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Chapter 442

Even if Shen Qingyuan's consent was obtained and required to cooperate with the Scientific Planning Committee, it was still not easy to complete this project, and even fell into a dilemma at the beginning of the project.

There is still a big gap between mastering the principles and possessing physical objects. Just like in the ancient Earth era, humans had already mastered chemical energy, but the diesel or gasoline engines used to drive cars were not finally manufactured until the industrial revolution came.

Now, humans have mastered some mutated electromagnetic interaction forces in that special environment, but it still requires a lot of resource investment to create propulsion equipment that meets the requirements.

A design team composed of top materials scientists, engineers, mechanics experts, physics experts, etc. has been engaged in busy work. Under Huang Yuan's arrangement, more than 20 such teams have been established, and each of them has begun to design the thruster. In the future, after a series of inspections and evaluations, the design scheme with the best performance will be selected and then large-scale manufacturing will begin.

In addition to these design teams, the overall architecture of superplanet accelerators has also continued to explore and research on theoretical aspects. At least ten teams of astrophysicists have begun to study the best planet fusion methods and build models for simulations. In addition, more teams have begun to study the most detailed physical data of messenger stars.

This is undoubtedly a huge project. In such a project, every detail and every subtle step, such as the materials used in the accelerator, its installation and transportation process, the interaction force with the planet, even the weather and atmospheric circulation originally existed on the planet, satellite systems, magnetic field systems, etc., every detail needs to be considered. Every detail requires several special scientific research teams to explore and research. Even though scientists have temporarily given up on basic science research, tens of millions of people have put all their energy on the current project, Huang Yuan, commander-in-chief of the messenger project, still feels that there is not enough manpower.

This is just a matter within the scientists' group. To expand to the entire human civilization, there are more things to be dealt with. For example, the early energy reserves - it is obvious that after the two planets aggregate into brown dwarfs, the mining of fusion energy will be very inconvenient, so people need to reserve enough energy for more than 2,000 years of use - is a huge project. This not only requires the power of almost all energy companies, but also requires more detailed planning in terms of transportation, storage, etc. Or the reserve of various mineral resources, the demolition of various equipment originally built on satellites, the construction of large space factories, and other tasks. Each task will consume a huge amount of human and material resources, and requires at least tens of millions or even billions of levels of human resources to participate. Therefore, the frequency of the regular meeting of the Government Committee was changed from once a week to once a day, and later to twice a day, so that major matters will not be accumulated.

The entire Phoenix Galaxy became a busy construction site in a very short time. Countless spacecraft shuttles between different planets, countless people traveling in a hurry and between different spacecrafts. The indescribable huge amount of data relies on the latest super-light speed communication network to transmit back and forth between major institutions.

In the fourth month after the announcement of the messenger program, roughly the details of the energy reserve program were also announced. In this program, scientists once again showed their madness to everyone.

"It is impractical to rely on gas storage tanks or giant energy spacecraft to store fusion fuel that is sufficient for the entire civilization to use for more than two thousand years. Although the main energy of the superaccelerator used to drive the messenger star comes from the radiation of the messenger star, and the migration fleet can also obtain some energy supplements from the messenger star, after removing this part, we will still need a total of 5 billion tons of fusion fuel. This is equivalent to a hundred times the total mass of the Earth's atmosphere, and the energy released after the fusion is about the sum of the energy released by the sun in twenty-five years. To store so many fusion energy, we need at least one billion superenergy spacecraft of the largest specification. This is undoubtedly unrealistic, so we can only find a solution from the rest."

On the Government Affairs Committee, Dr. Huang Yuan once again told the committee members about his crazy idea: "There is a simple and convenient plan, which is to store these fusion raw materials on an existing planet. After selection, we have found a suitable planet, which is the planet we usually call Desert Star. It is the largest satellite of the new Saturn, with a mass of 54% of the Earth. It originally had no atmosphere. We can collect fusion fuel in gas form, and then release it directly to the surface of the desert star, and fix these gases with the help of the gravity of the desert star... Yes, we will artificially create an atmosphere for it that is almost entirely composed of fusion fuel. At the beginning of the voyage, we will take it away together to obtain enough fusion fuel that we have used for more than two thousand years."

