Chapter 780: Breakthrough in Carbon Nanostructure
On the phone, Xu You expressed his thoughts to Xu Zhou.
Because the distance between the Blue Planet and the Moon is 380,000 kilometers, there will be some delay in the transmission of information.
Fortunately, this will not have much impact on the conversation between the two.
After listening to Xu You's thoughts, Xu Zhou nodded and said:
"I understand what you mean, but this is indeed a very difficult problem to solve. The material used to make a space elevator must meet both high strength and low density to cope with the strong gravitational and centrifugal forces. Carbon nanotubes are the only material that meets this requirement."
Based on his years of research, Xu Zhou quickly gave Xu You some suggestions.
In fact, Xu You was also prepared for this direction, but Xu You knew that with Blue Star's current research on carbon nanotubes, it would be impossible to create a space elevator that could reach the moon from Blue Star.
Thinking of this, Xu You continued to ask Xu Zhou:
"Dad, with the current technology of Blue Star, how high can the space elevator made from the carbon nanotubes produced be?"
Xu Zhou thought for a moment and said:
"With the current level of technology on Blue Planet, it is not a problem to build a space elevator of tens of thousands of kilometers. Such a space elevator is mainly used for transportation between Blue Planet and the space station. However , it is absolutely impossible to reach the moon."
Xu Zhou made a simple calculation and gave Xu You a preliminary conclusion.
Although carbon nanotube technology has made a huge leap forward compared to before, making the concept of a space elevator possible.
But after all, the technical difficulty of building a space elevator from the blue planet to the moon is too great, and it is not a problem that can be solved with the existing level of technology.
After listening to Xu Zhou's answer, Xu You thought about it and continued:
"Is there any other way to greatly improve the strength of carbon nanotubes while keeping the density basically unchanged?"
"Well... unless the structure of the carbon nanotubes is fundamentally changed to break the constraints of the previous nanostructure. As for how to design its structure specifically, there are too many things to learn."
Based on his own experience, Xu Zhou gave Xu You a possible direction, but this would not solve too many problems.
After all, when it comes to actual implementation, the workload involved is too huge, and it is very likely that no results will be achieved in the end.
But this at least brought a possibility to Xu You, allowing Xu You to keep a hope in his heart.
"Okay, let's discuss this in person when we have time. I'm on the moon for the time being, and I'll be back to Blue Planet after a while."
Xu Zhou was a little surprised to hear the news that Xu You was on the moon.
"Why did you suddenly go to the moon? It's dangerous there."
There was worry in Xu Zhou's words, and Xu You then remembered that he had been to the moon so many times before, but Xu Zhou didn't know about it once.
The reason why Xu You didn't tell Xu Zhou these was because he was afraid that Xu Zhou would worry about him. After all, Xu Zhou's psychological endurance was far inferior to Wu Jing, and Xu You didn't want Xu Zhou to worry about him often.
The projects that Xu Zhou is researching are all very important, and being distracted all the time would definitely be detrimental to his research.
"Because the underground shelter on the moon has been built, let's go and experience it. Anyway, we may really move to the moon in the future."
"So that's how it is. No wonder I felt a serious signal delay during the call just now. Be sure to pay attention to safety over there. After all, the moon is not like the blue planet..."
Xu Zhou instructed Xu You about various safety matters. After listening to a few words, Xu You quickly stopped Xu Zhou from talking.
"Okay, I get it. I have other things to do, so I won't say any more for now. We'll talk again after we get to Blue Star."
"Well, that's fine. I need to go to Jijing in a while. We can talk in person then."
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After Xu You and his companions lived in the underground shelter on the moon, they recorded their life on the moon through some live broadcast or video platforms.
After seeing their life on the moon, many people were very envious of this kind of life. This kind of living condition far exceeded their expectations of the underground shelter on the moon.
This also makes people very willing to participate in the underground shelter on the moon.
As soon as the reservations started, a large number of netizens filled out applications to go to the moon to participate in the lunar underground shelter experience.
After all, there is no cost for this experience activity. You only need to fill out some comments about your living experience, suggestions for improvement, and shoot some videos for record after the experience.
Because there were too many netizens participating in the first batch of reservations, only a few netizens were randomly selected to go to the moon and participate in the experience of the lunar underground shelter.
After several days of training, these lucky netizens traveled to the moon on various aircraft including aerospace fighters.
You know, just a dozen years ago, there were only a handful of humans who were able to travel to the moon.
And now, these ordinary people have actually got such an opportunity, which naturally makes them feel very excited.
Just as expected, when they actually arrived at the underground shelter on the moon, they were very satisfied with the life there.
Even after the experience time is over, many people are still not satisfied and want to extend the experience time again.
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After finishing the lunar underground shelter experience, Xu You and his companions returned to the Blue Planet on the Shenniao aerospace fighter.
Everyone felt very good about the experience this time. The only slight shortcoming was that some experimental equipment was not moved here, so we couldn’t conduct experiments like we did in school.
Of course, this has no impact on people like Lou Song who study pure mathematical theory.
Xu You did not delay the progress of the experiment because all the experiments in the laboratory of Jijing University were ongoing and the latest progress was reported to Xu You at any time.
Xu You can also use his special abilities to perform brain simulation in his mind to supplement the real experimental data.
The aerospace fighter landed smoothly at Jijing International Airport. After getting off the plane, Xu You immediately called Xu Zhou.
After all, this matter is very important. It is related to the space transportation capacity from the blue planet to the moon. Xu You must give it a higher priority.
After more than ten seconds, the call was connected.
"Dad, I've already gotten off the plane. If you have time, you can prepare to come to Jijing."
