Super industrial overlord

Chapter 491 Ceres II
Just after the probe inspector reported to Wang Wei, the bridge of the Ziwei Star spacecraft, which was a little depressed because of the probe damage, was suddenly detonated by the news.

You must know that Ceres is one of the most important missions for them to detect the asteroid belt this time. Before coming to the asteroid belt, Zhang Yi has already told them to come to the asteroid belt to explore. It doesn’t matter if other large asteroids are not found. You can look for it next time, but Ceres must be found. After all, Ceres is the largest asteroid discovered in the asteroid belt, and it can even be called a dwarf planet. Therefore, Ceres occupies a large part in the Earth’s solar system defense plan. proportion.

And because of the size of Ceres, Zhang Yi and the others are planning to build a large number of defense facilities on Ceres, and it takes a lot of time to build these defenses, and what the entire earth and human beings lack is time.

Because according to the estimates of scientists from various countries on the earth, if the previous unknown civilization obtained the specific scientific and technological information of the earth and planned to invade the solar system, it would not give humans too much time, otherwise, the human solar system defense plan would not So anxious, and the major powers of the entire human civilization have invested manpower and material resources in the solar system defense plan regardless of the cost.

So after entering the asteroid belt, Wang Wei and the others have been looking for traces of Ceres.

Although Ceres is also an asteroid in the asteroid belt, it is somewhat different from ordinary asteroids in the asteroid belt. Ceres is not only the largest known celestial body in the asteroid belt, but also has a relatively stable orbit .

Of course, this is not the most important thing. More importantly, according to the analysis of the data observed on Ceres before, there is still a lot of water on Ceres, which is even more important for the solar system defense plan.

After all, human survival needs water, and there is a lot of water on Ceres, which will play a very important role in the construction of various defense facilities in the asteroid belt by engineers in the future, and it will also be very important for the personnel stationed in the asteroid belt in the future. role.

Because if there is no water, whether it is the engineering personnel who will build the asteroid belt defense facilities in the future, or the soldiers stationed here in the future, the water needed can only be transported from Mars or the earth. This is definitely a huge challenge for human civilization. More importantly, once a war really breaks out, the personnel stationed here will definitely increase exponentially, so the consumption of water will naturally increase exponentially, which will lead to the difficulty of defense. increase, not to mention that once the logistics are cut off, the personnel stationed here will face the situation of no water available.

So for Zhang Yi, for the civilization of the earth, the water on Ceres is the most important thing. Of course, the scientists on the earth have already confirmed the existence of water on Ceres. Civilized scientists are still unable to figure out how much water there is on Ceres, so the most important purpose of Wang Wei and his team to find Ceres this time is to locate Ceres and detect how much water resources there are on Ceres, and whether there are liquid water resources at the same time. , Of course, in addition to this, they also undertake the puzzle of detecting whether there is life on Ceres, even if it is the most primitive and ancient life.

Because if life really exists on Ceres, it will greatly promote human exploration of the universe, which means that the emergence of life in the universe is not as difficult as many scientists imagine, and it represents the birth of life in the universe. Existence is very common, and life can appear and survive even in a relatively harsh environment.

"Immediately report the status data of Ceres?" Wang Wei, who came back to his senses, immediately ordered the staff in the spacecraft.

"Received! The current speed of Ceres is 16.1 kilometers per second, and the distance from our Ziwei Xing-350 is [-] million kilometers."

Wang Wei said, "Immediately report the speed of our spaceship."

The crew member who monitored the status of the spacecraft nearby replied; "Report to the captain, the current speed of our spacecraft is 17.5 kilometers per second."

"The spacecraft immediately speeds up to about 30 kilometers per second, and then slows down when it is 40 kilometers away from Ceres, and finally maintains the same speed as Ceres when it is 20 kilometers away." Wang Wei ordered.

"Yes, Captain! Attention all crew members, the spacecraft will accelerate after 30 meters. Please return to your post and fix it, and always pay attention to the trajectories of all celestial bodies within a range of [-] kilometers around the spacecraft. If there is any abnormality, please immediately report."

Soon, the nozzles of the engines of Ziwei Xing No. [-], which was moving at an inertial speed, suddenly shot out fires one after another, and the spacecraft also gained the power to accelerate from these fires.

At the same time, the news that the spacecraft had discovered Ceres and was preparing to explore Ceres was also sent back to Earth under Wang Wei's order. At that time, there was a distance of nearly [-] million kilometers between the spacecraft and the earth. Even if the radio signal reached the earth, it would take more than five hours. Fortunately, it will take some time for the spacecraft to reach the vicinity of Ceres, which is enough for the information sent by the spacecraft to be sent back to the earth. up.

After all, even if the spacecraft travels at a speed of 50 kilometers per second, it will take nearly 350 hours to fly 20 million kilometers, and it will take a certain amount of time for the spacecraft to speed up and decelerate, so it will take at least 25 hours for the spacecraft to reach the predetermined position, so enough information spread back and forth.

Sure enough, 13 hours after they sent the information back to Earth, Wang Wei and the others received a reply from the command center, asking them to put the crew's business safety first when exploring Ceres, and told them, Their parents, wives and children, as well as the entire earth civilization and human civilization, all hope that they can return safely.

When Wang Wei and the others saw this piece of information, the crew members on the entire spacecraft were a little excited. After all, they set off from the moon base and have been in the cold space for more than a year until now. As the saying goes Yes, for three months, family letters are worth ten thousand gold, let alone more than a year.

Although it is said that the development of human science and technology is already the distance between countries on the earth, not the distance, but this is only limited to the earth. If we put it in the vast solar system and the vast universe, human science and technology Insignificant at all.

Take them now as an example, the fastest means of communication in human civilization has not yet exceeded the speed of light, so their current location is only about [-] million kilometers away from the earth, but the information they send out must be It will take five or six hours to receive it from there, so at this time, greetings from family members are the greatest encouragement for them.

(End of this chapter)