The last human in the universe

Chapter 102 Meat

Now that the Voyager spacecraft has entered the deceleration phase, in addition to the daily emergency drills, people have another very important task.

That is to conduct observations on the Jupiter system with all our strength, and obtain as much information about the Jupiter system as possible.

This has actually been done a long time ago.As early as the original Earth era, hundreds of unmanned probes were launched into the Jupiter system.After the old human civilization perished and the new human civilization was born, there are also many scientists studying Jupiter.

But all of this is not as good as having a large manned spacecraft with a lot of instruments and equipment for close observation.

This is also preparing for the subsequent orbiting.

In people's expectation, in the days of being accompanied by starchy porridge and clear soup with little water, time slipped away bit by bit.

Never before has there been such a moment when people are so looking forward to reaching the Jupiter system as soon as possible.

In the past, I still felt that it was not bad to live a leisurely life like this.On the contrary, when we arrive at Jupiter, the heavy construction tasks will begin.But now, what people think is that it is nothing to be a little bit tired, as long as there is meat to eat, they are not afraid of anything.

In this kind of anticipation, the huge Jupiter gradually changed from a bright spot to a disc in people's field of vision.Gradually, Jupiter's rings can also be seen directly, and then, the largest satellites in the Jupiter system-the four Galilean satellites can also be directly seen.

They surround the giant Jupiter like stars surrounding the moon.

At this moment, Cheng Xuanjia was most solemn.Because the Voyager spacecraft does not have much fuel.It can be said that there is only one chance to enter orbit.

Walking carefully among the many satellites of Jupiter, always calculating the gravitational influence from each satellite, especially a few large satellites, carefully adjusting the course, thrust and speed of the Voyager spacecraft, sometimes faster and sometimes Slow down, it took several days until all the crew members were visibly haggard with the naked eye, and the Voyager spacecraft finally obtained a stable orbit.

The orbit was successful.

The long time of more than eight years and the long journey of more than 130 billion kilometers finally came to an end at this moment.

Women who conceived at the very beginning of their journey gave birth to children who were not even in elementary school.

Thinking back on the journey along the way, there were big and small crises encountered during the voyage—except for the most serious explosion, there were as many as three failures or accidents that affected the whole.More accidents were temporarily dealt with by the emergency team before people knew about them.

This road, it is not an exaggeration to say that you are carrying your head.

Now, it's all over.

At this moment, the entire Voyager spaceship roared with joy.

It is still 107 million kilometers away from Jupiter, and its mass is as high as 150 times that of Sedna, the largest of the dozens of satellites in the entire Jupiter system. On the orbit around Ganymede, the Voyager spacecraft is slowly revolve around it.

Yes, the final goal chosen by people is not Europa, which has the most water ice content, even has a layer of ice shell on the surface, and even has a liquid ocean under the ice shell, but Ganymede, which has the largest mass.

Because there is no shortage of water ice in the Jupiter system, it can even be said to be one of the most abundant resources.Even if it is not Europa with the highest water ice content, Ganymede is just Ganymede, and the water ice on it is inexhaustible.

Among the dozen or so dwarf planets that the new human civilization has "opened up" at this moment, Sedna has the largest mass.Here in the Jupiter system, there is only one satellite, and its mass is 150 times that of Sedna.

The gap between the two is just that huge.

On one side of the spaceship is Ganymede, which is intertwined with dark gray and bright white as a whole, and on the other side is Jupiter, which is yellow and white as a whole, like a behemoth in deep space.

Against the backdrop of these two huge stars, more than 3 people live on it, and the dauntingly huge Voyager spacecraft is as small as dust.

With the eager anticipation of more than 3 people, the detection of Ganymede started again.

A dozen or so satellites of various types were sent out, and they also started their journey around Ganymede.In the process, a wealth of data about the satellite was sent to teams of geologists.

"This is a phosphate mine, you can't go wrong!"

"There are so many water and ice reserves here..."

"I found an open pit copper mine!"

"Rare earth, this is rare earth!"

Numerous mineral resources have been discovered one after another.

At this moment, Ganymede opened up to people the mysterious veil shrouded in it, and truly demonstrated its richness to people.

After all, this is a planet larger than Mercury, one of the eight planets.The abundance of resources on it is not comparable to that of a dwarf planet like Sedna Star.

After initially ascertaining the reserves and types of various resources on Ganymede, as well as the distribution coordinates, the planning team immediately started work.In just three days, a complete plan was placed in front of Cheng Xuanjia.

