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"Kunlun Yunxiao!"

"Nuclear-powered rocket!?"

"No, you actually said it in such an understatement?"

"Are you just kidding us? Nuclear power! Rockets!"

"Gao Yuan-san, can you stop being so calm about everything?"

When Gao Yuan announced the news about the nuclear-powered rocket, countless viewers had black lines on their foreheads, because no matter which way you look at it, these five words nuclear-powered rocket are great inventions that can shock the world, but Gao Yuan seems to be nothing. Same, I told everyone simply.

"Yes, nuclear-powered rockets." Gao Yuan faced the camera and continued: "The Long March series of conventionally powered rockets will step down from the stage of history from today. Here, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Aerospace Group and everyone who participated in the Long March series. People, express my most sincere thanks.”

"China's aerospace industry will be led by powerful nuclear power systems in the future. Whether it is a space station or a planetary colony base, controllable fusion will be used as the main energy source."

As Gao Yuan spoke, he turned around and quickly wrote and drew on the blackboard that had been prepared behind him.

Gao Yuan drew a technology tree, one technology after another, connected to each other through the branches and leaves, and continued to grow and develop.

"Some viewers may wonder, why do we suddenly have nuclear-powered rockets?" Gao Yuan smiled, "Let me tell you, this is not sudden at all, but a necessity."

"As we all know, we have just solved the problem of stable operation of controllable fusion not long ago and launched the Kunlun-1 fusion reactor. On top of Kunlun-1, we triple-constraint the plasma. In other words, we already have perfect control of fusion. Technology of energy.”

"You may still remember our laser defense weapon, the Kunlun Zenith."

"Kunlun Zenith creates plasma and emits it."

"And Kunlun-1 strictly restrains the plasma."

"Now we have launched Kunlun Yunxiao. Kunlun Yunxiao's ability is to create, control, and accurately release plasma."

Gao Yuan tapped his finger on the blackboard to connect Kunlun Zenith, Kunlun One, and Kunlun Yunxiao, showing the audience a complete scientific and technological research and development route. The collection of countless such scientific research routes is the so-called technology tree. .

"Everyone should understand now." Gao Yuan said: "When science and technology accumulate to a certain level, quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes."

"It took humans thousands of years to understand the principles of the steam engine and enter the mechanical age. However, just a few hundred years after we entered the mechanical age, the earth has undergone earth-shaking changes. The intensity of the changes is far greater than that of thousands of years ago. Years, tens of thousands of years.”

"That's the power of invention, the power of scientific research."

Gao Yuan talked eloquently and introduced everyone to the development process of nuclear-powered rockets. However, due to the confidential nature of controllable fusion technology, Gao Yuan's introduction was mostly theoretical and did not involve specific details.

For most viewers, this is a good thing, because if there are too many formulas and data mixed in, everyone will not understand it. It is better to satisfy everyone's desire for knowledge without leaking the core. confidential.

After a hazy technical introduction, everyone was satisfied except those Western scientists.

Gao Yuan said it was easy, but is it really that easy to convert controlled fusion into nuclear-powered rockets?

It can't be.

As early as 1933 AD, the principle of controllable fusion has been proposed by the scientific community. Scholars around the world have been studying this technology for a long time. So far, everyone finally understands how to operate a fusion reactor. As for fusion rockets , still only exists in the imagination of scientists, and the research progress does not exceed 5%.

When Gao Yuan said that he had reverse-engineered fusion rocket technology through fusion reactor technology, almost all the scientists went crazy. With just a push, they built a nuclear-powered rocket? Is this justified?

"Okay, that's it for the theoretical explanation. After all, we always like to use actions to convince others. How powerful is Kunlun Yunxiao? Please wait a moment and we will give you a live demonstration right away!"

After finishing this technical explanation, Gao Yuan felt that his throat hurt a little, so he left the camera and went to the audience to drink water.

At this time, winter has entered the Western Regions, and the air has become drier and drier. The plateau is located in the south of the Yangtze River and is not particularly adapted to the climate here.

"In two years, transforming this Gobi desert into an inland lake should be able to alleviate the dry climate in the Western Region." Gao Yuan thought to himself.

This is probably the confidence that controllable fusion technology has given him. An inland artificial lake larger than Lake Baikal is really daring to imagine on the plateau.

At the same time, as much anticipated, the live broadcast footage finally turned to the temporary launch site in the Tarim Basin, and people finally saw the entity of Kunlun Yunxiao.

With a height of 161 meters and a weight of 3,042,000 tons, the Kunlun Yunxiao is much smaller than the North American Poseidon giant rocket, and overall it is less than one-third of the Poseidon.

However, this is the first rocket in human history to use nuclear fusion as power. If it can successfully pass the test launch, it will undoubtedly completely subvert the aerospace industry and move mankind from the era of planetary land survival to the era of interstellar colonization.

"Awesome! So beautiful!"

"Words cannot describe my excitement at this moment. Boss Gao, please accept my knee!"

"Nuclear-powered rocket! Maybe I can go to the moon in my lifetime!"

"We must succeed! We must succeed! Whether the Chinese civilization can rise and the space age all depends on this time!"

