boyutpedia Chapter 1365 [This is a one-year plan]
Chapter 1365 [This is a one-year plan]
Chapter 1365 [This is a Hundred-Year Plan]
What makes the majority of netizens unable to sit still is that this doesn't seem to be a joke, but a real one, which makes them even more excited.
Because even the previously planned lunar exploration project was directly incorporated into the "Planetary Defense" plan and became a subset of the project. The entire "Planetary Defense" plan has a detailed outline and the planning time scale is as long as a hundred years.
The most shocking thing is the huge scale of the entire "Planetary Defense" plan. The just-released plan outline describes in detail the two major projects of "Lunar Smart Factory" and "Lunar Orbital Space Port".
Now it has gone viral on the Internet. Many netizens quickly checked the date and found that it was 2018. Those who didn’t know would have thought it was 2081.
According to the chief engineer of the lunar project in an interview with Yangshi reporters, the lunar smart factory is a key link in the entire "planetary defense" plan and also the most expensive link in the entire "planetary defense" plan.
Building a factory on the moon is unprecedented in human history. First of all, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive map survey of the moon and a detailed exploration of the natural resources on the lunar surface. Only after mastering these important data and information can the location of the lunar factory be determined.
The focus of the lunar smart factory lies in the word "intelligence", which means that the entire factory must achieve unmanned, intelligent, and fully automated operation. Matrix Quantum will provide strong support in terms of artificial intelligence technology, that is, the large industrial model that is currently being trained. In the future, every machine and equipment unit that can move on the moon will be endowed with intelligence.
At the same time, the industrial facilities and numerous intelligent mechanical equipment on the moon also have the ability to resist interference from solar storm activities, that is, the ability to resist electromagnetic pulses. After all, the moon is not completely protected by the earth's magnetic field. The earth's magnetic field during the full moon cannot completely protect the moon, which will cause the moon to be almost completely exposed to solar radiation.
These issues are naturally taken into consideration, and there are technical means to solve them.
According to the chief engineer of the lunar project, the future lunar rover will be able to travel at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour on the lunar surface, which is also shocking news.
On Earth, it is quite amazing for a car to travel at such a speed. However, the chief designer said that this speed of the lunar rover is completely feasible because the gravity of the moon is only one-sixth of that of the earth, which means that the power required for the lunar rover is much smaller than on Earth. Therefore, higher speeds can be achieved in areas with flat terrain and good road conditions.
Energy is also a key factor in whether the lunar smart factory can operate normally. There is no doubt that the most feasible means at present is nuclear power. The two nuclear power giants, China National Nuclear Corporation and China General Nuclear Power Corporation, are on the list of participants.
Nuclear energy is needed in the initial stage. Solar photovoltaics are not cost-effective because it means transporting a large amount of photovoltaic materials from the earth. After calculating the cost, building a small nuclear power plant is the most economical means.
In the future, when space solar power stations are established in the high altitude of the Earth's orbit, nuclear power plants can be retired. The space solar power stations will directly transmit energy to the lunar factory via wireless microwaves, and a receiving station will be built locally. The space solar power stations on the Earth will directly carry out long-distance energy transmission at the speed of light.
Although there will be a considerable energy loss in the transmission process, once space solar power is established, it will absorb energy from the sun around the clock, and energy will become incredibly cheap, so that little energy loss is completely acceptable.
According to the chief designer of the lunar factory, he said down to earth that as long as the lunar intelligent factory completes the construction of several main core units, it can "grow slowly" on its own. Because it is fully automated and intelligent, it does not require direct human participation. People only need to make a comprehensive plan, and the lunar intelligent factory will collect resources on the lunar surface and continue to expand.
In the future, most mechanical equipment will be manufactured on the moon, and only some core components and small unit components with low payload requirements, such as chips, will be transported directly from the earth.
In other words, for the lunar smart factory, humans only need to make a start, and it will "grow" on its own later, from the initial micro-factory to a small factory, then to a large-scale project, and finally to a huge comprehensive industrial cluster base.
As the lunar smart factory takes shape, it will lay a solid foundation for the subsequent "lunar orbital space port". Relying on the natural resources on the moon, the lunar smart factory will produce and manufacture various hardware facilities needed for the space port, modularly manufacture them in the factory, and then send them from the moon into orbit.
The gravitational escape velocity of the moon is only 2.3 km/s, which is much easier than sending materials from the earth to outer space. With the current level of technology, industrial capacity and economic strength, it is not enough to build a space mother port from the earth, mainly because the launch cost is unbearable at the economic level.
However, on the moon, the launch cost will drop exponentially, and the economic investment will mainly be in the early stage of the construction of the lunar smart factory. The investment will be less and less as time goes by, and in the end it can be almost free.
First of all, the natural resources on the moon are free. Secondly, the fully automated and unmanned smart factories save labor costs. Once the scale effect comes into play, it is almost equivalent to getting a space hub for free.
With complete lunar mapping data and natural resource distribution data, we can build a smart lunar factory. With a smart lunar factory, we can build a spaceport. And with a spaceport, we can manufacture spacecraft with a payload of 10,000 tons.
A large vehicle of this magnitude cannot be manufactured on the surface of a planet. It can only be manufactured in modules, and then each module is sent from the lunar surface to the spaceport in lunar orbit, and then integrated through the dock platform on the spaceport.
Once completed, this huge guy with a mass of tens of thousands of tons will have to stay in space forever. If it is captured by the gravity of the planet, it will be doomed. After all, without the black technology of anti-gravity, it will not be able to go back and forth between the atmosphere. If it is captured by the gravity of the planet, it will be a large artificial meteorite directly hitting the surface of the planet.
The power system will definitely use nuclear power, and the future alternative will be controlled nuclear fusion energy.
When there are spacecraft with a payload of 10 tons in space, humans will no longer be helpless in the face of impacts from extraterrestrial asteroids, even if it is a -kilometer-class asteroid like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
We only need to send out a few of these big guys and use some indirect means to apply the powerful thrust of the spacecraft to the asteroid, such as using new nanomaterials to create a huge net. We only need to slightly change the orbit of the asteroid to avoid a direct collision with the earth and directly be thrown out by the "gravitational slingshot" effect of gravity.
The birth of large spacecraft with a payload of 10,000 tons will inevitably give rise to a series of new space industries and supporting businesses. For example, asteroid mining will become possible. In the future, those extraterrestrial asteroids that may hit the earth and pose a threat will become gifts from nature, which can give rise to space factories and even space cities.
Although the "Planetary Defense" plan launched this time is nominally intended to respond to the impact of extraterrestrial asteroids, it is also a century-long plan. Once the "Planetary Defense" plan is promoted, it will inevitably evolve in this direction.
With a lunar factory, we can have a space mother port. With a space mother port, we can have spaceships with a payload of 0.7 tons. With spaceships with a payload of 1 tons, we can carry out a series of commercial activities such as space mining. Then, we can move the factory from the surface of the planet into space to become a space factory, which will inevitably give birth to a huge space city. Human civilization will therefore officially become a level planetary civilization from the current level civilization and move towards a stellar civilization.
From this we can see that, in a sense, God's gift of a moon to humans is simply an inexplicable preference and favor, allowing humans to use the moon as a stepping stone to more easily advance into deep space.
Without the moon as a stepping stone, the difficulty and cost for humans to leave the earth and achieve the same scale of effect would be ten or even a hundred times higher than it is now. The cost of just fighting against gravity is difficult to estimate.
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(End of this chapter)