Chapter 129: Planetary Defense System Established
At this moment, everyone was silent.
When they still maintain a lucky mentality and feel that the information they detect is inaccurate.
Chen Yuan broke their last hope without any concealment, "I am not kidding you. The spectrum map taken by Xuntian and the calculations of commerce are telling us that this comet is about to crash into the earth."
“c/2024 un281 is its name, and I believe that Nasa will also observe its existence from the Hubble telescope in the near future.”
"Will they find that this comet is about to crash into the earth?" Yuan Donghai suddenly asked.
Chen Yuan shook his head, "It shouldn't be. If they didn't pass the orbit of a supercomputer to simulate the comet, they might think that this comet would be successfully captured by Jupiter. After all, for us on Earth, Jupiter's vacuum cleaner has saved at least twenty star-destroying destruction on Earth."
"So now the only thing we know is China?" Yuan Donghai gradually realized.
As others thought, a question arises at the same time.
"What should we do next? Are we going to die like that?"
"Or should this news be announced to the public?"
"This is not suitable," Yuan Donghai looked at the other party. "We have at least one year left. If we release this news now, it may cause panic and even cause chaos in order."
They all understand that not only should we consider how to defend the comet, but we should also draw half of our energy to appease the people.
He looked at Chen Yuan again, "Since Old Chen summoned us, it means there is a solution."
However, Chen Yuan shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I have no clue at the moment."
Now, the atmosphere became colder again.
Even Old Chen has no choice. Do they really have hope?
"The question we need to consider now is, is it possible for us to prevent this from happening in trouble?" Wang Shenlan spoke first. He didn't want everyone to be so pessimistic. At least what humans have to do at the moment is to win hope for themselves.
But is it possible for humans to survive?
"To prevent the arrival of meteorites means that we must respond quickly before it enters the atmosphere."
Long Weiguo suddenly said:
"But it is not easy to do this. Generally speaking, the bigger the meteorite, the more you need to know when it will hit the earth as soon as possible. If it is the asteroid that exterminated the dinosaur 65 million years ago, if you want to deal with it, humans need to know at least 5 years in advance that it will hit the earth.
Let’s take a step back and say that now the year is enough for us, so can humans destroy it?”
Everyone looked at each other.
"A comet with a diameter of more than 200 kilometers will not be able to destroy it even if humans move out nuclear weapons." Chen Yuan shook his head and said.
"The only way is to deviate the asteroid from orbit through explosions, but the problem is that such opportunities are usually only once. Once any meteorite of any size enters the Earth's atmosphere, humans will only have zero chance of launching satellites and launching nuclear bombs to attack it," said Yuan Donghai.
In fact, most of the people who came to the conference room were related experts.
They know very well.
"If the meteorite fragments hitting the earth are less than 10 meters in diameter, this is not particularly bad. In fact, we don't have to worry about the actual damage it will cause to humans, because it is unlikely that it will walk out of the earth's atmosphere intact. Meteorites less than 10 meters in diameter will basically be rubbed out before landing."
"But if the diameter of that foreign object is about 20-100 meters, it has the ability to destroy a city on Earth."
"The famous Tungus Big Bang was caused by the impact of the asteroid of this size on Earth."
"If it reaches 2-3 kilometers in diameter, what happens next may make you feel desperate. At the moment of impact, people will find that the sky above the earth gradually becomes darker. After that, what awaits humans is a 10-year-long and nuclear winter-like environment. It can be imagined that this will cause 90% of the species on the earth to become extinct."
"Then let's sit and wait for death?"
"We might be able to get a large object close to the meteorite and then use mass gravity to pull the meteorite away." The think tanks gave suggestions.
But this seems unrealistic to Chen Yuan. "You must know that the mass of that comet is 500 trillion tons!"
Yes, five million tons, where do they go to find objects larger than this?
"Then...if the meteorite is not flipping, you can spray a paint with strong refractive power on the meteorite and let the sun's energy push it away." Someone gave another suggestion.
