Chapter 1676 EP1678. Stark Out of Curiosity

Like the natural magnetite on Earth, this particular mineral found on Nibiru is also a naturally occurring magnetic substance. But unlike a magnet, its magnetism does not divide into north and south poles, but is opposite to the magnetic force generated by the center of the earth, showing a mutual repulsion effect.

"Mutually repulsive with the gravity of the earth, um... In other words, if the ore is large enough and there are not enough heavy objects on it, they will continue to rise and eventually fly out of the planet's atmosphere and even the gravitational circle, Right?"

"Yes." Enki nodded with a smile, and answered Stark's inquiry very clearly: "The first time I came to... No, to be precise, it should be when we passed this planet. On the periphery, that is, in the 'outer space' that is not affected by gravity, there are many meteorite fragments of different sizes floating. Because this phenomenon is rare, we became interested in this planet."

Why is it rare to say that there are many meteorites floating on the periphery of the planet? In the imagination of many people, this should be a kind of scene that can be encountered frequently in the universe, and it is not rare in any case.

actually not.

Generally speaking, in the vicinity of large planets, there are very few meteorites that remain floating in a certain position for a long time.

The reason is simple, the planet will move around the star according to the revolution period, that is to say, the relative distance between it and the meteorite is not fixed, but changes at any time.

When the distance is far away, it has no effect, but when the distance is shortened, the gravity of the planet itself will inevitably interfere with the meteorites floating in space, or capture them in its own gravitational circle, and become revolving around the planet satellites, or simply pull them further into the atmosphere, turning them into a brilliant meteor.

It is worth mentioning that meteorites floating in space and space junk formed by man-made objects are two completely different concepts.

In easier-to-understand terms, the latter were placed at a very subtle distance from the very beginning, so when they lose their practicality and become garbage, they will always be fixed at that height, neither far away nor far away. It will not fall.

Meteorites floating in space are different. They are often farther away and need to move a certain distance to reach the altitude where the space junk is.

It doesn't matter how far you need to move, the point is that as the position moves, there will inevitably be inertia. And in the vast space, there are no obstacles that can offset these inertias.

This is the reason why outer space is full of man-made space junk, and basically no naturally formed meteorites can be seen.

In short, there are basically only two outcomes for meteorites captured by planetary gravity. Those that are farther away will fly around the planet and become satellites. Most of the ones that are close will plunge into the atmosphere and become meteors that flash past.

Like Nibiru, the outer space is full of meteorites, wrapping the entire planet like space junk... There is a saying, it is really not common.

It was normal for the original Anunnaki to feel curious.

And now, Stark has the same curiosity.

"The ones that are not held down by heavy objects all fly out of the atmosphere. On the contrary, if there is a heavy layer of soil above the veins, they will be restricted to a certain height, showing the effect of appearing in this kind of suspension in mid-air After muttering a few words, Stark suddenly laughed: "If you guessed right, the process of mining this kind of mineral must be very interesting, right?"

"In the beginning, it was indeed very novel." Recalling the scene at the time, Enki also laughed: "At least half of the dug ores will float up automatically, and they will be transported out. In the mine, there is no need to load the car, just tie the rope. Sometimes the buoyancy is so strong that it can even lift the person responsible for transporting the ore. Hehe, when digging this kind of ore, the operation process is the same as mining other minerals It’s completely different now, and it’s really interesting to compare.”

Hearing the word 'mine' in Enki's words, a flash of light flashed in Stark's mind: "According to the characteristics of this kind of ore, there should be many naturally formed large holes under the mine area with rich reserves. ? If you guessed right, there should be many large-scale crypts on this planet, I mean the ones that are big enough to build a city, right?"

"Yes, on this planet, we have discovered a total of 23 super-large crypts, and the largest one can hold almost seven such floating islands." Enki answered and raised his hand. With his hand, he pointed to the floating island under his feet.

This floating island is specially used to entertain guests. It is not the same as the floating island belonging to Enlil that I saw when I first came here.

But in terms of size, it is not inferior to the floating island called the "Top of the Storm" named after Enlil.

It covers an area of ​​thirteen square kilometers. From the bottom to the highest point, it is more than 700 meters high. From a distance, it looks like a thin cake, but when you are really on this island, it is a little Children will not feel small.

In the largest crypt, seven floating islands of this size can be accommodated... Even if they are stacked according to the arrangement of 'bottom two, middle three, and upper two', that is a cross-section of nearly forty square kilometers , a super large underground space with a height of more than two thousand meters.

"My dear~lightnovelpub.net~ I imagined the picture in my mind, and Stark smacked his tongue and exclaimed: "Seven such big floating islands? That's too big~! "

"Hehe, it's really quite big." Enki smiled: "But really counting, there should be bigger ones."

"Huh? Didn't you just say it was the largest of the twenty-three crypts?"

"Among the crypts that have been discovered, it is the largest one. But there must be other crypts that have not been discovered in the deeper layers." Enki replied: "Our exploration of the underground part has not yet been completed. It’s very deep, and if you convert it with the weights and measures you use, it’s only about a hundred kilometers. Compared with the volume of this planet, this depth is less than one-tenth of the mantle layer, so..."

"So that's the case..." After thinking about it, Stark had to agree: "It is indeed very possible, there are still bigger caves hidden in the depths that have not been discovered yet."

"You seem to be very interested? About two thousand kilometers away, there is a relatively large crypt. Do you want to take a look?"

"Eh? Is that okay?"

"Of course, it's not far away anyway, and I'm fine now."

(end of this chapter)