Chapter 293: Star of God of War

In the last decade of the 21st century, what restricts scientists from continuing to study in the field of quantum theory is economic issues.

Interestingly, by the second decade of the 22nd century, economic issues were also driving scientists' great development in the field of quantum theory.

To be precise, it is a need for economic development.

By the end of the 21st century, humans had completed colonization work in the Earth-Moon System. They not only built orbital cities around the earth, but also opened up colonies for tens of millions of people on the moon, and began to exploit resources on the moon on a large scale.

Entering the 22nd century, human footprints set foot on Mars for the first time.

It can be said that this is an aerospace innovation that has been late for nearly seventy years.

As early as the early 1930s, China, the United States, the European Union and Russia proposed to land on Mars and began preparations in all aspects. For example, the United States developed the world's largest thrust launch vehicle, which can deliver 150 tons of cargo to the Earth's transfer orbit at a time. Before that, China, the United States, Europe and Russia were training Martian astronauts, such as conducting fully closed training.

At that time, China, the United States, Europe and Russia regarded landing on Mars as the will of the country, especially China and the United States.

To put it bluntly, at the peak of the Sino-US Cold War, landing on Mars was definitely a symbol of a country's strength, and both superpowers were not willing to fall behind.

To this end, in 2030, China recruited 30 "astronautics volunteers" from the world to allow them to live for one year of fully enclosed training under completely isolated from the outside world. The main reason is that the journey to Mars will take at least one year. During this period, astronauts are completely isolated from the outside world and can only contact the earth by phone at most. Due to technical restrictions, there will definitely not be many astronauts to land on Mars, and perhaps only two to three people, so in such a long closed environment, the psychology of astronauts will be seriously affected. In this way, we must first study the mental state of human beings in a fully enclosed environment.

Interestingly, of the thirty people who participated in the resources at that time, twenty-two were submarine soldiers or retired submarine soldiers.

Perhaps, on a spaceship flying to Mars, it is most similar to a submarine.

Unfortunately, the global natural disasters in 2035 completely blocked the way for humans to fly out of the earth and delayed for a full twenty-two years.

Although in the late 1950s, after the end of World War III, the conditions for landing on Mars were basically mature, and anti-gravity field propulsion technology could send astronauts to Mars within a week, during this period, there were many scientific research projects and engineering projects that needed priority care, and post-war reconstruction was also a major problem. As a result, the plan to land on Mars was shelved.

At that time, humans did not actively land on Mars, which was also related to the economy.

To put it simply, there are no resources worthy of human coveting on Mars, so landing on Mars only has space exploration and political significance, and has little economic value.

Obviously, in the second half of the 21st century, political significance is no longer important.

You should know that with only one superpower, China does not need any groundbreaking aerospace engineering to improve its national status.

As for aerospace adventures, they basically have nothing to do with politics. At least until politics becomes rich enough, it is definitely not a factor for politicians to consider.

Of course, many people also believe that landing on Mars has a high significance and are running around for it.

For example, in China at that time, some people believed that Mars could serve as a base for human space activities on their journey to the Mesopotamian Solar System.

This statement looks very reasonable.

For example, Mars is further away from the asteroid belt, so it is definitely more convenient to establish a base on Mars than to allow spacecraft to fly from Earth to the asteroid belt.

The problem is, if you think about it carefully, this statement will make no sense.

The reason is very simple. Since we can build a forward base on Mars, why not choose an asteroid with a smaller mass to build a forward base?

You should know that the asteroid belt is actually completely different from the subjective understanding of many people. Although there are millions of asteroids and countless meteorites in this universe between Mars orbit and Jupiter, this is still an extremely empty space. The distribution distance between asteroids and meteorites is calculated in millions of kilometers. It is not gathered together, nor is it a forbidden area for spacecraft. More importantly, in this universe, there are many asteroids similar to Ceres with a diameter of about one thousand kilometers. The masses of these asteroids have reached the level of being able to form static fluid balance, that is, they can form regular circular star bodies, but their gravity is much smaller than that of large planets. Therefore, it is much more cost-effective to establish a forward base on asteroids than on Mars.

Of course, it doesn't mean that Mars is worthless.

In fact, in the entire solar system, Mars is the only planet except for the region that has an atmosphere and water, suitable for humans to survive for a long time.

