"Is this Star Ring City?"
The universe is cold, but standing here, Zhang Feng, wearing short sleeves, only feels the slightest chill similar to that in an air-conditioned room. With his feet on the solid metal floor, he was surprised to feel a gravity similar to that on the earth.
This should be the gravity section of Halo City, the "counterweight" part of Halo City.
Standing around him, except for the African-American man named William who was fiddling with his mobile phone, everyone came to the transparent floor-to-ceiling windows, overlooking the honor of Mother Earth.
"A five-hour journey turned into a century." Rudolph Clark stretched out his hand to gently caress the reflection of the earth on the floor-to-ceiling windows, and opened the wooden box he had been holding in his chest. Inside is a photo. The old man in the photo is his grandfather.
The old man who had predicted this day with his imagination.
Although everything is almost twenty years late...
"Can I throw it into space?" Rudolf found the tour guide waiting for them at the exit of the space elevator and asked seriously, "This is my grandfather's last wish."
The young tour guide shook his head and rejected Mr. Rudolf's request.
"Can't."
Any space junk that breaks away from the space station will become a potential safety hazard, and it will even cost tens of billions to recycle it in the future.
"It's just a photo."
Rudolf tried to persuade the tour guide, but the tour guide still shook his head and rejected his request.
"The photo of flying at 31 kilometers per second is no different from a blade."
And it's the kind of blade that can cut through steel.
Although it is a pity, Rudolph is not an unreasonable person. The tour guide nodded to him, thanked him for his understanding, then walked in front of everyone, clapped his hands, and motioned everyone to look this way.
"Welcome, friends, to Star Ring City Space Station. My name is Lu Fengming, and I will serve as your tour guide. If you encounter any problems during your visit to Star Ring City, please be sure to consult me and I will do my best to help you. provide help."
"No need to say more. I wish you all a pleasant journey."
The tour guide's concise and concise opening remarks immediately won Zhang Feng's favor. He is a person who doesn't talk much, and naturally he doesn't like people who talk a lot.
The group of people followed Lu Fengming and walked into the space station under the leadership of the tour guide.
"Looking from the side, the entire space elevator looks like a 'letter y' inserted into the earth, with the outward opening grabbing a ring. And where we are now is at the center of the ring. The interior, the so-called gravity section.”
"We can feel gravity, but in fact it is not gravity, but pseudo-gravity produced by centrifugal force. Yes, we, the floor under our feet, and the space we are in are all orbiting the axis of the space elevator , rotating at speeds of several kilometers per second.”
"Thanks to this outwardly opening and constantly rotating ring, the center of gravity of the entire space elevator is able to stay in the synchronous orbit, and we can feel the gravity close to the surface. We are now standing in this ring, with our heads facing The center of the circle.”
Having said this, Lu Fengming paused, tilted his head and thought for a moment before continuing.
"It's very troublesome to explain in detail. You can think of us as a group of hamsters running on an endless running wheel." Lu Fengming explained humorously, amusing many tourists.
They all carry future mobile phones with built-in voice translators, and there is no communication barrier after wearing headphones. After boarding the space station, many people still wonder why they don't float. Now after listening to the tour guide's explanation, although I can't explain the specific technical connotation, I can understand the general idea.
After listening to Lu Fengming's words, Academician Liu Zhusheng looked thoughtfully at the sky and then at the ground. His expression was suddenly enlightened, excited, and sighed, as if he was lost.
"It is indeed worthy of the name of a miracle... Is this really a project that humans can complete? If we want to accelerate the entire star ring, the angular momentum at the center of the rotation axis must reach such a terrifying magnitude... What kind of metal can withstand this? A level of mechanical power? Titanium alloy? Impossible... Even titanium alloy can't do it!"
Graphene? That's even more impossible.
Graphene is strong enough, but the commonality of carbon-based materials lies here. The wear resistance is generally very poor, and it is impossible to make gears or spindles.
Compared to Liu Zhusheng's shock, Dimitri from ESA was completely numb. Unlike Liu Zhusheng, who specializes in the field of rockets, he is also quite accomplished in space station research and has even participated in the design of the International Space Station. Compared to Liu Zhusheng, he felt more deeply the terrifying power contained in this giant space station.
If we put the International Space Station and the Star Ring City together, the International Space Station, which gathers the technological strength of many countries, is more like a small boat in front of the port.
The group continued forward, walking down the corridor.
Here, the earth is not under their feet, but always frozen outside the glass windows beside them, like vivid window decorations.
"This is the corridor of Star Ring City. We have rooms for living next to it. Directly below us is the MRT channel that facilitates our rapid movement in this ring city. You can understand it as Star Ring The city’s subway, because it is literally at our feet.”
The space in Star Ring City is very wide, making it impossible for people to have the illusion that they are walking on a pipeline. After walking for about one kilometer, everyone came to a movable door. With the sound of air pressure adjustment, the movable door slowly opened, and behind it was an elevator.
Everyone stood on the elevator and the trap door slowly closed.
As the floor jumped from one to three, they were like moles emerging from the earth, and the scenery in their eyes suddenly became clear.
Stepping through the porch, Zhang Feng looked up.
Through the transparent dome, he saw the space elevator with the bright starry sky as the background, as well as the overall view of the Ring City.
Looking down and looking forward, the shock in his pupils became more intense.
It was a wheat field.
The golden wheat waves are like a sea, bathed in cool-toned ultraviolet lights, and slowly rise and fall with the circulating air flow. At the end of the wheat field is a green patch of green where other varieties of vegetables are grown.
He didn't know how to describe the word endless, because he really couldn't see the end of the field, he could only see the green and black where the sky and the earth met.
"People can live in a pipe, but they cannot endure in a small space forever. Eighty percent of the living space in Star Ring City is designed in the corridor we just passed. And every ten kilometers or so, we will design a The embedded space station covers an area of about 2,000 acres. They are like pieces of paper stuck on the ring. We can farm on it, plant flowers and grass, engage in real estate, and engage in light and heavy industry... Everything we can do on earth Everything achieved.”
"Just by looking at it, you might think that its technological content is very high? No, no, no, in fact, their technological content is far inferior to that of the corridor you passed through before, not even one-tenth of it."
"If necessary, we can continue to expand its space. If resources are not considered, we can even embed this kind of externally embedded space station on the entire ring, which has nothing but area."
Having said this, Lu Fengming paused again and then added.
"Of course, when I say useless here, I mean before it was developed."
When the tour guide said this, Liu Zhusheng, who was listening attentively like a primary school student, suddenly twitched a few times at the corners of his eyes.
This damn thing is really just a space station
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