Chapter 20 Crisis

All evil comes from greed for life. Who doesn't want to have a better physique, a smarter brain, and a longer life span? In particular, the emergence of Yu Yifeng's successful example has aroused everyone's greed...

However, the amount of perfect element is limited after all, and it can only be used by less than one thousandth of the world's people. Once the secret is made public, it will inevitably cause unrest in the entire society. Even more seriously, World War III is not impossible!

Therefore, it is not entirely wrong for the United Government to strictly keep the secret of perfect element. Governments of various countries have secretly fought a lot around perfect element. Many inexplicable geopolitical conflicts have a good explanation from now on, that is, the distribution of perfect element.

In the end, the five most powerful countries reached a consensus, "put aside disputes and develop together!" So people set up a joint government, sealed most of the perfect element in the lunar base, guarded it with nuclear bombs, and any experiment required the approval of the joint government.

No one thought that the earth would explode like this... All conspiracies and tricks disappeared with the destruction of the earth. It seems meaningless to pursue the faults of the previous government, because most of the responsible people are dead, and the few who are still alive are only accomplices, just following orders...

A trial that started well but ended badly ended so hastily, and Calvin's verdict was not even handed down. The court chose to adjourn and "send the verdict another day."

People all chose to forget about this kind of morale-damaging thing intermittently, and everything should be left for later...

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The work in the base is still proceeding in an orderly manner. An approval is just a small matter for the entire base.

Thomson, male, 33 years old, a former Swiss physicist, has published more than 60 articles in SCI, 7 of which were included in the most authoritative "Nature" magazine.

At the same time, he is also a famous astronomer and has his own laboratory at the lunar base. Thomson's usual job is to monitor the entire starry sky.

After the explosion of the earth, a large number of rock fragments were released. When these rock fragments approached the moon, they might be captured by the moon's gravity and turned into meteorites to attack the moon.

In astronomy, the point where the gravity of two planets balances is called a Lagrange point. On the Lagrange boundary, the gravity between the moon and the earth just cancels out, and meteorites can maintain a state of balance. Meteorites that exceed this limit may hit the moon and bring disaster to mankind.

On the first day of the Earth's explosion, there were even more than 3,000 meteorites from the Earth that hit the moon! These meteorites were not big in size, and for humans far away at the South Pole of the Moon, they could only feel some small earthquakes, which was nothing.

But for astronomers, it was a terrifying and desperate day. They monitored the sky all the time. When a meteorite hit them, it was like hitting them, and their hearts beat, fearing that they would suddenly suffer a catastrophe.

Asteroid impacts are a huge threat to life! 65 million years ago, a meteorite with a diameter of ten kilometers hit the earth, producing overwhelming dust, melting polar snow, destroying plants, and filling the sky with volcanic ash. All this led to the extinction of dinosaurs. Thanks to this, mammals can rise.

If a meteorite of the same magnitude falls on the moon, the entire crust will experience an earthquake of magnitude 13 or above! If this meteorite lands on Bailey Crater, then there is no doubt that the energy released by the simultaneous explosion of 100 trillion tons of TNT explosives can wipe out the entire Antarctic.

There are eight such threats in total, and the largest one is even more than 20 kilometers in diameter... Now Thomson can only pray to God for these giant meteorites not to hit the moon.

The nuclear weapons in the base pose no threat to these meteorites, they can only slightly change their direction... This feeling of powerlessness in praying to God is very uncomfortable for scientists. But there is no way except praying.

However, as time goes by, Thomson's heart is also relieved a little bit. The possibility of such a disaster has become smaller and smaller, because the earth is covered with a thick atmosphere, and the meteorites will continue to rub against the atmosphere during their movement, and their kinetic energy will continue to decrease.

When the kinetic energy of these asteroids decreases, they will be attracted back by the earth's own gravity, so the moon will become safer and safer.

The base is located at the south pole of the moon, which is a good location. Few asteroids can pass through many obstacles to come here, so humans have enjoyed a period of peaceful development.