This time Yuan Donghai rejected it, and he actually understood it better, "Before considering all plans, we must not forget that the mass of this comet is very high."
"What if we use force to blow the meteorite into small pieces, and then these debris are still burned by the atmosphere?"
"This proposal is not much different from the previous one. Don't forget that so far we have no weapons to guarantee the elimination of this comet at one time. Any fragment of its fall to the earth because its mass is large enough, it will cause a disaster!"
Wang Shenlan cannot understand the brain circuits of these think tanks. Could it be that they are all bullshit?
In fact, Wang Shenlan may have wronged them. After all, this is the first time that a comet hits the earth.
At least this is the first time that humans have considered how to defend it.
"I seem to have some clues." Chen Yuan suddenly said as everyone was thinking.
"Tell me quickly!" Wang Shenlan said hurriedly.
Everyone looked at it
Chen Yuan nodded and came to the black box. As soon as his hand touched the three-dimensional image, he immediately stretched and jumped into his hand.
"The reason we think that blowing up a comet is not advisable because we are worried that it will not be eliminated at once, and fear that some of the debris will fall on Earth, but why don't we detonate it on Jupiter?"
As Chen Yuan's left hand operated on the three-dimensional image, the comet started to calculate again.
When it was captured by Jupiter again, the explosives set on Jupiter directly bombarded it into smaller pieces.
Under the traction caused by Jupiter, all of the fragments were captured by Jupiter.
Chen Yuan pressed the pause.
"Although this comet still escapes from Jupiter's orbit, its mass overall is significantly smaller."
Obviously, this is a key step, using Jupiter’s gravity to control small fragments to prevent them from falling to Earth.
But it is impossible to completely avoid this comet.
"What's next?" boss spoke slowly, although his expression was still calm, his breathing became obviously rapid.
"Develop a weapon to break it!"
"Use any possible weapon to destroy all this comet before it enters the atmosphere."
"Starting a nuclear bomb from the ground into outer space? That might not be realistic, and we cannot guarantee that it will hit it 100%." Someone questioned.
"Who said that you must attack from the ground?" Chen Yuan waved his left hand again, and several Xuannv Aerospace Cases appeared in the outer space party in a matrix.
The scene is extremely spectacular.
For the first time, they discovered what a great move it was to develop the Nantianmen Plan.
"But you said that even nuclear weapons may not necessarily destroy them. And it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no dangers when they bring nuclear weapons to space." Yuan Donghai suddenly said. He was not arguing, but in fact he also hoped that this plan would be successful, although there are still many difficulties to overcome and consider later.
But at least it would be great to have a goal.
"You're right," Chen Yuan nodded affirmatively, "so we can't use ordinary thermal cores, but cold cores, nuclear fusion reactions at relatively low temperatures."
"This is perfect for space environments close to absolute zero, and it is more powerful than the thermonuclear!"
Chen Yuan said it firmly, but their hearts suddenly became cold.
The previous theories are all very good, but who knew that Chen Yuan actually brought out a cold nuclear fusion at this time.
What a joke? Not to mention China now, even the world has not mastered thermal nuclear fusion. What else can we talk about cold nuclear that we don’t understand more about?
However, the boss asked, "Are you sure?"
In their eyes, Chen Yuan felt a sense of confidence from somewhere and said, "Yes, but I need a lot of authority to ensure that the relevant research can be carried out smoothly."
One minute,
Three minutes,
Until ten minutes passed.
The boss finally spoke and said with absolute majesty!
"I announce that from now on, China will officially establish a planetary defense system, with Chen Yuan as the leader of the special operations team, and enjoy all power to mobilize before the comet crisis is lifted!"
"Comrades, protect all mankind on earth, and if successful, it will be remembered in history!"
At this moment, everyone seemed to be called by a mission, and these three words of comrades made them feel the long-lost enthusiasm.
"Protect all mankind on earth, and if successful, it will be famous in history!"
"Protect all mankind on earth, and if successful, it will be famous in history!"
Chapter completed!