Regardless of how surprised the overseas media was, Lu Zhou, who was standing in the underground laboratory, was completely shocked by Xiao Ai.
Calling it a Bumblebee was a bit inaccurate.
More accurately, what was in front of him was a Bumblebee model. The smooth and flat aluminum alloy shell exuded a shiny metallic luster under the incandescent lights on the ceiling of the laboratory. The mechanical structure under the streamlined shell perfectly matched the complex aesthetic.
Even though it wasn't colored, because of the high degree of fidelity, Lu Zhou, who had a deep impression of the Transformers series, recognized it immediately.
Even though this large robot was almost complete, there were still materials piled up in the laboratory. The industrial robots leaning against the wall had no intention of stopping.
The eight robotic arms were like octopuses, nimbly flipping the aluminum alloy plate in their hands. The files and hammers in their "hands" clanked against the aluminum alloy plate. The robot's movements were many times faster than when it first received the new toys.
Through an algorithm similar to neural network learning, as long as it adapted to a tool, Xiao Ai could quickly apply it to the extreme. This application wasn't limited to plasma control. Obviously, mechanical processing and automatic assembly were also within the scope of its capabilities.
However …
Lu Zhou: "You … What are you doing?"
The mechanical arm that had been moving non-stop stopped.
The drone floating next to it swayed left and right, as if it was tilting its head.
Soon after, Lu Zhou received a message from Xiao Ai on his phone.
[Master, didn't you ask what kind of body Xiao Ai wanted? I didn't want to bother Master, so I made it myself. (* ° ▽ ° *)]
Lu Zhou: "…"
[What do you think, Xiao Ai's new body is cool, right? (́ • ́ • ́) و ́]
[Praise me, hurry up, praise me, and I'll take Master for a ride! (≧ ▽ ́ *) o]
Okay, Lu Zhou admitted that this thing was pretty cool.
But …
What's the use of this thing?
Even though Lu Zhou didn't want to discourage this guy, he couldn't help but ask, "How do you plan on putting yourself in it?"
The eight mechanical arms suddenly stopped.
After a while, a message popped up on the phone screen.
[Can't you go in? Σ (° △ ° | | |)
Lu Zhou: "… I don't think so."
Although this model was well made …
But no matter what, a robot was not something that could be used just by designing its exterior.
Forget about the motor and servomotor, it didn't even have a control chip or a signal receiver. Did this guy not consider where to install his program?
Lu Zhou didn't know what to say about this kind of common sense.
After a long time, a string of bubbles popped up on the phone. The mechanical arm on the wall also threw away the alloy plate in its hand and drooped down listlessly.
[… QAQ]
Looking at the three-letter message, Lu Zhou sighed in his heart.
This guy …
Was he retarded?
Even a child should be able to tell the difference between a movie and reality.
"Anyway, stop playing and come help me."
Lu Zhou didn't even know how to comfort people, let alone an artificial intelligence.
Lu Zhou ignored Xiao Ai and walked straight to the side of Debris No.3. He reached out his hand and removed the plastic cover. He then returned to the control terminal of the industrial robot.
Lu Zhou, who had new equipment, finally didn't have to hold the pliers and crawl in clumsily to take samples.
With the help of Xiao Ai and the eight industrial robots, he easily completed the dismantling of Debris No.3.
Actually, it didn't take much effort to dismantle this thing.
Even though the material of the outer shell was very strong, the designer of this equipment couldn't weld it into a structure that couldn't be dismantled.
Relatively speaking, the engine located at the back of the spacecraft or in the belly were relatively safe.
Of course, this was only relatively speaking.
The wreckage was neatly dismantled into three parts. When Lu Zhou looked at the mess inside, his eyebrows twitched.
The situation was worse than he had imagined. Not only did the huge impact completely destroy its parts, but it also completely destroyed the internal structure.
For example, the metal pipes that were flattened on one side of the inner wall. Lu Zhou could only use his current knowledge to roughly guess that this thing was similar to a temperature exchanger or the inlet of a plasma engine.
Connected to the flattened and fractured conduits was a special flat cylindrical hollow trough structure.
"Electrode … Heat exchanger … This is the ionization chamber? Is this a Hall-effect thruster? "
Lu Zhou stared at the image captured by the industrial camera. He leaned back in his chair and rubbed his chin.
Behind this empty trough structure was a conical bottle shaped nozzle.
Further back was the bowl-shaped structure at the end of the entire wreckage.
Through the analysis of the internal structure, Lu Zhou made a bold conjecture.
The engineer who designed this device probably adopted a rather avant-garde design idea … Or rather, it was a common practice in his civilization.
Which was to take the ionization chamber out and design the plasma nozzle into a Hall-effect thruster unit, which was integrated behind the ionization chamber.
By heating and applying a voltage, the ionization chamber ionized the gasified propellant, and the volume of the propellant expanded to form high-temperature plasma. At the same time, the plasma was sent to the Hall-effect propulsion unit connected to the back of the ionization chamber, which was the nozzle that looked like a conical bottle.
Through a special design, these Hall-effect thruster units could more efficiently process the high-temperature plasma in the ionization chamber and eject it out of the engine.
At the same time, the plasma plume integrated on the rear rectifier ring neutralized the ejected plasma plume, preventing the ejected plasma from being sucked back into the ionization chamber …
In theory, as long as the electrical output was large enough and the plasma was ejected fast enough, before the critical current of the superconducting magnet was reached and the pressure and temperature of the ionization chamber exceeded the threshold, the power of the engine could be increased indefinitely.
Based on the direction of the cracks in the pipes, Lu Zhou could even speculate that before the spacecraft was "destroyed", the pilot of the spacecraft probably performed some kind of dangerous evasive maneuver. The engine power was overloaded and maintained for a period of time.
Lu Zhou looked at the flattened pipes and went into deep thought.
He felt like the secret behind the system was getting more and more incredible …
After determining the external components of the engine, the rest of the work was easy. By comparing the images taken by Xiao Ai, Lu Zhou quickly found the "fuel tank" of the engine, which was the location where the working fluid was stored.
However, there was another problem. Where did the electricity come from?
No matter how the Hall-effect thruster was designed, the thrust per kilowatt wasn't that high. Even if this advanced civilization increased the ejection speed of the plasma plume to a ridiculous magnitude, which allowed its thrust to break through μN, mN, and eventually reach the magnitude of N. In order for a 100-ton spacecraft to reach at least 1G of acceleration, the amount of electrical energy needed was still quite terrifying.
At the very least, the electrical output had to reach the magnitude of M.
Such a huge power consumption was obviously not something a normal battery could handle.
At least lithium-sulfur batteries were definitely out of the question.
He speculated that the energy storage unit should be close to the fuel tank. Looking at the circular double-layer structure connecting the fuel tank and the temperature exchanger, Lu Zhou felt like this thing was similar to something, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it before.
However, at this moment, a crazy and unrealistic idea suddenly popped into his head.
Could it be …
Nuclear fusion?
Thank you to the leader of "Shi Shengmo" for the tip ~ ~ ~ ~
Working hard to repay the debt …
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