Chapter 171: Lunar Ark
At this moment, even Jiang Yang, who had experienced countless major events and large-scale mobilizations and truly witnessed human power, couldn’t help but breathe slightly rapidly.
Build a town on the Moon that could potentially scale to ten thousand people!
Although water has already been confirmed on the Moon, solving the supply issue for the most important and largest proportion of supplies, the remaining supplies needed for this Moon town are still enormous.
Various large, medium, and small observation devices are indispensable; they are the scientists’ weapons and the fundamental reason for the Moon town’s existence.
In addition, there are various building materials.
Although there is already technology at the current stage to make bricks from lunar soil, which can save a large amount of building materials, it is foreseeable that steel components, seals, radiation protection devices, electricity devices, circulation devices, and so on to be launched to the Moon will also be enormous.
Then there is personnel replenishment, food, medicine, spacesuits, and so on, as well as the most important: the personnel themselves.
Calculated at an average body weight of 70KG, ten thousand people is a full 700 tons of mass!
The current largest Julingshen No. 4 Rocket can deliver a payload mass of up to a hundred tons in a single launch to the Earth-Moon Transfer Orbit. But don’t forget, that includes the total mass of various journey supplies, equipment, spaceship, and so on.
A single Julingshen No. 4 launch, even with increased payload, can transport at most 20 people. This means that just transporting these people would require 500 Julingshen No. 4 Rockets!
Including all the equipment, supplies, and personnel that need to be transported, probably all the rockets in the world wouldn’t be enough…
Jiang Yang subconsciously looked toward Professor Chen Yusheng and saw him rapidly operating on the computer, seemingly browsing data related to the current era’s aerospace industry.
Moments later, he pressed the request to speak button and received permission.
“Based on our existing rockets and backup rockets, and production speed, it’s obviously not enough. However, from the scale of the existing aerospace industry, especially rocket manufacturing scale, I believe we have a high probability of completing this mission.”
No one questioned Professor Chen Yusheng’s judgment.
He is the only one with experience in large-scale rocket manufacturing in a short time. If he says there is a high probability, then there certainly is.
It would just be another global mobilization.
Sun Changhe nodded slightly and looked toward the decision-making group members.
“This is the suggestion from our Hibernation Consultant Group. Please consider it, decision-makers.”
That leading geology scholar added: “I believe that in this cycle, the Mantle Detection Plan also needs to be executed.
We hope to obtain more data from the mantle, which may help reveal how solar energy acts on the mantle.
Once this issue is clarified, we can consider whether there is any way to block this process.
With the key data on the ion drilling equipment from the previous cycle’s emergency research brought back by Comrade Jiang Yang, in this cycle, we are confident in raising the success rate of the ion drilling equipment to 10%.
If we still drill synchronously at 500 drilling locations, then we will have at least 50 super deep wells reaching the mantle, completed at least 10 days earlier than the previous cycle.
As for the global helium isotope monitoring system and satellite measurement system… they seem unnecessary now.”
Thus, two major plans were placed before the decision-making group members.
Moon City Project and Mantle Plan.
Each of these two plans requires mobilizing global power. Executing both plans together…
The figures of the decision-making group members disappeared from the screen. They reappeared half an hour later.
The Commander of the Decision-Making Group said solemnly: “We agree to execute both plans simultaneously. However, we believe that executing only these two plans is still insufficient.
We believe a third plan should be added.
Lunar Ark Plan.”
He paused for a moment and said slowly: “We must consider the possibility, after scientists’ detection and research, that the apocalypse truly cannot be defeated.”
Jiang Yang fell silent.
He knew that this possibility truly existed, and the probability was not low.
After all, no matter how much is said, the fact that humans cannot influence the Sun is ironclad.
“We believe that while executing the Moon City Project, we can simultaneously establish a human sperm bank and egg bank on the Moon, and build as many supercomputers and data storage equipment as possible to store all scientific data from our human world.
If the apocalypse truly cannot be defeated, then maintain human survival and continuation on the Moon, wait for the opportunity, and after Earth stabilizes—if that day ever comes—return to Earth and reestablish our civilization.
We can abandon this cycle, accept the outcome of civilization extinction, but as long as we can leave a spark, exchanging it for a chance at civilization continuation, that is also acceptable.”
Jiang Yang’s mind fluctuated slightly.
Overall, this is still struggling for civilization continuation, which does not conflict with Sun Changhe’s previous overall strategy of “persistence may bring hope.”
It’s just…
If the people in Moon City really survive this apocalypse, who will judge whether the apocalypse could truly be avoided for civilization as a whole?
The Commander of the Decision-Making Group’s gaze turned to Jiang Yang: “The specific judgment criteria and final decision will be handled by Comrade Jiang Yang.”
Jiang Yang nodded silently.
This responsibility falls squarely on him.
Because only he can retain memory to unfold the cycle, only he can transcend this cycle, truly standing above the interests of human civilization as a whole to make decisions with detached thinking.
As long as he decides to end this cycle, he can simply commit suicide.
Saving a person is hard, but killing a person, especially killing oneself, is very simple.
But there is a second issue.
Since the Lunar Ark Plan involves the question of “who can live, who cannot” with certain probability, how to ensure that every selected person is qualified?
As if seeing the thought in Jiang Yang’s mind, the Commander of the Decision-Making Group continued solemnly: “The second issue is how to determine the Moon City personnel selection.
Decided jointly by our decision-making group members, the Moon City personnel selection will follow these principles:
First, all decision-making group and deliberation council members, as well as their family members and relatives, are not eligible.
Second, all Hibernation Council members are automatically selected.
Third, the preliminary list is determined by the decision-making group and deliberation council, then submitted to the Hibernation Council for review to confirm the final personnel.”
Jiang Yang nodded silently.
In his view, this selection plan still has some subtle loopholes. But obviously, this is already the fairest and most just, and the best scheme for selecting suitable personnel to execute the Moon City Project and Lunar Ark Plan.
Things cannot be perfect; at this moment, it is sufficient.
With these three plans confirmed, the Commander of the Decision-Making Group’s gaze turned to the faces on the screen.
“Comrades, I order the Moon City Project, Lunar Ark Plan, Mantle Plan… to begin execution!”
