Homo sapiens

Due to the very fast starting speed, the speed of the magnetic-class spacecraft 001 soon increased to 35 kilometers per second.

To travel to Jupiter at this speed, it will take about 250 to 380 days.

Jupiter is currently about 760 million kilometers away from the Earth. According to the direction of movement of both parties, Jupiter will be reached in about 277 days.

If it is a fire-class spacecraft that uses nuclear explosion propulsion, this time will only take 20 to 30 days.

It's a pity that nuclear explosion propulsion cannot be applied to magnetic-class spacecraft.

However, rather than going to Jupiter, the destination of the second magnetic-class spacecraft is Mars. At the ultimate speed of 35 kilometers per second, the spacecraft can arrive in only 25 to 83 days.

The third Magnet class went to Venus.

All three test magnetic stages were launched.

The synchronized robot on the spacecraft is checking the situation of the monkeys and anthropomorphic bodies.

Judging from the information fed back so far, the condition of these experimental monkeys and humanoids is not bad, and there are no accidents in some of the experimental subjects in the cryogenic chamber.

After all, when Homo Sapien Company established the Venus Cloud Palace Base, it sent two thousand employees to Venus. In terms of cryonics technology, Homo Sapien Company's technical level is not bad.

The purpose of testing the magnetic-class spacecraft this time is to eliminate some manned models of the Fire-class spacecraft. The speed of these spacecraft is too low and is not conducive to development.

After all, many employees at the Venus Cloud Palace Base have adapted to the gravity of Venus, and no major problems were found during relevant physical examinations.

As the Space Collaboration Department has just taken over Venus, it naturally hopes to send more employees from Earth to Venus.

The speed of the old manned spacecraft is obviously lower.

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Venus.

Yungong Base.

This floating island floating above the atmosphere has now expanded to an area of ​​15,000 square kilometers.

As Wu Feng, who had just taken over as the head of the Space Collaboration Department, he already had a preliminary understanding of the situation on Venus.

Taking into account the existence of Venus' atmospheric ecosystem and underground ecosystem, future development work on Venus will focus on floating islands and part of the surface area.

He is currently investigating a new project.

Inside the Yungong Shipyard.

Construction of a huge hemispherical device has been completed.

The radius of the hemispherical device in front of me is 500 meters.

"Minister, this is the integrated base module we designed and built." Designer Renault patted the outer wall of the hemisphere.

Wu Feng asked with some worry: "Designer Renault, can this thing withstand the high pressure, high temperature and corrosion on the surface of Venus?"

"Don't worry! Minister, we use a high-temperature-resistant composite ceramic shell, and with a super-strong alloy layer inside, this thing can last on the surface of Venus for at least 50 years."

Wu Feng looked at the hemisphere in front of him, thinking about the next arrangement in his heart.

This integrated base module is prepared for mining.

Its characteristic is that it can be lifted up using an airship and then placed at the required location. After mining is completed, the mining base can be lifted up again and placed at a new mining point.

There is no other way.

Without this method, there would be no way to mine minerals on the surface of Venus on a large scale.

As the head of the Space Colonization Department, Wu Feng knew that the bottleneck facing the Venus colony was mineral self-sufficiency as soon as he took office.

The reason why bases on Mars, the moon, and Callisto are being constructed very quickly is because local mineral resources are self-sufficient and there is no need to transport additional raw materials from the earth.

To develop a planet, the prerequisite is to achieve self-sufficiency in the colony so that it can develop steadily.

If the earth is required to transport basic supplies all day long, it will not be about developing living space, but it will be a heavy burden.

It is precisely because Wu Feng realizes this that he is so concerned about this integrated mining base.

Now the Homo sapiens company does not lack oxygen, carbon, sulfur, hydrogen and nitrogen on Venus, but lacks metal minerals. Although carbon materials can replace a large part of metal materials to a certain extent, metal materials must be used for some materials.

For example, cables, gold-based thermoelectric materials, floating island skeletons, etc. all use metal materials.

In recent years, Earth Headquarters has delivered a total of 470,000 tons of metal materials to the Venus colony, including 283 tons of gold and 1,773 tons of silver.

This kind of reverse blood transfusion makes the company management very entangled.

Wu Feng's first task now is to solve the mineral self-sufficiency problem of the Venus colony.

He ordered to Renault: "Start testing!"

"OK."

Under the control of the staff, the hemispherical mining base with a radius of 500 meters slowly opened the hatch at the bottom, and then lowered it down little by little through the cable.

Half an hour later.

The mining base is placed on the surface below the Yungong base.

Then there is a huge engineering airship, which connects the cable to the mining base. As the gas in the vacuum sphere inside the airship is extracted, the buoyancy of the airship rises rapidly.

This airship with a total volume of 5 billion cubic meters has a total buoyancy of more than 2 million tons on the surface of Venus.

The mining base is empty inside, with a total weight of only 360,000 tons. The airship easily lifted the mining base.

Soon the mining base was hoisted onto a line of pyrite.

According to geological exploration data, this pyrite is not only exposed on the surface, but also has an average mineral grade of about 38% to 44%, with total reserves of about 850 million tons.

In addition, the pyrite also contains some nickel and copper.

With the mining base being resettled completed.

A dozen players on Earth are arranged to work here through synchronized robots.

Of course, in addition to the players on Earth, the Yungong Base also sent several employees to manage the mining base through synchronized robots.

A drill bit was quickly extended from the bottom of the mining base and a mine shaft with a radius of 5 meters was drilled. Casing was then used to ensure that the mine shaft could be separated from the dense atmosphere on the surface.

Miner Li Le turned on the mining equipment. After the pyrite in the mine was crushed, it was sucked into the mining base.

In the heat insulation layer of the mining base, a thermal circulation pipeline is being arranged to generate electricity using the temperature of 400 to 500 degrees Celsius on the surface of Venus.

Continuous electricity is used to directly separate crude steel, crude sulfur, crude copper and crude nickel in the pure oxygen electric furnace steelmaking method.

In less than a week, 240,000 tons of steel were extracted from the mining base, as well as large amounts of sulfur, copper, nickel and silicon.

The packaged steel was hoisted into the Yungong base by the engineering airship.

Seeing that the testing of the mining base went so smoothly, Wu Feng immediately ordered the use of these raw materials, plus some metal materials transported from the earth, to build 10 mining bases.

As long as the scale of the mining base continues to expand, the Venus colony will soon be able to get rid of its dependence on the earth for supplies.

This means that the size of a Venusian colony can quickly snowball.

It will not be too difficult to cover the atmosphere of Venus with floating island modules within 10 years.

If previous plans were followed, it would take at least 50 years for the Homo sapiens company to use floating islands to cover the atmosphere of Venus.

Now many raw materials can be self-sufficient, which means that this time will be greatly reduced.

But Wu Feng also encountered another problem, that is, lack of manpower.

The current 2,000 Earth immigrant employees at the Yungong base, plus the 13,000 people working on Venus through synchronous robots, are obviously not enough.

He quickly sent letters to various departments on the earth, requesting to increase the scale of immigration.

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