"Is this Celestial City?"
The universe was cold, but standing here, Zhang Feng, who was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, only felt the coolness similar to an air-conditioned room. With his feet on the solid metal floor, he was surprised to feel gravity similar to that on Earth.
This should be the gravity section of Celestial City, which was the "counterweight" part of Celestial City.
Standing around him, except for the black man named William who was fiddling with his phone, everyone walked to the transparent floor-to-ceiling windows and looked down at the glory of Mother Earth.
"A five-hour journey, but it feels like a century." Rudolph Clark reached out and gently stroked the reflection of Earth on the floor-to-ceiling windows, then opened the wooden box he had been holding to his chest. Inside was a photo, and the old man in the photo was his grandfather.
The old man who had used his imagination to predict this day.
Although everything was almost twenty years late …
"Can I throw it into space?" Rudolph found the tour guide who was waiting for them at the exit of the space elevator and asked seriously. "This is my grandfather's last wish."
The young tour guide shook his head and refused Mr. Rudolph's request.
"No."
Any space garbage separated from the space station would become a potential safety hazard, and it would even require tens of billions of dollars to recycle this garbage in the future.
"It's just a photo."
Rudolph tried to persuade the tour guide, but the tour guide still shook his head and refused his request.
"A photo flying at 3.1 kilometers per second is no different from a blade."
And it was the kind of blade that could cut through steel.
Although it was a pity, Rudolf was not an unreasonable person. The tour guide nodded to him and thanked him for his understanding, then walked in front of everyone, clapped his hands, and motioned everyone to look in his direction.
"Welcome to Celestial City Space Station. My name is Lu Fengming, and I will be your tour guide. If you encounter any problems during your visit to Celestial City, please be sure to consult me. I will do my best to help you. "
"Without further ado, I wish you a pleasant journey."
The tour guide's concise and comprehensive opening remarks immediately won Zhang Feng's favor. He wasn't a talkative person, and naturally, he didn't like people who talked too much.
The group of people followed behind Lu Fengming and walked into the space station under the guidance of this tour guide.
"From the side, the entire space elevator looks like a 'Y' inserted into the Earth, with an outward opening grabbing a ring. Right now, we are in the inner part of the ring, which is the so-called gravitational region. "
"We can feel gravity, but it's not gravity. It's pseudo-gravity produced by centrifugal force. Yes, we, the floor under our feet, and the space we are in are rotating around the axis of the space elevator at a speed of several kilometers per second. "
"Thanks to this expanding outward and constantly rotating ring, the center of gravity of the entire space elevator is enough to stay in the synchronous orbit, and we can feel gravity close to the surface. We are now standing inside this ring, with our heads facing the center. "
Speaking of this, Lu Fengming paused, tilted his head, and thought for a moment.
"It's very troublesome to explain in detail. You can think of us as a group of hamsters running on an endless wheel," Lu Fengming explained humorously, amusing many passengers.
They all carried Future phones with a voice translator, so there was no communication barrier after putting on headphones. Many people wondered why they didn't float after boarding the space station. Now that they listened to the tour guide's explanation, although they couldn't explain the specific technical content, they understood the general idea.
After listening to Lu Fengming's words, Academician Liu Zhusheng looked at the sky thoughtfully and then looked at the ground. His expression was one of shock, one moment he was excited, and the next moment he sighed.
"It is indeed worthy of the name of a miracle … Is this really a project that humans can complete? If the entire star ring is accelerated, the angular momentum at the center of the axis must reach a terrifying magnitude … What kind of metal can withstand this level of mechanical force? Titanium alloy? Impossible … Even titanium alloy can't do it! "
Graphene? That's even more impossible.
Graphene was strong enough, but the commonality of carbon-based materials was that their wear resistance was generally poor. It was impossible to make gears or spindles.
Compared to Liu Zhusheng's shock, Dimitri from the European Space Agency was completely numb. Unlike Liu Zhusheng, who specialized in the field of rockets, he was also quite accomplished in space station research, and he even participated in the design of the International Space Station. Compared to Liu Zhusheng, he had a deeper understanding of the terrifying power contained in this giant space station.
If the International Space Station and Celestial City were placed together, the International Space Station, which gathered the technological power of multiple countries, was more like a small boat in front of the port.
The group continued to move forward and walked down the corridor.
In this place, the Earth was not under their feet, but it was forever fixed outside the glass window next to them, like vivid window decorations.
"This is the corridor of Celestial City. We have rooms for living on the side. Directly below us is the rapid transit channel that facilitates our rapid movement in this ring city. You can think of it as the subway of Celestial City, because it is indeed under our feet. "
The space in Celestial City was very spacious, making it impossible for people to have the illusion that they were walking on a pipeline. After walking for about a kilometer, the group came to a movable door. With the sound of air pressure adjustment, the movable door slowly opened, and behind it was an elevator.
Everyone stood on the elevator, and the movable door slowly closed.
As the floor jumped from one to three, they were like moles that drilled out of the ground, and the scenery in front of them suddenly became clear.
Stepping onto the porch, Zhang Feng looked up.
Through the transparent dome, he saw the space elevator with the bright starry sky as the background, and the panorama of Celestial City.
As he lowered his head and looked ahead, the shock in his eyes intensified.
It was a wheat field.
The golden wheat was like the sea, bathed in the cold ultraviolet light, and slowly undulating with the circulating airflow. At the end of the wheat field was a verdant green, where other varieties of vegetables were grown.
He didn't know how to describe the word endless, because he really couldn't see the end of the field. He could only see the green and black where the sky and the earth met.
"People can live in the pipeline, but it's impossible to live in a small space all the time. Eighty percent of the living space of Celestial City is designed in the corridor we just passed through. Every ten kilometers or so, we will design an external space station covering an area of about two thousand acres. They are like pieces of paper stuck to the ring. We can farm, grow flowers and grass, develop real estate, engage in light and heavy industries … everything we can achieve on Earth. "
"If you just look at it, you might think it has a high technology content? No, no, no, in fact, their technology content is far less than the corridor you passed through before, not even one-tenth of it. "
"If necessary, we can continue to expand its space. If we don't consider resources, we can even inlay this kind of external space station on the entire ring. "
Speaking until here, Lu Fengming paused again, then added a sentence.
"Of course, when I say it's useless, I mean before it is developed."
When the tour guide said this, Liu Zhusheng, who was listening carefully like a primary school student, suddenly twitched a few times.
Is this really just a space station?
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