Chapter 311

XueGuo train is not only a train, but also a science fiction work. The train itself is the most important stage in this science fiction work.

In the original work "snow train", the blue star becomes a cold hell for inexplicable reasons. In the end, the surviving human beings are crowded on an endless train driven by a perpetual motion machine. As long as the train stops, human beings will freeze to death, so the train has been moving forward endlessly.

On the train, the rich live the same life as before. Coffee, tobacco, botanical garden, aquarium, library All these things used to be enjoyed by the rich, while the poor at the bottom live in the last class cars. They can only survive on the protein blocks made of cockroaches. They have to endure the torture of crowding, squalor and hunger, and live a life without dignity.

This is a quite anti Utopian science fiction work, which describes the huge life differences between the rich and the poor and the polarization of social classes in a very ironic way. It is a quite classic work.

Of course, this is of little practical significance to the staff on Chen Xinhe's train. Although the environment of Bluestar is also a hell of extreme cold, even worse than that described in the original snow train, the surviving human beings on the Bluestar have not yet reached the point where they need to be crowded on a train to survive, especially the impossible one with perpetual motion machines West drive train.

However, the concept of XueGuo train is desirable. In today's harsh environment, people need railway transportation. It is very important to be able to operate normally in this environment, and XueGuo train is a good reference object.

"Among the design tasks required by the state, there is a plan for mobile shelters, which is to develop trains that can live permanently or for a long time on the basis of railways, move along the railway lines, transport the survivors from the north to the south where the environment is better, or simply drive along the railway lines." The staff didn't hide the matter, and it's not something that needs to be kept secret.

After thinking about this topic, Chen Xin shook his head and said, "it's too expensive to drive along the railway. How can you provide enough food for the survivors on the train? The number of people that a train can carry is no more than 1000 or 2000 people.

Considering the need to carry supplies and ensure survival, it's amazing that a train can guarantee the survival of hundreds of people, and the cost of keeping the train running is enough to build a shelter that can accommodate more people. "

"That's right, but it's a backup plan. After all, it's always good to be prepared in case something really needs to be done." The staff naturally understand how much resources it will cost to build a train that can accommodate hundreds of people, but as he said, they prefer to be prepared for use rather than available.

Chen Xin agrees that there will never be too much science and technology. If someone thinks that science and technology has reached its peak and human beings will not have any new inventions, it will only be that someone's brain is not working well.

So for XueGuo train, Chen Xin also gives some suggestions of his own.

After all, he is a novelist. In some aspects, Chen Xin may not have as much knowledge as scientists, but he is not inferior to those scientists in creativity. Even because of his career, he has more inspiration.

The staff are also very interested in Chen Xin's suggestions. After recording some practical ideas, they are very interested in inviting Chen Xin to go to the train manufacturing plant in Jianning when he has time to actually participate in the development and design of XueGuo trains.

Chen Xin was very interested in this, but he didn't agree directly. He just said that he would think about it when he had time. After all, he still has a lot of things to do here.

As for why he accepted the invitation, it was because Chen Xin thought of a more feasible but also more difficult setting from the idea of XueGuo train, that is, mobile base.

This is a more common setting than the snow train in all kinds of science fiction or fantasy works, many games, novels, comics and film and television works have appeared.

The small one may be a car, similar to Chen Xin's own RV, but the big one may be such super large units as Rhode Island, mobile city-state and floating city.

Small mobile base is easy to realize. In terms of modern technology, it is not too difficult to build it.

As for the larger mobile base, it is not to say that there is no mobile base. For example, an aircraft carrier can be regarded as a mobile base swimming in the water.

But in addition to these, it is difficult to build a land mobile base like Rhode Island.

It's not that it can't be built, but that there is no suitable road for such a big thing. Not to mention the structure, materials, shock absorption, energy, life support A series of problems are restricting the emergence of mobile base on land.

However, these problems may be constraints and troubles for others, but for Chen Xin, they are not problems at all. The big deal is to upgrade the system, which can be created.

It's just that Chen Xin turns around and thinks that he doesn't need to build such a thing, or that he doesn't need to build such a big one.Mobile base is not a necessity for him. It's just to take his family to avoid the disaster when there may be an irreparable disaster, so it doesn't need to accommodate too many people, and it doesn't need to be built too large.

So he doesn't have to build a Rhode Island, just a mobile base car.

After a few thoughts, Chen Xin didn't intend to put this idea into practice immediately. After all, mobile base is different from fixed refuge. It involves too many things. Even if Chen Xin can get help and resource support from the state, it is impossible to easily build a shared mobile base.

However, he thinks that when he upgrades his refuge, he can add some functions appropriately, integrate the structure of the existing refuge, and slowly adjust it to the direction of mobile base. Maybe after several upgrades, it can become a mobile base.

When Chen Xin was thinking about where he would go when he had a mobile base in the future, he and his staff finally got to the front of the train and saw the nuclear reactor in operation.

"This is the car's nuclear reactor. At present, it can provide up to 35mW of output power. Now we just let it run at 70% power." The staff are obviously very satisfied and proud of the nuclear reactor, which is less than the size of a six seat minibus.

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