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Chapter 103 Space Elevator (Subscribe!!)

At this moment, with abundant electricity and huge resources, this comprehensive grain base has been put into operation.

The agricultural AI trained by Li Qingsong and named "Shennong" has now taken over most of the work in the comprehensive grain base.

In order to enable Shennong to work better, Li Qingsong also specially built a supercomputing base of the highest standards.

Under the management of Shennong AI, this huge grain base only needs 20,000 clones to operate at full power.

When developing on Roselle, half of the clones are often required to engage in agricultural production in order to supply the food needed by all clones.

The ratio of agricultural production personnel to full-time personnel once reached one to one, or even higher.

This obviously means low efficiency.

But at this moment, the ratio of agricultural production personnel to off-site personnel has skyrocketed to 1:750. The improvement in efficiency can no longer be said to be a surge, it can be called a leap.

Looking at the wheat that was beginning to grow in the wheat fields, the rice that was beginning to grow in the rice fields, as well as the various vegetables, beans, fish, livestock, and mushrooms, and then looking at the aerospace mothership, which had only less than 10% of its food reserves left, Li Qingsong breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally, we don’t have to worry about running out of food or the clones starving to death on a large scale.

At this moment, food, electricity and steel are already available.

As a result, with the concerted efforts of 1500 million clones, and the cooperation of many intelligent programs such as Jade Emperor AI, Industrial AI, and Construction AI, in just three years, the total industrial scale of the Ganymede base has increased to the same level as the two planets of Rosene and Dionysus.

But this obviously has not reached Li Qingsong's limit.

With a maximum number of consciousness connections of over 1000 million and 1500 million clones, a system has been initially formed with a certain level of intelligence. The AI in various industries is still evolving rapidly, and the combination is enough to support an industrial scale at least three times this size.

Previously on Luoshen Star, it was not that Li Qingsong was incapable of building a larger base, but that the resources there were too scarce to support it.

Now that I have come to the inner solar system and to Jupiter, if I am still constrained by resources, then wouldn’t my trip be in vain?

At this point, the development of Ganymede had reached a high level. Li Qingsong made a decisive decision and began to expand to other planets.

That's when the aerospace carriers and heavy cargo ships came in. Loaded with the heavy supplies from Ganymede, they began to head towards the other three large moons, as well as other more important moons.

The total size of the entire Jovian system - calculated based on the orbit of the farthest satellite of interest - is about 300 million kilometers.

Jupiter's rings also fall within this range.

At 300 million kilometers, the communication delay is only 10 seconds. Combined with the already established AI in various industries, the clones' construction capabilities will only be weakened by 20% at most, which is completely acceptable.

Thus, large-scale construction began simultaneously on Io's eight satellites, Io I, II, III, IV, V, 14, 15, and 16, as well as in Jupiter's rings and interstellar space.

At this time, Li Qingsong gradually began to notice a problem.

With the large-scale construction of multiple planets, Jupiter's rings, and space bases, the demand for transportation between the surfaces of different planets and interstellar space is becoming increasingly huge.

At present, for aerospace dual-use spacecraft, we still use old-fashioned chemical fuel propulsion.

Because of its large size and mass, secondary pressure thrusters can only be used on heavy cargo ships.

In the short term, Li Qingsong does not see the possibility of allowing dual-use spacecraft and landing spacecraft to use secondary pressurization thrusters.

This means that the huge demand for cargo has to rely entirely on landing spacecraft and dual-use spacecraft to travel back and forth between space and the surface, which is extremely inefficient and consumes a lot of energy.

The electromagnetic catapult system is also not very effective in the complex environment of the Jupiter system. Its overall efficiency is also low. Moreover, it can only launch, not recover.

The speed of material circulation has become another shackle restricting Li Qingsong's development.

"In that case... let's solve this problem thoroughly and once and for all!"

Li Qingsong decided to develop space elevator technology!
The so-called space elevator is to build a cable that directly connects the surface of the earth and space.

Every celestial body rotates, and as long as the cable is long enough, the speed at its end will always exceed the escape velocity of the celestial body.

In this way, the end of the cable that has reached the escape velocity will hold the cable straight so that it will never fall.

Just like a person swinging a hammer hard, the hammer will stretch the chain tightly and straighten it.

With this cable, Li Qingsong can transport goods directly from the surface of the planet into space like taking an elevator, or he can let the goods in space take a downward elevator and come directly from space to the surface.

Not only will efficiency and speed be greatly improved, energy consumption will be reduced, and it will also be more convenient.

Moreover, building a space elevator on these four satellites of Jupiter is much easier than building it on Earth.

Because their gravity is lower than on Earth, space elevators don't need to be as long and the cables don't need to be as strong.

At this moment, Li Qingsong decided to build four space elevators.

Yes, four, not just one.

Four large satellites, one for each!
The rest of the small satellites are not needed because they are too small and large spacecraft can take off and land directly on their surfaces.

After deciding to tackle the space elevator technology, Li Qingsong's attention instantly shifted to the materials laboratory.

As early as when he was on Luoshen Star, Li Qingsong had never relaxed his research on materials science and had already accumulated sufficient knowledge.

Even if we don't develop space elevator technology at this moment and let it develop naturally, we will almost reach this point.

While carrying out the huge construction, Li Qingsong was manipulating many clones busy in the laboratory.

In just two years, in a materials laboratory, two huge machines roared and vibrated dully, slowly pulling out a thin filament in a vacuum environment.

The thread is so thin, only about 50 micrometers in diameter, that even people with good eyesight can barely see it under ideal conditions.

But such a thin thread was made by Li Qingsong using the most advanced technology by combining all his scientific and technological strengths.

A thick, extremely tough steel plate was taken out by the robotic arm and moved towards the thin wire.

So the next moment, the steel plate was directly cut into two halves by the thin wire.

But under the microscope, the filament is still intact!

"Great, with this material, I can build a space elevator."

Li Qingsong's heart was filled with joy.

(End of this chapter)