Earth Era

Hearing such straightforward and fierce criticism from his colleagues, the smile on Frank's face showed no signs of fading. Frank said with a smile: "Excuse me, where is my plan not feasible?"

The Führer also frowned deeply, looking at Frank with some doubts.

The scientist said: "Common sense alone is enough to deduce that your plan is not feasible. First, we don't have the ability to send matter of that huge mass into space - if we had, we would be directly on the moon. Build a base, why do you need such trouble? Second, even if we have the ability to send substances of sufficient mass into space, we may not have the ability to manipulate their orbits."

In these respects, Frank's plan is indeed unenforceable. Even with the Führer's scientific literacy, the Führer knew that this plan was impossible. This is like a proposal like "Since the earth is not suitable for human existence, why not move human beings to another planet suitable for human existence?" Everyone knows that this can save human civilization, But it has no value.

At the same time, the Führer also knew that Frank could not be a lunatic. So why did Frank come up with such a plan?

Frank smiled and said: "The two points you said are not obstacles. To answer your first question first. I know very well, I know that our human civilization has not sent objects of such huge mass into space. Ability, but I want to ask, who stipulated that these substances must be transported from the earth? Is it not possible to directly source materials in space?"

"Huh?" The head of state narrowed his eyes. At this moment, a word flashed in the head of the head of state, "Comet."

"Are you talking about comets or asteroids?" the physicist said. "One, first, we don't have the ability to blow up a comet, and two, we don't have the ability to push a comet forward as we want."

"About this..." Frank said, shaking his head, "it's still not a problem. You probably didn't notice that the comet 2025C9, officially named Arthur, has already embarked on its way to the sun and has now passed Jupiter. The orbit, the apparent magnitude has reached the sixth magnitude, and people with good eyesight can see it with the naked eye. I used the work permission I have to call the Love Space Telescope for three hours of observation time to make a detailed look at it. Observation, do you know what I found interesting?"

Comet Arthur is an obscure comet. It is a long-period comet, orbiting the sun for more than 400 years. It is also a sungrazing comet, which means that it will pass the surface of the sun at a very close distance, at a very high speed, and then return to deep space, and so on. Before its return this time, human civilization did not have any records of the comet, and only after it was accidentally discovered, there were some sporadic observation records in the database of human civilization.

Everyone knows about Comet Arthur, but at this moment, the participants did not know what Frank meant when he mentioned this ordinary comet. After all, everything is useless if it can't solve the two puzzles of "Breaking the Comet" and "Controlling Forward".

The venue was quiet as usual, and everyone was waiting for Frank's answer.

"During the three hours of calling the Love Space Telescope to observe Comet Arthur... I was surprised to find that Comet Arthur is not actually a whole. Its nucleus has broken up into fifteen large pieces. , the largest mass of these fifteen large fragments is about 4 billion tons, and the smallest one is about 900 million tons." Frank said with a smile, "According to my speculation, the reason why it split may be in the last plunder. During the day cycle, because it gets too close to the sun and gets shredded. Look, your first problem has been solved by the sun, we don't need to find a way to transport a large-yield nuclear bomb to shred it, because it It's already divided."

After Frank made his discovery, the conference room fell into a brief silence, and after a while, the discussion erupted.

"However, how do we control the progress of these fragments? Its mass is too large. With our human technology, we cannot do this." Another physicist asked.

Frank still had a warm smile on his face, "I also found a solution to this. The way to control the progress of these comet nuclei is actually very simple. We don't actually need to send a huge thrust engine to it."

The head of state asked in a deep voice, "Tell me, what's the way to control their trajectory."

"We can complete the task of controlling their trajectory within the framework of our existing technology." Frank said: "Führer, did you pay attention to the sunlight reflectors that bring warmth and light to the city of life? They have Very high albedo, they are very light and thin, and with the new rocket, a single launch is enough to send a square kilometer of sunlight reflectors into space..."

"Of course I know these things," the Fuhrer said.

"Then it's very simple, we don't have to ship the engine to the comet, we just need to ship enough solar reflectors to the comet." Frank snapped his fingers, "Comet Arthur and the sun will help with the rest of the work. We're done."

"You mean..." The head of state fell into deep thought.

Frank said: "Führer, you are an outstanding human leader, but you are not scientifically literate enough to find out the intent of this behavior. Let me tell you the answer. The work we need to do is simple. As you know, comets are not all made of stone, there is a large amount of gas solidified due to low temperature inside or on the surface. When approaching the sun, due to the increase in temperature, these gases will sublimate a lot and spray from the surface of the comet Therefore, a huge and spectacular comet tail is formed. And according to the most simple mechanics principle, we know that when these gaseous substances are ejected from the comet nucleus, they will inevitably give an opposite force to the comet nucleus itself. , just like a rocket, the tail of the rocket ejects gas, and the body of the rocket gains upward force."

"The purpose of transporting the solar reflector to the comet's nucleus is this. We can selectively block a certain part of the comet's nucleus, so that sunlight cannot reach it, and the gas in the blocked part of the comet's nucleus cannot be sublimated. , cannot be ejected. At the same time, the unobstructed part is still undergoing gas ejection, which will give it the power to change its orbit. In this way, by obscuring different parts of the comet's nucleus, we can follow our The desire of the comet nucleus to control the advance orbit of the comet nucleus. Of course, we may also need to transport some engines to the comet nucleus, and use these engines to fine-tune and accurately calibrate the advance orbit of the comet nucleus. The equivalent of these engines does not need to be too large, I think it will be Their mission to the comet's nucleus should be within the reach of our human civilization."

"This is the general outline of my plan." Frank smiled and spread out his hands, "Think about it, we control a dozen huge comet nuclei to hit the surface of the sun, emptying all the reverse fusion layers on the surface of the sun, and destroying all Plasma life attached to the surface of the sun ... we will usher in a habitable Earth."

"One thing to remind everyone is that Comet Arthur will reach the closest point to the earth in three months, and the distance is about 9 million kilometers. If we decide to implement my plan, probably from now on, we will I need to start preparing. I'm done." Frank said, and sat down in his seat again. At the last moment, Frank also said something: "Comet Arthur is God's gift to us, isn't it?"

After Frank explained his idea, the conference room fell silent again. After a while, the head of state broke the calm: "Department of scientific research, I need you to evaluate this plan."

"The plan works on the whole...but is there really any use in manipulating a comet to hit the sun?" a physicist murmured, "Statistically, every thousand years the sun It will suffer an impact of this magnitude, but we have not seen any impact on the sun from an impact of this magnitude."

Frank retorted: "The probability of an impact of the same scale is once in a thousand years, so how long has it been since the reverse fusion layer appeared?"

The physicist was stunned and replied subconsciously, "It's less than two years."

Frank shrugged and said nothing.

"We can't find a reason to refute this plan." Another expert stood up and said, "The plan is highly executable. But I think we still need to consider two issues. First, solar civilization The ability to defend against comet impacts, and secondly, if the plan ultimately fails and the solar civilization is not destroyed, the solar civilization may have a countermeasure."

Frank responded unceremoniously: "First of all, I don't think solar civilization has the ability to defend against comet impacts, at least for now. Don't forget, solar civilization didn't even defend against the original Moth impactor. Secondly , no plan can be perfect, if we refuse to execute the plan just because we are afraid of failure and the counterattack of the solar civilization, then we might as well just die.”

"I have decided to implement Frank's comet impact plan in addition to Zhao Huasheng's plan to reshape the world and the moon base plan. These three plans will be carried out at the same time." The head of state said, "Research Department, I want you to do your best to Quickly come up with the details of the implementation of the plan."

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