Project Orion
Chapter 25:Project Orion
After a while, everyone heard the good news.The people here are all elite, more or less some scientific literacy, little by little to understand, a kind of ecstasy from the depths of the heart, like a sudden flood, directly unable to control their emotions.
"Ah!Ah!"
“Bam!”“Hid!”
The scene is full of people shouting and slapping the table, many people cry with joy, headaches and tears, some people simply hugging together, regardless of mutual recognition, these few hours of their stimulation is too big, but suddenly came a divine turn, from hell to heaven, the excitement of the heart can be imagined.
After about half an hour, the meeting slowly calmed down.
Now there is another problem that has not been solved, that is how to promote the 1.0386 million tons of spacecraft!
Humans once the most powerful "Saturn 5 rocket", its driving force of about 3500 tons, with the advancement of technology, the current "Victory" spacecraft on the rocket power of 5000 tons, but compared to 1038.6 million tons is still too much.
With the existing human productivity, it is impossible to build hundreds of thousands of rockets in six months.What to do?
Of course, such a small difficulty cannot be difficult for mankind.Crazy scientists have long figured out how to solve this problem, that is, the most powerful nuclear bomb under the control of mankind!
This crazy idea is not something that scientists have come to mind for a while, as early as the 1960s, it has been called the Orion Project!
The U.S. government's "Orion Plan" was first launched in 1958, in the early days of the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union began to compete in space, the "Orion Plan" was launched in this context.
Scientists plan to build an ocean-going giant ship, Orion, and use thousands of small nuclear bombs to send the spacecraft, which can carry at least 40 astronauts, to Mars, Jupiter or Saturn.
According to the plan, the Orion spacecraft will only need 125 days to travel to and from Mars, and the spacecraft can carry 100 tons of equipment and food on the spacecraft, which is simply impossible if it is replaced by a conventional rocket-propelled spacecraft.
However, the biggest problem with the Orion Project is nuclear pollution, and the waste generated after the explosion of the nuclear bomb will not disappear for tens of thousands of years, and it can't pollute the entire earth's atmosphere because of a spacecraft.So the Orion Project was eventually aborted.
But now, there is no problem, and now the human race is about to leave the moon, regardless of what pollution is not polluted.People also have a more ambitious determination to drive a super-giant, million-ton ship!
Felix spoke at great pleasure, and took a document from his desk and handed it over to Yi Feng.Yu Yifeng looked at it, and was suddenly surprised that it was the initial plan of the "nuclear bomb promotion plan", which he passed on to others after watching it.
“Look, this is the first plan that we have explored by more than 20 of us.”Felix said.
“First, the first issue with the Orion program is security.This is a matter of little consideration, because our ship is strong enough.For thirty years, scientists have done anything about it, and I emphasize that it is anything, including nuclear testing!There is no way to damage it.So, I think the ship is very safe."
"Second, is the problem of acceleration, the huge acceleration caused by the nuclear bomb explosion, can instantly press people into meat cakes.But that’s not a problem... The inside of the ship is self-spatial, and since the mass cannot be expressed from the inside to the outside, the forces outside cannot be transmitted to the inside.”
“How to say,” Felix thought, “when the ship accelerates, we don’t feel anything, we just have the same speed, which seems very magical and violates the laws of physics.”It may be that the whole space is moving, and we are still in relation to space... Well, science cannot explain the specific reasons, but that is the case anyway.”
“Finally, there is the technical problem.”
“Under the Orion program, we’re going to have the spacecraft carry a lot of nuclear bombs, and when the spacecraft needs power, we release one from the stern and then some solid disks made of hydrogen-containing plastic.When the spacecraft sails a certain distance, the nuclear bomb will explode behind the spacecraft, evaporate the plastic disk, convert it into a high-heat plasma, and then drive the spacecraft in turn.”
Felix gushed, and the fever in his eyes grew louder, and the people below, whether they could not understand it, shook their heads and listened, believing that the fellow was saying things.
The more complex he says, the more people believe it.
There are no nuclear bombs in the base, not many, and there are three nuclear bombs in total.If people want to carry out this plan, they must mass-produce nuclear bombs.
The manufacture of the atomic bomb was too cumbersome, and it had to use a large number of centrifuges to purify enriched uranium-235, which was time-consuming and labor-intensive and energy-intensive.
The hydrogen bomb is much more trouble-free, with enough deer (d) and tritium (t), and then ignited with an atomic bomb.To put it bluntly, the atomic bomb in front of the hydrogen bomb is a look at the door.However, there are only three atomic bombs in the base, which is not a big problem.
“Isn’t the atomic bomb enough?”Yu Yifeng asked.
"Yes, our centrifuges can only separate the industrial level of uranium, so it is necessary to re-manufather a batch, at least five or six thousand.Second, the centrifuge’s work requires a lot of electricity, so we need to apply for a larger amount of electricity.”As one engineer said.
“Either there is another way to disassemble the original atomic bomb on the base to a smaller scale.I think this program is better.”
"And ah, Mr. Yu, the cost of tritium required to make a hydrogen bomb is very high, and it needs to bombard lithium 6 compounds with neutron flow, and then use the heat diffusion method, which requires the electrical energy that is not covered..."
"Furthermore, we still have to design chemical rocket engines, not to promote, but to fine-tune the direction of the spacecraft, how to say the driving force is also 10,000 tons of power level, right?
I understand, this is to electricity, to energy is coming... Headache ah, Yu Yi Feng touched the head, he quickly calculated, really headache, this also needs electricity, then also need electricity, where so much electricity?
A large number of industries in the base are now electricity, and now the power plants are almost full.
But he also knows that smart women are difficult to cook without rice, these people are also in a hurry to ask for electricity, always can not let people take a sickle hammer, hard hit a nuclear bomb out.
"Innovating the entire spacecraft, the amount of engineering is also a little large, but also to strengthen the metal smelting, cement is also essential..."
"What is inside the ship is not mass, but the equipment mounted on the outside is of mass, so it is best to use a lighter titanium aluminum alloy..."
People were full of hope, talking about it, and Yu Yifeng felt that he was about to be driven mad.This is also lacking, that is also lacking, and then the large-scale development of the power station is not very suitable, how fast it will take five or six months, when the yellow cauliflower is cold.
In fact, the agricultural transformation plan and the space program that are currently carried out are basically compatible, and many things have been included in the agricultural transformation plan, as long as it is a little change.After three months, when the agricultural renovation plan is completed, it will free up a lot of electricity.
"Also, Captain Yifeng, we must carry the material on a large scale, anyway, not heavy, more and more good, the more good."It's not too much in space."
“Which planet are we going to, Titan, Europa, or Mars?”
Some even have eyes that fantasize about interstellar travel.This is a real star flight!What has never been achieved before will be inexplicably realized in the hands of the last 50,000 human beings, which is really impermanent!
“Stop!”Yu Yi Feng patted the table sharply, and he felt that his head was a little confused, "You first discuss it yourself, find some practical solutions, and don't tell me all that there is."
“We need to develop an outline, a detailed plan and technical points that can be put in later.You also know the situation in the base, what electricity and water are lacking, save a little use, be realistic!"
Just finished, Yu Yifeng ran to the toilet with a cigarette, he breathed a long breath, lit a cigarette, and took a hard breath.It was the last few cigarettes, one less... He scratched his head and suddenly found that his hair had fallen out.
You are superhuman!If you lose your hair, you can see that this position is really a pressure mountain...
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