People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

"Hey, Sister Fuji, don't drink so early in the morning," Emiya Shirou put down the ingredients in his hand, bent down to tidy up the living room, and tried to wake up Fujimura Taiga.

However, the other party just turned over and rolled to the other side of the room. Then he continued to say drunken words such as "blind dates during the New Year are so annoying", "damn dad keeps urging me all day long", and "getting married is so annoying".

"......" Emiya Shirou did not respond. He still could not empathize with the troubles of older people. He could not say anything to comfort her. If possible, he still hoped that Fuji-sister could find a good partner.

For now, just pretend you didn't hear it and continue mopping the floor.

Fujimura Taiga's voice gradually became lower, but the living room was still not quiet because the TV screen continued to play colorful programs composed of light, shadow and audio.

【......This latest 'Thunderbolt' series smartphone launched by Massive Electric Co., Ltd. has an ultra-large and thin screen, titanium is strong and light, built-in a new generation of graphics processor, 10x optical zoom......Factory direct sales, just——】

"Ah, is this TV shopping? Sister Fuji, stop buying random things all the time," Emiya Shirou picked up the remote control and switched the channel. That being said, Fujimura Taiga had already bought a lot of things before the New Year. For example, the TV in front of him, which has an LCD screen and network connection function, was bought by Fujimura Taiga after watching TV shopping.

In comparison, Shirou Emiya is not a person who likes to spend money. He always feels that many of the old home appliances in his home can still be used for a long time after being repaired.

"I didn't buy anything randomly!" Perhaps after hearing Emiya Shirou's complaints, Fujimura Taiga got up from the ground, "Woo, Shirou, you don't understand the adults' painstaking efforts! That cheap factory price is a limited-time offer! If you miss that opportunity, there will be no such store anymore!"

"No, Sister Fuji, it seems like you were fooled by the merchant and stepped into a consumption trap..."

As the two were arguing, a news program on TV caught their attention:

[On December 2003, 12, the peace conference on World War III finally announced its results. The war is over! ]

【In this peace conference codenamed "Tower of Babel", witnessed by the members of the UN Council, the Chairman of the Academy City Council signed a peace treaty with the United States Federal Government, ending all wars involving the South China Sea-Indian Ocean, Central America, the United States and other regions. And with the north-south dividing line from Montana to Texas, the western states will be independent from the federation and establish a free industrial union.】

[But what is disturbing is that, just a few days later - in the New Year of 2004, several major countries other than Academy City strengthened their cooperation in the form of regional alliances. Currently, there is the Free Alliance with the United States as the main body, the Europa Alliance formed by Western European countries, plus Russia and the East Asian Great Power Alliance, a total of four parties, and at the same time absorbed the Central and Western Asian countries to form the "Earth United Development Association", referred to as the "Earth Alliance". ]

[Although this seems to be just a loose international organization, its hidden sense of confrontation with Academy City is hard not to remind people of the special period after the war in the last century...]

The war is over...but it seems like everything has just begun.

Putting aside those long political analyses, the Third World War does not seem to have anything to do with Japan itself. At the beginning of the war, the Japanese authorities openly opposed Academy City's response to the war, but Academy City ignored it, not to mention now that it is the victorious party.

Rather, it is fortunate that Academy City is the victorious party and can easily keep the enemy out, otherwise it would be difficult for the Japanese territory to escape from this terrible vortex of war.

"War..." Emiya Shirou came back to his senses from the international news. He carefully scanned the words of the announcer, but could not find any reports on the number of casualties. "How many people died..."

I suddenly recalled the ideal I told my adoptive father, "to become a righteous partner."

"Pah!" Fujimura Taiga chopped off Emiya Shirou's head with a knife, as if he saw through his inner thoughts, "Shirou, as a student you shouldn't think too much about things that are out of your reach. Study hard! Work hard! Become a useful person to society! This is what you should consider now!"

"Yes, yes, yes," after this interruption, Shirou Emiya remembered that he still had some ingredients that he had not yet processed, so he picked up his things and ran to the kitchen.

On the TV, the sound of international news still echoed in the living room:

[A brand new space action from the Luzon Launch Center! A space train launched by circular vacuum acceleration! ......]

