interstellar involution king

Chapter 62 The Dream of Building a Super Spaceship
In the interstellar era, who doesn't want to be the captain?

From the time when humans first walked into space, to now they have traveled all over the Nanli star field, and there have been a lot of legendary stories in which the protagonist is the captain of a spaceship.

Strong, intelligent, brave, responsible, almost all beautiful words can be associated with the captain of the spaceship.

Almost every child's dream is to grow up to be the captain of a spacecraft, especially a deep space spacecraft.

Stay is no exception.

Therefore, when Lin Yuan asked this question, he was very moved and subconsciously wanted to nod, but then he felt strange: "Brother Lin, why do you ask such a question?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "The star robbers in the Outer Nanli star field will be wiped out. The route from Desolate Star to Gold Mine Island will be safe soon. Therefore, I want you to be in charge of this cargo route. "

If you think about it carefully, you will know that the blue bird battleship representing Yunmeng Continent can escort the Nova, which means that Yunmeng Continent has completely controlled the Gold Mine Island.

If his expectations were correct, there must have been some shocks in the top management of Gold Mine Island at this moment.Those chief directors who lean towards the Xuanwu Continent will either step down or be sidelined, and can no longer interfere in the government affairs of the Gold Mine Island.

Now that the fundamental problem is solved, the water shortage will naturally be solved.Unless there is a direct war between the two continents, there will be no major security issues on the route from the barren star to the gold mine island.

Liu understood a little bit: "Brother Lin, are you not going to run the boat? How interesting it is to run the boat."

He looked at Zheng Wan again: "Sister Zheng, what about you? Are you planning to run away?"

He especially likes to fly a spaceship, flying around in the silent starry sky alone, without intrigue with his colleagues, and without seeing the filth and darkness of the world.

He felt that the time spent on the spaceship was the most beautiful and romantic time in the world.

Zheng Wan spread her hands: "You know I picked up a child. Since I picked it up, I have to raise it well, so."

She has a different personality from Liu, Liu is a man who likes to wander like the wind, likes to roam the starry sky, and also likes to yell when the road is injustice.She became a scavenger just to have time to find her sister.Deep down, she doesn't really like the days of wandering around.

Liu shrugged and looked at Lin Yuan: "What about you, Brother Lin?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "I really like roaming in the starry sky. The more unknown the star field is, the more I like to explore it. But, I think the performance of the current Nanliguo spacecraft is too poor, and it is very difficult to drive. It's boring."

Liu looked surprised: "Bad? I think it's very good. It's very interesting to open the new star. Not to mention the Hope?"

He had been driving the Nova for dozens of hours before, and he felt particularly refreshed.He thinks the most interesting thing in the world is to drive a spaceship in deep space.

"No, no, this is not the spaceship I want at all."

Lin Yuan slowly shook his head, patted his hand on the chair, and slowly floated towards the porthole beside him.His eyes looked through the metal glass, looking at the boundless sea of ​​stars outside the window.

"Today's spaceship is just a small sampan floating in the sea, and can only walk in the calm bay of Nanli Starfield. Even a powerful battleship is no better than a baby's walker."

Liu was slightly startled, then got up and floated to Lin Yuan's side.

He also stared at Xinghai, and gradually understood Lin Yuan's meaning: "Brother Lin, what you want is a spaceship that can travel across galaxies?"

Lin Yuan nodded slowly: "Yes, I want the kind of sub-light speed spacecraft that can reach Proxima Centauri within ten years. I want the kind that can fight cosmic storms at close range, break free from the gravity of super-large stars, and even be able to Take the mortal body of human beings, travel across the galaxy, and even reach super spaceships in extragalactic galaxies."

He turned his head and looked at Liu: "Only in this way can we open up a new world. Human beings will not be trapped in a small star system because they are desperately competing for a little bit of resources. Only in this way, when some When unforeseen disasters break out suddenly, we have enough confidence to face them."

He was a little shocked, he didn't expect Lin Yuan to think so far.

He is not a political figure like Li Xuan and Li Bailun who focus on reality and don't like to dream. He is also a science and engineering major in spaceship dynamics. He agrees with Lin Yuan's ideas.