Where to build the main base, where to build the planting base, how to connect different mining areas, how to transport resources from the surface to space, all things are well planned.

After completing all the preliminary work, led by Cheng Xuanjia himself, half of the crew members, 15 scientists and some security personnel boarded a landing spacecraft and started the first attempt of human civilization to land on Ganymede .

The tens of meters long landing spacecraft began a violent deceleration process, and began to quickly land on the dark gray and bright white surface of Ganymede.

Cheng Xuanjia looked at the rapidly expanding surface with a calm expression.

Beyond the porthole, he saw a thin layer of white mist.

This kind of situation has never happened on Sedna before.

But this kind of thing is also understandable.Ganymede is so big, after all, that it has something a moon shouldn't have—an atmosphere made mostly of oxygen.

The atmosphere is of course very thin, and people can only perceive its existence when the high-speed landing spacecraft passes through it.

When the landing spacecraft was pushed back and its speed slowed down to a certain level, the white mist disappeared.

The landing craft finally landed on a plain with a roar.

Here is where people plan to build the ground main base in the future.At that time, this place will become a transfer base for Ganymede's surface and space personnel, and many people who need to work on the surface for a long time will live here.Here, it will become the most prosperous area in Ganymede.

The hatch of the spacecraft opened, and Cheng Xuanjia and others in spacesuits finally stepped on the surface of Ganymede.

Feeling about one-seventh of the earth's gravity, looking at the deep and dark sky, looking at the gigantic Jupiter floating in the sky, looking at the dark gray surface, looking at the undulating land of Ganymede, Cheng Xuanjia thought Full of emotion.

"Here will be the most important fulcrum for our human civilization to take off again."

In his heart, Cheng Xuanjia silently expressed such emotion.

This scene was also transmitted to the sight of everyone in the Voyager spacecraft through the live broadcast.

At this moment, everyone boiled up.

It's finally time to land!Finally arrived at the destination!The most important thing is, finally, you can finally build planting workshops and animal husbandry workshops, and you can finally stop eating starch!

After more than ten hours of communication delay, the information sent by the high-power antenna on the Voyager spacecraft finally reached the Sedna star and came to Zhao Changxing.

Along with many high-level civilizations, Zhao Changxing also stood up and applauded facing the live broadcast.

"Let's announce this matter. Such a thing deserves to be celebrated by our entire civilization."

"Yes!"

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After completing the initial field exploration, the large-scale construction finally started.Many mechanical equipment were transported to Ganymede, and the people who had been tortured by the starch for too long broke out with unimaginable enthusiasm.

The first iron ore mining base, the first water mining base, the first steel factory, the first foundry, the first chemical plant...

Numerous buildings have sprung up on Ganymede's desolate land.And all the materials produced in the early stage were finally turned into pieces of building materials, shelves, and automated machines, and finally assembled into the first planting workshop built by human civilization in the Jupiter system.

It covers an area of ​​up to one square kilometer and has 10 floors.In addition to various construction land and public spaces, the internal area used to grow various crops is as high as 9 square kilometers, 1.35 mu.

If all wheat is planted, about 8000 tons can be produced every three months.

After the planting base was completed, people started the construction of the second crucial base without stopping.

Animal husbandry workshop.

The animal husbandry workshop is also as high as 1 square kilometer, and also has as many as 10 floors.Pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, donkeys, all kinds of aquatic plants, all kinds of fish, everything that one expects to find.

When the animal husbandry workshop was built, it happened that the production of the planting workshop could also be supplied.As a result, a large amount of grain, pasture, etc., flooded into the mouths of the livestock like a tide.

After another few months, it was finally time to slaughter the livestock.

Landing spacecraft one after another were loaded with butchered meat and flew to the Voyager spacecraft, entering the back kitchens of one central cafeteria after another.

On this day, the entire Voyager spaceship was enveloped in an alluring smell of meat.Even if the air purification system is running at full power, it will not be able to eliminate this smell.

People gathered in the cafeteria early and formed a long queue in front of the window.

When a large pot of braised pork, elbows, beef, braised fish, lamb chops, trotters, etc. were carried out, the crowd cheered like a tsunami.

"Finally, finally there is meat to eat!"

At this moment, I don't know how many people shed tears of excitement.

　Weakly begging for some meat to eat, no, begging for votes...

　　
　
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