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Not long ago, in a secret blockade area in Luzon.

This is the Luzon Launch Center. As the aerospace industry area that Academy City focuses on developing, it is now equipped with a space base with the largest number of spacecraft launches and the most advanced launch systems in the world, as well as various observation stations.

Aleister came here from Japan in a flash.

And Velvi, Einstein, Tesla and others who had been waiting here came forward to greet them.

This time, she came as the general director to inspect an important project, the space train launch project. In order to meet the increasing needs of space experiments and space exploration in Academy City, the Council decided to develop and build a tool that can launch large mass objects into space. This was planned before World War III. Currently, there are two feasible plans, one is the space train and the other is the space elevator. As for the American West - to be more precise, the task of forming the Free Industrial Federation is now in the charge of Walter's people.

"Is this the special model of space train you designed?"

Aleister looked at the underground part of the launch base, where a uniquely shaped train was displayed vertically on the track.

"Yes, Chairman..."

Wei Wei replied, but her tone was a little strange.

"what happened?"

"Ahem," Velvet gestured to look at Aleister's young girl figure. She didn't have the chance to ask when she went to the Capitol Hill for a meeting a few days ago. Now she couldn't help but ask a more sensitive question, "Chairman, your current body...could it be that Mobius ordered it after the accident in the experiment?"

Although the previous Aleister looked androgynous, it was at least acceptable. Now that she has changed to this appearance and is asked to report to the chairman, she can't help but suspect that it is a conspiracy of Mobius, who has the same body shape.

"Oh, if you say that to others, Mobius will call you and argue with you for three days and three nights." There was indeed an inexplicable girlish charm in Aleister's behavior, but to say that it was Mobius's credit would somewhat damage her reputation.

Aleister did not simply change her body, but Aleister herself was one of the possible developments of Aleister.

The chairman looked at the two people who seemed to be watching the show, Dr. Lobster Head and Dr. Chicken Coop Head, and pointed at the space train and said, "Stop slacking off and come over here and tell me about the current status of this project. - What is this next to it? A vacuum acceleration track?"

"That's right," Einstein nodded. "These vacuum tracks are built on the outside of the train. In fact, they are still the same system as the electromagnetic acceleration mass launcher we used before. They are part of the electromagnetic acceleration. They are designed this way just to facilitate the rapid launch of large mass objects."

Tesla then introduced the parameters. Each section of the vacuum tube is 200 meters long and 30 meters in diameter. The space train installed inside is 150 meters long and 5 meters in diameter. The takeoff weight reaches 1.5 tons and the payload exceeds 1.4 tons. The quantum engine it is equipped with is only one-tenth the weight of the entire space train, which greatly frees up more payload.

If it is replaced with a traditional rocket, it would be impossible to carry 100% of the payload, or 5 tons, with a 5-ton engine. If the initial acceleration and air resistance hinder the power of the spacecraft, the efficiency coefficient will probably drop below 3%.

However, the space train designed by the Luzon project will directly reach the first cosmic speed with the help of the electromagnetic acceleration mass projector, and on this basis, it will carry out a secondary acceleration of tens of kilometers in a circular vacuum orbit, which will further offset the influence of gravity.

"I see. It seems you have already arranged the launch procedure," Aleister glanced at the locomotive and asked out of the blue, "What do you think of the appearance of this train?"

Seeing this, Einstein and Tesla waved their hands and pointed at Vivi who was pretending to look at the scenery.

"......" Wei Wei had to face this question directly, "I designed it! I directly borrowed the shape of 'Second God's Key Thousand Worlds One Vehicle'! But now it's called Pioneer Star Train... Hey, let me make it clear, this is what the 'Magician' insisted on. The current 'Conductor' I don't have any plans..."

"I just asked about the appearance, why are you so nervous?"

"Oh? Okay, okay." After a brief moment of daze, Wei Wei felt lucky in her heart. Perhaps it was because her previous designs had been criticized as flashy and inexplicable, which brought back a trauma in her heart.

"By the way, what about the space elevator project? I heard it will take quite some time to prepare."