In his view, in the universe, a star system is nothing but a small bacterial petri dish, and human beings are just bacteria in the dish.

The remains left after the death of the previous generation of stars are the nutrient solution.The nutrient solution nourishes the bacteria, allowing the bacteria to reproduce from generation to generation, and the offspring prosper.

But one day, the nutrient solution will be exhausted, or the petri dish will be accidentally knocked over, and the bacteria in the petri dish will be extinct.

If bacteria want to grow, there is only one way to go beyond the petri dish.

If the human species wants to exist for hundreds of millions of years, it must move forward!
But moving forward, it's not that simple.

After a few seconds of silence, Liu said softly: "Theoretically, as long as it is installed with a large enough jet engine, every space city can become a large spaceship across the galaxy, right?"

"You're right, but too slowly."

"Slow? Brother Lin, how fast do you want?"

"The spacecraft can accelerate to 0.9C within a month at the fastest."

"Hmm~~ This statistic is too exaggerated. Nanli Country doesn't have such a fast spaceship, and even one tenth of it can't reach it."

Spaceship power is Liu's professional field, and he knows the power limit of spaceships in Nanli country very well.

As far as he knows, the current three continent-level space cities are trying to build long-distance spacecraft. The theoretical maximum speed can reach 0.08C, but it will take about 50 years to complete the acceleration.

At this speed, it will take about 10 years to fly to Proxima Centauri, which is 200 light-years away, which is barely acceptable.

However, Proxima Centauri is a violent black hole that is devouring its companion star, and there is no point in flying there.If you want to fly to the next mild star field like the Nanli Galaxy, it is 70 light years away.

70 light years, how much propellant should the spacecraft store?How many unknown difficulties and obstacles will they experience along the way?What should we do if the ecosystem in the ship collapses halfway?
In short, this is a journey that is enough to make people hopeless.

The solution is to use a faster spaceship, but the spaceship can't get up any faster.

No matter how many engines are added, no matter how much propellant is consumed, it is difficult to greatly increase the speed limit.

Why?

Because it is the laws of physics that determine this matter, and it is also the eternal pain of the working medium rocket.

The law is that any engine that uses the principle of working fluid recoil for vacuum acceleration has an upper speed limit that depends only on specific impulse.

Nanliguo is currently the most advanced ion jet engine with a specific impulse of 10.

This means that even if the mass of the entire universe is used as the propellant, the upper limit of the speed that can be reached in the end is only 0.399C.

Due to various technical bottlenecks, the controllable maximum speed of the Nanliguo spacecraft has become 0.08C, which is only the theoretical upper limit.

Of course Lin Yuan knew this, he said softly: "If you don't have one now, just find a way to make it! Every time you make a little progress, you can always achieve your goal."

Liu understood: "So, Brother Lin is going to build a spaceship?"

"Correct."

"Spaceship manufacturing is an industry where the threshold is not so high. If you throw 5000 million star crystals down, you may only hear a sound." Zheng Wan also floated over to participate in the topic.

Liu Ye nodded: "Yes, even if it enters, it will be difficult to survive. The spaceship manufacturing industry has entered the Red Sea competition for thousands of years. Every subdivision has undergone extremely sufficient competition, and it has created an unshakable field. Overlords, these overlords took away most of the profits. Others, at most, can only drink leftovers."

Zheng Wan continued: "So, unless there is a technological revolution, if you want to gain a foothold in the spaceship manufacturing industry, really."

As she was talking, she suddenly realized something, and stopped saying the second half of the sentence.

Lin Yuan knew that Zheng Wan had figured it out, he smiled and said, "I know all of this, but I still want to give it a try, what if it succeeds?"

He turned his head to look at Zheng Wanhe Liu: "Will you support me?"

Zheng Wan smiled slightly: "Of course. Even if it fails, it's a big deal to start all over again. We have already experienced the worst situation, and there is nothing terrible to think about."

Liu Yongli nodded: "You have to do something spectacular in life, otherwise what's the difference with salted fish? Brother Lin, I fully support you. You can rest assured to entrust me with collecting water, and absolutely nothing will go wrong."

"Very good, then, when we get back to Gold Mine Island, let's get started!"

(End of this chapter)