Collapse, the Ordinary Daily Life of the Valkyries

"The Hyperion is now under your control. I will equip you with a corresponding airship."

"Of course, under the current circumstances, you still need to carefully screen the candidates to become fusion warriors."

"Here is your letter of appointment."

Seeing that Gao Su did not stop his story, Theresa chose to take out the appointment letter and place it in front of him.

Gao Su glanced at the appointment letter on the table, then walked up to Theresa, squatted down, and looked her in the eye.

"We seemed to be talking about different things just now, Theresa, but I hope that as the Bishop of Heaven's Destiny, you can understand one thing."

"Humanity has the potential to evolve into a higher civilization, but our current civilization cannot skip or accelerate the evolutionary process. We must proceed step by step."

After hearing this, Theresa, who was already worried about Gao Su because of his lifespan theory, became even more concerned:

"captain....."

"Hear me out."

Gao Su interrupted Theresa and said to her sternly:

"Speed ​​doesn't mean anything. More haste makes waste. You should understand that, Theresa."

Theresa pursed her lips and nodded. Then, she listened to the captain continue:

"While extending lifespan is a good thing, humanity's traditional moral ethics have once again been overturned. The consequences of re-using genetic drugs and the Fusion Warrior Program must also be carefully considered. Human survival cannot be threatened, even by a one in a billion chance."

Theresa looked at Gao Su: "Arise, eQr厁O丝久齐山: Temple Spirit Fierce

"Then, Captain, can I understand your words to mean that only humans can be used for living experiments?"

"You can think so."

Gao Su nodded, and then continued:

"Also, there's another problem. To prevent genetic potions from being used only by the elite, Heaven's Will has to and must monopolize the method of producing genetic potions and fusion warriors."

"After all, we still don't know the situation of the enemies in the outer solar system. Huang Quan is just an example, and examples often don't represent anything."

Seeing Gao Su squatting down to look her in the eye, Theresa jumped off the chair, helped him up and sat him on the chair, then sat on his lap.

"Tell me this way, Captain."

"Beyond the orbit of Pluto, we reach the outer reaches of the solar system. Beyond the outer reaches of the solar system, there is the Kuiper Belt. Beyond the Kuiper Belt, there is the Oort Cloud, which is one light-year thick and surrounds the solar system."

"So, the entire solar system has a diameter exceeding one light-year. Beyond the Oort Cloud, there's a massive barrier at the edge of the solar system." "This barrier is composed of boundless hydrogen and imaginary energy, spherically enveloping the entire solar system, forming a massive barrier surrounding it."

"Therefore, we don't need to rush to break through the imaginary tides outside the solar system. We can first focus on developing the planets and stars within the solar system."

Theresa naturally understood Gao Su's words. She tapped the table a few times, and the computer screen rose up. She pointed at the fiery red planet on the solar system map on the screen and said:

"You mean, we develop Mars first, right?"

"Yes."

Gao Su nodded. The climate on Mars is very harsh. The atmospheric density is only about 1% of the Earth's. It is very dry and the temperature is low. The average surface temperature is minus 55°C, and water and carbon dioxide are very easy to freeze.

In the early days of Mars, it was very similar to Earth. Like Earth, almost all of the carbon dioxide on Mars was converted to

Carbon rocks, but lacking Earth's plate tectonics, Mars cannot recycle carbon dioxide into its atmosphere and thus produce a significant greenhouse effect.

火星的那层薄薄的大气主要是由遗留下的二氧化碳(95.3%)加上氮气(2.7%)、气(16%)和微量的氧气(0.15%)和水汽(0.03%)组成，平均大气压强仅为大约7毫帕(比地球上的1%还小)。

But it varies with altitude, ranging from 9 millipascals in the deepest parts of the basin to just 1 millipascal at the top of Olympus Mons.

But it is also enough to support hurricanes and major storms that occasionally sweep across the entire planet for a month. Although Mars' thin atmosphere can also create a greenhouse effect.

