The Rise Of Space Technology

The outside world is becoming more and more turbulent because of the popularity of private anti-gravity aircraft. Capitalists are burning money to deploy globalized industries, and ordinary people are planning to fly around the world in the future.

But for Xinghai Technology, it is still very calm here.

"Boss, boss~"

Wan Hanrui, president of Xinghai Mining Group, hurried to find Liu Yuan.

"What's the matter?"

Liu Yuan looked at Wan Hanrui and asked with a smile.

He was one of the first batch of researchers recruited by Xinghai Technology. Because of his excellent studies and outstanding performance, he was also promoted to a level 3 scientist early.

Wan Hanrui, who was originally studying materials science, gradually discovered that he liked mining, so he also specialized in mining-related scientific fields. He became the head of Xinghai Mining Group, and now he is mainly responsible for lunar mining. matter.

"Boss, we have built a rare earth smelting plant on the moon. We will start mining rare earths on the moon today. Are you free? If you are free, let's go to the mining ceremony together."

Wan Hanrui said quickly.

"Is the lunar rare earth smelting factory built?"

Hearing this, Liu Yuan was stunned for a moment. He had been busy with the aircraft since the last moon landing, and even forgot about it. If you count the time, it has already been more than 2 months. The factory is indeed almost ready to be built.

"It has been built, including the gold mining factory.

Wan Hanrui said in a low voice.

"Well, let's go and see our rare earth mining factory."

Liu Yuan nodded with satisfaction. The biggest wealth of the moon now is the large gold mine discovered on the moon, which is worth more than one trillion fruit coins.

Of course, if all of them are mined and transported to the earth and put on the market, the price of gold will inevitably plummet, and it will not be worth that much money.

But Liu Yuan didn't plan to bring this gold back to Earth, such a huge amount of gold and wealth, if you bring it back, you will have to pay taxes to death.

Liu Yuan's plan is to mine it out quietly, then stay on the moon side, and then transport the gold to his own colony planet after he has his own colony planet in the future.

He and Wan Hanrui arrived at the headquarters of Ningcheng Xinghai Mining Group by aircraft. Xinghai Mining Group also has a separate base in Ningcheng, and the scale is also large.

It is mainly used to cultivate interstellar absenteeism, mining resources and minerals in the moon or interstellar in the future, and specializing in various resource exploration and mining technologies, researching interstellar mining machinery and the like, and revolving around interstellar resources. a subsidiary.

Although what they are doing is mining resources, there is no technical content, but because they are mining resources in the sky and alien planets, they are related to high technology.

In terms of lunar mining resources, it is not a simple matter.

The vacuum environment on the lunar surface, whether it is the workers of the moon mining, or the various machinery used on the moon, you need to train the workers to use the environment of working in space suits and the environment of lunar microgravity.

As for the various machines for mining on the moon, you have to develop and research them separately. Those mining machines on the earth are nothing but used in the vacuum environment of the moon.

In the future, we will have to go to Mars and the asteroid belt to start resources, which requires higher technology, and it is far from being as simple as mining on Earth.

It seems to be a mining company, but the research institute under Xinghai Mining Group still has dozens of disciplines and laboratories in materials, metallurgy, astronomy, engineering machinery, etc., with a research team of several thousand people.

In a large conference room at the headquarters of Xinghai Mining Group, a huge display is connected to the lunar rare earth factory. Through the picture, you can see that the lunar rare earth factory is very large.

The height of the factory building is more than ten meters. In the factory building, the workers are also wearing ordinary clothes, not wearing space suits. When I look at these workers, they all have eyes.

Obviously, they are not ordinary mining workers, but college students recruited by the Xinghai Mining Group, and then trained to become interstellar miners.

Their work is also different from ordinary workers. They don’t need to do dirty and dirty work by themselves. All they need to do is drive all kinds of mining machinery to work, and even many At any time, you can sit in the office and control the operation of the machinery.

They are interstellar miners of the new era, knowledgeable and literate interstellar miners.

Of course, their salaries are also incomparable to traditional absentee workers. Xinghai Mining Group set a starting salary of 400,000 yuan for them, not to mention five insurances and one housing fund.

Because they work on the side of the moon, long-term exposure to a microgravity environment will damage the human body, so they all work on the moon for half a month and then return to Earth to recuperate for half a month.

Counting subsidies, nutrition, business trips to the moon, etc., you can get an additional income of about 120,000 a year. Calculated, this year is almost an annual income of more than 500,000.

At the end of the year, Xinghai Technology Group's year-end bonus is naturally indispensable, and it is also the bulk of the annual income.

As long as the company's profits are good, the boss Liu Yuan has always been generous. According to the past situation, the year-end bonus is generally two to three times the annual salary. If it is calculated, the annual income is properly over one million, absolutely It's a high income group. Of course, the requirements of Xinghai Mining Group are also very high.

The first is to have talents in science and engineering. If you want to enter, you must take an exam and have a solid foundation. The second is to have extremely high requirements for physical fitness.

