Chapter 1328: Mercury Commercialization

Isn't the value of Mercury helium-3?

At most there are also countless diamonds in the strata?

Tian Weiwei didn't understand these, so she activated the assistance system.

Soon, Mercury's detailed data stream was stored in her assistance computer.

This gave her a deep understanding of Mercury.

Before reaching Mercury, Tian Weiwei felt the Sun's strong radiation.

On the spacecraft, all equipment that had been intermittently shut down to save energy was turned on.

As the distance to Mercury decreased, the Sun appeared larger and larger.

It is more than ten times larger than Earth.

Half the sky was almost filled by the Sun.

The filming crew had already started shooting.

Tian Weiwei was also about to go on stage.

She dressed as a fairy, wearing a flying fairy costume, and, generated by the virtual equipment, flew toward space.

While flying in space, she began to introduce the Sun.

"Hello everyone, I'm Tian Weiwei."

"We are currently on the road to Mercury; in one more day, we will arrive at Mercury."

"Today, I will introduce to everyone some knowledge about the Sun, Mercury, and their relations with other planets."

"First, please look at the Sun now; does it look big? It is more than ten times larger than on Lanxing……………"

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"As for Mercury, because it has an iron core, don't let its size fool you; its mass is not small."

"Here there is super-high-grade iron ore, as well as abundant rare-earth resources."

"Underground, there are astronomical amounts of diamonds."

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"Mercury's mass and terrifying orbital speed can fling a spacecraft like a shot put toward Venus, and the gravity of Venus, Earth, and Jupiter can then pull the vehicle like a relay baton."

"If the high-way channel data are calculated correctly, theoretically, the spacecraft can continuously accelerate to a speed that can leave the solar system."

"Based on this theory, if humanity wants to leave the solar system, the launch site should be Mercury."

"Because launching from here yields a better acceleration effect."

"In recent years, we have launched several probes designed to break through the Oort Cloud."

"These were launched from Mercury's orbit."

"Look, this is a demonstration diagram of the entire acceleration trajectory."

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"Moreover, Mercury has high astronomical value; it is the best location for observing general relativity."

"In the future, if humanity wants to break into a Type II civilization, the needed Dyson sphere and Dyson swarm can only be manufactured on Mercury."

"In short, the future of human civilization cannot be separated from Mercury."

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As Tian Weiwei explained, countless people on Lanxing finally understood just how important Mercury is to humanity.

【Originally, the high-power channel the Yang family talked about is just this acceleration channel.】

【Yeah, I now understand what this acceleration channel really means.】

【I said why the Yang family installed all equipment at the Lagrange Point; originally, the Lagrange Point is a node of the solar highway.】

【Calculating the channel is so complex; maintaining this channel track at all times requires enormous energy; perhaps only the Yang family and the United Prefecture have the financial resources to maintain this channel in this world.】

【I originally thought this highway was fixed, but now I know it is dynamic.】

【Before, I always heard people talk about gravity slingshot; now I know that's what it means.】

【After seeing this, I finally understand the value of interstellar navigation; those ships going out to mine, without the Yang family's navigation, would indeed be very dangerous.】

【Sorry, the minimum education for miners now is a doctorate.】

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Those who can install the assistance system do not exceed one-tenth of the entire Lanxing.

Most people still live plainly relying on their own abilities.

Seeing those who go out, they earn big money.

Many people envy and resent, but nobody thinks they could also do it.

In the interstellar era, the value of knowledge will only increase, not decrease.

So most people are still oxen and horses.

As for the superhuman project, there are not many people worldwide who can be arranged for it.

You know, the cost alone is several billion.

If you add R&D investment and profits.

A superhuman may need to spend several hundred billion, or even more hundreds of billions.

The key is that its cost-performance ratio is still not high.

Who has nothing to do all day and looks for people to PK?

Yang Qing once thought the intelligent era was just the era of big simultaneity, but reality tells us this is impossible.

The arrival of the great space age also simultaneously strengthens the monopoly of the top tier.

For example, the Yang family almost universally equips the assistance system.

Yang Family people are naturally many times stronger than others.

How could the Yang Family lose?

That's why the subtitle issue isn't a problem either, because Tian Weiwei's purpose in making this program is to popularize knowledge for ordinary people.

They might not be able to participate, but at least they know.

It also lets them have basic space knowledge.

Only then can they teach their children by example.

The next day.

Tian Weiwei finally landed on Mercury.

A base has already been built here.

The base is naturally underground, because the day-night temperature difference here is greater.

During the day, Mercury's surface can reach six or seven hundred degrees.

If not built underground, no equipment could withstand such harsh conditions.

In the base, Tian Weiwei felt no difference from the lunar underground base.

It is also underground.

Only the walls of the Mercury base have a metallic feel.

Because it is built using Mercury's iron ore.

On Mercury, they are fully producing solar energy.

Because the solar power output here is five to six times that of Lanxing.

Therefore, solar energy is the best energy source on Mercury.

And on Mercury, the most valuable things are rare earths and diamonds.

In the future, iron ore will also be one of the trade targets.

Of course, not simple iron products, but various higher-value alloys.

Mercury's environment is especially suitable for producing special alloys.

By then, the value of Mercury's iron ore will be hard to estimate.

On Mercury, spacecraft frames can also be manufactured; here the energy is abundant, mineral resources plentiful, and producing deeply processed alloy products is most suitable.

Moreover, launching things from Mercury toward Lanxing is very cheap.

This also means turning Mercury into an alloy product processing center would be very valuable.

Tian Weiwei, the things she has been talking about these days while filming the documentary, actually revolve around the commercialization of Mercury.

With such a huge iron lump on Mercury and such good conditions, not coming here to give it a try would be too sorry for all the work the Yang Family has done.

Yang Nuomi, Yang Qian Song.

"This is information sent from home."

"If Mercury becomes the manufacturing base for the Star Dream Ship's frame."

"Then the pressure here on the Yueqiu will drop extremely fast."