But those would only raise the surface temperature by 5°C. Mars' poles are permanently covered in solid carbon dioxide (dry ice).

The structure of this ice cap is layered, consisting of alternating layers of ice and changing layers of carbon dioxide. In the northern summer, the carbon dioxide completely sublimates.

Only the remaining ice and water layer is left. The carbon dioxide in the south has never completely disappeared. If all the ice in the Antarctic cap melts into water, it can cover the entire Mars.

"When is the Mars exploration planned to begin?"

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Volume 1: Did We Really Defeat Honkai?: Chapter 156: The Relics of Otto Apokalis

"As for Mars exploration, Tianming has conducted it in recent years. Captain, I'll look for it for you."

Theresa tapped on the keyboard with her short hands, and soon, the data of the Destiny exploration of Mars appeared in front of them.

"The probe scans show that Mars has biological fossils, and it was once warmer than it is now, with flowing water and life."

"But an unknown crisis befell Mars, blowing away most of the air on Mars, and all life died."

"At the same time, several huge Houkai energy crystal mineral deposits were detected on Mars."

"Combined with the collected Honkai energy information, it is certain that Mars has faced Honkai before. However, there is a plan to migrate to Mars, which seems to be something Grandpa envisioned when he was young."

Theresa clicked on a file and started playing it:

Terraforming the Martian environment is humanity's attempt to turn Mars, the planet closest to Earth, into a more habitable place for humans.

The main content is to change the current climate and atmosphere of Mars to make it more similar to that of the Earth and create an environment more suitable for human habitation. This process is called terraforming.

The scale of such a project would be enormous, requiring the provision of water and air to Mars until the planet's environment becomes suitable for human survival.

So, why do we need to build a survival base on Mars and transform this planet? First of all, Mars is relatively close to the Earth. Although it is still a cold and dry planet, it has all the necessary elements to sustain life, including: water, dioxin, and nitrogen.

Mars' current atmosphere is very similar to Earth's atmosphere billions of years ago. When Earth was first formed, there was no oxygen and it was a desolate and barren land. The atmosphere was composed entirely of carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

It wasn't until photosynthetic bacteria evolved on Earth that enough oxygen was produced to allow animals to evolve. Similarly, the thin atmosphere on Mars today is composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide.

95.3%的二氧化碳、2.7%的氮、1.6%的氩、0.2%的氧，相比之下，地球的大气层由78.1%的氮、20.9%的氧、0.9%的氩以及0.1%的二氧化碳和其他气体构成。

From this detailed comparison, it can be seen that all humans visiting Mars now must carry large amounts of oxygen and nitrogen to sustain life.

The average surface temperature of Mars is as low as -62.77℃, the highest temperature is -23.88℃, and the lowest temperature is below -73.33℃.

In comparison, the Earth's average surface temperature is around 14.4°C, but the temperature of Mars can be raised through the greenhouse effect.

Mars also has several features very similar to Earth that have led people to consider it as a habitable place, including: its rotation rate of 24 hours and 37 minutes, compared to Earth's 23 hours and 56 minutes.

The tilt of its axis of rotation is 24 degrees, while that of the Earth is 23.5 degrees, and its gravity is one-third of that of the Earth.

Mars is close enough to the sun to have seasons. Mars is about 50% farther from the sun than Earth is.

If an atmosphere suitable for human habitation is to be obtained, Fang Haoli plans to freeze and liquefy the entire planet's atmosphere for storage, then process the frozen atmosphere, put it into an air processing plant, mix it to obtain air suitable for human survival, and then release this air into Mars.

This project is extremely large and requires the construction of many large air-cooling factories on both sides of Mars, which requires sufficient energy supply. Fang Hao has only one solution, which is to build a large nuclear fusion reactor power plant.

If we want to obtain water resources, we need to use powerful traction to change the orbit of the comet, so that it will hit Mars to bring the water needed for the ocean and increase the oxygen content in the Martian atmosphere.

