Chapter 439: Ice crystal meteorite

The current atmosphere is transformed from the secondary atmosphere to the current atmosphere, which is most closely related to the development of life phenomena. How life on Earth emerges is a matter of long debate. А.И. Obarin (1924) first proposed that the phenomenon of life first appeared in the reducing atmosphere, and then SL Miller (1952) and others produced it in the laboratory's artificial reducing atmosphere by spark discharge. Some organic macromolecules, such as amino acids and adenine. Adenine is the main component of DNA and RNA. So this kind of experiment has some significance. However, in the 1960s and 1970s, people used radio telescopes to find that these organic macromolecules exist in interstellar space, such as aminomethyleneamine (CH2NH), cyano (CN), acetaldehyde (CH3CHO), methylacetylene (CH3C2H), etc . They also heated the meteorite powder and found volatile compounds such as acetonitrile and non-volatile compounds such as adenine. So it is thought that the roots of life may exist in interstellar space. However, even if the "pre-life matter" comes from interstellar space, the simplest and earliest life should still appear in the reduced atmosphere. This is because in the atmosphere full of oxygen, the simplest living body is easy to decompose and difficult to develop.
So this time the Starry Sky Group used the existing atmosphere of Mars as the original atmosphere, and then planned to form a secondary atmosphere after volcanic eruption and the movement of the crust, and then used artificial inoculation to keep the secondary atmosphere in a short time. Time has transformed into the present atmosphere, that is, an atmosphere suitable for human existence.
This is a very arduous task. According to the calculation of the Mars Migration Project team, if the entire Martian atmosphere and the crust are to be moved, a meteorite containing one-tenth the size of Mars is required to contain the commanded water resources. You know that the mass of Mars is 6.4219 × 1023kg, and one tenth is 6.4219 × 1022kg. But even if it is one tenth of the amount, the transportation capacity of the Star Group is a huge challenge.
However, these things are the future. Now the entire Star Group needs to ensure that the ice crystal meteorite that is currently engaged in engine installation and traction rope installation reaches Mars smoothly, and enters orbit in a predetermined orbit and then hits Mars. The installation workers are the most elite workers in the sky building, and they are also very powerful. The lowest strength of these workers is the high rank of martial arts, and the Starry Group also found that the higher the strength, the smaller the impact of space on humans.
There is even a dedicated research team in Star Space to study this aspect, and their results are remarkable. Warriors above the martial arts level can survive for half an hour in space without any protective measures. Moreover, compared with ordinary people, the warrior has much stronger control over his own muscles. It is a gravity-free environment that hinders human movement in space, but the control of the warrior ’s muscles has reached a terrible level. The above warriors can completely ignore the gravity-free environment.
However, there is more than this danger in space, so these construction workers helped a very thick safety rope behind them, and the other side of the safety rope was the Beluga 1 space transport ship, and a thicker one. At this time, the rope was also dragged towards the ice crystal meteorite by the drag of the three starry space shuttles.
A drilling machine is running on the top of the ice crystal meteorite, and the construction workers next to it can't hear any sound, but the huge mechanical operation makes the ground near the entire machine begin to crack slowly, but the construction workers Rather than stopping the drilling machine, it suddenly increased its horsepower.
"The drilling machine No. 1 has begun to increase its horsepower, and there is no cracking at the moment." A worker next to the drilling machine checked the ground around the drilling machine before reporting.
"Keep an eye on the ground. If the situation of large-scale collapse immediately retreats, the second group of holes drilled to the left of the meteorite has failed, and they are looking for new holes." Nothing can be successful for the first time, these After receiving this mission, people have learned a lot about all the data on the earth by the drilling team. And they also practiced many times in Earth and space, but they still miscalculated the difficulty of this mission.
The hardness of the ice crystal meteorite has exceeded their imagination, and they have spent many experiments to study the successful drill bit. The consumption of the drill bit is very fast. Basically, a drill bit needs to be replaced every ten minutes, which greatly reduces their work efficiency. Moreover, the temperature above the ice crystal meteorite is very high. Even if their current strength is not bad, they still have to take a break for every hour of drilling under the temperature of minus Baidu ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The process of drilling is Very boring, changing the drill bit, starting the drilling machine, and then the sky's ice crystals sprayed out of the borehole and buried the workers and machinery standing next to the machine.
The entire drilling process took a total of ten days. During these ten days, four drilling teams failed a total of ten times, with an average of 2.5 times. Of course, this cannot be counted, because the drilling holes above and below and to the left and right must be on a straight line, otherwise the effect of penetrating the entire ice crystal meteorite cannot be achieved, so as long as one party fails to drill, the other party must search for the drilling site again .
But this is just the beginning. Next, these drilling teams will need to drill eight small ion engines on the entire ice crystal and install them. Of course these so-called 'small' engines are compared to the Beluga engines. If you use the Star Shuttle engine as a comparison, it will be very large.
These engines are specially made by Xingkong Group. They adopt an integrated design. Each engine will be equipped with a small nuclear fusion power plant when it is built. In the original design, it was intended to use 100,000 energy blocks for energy. It is supplied, but it is found through experiments that these energy blocks cannot provide long-term power supply and need to be replaced frequently. So in the end, the small nuclear fusion power station was integrated into the engine. The research of Xingkong Group in this area is very deep. It is necessary to know that the first aircraft of the Xingchen used the nuclear fusion power supply method.
The drilling task this time is much simpler than breaking through the entire ice crystal meteorite, so the construction crew has installed the engine in place within ten days. With the installation of the cables complete, the last step of the process is about to begin.