"Teacher, this is the latest satellite image." His student Thomas sent an email.

"Okay, I got it." Thomson clicked it and saw that it was a satellite image of the earth.

From the image, the original blue planet no longer exists. Instead, it is replaced by a gray nebula-like envelope composed of sand, atmosphere and water vapor. The structure inside is completely unclear.

These nebula materials are constantly moving and colliding, and turbulent vortices will appear in the future, causing rotation. However, this process is extremely slow. Perhaps tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years later, under the action of gravity, a new earth can be formed here.

Perhaps, new life will be born again.

"Perhaps, only some microorganisms can survive... From the spectrum analysis, the temperature in the innermost part is about 2000 degrees Celsius, and all animals and plants are extinct." Thomson sighed.

The original super-large mushroom cloud also dissipated. Two weeks later, this mushroom cloud gradually spread behind the earth, and spread to a distance of 500,000 to 600,000 kilometers. Under the sunlight, it formed a magnificent white light curtain.

In fact, this light curtain is very thin, not even one hundred thousandth of the original earth's atmosphere, but it is huge in size. Under the sunlight, it will have different colors, magnificent and gorgeous.

Now, the moon is about to enter this light curtain as it revolves around the earth.

Thomson had a bad premonition for no reason. This premonition came mysteriously, and he couldn't grasp what it was. Thomson pondered for a long time, but he didn't understand where this uneasy feeling came from.

"Maybe the work pressure is too great."

He comforted himself that this light curtain was actually composed of sand, gravel, atmosphere and water vapor. It had no special ingredients and could not cause harm to humans. Humans can't even sense it because it's too thin.

He casually clicked on the video of the super explosion and watched it again. The super explosion that destroyed the human mother planet was the nightmare of the entire human race. Many scientists have studied it and wanted to figure out why it happened.

The same is true for Thomson. What kind of weapon can cause such an effect? ​​Antimatter bomb? Neutron star? Black hole? Or something else?

In two weeks, he watched the video countless times and calculated countless times, and finally came to a strange conclusion: it is a kinetic weapon!

A flying vehicle with a mass of 100 tons and close to the speed of light can cause such an explosion effect! It's incredible. He repeated the calculations and simulations on the supercomputer many times, and came to the same conclusion.

Could it be that an alien spacecraft accidentally fell to the earth?

This calculation result has been reported to the Academy of Sciences and put together with many other results. There is no conclusion yet.

If it is really a light-speed aircraft, what kind of technology would it be...

The speed of light, those who understand its meaning, know that it is a desperate and desirable speed. Only at this speed can humans break out of the solar system and find a new "Earth" within a limited life.

And the fastest spacecraft of mankind is only 20 kilometers per second, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the speed of light of 300,000 kilometers per second.

With the current technological progress of mankind, when can we approach the speed of light? So far, mankind is still struggling for food crisis... The gap is too big!

The more you understand, the more you know your insignificance, and a heavy sense of despair appears in Thomson's heart. The ocean of truth, its vastness, may be far beyond human imagination.

"Alas," Thomson shook his head and got rid of some bad emotions. Although he was only 33 years old, he felt that he was old.

"Teacher, look, I collected ice!" His student Thomas shouted outside the laboratory. He designed a simple water storage device with plastic film a few days ago. When water molecules encounter the film, they will condense and turn into ice.

You know, there is no atmosphere on the moon's surface, it's almost a vacuum. Under normal circumstances, this kind of experiment would basically not succeed.

Thomas said happily: "Our moon has begun to pass through that light curtain, and there is also a thin atmosphere near the ground. Although it is not enough to provide breathing, we can get water from it!"

"It's good to be young!" Thomson thought so. His genius student Thomas was only 16 years old, but he was already at the doctoral level, but sometimes he would also show a childish side. After all, he was still a child who had not grown up.

Suddenly, Thomson seemed to think of something, and his heart suddenly skipped a beat. He finally caught that feeling of uneasiness!