History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 42 Black Sun

Compared with spending a lot of manpower and material resources to find those carbonaceous white dwarfs at the end of evolution, it is more humane to send people to the place where Zhou Xiaoyang is currently stationed for mining. Of course, the mining cost is also much lower.The planet where Zhou Xiaoyang is located, nicknamed "Bird's Egg NO.17" by everyone, is not so much a planet as it is a huge diamond mine.

The official official number is CMS102907293021, "Bird Egg NO.17", which is indeed a black and irregular spherical shape, just like the feces of those chirping birds in the wild that are generally used as pets by people on the inhabited planet. The adjective "black lacquer" is indeed an appropriate description of the environment here, because apart from the black elemental carbon covered on the surface of the mining planet itself, this star field of about one hundred cubic light-years has almost nothing that can emit light. bright stars.And this galaxy is known as the "ten-body galaxy".

Although the discovery of the "ten-body galaxy" did not subvert people's understanding of the universe, it was enough to allow humans who have just stepped into the door of interstellar exploration for less than 1000 years to realize the depth and diversity of the universe.Although it is named "ten-body galaxy", the "ten suns" referred to in this galaxy do not form a mutually strongly interfering motion as in the so-called "two-body" or "three-body" movement. Chaotic combination.

The special feature of this galaxy is that there are actually ten independently formed brown dwarfs within a volume of only 150 cubic light years.In the past, there was some controversy over whether brown dwarfs should be classified as stars. However, from the nature of the gravitational collapse formed in the center of an ancient accretion disk, brown dwarfs undoubtedly belong to the category of stars, but they will never appear The position of the main-sequence star on the H-R diagram.

Different from the main sequence belt on the H-R diagram, the luminescence and heat caused by fusion brought about by sufficient mass, brown dwarfs with a mass ranging from 1.4 to 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter, are not enough to support even the lowest temperature and pressure requirements hydrogen fusion.However, brown dwarfs generally emit more dazzling brilliance and colors than Jupiter because of their far greater mass and more complex chemical composition than Jupiter.However, even Jupiter in the solar system can only reach the absolute magnitude of -[-] to -[-] when it is relatively bright on the earth, which makes it difficult for brown dwarfs that cannot emit light by nuclear fusion to be far away in the universe. distance is observed.

When people came to this later known as the "Ten Body Galaxy" through Star Tunnel 931-1-3-19 in 2 of the Universal Era, they were shocked by this sense of darkness that they had never experienced before.Judging from the coordinates of the later positioning, the ten body galaxies are located in the "northern super void".Of course, in the 21st century, calling some areas in the universe where it is difficult to observe optical or radio band signals "voids" was indeed a helpless move made by observational astronomers at that time because it was difficult to get out of the cage of the earth.

The region, then known as the void, was generally thought to host either a massive black hole or a massive collection of dark matter.However, more actual observations and later studies after the opening of the Star Tunnel show that there are still dwarf galaxies like the ten body galaxies in these cavities.However, it is also estimated that because of the existence of supermassive black holes and dense dark matter, it is difficult for this region to form more diverse or more observable light sources like other galaxies rich in main sequence stars.

Zhou Xiaoyang's hometown is South America, especially Ucayali, where there are many immigrants from Peru.On Earth, Zhou Xiaoyang’s family was neither the descendants of Native Americans, nor the descendants of the European colonists or the Mestizo people who were mixed with the two, but an Asian family who immigrated here from Taiwan, China in the 70s .After her great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather moved to Lima from Keelung Village in Taipei more than 700 years ago, he immediately fell in love with this vibrant place that is very different from China.

Around the mid-80s, Zhou Xiaoyang’s ancestors and his family moved to Iquitos, the capital of the Mayanaus province in the Loreto region, probably because they hated the urban life in Lima, which was essentially the same as Taipei.Contracted several square kilometers of land on the edge of the former Amazon rainforest to plant rubber and a small amount of fruit, and made hundreds of millions of dollars through rubber futures trading during the period of rapid global economic development for more than ten years (The U.S. dollar was the legal tender of the United States, the largest economy on earth at the time. Due to its important economic, political and military status, the U.S. dollar also became the standard for people and countries around the world to measure wealth in those decades).Although the wealth of Zhou Xiaoyang's ancestral family has shrunk to a certain extent during the global economic recession in the early 21st century, it is no problem for dozens of members of the family to live a long-term and prosperous life.

