Chapter 416

For this great earthquake, human beings have not done similar global experiments, or are unable to do such experiments for the time being, so there is no way to deduce its relevant data.

Moreover, the development of marine resources by TEP civilization is still in a very primary state. If marine resources can be truly developed, the lack of rare earth will be alleviated to a great extent in theory.

"Secondly, in addition to a series of changes in marine mineral resources, there is another point." The geologist on the stage stretched out his second finger: "after the earthquake, due to the mutual extrusion between plates, the world's first peak and a large super plateau with an average altitude of 10000 meters appeared near the equator of the planet in 150000 hours!"

A satellite photo is displayed on the screen. This plateau is near the equator. Because the altitude is too high, there is still a certain amount of snow.

In this high gravity state, the emergence of such a high altitude plateau has attracted the attention of many geologists from the beginning. The higher the gravity of the planet, the more gentle the terrain should be, but the plateau of the planet is higher than the earth, which is against common sense. But if this plateau is young and abnormal, and it is artificially born, there is a more reasonable explanation.

This plateau area called "Amelia" is located in six countries such as Austria and Lai. Due to the violent mutual extrusion of plates, small-scale earthquakes will occur now. In addition, Shanghai is high and the air pressure is too low, which is not suitable for the survival of TEP people.

Therefore, this plateau is sparsely populated, has become the dividing line of various countries, and has not been truly developed.

But according to human eyes

Zhang Yuan's pupil was slightly enlarged, and an idea suddenly jumped out of his mind.

This is completely... A natural rocket launch base!

A total of five satellite launch centers have to be considered.

The first is that the lower the latitude, the better. If the latitude is low, we can rely on the power of the rotation of the planet. Launching a rocket near the equator has the advantages of high initial speed and fuel saving, which can effectively reduce the launch cost and difficulty.

This plateau happens to be near the equator!

The second is the climatic conditions. Due to the relatively high terrain, dry climate, less precipitation and good air visibility, this plateau. This planet, due to its vast ocean, is quite wet on the whole, while there are not many dry areas like this near the equator.

The third is the topographic conditions, which are open and flat, and the terrain is relatively high compared with the surrounding areas.

Fourth, traffic conditions. At present, this is not quite in line. The plateau is still in the state of uncultivated land, and the traffic must not be able to keep up.

Fifth, safety conditions. The satellite launch center must be sparsely populated to ensure safety after launch failure. Therefore, the launch base cannot be built near the downtown area.

Although the traffic environment of this plateau with an altitude of more than 10000 meters is not very good, there is no doubt that it meets four of the conditions

And there are other benefits. Some waterways in the middle have extremely abundant water resources, can build large-scale hydropower stations, and even solve the energy problem.

The experts on the stage were excited when they said this: "to sum up, according to this objective environment, our scientists have made a series of calculations..."

"The content of the calculation is, with the technical means of mankind at the beginning of the 21st century, if we really build a rocket launch base on this plateau, whether we can push satellites into space and open the real space age!"

The meeting room was quiet and everyone was sitting upright, waiting for the final conclusion.

This conclusion is very important. If so many objective factors are combined, the TEP civilization still has no way to enter the space age, it can only show that earthquakes are likely to occur only naturally.

If the enlightener triggered the earthquake, the relevant "development level" should be calculated, so that the "level" is not too high, so that the low-level civilization can't step up at all. Otherwise, what is the point of this help?

The expert did not sell off and directly came to the conclusion: "after discussion and analysis, we believe that it is a little reluctantly, but with the technology of level 0.7 civilization, we can do it!"

With a bang, the meeting room was boiling, and even a slight clapping!

A little reluctantly and impossible, that is, two completely different concepts.

In other words, this "great" earthquake is indeed a great chance to enlighten civilization and create conditions for the tepp people to enter the space age.

However, as far as the current TEP civilization is concerned, it has not been found.

This series of operations simply stunned Zhang Yuan. It was... Too violent!

He seemed to see... Very far away 150000 years ago, the enlightener civilization passed by here and suddenly found that this civilization in the primitive era could not enter the space age in the future because of its poor geographical location.

So they tried to trigger a strong earthquake, created this plateau, and turned the "impossible" into a little possibility.

Then walk away!

As for the Taipu civilization, whether it can enter the space age and whether it will make use of these created conditions, there is no need to consider more... At least the environmental factors are not impossible after a series of transformation.

This possibility is very high!

Li Zhendong suddenly sighed: "it's an interesting civilization. Now I do feel that this civilization does have a certain goodwill, not the so-called 'organic harvester'... People always have to have some higher pursuit to live in the world, although I don't know this strange move, Is it a higher pursuit... In short, it's interesting. Interesting should be regarded as the highest pursuit? "

"Anyway, it shouldn't be too much to call them 'enlighteners..."

Zhang Yuan couldn't help taking a sip of water, calmed down his inner feelings, and said, "yes, it's a lucky thing to have such a pioneer in the Milky way... But there's no way to trigger such a plate movement at the scientific level of mankind?"

Li Zhendong thought for a moment and calculated some figures on the paper with a pencil: "if you force it, you can certainly do it. It's just a little hard. It's just to get more nuclear bombs! Let me think, the Czar's nuclear bomb, with an equivalent of 50 million tons, didn't shift the plate of the whole Eurasian continent by 9 mm? If we can make hundreds of millions of such nuclear bombs, oh, this number is my nonsense... We should be able to force the plate to shift anyway. "

"But it's too rough to use a nuclear bomb. In practice, it may lead to the extinction of species and the destruction of the whole ecosystem... I don't know how the enlightener did it. It's really a great power brought by science and technology!"

"I think of a better way... Use multiple nuclear bombs to explode together under the earth's crust, pry the plate, or the enlightener civilization dug deep underground, caused an explosion in the mantle layer, and then produced a series of chain reactions. These are possible. " Li Zhendong said, discussing with other experts in high spirits.

"There is a weapon, the continental shelf vibrator! It causes vibration during the rapid release of energy from the earth's crust, which is a natural phenomenon similar to seismic waves. "

Zhang Yuan didn't want to hear their nonsense. Then he turned and asked the scientific researcher on the stage: "Professor Lu, I have another question. Have you found any good mineral resources on this plateau? If so, it can really be described as killing three birds with one arrow. On the one hand, it solves the problem of lack of rare earths. On the other hand, it can also lure some countries to develop this neglected plateau area. "

"Mining minerals must build infrastructure. When all the infrastructure is ready, there will be no problem with the establishment of a rocket launch base."