Chapter 30: The Noah Project (2)

Oliver's way of speaking was tactful; he didn't say anything about the moon and earth collision, the asteroid impact or any other bad news; humans were leaving the moon anyway, so there was no harm in not saying such news.

"I, Oliver, am temporarily the first captain of the Noah!"

"Our ship, measured from the outside as a sphere 15 kilometers in diameter, is even more spacious when measured from the inside, with a diameter of about 200 kilometers horizontally and a length of 60 kilometers vertically. Just think how big a volume this is, enough for us humans."

"It has a constant mass of 1.03 million tons, no matter how much stuff is packed inside! We will use the detonation of nuclear bombs to propel the spaceship."

"Don't worry everyone, the spaceship is very safe, we have enough technical means to guarantee this!"

"After the ship takes off, it will only take four to five months to reach Mars. We will start a new life on Mars!"

Each of Oliver's words was like a heavy bomb, and with each sentence, people cheered loudly. Gradually, the atmosphere of the venue reached its peak, and everyone began to fantasize about life in the interstellar era.

People, ah, is a very polarized creature, some people are very realistic, they think the ideal is dregs, can it be a meal? Some people are very emotional, and can sacrifice everything for the ideal.

However, often the latter can make an amazing career.

Of course, most people are middle of the road, after being fed and clothed, they are willing to struggle a bit for their ideals. Now that all the plans are made and sound highly feasible, they are certainly willing to follow Oliver's lead and do something big. There are also a small number of reluctant, but under the general trend, reluctant can only be willing.

"Next, please invite the person in charge of each project to come up to the stage to make a speech ..."

Oliver's speech finished, the bottom applause, just rely on a passion can not last long, but also need to use some solid, reliable program to firm people's determination.

Designing a spaceship that can carry tens of thousands of people is very complicated, so many people's food, drink and water are in it, all aspects must be considered, how much oxygen to consume, how much food to eat, how much water to use, are very headaches.

Like air circulation system, water circulation system, power system, etc., these are necessary, and ah, sewage disposal system must also have, can not make the whole ship smells bad, right?

Not only that, the ship must also have a lot of productivity, to be able to self-sufficient, in case something breaks, you can immediately make a. People need factories, farms, plantations to gradually lead a better life.

These are the necessary systems of the ship, less one can not, the moon base is to have these things, but you know, the construction of the moon base but spent thirty years ah, now, people have only five short months.

So, the first project is - demolition! Take down the original instruments and facilities, and then assembled to the ship.

Do not think that this is a simple project, must be step by step, but also has to have the order of priority. Like nuclear power plants and other buildings, certainly to the last demolition, if the direct demolition, then the base is not all off the power?

Like the air circulation device, if the direct demolition, then the people in the base how to do, will not be suffocated alive?

This demolition work, must be from secondary to primary, from small to large, while ensuring that people's daily lives are not affected, step by step to gradually relocate things to the ship.

The second project is - digging! The whole ship is buried deep underground, only a little bit of the head is exposed, in order to let the ship take off, the whole thing has to be dug up, which means people need to dig a big hole with a depth of 15,000 meters!

This amount of work is really too big, according to reason, five months simply can not be completed. But in fact, people have been digging for thirty years, there are a lot of ice mines under the ship, and they are digging all the time, now people just need to dig the layer of rock and soil close to the side of the ship.

This also leads to the third project - loading! Where to put the excavated rock and soil? Directly into the ship! Whether it is useful or not, first loaded into it. Anyway, the space inside is so large, humans can only be cooped up in a small corner of it, how to load can not be loaded ah.

In cosmic space, there is no material replenishment, the surrounding are vacuum, all things with a little less. Like water, air and other materials can be recycled, but will eventually consume so little, which adds up, in the end may not be.

Especially energy, used up and gone, it is impossible to recycle, and there is no way to replenish on a large scale, so you must bring enough at once. Now the power in the base, 70% are supplied by the nuclear power plant, the rest is solar power, temperature difference power generation and so on, only occupy 30%.

Large-scale excavation of uranium is inevitable, as well as ice ore, iron ore, titanium ore ... anyway, what there is to what, what is lacking ah, all loaded in and then.

The last project, that is "build"!

Like the spaceship engine and other things, no ready-made, but also have to be made out of hard to do, this is also the most exaggerated, the most difficult, the most exciting a project, like what "billion tons of nuclear weapons to promote the program", "ten million tons of steel production plan" are this project of this project.

Talking about this project, there was once chaos on the scene, and some of the original Russians and Ukrainians were screaming and roaring like they had touched their "gao chao". The fighting people just like this kind of crazy plan.

Regardless of the right profession, they have asked to join this project ... results, must be mercilessly rejected, the mining mining, the demolition of the honest to go to the demolition, let you go to the interdisciplinary build nuclear bombs, you can?

Tucker WU in front of the TV, at first also took a note to see whether this space engineering can be achieved in the end. Calculated to the end, the huge amount of engineering, the intricate connection, simply can not get clear. To say that it is, three thousand experts forget to sleep and forget to forget to calculate two weeks, a small people can figure out themselves is strange.

He helplessly dropped the pen, found Sawyer this guy like a child, jumping east and west, excited, can not help but ask: "Hey, what are you doing?"

"Interstellar voyage, this is an interstellar voyage! How can you not be excited?" Sawyer shouted incoherently, looking very excited.

"When you came to the moon, didn't you also take a spacecraft?" Tucker WU asked, puzzled.

"That's different!" Sawyer shouted frantically again, "This is a real interstellar voyage! A three-body civilization, a godlike civilization, here we come, haha!" He was an avid fan of science fiction, what with all the weirdness he had read, it was important to have enough of his own YA first.

Tucker WU has never seen him so happy, perhaps most people are. He was living on the edge of his seat, and suddenly, he found himself about to start a new era and become a hero of humanity? How can one not be happy? The state of mind before and after is completely different.

The first agricultural transformation program temporarily solved the problem of survival, but did not really change the plight of mankind. Humans guard a poor moon, really have a future, do not know ... or, no ...

But this time the space program, can be said to be the real meaning of the big change, so that mankind has found a way forward, the risks involved are huge, but the rewards are equally huge, if it really succeeds, mankind can be completely transformed, from then on into the interstellar era!

Tucker WU keenly noted the engineering period of the Noah project: 5 months, is mankind really in such a hurry? Actually, no. Maybe a Moon-Earth collision will really happen, but so what, with the Noah Project, he will never worry about such things again.

In this way, Captain Oliver is really powerful, not only in terms of acting means, or personal ability are first-class. Tucker WU admiringly thought.