Deep Space Fleet

Vol 3 Chapter 359: Abundant resources

? Time is passing quickly, now is the fourth year that the new civilization has stayed on this planet ... The entire fleet can't wait to start preparing for the next trip. 35xs

Four years, comparing the entire universe is just a short moment, but for humans in Kunlun Mountain, it is a lot of time and can do a lot of things.

At the beginning of the fourth year, about 110,000 people took a large transport spaceship called the Pelican, left the star field, and returned to their base camp behind them. This population figure is 10,000 fewer than expected.

Now, the day before the departure again, the whole fleet has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The damaged part due to the war has been completely repaired, and people have also added some new magnetic field generating equipment, that is, one voyage, which is enough to achieve higher speeds and longer distances.

At the same time, internal defense measures have been completely reorganized, and all weapons in the outer military corridor have been replaced. Not only some automatic defense weapons, but also some additional military fortresses. With the next information paralysis, these internal fortresses can also defend for a long time.

In particular, the entire network system is divided into five levels of security.

The first-level network is a civilian network, a second-level laboratory network, a third-level military network, a fourth-level emergency communication network, and a fifth-level network system represented by Pan Gunao.

Each layer of network is isolated from each other and has very strict security measures.

On the other hand, as the rectification this time is about to reach its deadline, in the various warehouses in Kunlun Mountains, various material resources are arranged in full and have gradually reached a degree of saturation ...

Zhang Yuan himself is too busy!

Seeing a box of boxes of gold, platinum, and silver being transported up by the space elevator, they are all real high-purity finished products, and he has a magical pleasure like a miser!

Humans ... it is a visual animal, naturally like these shiny things.

Well, gold and silver are no longer the so-called general general equivalents, but they are good industrial products.

New humans can even be extravagant enough to make wires from silver. Although there are superconducting materials now, from the perspective of cost and reliability, ordinary wires still exist.

Not only Zhang Yuan, but ordinary citizens as well. Everyone can see the robots working continuously under the space elevator, and a box full of goods, and the mood can always become very good.

In particular, this planet, as a young planet, has a lot of heavy element minerals that can be mined on the surface, far exceeding the normal terrestrial planets.

The reason for this is because ... it's too young.

For example, the earth does not lack gold, silver, and platinum. How much gold does the earth have?

Six trillion tons!

But how much do humans mine from the earth?

Rarely, about 120,000 tons, a trivial one-billionth.

This is because, with the passage of time, most heavy elements gradually sink to the core of the earth under the influence of gravity.

Even at the level close to the third-level interstellar civilization, humans cannot dig out the gold in the depths of the earth's core.

Because the earth's gold is scarce, people can only develop Mars and Mercury. In particular, Mercury will become a mineral planet and a heavy industrial base in the surrounding solar system.

But this planet is different. Due to the short time of birth, there are still many heavy metals that have not had time to sink to the core of the earth, coupled with the frequent occurrence of volcanic eruptions, minerals will be ejected again.

A lot of precious resources fall to the ground like garbage. If you don't take this opportunity to get more, it is a sin!

"Hey, Kunlun Mountain is not big enough, there is no tonnage anymore. It's pretty good now." Zhang Yuan was sighing sadly, he felt like some kind of greedy creature in the fantasy novel-the dragon, can't wait for these Jinshan Yinshan revisited again.

The large warehouse now being inspected is in a non-gravity vacuum zone. All of them are wearing power armors, and there are several assistants of the secretarial department behind them, constantly telling various data.

"Our entire civilization does not have a large demand for gold. It is mainly used in aerospace glass and personal jewelry, so the current reserve is 50,000 tons."

"And these uranium-235 raw materials, uranium hexafluoride, have all been purified and can be used in fission power stations and the manufacture of radioactive batteries ... Oh, and the manufacture of electromagnetic shells, these electromagnetic cannons are hitting targets There will be fission explosions and radioactive pollution, which is better than nothing ... "

"The current reserve is 120,000 tons."

"The reserves of helium-3 are even greater, which is the main nuclear fuel."

The love of wealth is the natural nature of human beings. The young people in the secretarial department say that they are inexplicably rosy ~ www.readwn.com ~ as if they are billionaires.

"... Oh, and this is the plutonium-239, a byproduct of the breeder reactor, which can be used to make batteries. The reserve is about two hundred tons."

Plutonium-239 is derived from uranium-238, that is, after uranium-238 is put into the reactor and irradiated, it absorbs a neutron to become uranium-239, and then emits two negatively charged electrons, increasing 92 protons to 94 , The element position advances by 2 positions, and the property changes to 钚 -239.

These radioactive minerals are needed not only for weapons, but also for spacecraft safety. After all, nuclear fusion is a complex energy source that cannot be used with a little interference. Nuclear fission is relatively simpler. The existence of two power systems can better protect the spacecraft's energy supply.

"The supplies in these warehouses are basically like this ..."

After listening to these reports, Zhang Yuan was in a very good mood. After inspecting these reserves, the last thing was done. The Kunlun Mountain Fleet will set off again tomorrow, leaving this planetary system without a master.

He suddenly thought of something and asked, "By the way, those biologists, have found the most primitive life on this planet? They have searched a lot of craters, haven't they found anything?"

"Sir Captain, sorry, not yet." Dr. Li Cheng replied: "Our drone has dug some soil specimens in different craters, and there are some complex organic matter in it."

"But after being judged, it is not real life. If you want to truly evolve life, 400 million years are too few, and it may take 7 to 8 billion years."

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