Chapter 20 Crisis

All evils come from the greed for life. Who doesn't want to have a better physique, a smarter brain, and a higher life expectancy? Especially the emergence of Oliver, a successful example, has stimulated the greed of all ...

However, the amount of perfection is after all limited, only less than one thousand people in the world can use, once the secret is open, will certainly cause the entire society unrest, more serious, the third world war is not impossible!

So, there is some truth to the fact that the United Government is keeping the secret of Perfectin, and it is not entirely wrong. Governments had a lot of secret rivalry around perfectin, and many inexplicable geopolitical conflicts, from now on, have a good explanation, that is, the distribution of perfectin.

At the end of the day, the five most powerful countries reached a consensus, "Set aside the dispute and develop together!" Thus, a coalition government was formed, and most of the perfectin was sealed in a lunar base, guarded by nuclear bombs, and any experiments required the approval of the coalition government.

No one could have imagined that the Earth just exploded ... all the intrigue and trickery went up in smoke with the destruction of the Earth. There seems little point in pursuing the former government's faults any further, as most of those responsible are already dead, and the few who are alive are only accessories, just following orders ...

A tiger's head and a snake's tail trial ended hastily, Calvin's verdict did not even come down, the court chose to adjourn and "choose another day to judge".

This kind of demoralizing thing, people are coincidentally choose to intermittently forget, all the everything, or put in the future to say it ...

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The work at the base is still going on in an orderly manner. One approval is a small thing for the whole base.

Thomson, male, 33 years old, former Swiss physicist, had published more than 60 articles in sci, seven of which were included in the most authoritative journal "Nature".

At the same time, he is also a famous astronomer, in the moon base has a laboratory of its own. Thomson's usual job is to monitor the entire starry sky.

After the explosion of the Earth, a large number of rock fragments were disintegrated, which, when close to the Moon, could be captured by the Moon's gravity, thus turning into meteorites and attacking the Moon.

In astronomy, the point of equilibrium between the gravitational forces of two planets is called the Lagrangian point. At the Lagrangian boundary, the gravitational forces between the Moon and Earth exactly cancel out and the meteorite can remain in equilibrium. Meteorites that exceed this boundary are likely to 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 Earth hitting the Moon! These meteorites are not big, for humans in the south pole of the moon, can only feel some small earthquake, it is not much.

But for astronomers, it was a day of terror and despair, they are constantly monitoring the sky, meteorite impact, as if hitting their body, the tip of the heart jumped a little, afraid that suddenly will suffer the end of the disaster.

65 million years ago, a meteorite with a diameter of ten kilometers hit the Earth, producing a blanket of dust, polar snow melting, plant destruction, volcanic ash also filled the sky, all this led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, thanks to this, mammals can rise.

If a meteorite of the same magnitude had fallen on the moon, the entire earth's crust would have experienced an earthquake of over thirteen magnitude! If this meteorite landed in the Bailey crater, then there is no doubt that the equivalent of 100 trillion tons of tnt explosives simultaneously exploded to release the energy that can wipe out the entire Antarctic.

There are a total of eight such threats, the largest one is even more than twenty kilometers in diameter ... Now Thomson can only pray to God that these giant meteorites do not hit the moon.

The nuclear weapons in the base have no threat to these meteorites, and can only slightly change their direction. ... This feeling of powerlessness to pray to God is very hard for scientists to bear. But there is nothing to do but pray.

However, as the time passed, Thomson's heart also a little relaxed. The possibility of such a disaster has become increasingly unlikely, because the Earth is covered with a thick atmosphere, meteorites in the process of movement, will continue to rub with the atmosphere, kinetic energy is constantly reduced.

When the kinetic energy of these asteroids is reduced, they will again be attracted back by the Earth's own gravity, and then the Moon will become safer and safer.

The base is located at the south pole of the moon, the location is quite good, few asteroids can cross the heavy obstacles to come here, so the human race enjoys a period of peaceful development.

