Armor Frenzy

Other methods have been proposed by the participants, including painting the asteroid, installing a solar sail, illuminating it with a mirror array, and even sending people to install a nuclear bomb on the asteroid.

However, these plans are not as they seem. First of all, it is not difficult to apply a layer of paint on the surface of the asteroid. You can directly launch the barrel filled with paint as a cannonball and hit the asteroid to achieve the effect of spray painting. , the problem is that the thrust generated by this method is poor, and it takes several years to change the orbit of the asteroid.

The same is true for mirror illumination. Without enough time, the asteroid's orbit cannot be changed at all.

The solar sail can be effective in a short period of time. Even if the thrust generated by the solar sail is very high, the impact of the cosmic celestial body is really a thousand miles away. As long as a little external force is applied to the asteroid, its orbit will be extremely large. , enough to push the asteroid away from its impact orbit.

However, the flying speed of this group of asteroids is as high as 200 kilometers per second, and it is still accelerating gradually. It is impossible for any kind of aircraft built by humans to catch up with the speeding asteroids.

Sending someone to install a nuclear bomb on an asteroid is simply an impossible task.

It is not impossible to launch a solar sail head-on, but with a relative speed of more than 200 kilometers per second, no matter how high the mechanical strength of the artificial object, the result of hitting an asteroid is similar to that of an asteroid hitting the earth, and it must explode on the spot like a cannonball.

At this point in the discussion, the venue suddenly fell into a strange silence, and one of the experts at the meeting woke up from a dream: "Can an explosion push an asteroid away?"

"It should be possible." Another expert took out his mobile phone and quickly calculated, "If a 10-gram object hits the side of an asteroid at five times the speed of sound... Assuming the mass of the asteroid is 100,000 tons... Ideally, it will probably produce every A displacement of 0.008 meters per second...then a day's displacement is 700 meters, and a month's displacement is 21 kilometers!"

"21 kilometers is too little, and expanding it a hundred times is not enough."

"Then increase the number of hits!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, we only need to consider the feasibility, and let the politicians decide what to do."

"Then what are we waiting for?"

The heated discussion came to an abrupt end, and the results of the meeting were quickly reported to various countries. The five major countries immediately conducted feasibility discussions, communicated with each other, and finally determined the interception plan.

In order to complete the plan, the United States and Russia each contributed an electromagnetic gun that has not yet been installed, and the cannonball is a 12.7mm warhead - note that it is a warhead rather than a bullet, anyway, there is no air resistance in the universe, as long as it can be launched from the electromagnetic orbit. The shape of the warhead does not affect the trajectory.

In addition to the warheads obtained from the military factory, a large number of bearing steel **** of about ten grams were also obtained as ammunition.

The electromagnetic gun needs enough power to drive. If the traditional solar panels are used to provide power, the required area is too large. Just transporting the panels to space will take up a considerable part of the transportation capacity, which is an unbearable result in any case. .

To this end, China has contributed two small liquid metal reactors.

This kind of military reactor has been kept secret. The intelligence agencies of the United States and Russia only learned from the side that China may have such a reactor, but they have never obtained conclusive evidence.

If it weren't for the fact that a more suitable reactor could not be found, the first brother would definitely not be willing to bleed.

In fact, the micro-reactor is the most suitable reactor for aerospace engineering, but the output power of the micro-reactor is too low to carry the electromagnetic gun. Step back and get two liquid metal piles on top.

The electromagnetic gun must be installed on a stable weapon platform, and there are only two most stable space platforms at present, one is the International Space Station, and the other is the Tiangong.

The astronauts stationed on the space station immediately acted to prepare for the installation. Top experts from various countries designed the connection device between the rail gun and the space station at the fastest speed.

However, the space station is not a space battleship. After calculation, it was found that the vibration and recoil generated by the continuous firing of the electromagnetic gun will not only affect the normal posture of the space station, but also may affect the overall structure of the space station, thus threatening the safety of the space station!

The final conclusion is that the railgun cannot be installed on the space station anyway!

To this end, the five major countries once again launched emergency consultations. However, only China, the United States and Russia spoke at the meeting. Britain and France, who were yesterday's yellow flowers, kept their mouths shut.

The result of the discussion is that the weapon platform must be customized for the electromagnetic gun. Countries and regions with aerospace capabilities in the world use disposable spaceships. That thing cannot be used as a weapon platform at all. Only the Yankees have a unique space shuttle.

The Americans had to pull the long-retired space shuttle out of the museum and summon technicians to carry out comprehensive maintenance as quickly as possible. They did not ask how many times the space shuttle could be used, but only wanted a successful one-time launch, even if the mission was over and it was thrown directly on the ground. It doesn't matter in the universe.

Due to concerns that the space shuttle may crash during launch~www.readwn.com~ The United States pulled out four retired space shuttles in one go, but according to the launch plan, these retired space shuttles will not carry important electromagnetic guns or reactors during launch. supplies to avoid accidents during launch.

That is to say, the combination of the space shuttle with the reactor and the electromagnetic gun must be carried out in space.

Although technicians from various countries tried their best to take overall storage as much as possible to minimize the difficulty of combination, the combination of the three is still not a problem that can be solved by connecting a wire, and must be guided by professionals on-site.

To this end, countries urgently convened experts in nuclear technology and weapons technology to conduct surprise aerospace training for those in better physical condition among the experts.

At this time, there is no need to care about any conditions or conditions, so I can only pull the taller one out of the dwarfs and solve the problems first.

Whether the asteroid group can be blocked or not has been linked to the survival of all human beings. Under this premise, personal safety is completely out of the top consideration. Anyway, no matter what country, there is no shortage of patriots who volunteer to sacrifice their lives for the country.

The combination of the space shuttle and the electromagnetic gun, and the placement of the electromagnetic gun and the reactor will take time to solve, but time waits for no one. Although the weapon platform has not yet lifted off, other materials have been prepared one by one after more than a week of intense preparations. successively sent to space.

Every day since then, the news of the launch of the launch vehicle can be heard, and the launch vehicles of China, the United States and Russia alone account for one-third of the total number of launches.

The launch process was not all smooth sailing. Due to rush work and its own quality problems, India and Japan each had a rocket that exploded during the launch process, destroying a lot of materials. Fortunately, the carrying capacity of these two rockets was not strong, and when the launch plan was formulated The redundancy of materials has been taken into account, so that the normal implementation of the plan has not been affected. (To be continued.)