"Come on, come on! In one go, rush out of the little breaking ball!"

The barrage refreshed crazily. People were surprised by the dynamic streamlined shape of Kunlun Yunxiao. At the same time, they also had high hopes for this launch, hoping that it would lead China and create a new era of the universe.

The isolation of the country since the Ming Dynasty caused China to miss the vigorous Age of Discovery and the Age of Geographical Discovery, which objectively led to the humiliating history of China being left behind and beaten for hundreds of years.

If it were to happen again, no Chinese would be willing to miss the interstellar era again. After all, the painful memories of the past are too profound.

Only moving forward is the only direction for the Chinese nation. Anything that hinders our moving forward must be eliminated without mercy.

Phew~

Gao Yuan drank two cups of juice squeezed from small red fruits, moistened his throat, and returned to the stage with his usual smile.

"Are you ready?"

"everything's ready."

"Okay, launch!"

Under the astonished eyes of the whole world, Gao Yuan gave the launch order so casually that it was almost unbelievable.

According to the steps, shouldn't there be a huge red button, Gao Yuan makes an impassioned speech, and then presses it hard, and the onlookers roar and tsunami, blood boiling?

In this regard, Gao Yuan explained: "We are more than 100 kilometers away from the launch site. The highest control is not in my hands, but in the hands of the on-site commander. The on-site commander must not only conduct on-site inspections and inspect every missile The screw stirs up dust after being launched, and he has to eat the dust. The work is very hard and the responsibility is very heavy."

"Most of the launch scenes you've seen in movies are just a show, like the cutting ceremony of a new building. Those guys wearing crisp suits and holding golden scissors, I'm afraid they haven't even moved a brick, right?"

Although Gao Yuan is the boss of Kunlun Company and the scientific research manager appointed by the national team, when it comes to launching rockets, whoever is on site has the final say.

Plateau also has to listen to on-site command orders, so there is no need to have a launch button. That thing is of the same nature as the ribbon cutting of the building, and they are both fake.

Boom~

When Kunlun Yunxiao began to eject azure blue light from its tail, the audience immediately understood why the plateau had to avoid the launch site for more than 100 kilometers.

This momentum, this light, this scene of flames soaring into the sky is simply more terrifying than the eruption of Mount Vesuvius!

It's too damn dangerous. With Gao Yuan's status, even if he wants to watch it up close, the national team won't allow it.

In an instant, the entire land was covered in blue flames. This was no ordinary flame, but plasma sprayed by the fusion engine!

If you have seen the movie The Wandering Earth, you will understand how crazy the thrust generated by this thing is. It is just that the earth engine ejects into space to push the earth forward, while the Kunlun Yunxiao ejects towards the ground to push itself into the sky.

Although the volume and energy index are very different, the fusion engine used by Kunlun Yunxiao and the re-fusion engine used by Wandering Earth are similar in principle.

As we all know, in theory, all elements before iron in the periodic table can be fused, but fusion is incredibly difficult. It seems like a fantasy no matter how you look at it. Even the fusion plan provided by the system to the plateau only uses hydrogen and helium. .

But Liu Cixin found through calculations that if hydrogen and helium were used, it would not be enough to push the earth out of the solar system. So he set up burning rocks, using the silicon and oxygen in the rocks to convert into iron, and then using fusion energy to eject the iron plasma. concept, but in reality, the possibility of realizing refusion is extremely slim.

Kunlun Yunxiao moved forward indomitably, carrying unparalleled power, and quickly disappeared from the camera lens, becoming a white light spot on the radar screen.

accelerate!

accelerate!

Keep accelerating!

Kunlun Yunxiao is going crazy, passing through the atmosphere, entering space, and diving into the distant and unknown magical universe, the speed is getting faster and faster.

"It's not a staged rocket, but a whole one!?"

"How to classify nuclear-powered rockets? Throw away the fusion capsule?"

"According to convention, once a rocket leaves the atmosphere, shouldn't it crash because it runs out of fuel?"

"Just kidding, how can the nuclear fusion fuel be exhausted if it doesn't take a few years to burn?"

The audience used the barrage to discuss with great interest.

Kunlun Yunxiao is mankind's first nuclear-powered rocket. Its principles and performance are completely different from rockets in the past. Most people still cannot understand the powerful capabilities of fusion rockets.

Seeing that Kunlun Yunxiao had entered space, Gao Yuan nodded with satisfaction, raised five fingers and said, "Five days!"

"NASA's Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to reach Jupiter from the Earth in human history. It was launched on March 3, 1972, and arrived on December 3, 1973. It flew for a total of 640 days."

"There is also the Juno spacecraft, also from NASA. It was launched on August 6, 2011, and arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, which took 1,795 days."

"It is not difficult to see from this that it is really difficult for us to reach Jupiter from the Earth. After all, the shortest distance between the Earth and Jupiter is 778-150 million kilometers, and the farthest is 778+150 million kilometers. "

"But with the birth of Kunlun Yunxiao, all this will eventually become history."

"Kunlun Yunxiao will fly at five percent of the speed of light, with acceleration and deceleration. It will only take five days to enter the orbit of Jupiter from the earth!"