"Yes," Einstein quickly replied, "According to theoretical calculations, the best location for this project is the equator, which is below the geostationary orbit. We are currently planning to build an artificial island at a location on the equator specifically for the transportation and transmission of space materials."

"Well, the space train meets the current needs of space construction, while the space elevator needs to undertake subsequent long-term and stable space transportation missions."

The chairman reminded, "By the way, has the space elevator been named yet?"

"Well, not yet."

"How about this, the artificial island is called Coral Island, and the elevator is called 'Galaxy Ladder'."

After a brief inspection, everyone entered the tense phase of launching the space train.

The first step is to evacuate the pipe. At the same time, in order to reduce the impact of the air density difference when the train rushes out of the pipe, the air in the pipe is only reduced to a specific density.

Then, the electromagnetic accelerator clamped the train in the tube and continued to accelerate. After a while, the train reached a speed of several thousand meters per second. After reaching a speed limit, it was necessary to control the circular tube to start changing tracks, and through system adjustment, the train was led into the last electromagnetic acceleration section, and the engine was ignited before flying out of the track, and it entered the high altitude at the first cosmic speed.

During this period, the quantum engine carried by the train began to exert its power, and there was almost no deceleration during the whole process. The Pioneer, which was 150 meters long and 5 meters in diameter, was like a meteor across the sky. It broke through the Karman line with an unstoppable attitude in just over ten seconds.

p.s. I quarreled with my family for two days because of the blind date. This year was really torture.

Chapter 474 There really is magic☆Meili?

Europa Cologne, the site of the Geo-Union Conference.

When Academy City launched another heavyweight spacecraft, the "Space Train", into space, the four regional alliances of the Earth Alliance also gathered at this conference venue. Since the Third World War, the United States has lost half of its territory, and its strength and international influence have declined significantly, and the Free Alliance has also been looked down upon by many people.

The Europa Union thought that the opportunity to "regain international discourse power" had come, and took advantage of the continuous movement of Academy City to invite all parties to hold a meeting at the DLR Space Center in Europa to discuss the first international cooperation topic of the Union - how to catch up with Academy City in the field of aerospace. As for the real intention, whether it is to take this opportunity to defraud the funds of various countries is still unknown.

However, the DLR director Pelzer did a pretty good job in the PPT presentation at the meeting. The projector showed the data of the space train launched by Academy City. According to the monitoring satellite, the size of the "Pioneer" was beyond the imagination of all parties.

"......WTF! Is this a space train? It's 150 meters long and 10 meters in diameter. The size is too scary." Musk of Space Exploration Company exclaimed.

As the first aerospace cooperation meeting of the Earth Union, the host Europa Union invited not only political leaders from various parties, but also many people from related industries, and naturally the American space exploration company was indispensable. These people in the aerospace industry also hope to take advantage of the unprecedented joint power of the Earth Union to take over some big projects and investments, which will be of great benefit to the development of the company.

"From the data detected by the radar, the speed of this spacecraft... I mean the space train is almost at the first cosmic speed. It seems that the engine power of the Academy City spacecraft is very powerful. I just don't know what the payload level is?"

A technician from another aerospace company analyzed.

"The official data they released is 1.4 tons. I think it would be good if the actual payload can reach %."

Of course, if they knew that the space train has an efficiency factor of up to 95%, which is enough to launch tens of thousands of tons of mass at a time, their colleagues in the aerospace companies would probably be so envious that the plasmolysis is almost inevitable.

However, for Academy City, these are merely aerospace construction parts that can be repeatedly manufactured and launched. According to the plan of the Council, these space trains will continuously transport tens of thousands of tons of construction materials into space, and complete difficult space construction operations through the Krilonomya basic units, and use these space trains as the main body to build a space city of initial scale.

Once the site selection and soil filling of the artificial coral island are completed, the "Galaxy Ladder" space elevator will become a transportation bridge between the space city and the earth.

"Everyone, please note that the new launch building facilities of Academy City at the Luzon Launch Site are like this. A set of deformable, giant vacuum hoses have been built here to form a ring-shaped vacuum acceleration system..."

