Great Construction

"Are we still doomed to perish? If that's the case, what's the point of working hard now?" Upon hearing such news, some pessimists immediately became overwhelmed.

"That depends on the reserves of fissionable minerals on Callisto. As long as Callisto's reserves of uranium, plutonium, thorium, and other minerals are sufficient, we can survive until the cosmic dust cloud thins out," Xu Zhenyi replied meticulously.

Are we going to stay on Callisto for hundreds of years? But what if the reserves aren't enough? To die together on Callisto? A wave of pessimism spread.

"If... I mean, if we can develop Controlled Nuclear Fusion within thirty years? The original Earth could, there's no reason we can't!" A young researcher's words dispelled the spreading pessimism.

Xu Zhenyi shifted his buttocks, which he had been using for forty-three years, and then looked deeply at the researcher, saying in a very serious tone, "I did participate in the room-temperature superconductivity project, and I was fortunate enough to participate in the research and development of many core technologies. Although I came to Callisto later, that was only for the last ten years..."

"Doesn't that mean that in this regard, we are at most only ten years behind the original Earth?"

"That's right," Xu Zhenyi replied confidently.

But the problem is that the core technology of magnetic confinement for nuclear fusion is basically lost. Callisto doesn't have any physicists or engineers who participated in this field and were leading figures.

Too difficult.

Only then did everyone realize that they, this group of people, had not fully inherited the technological achievements of the original humans of Earth.

This was certain, after all, Callisto Base was not prepared for the continuation of Human Civilization, it was impossible to have everything.

"There will always be a way," Yue Yuan said at this time. He continued, "Since room-temperature superconductivity is likely to be recovered, then go and research it. Technology is interconnected, we have only lost some technology, not all of it.

We don't have scientists who have participated in magnetic confinement fusion projects, but we have the theory, and we have all the information except for the core technical data.

Just like the young man said, the original Earth could, there's no reason we can't! I believe we can overcome the difficulties!"

Although Yue Yuan's words did not give a specific solution, they had a calming effect.

"Yes, we will definitely overcome the difficulties."

A group of people cheered themselves up.

The fact is that the same sentence spoken by different people can have different effects.

In this expanded meeting, although no specific solution to Controlled Nuclear Fusion was discussed from beginning to end, many things were still determined.

For example, the establishment of the New Human Government, the passage of the 'Lying Flat' Act, the direction of major construction, and the decision that humans need to leave Callisto to find new stars... and other fragmented but related to the entire civilization things were also determined one by one.

For example, determining the name: Human Civilization.

Not New Human Civilization, because this group of people felt that they were carrying the hope of the humans of Earth and would always be proud of their predecessors, so there was no need to add the word 'new' to separate each other.

For this reason, Human Civilization did not use a new calendar, but continued to use the Common Era calendar.

In fact, some people had proposed to use a new era, and the reason was quite high-sounding, saying that humans had just emerged from Callisto Base like mammals had just been reborn from the disaster after the extinction of the dinosaurs, and that day should be recorded as the first year of the new era.

Some people also proposed to use the Yellow Emperor Calendar, and this suggestion had many supporters, after all, most of them were from the Zhonghua Family, but in the end, the conference chose to continue the previous Common Era calendar.

The reason was... almost all that's left are people from the Zhonghua Family, can't you be more generous? Humanity is one, there is no need to change everything.

In the future, Yue Yuan spent his time organizing various meetings and processing decision documents.

One major event after another that determined the future direction of Human Civilization was decided, one new Callisto construction project after another went from paper to construction, and one guess after another about the cosmic background began to brew in this environment.

Under the leadership of an absolute voice, humans in the midst of an extinction crisis burst out with super strength, turning Callisto into a hot construction site.

One exploration robot after another flew out of the base, and the blue flames they spewed on the completely dark Callisto were like fireflies in the night, transmitting various information about the post-disaster Callisto to humans.

Surface images, thermal images, mineral distribution characteristics, reserves... In addition, these small machines also served as temporary network nodes in the early stage, providing precise positioning for mining teams going out to mine.

Then came the actions of various collection robots.

The post-disaster environment of Callisto was very different from before. At this moment, it had changed from a cold satellite to a temporarily hot planet. Therefore, in order to adapt to the current environment of Callisto, engineers modified these mining machines.

The original rubber wheels were replaced with more heat-resistant crawler types, and other sensing equipment, mining blades, and circuit designs were also modified accordingly.

Gradually, the prototype of industrial buildings appeared on the barren Callisto.

The first power station, the first steel smelting plant, the first chemical raw material production workshop, the first supporting parts production plant... In the midst of the busyness of various construction machinery, industry returned to the surface of Callisto, and the dawn of Human Civilization was rekindled from the darkness.

From mineral mining to raw material processing, from raw material processing to parts assembly, from parts assembly to product delivery. Main material processing, by-product extraction, one industrial production line after another was restarted.

The steel raw materials produced by steel smelting were pulled into various secondary processing plants, and then turned into batches of alloys with different properties, and then transported to precision processing plants to become special steel, alloy steel, composite materials, and various parts.

By-minerals and other by-products produced in the smelting process also flowed into various types of chemical plants in this way, and then produced batches of organic materials, inorganic materials, and various waste gases.

In this process, plastics and synthetic rubber were also produced in chemical plants.

From the moment a brand new robot rolled off the automated mechanical factory line, the industrial might of Human Civilization began to snowball, with machines producing machines, and the machines they produced mining more mineral resources to produce even more machines.

After three years of intense infrastructure construction, humanity finally raised its head once more to take a step towards the stars—the Orbital Mass Accelerator project officially commenced.

Because Callisto's escape velocity is only 2.4 km/s, its surface gravitational acceleration is only 1.24 m/s², and there's no need to consider air resistance, the Orbital Mass Accelerator built on Callisto is much smaller in scale than one on Earth.

Moreover, the current phase of the Orbital Mass Accelerator is mainly for cargo transport, so the lengthy track needed to consider the limits of human tolerance to gravitational acceleration is also unnecessary.

This undoubtedly greatly reduced the difficulty of construction.

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