Spaceship Design

During the construction of the Orbital Mass Accelerator, the first orbital satellite was also sent up using traditional propulsion methods.

Days passed, and two years flew by.

In these two years, humanity unleashed its powerful potential. Smelters increased from one to ten, and various supporting factories sprang up like mushrooms on Callisto. The Orbital Mass Accelerator was also successfully completed and debugged.

The dark Callisto was brightly lit, with various facilities standing in rows, spreading outward from the original base, forming a brightly lit city of steel.

Fully automatic and semi-automatic robots of all types shuttled back and forth on the roads connecting the various buildings. The interweaving of machinery, gears, and lubricating oil added a busy atmosphere to this steel city.

The unprecedented large-scale investment in robots did reduce the burden on people, but it also kept Callisto's central computer operating at near full capacity.

Under these circumstances, a new generation of computers was also included in the future planning documents. Of course, the new generation of computers could only be planned for the time being and could not be accomplished overnight.

It was a kind of future planning.

There were many such plans, but none of them were urgent at this stage.

Because the top priority was to build a spaceship.

For this matter, Yue Yuan rushed to the Design Institute early this morning in a fit of anger.

He had originally gone to the Engineering Department first, but the people in the Engineering Department told him that the design proposal had not been finalized, so he turned around and went straight to the Design Institute.

Arriving at the Design Institute, Yue Yuan's first stop was the director's office, but when he entered the office, he found that no one was there. Zhu Pete asked others before he found out that the director of the Design Institute had gone directly to the Design Department early in the morning.

Hearing this news, Yue Yuan felt much better.

After all, the Design Department was the place where the actual blueprints were designed, and the director must have gone there to participate in the design himself.

This made Yue Yuan, who had originally wanted Zhu Pete to call the director of the Design Institute to the office, change his mind and turn around to rush to the Design Department across from the office.

Before he even entered, Yue Yuan heard a slightly argumentative conversation coming from inside.

"This won't work. The spaceship must take the gravity environment into account. At this stage, drugs cannot completely solve the problem of calcium loss in the human body. Allowing humans to live in a weightless environment for a long time will be disastrous. We must know that we may face a long-term spaceship life in the future, and even our next generation may be born on the spaceship. Growing up in a weightless environment, newborns will have many problems."

"Yes, we all know this. Newborns who grow up in a weightless environment will be taller than Earth people, but they will also experience muscle atrophy, heart atrophy, and other symptoms. They will have more bloated faces, more fragile hearts, and difficulty in spatial awareness. I know all this, but we don't have anti-gravity technology at all. What else can we do? We can only accept it, accept the fact that we humans are becoming new humans.

Moreover, with our current technological capabilities, the best solution is to build multiple residential spaceships, so as to meet the living needs of more than 80,000 people."

"What anti-gravity technology? We don't need anti-gravity technology. We can simulate it with inertial force. Just build the spaceship into a rotating large disc."

"A large turntable? That's easier said than done. People in a rotating state will be affected by the Coriolis Effect. The human body will experience incorrect body orientation, nausea, and other symptoms due to the head and body sending opposite or similar movements. Unless the turntable can be made very large."

"That's what I mean. We can build a huge spaceship, so large that the Coriolis Effect experienced by people can be ignored."

Why are they still discussing this issue? Shouldn't the proposal have already been written? Hearing this, Yue Yuan, who was outside the door, finally couldn't help but push the door open and said with a frown, "What time is it? Why hasn't the proposal been written yet?"

As he spoke, Yue Yuan walked straight to the two people who were discussing.

One of them was Gao Kun, the director of the newly established Design Institute, and the other was Yu Nanfeng, the chief designer of this spaceship construction and the most outstanding engineering doctor on Callisto.

Yue Yuan heard the conversation between the two clearly. Gao Kun believed that the spaceship should be designed as multiple ships, while Yu Nanfeng believed that a large ship should be built.

Yue Yuan was a little angry because at this time, the two were still discussing the proposal, instead of writing several proposals and submitting them to him for review at the same time.

"Chief Yue? Why are you here!" The chubby Gao Kun turned his head in surprise first. He obviously didn't notice Yue Yuan suddenly appearing behind him.

Yue Yuan was now the supreme leader and the chief officer of all departments, so many people changed their address to Chief Yue, while the military personnel called him Commander Yue.

"I came to see you discuss the proposal. What's wrong? It's been so long and you haven't written it yet? The Orbital Mass Accelerator is already ready. Time is tight." Yue Yuan repeated his meaning again.

"It's already written. We're going to submit it this afternoon," Yu Nanfeng replied.

Oh? It seems I misunderstood.

Yue Yuan was stunned, then pulled a chair and sat down, looking at Yu Nanfeng and Gao Kun: "In the future, notify me directly of such important matters."

"Understood," the two said in unison.

"Tell me what's going on? What were you discussing just now?" Yue Yuan leaned back in the chair, his tone becoming much more relaxed.

Oh, so he overheard our discussion just now and thought the proposal hadn't been written yet. Hearing Yue Yuan's question, Gao Kun and Yu Nanfeng exchanged glances, and immediately understood why Yue Yuan had entered with a stern face just now.

"Chief Yue, it's like this..."

It was Gao Kun, the director of the Design Institute, who opened his mouth to answer. Although he knew that Yue Yuan had heard the conversation between the two just now, he pretended not to know and still elaborated from the beginning.

In his words, he also gave a detailed account of the advantages of his proposed multi-ship proposal.

After Gao Kun had almost finished speaking, Yu Nanfeng immediately rattled off the benefits of building a large spaceship, as if afraid that Yue Yuan would immediately decide on the multiple spaceship plan.

Listening to their detailed explanations, Yue Yuan understood.

There were two spaceship plans: one was to build many starship-type habitable spaceships, and the other was to build one large rotating spaceship.

Yue Yuan pinched his chin and remained silent for a long while, then looked up at Gao Kun and said, "A spaceship for long-term habitation definitely can't do without gravity."

"We can use Magnetic Boots. As long as we adjust the magnetic force, we can achieve the same effect as walking on the ground," Gao Kun interjected before Yue Yuan could finish.

"That's different."

Yue Yuan shook his head, but he didn't completely reject the idea of Magnetic Boots. Then he said, "Although Magnetic Boots are not suitable for habitable spaceships, they would be good for future warships."

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