There are some things in the universe that are beyond our comprehension, and nuclear fusion reaction is one of them. The essence of nuclear fusion reaction is matter.

Converted into energy, it means that everything in the world is made up of energy.

In this universe, all energy sources are formed by nuclear fusion reactions, even nuclear fission.

Originally, there was only energy in the world. At the beginning of the universe, huge amounts of energy were generated for unknown reasons. These energies were so huge that they filled the entire primitive universe and continued to expand the universe.

As the temperature of the primordial universe gradually cooled and the pressure gradually decreased, this energy gradually formed hydrogen elements.

Nuclear fusion is the process of making hydrogen react under high pressure to form various elements, including elements that can undergo nuclear fission.

In nature, hydrogen gathers together and slowly forms air masses. The larger the air mass, the stronger the pressure generated inside by gravity.

If gravity reaches its limit, the hydrogen atoms will collide due to the excessive pressure, and then release huge amounts of energy in the form of photons.

The huge amount of photons will generate huge light pressure, making the internal pressure of the hydrogen cluster even greater, resulting in continuous nuclear fusion until the nuclear fusion becomes iron.

Hydrogen is converted into helium through fusion inside a star. This reaction releases energy in the form of photons. The light pressure offsets the gravitational force toward the interior of the star, thus maintaining its stability.

Low-mass stars like the Sun cannot produce elements heavier than carbon through fusion due to mass limitations. Therefore, once the helium is exhausted, nuclear fusion will stop, the Sun will become a white dwarf, and then slowly cool down.

But if the star's mass reaches 8 to 25 times that of the Sun, nuclear fusion will continue, producing heavier elements.

When hydrogen is exhausted, helium begins to burn and produces carbon; when helium is exhausted, carbon begins to burn and produces gas; when carbon is exhausted, neon begins to burn. Nuclear fusion will continue like a chain until iron is produced.

The energy required to fuse iron into heavier elements is greater than the energy released, so fusion can only go so far.

Once fusion stops, the light pressure can no longer withstand the powerful gravitational force, and the outer layer of the star will collapse inward in less than a second. The matter will collide with the extremely hard core at high speed, and then rebound violently, forming a spectacular supernova explosion.

At this time, the core undergoes gravitational collapse and the star becomes a white dwarf, which is a very dense and stable star.

If its core retains 1.44 to 3 times the mass of the Sun, that is, exceeds the Chandrasekhar limit, it will not become a white dwarf and the collapse will continue.

The density will increase sharply, and at this time electrons and protons will combine into neutrons due to compression, and the matter inside the star will almost entirely consist of neutrons.

Afterwards, huge neutron pressure will be generated in the entire star, counteracting the gravity and preventing further collapse, and finally reaching a state of equilibrium again. We call the celestial body produced in this way a "neutron star".

The core of a star will also transform into a dense neutron star during the explosion. Neutron stars are a kind of destination of stellar decay. They are celestial bodies that are denser than white dwarfs, with a density of hundreds of millions of times that of white dwarfs.

One cubic centimeter of neutron star matter weighs between 10 million tons and 1 billion tons. A neutron star with a mass comparable to that of the sun has a diameter of only about 20 kilometers, while the diameter of the sun is nearly 140 million kilometers.

The essence of a neutron star is a huge atomic nucleus, that is, a huge atom. If a neutron star rotates at high speed, it will become a pulsar.

In short, a pulsar is a rapidly rotating neutron star that produces radiation through a complex energy conversion process under high-speed rotation.

The energy radiated by a pulsar comes from consuming its rotational energy, so its rotation will gradually slow down, causing the radiation period to slowly lengthen.

If a star's mass reaches more than 25 times that of the Sun, its core will become a black hole.

If the mass of a black hole continues to increase, it will reach a pressure limit, and eventually the black hole will explode and release infinite energy again.

