Chapter 24 - Rapture

The entire meeting was attended by more than three thousand people in total, all of whom were the most elite in existence. oliver sat at the front of the hall, and with him sat two dozen scientists, who were the main leaders of the various experiments.

The crowd was whispering and discussing below. There were many people who were attending for the first time and did not know the facts yet. At first, they suddenly turned pale after hearing the bad news, and then they heard that there was still some hope before they got a little better.

Oliver observed carefully, several familiar faces from the morning were gone, these people were caught for secretly spreading rumors and all went to jail.

Faced with this phenomenon, he was a bit helpless, his heart smiled bitterly, perhaps this is the political "suppression of dissent", but there is no way ah, we can not make everyone panic, do not want to work, right? He thinks he is the righteous side, perhaps those who were caught in, also think they are the righteous ...

"The meeting is now open!"

Oliver said with a straight face, "Comrades, we all know the predicament we have encountered, and we have six months of security left, so let's not talk too much about it. Now, the most critical thing - is the quality of the alien ship!"

"This problem is even related to our survival strategy! If the ship's mass is too large, we humans can't push it, we can only hide inside and defend it tightly, to win the last chance of survival! If it's smaller, we can escape from the moon with this ship!"

"Our scientists have measured the mass of the alien ship, now, please ask them to announce the final result!"

Everyone's eyes looked straight to the stage, it was an uneasiness, a nervousness. This mood, like the second before the entrance exam results came out, was torn, apprehensive, as if waiting for the pronouncement of fate. Now this apprehension is a hundred times stronger, this is a life-threatening sentence ah!

In fact, Oliver's heart is also a little unsettled, these scientists have strange expressions, can not see the joy and sadness. Some even frowned, a sad face, but Oliver could see that it was not worry, but a kind of doubt, a kind of incomprehension.

What the hell is going on?

A scientist stood up, looking at so many people staring at him, he looked a little restrained, "Everyone, we have measured it using more than twenty methods and got almost unanimous results. Its mass is ..."

"1,038,600 tons!"

1,038,600 tons! "Wow," everyone clamored, discussing the possibilities that this number represented.

Is it more? Is it less? Is it good? Or is it bad?

To be honest, the figure of 1,038,600 tons was much better than the worst guess, but slightly worse than the most optimistic result, and there were even people who said it had a quality of zero.

Oliver frowned, how to say, this alien ship is so huge, just this mass then, can be said to be very light and light, right ...

You know, the mass of a large aircraft carrier is about 100,000 tons, the Oriental Pearl Tower is around 125,000 tons, 443.7 meters high Empire State Building, the mass of 400,000 tons!

And a ship whose height is higher than Mount Everest is only a little more than 1 million tons, which can really only be said to be very light and light! It even stuffed tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of aircraft carriers is not a problem ah!

But, but ... people do not even have the ability to lift an aircraft carrier into the sky ah! The most prominent difficulty is the fuel problem, with the current chemical technology, want to propel a ship to the sky, at least ten times the mass of fuel to do.

The kinetic energy that a spacecraft can obtain is not proportional to the amount of fuel, which can be ideally expressed by the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation. It is not a linear function, and to put it more simply, the final velocity of the spacecraft may increase only a little with a large increase in fuel.

This is the headache of spaceflight, the most advanced Atlantis spacecraft, the initial ascension of at least 5,000-6,000 tons, but in the end only 500 tons, which is still a relatively good result.

So how much fuel is needed for a megaton class ship, 10 million tons? Plus what air circulation device, electric power device and so on to be or not to be? The final speed can reach how much? Can humans make engines with a propulsive power of 10 million tons?

These are all questions, are big questions ah!

Just when people were talking, physicist Felix suddenly stood up, he waved his hand and said, "Everyone, listen to me, during the experiment, we found out more than that!"

"The figure of 1,038,600 tons is actually much lighter than we thought! Why? Over the years, we have set up hundreds of laboratories, large and small, inside the ship, and the material facilities moved in alone are far more than that!"

"We simply estimated that in thirty years, we have moved in at least 2 million tons of stuff from the outside world! But the total mass measured out was only 1,038,600 tons!"

"This is unreasonable! It's simply strange! It's not even possible!"

"We thought we were wrong, but more than twenty experimental methods have produced almost the same result, it's inconceivable! Unless the entire physics edifice was pushed all the way back, we wouldn't have gotten it all wrong!"

"So, this ship must contain high technology that we humans can hardly imagine ... In order to verify what was in our minds, we did a simple experiment."

"We first transported 10,000 tons of ore in the airship one after another. Immediately after that, we took another measurement of the mass of the spaceship, and it was still 1,038,600 tons!"

"It was so amazing that we didn't believe it and transported another 10,000 tons in, and it was still 1,038,600 tons!"

"What does this mean?" Felix said feverishly, "The mass of the ship is surprisingly constant! No matter how much stuff is stuffed into it, it won't get heavier, for goodness sake! What kind of technology is this to do that?"

The hall was buzzing again, some people understood, some didn't.

Oliver rubbed his nose, and for those who did understand, there was a hint of ecstasy in their eyes!

What does it mean? For a simple example, this ship is like a space ring in a mystery novel, no matter how much stuff you put inside, weigh it from the outside, it won't get heavier!

Doraemon saw it, his space bag, filled with so many things, but still very light ... this ship, perhaps such an existence.

This can be the equivalent of cheating! For interstellar voyages, there is nothing more troublesome than fuel. Usually the rocket, the mass of fuel alone, accounting for 90%, or even 95% of its total mass!

For example, the most powerful rocket ever built by mankind, the Saturn 5, had an initial mass of 3,000 tons, but the Apollo spacecraft that was finally launched was only 46 tons. According to Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation, most of the energy was actually used to propel the fuel "itself", so the utilization of energy is actually very low.

Because of this, the speed of the ship is so difficult to increase, more fuel, its own mass is also large, the last can effectively use up just a little.

To get more kinetic energy, either more and more fuel, or use more energy-dense fuel, for example, nuclear energy.

But now, the most fundamental and real cheating artifact has appeared, with a constant mass of 1,038,600 tons! Inside the stuff randomly loaded, the outside mass will not change, even if loaded with 100 million tons, a billion tons of fuel, outside a weigh, or 1,038,600 tons!

If you have the ability, you can put half the moon inside, and the mass will still be 1,038,600 tons!

Such technology is really perverted ah! For humans and cheating is no different, this is space technology, or negative matter technology? Humans simply do not understand why there is such a wonderful phenomenon, this is not the world of mystery novels ah ...

But, do not understand, does not affect the use, Oliver only know, he can put the entire moon base are loaded in, what weight ah, mass ah do not need to consider, as long as crazy loading things on it!

Thinking about it, his eyes are getting brighter and brighter, with such a spaceship, mankind still can not escape from the moon, simply go to hell ...