While the foundation and the four major continents began to focus their attention on the Resident Evil dimension, in reality, a new announcement was also made on the official website of Blacklight Biotechnology on this day —
Blacklight Biotechnology had been preparing for a full three years and invested 50 billion US dollars in the "Ares Project" was about to begin.
Ares was the name of the god of war in ancient Greek mythology. It was one of the twelve main gods of Olympus and symbolized power and war.
Among the corresponding stars, Ares corresponded to Mars of the eight major planets. Therefore, the "Ares Project" was also known as the "Mars Scientific Colonization Project". The content of the project was as follows:
Send humans to Mars within two years, establish a Mars scientific research station, and establish a permanent human colony on the surface of Mars within five years.
As for why Blacklight Biotechnology chose Mars?
In addition to the nine major planets in the solar system, there were also a large number of satellites. For example, Jupiter and Saturn were surrounded by several satellites and the largest of these satellites even exceeded the size of some of the nine major planets.
Even in the Kuiper belt around the solar system, there were several dwarf planets hidden in the darkness.
However, among these planets, the one with the closest environment to Earth was Mars.
Mercury was too close to the sun, resulting in a temperature of 427 degrees during the day and -173 degrees at night. Under such a strong temperature difference, humans directly ruled out the possibility of building a base here.
Venus was the closest planet to Earth apart from the moon. However, Venus was actually the same as Mercury, a hellish planet. Its atmospheric pressure was at least 90 times that of Earth and the surface temperature was as high as 470 degrees Celsius. There was basically no difference between regions, seasons, and day and night.
As for Jupiter and Saturn, they were gaseous planets, needless to say. Jupiter's moon, Europa, was also too low in temperature, not conducive to human reproduction.
Among all the options, only Mars had the most optimistic living conditions. Although its diameter was only half of Earth's and its mass was only 11% of Earth's, its surface area was equivalent to the total land area of Earth. Its surface gravity was 2.5 times that of the moon and two-fifths of Earth.
The atmospheric density of Mars was only one percent of Earth's, but it could still produce a greenhouse effect. The average temperature of Mars was about -55 degrees Celsius. During the summer day, it could be close to the normal temperature of Earth.
Among so many harsh choices, Mars was indeed the most ideal planet for humans to colonize.
At this time, a group of people who followed the official website of Blacklight Biotechnology immediately saw this announcement.
As the world's most influential technology company and the first company to usher mankind into the "age of anti-aging" and "bionic transformation", Blacklight Biotechnology had garnered tens of thousands of fans. Countless people had an almost obsessive faith in Blacklight Biotechnology, just like the "Apple fans" of the past.
Moreover, this trust was not due to a hot-headedness. It was the credibility that Blacklight Biotechnology had forged through the use of technology that had revolutionized the world.
From the age-reversal treatment project, an epoch-making technology that subverted the laws of human life and death, to the Blacklight vaccine that saved hundreds of millions of lives, from hundreds of anti-cancer drugs to Alzheimer's disease drugs... Blacklight Biotechnology had almost monopolized the entire Earth Federation in the field of biomedicine!
Therefore, many scientists liked to occupy the official website of Blacklight Biotechnology. Here, thousands of researchers would communicate and discuss every day. In addition, Blacklight Biotechnology deliberately provided a venue for scientists from all over the world and managed the forum in an orderly manner. In the end, the Blacklight Biotechnology forum almost became a sacred place for scientists to communicate.
On the homepage of the official website of Blacklight Biotechnology, there were a total of six major sections, namely:
Biopharmaceutical section, bionic medical section, service and security section, electronic technology section, mineral resources section, and military and aerospace section. The six major sections were represented by six colors, green, white, gray, yellow, black, and blue, respectively, making it easy to identify at a glance.
At this time, a large red exclamation mark appeared on the interface representing the military and aerospace section.
The moment this exclamation mark appeared, countless people quickly clicked on it.
At once, a video of only about five minutes or so popped up. At the top of the video, there was a bold headline:
The Ares Project — Mars Scientific Colonization Project Officially Begins!
As the video began, a spacecraft with a spindle-shaped hull and two huge double-nozzle engines on both sides appeared in the video. This spacecraft glowed with a silver luster and looked like a magnificent work of art.
