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Chapter 495: The Birth of Dazzling Star Ring

"What I want to say to this world is..." Li Chuan pretended to be profound and thought for a moment, and showed a bright smile, saying, "It's great, my company doesn't have to go bankrupt. You can continue to sell products and make some money and barely survive."

The reporter was stunned and didn't know what to say. Such an answer was completely different from what I imagined. Can you not be so naughty?

After all, he is a hero who saves the world. Can you not be so utilitarian?

"We don't matter, really. It's just that we are good at this matter, so we did it. Scientists, philosophers or free-thinking scholars in the world are actually not important. We don't matter. What matters is the inheritance of civilization and the continuation of race." Li Chuan finally said seriously, and the reporter on the side nodded repeatedly and recorded his words.

Li Chuan added: "Actually, I am going to take this opportunity to say that after this incident, I hope that the world will not over-praise and praise. For scientific workers, their achievements come from laboratories, rather than celebrities who need to rely on the world's flowers and applause to maintain popularity. In comparison, a quiet and uninterrupted research environment is the most important thing for scientists."

"Is this too unfair?" the reporter asked in confusion.

"No, for scientists, the greatest sense of accomplishment and satisfaction does not come from this." Li Chuan shook his head and said, "...but discovering the truth. Science is the process of seeking truth, and the process of exploring the truth of this world. Even if you cannot obtain the truth, you must at least understand its operating rules. This is the way scientists live." After thinking for a moment, he added: "Another, scientists may not need flowers and applause from the world, but they need to love science, because they can inherit science."

After this incident, even if people do not love science, they will definitely support science. After all, only by hard-working experience can we understand what priceless wealth is.

However, two days later, the whole world caused another sensation, because after the 2028qa1 asteroid was disintegrated in the limit radius of Roche, it officially formed a huge and dazzling ring of earth.

Although the communication facilities have been paralyzed on a large scale, the network is still smooth. China has its own satellite network. Foreigners are basically using Musk's satellite network products. These satellites are all operating on low-orbit platforms and have not been greatly affected.

Two days later, netizens from all over the world uploaded and shared the star ring scene they took in the area to social media, and online media also reported in large quantities, and for a while, there was constant discussion.

This is an unprecedented wonder of the world. People have become accustomed to the gray-white celestial moon hanging in the sky.

But it is hard to imagine that there are other things now. The moon has become a foil in front of it, but that's the case. From now on, people have looked up at the starry sky and have added a spectacular wonder of star rings.

At the beginning of the birth of this star ring, people were surprised to see its rapid formation process from scratch.

There is a very popular hypothesis that there was a ring at a certain period of time during the evolution of the earth.

Although this may seem incredible, according to the hypothesis, the Earth did have a ring of stars billions of years ago!

Scientists believe that this extraordinary ring appeared for the first time during the evolution of the moon. According to existing theory, at the beginning of the birth of the earth, a planet called "theia" collided with the early Earth. Due to the violent collision of two huge celestial bodies, the larger earth, the rock fragments on its surface were thrown into outer space in large quantities.

Over time, these fragments eventually rotated peacefully around the earth's orbit, forming a short-term halo surrounding the earth. Although it is long for humans, it is just as short as the cosmic time scale.

Later, the star rings gradually condensed together, forming the bright moon hanging high in the night sky that humans see today.

But regardless of whether the Earth had a ring or not in the past, now the Earth does have rings, and it was born under the witness of countless human beings and was created by human beings.

Now the Earth also has a ring similar to Saturn. However, the rings of the Earth that people see now are different from the rings of Saturn. You should know that the composition of the rings of Saturn is not single. In fact, the rings of Saturn are a collection of ice matter and dust particles. More than 98% of the material structure of the rings of the Earth born from the 2028qa1 asteroid are ice matter.

Moreover, since Saturn is far away from the sun, it is quite cold there, and the ice substance in the rings can exist stably, which also causes the time of Saturn's rings to last for hundreds of millions of years and will continue to exist.

However, the Earth is closer to the sun, so it is obviously impossible to completely copy Saturn's rings for reference. The sun's light will gradually melt the ice in the ring of the earth and eventually escape from the earth's gravity. Therefore, the rings of the earth only exist for more than two million years, but for humans, it is long enough.

The total width of the Earth ring formed by the asteroid 2028qa1 exceeds more than 5,000 kilometers, while the maximum thickness is no more than 80 meters. It can be said to be "thin as thin as paper".

In recent times, as the doomsday clouds hanging above human heads have dissipated, the discussion about the rings of the Earth has become extremely hot.

The star rings on the earth are clearly visible, and the Internet is already filled with a large number of shared photos. The earth's star rings are parallel to the equator, and in fact there are still several degrees of inclination. The appearance of the star rings shared on the Internet is diverse, because their appearance depends on the location of the observer on the earth.

A netizen from Quito, the capital of Ecuador, uploaded a picture of the star ring he took in the region has been reprinted in a large number of times recently. The halo of the earth he photographed looks like a straight and bright line that spans from one side of the horizon to the other side of the horizon. Because Ecuador is located near the equator, this is what the star rings he saw when the region looks like.

The star ring photos uploaded by a netizen living in the Northeast region in China, because the location he took was far from the equator, the star rings presented by the earth extended in the sky.

If you are at a favorable position away from the equator, the star ring will appear quite close to the horizon, and the wonders are even more spectacular.

Recently, netizens have been addicted to the beauty of the planet's rings, but what scientists see is the impact on the future of the earth after its formation.

The formation of the Earth's rings has the greatest impact on the earth's natural light, that is, sunlight, and the importance of light to the life and natural environment of the earth does not need to be described too much.

You should know that the moon is a solid structure composed of rock materials, which does not reflect the sunlight well. However, even so, the moon still appears so bright and full of light at night, because of the powerful sunlight reflected on the earth.

Similarly, the newly formed star rings will reflect sunlight in the same way. Anyone with basic physical knowledge knows that black absorbs light, white reflects light, and glaciers at the South Pole of the Earth are a good reference point, so the effect of the star rings with ice matter structure reflecting sunlight will be more significant.

And this has a huge impact on nature. The combined effect of sunlight reflection on the moon and the rings will make the daylight on the earth brighter, and the night will no longer be as dark as before. This situation greatly affects astronomers' observations, because the stars will not be as clearly visible as before.

For this reason, astronomers have begun to complain and even express their hatred of rings, and despite its beauty, its own strongly reflected light blocks their observation of stars.

These are all secondary. At most, you can send the telescope to space for astronomical observation. Although the Earth's ring is parallel to the equator, it is not an absolute value and has an inclination. As long as the artificial celestial bodies are not launched at the ascending and descending intersections of the rings, it is enough to be careful when passing through the rings. If the spacecraft orbital qiu rate is small and the relative speed with nearby ring particles is small, even if it is launched and collided, the impact will be innocuous.

But the greatest impact on human beings, and even on the current natural environment and life on the earth is the greatest.

The reflection blocking effect of the star ring on light will seriously affect the amount of sunlight reaching the earth. Before the birth of the star ring, Li Chuan had calculated the future changes in the earth's natural environment in his discussion with a number of scientists.

In the days to come, during the summer of the northern hemisphere, the shadow of the ring will be projected in the southern hemisphere, and this is the winter in the southern hemisphere; on the contrary, during the summer of the southern hemisphere, the shadow of the ring will be projected in the northern hemisphere, and this is the winter in the northern hemisphere.

The birth of the star ring will cause the winters of the two hemispheres to become colder, and the overall temperature on the earth's surface will also drop accordingly. It seems that this is also good news for the increasingly significant earth greenhouse effect today.
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