperate with other space projects, but Mars is exempted.
In desperation, I tried to find cnsa again, but also hit a wall. This made ESA very angry, and at the same time, I learned a very important information. The two super players seem to have reached a tacit understanding and do not want to let the A third party intervenes in Mars.
It seems that there is something tricky in it, but they will never think that the two sides have secretly divided up Mars, especially the investment in matrix technology makes NASA firmly believe that Mars will soon become a new human being in the near future. habitat.
Faced with such a vast territory, the temptation is irresistible, and I think I am super strong, and there is no reason to share the cake with others.
Although there is a clear stipulation in international law that the solar system belongs to the common people of mankind, but such words are just words. Space exploration and extraterrestrial competition are not based on words, but on real hard power.
Just as ESA announced that it would send an advanced satellite into Mars orbit, the two sides were pondering that it would be best if the satellite could not reach its destination and be stillborn.
True and false, false and true, in today's situation, the outside world has not been able to tell what the matrix technology is going to do on Mars. In fact, matrix technology is playing the real thing in disguise, and Ziyuanjing is naturally the first A priority strategic mission, but colonizing Mars is also not for the sake of fooling around.
It will be a matter of time before humans colonize Mars, and Matrix Technology is just using this opportunity to put a layer of smoke bombs.
Three months later, the "Mars Express" came to Mars again, bringing the 1,049-ton Noah 3 to the orbit of Mars.
Since then, the Americans also have an orbiting Mars space station, but only more than 600 tons, and a large amount of materials are still used for the construction of the Martian Deka Walker outpost base.
In the past half a year, the hurricane has undergone tremendous changes, and the outpost base has become extremely large. An outpost base covering an area of more than 2,000 square meters was born in the hurricane. , heavy machinery parked on red clay.
The most eye-catching is undoubtedly a 30-meter-high minaret, which has become the iconic building of the outpost base. The colorful flags on the top of the minaret indicate the affiliation of the base.
The role of this spire is a defensive device, and the target is naturally the Martian indigenous creature basilisk. The "Yinghuo-3" satellite in space monitors the high winds area around the clock, and the life detector is always in operation.
Once a Martian basilisk tries to approach the base at night, the first layer of defense spires will release high-intensity ultraviolet rays, covering a radius of up to 47 kilometers, which is lethal to the basilisk The rays, as many as they come, die as much as they come, ensuring the safety of the outpost base.
The Omnic has been working non-stop for several months. The tunnel was opened as early as four months ago, and the entire tunnel has been reinforced in the following two and a half months.
Lao Mei's "Observer No. 5" will fly over the high wind ridge at regular intervals, and come regularly to catch the autumn wind. CMSx does not care about this monitoring behavior. There are more and more small earthbags piled up at the location of the wind ridge. The Americans also found that cmsx was drilling the ground, but they did not know what the other party was going to do.
I also asked for a while, and the response was to study the habitat of the basilisk, and there may be underground liquid water under the old Olympus.
For this point, NASA also knows that through the "Explorer" Mars locomotive, they also found that the water content of Pezos is gradually increasing. The response of cmsx can't pick up anything wrong. Americans are puzzled but also It's over.
Everyone is a different player.
Just today, two new Mars landing vehicles carried a new batch of crew members and equipment into the hurricane, one carrier carrying four basically empty containers, while the other carrier loaded An oversized heavy mobile device - the mobile condensate cutter.
In the morning, two 18-ton heavy-duty Mars rovers drove into the flat sandy field 4 kilometers away from the outpost base, and the two "Red Eagle" transport ships had long stopped on the ground. The two heavy-duty rovers headed for their respective spaceships.
At this moment, the aft compartments of the two transports have long been opened.
Several astronauts in protective suits disembarked from the heavy truck. The landing also brought six crew members. Under the control of the staff, four basically empty containers were loaded from the rover. A small amount of living supplies.
