Hand rubbing nuclear fusion live in the wilderness

Chapter 334 Hua Country's Unexpected Discovery

Huaguo, Xijiang.

On the desolate Gebi Beach, a camp was established at some point.

Soldiers in full armor wearing protective goggles and protective masks are constantly patrolling around the camp.

"Didn't you find it either?"

"Keep looking, search everywhere."

In the camp, a middle-aged man with a square face and wearing a military uniform hung up the phone, his face was heavy, his brows were slightly wrinkled, and he couldn't help rubbing his temples.

More than a month ago, a 'colorful meteor storm' from the Perseids brought a unique visual feast for everyone.

This kind of colorful meteor storm, which is rare in a thousand years, naturally attracted the attention of astronomical institutions in various countries.

With the advance prediction, both the government and the people have made preparations and left a lot of video materials.

However, in the images left by high-precision and high-definition astronomical photography, there is a trace of different searches.

After analysis and reduction and other means, the astronomical institutions of Huaguo, which was within the range of the meteor storm, were the first to discover some anomalies.

The first is the unusual size of the meteoroid.

Ordinary meteor showers, even meteor storms, have meteoroids the size of a grain of sand.

But this time the meteor storm from the Perseids, the two largest colorful meteoroids, both exceeded ten meters in diameter.

This diameter is no longer called a meteoroid, but will become a meteorite and hit the ground.

This has attracted the attention of many astronomical institutions, preparing to calculate the orbit and landing point of the meteoroid, and then look for meteorites in the past.

After all, the value of meteorites is very high.

Not to mention its scientific research value, the sales value alone is astonishing.

一克普通的石铁陨石都能达到3-5万左右，而往上的火星陨石能达到5-8万一克，月亮陨石在10-20万一克。

Further up, the more precious carbonaceous chondrites can reach more than one million per gram.

If you can find a meteorite, you will get rich instantly.

This has attracted the attention of many people, and the attention of non-governmental astronomical institutions is basically on this.

But officially it is different.

Although the value of the meteorite is very high, what makes them even more excited is that this is a meteor storm from the Perseids, which has extremely high research value.

You must know that under normal circumstances, the meteoroids in the meteor shower will not fall to the surface at all.

Their volume is really too small, and they almost burned themselves when piercing through the sky.

More importantly, a researcher at a certain astronomical institute discovered some unexpected situations when he was studying and analyzing a special shaped three-color meteoroid.

This three-color meteoroid is shaped like a gourd, with a large head and a small tail. Its diameter is about five meters long, and its widest point is about three meters.

It is precisely because of this special shape that it has attracted the attention of astronomers.

But after carefully analyzing the gourd-like meteoroid, the astronomer who studied it had a strange idea in his mind.

This huge meteoroid does not seem to be a meteorite, but more like an unusually large, curled up spider?
This absurd idea was quickly suppressed by the astronomer after it rose.

But with the analysis of some other colored meteorites.

The idea that meteoroids are insects of all kinds of strange sizes burned in the heart of this astronomer uncontrollably.

In order to find out, the astronomer applied for a small supercomputer in the institute to analyze and restore the captured pictures and videos.

However, the analysis results surprised him.

Several photos sent to the supercomputer for analysis, after simulating the removal of the outer layer of colored light, restored the true appearance of these meteoroids.

These meteoroids do not look like normal meteorites, but more like huge insects.

Some are like curled up spiders, others like praying mantises, and still others like unicorns.

After getting this result, the astronomer took the restored data and quickly found the executives of the institute and handed over the data.

The results of the analysis and restoration naturally attracted the attention of the institute's executives.

Coupled with the huge value of the meteorite itself, this research institute has arranged to calculate the approximate location where some meteoroids fell, and arranged for some people to search for them.

Trying to see if I can find a meteorite or two for research.

After wandering around the calculated Gobi Desert for more than half a month, the personnel of the institute ate a stomach full of ashes, but did not find any meteorites.

This makes people looking for meteorites seriously doubt whether there is a problem with the calculated position.