This was the spacecraft that was responsible for transporting mankind to Mars in the Ares Project — the "Ares".
However, this scene only lasted for a moment. At the same time, a deep, solemn male voice slowly came out of the video.
"Humans have existed for over a million years since they were born. At the same time, they have also dreamed for over a million years."
"In ancient times, whenever humans looked at the starry sky, they would always wonder what the stars and the moon were, whether they were gods or landforms, and what kind of stories were they …"
"Therefore, there was the story of Chang 'e flying to the moon, the Cowherd and the Weaving Maid, and countless myths and legends …"
As the voice spoke, the image in the video changed bit by bit. Various mythological illustrations intersected with each other, like a touching story …
"The exploration of extraterrestrial life began in the 16th century. The first means of observation was simple telescopes. It wasn't until the 1960s that humans landed on the moon for the first time …"
Suddenly, a man dressed in medieval aristocratic attire appeared in the video. He was polishing his glasses in the dark, but as he was polishing them, he suddenly stopped and slowly raised his head. At the same time, he pointed his glasses at the moon outside the window, his face revealing an intoxicated expression …
What followed was a deep and solemn piano sound. The sound contained a heavy sense of history, but also seemed to be describing a starting point.
"Every time humans leave their footprints in deep space, it represents a milestone in the history of spaceflight …"
The image in the video flashed and changed to the scene of mankind's first rocket launch, as well as the first manned landing on the moon. Several scenes intersected with each other. Although the picture quality was rough, with only black and white, everyone seemed to see the trajectory of history from these videos.
"But there has never been a day when humans are so close to other extraterrestrial planets …"
As the male voice in the background changed his tone, the piano sound began to take a considerable turn. It was as if a stone had been thrown into the originally calm surface of a lake, and ripples began to appear.
Immediately, the spindle-shaped spacecraft that appeared at the beginning of the video began to appear in the video. Its body glowed with silver light, and lines of data also appeared beside the spacecraft.
"Ares: 52.3 meters long, 21.1 meters wide, 15.5 meters tall, 780 tons weight. The spacecraft has four engines, and its power comes from two nuclear engines.
"The interior of the spacecraft is divided into three floors, including the bridge, medical bay, laboratory, and six living rooms. It can carry 16 passengers.
"In addition, the spacecraft can also carry about 200 tons of cargo, as well as about 20 tons of fuel..."
Immediately after that, the image began to show the scene of the Ares spacecraft taking off. The bottom of the huge reactor engines on both sides of the spacecraft began to eject four bright blue lights.
Under the push of this huge force, the spacecraft began to slowly rise and gradually accelerate...
This scene was computer-generated, but it was very exquisite. If one did not look at it with confidence, they might even think that all of this was real.
"We're starting a new era. From where you and I stand, an exclamation mark has been drawn on the dividing symbol of the era, because from today onwards, mankind will officially enter the era of cosmic immigration..."
The sound of a trombone blared, mixed with the sound of mankind's enterprising spirit, and even the male voice in the background began to rise!
"From today onwards, the title of mankind will officially jump from 'planet natives' to 'interstellar residents'!
"From today onwards, when we refer to Earth, it will no longer be 'the only home of mankind', but 'the birthplace of human civilization'!
"From today onwards, we open a new chapter in mankind's history. Join us, Blacklight Biotechnology will lead each and every one of us into the history books of the future!"
As a torrent of background music played, the video also came to an end, then gradually dimmed again and faded away.
In the end, there was only a low, long whine left in the background, as if the sound had not yet died down.
At the end of the video, there was only a line of large white text on the black screen — The Ares program colonist registration officially begins on July 1, 2028!
Within an hour of this video being released, the traffic of Blacklight Biotechnology's website skyrocketed from about 100,000 visitors per hour to tens of millions. Even the website's server was about to crash due to the overwhelming traffic!
At the same time, this video was also reposted by major websites, spreading the news to the world.
[Mankind is about to set sail? Blacklight Biotechnology launches extraterrestrial colonization plan, Earth is no longer the only home of mankind] — Wall Street Journal.
