Chapter 280 The Place of Birth

It must be admitted that Lu Wen is both a wise scientist and a lucky person of an era.

World War III, while almost destroying half of human civilization, also triggered the largest technological explosion in humans in the era of ignorance.

As the saying goes, the times create heroes.

In this special era, the emergence of Lu Wen made her more valuable.

Similarly, heroes create momentum.

If it weren't for Lu Wen, there wouldn't be the later humans in the universe, there wouldn't be a continuation of human civilization, and there wouldn't be any historical records related to her.

In human history, the 150 years after World War III was definitely a flying era. In this era of passion, aerospace exploration is an eternal topic and a great cause that many people contributed their lives. Many heroes that emerged in this era are worth remembering in the hearts of later humans, because without them, there would be no later humans in the universe.

The first time that human beings opened up was the International Space Station dominated by China.

Although at the beginning, the International Space Station was characterized as a space platform jointly developed and built by multiple countries, mainly engaged in space scientific research, so its scale was quite limited, in the end, the International Space Station became an open space platform and evolved into the core part of the "ground-orbiting space system".

All this is attributed to a Chinese astronaut engineer, the founder of the International Space Station: Zhong Housheng.

During the war, Zhong Housheng was a scientific researcher under Lu Wen, who was mainly responsible for space research. His job in the first few years was to design and clean up satellites. It was not until before the war, when China proposed to build an international space station that Zhong Housheng was appointed as chief engineer.

At that time, Zhong Housheng was the world's most outstanding space system engineer.

According to his design, the International Space Station is first an open space platform, which can add various application sections according to needs.

This design idea laid the foundation for the later large-scale expansion of the International Space Station.

You should know that in just fifty years, the scale of the International Space Station has reached more than a hundred times the initial design, becoming a superspace base that can accommodate tens of thousands of astronauts, and is the control part of the orbital space system. It has become the first base for humans to step out of the earth and fly to the universe. In the end, the International Space Station has actually covered the entire geosynchronous orbit, becoming the second home of humans, with a complete life-sustaining system, and can provide a place for hundreds of millions of people to live and work at the same time.

In fact, the universe is established on the International Space Station.

In the 2317 AD, the first year of the universe, 800 million people living on the International Space Station announced their disconnection with the state government on Earth after referendum, and established the "Space Government" to officially break away from the relationship with humans on Earth, becoming a country composed of dozens of nations, without territory on Earth, but owning countries including the International Space Station, Moon Colony, Mars Colony, and asteroid belt.

Later, this country directly evolved into a "cosmic and human union".

Of course, by that time, the concept of a country has become quite vague, because any human on earth, who can become a human being as long as he swears to abide by the rules of the human beings in the universe, can become a human being in the universe, and a citizen who believes that as long as he is willing to return to the earth to live, he will become a citizen of the earth. In other words, the state is no longer an artificial obstacle to restricting human activities, and the only way of determining identity attributes is their life and work.

Obviously, Zhong Housheng certainly did not expect such a result.

Of course, he was not forgotten by humans in the universe. Among the ten people who contributed the most in the history of humans in the universe, Zhong Housheng. In the eyes of humans in the universe, Zhong Housheng is the founder of civilization, and the International Space Station he created is the birthplace of humans in the universe.

In fact, it is certainly impossible to attribute all the credit for the construction of the International Space Station to one person.

Zhong Housheng was only the chief engineer, and during his lifetime, the scale of the International Space Station was not very large, and it was a property under the name of Chinese political affairs.

Several other people made extremely significant contributions when building the International Space Station.

Among them are Chinese scientist Wen Huihong who developed nanomaterials, and American scientist Jack Connor who promoted nanomaterials to the application field.

In fact, at the end of World War III, the United States' research achievements in the field of nanomaterials far exceeded those of China.

According to the later decrypted data, American scientists were able to make nanomaterials in the laboratory at that time. By the end of the war, American scientists were exploring methods of industrial production. The United States was defeated before a major breakthrough was made.

The United States is actively studying nanomaterials, and the first thing it considers is military uses.

In a sense, nanomaterials are definitely a major technological revolution, at least in the field of materials.