Pelzer, the head of DLR who proposed to catch up with Academy City, only carefully analyzed the overall device used by Academy City to launch the space train. His intention was nothing more than to copy it to achieve the so-called "catch up", which made everyone secretly despise him.

"However, the specific construction of the underground part of Academy City is unknown. As you all know, the engine power of Academy City is very strong. If we only rely on the mass projector improved from the Barbados cannon, it is likely that our current technology cannot support such a fast initial velocity."

Pelzer did not just copy randomly. He turned to the next page of the PPT and said, "My proposal is to add a 30-kilometer vacuum tube on the basis of the ground-based circular acceleration system. In this way, our spacecraft can be officially launched at an altitude of meters at an initial velocity closest to the first cosmic velocity."

Pelzer's words made perfect sense, and it was obvious that the idea of ​​plagiarism had been in his mind for a long time.

But someone soon pointed out the fatal flaw in this plan: "How much would it cost to build a whole set of equipment like this?"

"Well...if the valuation is reasonable, it would be about 2000 billion." Pelzer gave such a number.

However, there were many colleagues at the scene, and someone quickly refuted: "Two hundred billion is just a conservative estimate! In addition, underground construction will also require tens of billions, and the research and development and manufacturing costs of vacuum tubes are probably no less than the former. This does not even take into account whether there are other facilities inside the entire system..."

Of course, you in the Earth Union cannot imagine that the entire acceleration system has super-long vacuum pipes and electromagnetic acceleration tracks in the underground part, including related power supply systems, etc. If you really calculate it, even if the current estimate is increased by dozens of times, it may not be able to be successfully developed and built.

What's more, some technical reserves such as quantum engines and Krilonomea basic units are completely incapable of being replicated at this stage. They simply think that "I can do it too."

As the meeting progressed to this point, the hesitation of various countries gradually became apparent. The excessive cost and unpredictable success rate meant that few people responded to Pelzer's plan.

Someone also proposed a new plan, which coincidentally was a project that Academy City had not yet publicly promoted - building a space elevator.

Musk in the audience was speechless about this. The space elevator is a well-known money-losing project. Currently, the main construction material for space elevator ropes, nanocarbon tubes, are only millimeter-level experimental products. The space elevator needs to be connected to outer space 3.6 kilometers away. The gap is not small.

Even if the construction is completed, what will happen? Tens of thousands of kilometers of carbon nanotubes will still face serious corrosion and aging problems. In near-Earth space, carbon nanotubes will be corroded by a large number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms. In outer space, they are more susceptible to severe tests from cosmic rays, high-energy neutrons, solar storms, etc. In this case, it is not an exaggeration to say that carbon nanotubes are hit hard.

Unless the ropes are replaced frequently and regularly, or anti-aging methods are developed, this will be another bottomless funding hole.

No concrete and feasible plan was discussed at the scene, so Pelzer had to appeal to everyone: "It is obvious that Academy City wants to build a huge space city now, so as to seize the resources of the moon and Mars first. If we cannot cooperate wholeheartedly, there will not be much space left for us to develop in the solar system."

"——Well said! Then how do we calculate the capital investment and distribution of the results of the cooperation?"

As a result, the four major forces of the Earth Union each brought out their own set of ideas, and the results were that the plans of different forces all wanted to take the greatest results for themselves - because each party in the Earth Union had its own political goals, and the United States did not seem to realize that its dominant position had been lost, and still wanted to dominate the leaderboard, while the European Union saw the opportunity and tried to compete with other parties for the position of 'new boss'... The debate in the Earth Union meeting lasted for several hours, but still did not reach a conclusion that satisfied everyone.

Musk witnessed the entire agenda of the meeting, and in the end, only a few projects were barely reached for cooperation, such as how to build a special satellite to defend against the gamma-ray weapons of the Academy City. All parties showed obvious intentions. All outer space exploration projects face difficulties in many aspects, from resource investment to execution plan and construction management.

In other words, when it comes to money-losing space projects other than satellite communications, navigation, and weather forecasting...such as returning to the moon, exploring Mars, and building international space cities, all forces have differences that are so huge that they are difficult to bridge.

Musk looked at his colleagues in the aerospace company around him and spread his hands.