When working on the moon, you have to wear space suits in many places. The space suits are very bulky. After working for a long time, you can’t bear it without a good physical fitness.

In the future, I will go to Mars or other planets to mine resources, and I will need to navigate among the stars. The physical fitness must be good, and various tests and physical examinations will be required.

Therefore, the income of one million annual salary is not so easy to get. Entering Xinghai Technology, it is necessary to continue to learn and improve in order to adapt to this era of rapid development.

Not only do they have to learn to drive spaceships and interstellar mining vehicles, but they also need to know some basic maintenance, and they also have to accept some training programs for astronauts.

Learning mining exploration, interstellar mining, cosmic astronomy, engineering machinery and many other related knowledge and skills, there are many things to learn, all in order to become a qualified interstellar absentee.

"The boss is here!"

At this time, someone shouted, and everyone looked at the gate in unison. Liu Yuan and Wan Hanrui walked in with a smile, and everyone quickly applauded.

Liu Yuan looked at the scene and then looked at the video display, and he could see the situation on the side of the lunar rare earth factory.

"Today is a very commemorative day, because it is an important moment when we humans take another small step forward on the road of the interstellar universe.

"From today, the place where we humans obtain resources is no longer limited to the earth, but begins to obtain resources from the interstellar universe."

"Today we are only mining resources on the moon, but in the future, we will mine resources on Mars, Venus, Mercury, asteroids, and even in the future, we will mine resources in the wider interstellar universe. "

"And you will be the forerunners of our human interstellar development!"

Liu Yuan looked at the big screen and said after thinking about it.

As soon as the words fell, the scene and the Moon Factory also burst into warm applause.

"I announce the official start of the Xinghai Mining Group's moon factory!"

Then Liu Yuan also officially issued the order to start construction.

Soon, as the order was communicated to the lunar factory, the entire lunar rare earth factory also began to get busy.

I saw workers put on space suits quickly and drove out of the moon factory with lunar mining vehicles. They came to the rare earth mining area that had been explored in advance.

With the work of the mining truck, a mine truck full of lunar soil and rocks soon came to the factory. The factory has set up multiple gates, and the mine truck needs to pass through one gate after another.

From the outside vacuum environment, gradually enter the lunar rare earth factory filled with air, and then pour a truckload of lunar soil and rocks onto the transport conveyor belt.

The conveyor belt first enters these soils, rocks, etc. into the crushing workshop, and the crushing workshop will crush the soil and rocks that are mined back.

On the moon, the basalt of the moon contains the most rare earths. This rock contains a large amount of rare earth minerals, and the way of mining rare earths is very different from the mining of ordinary minerals.

Smelting rare earth ore from soil and rock requires the use of strong acid or alkali, soaking in a solution of strong acid or alkali, and extracting rare earth from soil or rock.

When you see strong acids and alkalis, everyone should know that the damage to the environment caused by rare earth mining is extremely serious.

The first damage is to destroy the green mountains and green waters. To mine soil or rocks, it is definitely necessary to push the mountain skin away and expose the mountain directly. The most direct impact is that soil erosion is very serious. Mining can quickly turn into a desert.

But that's not the worst of the damage.

What really damages the environment is that rare earth mining requires the use of strong acids and alkalis, and the impact of acid-base solutions on the environment is too great.

In the rivers in the rare earth mining area, almost all living things will die out, and no living thing can survive in the waters polluted by acid and alkali, especially when the pollution just started, when the acid and alkali concentrations are high, wherever they go. , no grass grows.

Secondly, there is also great pollution to groundwater, which is long-term, and the water in rare earth mining areas cannot be drunk at all.

There is also the waste residue left after mining. These waste residues have been soaked in strong acid and alkali, so there is no way to grow any vegetation on these waste residues. It takes many years to slowly grow new vegetation.

The randomly accumulated waste residue will enter rivers and cultivated land as soon as it is washed away by rainwater, which will seriously damage the ecological environment.

The damage to the environment caused by the mining of rare earths is almost irreversible, and it lasts for a long time, and the pollution is very serious. Therefore, in areas where rare earth resources are very rich, with the phenomenon of random mining and digging, the environmental damage is very serious.

For example, in the southern Jiangxi area, the place that used to be green mountains and clear waters has appeared unbelievable desert areas due to the mining of rare earths. This is why the country strictly prohibits the random mining of rare earth resources, because the pollution to the environment is too serious, especially private mining, if you just make money and don't care about the ecological environment, the pollution is even more serious.

The total reserves of rare earths contained in the vast country account for more than 40% of the world's total, but they themselves do not mine their own rare earth mines, because they clearly know that the sacrifice of rare earth mining to the environment is too great, and they are all very expensive. difficult to recover.

In addition, they are very chicken thieves and like to use other people's resources first, so even though they are extremely rich in various resources, they never dig their own resources, but print money to buy other people's resources.