Chapter 214 Armstrong Limit
Seeing Chen Jue grinding his nails with a dagger, and the sparks flew everywhere, just like grinding a piece of metal with an angle grinder, even Zou Ying, an engineer in the team, was stunned and almost speechless. He thought absurdly in his mind: "Is this a metal sequin manicure?"
You should know that ordinary people's nails are composed of keratin, and it is impossible for them to produce sparks when rubbing against metal. At most, they will become hot and grind into pieces.
As Chen Jue's body underwent transformation and evolution, every cell tissue in his body surpassed the limits of the human body. In addition, he practiced finger skills and horizontal hard skills on his hands, so that his nails were as hard as iron. Ordinary nail clippers would blunt the blades.
Although the nails he grew were still composed of keratin, if one observed the components through a microscope, one would find that the keratin layer structure of Chen Jue's nails was tighter and layered, and the texture looked like jade rock. Both the hardness and toughness were comparable to metal, so sparks and green smoke came out when he took the frosted surface of the dagger and filed it.
"You are indeed worthy of being a special candidate!"
"Is this because his body structure is different from that of an ordinary person?"
"So powerful! So handsome! I really want to have a boyfriend like him!" The young people in the R&D room were excited.
Chen Jue tested the sharpness of the dagger and its function as a nail sharpener, then put it back into the box.
"Chen Jue, come with me. There is another pair of custom-made gloves that you specifically requested that you need to test yourself." Seeing that the atmosphere in the R&D room was a little strange, Zou Ying hurriedly took Chen Jue and left the R&D room under the infatuated eyes of a group of young girls and entered a compartment further inside.
The walls of the compartment were made of pure metal plates, and there was a door outside that was similar to a bank safe. After Zou Ying entered the password three times in a row, she opened the door and brought Chen Jue in.
I saw rows of equipment shelves from "three", "two" and "one" lined up one by one, and all kinds of weapons, detection and survival equipment were neatly stacked on the shelves.
On the innermost shelf marked with the word "Special", the entire shelf was empty with only a box. In the box, Chen Jue saw the pair of gloves he had requested.
This is a pair of gloves that are completely black with some dark gold patterns. They are placed in a sealed box with a metal bottom and a glass lid.
Zou Ying opened the box and made a gesture to Chen Jue to let him go. "Put it on. Let's go to the test site to test its strength. I'll ask the team to arrange a vacuum chamber later, and we'll also conduct a preliminary test on the aerospace armor."
"good!"
Chen Jue nodded and put on the pair of gloves that only covered his wrists.
A soft and comfortable feeling against the skin came from inside the gloves. Chen Jue touched the outer material of the gloves again. It was a soft metal braid.
The fist bones and finger joints are thickened with raised areas, while the palm side is as soft as skin. It does not affect hand movement at all when worn, and is clearly designed with great care.
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After taking the gloves, Chen Jue followed Zou Ying all the way to the fourth floor of the R&D building, where he saw a large space similar to an equipment testing site.
There's everything from force-measuring machines to some alloy dummies and some targets covered in spikes.
Chen Jue first tested the strength of the gloves, and tore them with a little force. He found that the woven fabric in the custom-made combat gloves was very tough and did not deform much no matter how hard he pulled.
Moreover, that layer of soft metal fabric has physical properties similar to memory metal. After being slightly stretched by force, it will shrink back by itself.
Seeing Chen Jue having fun playing with the gloves, Zou Ying at the side began to introduce: "The manufacturing process of this glove is already the most advanced in all research institutes. Whether in terms of wear resistance, pressure resistance, or stretch and repair properties, it has reached the pinnacle of human manufacturing technology at present."
"I heard from Mr. Zhong that you showed off your skill of catching pistol bullets with your bare hands."
"With these gloves, it will probably be easier for you to catch bullets again."
Hearing Zou Ying say this, Chen Jue smiled slightly without comment, clenched his hands, clenched them into fists, walked to a solid dummy made of alloy and punched it hard.
With a "clang" sound, a huge dent was punched on the dummy's chest by Chen Jue, and a large area of densely packed small bumps was left in the center of the dent. Those were the tiny protrusions on the back of the gloves.
If a living person were hit like this, his skin and flesh would probably be torn apart on the spot.
