Chapter 590 Venusians
Inside the Yungong base, there are already hundreds of synchronized robots working.
They were still very concerned about the arrival of Bai Yulou and others.
Soon, Bai Yulou and his group were arranged to live in the dormitory of the residential area. In fact, the residential area of the Yungong base was just a decoration before, and there were no living people in it.
After arranging accommodation, the duty base leader Wu Tengfei quickly took them to the hospital in the residential area for a comprehensive physical examination.
This is also the main purpose of Bai Yulou and others coming to Venus. Other things are secondary.
After a complete set of physical examinations, it was found that Bai Yulou and the others did not have any major health problems.
Wu Tengfei breathed a sigh of relief, and then said through the synchronized robot: "Captain Bai, Vice Captain Simon, you can move freely from now on, but if you want to go out, you need to apply for it specially."
"no problem."
“We can do some scientific research.”
After arranging matters for the astronauts, Wu Tengfei returned to his job.
Bai Yulou and Simon agreed to divide the 20 astronauts into two groups, with one group being free to do whatever they want one day and the other working the same day, taking turns on duty.
On the first day, they had no intention of working, mainly because they had just arrived on Venus and needed to further adapt to the environment. There was no need to work too hard now.
During the first half of the month of adaptation, they planned to take a good look around the Yungong base.
After all, this is a huge monster with an area of more than 3,000 square kilometers and a thickness of about 750 meters.
A group of astronauts surveyed the entire residential area in groups of three or five. This residential area is very large, about 15 square kilometers, 100 meters high, and is wrapped in a buoyancy layer composed of vacuum carbon balls.
When you come out of the hospital, there is a street at the entrance. There are several electric cars parked on both sides of the street, but these electric cars are fixed in special parking spaces.
Bai Yulou knew this very well. After all, the Yungong base was easily disturbed by strong winds in the early stages, causing continuous vibration and shaking. Therefore, many things in the base had to be fixed, otherwise they would easily bump around.
However, as the scale of the Yungong base has become larger and larger, this kind of wind disturbance has become smaller and smaller.
Using an employee card, Baiyulou drove away an electric car.
Although there is no one on both sides of the street, he believes that in the near future this will become the new home of new humans.
Venus is the only planet in the solar system that may become a new Earth. It is unlikely that other planets in the solar system can be transformed into planets suitable for human habitation in a short period of time.
After all, too much difference in gravity is a fatal problem.
For example, Musk, who has been clamoring to colonize Mars, his grand plan is just a plan and there is no possibility of it being realized in a short period of time.
The gravity difference between Mars and Earth is enough to cause irreversible genetic mutations and body changes, as well as new and unpredictable diseases, in humans who immigrate to Mars.
Sapiens has placed hundreds of anthropomorphic bodies in the Utopia Station on the Utopia Plains on Mars. Based on the conditions of these anthropomorphic bodies, it has been preliminarily determined that Mars is not suitable as a new home for humans.
Even the new humans who have undergone comprehensive transformation will not be able to live on Mars for a long time unless they are willing to become "Martians."
Currently, the internal gravity of the Yungong Base on Venus is about 0.8 different from that of the Earth, less than one-tenth of the difference, which is barely acceptable.
Even if you live on Venus for a long time, you can adapt in a short time after returning to Earth.
However, if you live on Mars for a long time, it will be difficult to adapt to the gravity of the Earth in a short period of time after returning to Earth. You may even experience your internal organs being squeezed to the point of being unable to breathe and your bones being broken.
This is very similar to diving. Ordinary people without professional training can only dive to a depth of 10 meters. If they dive to 40 or 50 meters at once, they may die.
Bai Yulou and others, as participants of the Warrior Project, are actually guinea pigs, but the company did not force them. The astronauts who participated in the experiment this time all signed up to participate on their own initiative.
After excluding applicants who were only children, too young, or too old, the Warrior Project recruited a total of 2,000 astronauts, and Bai Yulou and others were only the first batch.
If there are no major problems with this group of astronauts after half a year, the next group of astronauts participating in the experiment will reach 100 people.
Bai Yulou and Simon drove the car and familiarized themselves with the entire residential area. This might be where they would live for a long time in the future, so naturally they had to familiarize themselves with it well.
The facilities in the residential area include dormitories, hospitals, sanatoriums, kindergartens, schools, restaurants and various service industries.
However, what the two were most concerned about were the emergency shelters and escape ships, which were the systems that they had to inspect and familiarize themselves with first when checking into any alien base.
Although Sapiens has deployed 372 artificial satellites in low-Earth orbit and synchronous orbit around Venus, which can monitor most dangers from outer space, some dangers are difficult to avoid.
For example, a sudden gamma-ray burst or a solar storm. Even if these dangers are detected, they are probably unstoppable and we can only leave it to fate.
The bad thing about Venus is that it is too close to the sun and does not have a strong magnetic field to resist the charged particles of the solar storm. Therefore, the surface of the Yungong base is easily attacked by the solar wind.
In order to avoid being disturbed by the solar wind, the Yungong Base adopted a very special plan, which is to always turn its back to the sun.
This takes advantage of Venus's extremely long rotation. One day on Venus is equivalent to 243 Earth days. In addition, the inclination angle of Venus's axis is very large, and the air at high altitudes is relatively thin, which allows the Yungong Base to float in the shadow area where the sun cannot reach for a long time.
In this way, the Yungong base does not need to worry too much about solar storms in the early stages.
Anyway, even without exposure to the sun, the Yungong base can still obtain huge amounts of geothermal energy and solar energy. Combined with its own nuclear batteries, energy is not a problem.
Bai Yulou and Simon parked the car in the parking space. After pressing the parking button, the parking space automatically extended the clamps and locked the four wheel hubs.
"This is the shelter. Let's go in and take a look."
The two swiped their cards and walked into the shelter.
This is a cylindrical building, which is actually a converted spaceship. In case of emergency, it can be untied at any time and the spaceship can be driven away from the Yungong base.
There is one such spaceship at each of the four corners of the residential area.
Bai Yulou and Simon took a look at the facilities inside and found that a spaceship could accommodate 500 people for escape.
"Too little." Simon patted the life support capsule in front of him.
Bai Yulou shook his head: "Don't worry, the company will make arrangements. After all, there are only twenty of us in the residential area now, and we will definitely add more as the population increases in the future."
Simon was still a little worried: "Food is also a problem. If the escape ship gets lost and we have no way to rescue it in time, the food stored on the ship can only last for three months."
"You can't have your cake and eat it, there's a contradiction between the number of passengers and the amount of food needed to sustain an escape ship." Bai Yulou was powerless to do anything about it.
The only solution is to expand the size of the escape spacecraft so as to extend the lifespan of the food inside it.