At that time, some people suggested that colonization should be considered.

According to later disclosed information, around 2060, Chinese scientists proposed an action plan to comprehensively improve the climate environment on Mars to the government.

The core idea of ​​this plan is to use the existing science and technology of mankind to improve the natural environment on Mars.

The entire renovation project is divided into three stages, which is expected to take one hundred years.

The first phase is fifty years, mainly changing the atmospheric structure of Mars, making the oxygen content reach 20%, and double the atmospheric density. To this end, a complete industrial chain of fusion nuclear power plants must be established on Mars, extracting hydrogen from the ice at the poles of Mars for fusion power generation. The generated electricity is mainly used to decompose carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere and solidify carbon elements, such as converting it into graphite. In addition, various means will be used to release methane in Mars soil, especially in the soil in the poles, to increase the atmospheric density of Mars. If necessary, one or several ice comets will also be controlled in an artificial manner during this period, and the water on the comet will be brought to Mars. After completion of the transformation, the atmospheric density of Mars can reach 60% of the Earth, with an oxygen content of more than 20%, and basically has an atmospheric environment for humans to survive forever.

The second stage of the transformation is mainly to create water, and the main method is to let some smaller ice comets hit Mars in an artificial way, forming oceans, lakes, rivers and other waters on Mars, and adjust the atmospheric temperature of Mars through the area of ​​the water. This stage will last for 20 to 30 years, mainly based on the efficiency of capturing ice comets and the speed of atmospheric temperature changes.

The last stage is to plant green plants on Mars to create a comfortable living environment.

Of course, at this stage, Mars can already be used for human habitation.

Scientists predict that by 80 years, humans can already live on Mars, and when leaving home, they do not need to wear a special space suit, but only need to wear a special coat that is protected from ultraviolet skin. The main reason is that the atmosphere density of Mars is much lower than that of the Earth, and it cannot form a thick ozone layer, and it cannot block the strong ultraviolet rays from the sun. It is necessary to provide necessary protective measures for those who move home.

There is no doubt that this is an extremely grand plan.

The question is, is there a possibility of implementation?

At the end of the 21st century, there was definitely not. The main reason was not technical, but economic, that is, this grand transformation project was even larger than the re-establishment of a China on Earth. The overall economic strength of human civilization could not support the large-scale universe development project.

Later, even scientists gave up.

The main reason is that there is an insurmountable technical obstacle to transforming Mars, that is, the geomagnetic field of Mars has disappeared, and human technical means cannot restore it.

You should know that a powerful planetary magnetic field is far more important than the atmosphere.

To put it simply, the most important reason for the earth is that it has a powerful magnetic field that protects all life on earth. There is no magnetic field on Mars, so any sunspot explosion can kill all living things on Mars in an instant.

In the second fifty years of the 21st century, the sun experienced four large-scale darkspot explosions.

At that time, all people living in orbital cities were forcibly evacuated to the earth, while those living in the lunar base took refuge in underground protection centers.

Obviously, when the high-energy particles emitted by the sun sweep across Mars, all human efforts to transform Mars will be in vain.

You should know that it was not until the middle of the 22nd century that humans developed a strong magnetic field protection system, allowing people living in Earth's orbital cities and lunar colonies to avoid sunspot damage. The scope of these strong magnetic fields is very limited and is not enough to shield the entire Mars.

Although in the 22nd century, humans began to immigrate to Mars, they did not transform the natural environment of Mars, but instead imitated the lunar model and established a completely closed small ecosystem. Later, as the population of Mars residents soared, the Martian colonies changed their development model, that is, no longer establish colonies on the surface, but established colonies underground, and used a crust of one kilometer to protect people living underground. Of course, this was already in the 23rd century, and it was the development toward Mars that humans discovered that Mars was once a planet full of life, and had reproduced highly developed civilizations, but it eventually disappeared.

Of course, these are all things that happened later.

In the early 22nd century, colonization to Mars became the main factor driving a new round of technological explosions and population explosions.

During this period, the problems that have plagued quantum theory physicists were also solved.

The main reason is that the existing communication means have serious hysteresis problems when they are connected with Mars, which makes the communication efficiency very low. Since there is demand in the field of economic activities, developing more efficient communication means has become the main task of the scientific community.
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