"That's it, you're still cooperating?"

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Academy City has already made great strides towards the space realm, while the Ground Union will be in a state of bickering and doing its own thing for a long time.

As for the center of the mysterious side, the East Union Association is busy with another big thing——

Association headquarters, mysterious monitoring room.

This is where the 'General Outline of the Earth's Veins·Gaia Model' monitors the global spiritual veins. In order to achieve this performance, replicas of the seven major weapons·Principle and Law reactions are placed here as servers. Qin Xuan came here to inspect, and at this time he was checking the various effects of the new person's principles on the surface world with a group of staff.

Originally, the project here was led by Shion, but now she is the dean of Atlas Academy and needs to go back to deal with a lot of work, so she has handed over all the projects here.

According to the proven facts at present, the biggest difference between the new human principles and the old human principles is that the Holy Lance, which is highly related to the old generation of gods, is no longer a fixed "anchor" on the surface, but is replaced by a "scientific law" similar to Academy City.

The rules of the new human system have caused great damage to the magic side, and the most direct manifestation is in the earth veins. For example, the existence of temples and bases was rooted and integrated into the earth veins in the form of religion/magic theory in ancient times. When a magician performs traditional magic, the steps he needs to go through also include "contacting the magic base engraved in the world, sending commands to the base (magic content), and executing the pre-made functions (magic effects)".

But now, these have been completely destroyed. The consequence is that traditional magic has become ineffective. Although magicians still have their own "small source of magic power", they no longer have the "system and rules" to follow.

In addition, the destruction of the magic base also means the damage of the most extensive "Church base" in the old human period, that is, the so-called baptismal chants of the Cathedral Church and other holy words will also become invalid.

Since this change of personnel is a global one, this high-intensity real-time monitoring work has been going on for several days and nights.

"What's the result now?"

"Report to the president! The nature of the global spiritual veins is still changing. According to the calculation of 'rational reaction', about 87% of the world's regions are no longer able to use magic from the old human rule period."

"87%..." Qin Xuan has been staring at the data of human principles these days. The reason why he attaches great importance to this change of human principles is that this change involves a complex mechanism of world laws. It is so special that it can only be observed at this moment, and it is estimated that it will stabilize soon. After this period, it will be completely missed - unless you can travel back to around the year AD to observe the end of the continent's God Age.

"Are the areas that haven't changed still the same ones?"

"Yes, there are different special alienated areas all over the world. Magic in these areas is relatively less affected. The largest areas are the Albion area of ​​the Tomb of the Spirits in London, Britain, and the Asia area centered on Shenzhou."

"If these haven't changed, there's no need to bother observing them."

Qin Xuan knew what was going on in those two areas. First of all, the magic system in Shenzhou was essentially separated from other places. They relied on the super-large "thought disk" that was integrated with the planet to launch thought magic, which was different from the Western magic system that relied on the base disk in the earth veins.

The second is the Tomb of the Spirits, Albion. In the old human era, this thing was an "alien object" that contained the environment of the Age of Gods and existed outside the human world.

Finally, Ayuan's alchemy is also unaffected. This alchemy is essentially the use of Xiaoyuan's technology, which has been the same from the Age of Gods to the present.

But it doesn't mean that the people in the clock tower will be completely unaffected. It's just that this part of the ground vein is deeply affected by the spirit tomb, and there is a certain connection, so the damage to the base is not complete. And it's only the small piece connected to the spirit tomb. The rest of the land that is not connected will remain the same.

So, what do Western magicians do now when they want to perform magic?

Actually, there are some ways to do it. For example, you can use the "limited function" of magic equipment. This kind of prop can directly trigger specific phenomena as long as you input magic power, without having to perform the spell yourself. However, not everyone has one of these things. The most commonly used by magicians are auxiliary equipment to assist their own magic.

By the way, the most widely distributed limited-function gift set is the "element symbol weapon" that Qin Xuan commissioned the Edelfelt family to sell a few years ago. Moreover, this thing is connected to the physical base prop "Rose Cross" made by Qin Xuan. Taken together, the operation mode is even somewhat similar to the Shenzhou Thought Plate.