However, after recalculation by the research institute, it was reported that a large meteorite finally landed on the Gobi Desert.

After confirming that there is no problem with the landing point, the personnel looking for the meteorite can only continue to search, and hired some residents of the Gobi Desert to search together.

Then two or three days passed, and there was still no result.

When the personnel of the research institute were preparing to evacuate, the researcher who discovered the abnormality of the colored meteoroid found another astonishing thing on the next beach.

A long dead giant insect.

This insect is very large, with a length of [-] meters. It looks a bit like a flea that has been magnified countless times.

This giant flea has no wings, a hideous head and a wide abdomen, two extremely developed legs for walking, three pairs of outriggers, and a pair of mouthparts that look extremely sharp.

The hideous and strange huge insect corpse made all the staff in the same group horrified.

How could there be such a huge insect on the earth, this is unscientific!
But after confirming that the huge flea-like insect had already died, the staff of the institute became excited again.

This is a colossal discovery!The value even far exceeds the meteorite found in Perseus.

Immediately, the staff of the research institute reported the matter and examined the huge insect that had died long ago.

During the inspection, the staff of the institute were shocked to find that this giant insect, which looked like a flea in appearance, had a thick carapace on its body.

If it was only the carapace, it would be fine, although it would be a little surprising, but it would not shock the experts of the research institute.

What really shocked them was the discovery of meteorite features on the surface of the carapace.

Because during the falling process, the surface of the meteorite will rub against the air violently, which will generate high temperature and high heat, which will cause the external elements of the meteorite to melt.

Therefore, the surface of meteorites that fall to the ground will have some unique characteristics of meteorites.

Such as 'melt pit'.

This is when the meteorite passes through the atmosphere, the erosion of the molten material on the surface makes the surface have a rhyoid or shallow and elongated melt streamline structure.

This structure, under normal circumstances, will only appear on the surface of meteorites.

There are no minerals on the earth.

In addition, the surface of the shell of this giant flea also has the characteristics of many meteorites, such as fusion crust and air imprint.

This is what shocked the staff of the Institute of Astronomy.

Each of these features suggested that the giant flea had once fallen through the atmosphere.

And the falling distance is quite long, otherwise such dense meteorite features would not be formed on the surface.

But what makes everyone puzzled is, this giant insect, it has no wings, how did it go to the sky?
Or is it of alien origin?

But this raises another puzzling problem.

Beyond the earth, even the nearest moon is 38 kilometers away.

Except for the moon, the vast and boundless area is a vacuum, completely unsuitable for the survival of any living things understood by humans.

If it is said that this giant flea is related to the previous Perseid meteor storm, then it is even more incredible.

Even the nearest Perseid star 'Algol' is 90 light-years away from Earth.

This is an insurmountable number for the current human beings.

Voyager 50, the farthest probe launched by mankind, has been flying in the vast universe for [-] years, but it is still far away from flying one light-year away.

To say that this giant insect originated in the constellation Perseus feels like nonsense.

After receiving the report from the staff of the research institute, the above quickly launched an action.

Information and evidence such as videos and photos taken before were collected, and the Gobi Desert where the giant flea was found was blocked.

But after half a month, a huge amount of manpower and material resources were wasted. Except for this one, the entire Gobi Desert was almost dug three feet into the ground, and still no other insects were found.

Not only here, more than a month ago, personnel were also arranged to search for other meteorites that would fall in the Perseid meteor storm.

Again without any results.

It seems that this giant flea was just an accident and had nothing to do with the meteor storm in the Perseids.

In the simulation space, after nearly two months, Han Yuan finally completed the complete preparation of the first 'electromagnetic propulsion system'.

From the propulsion engine, to the propellant storage controller, to the liquid hydrogen cooling system and the overall control system, everything has been fully prepared.

Today will be the day to test it.

Like testing the electric propulsion-free medium engine, through means such as booms and slide rails, with the assistance of bonobos, South Korea transported the electromagnetic engine to the test site and fixed it on the steel frame.

The working fluid storage controller and the liquid hydrogen cooling system were also installed on the side, and the corresponding connections were made.