It should be noted that nanomaterials exceed any known material in terms of mechanical properties such as strength, toughness, and stiffness, and are the closest to the ideal engineering material. To put it simply, if nanomaterials are used to make armor, they can increase the protection capacity by ten times when the weight is reduced by 90%. If used in the field of engineering construction and as the bearing structure of skyscrapers, buildings with a height of more than 2,000 meters can be built.

Of course, nanomaterials are first used in the field of aerospace, and first on the International Space Station.

The reason is very simple. The geosynchronous orbit is actually a closed loop without width. Only on this line can the spacecraft remain synchronized with the earth's autobiography, and as long as it deviates from this line, internal stress will be generated. If the spacecraft is not too large, such as just a satellite with a diameter of several meters, the strength of ordinary materials is enough to offset the stress. However, when the volume of the spacecraft becomes very large, such as the International Space Station, the lateral dimension exceeds one kilometer, then the strength of ordinary materials cannot offset the internal stress generated when flying around orbit.

According to the circumstances at that time, if the International Space Station were made of ordinary materials, its lifespan would not exceed twenty years.

Obviously, this is unacceptable.

To extend the life of the International Space Station, high-strength materials must be used, and the most ideal high-strength materials are nanomaterials.

Later, the first batch of cabins of the International Space Station were strengthened with nanomaterials, and their design lifespan reached one hundred years.

In fact, after continuous improvement, the actual service life of the International Space Station is not one hundred years, but more than five hundred years.

Without nanomaterials, humans in the universe would not have been born on the International Space Station.

To put it bluntly, if there were no nanomaterials, the International Space Station would be abandoned in the 22nd century and then fell into the atmosphere and burned down.

More importantly, the widespread application of nanomaterials laid the foundation for the subsequent expansion of the International Space Station.

Later, as long as the main bearing structure made of nanomaterials in the international space were regularly replaced, the International Space Station could be kept running.

In fact, this is the basis for the human beings in the universe to emerge from human beings on earth.

In a sense, when China decided to build the International Space Station and built the International Space Station into a base for humans to fly into the deep space of the universe, humans in the universe were already born.

However, with space for survival, there is also an environment suitable for human long-term survival.

The person who created this environment was an Indian-Chinese scientist named Simbara.

After the International Space Station began to operate, Simbara first proposed that a complete natural ecosystem should be established on the International Space Station to ensure that astronauts can live and work in the space station for a long time, and improve the living space of the space station, making it the real home for astronauts.

Simbara has made a lot of efforts to this end, and he himself is an expert in natural ecology.

In his efforts, China's political team finally decided to adopt his suggestion, namely, to establish a natural ecological environment of land on the International Space Station.

Of course, the basis is anti-gravity field technology.

To put it simply, the first thing to do is to create a gravity field similar to the earth in the International Space Station, rather than putting the space station in a weightless state.

Scientific research has shown that not only will the system of human beings deteriorate in weightlessness, but other organisms are also prone to mutate in weightlessness. It is obviously an unknown whether the mutated life can survive in a natural environment that must be suitable for human survival.

The result is that creating a gravity field becomes the easiest way to solve the natural ecological environment.

Fortunately, this is not a technical problem.

Of course, this is also an important basic condition for the International Space Station to expand rapidly, and after more than a hundred years, it has become a place for hundreds of millions of human beings to live and work, and then evolve into a home.

More importantly, this laid the foundation for humans to colonize the universe later.

You should know that the most fundamental reason why humans in the universe can be born is not to have a home in the geosynchronous orbit, but to colonize other planets as they wish, live and work on other planets, gain a broader living space, and gain richer survival resources. It is precisely with this foundation that humans in the universe dare to challenge humans on earth, and eventually get rid of humans on earth and become a new carrier of human civilization.

It is also true that Zhong Housheng, Wen Huihong, Connor and Simbara are called the "Four Heroes" in the early days of cosmic civilization.

Interestingly, these four great scientists all work under Lu Wen and are directly obeying Lu Wen, so Lu Wen is recognized as the "mother of humans in the universe".

In fact, building the International Space Station was Lu Wen's proposal and her last great project in the field of science.

The reason is very simple. The original purpose of building the International Space Station was to cover the deployment of gravity field fluctuation detectors, which was Lu Wen's most concerned aerospace engineering.

After this, Lu Wen rarely participated in cosmic science engineering projects, but instead devoted himself to the research of cosmic sociology.

However, human exploration and development of cosmic space did not stop.

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