Compared to the huge project of fusing two gas giant planets to create a star and then directly take away the stars, the plan brought the members no less shocking, which even made the members not know what to say for a moment, and could only look at each other.

After a long time, Han Luo Chang asked, "I remember that hydrogen will continue to escape from the planet's gravitational field because of its low mass."

Huang Yuan immediately replied: "It is true. But this is a geological concept, and its time scale is extremely long. It only takes two thousand years. No matter how high the escape rate is, it cannot affect the overall situation."

General Lei Zhen asked: "How do you make sure that the desert stars are not thrown away or swallowed by the planets during the planet's fusion?"

Huang Yuan said: "This problem is easier to solve. We only need to build about a hundred planetary engines on it, and cooperate with the orbit of the new Saturn, which can easily allow it to break free from the gravitational field of the new Saturn and become a planet orbiting the Phoenix Star. After the planets merge and stabilize, we can adjust its orbit again and return to the orbit around the messenger star."

The committee members looked at each other again. Wu Wei couldn't help but sigh: "Sure enough, scientists are the craziest guys."

Huang Yuan turned a deaf ear and continued: "We can also place the remaining resources that need to be reserved on the desert star. It will become a giant warehouse carried by our human civilization, and no matter how much materials can be put down. In this way, we will save at least 500,000 resource spacecraft construction tasks. Overall, the execution of this task will not only not increase the difficulty of the task, but will save us a lot of manpower and material resources."

"Since that's the case, there's nothing to say. I agree with this plan."

"I agree."

The advisory committee composed of eleven committee members unanimously approved the execution request for this task, so many energy spacecraft rushed into the atmospheres of New Jupiter and New Saturn as quickly as possible, and started collecting fusion energy. Just one month later, at least 10 billion tons of gas appeared on the desert star, which even caused some breezes to appear on it.

The transformation of the Desert Star is just a detail of the entire huge plan. In addition, more people and more spacecraft were busy. A year after the messenger plan was proposed, the team of No. 7 took the lead in drawing the planetary accelerator structural drawings and successfully built the first prototype. After that, more than 20 teams proposed their own construction plans.

These solutions have the same and different places. Various advanced technical concepts collide, inspire and mix with each other, and create a next-generation manufacturing solution with more advanced performance and higher efficiency.

The rest of the aspects are also progressing steadily and progressing smoothly. As Huang Yuan initially said, this project only involves new technologies, but not new science. This means that any technology required by the project is within the scope of existing theories, and at most it only needs to be transformed or recombined.

Another night ended, and the morning came as promised. As before, Dr. Huang Yuan opened his eyes as soon as the bell rang, and after a brief wash, he left the bedroom.

There are endless things waiting to be dealt with every day. Although we have long left the front line of scientific research and we don’t need Huang Yuan to involve daily administrative management work, the entire messenger plan is still inseparable from Huang Yuan. Because only Huang Yuan is proficient in and understands every detail of the messenger plan and the technology involved in every link. The most important thing is that only Huang Yuan knows how to proceed.

Even Huang Yuan himself sighed that the peak of his life would be the moment of a flash of inspiration. To this day, except for Mo Xiangsheng and himself, no scientist dares to claim to understand the data and formulas he wrote at the beginning.

Specific research projects are important, but if they don’t have themselves, they will not even know what to study. Only themselves know the direction of the future, and this is the gift brought to themselves by a flash of inspiration.

A spacecraft quickly left the capital city, taking Huang Yuan, Mo Xiangsheng, and some accompanying personnel to the new Saturn. The planetary accelerator is about to enter the mass production stage, and Huang Yuan is really worried if he doesn't go to the field inspection.

The huge gas planet outside the window has occupied most of the field of view, and you can even see hurricanes and lightning on the surface of the planet. But at this moment, a trace of flame quietly appeared in a corner that no one noticed.
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