Asteroid Crisis 7
When everyone heard this news, they were stunned, especially those in Europe, who almost went crazy.
Is there any solution? Can I use kinetic energy to impact the first four asteroids, and pretend that the fifth fallen asteroid is missed with the earth?
Experts said it is impossible. The mass of this asteroid is thousands of times that of the previous few. The kinetic energy weapons on Earth are too small. Now there are only two kinetic energy weapons. It is impossible to push the asteroid sideways to do too much work. The final deviation distance is only a few kilometers or even shorter. In the end, the asteroid will still hit the European continent, which will not change anything.
Some people say: Nuclear bombs, our nuclear bombs, we can use nuclear bombs to explode and push them out with 100 nuclear bombs of hundreds of millions of equivalents!
Experts said, 100? Or 100 million nuclear bombs? How is it possible? It took us more than two months to gather the world's efforts to create two 120 million nuclear bombs. Where can we find 100?
Do you really think nuclear bombs are so easy to manufacture?
Moreover, even if nuclear bombs are built now, it is too late. It takes time for those nuclear-powered spacecraft to return. When it sends the nuclear bombs to the sky and is placed on the asteroid to detonate, the asteroid is about one million kilometers away from the earth and can reach the earth in only a few hours.
What's the point of detonating again at this time? Can it be pushed without hitting the earth? Can it be pushed into the deep sea area of the Atlantic Ocean? Obviously, it can't be.
Someone cried and asked, "What should I do now? My family and friends are still in Europe. If an asteroid hits the European continent, they will definitely die."
Someone said: "It's over, Europe is over."
Someone said: "It's not just Europe... I really think that other parts of the world can survive such an impact. Think about how dinosaurs became extinct at the beginning."
After learning this news, European countries began to launch emergency transfer measures, hoping to send all their citizens to the East or the American continent within just six or seven days.
But it is obvious that such a preview has never been performed before. If you want to transfer 700 million to 80 million people in a short period of time, you can't do it at all. For a moment, Europe was in chaos, panic, helplessness, despair and pain spread throughout the European continent.
This is equivalent to the end of the world for them.
The Earth Defense Council was helpless, Qin Yongtu was almost gray all night, and officials from various countries were trying their best to appease the emotions of the people, but in the face of the upcoming asteroid impact, everyone was filled with fear and anxiety, including Jiang Bo.
He was not afraid of death, as long as he didn't go to Europe, he wouldn't die, but was afraid that he would not be able to stop the coming disaster.
At 5 pm on July 16, there were only 18 hours left before the fifth asteroid hit the earth, and the asteroid was less than 1.5 million kilometers away from the earth.
After flying away from Earth, the space laser finally arrived in space 10,000 kilometers away from the asteroid after nearly four days of voyage.
However, the speed of the spacecraft and the speed of the asteroid are very fast. Both sides face each other at this time. If they do nothing, at the asteroid's speed of 23.8 kilometers per second and the space laser's speed of 16.5 kilometers per second, it only takes more than 4 minutes before the two will collide.
On Earth, in the surveillance hall of the Yangcheng Earth Defense Council, the Sky-Patrol Space Telescope captured the captured images in space, transmitted them back to the earth in full, and moved here. Several experts guarded the big screen, pointing at the pictures and data on the screen,
Expert 1: Isn’t this the black bone laser that took off in Jakarta before? How did it run to the asteroid? What does it want to do?
Expert 2: It's too fast, the speed of the asteroid and the laser are too fast, the relative distance between them is less than 10,000 kilometers, and they will bump into it in 4 minutes at most.
Expert 3: It's crazy. This is, the laser has not turned yet. Do you really want to bump into it?
Expert 4: Perhaps, they want to use a laser to hit the asteroid head-on and slow down its speed?
Expert 5: It’s useless, the quality of both parties is not on the same level.
Expert 6: Oh, I'm going to bump into it...
Just when the experts were in a very sluggish mood, an amazing scene appeared on the picture.
A laser with a brightness that is several times higher than the sun suddenly erupts from the head of the laser and directly hits the head of the opposite asteroid.
Then, the laser light began to rotate at a speed that was difficult for the naked eye to capture, quickly illuminating all the surfaces that the front of the asteroid could illuminate.
Then, the experts found that five minutes passed, the asteroid and the laser had not yet collided, and the distance was still widening.
It turned out that the laser used the laser's reverse thrust to quickly slow down, and then began to reverse acceleration, which was consistent with the laser's speed direction in a short time. However, because the asteroid was illuminated by a large number of high-heat lasers, the material on the surface instantly vaporized, generating huge reverse thrust, which slowed the asteroid.
After the experts figured out the principle, they were all excited.
Expert 1 said this idea is so good!
Expert 2 said it was too advanced.
Expert 3 said the screen shows that the asteroid is decelerating at an acceleration of 9m/s2. If this acceleration is maintained, at most, at most...
Expert 4: At most 45 minutes, the asteroid will be forced to stop in space 1.4 million kilometers away from the earth.
Expert 5 burst into tears: This is great, Europe is saved!
Expert 6 said worriedly: But will it succeed? How much energy will it cost to stop a planet with a kinetic energy equivalent to 42 100 million tons of nuclear bombs exploded? Have you never calculated it?
Expert 7 added: Moreover, using laser irradiation to convert heat energy into kinetic energy, the loss is at least 70%, and the energy required will be more than 42 pieces, but at least 140 pieces...
Everyone's experts were in silence, and some even criticized the laser for not choosing to illuminate sideways. Isn't that enough just to shift the orbit of the asteroid?
Time passed quietly. Ten minutes later, experts found that the dazzling laser beam was still shining and rotating.
Twenty minutes later, thirty minutes later...a full two hours later.
The laser beam disappeared, and above the screen, a data that made many people cry. The asteroid's speed was -2m/s. It was not forced to stop, but it was far away from the earth at a speed of 2m/s.
Unlike what experts calculated, it took two hours for the space laser to change from 92,000 kilometers per hour to -2m/s, which is 7.2 kilometers per hour.
It is too difficult to completely stop the asteroid, because the gaseous matter expanding on the surface of the asteroid cannot be accurately calculated and mastered in space. It is a chaotic system and cannot even calculate it by quantum computing.
Therefore, it is already the limit to the current level of the space laser. It can only run 6.3 million kilometers per hour at a speed of 7.2 kilometers per hour, as long as it is not supported by external forces, it can only run at most 6.3 million kilometers away if it is given a hundred years.
This distance is almost impossible to be regarded as a distance in the vast space, and it is no different from being forced to stop.
Chapter completed!