In the 21 years from the 500st century to the Great Recession, her family and the country of Peru are worth mentioning. One is that her family contributed 2037% of the total investment in 5.00 (the Peruvian state contributed 350%), and in China’s With assistance, the first railway in the Loreto region leading to the outside world was repaired historically, and it is a high-speed railway with a speed of [-] kilometers per hour.In recognition of her family's contribution, the high-speed rail station in the provincial capital Iquitos was named after Zhou Bingchang, the patriarch who led the family to Peru.

The second major event was that in 2176, the Peruvian national team won the championship for the fifth time in the 86th Copa America.In the World Cup two years later, the Peruvian football national team pursued the victory and lost to the Italian team of similar strength in the final, winning the runner-up of the World Cup in a historic way.

Peru's small country with few people and the high-quality resources in the Amazon Basin prevented Zhou Xiaoyang's family from being hit hard during the Great Recession in the 26th century like North America, Central America, North Africa, and Western Europe.In the era when all human beings devoted all their efforts to defending their homeland for the first time, this family of Chinese descent living on the edge of the Amazon Basin also did its best to supply life-saving rations at a price close to cost to those areas in need.

This is the general situation of the country where Zhou Xiaoyang's family is located after the discovery of the asteroid numbered 2973161.In the early days of the Great Recession, Gu Lanlan's family was hit by the media, the public, and even politics because of Gu Lanlan's Chinese identity.But these slowly fade as people need to work hard for the next meal.

After nearly a hundred years of recession and misery, the population of Peru as a whole has decreased by 30.00%.Most of these people who died abnormally stopped breathing forever due to famine, or small-scale wars, large-scale conflicts, and various gang fights caused by famine.However, it is also estimated that due to the relatively abundant natural resources and a well-established agricultural system, the rate of population reduction here is lower than the world average, and it is even lower than many so-called industrial countries that have long since abandoned agriculture.

When the asteroid 2381 was successfully destroyed in the orbit of Neptune in 2973161, Zhou Xiaoyang's ancestors naturally watched the whole process live through the live holographic image of the whole solar system.Naturally, their family knew about the discovery of the original star tunnel immediately.Although Peru, as a country with underdeveloped technology and hard to contribute much of its own strength, has not done much substantive work for the opening of Star Tunnel 2383 in the later stage, but because the major countries know that this almost successful plan requires the efforts of all human beings. Come and take part in the beginning of a new era of cosmic exploration.Therefore, during the waiting period of more than 2521 years from 100 to 20, Zhou Xiaoyang's family also successively selected more than [-] people to participate in training and basic aerospace training at the Buenos Aires Space Center.

The yearning for future human development plans may be highly in line with the original intention of Zhou Xiaoyang's ancestors to live in South America, because the family's genes probably have the kind of persistent pursuit of a new world and a new life.After the opening of Star Tunnel No. [-] on the "corpse" of Neptune, although the five qualified astronauts of Zhou Xiaoyang's family at that time failed to take the first exploration spacecraft to reach the first galaxy outside the solar system set foot by human beings, they were in the third In the advance fleet of the first batch of immigrants, they successfully landed on one of the habitable planets in the No. [-] galaxy.

Perhaps in order to let human beings remember the wars and damages in the past few years, people unanimously named the three habitable planets in the No. [-] galaxy "Peace".Zhou Xiaoyang's ancestor landed on that habitable planet, which is still called "Peace III".

