218 Metal Refining Furnace

Although the two major powers are moving as quickly as possible, at the expense of the lifespan of the satellites orbiting the moon, they allow the satellites to pass by places of concern.

It’s about aliens. No matter where the aliens come from, it’s a huge crisis for Blue Star.

According to human observation, the nearest Proxima Centauri galaxy near the blue star is also 4.2 light-years away, and there are almost no signs of advanced intelligent life activities there.

However, there are hundreds of billions of stars in the entire Milky Way. Even if the stars are densely packed and various harmful rays frequently erupt, it is almost impossible for intelligent life to be born in the galactic center. There are also four major spiral arms around it, including the Orion spiral arm where the blue star is located. , there are at least tens of billions of stars above, which greatly increases the chance of life being born.

Not to mention there are countless extra-solar river systems. The universe is really too big. Even if the probability is one in a billion, then the probability of the birth of advanced intelligent life is equal to 100%. There will be many civilizations reaching the cosmic level. Yes, it is naturally not an accident.

Such a cosmic-level civilization can easily reach the solar system across a light-year journey. Such technological capabilities will crush Blue Star from any aspect.

Anyway, it will never happen. The scene in a certain Laiwu movie, the spaceship capable of interstellar navigation will be killed by Hollywood heroes. This is not the Avengers, just an ordinary Blue Star.

In fact, the Blue Star people have always had a very complicated mentality towards aliens. On the one hand, they actively seek contact. The Voyager spacecraft launched by the United States in the last century, which carried precious information about human civilization, is an example. It persists to this day. Constantly monitoring the information transmitted from the universe, we are also looking for traces of aliens.

On the other hand, skepticism based on the dark forest theory has also become popular in recent years.

This is why even if the matter cannot be confirmed, it has caused a huge stir around the world.

But unfortunately, it was the dark night of the moon, and the entire area was in darkness, making it difficult for optical instruments to distinguish.

Of course, as a scientific investigation satellite, the equipment on it naturally includes more than just optical photography, infrared remote sensing, spectral analysis, etc. A large amount of data is transmitted to Blue Star's supercomputer through the bridge between the earth and the moon.

However, the means of rune technology are still beyond what Blue Star can imagine at present. They have come to the conclusion that there is no change at all here.

Perhaps at a certain stage, the technological route taken by Blue Star will reach the same goal as the runes from the ancient times, but so far, before humans evolved, the runes were always much higher.

No discovery was made, which obviously made Blue Star feel relieved. After all, no one wanted to see someone who was uncontrollable and whose level of civilization was far better than Blue Star's.

Specifically, it's as if China was still in a feudal society and an imperial era, and it treated those foreign devils who used cannons to force open the country's gates.

This place is on the front side of the moon, right under the line of sight. Even in the dark night of the moon, there are various ways to directly observe it. Therefore, this kind of satellite observation can be sure that there is no problem there. It should be often used in astronomical observations. You will encounter the influence of the moon itself on light.

Regardless of whether this explanation makes sense or not, it has truly silenced most of the skeptical voices on the Internet on Blue Star.

Although some unreliable things often happen to the governments of various countries on Blue Star, in general, their reputation has always been good. Everyone still believes most of their explanations. Of course, most of this is mainly Mainly Chinese.

Foreigners have always been less interested in the government, so there are more noisy voices on the Internet. Anyway, thanks to the efforts of the whole world, the United States has seen a resurgence of zero-dollar shopping due to the wild rumors that aliens are preparing to rule Blue Star. The activity finally calmed down for the time being.

And in this darkness, the expansion of the base did not stop.

A land of 10,000 square kilometers is actually large enough. Super cities such as Beijing and Magic City are not that large, especially since there are no buildings here that can be described at will.

The first thing built in the base was a metal refining furnace.

In fact, it can no longer be said to be a metal refining furnace. It should be said to be a gasification and refining furnace of elemental elements.

Its principle is very simple. It is a vacuum stove, with the minerals to be refined placed in the middle, and then the temperature is raised and kept rising until the minerals inside decompose, release gases such as oxygen, and turn into various simple substances.

Then, just like fractionated petroleum, extremely pure elemental elements are collected according to the different boiling points of each substance.

In the lunar environment, under vacuum conditions, processed minerals can even collect elemental elements with a purity of sixteen nines or more.

Because under the current conditions, it is basically impossible to obtain completely pure elemental elements, this mixture of sixteen nines or more can be basically recognized as a pure substance.

This elemental element gasification and refining furnace is mainly focused on refining metallic elements. After all, metal plasticity, strength, and weather resistance are much stronger than non-metallic elements. Future lunar buildings will mainly be based on steel structures. , here, we cannot build concrete buildings. The vacuum environment is the enemy of concrete.

Although pure steel or other metallic elements are not suitable as building materials, accurately proportioned alloys can maximize the expected performance of the material.

Especially after pure iron is alloyed with a certain percentage of titanium, its characteristic of becoming as fragile as glass at extremely low temperatures disappears. This new material basically combines the properties of iron and titanium. It is cheap and has good strength. It is the first choice for erecting buildings on the moon.

Although titanium deposits have been discovered within the scope of the base, as a rare metal, its reserves are far from that high. Most of them are still poor ores, and the reserves of iron, whether it is Blue Star or the moon, or even in the future There are too many asteroids.

Moreover, Yang Qing also needs to set aside enough titanium to build more spaceships. As a metal, its properties are more suitable for aircraft than steel.

With the completion of the metal refining furnace, the base finally had the first batch of metals from the moon.

This also allowed the base's long-stagnant robot production to be restarted and officially included in the plan to develop the moon.

To develop a satellite with an area close to that of a continent, the manpower and material resources required are almost impossible to calculate.