Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 31
Of course, considering that most people are hibernating when the spacecraft is sailing, fuel consumption is relatively small. The total fuel used for the acceleration and deceleration time of 60 years is about 70.00% of the current reserves.

In other words, excluding this part, the current and future available nuclear fuel can only last for 18 years.

However, the new spacecraft project is predicted to take 20 years to complete. This is not bad, there is not much difference. I believe it is possible to complete it ahead of schedule if we work hard.

As for the situation of interstellar dust, it will take at least 50 years before humans are suitable for interstellar navigation.

Is it really necessary to rush to build a spaceship and then risk the fate of all mankind to start sailing?
At this time, Gander also fell silent.

Xu Zhenyi considered: "In the past two years, a lot of hibernation cabins have been built. Can we let some people hibernate now to reduce resource consumption?"

"The spacecraft project is now being launched. If the hibernation plan is launched at this time, there is no way the spacecraft construction will be completed within 18 years." Yue Yuan shook his head.

He has now made up his mind to kill the battleship plan.If the battleship plan is cut off, the large cylindrical spacecraft may be completed several years ahead of schedule.

The hibernating cabins are prepared for future voyages and cannot be used during the construction period.

Although automated equipment is now very smart, building spacecraft cannot really rely entirely on automation. Many delicate tasks and positions are still inseparable from people.

If there is no other way, then you can only take the risk.

Of course, you can't take risks recklessly. It's no different from risking death. Gander just said that the scientific data is there, and rash sailing will definitely lead to death or life.

So when Yue Yuan decided to cancel the battleship plan, another crazy supporting plan gradually emerged in his mind.

If there is really no other way, then increase efforts to build hibernation cabins, then stop everything except building spacecraft and researching controllable nuclear fusion, and then let all irrelevant personnel enter hibernation.In this way, the saved nuclear fuel may be enough to cope with the resistance of interstellar dust.

Of course, if you really want to do this, you have to ask the relevant departments to calculate various data and formulate a feasible plan.

Although Yue Yuan ostensibly rejected Xu Zhenyi's suggestion, he also listened to it.

"Well, it would be great if the controllable nuclear fusion technology hadn't been lost so much." At this time, Gander let out a long sigh and expressed a thought that almost everyone in the base was saddened by.

Yes, if technology does not go backwards, it is entirely possible to develop controllable nuclear fusion within ten years, and then use the abundant helium-[-] on Callisto or the hydrogen permeating interstellar space as fuel.

The dust clouds formed by the remnants of supernova explosions contain a large amount of hydrogen and its isotopes, but unfortunately humans cannot use them.

The real technology cannot be achieved, and I am worried about looking at the gold and silver mountains in the sky.

Seeing that there was no good solution for a while, Gan De changed the topic and wanted to look for hope in another direction. He put down the tablet, then looked at Yue Yuan and asked: "By the way, Mr. Yue, where are the alien spaceships? There has been no research recently. progress?"

Yue Yuan shook his head. When Gan De mentioned the alien spacecraft, he knew what Gan De was thinking.

"The main part has been excavated, and the internal silt soil and some warehouses, especially the cab, are still being excavated and cleaned. No major discoveries have been made yet."

Since the entire spacecraft is sunk into the soil, in order not to damage anything that may be valuable, the excavation work has been progressing very slowly, no different from an archaeological excavation.

So much so that two years have passed and the cab has not been cleaned.Moreover, Yue Yuan had no hope at all for the alien spacecraft. The main reason was that the spacecraft was too broken. Not to mention the soil inside and outside. When he cleaned it up, he found that many places were rusty and there was no advanced civilization at all. The immortal form of creation.

So long before the disaster occurred, everyone who knew about the existence of the spaceship already knew that this broken spaceship could never fly again. If they didn't want to dig it out and study its various constituent materials, no one would sell it for scrap metal.

Of course, the final situation will not be determined until all its head and tail are cleaned up.

Yue Yuan estimated that it should be completed in another year and a half.

Next, Yue Yuan discussed with the two scientists for a long time, but they couldn't come up with any good solutions. In the end, Yue Yuan could only ask them to go back first.

It's understandable. After all, one of them is an astronomer and the other is a materials scientist. They may not be as good as other department leaders when it comes to planning and strategy.

This is not a question of understanding or not, but a question of differences in information mastery.

Yue Yuan knew it very well, so in the following days, he anxiously held many emergency meetings in various departments.Then scientists, experts and other professionals from various disciplines listened in and provided various professional knowledge references for the proposed plan.

This kind of meeting is very effective.

For example, someone comes up with a solution, but sometimes he doesn't know whether the solution or the things involved can be implemented. This requires experts in various fields to participate in the evaluation.

It's like crossing a river, and then someone figured out how to build a bamboo raft, but he didn't know the technology required to make a bamboo raft, such as what kind of bamboo to use, whether the bamboo needs to be dried, how to tie the bamboo, and a series of other issues. At this time, experts who understand bamboo rafts are needed to answer.

In emergency meetings and technical seminars, many people proposed some solutions, but without exception they could not be realized, or they only seemed possible.

For example, some people have proposed that in order to save energy, the power generation of nuclear power plants should be reduced, and only necessary facilities should be retained to save nuclear fuel.

Then general electricity, lighting electricity, heating electricity, etc. are all replaced by fuel oil. Humanity has mastered the technology of hydrogenating carbon dioxide to produce gasoline in the last century.

This method seems feasible, but the person who proposed the method did not realize that making gasoline is only a kind of energy conversion, not crude oil extracted directly from nature. The basic energy needed to support this process must still be obtained from nuclear power plants. Come.

This is also true. What mankind lacks now is not energy form, but energy.

If the sun was still there, none of this would be a problem.

But now
After another day's work, Yue Yuan returned to his residence, but his mind was full of things and he couldn't sleep.

"Are we really going to burn the boat?" Yue Yuan muttered to himself as he leaned on the sofa and looked at the ceiling.

Since the emergence of the nuclear fuel crisis, the mountain of responsibility has almost overwhelmed him.He is under a lot of pressure now because he has great power. If he makes a wrong decision, it may put mankind into an irreversible situation.

Therefore, every time he makes a decision, he must think it over carefully and consult with no less experts. These experts have almost become his think tank, and he is afraid of making mistakes due to lack of careful consideration.

　Asking for some investment

　　
　
(End of this chapter)