Free Web NovelChapter 1487: Chapter 705: The Assembly of the Flying Car Is Complete
The Lunar Base project entered its second phase, with the transport craft smoothly landing on the moon once again, and all related personnel starting their work on the lunar surface.
Their main job was to construct temporary living bases and some specialized scientific personnel would cultivate some hardy plants in the transport or other modules, or make preparations for other living modules.
Work on the Lunar Base proceeded smoothly, but there was still considerable concern on the ground about the operations on the moon.
Many people closely followed the developments on the moon, fearful of any potential safety issues.
This was a super big deal.
The biggest issue with working on the moon was safety because the lunar environment was extremely harsh; even the slightest mistake could cost lives.
Additionally, the Lunar Base project was just beginning, and humanity had no prior experience with long-term landings or work on other planets, with the furthest being the space station which is enclosed and does not require astronauts to stay in the space environment for long periods. In contrast, working on the moon, with the installation of a lot of equipment and construction of living and working areas, required prolonged exposure to the lunar surface environment.
The lunar surface environment sees temperature differences of over a hundred degrees Celsius between day and night, and nearly a vacuum, with a different gravity than Earth’s—it’s harsh, and their only safeguard was the spacesuit.
In recent years, rapid technological developments had significantly upgraded spacesuits. The latest compressed material coatings on the surface helped astronauts withstand extreme temperatures and radiation, but regardless of advancements, no one could guarantee there wouldn’t be some error.
Zhao Yi was also somewhat worried and kept an eye on the situation on the moon.
However, unlike others, he could use the "Causality Law" to predict risks to some extent.
Although the moon was very distant from Earth’s surface, he could still make some judgments, albeit with a significant expenditure of energy, based on the transmitted images. At least technologically, he wasn’t worried.
If there was any technical issue, he would be the first to notice it. freewёbnoνel.com
Conversely, he couldn’t do much about operational errors or special hazards.
For instance, if someone made an operational mistake during work that led to the leakage of oxygen reserves inside a spacesuit or direct exposure between the inside and the outside, there wasn’t much that could be done.
Special situations referred to unforeseeable risks; for example, a Yixing meteorite suddenly striking the moon and hitting the work site, of course, there would be no solution for that.
But this was true for any mission: human operation errors and special risk scenarios are fundamentally unpreventable.
All they could do during training was to ensure every person going to work on the moon was thoroughly familiar with the operational steps, ideally leaving no room for error.
In recent times, besides daily attention to the Lunar Base’s operations, Zhao Yi was devoted to energy and space R&D projects.
The Z-wave group and the theoretical group had done a lot of work, the project was progressing very smoothly, everything was being prepared, the equipment was gradually arriving, and the experimental base had taken shape.
At the same time, the participating research teams were halfway through the audit process.
As it was a top-notch scientific research project related to the latest studies on space, many physicists hoped to join in.
The allure of space physics research was significant for them.
Physics research at the highest levels demands experimental environments, as relying solely on imagination is simply not enough to develop findings, which is why many physicists eagerly joined particle collision research.
When they had data reports from large experiments, they could analyze and discover new things; without that, achieving results in physical research was exceedingly difficult.
Additionally, new fields of physics are where it’s easiest to produce results. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com
Like the research on microscopic physics over the past few decades, particle collision experiments have yielded numerous discoveries, with the standard model of particles alone resulting in many Nobel Prize-winning findings.
For instance, the Higgs boson.
For instance, neutrinos.
And so on.
Current space physics research is the newest field, and related research only has the best conditions domestically.
In M Country’s Institute of Mechanics, for example, there have been certain results in anti-gravity technology and anti-energy barrier technology; they even could emit Z-waves. However, their control of Z-waves was very superficial, and they were far from perfect control.
Furthermore, in the theoretical aspects of other latest scientific fields, the Institute of Mechanics had a considerable gap to the extent that their anti-gravity ships lagged far behind even the most basic ships constructed by Yixing and the Aerospace Bureau.
This was the gap between theory and technology.
However, when many physicists wanted to join the research on space and energy, it reflected in the actions of international top-tier academic institutions. Nearly every influential organization applied to join the research on energy space, hoping to send teams to participate.
Domestically, approvals had been granted to six institutions, including the Physics Research Institute of Country E, the Newton Research Institute, the Physics Research Institute of Country D, the California Institute of Technology research team, among others.
