Chapter 42 Starry Sky Barrier

"The final simulation results were in line with expectations."

After a complex computer simulation, the host finally announced the conclusion.

At least under the existing theoretical conditions and the existing simulation level, people believe that if the plan is followed and the corresponding amount of hydrogen bombs are detonated at the corresponding location, the expected effect can indeed be achieved.

People dispersed with complicated thoughts and came to another place again.

Dajing City Meteorological Center.

Here, people will simulate the impact that the eruption of the Bluestone volcano, the huge amount of volcanic ash entering the atmosphere, and the change in the Earth's tilt will have on the Earth's climate.

Zhou Cheng saw in the simulation animation that as the temperature dropped sharply, the ice caps at the Earth's poles began to spread rapidly, even spreading to the temperate regions.

The year of the volcanic eruption, there was no summer at all. Even in the tropics, the highest temperature in summer was only around 10 degrees Celsius.

The sky is gray. Even in the twilight years when mankind is extremely declining, the starry sky will move away from mankind and can no longer be seen with the naked eye.

With the movement of the atmosphere, the volcanic ash gradually dissipated, and the clear night sky reappeared in people's sight.

Originally, as the volcanic ash dissipated and sunlight reached the surface again, the earth's temperature should have slowly risen and returned to the level before the volcanic eruption.

Although the ice sheet can reflect sunlight, it cannot stop the overall increase of solar energy and will eventually melt little by little.

But now, the change in the Earth's tilt has reduced the amount of energy from the sun reaching the Earth, so the ice sheet, which stretches for thousands of miles, has not melted.

If the ice caps don't melt, the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth will continue to decrease, creating a vicious cycle.

The earth has become an icy planet.

This time, the data simulation once again obtained the expected answer.

Afterwards, Zhou Cheng and Liu Yu came to another place again.

This place was once the most secretive place in human civilization during its heyday, but now in its twilight years, there was no longer much need for secrecy.

After all, older people are usually quiet and don't have that much energy to stir up trouble.

"Everyone can rest assured about the maintenance of our nuclear arsenal. Even after decades, we can guarantee that every detonation will be effective."

The head of the nuclear arsenal is also an elderly man. In response to people's questions, he spoke in a firm tone.

"The World Government gave us orders long before the Twilight Age began."

His tone began to tinge with emotion. "Like Project Cradle, Project Spring Thunder, and the Space Sustainment Program, our nuclear arsenal maintenance program is also a top priority. After all, this thing is the most powerful weapon we humans possess. Who knows when we might need it?"

Look, look, it’s being used now. Our decades of persistence have finally paid off.”

The members of the review team carefully reviewed the maintenance records of the nuclear bombs and inspected their condition on site. They finally agreed that the integrity of these hydrogen bombs was very high and there would be no problem in detonating them successfully.

In this way, the entire chain of the "Extreme Cold of Heaven and Earth" plan was connected to a large part.

Only the last part remains to be completed.

The integrity of nuclear arsenals can be verified on site. Whether a Bluestone volcano eruption could be triggered can be determined through field surveys and simulations. Whether a Bluestone volcano eruption could trigger extreme cold weather can also be simulated through theory and data.

So... can extreme cold weather really prevent human civilization from developing?

Unlike the other steps, this one cannot be empirically verified.

Then, it can only be put into the final review stage, and the final judgment will be made based on people's wisdom.

After finishing the review of the "Extreme Cold of Heaven and Earth" plan, Zhou Cheng turned his attention to another plan.

"Star Barrier" plan.

A group of review team members came to the only space launch site in human civilization at this stage.

In the early twilight years, human civilization underwent a period of large-scale, high-frequency space launch activities.

Its purpose is very simple. It is nothing more than launching as many satellites as possible into space while human civilization still has strength as a backup to prevent disasters from being resolved in time, and humanity from falling into complete decline and being unable to carry out space launches, which will lead to a situation where there are no satellites available.

After this peak period, human civilization has not carried out space launch activities for a long time, as enough satellites specially developed for long-term use were stored in space.

Not to mention manned space flight, not even a single satellite has been launched.

But like nuclear arsenals, space launch bases are always under a high level of maintenance.

Rockets, spacecraft, satellites, manned spacecraft, etc., people in the heyday of the times left enough spare parts so that people could assemble them and use them at any time if needed.

Although the personnel here have not actually launched a rocket for decades, they conduct a simulated launch every once in a while to always maintain their space launch capabilities.

This is the space support program.

At this moment, people came here to comprehensively examine every detail of the space maintenance plan, from the maintenance of spare parts to the training of personnel, from the equipment at the launch site to the maintenance of the rocket body.

Zhou Cheng felt a little emotional.

"I never expected that today, 61 years after the catastrophe, we still have a considerable level of space launch capability.

It seems that the Star Barrier Project is indeed feasible..."

The details of this plan slowly flowed through Zhou Cheng's mind.

"At this stage, the total payload we can mobilize for near-Earth and far-Earth space launches is approximately between 11,000 and 13,000 tons.

I plan to transport this payload of about 12,000 tons (taking the median), all of which are projectiles with an average mass of one gram, into space and detonate them in space.

As a result, there will be as many as 12 billion projectiles in the Earth's near-Earth space, each following a different orbit and at a different altitude, orbiting the Earth at an average speed of about 8.5 kilometers per second.

According to the kinetic energy formula, if a projectile with a mass of one gram and a speed of 8.5 kilometers per second collides with an object, it will release about 36,000 joules of energy, which is even far greater than the kinetic energy of a large-caliber sniper bullet.

These 12 billion projectiles, with kinetic energy exceeding that of large-caliber sniper bullets, will form a barrier in the Earth's near-Earth space.

No human creation can pass through this barrier.

As a result...human civilization will be firmly locked on Earth and will forever lose the ability to develop aerospace technology.

If aerospace technology cannot develop, other technologies will be seriously affected, leading to stagnation of the overall technological level.

Humanity will never be able to leave Earth."

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Rainbow found that she seemed to have missed some content before, which may have caused readers to misunderstand the logic of the whole thing... So she went back and modified Chapter 37 and added some content.

Readers who have followed this far don’t need to go back and read. I have put the added content in the author’s words, so you can just read it directly.