The liquid xenon and liquid hydrogen inside are exchanged through technology points.

In order to maintain its stability, a medium-sized low-temperature condensation system was also arranged on the test site.

In addition, the high-temperature Portland cement wall that was previously destroyed by the electric propulsion-free fluid engine was also rebuilt.

After completing the inspection and confirming that there is no problem with the electromagnetic propulsion system as a whole, the Korean won returned to the control room.

The blade of the electric switch was pulled down, and the specially converted huge electric energy rushed to the engine mounted on the steel frame.

This time there was no movement or sound, and the temperature count on the display began to rise continuously.

At the tail of the electromagnetic engine, a white cone-shaped wake began to form, and it became larger and larger as time went on.

The white wake is also starting to take on a bright blue tinge.

This is the scene produced when the working medium xenon is ejected at a super high speed, just like a xenon lamp, bright and dazzling.

At the same time, the consumption data of the liquid xenon working fluid, the temperature data of the ion plume, and the thrust data of the electromagnetic engine are also constantly rising.

Under the adjustment of the won, the power of the electromagnetic push system reaches the maximum in about 1 minute.

The thrust data on the display screen reached 89.3KN when it was the largest, and fluctuated around 83KN when it was normal.

Compared with the electric propulsion-free medium engine, the thrust of this electromagnetic propulsion system is much weaker.

Won remembers that the thrust of a single electric propulsion engine running at full power is about 150KN, but the ultimate thrust is less than 90KN, which is nearly a third of the thrust.

Not only the thrust is very different, but also in terms of power consumption, the power consumption of the electromagnetic propulsion system is also much larger.

In terms of overall performance, if this electromagnetic propulsion system is the first generation, then the electric propulsion engine should be above the fourth generation, and the difference is quite large.

The only advantage is that the consumption of working fluid is much smaller.

But this can't be said to be an advantage.

What it consumes is extremely expensive xenon, while the working medium consumed by the electric propulsion engine is extremely cheap air.

The two can't be compared at all.

Take this test as an example, the Korean won was exchanged for one unit of liquid xenon, which is a little more than three tons.

If converted into money, it is worth 15 billion.

Just one test will burn 15 billion. Who can resist this kind of consumption?
Not to mention other countries, even if the rich and powerful do not treat money as money, the country of the United States, which can harvest the whole world, cannot bear it.

The most important thing is that what is consumed is not money, but liquid xenon in the actual sense.

The annual production quantity of this kind of thing is placed there in the world, and it is too difficult to extract it. If you want to test it, it will consume three tons, and no country can afford it.

And three tons of liquid xenon, under the full power of the electromagnetic propulsion system, can't last for 15 minutes.

It is equivalent to running 1 minute to consume [-] million.

With this amount, the audience in the live broadcast room and experts from various countries were speechless.

[This engine consumes xenon gas, right?I remember xenon seemed expensive? 】

[One gram of liquid xenon seems to cost more than 500 yuan. 】

[The anchor, I remember he mentioned it before, it seems to consume about [-] kilograms per minute. 】

[Two hundred kilograms, 500 yuan per gram, good guy, 1 million yuan is consumed in 1000 minute! 】

【? ? ? ? ? 】

[1000 million?How did you learn mathematics? 】

[Can't use it, can't use it, consumes 1 million worth of liquid xenon in [-] minute, this shit, the anchor is a super rich. 】

[The key is that the extraction of liquid xenon is very difficult, and the content on the earth is very small. 】

[There are many on Jupiter, go to Jupiter to extract it. 】

[Big dog! 】

【Jupiter?Looking for death.(*￣[-]￣)ノ】

[It seems that although this electric propulsion engine is also powerful, if we want to reproduce it, it is impossible, and the consumption is too great. 】

[Distressed, it consumes 1 million yuan in one minute, 160 million in one second, but I don't even have 1000 yuan (ω`)]

[Yi Shuang can consume 3 minutes, Yi Bing can consume 8.8 minutes, and Yi Wei can consume 13.4 minutes. 】

(End of this chapter)