Homo sapiens

The changes of the earth seem to have nothing to do with the universe.

In fact, the Earth's atmospheric activity is closely related to solar activity, especially the number of sunspots.

In the orbit of Venus, Homo sapiens has deployed 12 solar activity monitoring satellites.

At this time, a large number of sunspots have been detected on the surface of the sun.

The headquarters of the Space Division is located on the island of Ceylon.

At this time, in the solar monitoring office under him, Director Huang Xiancai looked at the latest monitoring report, with a trace of solemnity on his face: "Is it the peak period of solar activity again?"

Researcher Wu Sigong didn't pay too much attention: "It has been exactly 11 years since the last peak of solar activity, which was 14 years ago. Solar activity follows an 11-year cycle."

"Lao Wu, what did the Meteorological Institute find?"

Wu Sigong smiled and replied: "The amount of heat radiated from the sun to the earth has increased this year, but this is a mixed blessing."

"Have the climate simulation results come out?" Huang Xiancai seemed to understand the situation at the Institute of Meteorology quite well.

"Yes, it was just updated yesterday. The temperature in the middle and low latitudes will be higher this year." Wu Si Gong spread his hands.

"It seems that the situation is not optimistic!" Huang Xiancai has already thought of the problem.

It seems that the arrival of the peak of solar cycle activity causes the Earth to receive increased solar radiation heat, which can delay global cooling.

But in fact, the situation is not as simple as imagined.

For example, in human history, there was a Little Ice Age that lasted for several decades. Obviously, during this Little Ice Age, there would definitely be a period of peak solar activity, but this did not cause the Little Ice Age to subside.

In addition, in the long geological period, there have also been ice ages that lasted hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of millions of years.

Obviously, solar cycle activity is not the core factor that determines the occurrence of ice ages.

Huang Xiancai used his authority to check the latest simulation results of the Climate Research Institute. After reading more than a dozen reports, he had only one adjective for the atmospheric climate activities in the next few years: extreme.

The tropics are hotter and the frigid zones are colder, with hot and cold alternating in between, mixed with variability.

The Ocean Current Research Institute, which specializes in studying the North Atlantic Warm Current, also came to the conclusion that a sudden increase in temperature in a short period of time will lead to further chaos in a series of ocean currents such as the North Atlantic Warm Current.

Just when Huang Xiancai was thinking about how to report the recent sunspots.

A researcher hurriedly walked in: "Director, Researcher Wu, a solar flare just broke out, and our T7 satellite placed in the orbit of Venus was severely disrupted."

"Solar flare? What level?" Wu Sigong asked quickly.

"At least X2 level."

Huang Xiancai was surprised: "Have you notified other departments?"

"I informed you as soon as possible."

"That's good." Huang Xiancai breathed a sigh of relief.

But Wu Sigong's expression showed no sign of relaxation: "The outbreak of an X-class solar flare is a sign that solar activity has entered its peak period. There will definitely be no shortage of flares in the next period of time."

"The satellites designed by the company are relatively sturdy, so there should be no major problems. Many large satellites have artificial magnetic field systems that can withstand solar wind." Huang Xiancai is very confident in the company's technology and products.

Wu Sigong shook his head: "I'm not worried about the company's satellites, I'm worried about those half-filled buckets of water."

"Where is Dilian?" Hearing this, Huang Xiancai also reacted.

"Especially Musk's Starlink satellites. Do you think those shoddy small communication satellites can withstand the dense solar wind?" Wu Sigong is not optimistic about Starlink satellites.

At this time, the entire Space Division headquarters became very busy.

The solar storm ejected by this solar flare is facing the direction of the Earth, and part of the light waves has reached the Earth-Moon system.

The Homo sapiens space station in mid-level orbit.

At this time, 36 superconducting magnetic field generators have been activated, supplying a large portion of the electrical energy within the entire space station to the magnetic field generators.

Although it is not as powerful as the earth's magnetic field, it is short and concise. After all, the radius of the Homo sapiens space station is only 500 meters.

Inside the core module of the space station.

The person in charge, Bai Muxi, looked at the feedback data from the 12 surrounding guard satellites, turned his head and ordered: "Takahashi, prepare to activate the backup communication module."

Communication equipment manager Takahashi Toru nodded: "Copy that."

The next second.

Woo woo woo...

The shrill alarm sounded throughout the space station.

Invisible solar storms, carrying large amounts of helium-3 particles, high-energy neutrons and high-energy rays, have successively arrived at the Homo sapiens space station.

The charged particles were blocked by the magnetic field shield, causing obvious trajectory deviations.

The non-charged high-energy neutrons and high-energy rays drive straight in and directly hit the space station's thick composite lead plate protective layer and radiation reflection layer.

Even with such powerful protection, a small number of high-energy neutrons can still penetrate the protective layer and enter part of the cabin.

Fortunately, all the astronauts were wearing heavy-duty space suits and bio-based armor at this time, and these high-energy neutrons did not affect the astronauts.

However, a small number of devices are still not immune.

Tetsuichi Takahashi quickly checked the operation of the communication modules and found that three of them were faulty. He immediately started the backup communication module.

"Earth Headquarters issued an emergency announcement. All agencies stationed in outer space are requested to report the current situation in accordance with the prescribed procedures..."

As soon as the communications module returned to normal, they received a broadcast from Earth Headquarters.

"Takahashi, follow the procedure and return to the headquarters." Bai Muxi ordered.

"OK."

Bai Muxi quickly took the others to conduct a comprehensive physical examination of the space station, first identifying the faulty module and then preparing for repairs.

And the new International Space Station in low-Earth orbit.

Although due to the protection of the earth's magnetic field, the intensity of the solar storm here is not one-tenth that of the Homo sapiens space station.

The problem is that the protective capabilities of the Terrestrial Space Station are not one-tenth that of the Homo sapiens space station.

After all, the wealthy Homo sapiens company can equip the space station with a thick composite layer of lead plates. The Earth Alliance is too pursuing cost performance, so naturally it will not waste the payload on lead plates.

Therefore, the ground-linked space station with insufficient defense was directly paralyzed by the solar storm, with a quarter of its equipment paralyzed.

Inside the Terrestrial Space Station, eight astronauts were caught off guard when faced with a sudden solar storm.

Especially for solar panel power supply modules, nearly half of the solar panels failed during this solar storm.

As the captain of the Earth Alliance Space Station, Zhang Ming made a prompt decision: "Immediately report our situation to the Earth Headquarters and ask them to formulate an emergency plan as soon as possible."

Correspondent Owen did not dare to neglect and quickly started the communication equipment. Then his expression changed:

"Damn it! The communication system is malfunctioning..."

"Activate the backup." Zhang Ming's palms were sweating.

Owen, who was immersed in his work, was sweating on his forehead. After trying for a few minutes, he finally found a usable backup communication device.

He felt his lips were a little dry and subconsciously licked his lips: "Huh...it's connected!"

Soon the other side also responded.

Regarding the impact of the solar storm on the space station, the Earth Alliance is now also in a tangle. Many among the association's executives hope that the space station can persist. After all, this is a project with tens of billions of dollars invested.

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