Silicon Valley

The distance between the moon and the earth is very close. In just over a day, the Zeus-2 spacecraft brought tourists to the moon.

The moment everyone stepped on the surface of the moon, their hearts beat faster, and their excitement was indescribable!

"Everyone can move freely within 300 meters of the base. If it goes beyond this range, the headset will receive a warning from SpaceX. Please follow the rules!" said a tour guide.

As soon as the words fell, everyone left in twos and threes, and began to continue the journey of exploring the moon. After a while, a tourist was seen jumping up and flying in the air. Seeing this, everyone jumped up one by one.

"Wow, my God, I jumped so high, I feel like I'm flying!!!"

"Haha, this is the feeling of flying, it's amazing!"

"Oh yeah, I'm Superman!!!"

"..."

Everyone's exclamation came from the headset from time to time.

At this moment, the All People Live app software is also broadcasting their videos on the moon, and at the same time they can hear their speeches, with 652 million viewers worldwide!

Countless netizens are really envious and don't want it.

"Damn it, this shit is too cool!"

"Damn it, I really want to go to the moon to play!"

“The most expensive tour in the world is really worth it!”

"Seeing them flying around, I have to say that the people on earth are actually very powerful, and they have become superhumans on alien planets!"

"..."

On the other side, the Zeus-2 spacecraft is unloading, including food, genetically modified plant seeds, large quantities of graphene materials and some advanced equipment.

With advanced equipment, materials can be obtained locally, thus saving a lot of materials transported from the earth.

The first is to build a closed base with a large area, and then create a relatively complete ecosystem in this closed base, with a water and oxygen circulation system inside, and then plant some crops to achieve food self-sufficiency!

The gravitational force of the moon is too small to have the ability to bind the atmosphere at all, so if there is no closed space, no matter how much oxygen is produced, it will leave the moon. Therefore, the base on the moon is destined to be built as a closed base.

Previously, spaceX’s base used graphene inflatable houses as temporary residences for astronauts, but this was always inconvenient and not conducive to the establishment of an ecosystem. What's more, Henry hopes to build a magnificent city on the moon, and the graphene inflatable house obviously cannot satisfy Henry's wishes!

It is really difficult to build a huge barrier above the city.

How to build it?

Henry thought of one thing - a drone 3D printer.

Let the drone fly into the air for 3D printing, and directly print the graphene glass wall.

The main difficulties involved are the development of the UAV 3D printer and the positioning system. At present, on the one hand, the development of technology is carried out, and on the other hand, the reserve of materials is carried out. If a city as large as Shanghai is to be built, the materials transported by the Zeus-2 spacecraft can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket!

There are no graphite mines on the moon, and graphene glass materials are the best materials for building city barriers. First of all, graphene is almost completely transparent, absorbing only 2.3% of light, so the remaining light can be used to make solar panels to generate electricity in lunar city bases; second, graphene is so dense that even the smallest gas molecules cannot penetrate it. Naturally, the oxygen in the closed space will not go outside; in addition, graphene is the strongest material, the breaking strength is 200 times higher than the best steel, it is not easy to break, and even if it is accidentally broken It is only partially broken and easy to repair!

Henry is currently talking with Dr. Dick Bart, CEO of spaceX, to discuss how to speed up the transportation of graphene glass materials.

"We all know that the biggest cost of interstellar travel is to increase the speed. After Zeus-2 goes to the moon, Zeus-1 is about to return. When Zeus-1 leaves the lunar orbit, it can still maintain a very high speed. If it returns to the surface of the earth, the speed will undoubtedly be reduced to zero. When sending it to the moon again, it will consume a lot of energy. Therefore, we can consider building a cargo transfer station in earth orbit, and also It is the space port! First, the space port can become a base for storage, refueling, repair, supply, maintenance and launch of transshipment spacecraft and on-orbit mobile aircraft; second, it will also be a transportation hub for passengers and equipment.

When Zeus-1 arrives at the spaceport, we will send the currency from the earth to the spacecraft. When it leaves the spaceport, it can still maintain a high speed! In this way, the time for the Zeus-1 and Cosmos-2 spacecraft to go back and forth between the earth and the moon will be greatly shortened, perhaps only a few hours! ! ! "Henry said while thinking.

Dr. Dickbart applauds Henry for this idea!

"Your Majesty, your idea is very good. After owning the spaceport, the spacecraft can not only save energy, but also don't have to be destroyed by the earth's atmosphere. The service life of the spacecraft will be longer! Although spaceX has already mastered the rocket recycling technology, But the rocket recovery must go through the atmosphere again. We can let the rocket complete its mission, return to the spaceport, and then serve other spacecraft!"

"Not only the rockets of spaceX, but also the rockets of other countries or companies can stay in the spaceX space port. This will inevitably lead to a reduction in the launch cost of the rocket, and the spaceship will also have enough rocket thrusters. It is foreseeable that space The completion of the port will definitely speed up the development of spaceflight!"

Dr. Dickbart's eyes lit up, and he said loudly: "The rockets of other countries or companies are still unable to return to the earth, but it is much easier to fly to the SpaceX spaceport, and the commission alone is a huge sum of money! Your Majesty, I conclude that after the development of the space port project, it will produce unimaginable gains!!!"

"Yes, that's right!" Henry nodded, "and the spaceport will definitely become the busiest platform for space transactions in the future! Spaceships coming from other planets will not enter the earth, but will directly complete the cargo transaction at the spaceport !"

Dr. Dickbart nodded in agreement, and said to Henry: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, we can expand the spaceX space station and build it into a space port!!!"

"Um!"

Henry pondered for a while, and said, "The main task of spaceX is to build a space port. As for the moon base...you can slow down and build a huge city on the moon after the spaceX port is completed!"

"OK!"

(Caught a cold, so I finally wrote a piece. It will be better tomorrow, and I will make it up in three chapters)

(to be continued ~^~)