A silver do stands in the darkness, and the arc-shaped do structure emits light from within, illuminating the entire do.
Although the brightness is not very obvious, the thickness of the do restricts the light from coming through, yet it still makes this do like a lighthouse in the night, guiding travelers from afar toward ho.
Right at this mont, a teor far more dazzling than the do streaked across the sky.
The friction between the celestial body and the air ignited the air, creating a brilliant glow, like a sun rising in the night, lighting up the dark sky.
The teor streaked across the sky, falling toward the direction of the do, seemingly aiming deliberately at the do intending to smash it.
As the teor continued to fall, it finally hit the do with irresistible force, piercing through the do's outer insulating material, the airbag layer, and steel structural support, falling into the interior of the do.
Yet, when the teor fell inside the do, everything seed to pause and ca to a halt.
"Looks like the destructive power is enough to destroy the current Do City once the teorite diater exceeds one ter," Chen Xin's figure appeared at the spot on the do where the teorite had pierced, looking at the breach and the flas burning around it, Chen Xin frowned.
This was a virtual projection created in the holographic imaging room in the shelter, simulating the potential damage caused by a teorite striking the do.
Chen Xin simulated the damage caused by teorites of various sizes striking the do, from as small as a diater of one centiter to the most recent one-ter diater teorite, each teorite hit the simulated do directly.
However, through testing, Chen Xin found that actually, teorite damage to the do itself wasn't too severe.
Even when the one-ter diater teorite hit the do, it didn't cause much damage to the do, rely the EFTE airbags within a fifty-ter radius of the impact point were compressed and exploded, creating roughly a five-ter diater breach.
This wasn't particularly severe damage to the do itself, which reached five kiloters in diater.
Although afterward, it would be necessary to replace all EFTE airbags within at least a sixty-ter radius centered at the impact point, and replace steel structural supports underneath at least a one hundred-ter radius, it still wasn't considered serious damage.
However, for Do City itself, a one-ter diater teorite hit causing damage was sufficient to destroy most of the city.
"So my thinking was not wrong, but the city itself can't withstand impacts of this magnitude," Chen Xin sorted his thoughts and recorded the results of the last impact test in his experint notebook.
The main purpose of Chen Xin's test was to evaluate whether building structural support within the EFTE airbags could enhance the do's defensive capacity as he previously thought.
And after the test, Chen Xin concluded that if the teorite volu wasn't large, then indeed, this approach could help maintain the do's structure, preventing large holes due to impacts.
This is mainly because during the impact, the do suffers compressive stress from the teorite. The closer it is to the impact point, the easier the EFTE airbags are compressed and exploded. Under such circumstances, internal structural support undoubtedly helps maintain the airbag's general shape, preventing collapse due to compression.
Of course, the structural support also has limits; as the teorite increases in size, the range affected by compression becos larger, and closer to the impact point, the airbags suffer more severe damage, even crushing the structural support itself.
However, on the airbags at a certain distance from the impact point, the structural support is very effective. Even if the airbags explode, the structural support can still maintain the airbag's shape to prevent collapse.
Therefore, setting up support within the EFTE airbags can indeed strengthen the airbags' structural integrity, but it does not substantially improve teorite defense capability.
But this is reasonable, after all, it is a teorite, not sothing else. The force generated by the impact is enough to penetrate a battleship's main armor belt, even if Chen Xin layers steel plates on the do, it will still be penetrated.
Chen Xin initially envisioned the do as a buffer layer, reducing the teorite's impact power on the ground.
But after testing, he realized this doesn't serve the intended purpose.
Although the do indeed has a certain buffering effect, in terms of teorite impact, when a teorite can penetrate the do and strike the ground, a teorite having its impact force significantly reduced wouldn't cause major damage, whereas a teorite causing widespread damage will still cause enormous destruction despite the reduced power.
More so, when the teorite's force reaches a certain level, it can directly destroy the entire Do City, while the do itself is just struck open with a big hole.
Based on this test, Chen Xin concluded that strengthening airbag integrity is necessary, but relying on them to resist teorite impacts is less reliable than developing city-level shields.
Clarifying his thoughts, Chen Xin turned off the holographic imaging room's projection, restoring the place to its original appearance, ready to leave for a rest but noticed Qin Lan standing at the doorway.
"What's up, Lan?" Chen Xin asked Qin Lan as she stood at the doorway, her arms crossed: "Looking for for sothing?"
"Can't I find you if there's nothing?" Qin Lan replied to Chen Xin, walking over, and asked him: "I saw you doing an experint, that's for the new Do City, right?"
"Yes, what about it?" Chen Xin was rather puzzled why Qin Lan asked about this.
"When the city is built, can we move there?" Qin Lan looked at Chen Xin expectantly, biting her lip before continuing: "I'm thinking about our future; if we have children, we can't let them keep living underground, right?"
"Children?" Upon hearing Qin Lan, Chen Xin also fell into contemplation.
Indeed, Qin Lan raised a very realistic issue.
Though the relationship between Chen Xin, Qin Lan, and Mo Qingyan was delicate, ultimately, all three wanted children in the future.
And once they have children, raising them would be a matter that must be considered.
It's just that regarding this, Chen Xin hasn't thought it through yet; he pondered and said to Qin Lan: "Moving to live in the new city shouldn't be a problem. But why are you suddenly thinking about children?"
"I…," Qin Lan blushed, unsure how to answer, so she decisively hugged Chen Xin's neck and kissed his lips.
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