Supergiants with a mass more than 100 times that of the sun will almost be wiped out in a supernova explosion. Shortly after the birth of the universe, many supermassive stars with masses hundreds or even thousands of times that of the sun appeared in space.

They are made of pure hydrogen and pure helium. These behemoths have extremely short lifespans, and the energy they generate during explosions is unimaginable to us. They will convert the entire mass of the star into photons, bursting out unimaginable energy.

However, nuclear energy is far from enough at present. Not only that, the universe is also filled with a large amount of Honkai energy.

Well, these Honkai energy can also undergo fusion and fission reactions, which is really amazing.

Unfortunately, as things stand now, Destiny can only use the fission of Honkai energy as a weapon...

So, we can make an assumption: in the distant future, will humans use the energy of Honkai energy in their lives on a large scale?

Otto Apokalis

Time unknown

Volume 1: Did We Really Defeat Honkai?: Chapter 157: Grayshu: I Want to Return to Foros

"It seems that Grandpa had planned to migrate to Mars a long time ago, but what stopped him?"

Theresa's face was solemn. She was a little puzzled. After all, based on her understanding of Otto, this was not something he would stop doing.

"The most important thing about space exploration is obtaining rare minerals in the universe that are precious on Earth."

The importance of rare minerals is self-evident. They play an irreplaceable role in the current scientific and technological system and have been widely used in electrical

electronics, petrochemicals, metallurgy, machinery, energy, light industry, environmental protection, agriculture and other fields.

Rare minerals play a huge role in the field of materials. They can be used to produce fluorescent materials, rare earth metal hydride battery materials, electro-optical materials, permanent magnetic materials, hydrogen storage materials, catalytic materials, precision ceramic materials, laser materials, superconducting materials, magnetostrictive materials, magnetoresistance materials, magneto-optical storage materials, optical fiber materials, etc.

The reserves of rare minerals on Earth are scarce, difficult to develop, and costly. Some elements are only found in small quantities in specific areas.

It has seriously restricted the development of earth science and technology.

For example, rhodium is a silvery-white, hard metal with high reflectivity. Rhodium metal does not usually form oxides. Even when heated, oxygen in the atmosphere is absorbed by the rhodium during melting, but is released during solidification.

The melting point and density of rhodium are lower than those of platinum. It is insoluble in most acids. It is completely insoluble in nitric acid and slightly soluble in aqua regia.

Rhodium can be used to manufacture hydrogenation catalysts, thermocouples, platinum-rhodium alloys, etc. It is also often plated on searchlights and reflectors. It is also used as a polishing agent for gemstones and electrical contact parts.

Because of its non-oxidizable properties, it has excellent optical properties. Such an important element is extremely rare on Earth and is many times more expensive than gold. However, some meteorites in space are rich in rhodium, which is the value of space mining.

Not only that, there are also metal resources on the moon and a huge amount of Honkai energy on the back of the moon.

The vacuum environment of the moon is also suitable for smelting other ores, and can produce metals that are difficult to obtain on Earth. For example, sodium and potassium metals can be smelted on a large scale, avoiding chemical reactions between metals and the air during smelting.

In addition, the moon has abundant rare earth element resources, with reserves of approximately 225 billion to 400 billion tons. The reserves of elements such as phosphorus, potassium, thorium, and uranium are also very rich.

In addition, the moon is rich in metal mineral resources such as chromium, nickel, magnesium, and silicon.

可控核聚变燃料氦-3地球上仅有15至20吨，月球上据推算有100万至500万吨。如用氦-3作为原料进行发电，全世界目前一年的能源总需求量，只需100吨氨-3即可，掌控了月球就可以满足地球上万年的能源需求。

There are even previous civilizations on the moon, as well as the legacy of the previous civilization's fight against collapse.

These are the best resources for the Earth, which is now in a state of collapse and restraint, to develop itself.

"Captain, I'm still worried about one thing."