Chapter 181 Destructive Mining
As Lu Yongchang's voice fell, many congressmen's faces became ugly.
What is this?
Is the purpose of their coming to the meeting just to listen to an announcement?
"Ahem!"
Seeing that something was not right in the atmosphere in the conference room, Councilor Li, who was sitting in the main seat, coughed twice.
Seeing all the congressmen looking at him, the old man said calmly: "I think Professor Lu is right."
"Humans have no chance to try and make mistakes."
"Now that it has been confirmed that there is civilization on Proxima Centauri 4.22 light-years away, from now on, we must prepare for the war in the near future."
"Remember, you are a member of the human race!"
"I don't want anyone to get sidetracked on such a big issue!"
Faced with Congressman Li's severe rebuke, the expressions of those members who originally advocated cooperation with Proxima Civilization changed drastically.
Sitting with my butt crooked...
In the current context, it is tantamount to a crime against humanity!
Seeing the cold look in the old man's eyes, all the congressmen present swallowed subconsciously.
…
The information from the Proxima Centauri civilization makes the future of human civilization seem increasingly illusory.
Before even leaving the solar system, mankind has a potential life-or-death enemy.
No, to be precise, there should be two.
There is also a civilization that caused the sun to mutate, but no clues have been revealed until now.
Thinking of this, Lu Yongchang sighed silently when he returned to the office.
Everyone is an enemy!
This universe is so fucking dark!
As the saying goes, good fortune never comes in pairs and misfortune never comes alone. Just when Lu Yongchang was troubled, Ling's voice once again added a little haze to his mood.
"Professor, I have some bad news."
"What's wrong?" He took a deep breath, sat up straight from his office chair, and solemnly asked the holographic projection in front of him.
"Professor, according to the current construction progress, our ore resources will be completely exhausted in two weeks."
"How could it be?" Lu Yongchang suddenly frowned, "Aren't there many robots mining?"
"Professor, the ore veins that are easy to mine on the surface have basically been mined." Zero controlled the holographic projection to show scenes one after another. "Most of the remaining veins are deep and difficult to mine."
Looking at the huge sinkholes in the image, Lu Yongchang fell into silence.
Although the Lunar Palace Project has been implemented, the entire moon is covered with large and small automatic mining factories.
But the earth is still the mainstream source of minerals for mankind.
If you want to easily obtain a large amount of ore, perhaps you can only find a way from the sky.
Lu Yongchang looked through the window toward the endless sky.
In the solar system, there is a huge asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
asteroid belt
Among them, about 500,000 asteroids are bound by the gravitational pull of the sun and Jupiter, and orbit obediently in the area of 2.17-3.64 astronomical units from the sun.
These 500,000 asteroids contain a lot of mineral deposits!
It's just...according to current technology, mining in the asteroid belt seems to be an unrealistic option.
Perhaps, after arriving on Mars, asteroid mining technology will be completely put on the research agenda.
Equivalent to this technology is the research and development of weapons systems.
We can't go to Proxima Centauri and humans will continue to attack with nuclear bombs, right?
Different from detonating a nuclear bomb in the atmosphere, because there is no atmosphere in space, after the nuclear bomb explodes, it will not produce the most lethal shock wave, but will only release a small range of high temperature, strong light and electromagnetic radiation.
This is tantamount to reducing the power of nuclear bombs countless times.
Therefore... the weapon system of the starship will probably need to be designed from scratch.
Lu Yongchang slumped down on his office chair with blank eyes, countless thoughts in his mind.
etc……
Nuclear bomb?
Nuclear bomb! !
Lu Yongchang's eyes lit up, he quickly straightened up and asked Ling: "Zero, if blasting is used for destructive mining, how long can the minerals on the earth last?"
After a short wait, Zero gave an invigorating reply.
"If the dosage of explosives is not considered, destructive mining is enough to meet the current construction needs."
"It's just that we don't have that many explosives at the moment."
"Who said no?" Lu Yongchang had a crazy smile on his lips.
…
Office of the Speaker.
"President, Professor Lu is here."
As Zero's voice sounded, the door to the Speaker's office quietly opened.
"Yongchang?" Seeing Lu Yongchang standing at the door, a trace of doubt flashed in Congressman Li's eyes.
"Is there any new news from Proxima Centauri?"
Lu Yongchang shook his head and walked into Congressman Li's office.
Then, he quickly closed the door with his hands and feet.
Seeing Lu Yongchang's unusual behavior, Councilor Li's eyes became more suspicious.
"Yongchang?"
Seemingly affected by Lu Yongchang's careful movements, Councilor Li lowered his voice subconsciously and asked in a low voice: "What happened?"
After closing the door, Lu Yongchang showed a slightly embarrassed smile: "President, I'm here to borrow something from you."
Representative Li: "???"
"Borrow something?"
"Why are you so careful about borrowing something?!"
The old man suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, leaned back and lay on his chair: "Tell me, what do you want to borrow?"
"…nuclear bomb."
Lu Yongchang added with a strange expression: "The more, the better."
"Cough cough cough!!!"
Representative Li choked on his own saliva. He patted his chest with his hand, straightened up from his seat, and pointed at Lu Yongchang with his index finger tremblingly.
"No, what do you want to borrow a nuclear bomb for?"
"This stuff is no joke!"
"We shouldn't need the uranium-235 and plutonium-239 in nuclear bombs now, right?"
Facing Councilor Li's inquiry, Lu Yongchang said two words calmly.
"mining."
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The territory of the former Soviet Union.
Robots evacuated from a mine in an orderly manner.
A Xuannv No. 2 slowly descended from the sky.
Inside it is a giant hydrogen bomb.
After rough estimation, its explosive power is about 30 million tons of TNT equivalent.
Although it is not as powerful as Big Ivan, it is already a relatively large hydrogen bomb made by humans.
After all, in the past, the nuclear fallout caused by hydrogen bombs with excessive yield would have extremely serious effects on the environment.
But now, none of this is a problem!
Anyway, the earth is going to die soon. Instead of letting it be melted into a lava ball by the sun, it is better to let it use its last remaining heat!
A few days later.
Following a loud noise, the People's Federation's First Laboratory on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau felt an obvious shock.
"Hiss...Zero, are you sure that such a large-yield hydrogen bomb will not affect the continental plate?"
There was a hint of fear in Lu Yongchang's eyes.
After all, [Jianmu] is right next to them!
"Professor, please trust my calculations, this will not have much impact."
Zero's avatar responded calmly.
ps. There should only be two chapters today.
I’ll post four, and I’ll definitely have three chapters tomorrow.JPG