It may be the result of the explosion and annihilation of the previous generation of black holes or other high-density and high-energy matter. Thousands of these brown dwarfs are enriched within the gravitational hydrazine range of more than 2 light-years in the ten-body galaxy, or wandering among brown dwarfs. among the heavy element planets.This can basically be explained by the traditional concept of cosmology: when the last generation of galaxies or quasars enters the end of their life and undergoes a large-scale explosion, some interstellar matter is thrown out; some of the explosion remnants have a higher density, In areas filled with gas or dust and interstellar matter, Bork spheres with a mass of 50 to [-] suns are very easy to form; when Bork spheres continue to collapse due to their own gravity, the density, gravitational potential energy, and temperature rise alternately or simultaneously, and finally in the original When a stellar cloud reaches or approaches hydrostatic equilibrium, protostars are basically formed.

Because, in protostars, due to factors such as neutron star mergers, quasar collisions, or explosions caused by medium and large-mass black holes because the singularity exceeds the physical limit, the average density of interstellar matter in this region is generally much higher than that of supernova explosions. remains.The difference is that in general supernova explosion remnants, molecular clouds are mostly light elements such as hydrogen and helium, and the metal elements after hydrogen and helium are only two to three percent on average. , the abundance of metal elements can reach more than [-]%.

This means that even after the formation of some protostar clouds with a large core mass, these protostars have the potential to attract more matter and reach the mass to form main-sequence stars, because the average mass of the surrounding matter is several orders of magnitude higher than that of ordinary nebulae, And stopped the evolution process of star enriched matter.And these protostars whose mass is not enough to form even red dwarfs can only evolve into brown dwarfs without nuclear fusion; at the same time, the heavy matter around brown dwarfs continues to merge into several planets and planets rich in metal elements. asteroid.

Zhou Xiaoyang and her colleagues, in such a black "hole" that is not so vast in the universe and has almost no "natural light", provide construction, machinery manufacturing, and luxury jewelry decoration industries for several inhabited worlds. Provide low-cost raw materials.

Taking the construction industry as an example, the rock building materials collected in this ten-body galaxy can be made into square stone materials with a side length of 177 meters and a thickness of 5 mm, and the flatness deviation is within two thousandths, and the absolute maximum deviation value is controlled at within 5mm.At the same time, because these rocky planets with abundant resources have generally experienced hundreds of millions or even billions of years of evolution, the high-quality stone they produce has excellent chemical stability, corrosion resistance, and surpasses all human beings. range of ultra-low radiation intensity.These large pieces of luxury building materials, which symbolize the acquisition of materials regardless of cost, are mined, cut, and packaged on these low-gravity asteroids, and then sent to those urban planets including Luojing, Beso, and Earth.

Of course, when these thin, large and fragile stones arrive at the cargo space stations of those urban planets, they will be equipped with several small power generators to maintain their stress without breaking.Often, the cost of this process will account for more than 70.00% of the stone when it is sold, inlaid, veneered or laid on the walls or floors of those tall buildings.Correspondingly, in fact, the mining company where Zhou Xiaoyang and his colleagues work can only earn some hard-earned money from mining and cutting.

The salary of joint credit points is not very high, plus the need to work continuously for [-] to [-] standard months in this dark space without natural sunlight before the rotation, Zhou Xiaoyang and her colleagues always Complain secretly about this.Can she and her colleagues spend their lives and youth just busy with these unimportant building stones, diamonds, jade, or heavy rare earth elements that are important but not used in large quantities?of course not.

In this special, dark star area, there is a considerable amount of raw materials that can be used to manufacture F-class, A-class, and B-class nuclear fusion weapons.And everyone knows that 1000 years ago, when the earth was crumbling, people only used G-class nuclear weapons with an equivalent of only one-tenth of F-class fusion weapons to cause the annihilation of Neptune in the solar system, forming the first nuclear weapon in history. A star tunnel. (Since the earth began to develop star-level fusion weapons, people have used the method of stellar spectrum naming to name the codes of nuclear weapons. The power from small to large is M-level, K-level, G-level, F-level, A-level, B-level, and later The explosive yield of the former is ten times that of the former.)
During Emperor Eagle's uprising and conquest of the human universe, low-level workers like Zhou Xiaoyang almost all brought their own mining equipment, spaceships, and knowledge of this star field to join the Emperor's team.

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