Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 118 Beyond Humanity!

This kind of research method is absolutely impossible in the human world.

Not to mention whether there are so many materials experts with sufficient knowledge and operational experience to participate in the experiment, even if there are, the material loss in the process alone would be unbearable.

Every experiment requires extremely sophisticated equipment, consumes a lot of electricity, and consumes a lot of precious raw materials.

But for Li Qingsong, none of this is a problem.

Materials expert?
I have them, lots of them. If one million isn't enough, I can even come up with a hundred million.

Every clone, even if he is a farmer, a pig farmer, a sports car driver, or a garbage collector, can transform into a materials expert at any time if necessary.

Material loss? That doesn't matter. So many factories are running at full capacity all day long, and what are they producing so many products for?

Is it to allow every clone to live a good life?

Of course not, but to support the consumption of scientific experiments.

Li Qingsong faced neither of these two obstacles. He then embarked on a materials science research project with theoretically maximum efficiency. Over a period of just over a decade, through continuous experimentation, iteration, and optimization, he ultimately found the right material.

A type of steel produced by high-pressure forging using metallic niobium as an added element.

Finally, a breakthrough in materials science was achieved, and there were no more obstacles for Li Qingsong to manufacture qualified high-speed bogies.

At this moment, after decades of continuous research and development, a qualified high-speed bogie was finally placed in front of Li Qingsong.

Its overall structure is like a hemisphere, with some brackets extending from it, which look a bit like antennas.

Li Qingsong placed this antenna on a test bench that was shaking violently and swaying continuously.

Although this test bench was constantly shaking, no matter how it shook, because it had a special shock-absorbing and stabilization system, only the hemisphere inside the shell was shaking, and the outer layer remained stable and did not move at all.

Not only that, the brackets on it were also turning rapidly, pointing this way and then that way.

It looked like branches swaying randomly in the strong wind, but the indicator lights released from those brackets showed that this was not random swinging, but conscious control.

Those lights always point precisely to the corresponding numbers on the huge screen in front, even though those numbers are extremely small and cannot be seen clearly with the naked eye even if you get close, and even though the distance between the two is as high as a hundred meters.

Dozens of brackets were aimed quickly and simultaneously, without any confusion or error.

Looking at its performance, Li Qingsong finally nodded with satisfaction.

“Everything else is good, except that the amount of niobium metal used is a bit high.

This thing is a rare element. The largest niobium mine on Earth once had a reserve of only a few million tons, and there is even less in the Jupiter system.

If we want to manufacture on a large scale, we still have to look for large rocky planets or asteroid belts.

But it doesn't matter, I will build several mining bases in the inner solar system in the future."

At this moment, the high-speed bogie has also been successfully developed, and only the last component remains in the entire interception system.

Data processing system.

The data processing system is the brains of the entire interception system. Once the radar captures a target signal, the data processing system must first perform calculations. This system uses the target's trajectory and heading, combined with its own trajectory and heading, as well as the current operational status, orientation, and attitude of existing defensive weapons, to make a comprehensive decision. It then issues commands to the bogie, which then directs the appropriate weapon in the appropriate direction, enabling the electromagnetic and laser cannons to fire.

Although a data processing system is important, it is ultimately just a high-performance computer.

At this moment, Li Qingsong has mastered the manufacturing process of 2-nanometer chips and can already start mass production.

Chips using a 2-nanometer process are more than capable of handling the calculations for this amount of data.

Therefore, with the successful development of the high-speed bogie, the last obstacle to building a truly "modern" warship was finally completely removed by Li Qingsong.

The long and large-scale scientific research that lasted for decades finally produced some phased results, allowing Li Qingsong to breathe a sigh of relief.

But it was just a slight relief.

Li Qingsong did not forget that Wukong AI was always waiting for real and effective battlefield data as food.

At this stage, Wukong can only live in the virtual space simulated by supercomputers and use some virtual data as food.

So……

Li Qingsong made a decision immediately.

Build a real modern battleship!
At this moment, because the relevant technology has just had a breakthrough, the relevant production line is not yet ready.

But it doesn’t matter. Under the existing industrial system, customized production can also produce all the relevant parts of this warship.

As a result, the spacecraft shell factory, engine factory, secondary pressurization module factory, bogie factory, and so on, a total of 1.6 parts factories involved, produced all the parts within five days and transported them all to the vacuum assembly workshop.

The assembly workshop maintains an extremely high vacuum level, where the material is even rarer than real interstellar space.

Taking the space about 10 kilometers away from Ganymede as an example, even in space where matter is so sparse, there are an average of about 3 particles per cubic centimeter. However, in the vacuum assembly chamber built by Li Qingsong, the average number of particles per cubic centimeter is only .

In such a pure space, various parts began to be precisely assembled.

During the many production and construction projects in the past, Li Qingsong deeply realized a truth.

For industrial products like spacecraft, which have a huge number of parts, even as many as hundreds of thousands or millions of parts, the production of a single part is not the most difficult part; the most difficult part is assembling them together.

This is an extremely complex, systematic undertaking. Even the slightest error can affect the overall performance of the spacecraft. Even the slightest inappropriate wiring can lead to a malfunction.

But fortunately, Li Qingsong was already familiar with this.

Assisted by the "divine craftsmanship" AI, hundreds of clones manipulated highly precise robotic arms to build the components in the vacuum chamber into the spacecraft frame bit by bit.

It took more than ten days of continuous welding, gluing, tightening and connecting to assemble the first modern Mercury-class battleship in history.

Looking at this spaceship, which is disc-shaped, dark gray on the outside and about 16 meters in diameter, Li Qingsong's heart was filled with joy.

The birth of this spacecraft means that at least in terms of warship-related technology, we have completely surpassed the previous human civilization!

(End of this chapter)