Chapter 138
Translator: Sheng Chen
Editor: Arya
Chapter 138: Approaching Doomsday
Today, all countries that had spared no effort to observe the space, had specialized observatories that recorded what they saw and heard, trying to discover the secret law of the universe and the stellar planets .
The United States of Arica not only had a number of observatories, but also funded for research and space telescopes in the Earth’s orbit .
The most famous telescope was the Hubble .
In the vast universe, the biggest threat currently was the teorites .
Large teorites were wider than hundreds of kiloters, small ones were only a few centiters long .
At least five tons of teorites affected the earth every day .
Most of the teorites were burned out by high temperature vaporization in the atmosphere, and a small part of the teorites that rushed out of the atmosphere would be very likely to fall into the sea .
In the National Optical Observatory, the staff were responsible for observing so teorites that might hit the Earth every day .
The teorite numbered Y199831, about 200 kiloters in diater, was moving normally in space at a cosmic speed .
In the first few days, though the staff discovered the teorite and derived its final forward orbit and acceleration, no one cared about it because it would most likely not hit the earth .
The number of teorites in the universe that accidentally swept through space, was an astronomical figure; hence, all the staff regarded it as a trivial matter .
However, as ti went by, the teorite Y199831 began to accelerate abnormally, and the orbit beca faintly closer to the earth, which attracted the attention of astronors and assistants .
They collected the data of the teorite over the past 100 hours and transmitted to the NASA internal forum, and then an astronor’s Internet research discussion was held .
“Is the location of the teorite accurate?”
“In such a short period of ti, the speed increased abnormally? In addition, the speed tripled? It has reached 540,000 kiloters per hour!”
“We have checked many tis with the Hubble telescope . The location of the teorite is correct . ”
“Although the teorite accelerates strangely, it is precedented! The Halley’s cot that bypasses the earth every 76 years also keeps speeding up and derailing to update its new forward orbit . ” After knowing that the data was correct, many experts and professors raised their own personal conjectures about the sudden acceleration of the teorite .
So even predicted that it might be interfered by the sun’s gravitational waves, and soon it would stabilize .
So optimistic experts joked that it might be a new cot, perhaps a younger brother of Halley’s Cot, visiting the Earth every occasionally .
However, 8 hours later, no astronors dared to joke!
In the observatory, the computer showed that the teorite would no longer follow the sa orbit, but would hit the earth after a week!
Hundreds of astronors were stunned since an argunt related to teorites was widely known when scientists studied the mystery of dinosaur extinction .
That was, the dinosaur went extinct in a ten-kiloter teorite impact and its chain reaction – huge tsunamis, global fires, acid rain and atmospheric dust that blocked sunlight for months or years .
Now, it turned out that a huge teorite was rushing towards the earth unstoppably, though human beings, with advanced technology, were not like the dinosaurs, how many people would die a week later?
They imdiately contacted the White House .
Hearing the astonishing speech of astronors, President Trump had a headache .
As he was busy with the China-US trade war, such bad news really disappointed him .
“Can we attack the teorite to destroy it with nuclear weapons?” Scratching his head, President Trump frowned .
“Mr . President, your whimsy is very good . ”
Learning about the speed of nuclear bombing, astronor George smiled and shook his head to President Trump . “However, bluntly speaking, space is different from the atmosphere . Even with multiple rockets as a driving force, the speed of nuclear weapons is hard to catch up with the teorite since the two were not on the sa level . ”
After a quick review of a large number of confidential docunts, President Trump was thrilled .
“I rember that we have an international space station in outer space, which is equipped with laser weapons to annihilate the teorites that may hit the space station in advance, can we use it to deal with the current crisis?”
Instantly, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Director Edward reminded him .
“Mr . President . ”
“Those laser weapons can deal with a small amount of small teorites that occasionally hit the space station, but its laser power is not enough to crush a huge target of more than 200 kiloters in diater!
Upon hearing this, President Trump frowned and beca even more anxious .
In a week, the teorite will hit the earth?
In such a short period of ti, even if he wants to organize the deploynt of protective asures, it is too late!
With more than 300 million people living in the United States, how many people can survive in the catastrophe?
Taking a deep breath, President Trump imdiately ordered the major astronors to calculate the exact location of the teorite impact in the shortest possible ti .
He also made the worst plans, such as evacuating people in advance, maintaining post-disaster order and stocking relief supplies .
Of course, in order to maintain social stability, it was impossible to concede until the last mont .
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