Homo sapiens.

Chapter 563 Preemption
On Balu's synchronous robot, the big-eyed lens looked at him: "What mission?"

"It's about the task of equipment manufacturing. This is an improvement plan. Take a look."

"Improvement plan?!" Baru took the tablet and looked at the so-called improvement plan.

The improvement plan of the miniature space capsule is very simple, that is to install three 12.5mm machine guns on it, so that it has the ability to automatically attack intruders.

There was a hint of incomprehension in Baru's voice: "Now the moon is the company's base, is it necessary?"

"Who said there is only the company's base?" Qin Lang raised his eyebrows slightly.

"? The Lunar South Pole base of the Earth Federation? Is it necessary for the base to be so prepared?"

Qin Lang shook his head: "Balu, you underestimate the evil thoughts of human nature too much, just look at this!"

Immediately, he called up a piece of information investigated by the Field Service Department on the tablet computer, and let Baru see what it means to be defensive.

[Special investigation report on the Lunar Base of the Earth Union... The lunar cargo spacecraft No. 14 launched by the Space Exploration Corporation is equipped with 30 rounds of the space version of the Stinger, as well as five 5mm cannons, and carries 30 radix ammunition... ]
"Now do you still think that the moon base of the Earth Federation is not a threat?"

"They are courting death!" Balu's tone became cold.

Qin Lang shrugged: "There are too many people with delusions of being destroyed. Even if we don't have the idea of ​​doing something, they will be wary of us in their hearts."

"I understand, but is the machine gun enough? Do you want to prepare other weapons and equipment?" Baru asked.

"It's not necessary. We have deployed 36 dead light satellites in lunar orbit, and large bases have dead light cannons. They can't make any waves."

"Then I made it according to the improved plan."

"Well, please excuse me."

"Individual matter."

Qin Lang came out of the industrial area and drove the electric car to the mining area.

At present, a total of 7 mineral mining sites have been opened around the base, which can produce 5000 to 6000 tons of various minerals every month.

On the way to the mine.

He was discussing mining work with his assistant Riel.

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the other side.

The deputy base chief, De Vasinbad, is also discussing the matter of lunar minerals with several people at the same time, but the area they are discussing is not around the Copernicus crater, but the mineral resources near the south pole of the moon.

In front of the lunar holographic projection model, Deva pointed to one of the craters: "The moon base of the Earth Alliance is inside the Kravey crater. Our recent work is to control the dozen or so craters around the Kravey crater."

"Deputy Chief, are there enough micro-capsules?" a robot asked.

Deva replied confidently: "It's enough, we have 7 in stock, and we can produce 12 this month, plus three fireships, enough for us to control these craters."

"Then let's discuss the minerals in these craters! We must control the most resource-rich areas." Another lunar mineral researcher who came over via a synchronous robot suggested.

Deva nodded: "Well, the important resources of the moon are actually water resources and carbon resources. Among the 16 target craters, we found a lot of water ice and dry ice in the Langozhitan crater that we controlled in advance, especially those Areas that have not been exposed to the sun for a long time store a lot of water ice and dry ice."

The lunar mineral researcher called up a holographic map with the stratum detected by the geological remote sensing satellite.

In the craters around the south pole of the moon, there is a general rule, that is, the depth and width of the craters, the surrounding latitude, and the height of the terrain jointly determine the storage capacity of water ice and dry ice at the bottom of the craters.

The closer to the South Pole, the deeper the depth, the smaller the width, and the higher the surrounding terrain, the greater the storage of water ice and dry ice.

On the contrary, the storage capacity of water ice and dry ice is smaller.

The researcher pointed to several craters that store huge amounts of water ice and dry ice and suggested:

"These four small craters should be controlled with emphasis. I suggest that the fireship be placed in one of the craters as the core of the Antarctic base."

Deva looked at it: "Yes, I will arrange it."

"In addition, this mountain range also needs to be focused on. It is best to gradually control it."

It was a mountain range formed by a volcanic shield, although due to the long-term damage of the moon's cosmic rays and solar wind, many mountains have been ground down.

In addition, the large-scale volcanic activity on the moon has also stopped for hundreds of millions of years, but this does not mean that there is no volcanic activity on the moon.

Because the core of the moon is still active at this time, it has not completely cooled down.

On the other hand, volcanic eruptions do not necessarily require intense geological activities themselves, and asteroid impacts can also bring about intense volcanic eruptions.

Especially for a planet like the moon without a dense atmosphere, the destructive power of asteroids is astonishing. Those large maria were formed when large asteroids hit the moon.

Those volcanic remains left over from ancient times contain very heavy metals and rare metal minerals.

For example, the volcanic mountain range at the south pole of the moon in front of us, through the exploration of the Lunar Geology and Mineral Research Institute, has stored a large amount of copper, sulfur, lead, thorium compounds or simple substances.

Sulfur is of minor importance, but copper, lead, and thorium are very important.

Copper is one of the raw materials for wires and motors, lead is one of the core materials for various protective layers, and thorium is one of the raw materials for nuclear fission.

If gold, silver and rare earth elements from other volcanic relics are added, the Lunar Branch can produce gold-based thermoelectric materials, silver-based superconductor materials, and produce nuclear power plants by itself.

Now all bases on the moon rely on cobalt rod nuclear batteries as their core energy source, but the lunar base does not have the ability to produce cobalt rods and must be transported from the Earth headquarters.

Although Homo sapiens attaches great importance to the transportation of cobalt rods, the possibility of accidents is basically eliminated.

But cobalt rods are extremely dangerous radioactive substances after all. If they leak into the earth's atmosphere, the consequences will be disastrous.

According to the instructions of the headquarters, Qin Lang, Dewa and others must find a way to mine the moon's thorium and uranium as soon as possible to realize self-produced nuclear fuel.

At present, they have found that among the volcanic remains on the moon, there are many deposits of heavy metals, rare earths, and radioactive minerals.

According to the integrated analysis of the magnetic field detection data, at least 1000 million tons of mineable high-grade uranium ore and 676 million tons of thorium ore are stored in strata at a depth of about 3980 meters on the surface of the moon.

If fully mined and refined, 2782 tons of nuclear fission raw materials (purity 99%) can be extracted.

The Caucasus base set up by the Moon Branch in the Caucasus Mountains in the northwest of the Wet Sea is dedicated to mining thorium ore, and is currently conducting research on bio-enrichment technology for thorium ore.

The reason why so much attention is paid to radioactive substances is mainly for the mass projector project on the back of the moon, which requires a huge amount of electrical energy.

Cobalt rod nuclear batteries have no way to supply enough energy, and nuclear fission power plants must be launched.

Of course, the Lunar Branch has another mission, which is to seize resource-rich areas as soon as possible and curb the development and benefits of the Earth Alliance on the moon.

As long as there is not enough income, the free world dominated by private interests will definitely feel weak in continuing to explore the moon.

After all, private companies have to eat, and those investors will also retreat when they see that the benefits are nowhere in sight.

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