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Chapter 408 The Great Plateau

Regarding this major earthquake, humans have not done similar global experiments, or are unable to do such experiments for the time being, so there is no way to deduce its relevant data.

Moreover, the development of marine resources by the Taipu civilization is still in a very basic state. If marine resources can be truly developed, it will theoretically greatly alleviate the lack of rare earths.

"Secondly, in addition to a series of changes in marine mineral resources, there is another point." The geologist on the stage extended his second finger: "After the earthquake, due to the mutual squeeze between plates, in 150,000, the world's highest peak appeared near the equator of this planet, and a large super plateau with an average altitude of up to 10,000 meters!"

A satellite photo was displayed on the screen. This plateau is located near the equator. Because of the altitude, a certain amount of snow still appeared.

In this state of high gravity, the appearance of such a high-altitude plateau actually attracted the attention of many geologists from the beginning. The higher the gravity, the smoother the terrain, but the plateau of this planet is higher than that of the earth, which is simply contrary to common sense. But if this plateau is abnormally young and born artificially, there is a more reasonable explanation.

This plateau area called "Emilya" is located in six countries including Austria and Lai. Due to the fierce mutual squeeze between the plates, small-scale earthquakes will still occur. In addition, the altitude and low air pressure will be too low, which is not suitable for the survival of the Tep people.

Therefore, this plateau is sparsely populated and has become a dividing line between various countries and has not been truly developed.

But according to human perspective...

Zhang Yuan's pupils dilated slightly, and an idea suddenly jumped out of his mind.

This is completely...a natural rocket launch base!

There are five location conditions for satellite launch centers.

The first is that the lower the latitude, the better. The lower the latitude, and the power of the planet's rotation can be used. Launching rockets near the equator, the spacecraft's initial speed is high, fuel savings can effectively reduce the launch cost and reduce difficulty.

This plateau happens to be near the equator!

The second is climatic conditions. This plateau is relatively high in terrain, dry climate, low precipitation, and good air visibility. This planet is quite wet overall due to its vast oceans, and there are not many dry areas like this near the equator.

The third is the terrain conditions, which are open and flat, and have a higher terrain than the surrounding area.

Fourth, traffic conditions. For the moment, this is not in line with the moment. The plateau is still in a state of unfinished land, so traffic will definitely not keep up.

Fifth, safety conditions: The satellite launch center must have a sparse population around it to ensure safety issues after the launch failure. Therefore, the launch base cannot be established near downtown areas.

Although the traffic environment of this plateau with an altitude of more than 10,000 meters is not very good, it undoubtedly meets four of the conditions...

And there are other benefits. Some waterways in the middle have extremely abundant water resources and can build large-scale hydropower stations, and even the energy problem is solved.

The experts on the stage were already excited when they said this: "To sum up, if we follow this objective environment, our scientists have made a series of calculations..."

"The calculation is, with the technical means of human beings in the early 21st century, if a rocket launch base is really built on this plateau, will it be possible to push satellites into space and start the real space age!"

The conference room was very quiet, and everyone sat upright, waiting for this final conclusion.

This conclusion is very important. If so many objective factors are combined, the Taipu civilization still cannot enter the space age, which only means that the earthquake is likely to happen naturally.

If the enlightener caused an earthquake, the relevant "development steps" should be calculated so that the "stage" will not be too high, which will make the low-level civilization unable to reach the point. Otherwise, what is the meaning of this help?

The expert did not keep it a secret and directly concluded: "After discussing and analyzing, we believe that it is a bit reluctant, but with the technology of level 0.7 civilization, it can be done!"

With a "boom", the conference room was boiling, and even a slight applause sounded!

One thing is that it is impossible, and that is, two completely different concepts.

In other words, this "great" earthquake is indeed a high probability that the enlightener civilization has created conditions for the Tep people to enter the space age.

However, as far as the Taipu civilization is concerned, no discovery has been made.

This series of operations simply stunned Zhang Yuan. This is simply... too violent!

He seemed to see... A very distant 150,000 years ago, the Inspirator Civilization passed by here and suddenly discovered that this civilization in the primitive era had no possibility of entering the space age in the future due to its poor geographical location.

So, they found a way to trigger a strong earthquake, created this plateau, and transformed the "completely impossible" into a slight possibility.

Then leave with ease!

As for whether the Taipu civilization can enter the space age, and whether it will use these created conditions, there is no need to consider it more... At least after a series of transformations, environmental factors are no longer the kind of impossible harshness.

This is very likely!

Li Zhendong suddenly sighed: "What an interesting civilization. I do feel that this civilization does have a certain kindness, not the so-called 'organic harvester'... People always have higher pursuits when they live in the world, although I don't know whether this strange measure is considered a higher pursuit... In short, it is very interesting. Interesting should be considered the highest pursuit, right?"

"Anyway, it should not be too much to call them 'inspirators'..."

Zhang Yuan couldn't help but take a sip of water to calm his inner emotions, and said, "Yes, it's really a blessing to have such a pioneer in the Milky Way... But with the scientific level of human beings, there is no way to do this?

Li Zhendong thought about it and calculated some numbers on paper with a pencil: "If you force it, you will definitely be able to do it. It's a bit difficult, just to get more nuclear bombs! I think about it, the former Tsar nuclear bomb, with an equivalent of 50 million tons, wouldn't it be that the entire Eurasian continent's plates were translated by 9 mm? If hundreds of millions of such nuclear bombs can be produced, oh, this number is my nonsense... Anyway, it should be able to force the plates to translate."

"But using nuclear bombs is simply too rough. In practice, it may trigger a mass extinction of species and even the entire ecosystem will be destroyed... I don't know how the enlightener did it. It's really a great power brought by technology!"

"I thought of a better way... using multiple nuclear bombs to explode under the crust, pry the plates, or the enlightener civilization dug deep into the ground, triggering an explosion in the mantle layer, and then producing a series of chain reactions. These are possible." Li Zhendong said as he spoke, and discussed with other experts in an enthusiastic manner.

"There is a weapon, a continental shelf oscillator! It causes vibration during the rapid release of energy in the earth's crust, and a natural phenomenon similar to seismic waves will occur during this period."

Zhang Yuan didn't want to listen to their nonsense, and then turned to ask the scientific researcher on the stage: "Professor Lu, I have another question: Have you found good mineral resource points on this plateau? If so, it can be said to have killed three shots in one stone. On the one hand, it solves the problem of lack of rare earths, and on the other hand, it can also lure some countries to develop this plateau area that has always been neglected."
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