"It feels much stronger than hitting someone with bare hands. The most important thing is that it can protect your hands." Chen Jue threw a few more punches at a target covered with spikes in the room.
Those specially made alloy spikes would emit sparks when they came into contact with the gloves, and then the neat rows of spikes were bent inwards and deformed by the huge force of Chen Jue's fist. Zou Ying, who was watching from the side, had her beautiful eyes wandering and thought to herself, "What a violent man!"
After trying the feeling of hitting someone, Chen Jue found a piece of smooth tempered floor-to-ceiling glass and placed one side of his palm on it. The friction and suction feeling from the palm side surprised Chen Jue slightly. He felt like a gecko or a spider after wearing this pair of gloves. With a little force with both hands, he rubbed up against the glass and then hung in the air.
Zou Ying introduced the situation: "There is a bionic structure on one side of the palm, which can maximize the adhesion of your hands. We have tested it and found that even if we hang a weight of 200 to 300 kilograms on it, it can be firmly attached."
"If this pair of gloves becomes popular, the cleaners who clean windows outside office buildings will definitely hype it up as a hot-selling item." Chen Jue muttered to himself when he heard this.
If Zou Ying knew his childish idea, she would probably give him a cold look the first time.
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After testing the custom gloves, Zou Ying led Chen Jue to a white square testing site on the ground floor of the R&D building, where a horizontal cylindrical device similar to a steam boiler was placed.
Chen Jue looked at the device in front of him and realized that it was a vacuum chamber used by astronauts to simulate space environment training.
There are several turbo pumps outside the vacuum chamber. Once the door of the vacuum chamber is closed, they will start working to drain the air inside.
"Facing the vacuum?"
"It's really challenging!" Chen Jue looked at the vacuum chamber and did not feel the slightest fear in his heart. Instead, he felt a little excited.
You know, when Chen Jue was studying in the reading room before, he had seen a similar research project on the human body and vacuum, which mentioned a case of how long a human body can survive in a vacuum environment without protection.
This case is the data collected from a vacuum chamber space suit leakage incident that occurred at the American Space Agency in the last century.
In a vacuum environment, the human body can remain conscious for about 14 seconds, which is the time it takes for oxygen to reach the brain from the lungs, after which it falls into a coma.
The last memory of the poor astronaut who encountered the leak before he fell into a coma was that he noticed the water on his tongue beginning to boil.
Just like the pressure cookers we ordinary people use, the pressure cooker can boil the water in the pot to 120℃ with the help of pressure, which is based on the principle of high pressure. However, this vacuum chamber is the opposite of the pressure cooker, with ultra-low pressure. Once the air pressure drops to a certain level, the water in the human body will boil directly at body temperature!
In aviation medicine, this situation is called the Armstrong limit, which means that when the atmospheric pressure drops to 0.062 standard atmospheres at an altitude of about 18,900 meters above the earth's surface, the boiling point of water will drop to 37°C, which is equivalent to the human body temperature.
If Antarctica is a low-temperature forbidden zone for human activities, then the altitude reaching the Armstrong limit is a high-altitude forbidden zone for human activities.
If there is no protection at this altitude, the human body fluids will boil instantly and the body will turn into a furnace.
Chen Jue didn't know whether he could withstand the vacuum environment with his current physical attributes, but seeing that Zou Ying had already brought the aerospace combat suit over, he knew that he had no chance to use the vacuum chamber to commit suicide this time.
"Chen Jue, please change into your combat uniform. With your physical fitness, it shouldn't be a big problem to get in. It's a good opportunity to test the various data of this combat uniform." Zou Ying said on the side, and several R&D personnel began to fiddle with the aerospace combat uniform.
Upon hearing this, Chen Jue nodded, stretched out his hand, and took off the casual sportswear on his upper body, revealing his jade-like skin, clear muscle lines, and a sculpture-like upper body!
Seeing this body line that was comparable to that of a Western god, Zou Ying, a female engineer in her early thirties, immediately widened her eyes and blushed. She felt that she was really fed up with the visual impact brought by Chen Jue today, and muttered in her heart: "Damn it! How can there be such a perfect body curve in this world?"
"He has a handsome face and a good figure... If I had known him a few years earlier, I wouldn't have been single until now..."