[The only company in the Earth Federation with colonization qualifications, Blacklight Biotechnology extends the human technological tree by 50 years] — BBC News.
[The plot of the movie is about to unfold? Blacklight Biotechnology's' Ares program 'compared to the' Prometheus program 'in the Alien series, how far is humanity's path to colonization?] — Tencent News.
[Will Blacklight Biotechnology become the greatest company in the history of mankind?] — Sina Express.
[Flying into the vast universe! As children, we've waited for forty years. Buzz Lightyear's slogan is no longer empty talk] — YouTube News.
Immediately, the entire human society was in an uproar!
As early as two years ago, Blacklight Biotechnology used rocket technology to successfully send a manned spacecraft to the moon, becoming the third force to send humans to the moon after Northern America and the North Sea Continent in the last century. At the same time, it was also the first private company to send humans to the moon.
For this reason, as a form of encouragement, the Earth Federation approved Blacklight Biotechnology's application, making Blacklight Biotechnology the first company in the world to be qualified to colonize space.
However, Chen Chen was clearly not satisfied with this. In the next two years, Blacklight Biotechnology frequently sent rockets to space and the moon, and established the first lunar international scientific research station on the moon, for scientists and adventurers from all continents to go to the moon to conduct scientific research.
Today, about fifty scientific researchers were stationed on the moon all year round, and Blacklight Biotechnology needed to send spacecraft to the scientific research station once every six months to transport supplies to this group of people.
The reason why Blacklight Biotechnology was able to travel between space and Earth so easily was not purely by burning money, nor was it because of the simplified "spacecraft launch and recovery" technology of SpaceX. It was due to the emergence of the "inertial confinement fusion engine".
This was a type of nuclear reactor that could fuse fuel and convert it into energy using lasers. After miniaturization, it became an engine with nuclear explosive thrust.
Previously, Chen Chen used the "inertial confinement fusion reactor" to charge the USB drive, but in reality, the power generation capacity of this reactor was not comparable to the "super tokamak reactor".
However, the manufacturing process of the "super tokamak reactor" was too difficult, so Chen Chen simply took out the technology and gave it to the four major continents. After a multi-faceted cooperation between Blacklight Biotechnology and the four major continents, it took a full three years before this technology was restored, and it could enter the commercial stage in the near future.
The "inertial confinement fusion reactor" was more suitable as the engine of a spacecraft, allowing the spacecraft to travel to once unreachable planets at a very small cost, and begin to explore the unknown.
Just as Chen Chen once predicted — the day the nuclear fusion reactor was successful would be the day mankind would evolve into a species that could cross planets.
Therefore, Blacklight Biotechnology secretly carried out time-consuming and labor-intensive research and optimization of the "inertial confinement fusion reactor", and finally, the engine of the Ares spacecraft today was finally formed.
The "inertial confinement fusion engine" was like a miniature version of the "inertial confinement fusion reactor". In a sphere made of superconducting material at room temperature, a small ball formed by a mixture of deuterium and tritium was injected into the reaction chamber, then 2 million joules of energy was focused in 192 electron beams on the deuterium pellet with a diameter of a few tenths of a millimeter and ignited. Each laser beam was fired for about three billionths of a second, triggering intense high temperature and pressure, which produced a nuclear fusion reaction to power the spacecraft engine.
According to the data obtained from the Ares spacecraft engine experiment, the exhaust speed of the spacecraft's thruster could reach 7% of the speed of light in vacuum, which could accelerate about 500 tons of payload to a maximum speed of 38600000 meters per second, which was close to the speed of light.
What the engine needed to do was to explode 250 nuclear fuel pellets of about 0.001 grams per second, and continue to do so...
However, since it was too abrupt, Blacklight Biotechnology did not announce the existence of the inertial confinement fusion engine to the public. They only announced that the Ares used nuclear engine technology and was preparing to lead mankind to land on Mars for the first time to establish a scientific research station, which caused a tsunami of exclamations.
As for the countless people on the Internet questioning the "nuclear engine technology", Blacklight Biotechnology maintained its silence and did not mention anything at all.
Today, if Blacklight Biotechnology did not want to say anything, no one in the world could force it to say anything...
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