It is very useful for these fully enclosed containers to be transported to Mars in an empty state. Each container can hold about 6 tons of Ziyuan crystal ore.
It took two hours of effort and the rover began delivering the containers to the outpost base.
On the other hand, the "Red Eagle-2" is loaded with a real big guy.
The mobile condensate cutter weighs 47 tons and is still a whole. The whole spacecraft is basically saturated after the big guy is installed. After the spacecraft is unloaded, the Mars rover drags the big guy to the outpost base. .
In the base, Ren Hong stood on the spire and took advantage of the wide field of vision to see not far away, two Mars rovers were moving forward in the red dust, and he was also a little excited.
The cutting machine is here, which means that the crystal ore can finally be mined. Isn't it the reason that so much energy, financial and material resources have been spent?
At this moment, a staff member wearing orange-red protective clothing appeared outside the outpost base one after another.
The six new members came to the surface one after another. After a brief meeting, the intense work continued, and Ren Hong also walked down the spire and came to the scene.
Li Xingfeng is in command of the work, and the container is properly placed after being unloaded.
The immediate priority is to get the mobile condensate cutter inside the tunnel.
"Be careful, this treasure is worth several aircraft carriers, and it is very expensive." Li Xingfeng reminded that in order to tinker with this condensation cutter, the cost alone cost 70 billion yuan, and the interior of the cutter can Creating an environment that is infinitely close to absolute zero is a hard requirement for cutting crystals, and the technical difficulty and mobility of the hardware are directly reflected in the sky-high cost.
A large group of staff took half a day to check repeatedly, and after confirming that everything was normal, they finally sent the tens of tons of big guy to the track at the entrance of the tunnel.
Seeing this, Ren Hong was gearing up, and walked to the control room inside the cutter as soon as possible, and said at the same time: "Mingjie, come with me, you have been studying with me for a few months, today you look at me How to operate this device."
"Yes, Professor Wang."
Seeing this, an astronaut trotted over and entered the control room with Ren Hong.
After a while, Li Xingfeng and others watched the 47-ton big guy slowly go deeper along the heavy rail in the straight tunnel. There was no window in front of the control room, but there was a camera, and the control room was behind the equipment. .
A few kilometers away quickly.
"There is no need to explain the characteristics of Ziyuan Crystal, and it has a special structure that is uniformly distributed, and has a hexahedral crystal structure..." Ren Hong said while controlling the equipment: "Actually, this set of Cutting machines are highly automated equipment, all you have to do is monitor the data and whether the equipment is functioning properly, and the rest is basically nothing.”
Speaking, Ren Hong pressed a button, and outside the tunnel mouth, the front section of the cutter was combined with the Ziyuan crystal with zero gaps.
At this point in time, the device is operational.
Ren Hong waited anxiously. When he saw a new message popping up on the display panel, he immediately got up: "Mingjie, look at me, I'll go take a look first!"
Ren Hong immediately left the control room and came to the equipment rear storage area.
The first crystal has been cut and is being transported to the rear storage area.
When a dark purple crystal a little smaller than half a fist was quietly placed in the storage area, Ren Hong locked the small crystal, he crouched down and picked it up.
Before he had time to observe carefully, a second crystal of the same size and the same size was transported through the crawler, still braving the icy white mist. Dare to get it directly because of the existence of protective clothing.
It was these dark purple crystals that kept him dreaming, and now he's finally getting his wish.
Seeing the crystals being transported over, even Ren Hong, who is accustomed to big scenes, couldn't contain his excitement. This is the key material for the era of wireless energy, which is enough to establish a country's space hegemony cornerstone.
Each crystal is equal. According to the peak energy storage value, this crystal of about 200 grams can store high-purity energy equivalent to 185 trillion joules of energy, which is the largest volume that the cutting machine can cut in a single time. .
Seeing the accumulation of more and more crystals, Ren Hong couldn't help grinning. These crystals are truly priceless and well-deserved.