Free Web NovelChapter 1518: Chapter 718: Gravity Manufacturing Technology? This is Too Terrifying!_2
For instance, the technicians responsible for equipment installation.
In a work cycle, only the initial period requires equipment installation; once the equipment is installed, maintenance only occurs if there’s a problem, and there’s nothing else to do.
The equipment transported to the moon is of very high quality, and it’s very unlikely that any major issues will occur, so the technicians related to the equipment enjoy a lot of downtime.
Some of these individuals are Yixing Company employees, while others work for the Aerospace Bureau; they also participate in other tasks during their spare time.
Another direct example is Li Renzhe, whose work on the moon involves research on Mutated Red Spirulina. Unlike coding, bacteriological research requires constant vigilance, but his workload is even more relaxed than on Earth; he might only need to spend two hours in the lab per day, with occasional inspections being sufficient.
Thus, Li Renzhe also takes part in other tasks, such as building passages linking the lab to emergency spacecraft and assembling other experimental modules.
And so on.
That’s how work is at the Lunar Base; there’s a serious shortage of manpower for many tasks, but once the job is done, there’s a lot of downtime. Everyone needs to pitch in rather than just completing their assigned tasks and calling it a day.
The collaboration between Yixing Company and the Aerospace Bureau is similar; they lack detailed contracts for task division and can’t issue such contracts. They simply help out when needed.
The relationship between the two sides has always been excellent, with many technological collaborations. It can’t be said that they operate as one entity, but once in the environment of the moon, job divisions aren’t as detailed.
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The inspection work at the Lunar Base is planned to take sixteen hours.
It includes at least eight hours on the moon’s surface, with visits to the residential area, experimental area, and installation of devices. The inspection team will have two meals before returning to Earth.
The entire process is tightly scheduled, and for promotional effects, there will be journalists recording the entire journey. Segments of the takeoff and inspection will be broadcasted live.
There will be a press conference later that evening, which will generally consist of official statements about the importance of the Lunar Base inspection.
The senior leadership will give a five-minute interview, while Zhao Yi will have one-on-one conversations with the reporters.
The senior leader’s interview consisted of a few remarks, such as "not worried about safety issues", "trusting in technology", and "Lunar workers are heroes."
Zhao Yi, on the other hand, covered much more detail and a broader range of topics, "The Lunar Base is humanity’s first step into space."
"The first step is crucial. We hope to use the Lunar Base as a starting point, and later construct bases on other planets as well." frёewebηovel.cѳm
"We’ve had internal discussions about this issue. Deciding which planet will host our second base still requires us to gather more information and make judgments."
"The selection of the second base’s location mainly depends on its value. Everyone talks about value, like how people care about their salary when they have a job, or how companies care about profits when making products."
"Space exploration is the same. We must consider the value when planning to build a second base."
"Value isn’t profit; it’s a comprehensive consideration of difficulty, prospects, work volume, and other factors."
After sharing his vision for constructing the second base, Zhao Yi returned to the topic of the Lunar Base, "Tomorrow, I’ll be going to the Lunar Base and, to be honest, I’m somewhat excited. I’m not worried about safety, I trust our current technology, our small and medium-sized spacecraft manufacturing is quite mature, and moreover, safety is the greatest priority at the Lunar Base."
"I’ve only experienced the tourist ship once, so I’m really looking forward to visiting the Lunar Base. The decision to establish the Lunar Base was mine, but the construction was completed by others."
"Now that I have the opportunity to go, I’m very eager to experience it firsthand. We have many photos and videos, but seeing it and experiencing it for yourself is different."
Finally, Zhao Yi touched on the grand goal of space exploration, "Space exploration is purposeful; its greatest aim is to find habitable planets for humanity to relocate to."
"Earth’s resources are finite, and developing within finite resources always has a ceiling."
"In contrast, the universe’s resources are infinite. If we could exploit an environment with infinite resources, then mankind’s technology and standard of living would definitely ascend to a new level."
"That is the ultimate goal."
"Meanwhile, as I mentioned before, while we search for Earth-like planets, we’ll also look for resources that can aid human development. Developing cosmic resources could compensate for the deficiencies of Earth’s resources."
"For example, rare elements."
"The research on rare elements is a significant subject. In fact, the most considerable constraint is not technical difficulty but the scarcity of resources, which necessitates substantial research investment."
"If every type of rare element were as common as iron, research would be much easier. We wouldn’t grieve over the loss of iron ore in experiments, allowing us to freely explore a variety of alloys."
"If we could find a planet rich in rare elemental minerals, we could mine them extensively, providing the needed resources and conducting broad and in-depth research—"
The content of Zhao Yi’s interview, like the opening remarks of the Lunar Base patrol work, drew even more people’s attention to the live broadcast the following day.
At eight o’clock in the morning, the television station began its live broadcast, and the screen swiftly switched from the studio to the Aerospace Bureau’s launch center, where the camera was solidly fixed on the eye-catching Xuanhuang.
The Xuanhuang was several times larger than a typical anti-gravity propulsor. It was over three times taller and looked quite impressive.
The TV host also explained, "What we see before us is the newly manufactured Xuanhuang spacecraft, a mid-sized ship. The Yixing Company’s transport ships are already big, but compared to the Xuanhuang, they fall short by quite a bit."
"Like other spacefaring vessels, the Xuanhuang uses a nuclear fusion energy device. We can see in the middle of the ship a larger circular device; that is the nuclear fusion device. The large circular disc at the bottom is the anti-gravity device."
"In the interview this morning, we learned that the Xuanhuang also houses the latest gravity creation device, enabling the Xuanhuang, while in space, to activate gravity at the bottom, allowing people to stand on the ship’s deck."
"The gravity creation device is a piece of cutting-edge high technology, mainly developed under the guidance of Academician Zhao Yi. We can imagine, once this technology matures, future spacecraft will be like those in TV and movies, where the ship moves through space and people can stand on board as if they were on solid ground."
The host gave a brief introduction to the ’gravity creation device,’ which, with just a few words, sparked the imagination of the general public, and set off an explosion of interest in the international physics community.
"Gravity creation technology?"
"You must be joking, right? How can such technology exist? How can gravity be created?"
"It certainly has nothing to do with anti-gravity technology! What’s the principle behind it? Could it be a new kind of physics?"
The basic principle of anti-gravity, which has been disclosed to the world, is the creation of a cut-off plane to isolate gravity, thus achieving the purpose of isolating Earth’s gravity.
At first glance, creating gravity seems the exact opposite of anti-gravity. But in reality, it’s not so. Anti-gravity isolates a planet’s gravity, and without the planet’s gravitational pull, anti-gravity would be meaningless.
Creating gravity, on the other hand, is different. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
According to Einstein’s theory, large mass bodies cause spacetime to curve, resulting in gravity.
In other words, domestically, they might be able to actively create spacetime curvature with some technological means?
That’s terrifying!
