Chapter 1216

It is awesome to see the astronomical observation equipment of other people being so advanced and the quantity is very strong. You must say he does not envy envy and hate, that is impossible, so he always wants to add some detectors to his department every hour and moment.

"So far this year, the government has allocated more than 120 billion US dollars to the space agency. Isn't it enough to launch some probes?" The speaker questioned.

When he asked this question, the head of the space agency quickly stood up and said, "Mr. speaker, I'll answer this question! Although the government's funding seems to be large, not all of this money is given to NASA. Some other space companies have distributed more than $40 billion.

There are so many projects that we have to invest in the rest of the money. Up to now, 45.5 billion US dollars has been invested in a spaceship research project alone, and this investment will continue to increase.

In addition, a large number of other research projects require a large amount of funding support, so we are very cautious in the use of funds, and are allocated according to the degree of urgency.

Before the asteroid impact crisis, funding for the near earth object program was not the most urgent, so we had to rely on our existing probes for early warning.

And if we want to increase the number of related detectors to the level of infinite gravity group, we may need to spend at least $600 billion, which we can't afford!

Because we need a lot of money not only for this project, but also for the spaceship project and the colonization project of the moon and Mars, we need astronomical funds. I think the government is not willing to give it?

In fact, we have calculated that the asteroid named 202203ev07 will be able to detect it in about 72 hours after its orbit change. "

That's so clear. If you don't understand it, isn't it a fool? If you don't have money, why don't you say a fart, when we don't want to be so tough? If you want to be bullied, you will give money!

Every day we know that we can't compare with the infinite gravitation group, and that can't match them. When they don't want to surpass the infinite gravitation group, do they?

Every time he asked for funds, he would not even say the last word which was barely a step if it was not for the fact that this guy could affect the allocation of funds from his department.

"Cough..."! I remember that every year there are a lot of meteorites hitting the earth, and most of them do not have a little threat. Why is this asteroid so dangerous to us? " This guy just changed the subject.

Asking for money is definitely not something that can be discussed now. This large amount of money involves too many interests. If you can get money from them by crying for poverty, you will not take them seriously. So of course, he will directly ignore this topic.

Even that step was ignored by him. He could sit in this position. If he didn't have the means to change the topic, he would have been dismissed.

Seeing that the old man of his family turned his eyes to him, George rexa immediately nodded and took over the awkward questions, because the questions asked were really without any common sense.

"Well, in space, there are a large number of small celestial bodies around the sun. The diameter of these small bodies is as large as tens of kilometers or hundreds of kilometers, as small as tens of centimeters or several centimeters, or even smaller, like the size of pebbles and sand dust particles.

Generally, we call these guys asteroids. The concept of meteorite is the name of these asteroids after they enter the earth. It does not mean that all asteroids can be called meteorites.

When these asteroids enter the atmosphere, the process of light and heat generated by friction with the atmosphere is called meteors. When meteors enter the atmosphere, the high temperature, high pressure and internal imbalance will make the meteor explode, which forms a meteorite shower. But the meteor that did not burn out fell to the earth and became meteorite.

Our earth indeed receives tens of thousands of tons of such "gifts" every year. But most of them are burned out 10 to 40 miles above the ground and are hard to find even if they land on the ground.

In fact, meteorites have fallen to the earth's surface many times. However, the lethality of meteorites with relatively small mass is still limited. However, the lethality of meteorites hitting the earth is very simple and direct, that is, they directly hit the earth's surface.

The earth receives countless meteorites every day. Why is it OK? First of all, because the earth is wrapped in a thick atmosphere, the meteorite will have friction with the atmosphere when passing through the atmosphere, and it will burn out before it falls to the ground.

In this case, those who are lucky to see this scene will be regarded as a scenery. Even if there are a few large meteorites that have not burned out when passing through the atmosphere, considering the large surface area of the earth, the possibility of large-scale damage caused by meteorites falling to the ground is not very likely.

And when it comes to why we're so nervous about this asteroid, 202203ev07, it's mainly because it's big enough in size and mass, and what's more powerful is its composition.The meteorite in our cognition mainly refers to the meteorite remains that fall to the ground. They are basically composed of iron, nickel, silicate and other minerals, also known as meteorites.

Meteorites are traditionally divided into three categories: first, meteorites are rocks, and their main components are silicate minerals.

The second is iron meteorite, which has a large proportion of iron nickel.

The third is the iron meteorite, which contains a lot of metal and rock components, that is to say, most of them are mixtures, and the metals are pasted together by rocks.

The asteroid, 202203ev07, is the third one. Its composition contains a lot of metals, so it is not only very heavy, but also very stable in structure.

Even if its flying speed is very fast, it will not collapse in the impact of severe friction in the atmosphere.

This will lead to that if it collides directly, the impact will be particularly powerful. This is the video of the impact consequences that we simulated. I believe you will know why we need to discuss how to solve this crisis here after you read it! "

In fact, this video and this one have been played seven times, but even if someone in the conference room has seen it several times, when they see the disastrous consequences of the simulation calculation again, their faces will become very ugly.

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