Chapter 30, How to Catch Asteroids
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"The current price of steel is more than 3,000 per ton. If you don't extract raw ore like this, you will be able to get it into space. I think it's still something that people will want to count as 500 yuan per ton. This meteorite is 100 million tons, and simply counts at least 50 billion yuan!"
Someone immediately turned his brain and calculated the number. It was just a 50 billion yuan, just an asteroid, a more common asteroid!
"Oh my God! Why do you think this asteroid is full of gold. Any asteroid is worth tens of billions of yuan. Asteroids with iron elements as the main constituent elements account for 15% of the total number, which can be found at will!"
The scientist who was saliva exclaimed quickly!
"Bai Fengling, baby is here. The key is how do you transport it to the earth?" Jiang Zhipeng heard everyone discussing the value of these asteroids as soon as he came in. He smiled and shook his head. This asteroid is not so easy to transport.
Bai Fengling was the scientist who had saliva just now. Now he was staring at the asteroid with his eyes fixed on him, thinking about how to transport him to the earth.
"There is always a way. Using the gravity of the solar system, we just need to remove the asteroid from its original orbit at the beginning and wait for the sun to help us move to the earth!"
"It is a good idea to use the gravity of the sun, but how big is the force that just started to remove the asteroid from its original orbit? This asteroid weighs 150 million to 200 million tons! It's not that easy to drag!"
Jiang Zhipeng slowly guided everyone's thinking direction to how to drag the asteroid. To be honest, Jiang Zhipeng was also drooling in his heart at this time. These asteroids are treasures. Even if they are all silicon asteroids moving to the Earth, they can be sold at a high price. The space solar power generation uses materials made of silicon.
If you can transport an asteroid containing a large amount of iron to the earth, any one of them can be worth tens of billions of yuan, and it is normal for a larger one to hundreds of billions of yuan.
"We can install engines on the asteroids to push the asteroid into the orbit we want!" A scientist immediately said with a big brain.
"This doesn't work. Asteroids usually rotate, so it is not easy to make the asteroid move forward in the prescribed route. Moreover, it is very difficult to install the engine. It is useless to have a small power. If the installation difficulty and fuel are also a problem!" Jiang Zhipeng shook his head and denied this idea.
"I think we can create a nuclear explosion near the asteroid and let the shock waves push the asteroid!"
"The nuclear explosion plan may interfere with the orbits of other asteroids and trigger a butterfly effect. And when you push it, you rely on a nuclear explosion. When you arrive on the earth, you won't want to rely on a nuclear explosion too! This is not OK!"
Everyone can't help but sweat when it comes to this scientist who has opened up his mind and uses nuclear explosions to push asteroids. It's really violent!
"A solar sail device can be installed in the front of the asteroid. Relying on the power of the solar wind, it can slowly drag the asteroid. This method is safer!"
"No, this method took too long, and we were dragging the asteroid toward the inner circle of the solar system. Are you sure this solar wind can be done?"
The proposals and plans of several scientists were denied in succession, and for a while, no one could think of any other method. They frowned and thought hard.
"I think we can use a huge grid to wrap the asteroid first, and then use a spacecraft with great thrust to drag the asteroid!" Bai Fengling thought for a long time and spoke slowly.
"What material is your grid ready to use? Ordinary materials can't withstand such huge pulling force at all!" Someone immediately raised his own question.
"The rope made of carbon fiber material is enough. A thin carbon fiber can hang something weighing several tons. We make carbon fiber materials into thicker ropes, which can completely take on the task of dragging asteroids!"
The carbon fiber material mentioned by Bai Fengling is a new fiber material with high-strength and high-modulus fibers with carbon content of more than 95%. It is made of organic fibers such as sheet graphite microcrystals in the axial direction of the fiber and obtained by carbonization and graphitization.
Carbon fiber is "soft on the outside and hard on the inside", with a lighter mass than metal aluminum, but has higher strength than steel, and has corrosion resistance and high modulus. More importantly, it not only has the inherent intrinsic characteristics of carbon materials, but also has the soft and soft processability of textile fibers. It is a new generation of reinforced fibers.
Other scientists nodded after hearing this. If carbon fiber material is woven into a rope large enough, it can indeed be used to drag asteroids. This material is strong, soft, and can be shaped at will. Relying on the space shuttle, it is easy to weave a net on the asteroid. Dragging asteroids is still feasible.
"Then how much thrust spacecraft do you need to pull the asteroid?" After solving the material problem, scientists raised new questions. Once one problem is solved, the matter will be done.
"A spacecraft equipped with nuclear fusion power is enough. We do not need to drag asteroids all the time. We just need to remove the asteroid from its original orbit, and then rely on the gravity of the sun to calculate the position, so that the asteroid can re-form a new orbit passing through the earth. When the asteroid is about to arrive at the earth, we drag the asteroid again, and then rely on the gravity of the earth to capture the asteroid, forming an orbit around the earth, and becoming a satellite of the earth!"
"As long as it becomes the Earth's satellite, then what's left is waiting for us to slowly excavate various resources on it!" Bai Fengling said his plan in detail.
"Well, this plan seems to be a good plan, and the feasibility is still very high!" Jiang Zhipeng pondered for a long time and nodded. Bai Fengling's plan is still very feasible, especially for those asteroids with not too much mass.
"I also think this solution is very good, especially those smaller asteroids, such as those with millions of tons. I think there is no problem at all. As for pulling hundreds of millions of tons of asteroids, I think we should do a strict calculation first!" Other scientists also nodded.
"I think it's better to conduct experiments if you've been discussing here. Our current Zheng He is currently the most powerful spacecraft. We can test it here first. Just try it and you'll know!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!