Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 483 - 240: The Collapse of the Wandering Earth Project and Three Perspectives
"The Ruins Research of the Wandering Earth Plan and the Planet Engine"
—— First Year of the Old Calendar, Major Event One
Seeing the long title on the first page, Lin Feng instantly became intrigued.
Especially the Wandering Earth Plan, which was a crucial event spanning the end of the Old Earth Era and the wasteland apocalypse.
If not for the Evolution Alliance proposing the Wandering Earth Plan back then, to counter the apocalypse crisis of the solar storm, humans and the entire planet would have endured hundreds or even thousands of degrees of high temperature under high-energy rays, turning into a wasteland.
By then, even digging hundreds of meters underground to build shelters wouldn’t withstand the continuous storm-induced temperature increases.
More importantly, the rays and energy waves thrown by the solar storm would evaporate and blow away more than 90% of Earth’s water supply.
By then, even if a few survivors returned to the surface after the crisis, they would struggle due to a barren, scorched earth.
The scarcity of water, failing to complete the fixed solar energy cycle, already limits the population size.
Humans still faced extinction possibilities.
Moreover, due to the presence of Evolvers, the demand for high-energy food only grew.
When these representatives of power cannot get enough to eat, social order and the entire system’s operation would face collapse.
Based on these reasons, the Evolution Alliance started the Wandering Earth Plan, allowing Earth, originally in the habitable zone of the Solar System, to escape from its forty-billion-year orbit to find a new home.
At this moment, Lin Feng was fully absorbed, reading the background recorded on the paper in his hands.
Regarding Old Earth Era records, only the pre-wasteland dark chaotic Old Calendar Era could accurately document them.
After all, most survivors leaving the shelters back then were direct witnesses of the catastrophe.
Among them were Tier One and Tier Two, even Tier Three Kings, whose understanding of that era was far more detailed than Lin Feng, who had only achieved Level 4 Enhancement.
As the background was explained, the subsequent developments of the Wandering Earth Plan unfolded before Lin Feng: 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
Toward the end of the catastrophe, humans observed remnants of spaceships from the universe through space telescopes, except for some that became meteors falling outside the Earth...
The main parts of these spaceships, especially the tail power systems, continued along their inertial path, heading towards the star at the center of the Solar System.
In truth, regular remnants wouldn’t cause much impact, since the Sun in essence is a nuclear fusion furnace with surface temperatures of thousands or even tens of thousands of degrees, with an internal core temperature up to 15 million degrees!
During its orbit around the Milky Way Galaxy, numerous small meteorites or asteroid fragments crashed upon it without causing any ripple.
Whether rock or metal, they would either melt or even vaporize before contact, floating away, leaving the Sun unaffected.
But the problem was the remnants of alien spaceships; their tails must have power furnaces, at least nuclear-powered.
According to analysis of fragments that fell to Earth, these alien spaceships had mastered controlled nuclear fusion, capable of miniaturization.
More terrifyingly, to adapt to space travel and easily acquire fuel to start their furnaces, alien spaceship tail power systems, with a diameter reaching 500 meters, utilized heavy nuclear fusion technology.
That subsequently became the feasibility source for humans to initiate the Wandering Earth Plan.
However, heavy nuclear fusion required sufficiently high-pressure environments to activate.
Ordinary basic hydrogen nuclear fusion was just its ignition method, akin to an explosive’s fuse.
The essence of the Sun is a massive hydrogen nuclear fusion apparatus where hydrogen atom isotopes undergo fusion 24/7, generating helium and other heavier elements while releasing vast amounts of light and heat energy.
To form stable hydrogen fusion, at least a high-temperature, high-pressure environment of ten million degrees is required, which is why humans need nuclear fission atomic bombs as igniters to create conditions for fusion reactions when developing hydrogen bombs.
Traditional nuclear fusion, like that of the Sun, ultimately produces iron because its structure is most stable.
But heavy nuclear fusion doesn’t start with hydrogen; instead, it begins with larger atomic mass elements.
Helium elements, which are one tier higher than hydrogen, need temperatures of 200 million degrees, while the most common elements on Earth, silicon and iron, require environments of at least one billion degrees.
Only with this terrifying environment can the stable internal structures of iron elements be destroyed, breaking strong nuclear forces between protons and neutrons within the atomic nucleus, making them recombine after fission to form larger mass elements.
Therefore, the entire process of heavy nuclear fusion also produces various heavy metal elements, such as silver, gold, lead, and other common metals or rare metals.
The reality of the universe also involves heavy nuclear fusion, requiring at least eight solar masses’ worth of star qualification.
Only at the end of their life, when a large amount of iron has accumulated, do they undergo supernova explosions, producing heavy elements like gold atoms in extremely high-temperature and pressure environments.
These materials, scattered with explosions, become part of planets in the depths of the universe.
But the heavy nuclear fusion mastered by alien spaceships, even in low-power hibernation periods, their internal temperatures reach hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius.