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

"Okay, received." Thomson clicked on it and saw that it was a satellite image of the Earth.

From the image, the original blue planet has long ceased to exist, replaced by a gray, nebulous envelope of sand and gravel, atmosphere and water vapor, completely unable to see the structure inside.

These nebulosity constantly movement, collision, in the future will appear turbulence, thus triggering the rotation. But this process is extremely slow, perhaps tens of millions, hundreds of millions of years later, under the action of gravity, a new Earth can be formed here.

Perhaps, a new life will be born again.

"Perhaps, only some microorganisms can survive ... from the spectral analysis, the innermost temperature is around 2000 degrees Celsius, and all the plants and animals are extinct." Thomson sighed.

The original mega mushroom cloud also dissipated, two weeks passed, this mushroom cloud gradually spread out behind the Earth, has spread to the far side of the five or six hundred thousand kilometers, under the sunlight, the formation of a magnificent white curtain of light.

In fact, this curtain of light is very thin, not even a hundred thousandth of the original Earth's atmosphere, but the victory is huge, in the sun's light, there will be different colors, magnificent and gorgeous.

Now, the moon, with the revolution around the earth, is about to enter this curtain of light.

Thomson had no reason to have a bad feeling. This sense of foreboding to the mysterious and mysterious, and can not grasp what in the end, Thomson thought hard for half a day, but also do not understand where this feeling of unease.

"Maybe it's too much work pressure."

He reassured himself that this light curtain, which is actually composed of gravel, atmosphere, and water vapor, has no special composition and could not possibly harm humans. Humans don't even have the means to perceive it because it's just too thin.

He casually clicked on the video of that super explosion and watched it again and again. The super explosion that destroyed the human home planet was a nightmare for the entire human race, and many scientists had studied it, trying to figure out why it happened.

So did Thomson. What kind of weapon could have caused such an effect? An antimatter bomb? A neutron star? A black hole? Or something else?

He went through the video countless times in two weeks, and countless calculations, and finally came to a strange conclusion: a kinetic energy weapon!

A vehicle with a mass of one hundred tons and close to the speed of light could cause such an explosive effect! It was unbelievable, he repeated the calculation on the supercomputer many times, also simulated many times, all came to the exact same conclusion.

Could it be that an alien craft had accidentally crashed to Earth?

The result of this calculation has been reported to the Academy of Sciences, with many other results put together, for the time being inconclusive.

If it is really a speed of light vehicle, then what kind of technology ...

The speed of light, ah, people who understand its meaning, all know that it is a desperate and aspiring speed. Only with such a speed can mankind break out of the solar system and find a new "Earth" within a limited life.

The fastest human spacecraft is now only 20 kilometers per second, and the speed of light compared to 300,000 kilometers per second, it is a drop in the bucket.

With mankind's current technological progress, when will it approach the speed of light? Humans so far, even still struggling with the food crisis ... gap is too big!

The more you understand, the more you know your own insignificance, a heavy sense of despair appeared in Thomson's heart. The ocean of truth, its vastness, perhaps remote from human imagination.

"Alas", Thomson shook his head, getting rid of some bad emotions, although only 33 years old, he felt old.

"Mentor, look, I've collected ice!" His student Thomas shouted from outside the lab. He had designed a simple water storage device out of plastic film the other day, and when the water molecules encountered the film, they would condense down and turn into ice.

You know, there is no atmosphere on the surface of the moon, it is almost a vacuum ah, in normal times, this kind of experiment basically will not succeed.

Thomas said happily: "Our moon is starting to cross that light curtain, and there is a thin atmosphere near the surface, which is not at all enough to provide breathing, but we can get moisture from it!"

"It's good to be young!" Thomson thought, his genius student Thomas is only 16 years old, but is already a doctoral level, but sometimes, also will surface the childish side, after all, still not grown up children ah.

Suddenly, Thomson seemed to think of something, his heart suddenly thumped, he finally caught that feeling of unease!