The rise of nanometers

The third floating city on Venus, Abbot Island City, is officially under construction.

The reason why we chose to establish the project is mainly because Blue Star’s wooden ladder has been completed, and the amount of materials transported from Blue Star to Venus will increase by an order of magnitude in the future.

At the same time, the industrial production capacity of Penglai Island City and Yingzhou Island City is also increasing day by day. The raw materials produced every day are enough to assemble a floating city of 6 to 12 square kilometers.

The surface area of ​​Venus is about 460 million square kilometers, which is only 50 million square kilometers less than Blue Star's 510 million square kilometers.

If we follow the production speed of floating modules, it will take approximately 76.66 million days to cover the entire surface of Venus with floating modules.

However, this calculated data is only calculated based on the current production rate. As time goes by, the local industrial productivity of Venus will increase day by day, and this time will become shorter and shorter by then.

It looks pretty crazy though.

In fact, the Federation will not completely cover Venus, at least not with floating cities. Instead, it plans to use a dome system to cover the surface of Venus.

The location of Abbot Island is within the Arctic Circle of Venus. On the one hand, the floating city of Abbot Island is being built, and on the other hand, attempts are made to build a dome system below the floating city.

The Arctic Circle of Venus is somewhat different from the Antarctic Circle.

According to detection data, the Antarctic Circle of Venus is dominated by lowlands, and the surrounding highlands are not large.

The Arctic Circle of Venus is just the opposite. There is a semi-enclosed basin near the North Pole, surrounded by dense highlands. The main plateau and highest peak of Venus are near the North Pole.

The floating city of Abbot Island is suspended above the Arctic Basin, and the planned dome system will cover the entire Arctic Basin.

The dome system built in the Arctic Basin is mainly composed of pillars and protective layers. The altitude of the dome system is 4 kilometers.

There happens to be a large circle of high ground around it, which can be connected together as the outer layer of the dome system.

According to the requirements, in order to ensure sufficient support, the shape of the pillars and the pyramid-type foundation need to be designed according to the terrain. Usually the pyramid foundation needs to be built to a height of about 3,000 meters above sea level.

The remaining 1,000 meters are straight columns with a radius of 50 meters and are made of integrated carbon-silicon nanomaterials.

As for the protective layer of the dome, in addition to the skeleton, there is also a high-strength silicone composite film.

Such a huge project consumes an extremely large amount of resources, according to estimates from the Aerospace Department and the Engineering Department.

If you want to completely cover the lowland part of the Venusian surface, you will need to consume 80 to 90% of the carbon dioxide in the Venusian atmosphere, as well as 137 meters thick silicate and aluminum materials covering an area of ​​600,000 square kilometers.

This consumption is hundreds of times the carbon dioxide currently in the Blue Star's atmosphere.

The 137-meter thickness of 600,000 square kilometers is equivalent to excavating the entire island of Madagascar by an average of 137 meters.

Fortunately, Venus does not need to consider ecological protection, otherwise this mining method will only destroy the local ecosystem.

This is still the current material technology, which is enough to realize such a huge building complex with relatively small materials.

If reinforced concrete is used as the main material, it is estimated that the consumption needs to be increased by 3 to 5 times, and the height must be reduced to 1,500 meters.

With such a crazy plan, the Federation is naturally not just for success, but for the purpose of truly transforming Venus and turning it into the real second blue star.

If the core of Venus can be reactivated in the future to restore its high rotation and strong magnetic field, and then transport asteroids to replenish its mass, and adjust the total mass of Venus to be almost the same as that of a blue star, we can obtain a gravity and blue star. A star-like planet.

This is also a more hidden solution than the rotating space city.

After all, although large space cities can use camouflage technology to reduce the possibility of being observed by alien civilizations, it is only a reduction.

Because there is a problem that is difficult to solve, and that is the transit phenomenon, which is when a non-luminous celestial body passes near a luminous celestial body, it will be obscured.

Once a space city is too large, it will easily be obscured and observed by alien civilizations.

And if the natural planet is transformed, the risk will be greatly reduced. After all, Venus itself exists, and it is difficult to determine whether there are organisms and civilizations on it.

To reduce being observed by extraterrestrial civilizations, you only need to follow one principle, which is not to use obvious artificial giant structures.

Even if you want to build a giant structure, you must either use a natural planet as a bunker, or design the giant structure to imitate a natural planet.

The Venus transformation plan is an in-depth transformation project using Venus as a natural shelter.

The construction of Abbot Island was basically started simultaneously with the construction of the Arctic Basin.

In order to accelerate, Blue Star will increase the supply of supporting spare parts and use wooden ladders to expand transportation between the two planets.

Likewise, the Lunar Zone is also expanding production.

At the same time, another grand project has begun construction in the Copernicus crater on the moon. This project is not a mass projector.

The moon's mass projector started in 2020 and is located in the northeastern area of ​​​​the Sea of ​​Clouds, not far from the Copernicus crater.

This time, the project in Copernicus Crater is the lunar rotating city - Moon Capital.

The federal government plans to build a huge spacecraft with a height of 4 kilometers and a radius of 12 kilometers in the Copernicus crater.

That's right, it's a spaceship.

But this spaceship named Yuedu is only the first phase of the project. It does not look like a traditional spaceship, but like a huge Ferris wheel.

After construction is completed, the spacecraft will fly off the lunar surface and then float at the Lagrange point L1, which is the midpoint of the gravitational pull between the Blue Star and the moon.

Then unfold the camouflage layer and start rotating, simulating the gravity of the Blue Star through centrifugal force.

In fact, this is only the first phase of the project. According to the designer's plan, the complete Moon City will be a behemoth with a central length of 50 kilometers and a rotation radius of 60 kilometers.

At that time, in the outermost layer, the gravity that simulates the blue star environment will be formed.

This project is an experimental project to test the feasibility of a rotating space city and to verify camouflage technology.

After all, for a space city that can simulate the gravity of a blue star, the rotating solution is currently more reliable. Although it is concerned about the observation of extraterrestrial civilizations, the Federation will not give up eating because of choking.

Rotating space cities will definitely be the core of future human exploration of the solar system. After all, natural planets like Venus, similar to blue stars, are rare.

And space giants cannot be one size fits all.

Because of the transit phenomenon, there is a very obvious characteristic, that is, the closer to the star, the more obvious the dark spots formed.

Taking the solar system as an example, if an astronomical telescope is in the Proxima Centauri system, it observes the situation of the solar system.

When the other party sees the transit dark spots of Mercury, Venus and Blue Star, they will be relatively obvious. On the contrary, giant gaseous planets such as Jupiter and Saturn will not appear obvious because they are far away from the sun.

In other words, space giants can be developed in an appropriate amount and arranged in the asteroid belt, as well as in the outer layers of Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune.

As for the orbits near Venus and Mercury, it is best not to deploy large-scale space giants, and can only adopt the plan of transforming natural planets.

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