Doomsday Bunker Upgrade

Snowpiercer is not only a train, but also a sci-fi work, and the train itself is the most important stage in this sci-fi work.

In the original novel of "Snowpiercer", Blue Star became a cold hell for inexplicable reasons, and the last surviving humans crowded on a never-ending train driven by a perpetual motion machine and kept moving forward, as long as the train stopped Humans would freeze to death, so the train kept moving forward, endlessly.

On the train, the rich live the same life as before the disaster, coffee, tobacco, botanical gardens, aquariums, libraries... Everything that used to be enjoyed by the rich, while the poor at the bottom Living in a last-class car, surviving on protein blocks made of cockroaches, having to endure crowding, filth and starvation, and living a life without dignity.

This is a rather dystopian sci-fi work, in which the huge difference in life between the rich and the poor and the polarization of social classes are described in an extremely ironic way. It is a fairly classic work.

Of course, for Chen Xin and the staff on the train, this actually has little practical significance. Although the current environment of Blue Star is also extremely cold hell, even worse than the description in the original "Snowpiercer", but Blue Star The surviving humans have not yet reached the point where they need to squeeze on a train to survive, especially a train driven by an impossible thing like a perpetual motion machine.

However, the concept of Snowpiercer is desirable. In today's harsh environment, humans need railway transportation. Trains that can operate normally in this environment are very important, and Snowpiercer is a pretty good reference object.

"One of the design tasks required by the state is the planning of mobile shelters, which is to develop trains that can be permanently or long-term inhabited on the basis of railways, and move along the railway lines to transport survivors from the north to the south, where the environment is slightly better. Or simply drive along the railway line." The staff did not hide this matter, and it is not something that needs to be kept secret.

Regarding this topic, Chen Xin thought about it, shook his head and said, "The cost of traveling along the railway is too high, not to mention how you provide enough food for the survivors on the train, the number of people a train can carry is only one or two thousand. Just people.

Taking into account the need to carry supplies and ensure survival, a train that can ensure the survival of hundreds of people is already quite remarkable, 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 also a backup plan. After all, if something really happens and you need to do this, it's always good to be prepared." The staff naturally understands that building a column can accommodate hundreds of How many resources does the train of human survival need to consume, but as he said, it is better to be prepared and not used, and not available and not prepared.

Chen Xin agrees with this. Technology will always be too little rather than too much. If some people think that technology has developed to its peak, there will be no more new inventions by human beings, it will only be that some people's brains are not very good.

So for Snowpiercer, Chen Xin also gave some suggestions of his own.

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

The staff were also very interested in the suggestions put forward by Chen Xin. After recording some of the feasible ideas, the staff were very interested in inviting Chen Xin to go to the train factory in Jianning when he had time. Participated in the development and design of the Snowpiercer.

Chen Xin was very interested in this, but he didn't agree directly, he only said that he would consider going there when he had time. After all, he still has a lot of things going on here.

As for why he accepted the invitation, it was because Chen Xin thought of a more feasible but equally more difficult setting from the Snowpiercer's vision, that is, a mobile base.

This is a setting that is more common in various science fiction or fantasy works than Snowpiercer, and appears in many games, novels, comics, and film and television works.

The small one might be a car, similar to Chen Xin's own RV, but the big one might be super-large units like Rhode Island, Mobile City-State, and Floating City.

Small mobile bases are easy to implement. With modern technology, it is not too troublesome to build them.

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

But in addition to these, it is somewhat 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, structure, material, shock absorption, energy, life support... A series of problems are appearing in the mobile base that restricts the landing.

However, these problems may be constraints and troubles for others, but for Chen Xin, it is not a problem at all. If the big deal is to upgrade the system, it can always be created.

It's just that Chen Xin turned his head and thought about it, and it seemed that he didn't need to build such a thing, or that he didn't need to build such a big thing.

The mobile base is not a necessity for him, it is just to be able to take his family to avoid the disaster when there may be an irreversible disaster, so it does not need to accommodate too many people, and it does not need to be built. too big.

So he doesn't necessarily want to build a Rhode Island, just a mobile base vehicle.

After a few thoughts in his mind, Chen Xin didn't plan to put this idea into practice immediately. After all, mobile bases are different from fixed shelters. There are too many things involved, even if Chen Xin can get it from the country now Help and resource support, it is impossible to easily build a suitable mobile base.

However, he felt that when upgrading his shelter in the future, he could add some functions appropriately, integrate the structure of the existing shelter, and slowly adjust it in the direction of the mobile base. It can be turned into a mobile base to go everywhere.

When Chen Xin was thinking about where he was going to have a mobile base in the future, he and the staff finally walked to the front of the train and saw the nuclear reactor in operation.

"This is the nuclear reactor of this car. At present, it can provide a maximum output power of 35MW. We are only making it run at 70% of the power." The staff is obviously very concerned about the nuclear reactor, which is less than the size of a six-seater minivan. Satisfied and proud.

There's one more update tonight, I'll take a shower first