Super industrial overlord

Chapter 638 New Questions

A few days have passed, and Venus is still not calm at this time. Although due to the large amount of water vapor on Ceres, the temperature of Venus has dropped at this time, and the surface of Venus has begun to form the ground again. However, the strong shock wave is still Wandering in the atmosphere constantly, the re-formed ground of Venus is also full of earthquakes. This one is still a mountain, but the next one is razed to the ground in an instant. It can be said that Venus at this time is more beautiful than those doomsday scenes in the movie. It is so harsh that there is no known creature that can survive in such an environment.

At the same time, there are still many volcanoes erupting on Venus at this time. From time to time, Venus' magma and thick smoke break through the thick atmosphere of Venus and enter space.

Of course, this impact is under control for the Earth Federation and human beings, and there is no accident. At the same time, the impact point is also very accurate. Venus did not disintegrate due to the collision with Ceres, and Ceres almost has More than 90.00% of the matter, including the water on Ceres, fell on Venus, which can be seen from the sharp drop in temperature of Venus.

However, although it is said that more than 90.00% of the mass of Ceres fell on Venus this time, the increase in the mass of Venus is actually not that much. In fact, it only increases the volume of Venus by 2000%. If you want If the volume of Venus reaches the level of the Earth, then more asteroids or other celestial bodies are needed. If the volume of Ceres is calculated, then at least more than [-] celestial bodies with the same volume as Ceres are needed. It may make Venus reach the size of Earth.

Of course, it is impossible to find more than 2000 asteroids the size of Ceres in the solar system. After all, even if you add up all the asteroids in the entire asteroid belt, there are only about ten or twenty asteroids with the mass of Ceres. That's all, but fortunately, there are not only asteroids in the solar system, but also other suitable celestial bodies, such as the natural satellites of various planets, especially Jupiter and Saturn. After all, both Jupiter and Saturn have large natural satellites, and Many of these natural satellites are far larger than Ceres, so Federation and Zhang Yi have long set their sights on Jupiter's satellites, especially Jupiter's Europa.

Of course, it is not easy to hit Venus with Europa. After all, the size of Europa is not comparable to that of Ceres. First of all, the number of movable planetary engines left by the earth is too small.

You must know that when Ceres was moved before, the planetary engines used by the Federation cost the Federation countless manpower and material resources to manufacture, and if you want to move Europa, the planetary engines you need are only what you needed to move Ceres before. Several times or even dozens of times the number of planetary engines is enough, and now the number of planetary engines in the Federation is less than ten, so if you want to move Europa, you must build more and larger planetary engines just work.

Although the current Earth Federation is not short of resources in general, this is only relatively speaking. In fact, there are not many resources and human beings, especially those rare strategic elements. Commonly used materials such as steel are actually only enough for the Federation to do well. If it wants to manufacture planetary engines on a large scale, the existing steel reserves of the Federation are far from enough.

However, in order to move Europa, the number of planetary engines required is very large, at least one thousand or more.

At this moment, the door of his office was pushed open, and Shi Haiming, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Federal Space Command, walked in. Seeing Zhang Yi sitting there thinking about something, he asked, "Mr. Zhang! He looks so sad." What are you thinking? I think that the Venus transformation plan has been successfully implemented, and the first step of the plan has been perfectly completed, and then the second step of the plan is ready, and now the federal funding is also very smooth, Mr. Zhang, what else do you have? Worried?"

"Deputy Commander Shi, I'm not worried about funding. After all, this is not the time before. What I am worried about now is the problem of manufacturing planets and engines. Now we have a total of planetary engines left plus the ones still in use. The number of planetary engines manufactured is less than 50, but at least several thousand planetary engines are required to drive Jupiter [-], plus our follow-up plans in the future, the number of planetary engines required will be even greater .

Of course, in terms of production capacity, I think the current scale of our Colorful Stone Group can definitely meet our needs. However, the raw materials required to manufacture planetary engines are very large. After all, mobile planetary engines are not ordinary spaceships. Since the strength and structure of a planetary engine is far superior to that of ordinary spaceships or even space battleships, the raw materials required to manufacture a planetary engine are more than ten times or even more than that of ordinary spaceships or space battleships. Dozens of times.

Not to mention anything else, let’s take the most common spacecraft manufacturing material, special steel, for example. Although the volume of a planetary engine is equivalent to a medium-sized spacecraft, the materials needed to manufacture a planetary engine are far more than a large spaceship. The materials needed for the spaceship, so once the planetary engine starts to be manufactured on a large scale, the current steel smelting capacity and iron ore mining capacity of our earth can't meet our needs at all, so we have to find a way to develop more Various metal minerals, including iron ore, copper ore, aluminum ore and so on. "Zhang Yi said.

"What? There is a problem with materials, how is it possible? You know, even before the war between human civilization and the alien civilization fleet, our human federation vigorously produced space battleships, and it seems that there has been no such problem. Now we and The war between alien civilizations has long since ended, and our human federation has begun large-scale mining of various minerals on the moon and Mars, but you told me that there is a problem with materials?" Shi Haiming said a little depressed.

"Deputy Commander Shi, the reason why we were able to mass-produce various types of spaceships without resource problems before we went to war with alien civilizations was because our human civilization had already entered an all-round emergency at that time." In the state of mobilization, all resources are tilted towards the military, so we have no problems in this regard, and now that we have defeated the fleet of alien civilization, the Federation's full-scale war mobilization will naturally be cancelled. With the development of civil aerospace, the demand for resources is also increasing day by day, so this problem arises." Shi Lei explained.

(End of this chapter)