Homo sapiens - Chapter 685: Increase in production capacity

Just when Zheng Bai and others were busy building Artificial Earth No. 1.

The headquarters of the Homo sapiens company in the solar system is not idle either.

After more than twenty years of development, New Humanity has finally made a breakthrough in the manufacturing technology of dual neutron materials.

Previously, Homo sapiens could only produce a few hundred kilograms of dual-neutron materials a year. After adopting new technologies, production capacity has increased dozens of times, and unit energy consumption has dropped by 55%.

At the same time, production equipment has been compressed from the previous scale of hundreds of kilometers to the level of dozens of kilometers.

As the most important colony of Homo Sapiens Company, Superstar Colonial Branch received relevant technical information immediately.

The Super Star Colonial Branch moved very quickly. In less than half a month, it transformed 8 dual-neutron material manufacturing machines, which can produce about 8 tons of dual-neutron materials per year.

The importance of dual neutron materials to Homo sapiens companies has far exceeded that of other materials.

Whether it is the energy field, military industry, engineering construction resources, or propeller field, dual neutron materials play an irreplaceable role.

Without dual neutron materials, it would be difficult for Homo sapiens’ spacecraft to travel at a speed exceeding 3% of the speed of light.

Now the company’s latest spacecraft has a maximum sailing speed of 7.8% of the speed of light.

The core technology of the new spacecraft is the magnetic field deflection shield made of dual neutron materials, the strong magnetic plasma thruster and the strong magnetic nuclear fusion power generation system.

Especially the magnetic field deflection shield, which is so important for a spacecraft flying at ultra-high speed.

Without this thing, as long as the spacecraft’s speed exceeds 2% of the speed of light, the head of the spacecraft will suffer irreparable damage.

During a test, the Homo sapiens company replaced the magnetic field shield of the experimental spacecraft with ordinary materials. The result was that after the spacecraft exceeded 2% of the speed of light, the head of the spacecraft collided with an asteroid a few centimeters in size. Then the head of the spacecraft was opened.

Asteroids with a diameter of several centimeters are basically densely populated throughout interstellar space. Although from a large spatial scale, the probability of a collision between a spacecraft and a micro-asteroid is low.

However, when the speed of the spacecraft increases and the navigation distance is lengthened, small-probability events will become inevitable events.

For example, during the previous expeditionary fleet of Homo sapiens, almost all the warships were collided with tiny asteroids.

Without the super magnetic field deflection shield made of dual neutron materials, the head of the battleship would have been turned into a hornet’s nest.

Why can’t the Six Claws develop a faster spaceship?

The answer is not only because of the poor thruster technology, but also because of the shield technology.

In the earth age, this is the case when human aircraft collide with birds, leading to aircraft accidents.

Entering the cosmic era, the speed of initial spacecraft did not exceed 20 kilometers per second, the navigation range was not far, and the risk of collision with micro asteroids was very high.

Not to mention that the speed of a spacecraft reaches more than 2% of the speed of light. As long as a collision occurs, an asteroid of a few centimeters will be no less powerful than hundreds of tons of TNT.

The largest asteroid that the expeditionary fleet hit was about 12 meters in diameter, and the impact force was equivalent to several million tons of TNT.

Without super shield technology, an impact of this level could directly smash the entire space battleship to pieces.

Why is the ultimate speed of the latest version of the Homo Sapien Company’s spacecraft stuck at 7.8% of the speed of light?

The reason is that when the speed of the spacecraft exceeds 8% of the speed of light, even the super magnetic field created by dual neutron materials cannot 100% deflect the tiny asteroids along the way.

Moreover, as the speed of the spacecraft increases, an asteroid with a diameter of several centimeters can produce a destructive force equivalent to hundreds of thousands of tons of TNT after impact. In addition, if the impactor hits harder, it may instantly break through the magnetic field and deflect it. shield.

After all, with the thrusters and power generation systems currently controlled by Homo sapiens, if continuous acceleration is adopted at any cost, as long as the acceleration time is long enough, the speed of the spacecraft can be increased to about 20% of the speed of light.

But the consequence of doing so is that the spacecraft will turn into a pile of scrap metal midway.

What’s the use of such speed if the safety of the spacecraft cannot be guaranteed?

This is just like the speed of intercontinental ballistic missiles can reach more than ten Mach, which is much faster than civilian airliners. Why not transform intercontinental ballistic missiles into transport aircraft?

It was also because of this reason that the omnic civilization had been unable to increase the speed of the spacecraft.

As for the quasi-secondary civilization that defeated the omnic civilization, its spaceship speed could exceed 30% of the speed of light, which shows how powerful it is.

Now the company’s spacecraft research and development department is trying to develop a more powerful magnetic field deflection shield, but management, including Li Qingye, is very clear that the magnetic field strength of dual neutron materials has reached its limit.

Unless a material with a stronger magnetic field than dual neutron materials can be developed, the ultimate speed of the Homo sapiens company’s spacecraft will stop at 7.8% of the speed of light.

Materials are the foundation of technology.

Regarding the research and development ideas for new materials, Dr. Yuri and others who developed dual neutron materials in the past have already had some ideas.

That is to study an upgraded version of dual-neutron materials, that is, to synthesize neutron materials such as four-neutrons and six-neutrons.

Unfortunately, the dineutron material was also created by mistake, and even a clear theory is not fully understood.

Regarding how to synthesize other neutron materials, various neutron materials research institutes can only continue to experiment, hoping to synthesize new neutron materials.

But materials science really depends a bit on luck.

Of course, in addition to luck, good materials also require a strong financial foundation. Without a large amount of resource investment, even luck is useless.

For example, for dual neutron materials, just a Mars equatorial ring particle collider would consume an astronomical number of resources.

The free world that is still lingering on the earth today will not be able to build experimental equipment of this level even if it does not eat or drink for a hundred years.

We don’t even have experimental equipment, and it’s impossible to develop dual neutron materials due to bad luck.

In the process of technological development, the threshold will become higher and higher as the technology becomes more and more advanced.

The gap between a first-level civilization and a zero-level civilization is a world of difference. Without special opportunities and the determination to unite, the probability of a zero-level civilization successfully advancing to a first-level civilization is only about 0.36%.

This data comes from the omnic civilization, which originally counted all the civilizations in the control area.

In the end, it was concluded that the probability of a zero-level civilization being promoted to a first-level civilization was only about 0.36%.

In other words, if the Homo sapiens company had not emerged, there is a high probability that human civilization would have continued to linger in the zero-level civilization stage, and then encounter the six-clawed people from across the stars a few hundred years later.

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