Chapter 338 Moving City

Chapter 338 Moving City

Chapter 338 Moving City
Borneo, also known as Kalimantan Island.

On the eastern coast, where the equator passes, an engineering team came more than half a year ago and built a considerable new city.

The city was named "Sun City".

Sun City is very close to Java's new capital, Nusantara (Island City). The two places are only about 284 kilometers away, and both are coastal cities.

In the sunny sky of Zhuri City today, a gray-white "cloud" appeared on the northern horizon and was slowly drifting towards here.

Until about two hours later.

As it was almost noon, the sun was shining directly on the entire Zhuri City, but at this moment the Zhuri City was dark, as if it had entered a cloudy day.

Ali Santoso, who works in the city, was having lunch with some co-workers when he saw the sky outside suddenly darken and started cursing:

"Didn't the weather forecast say that it wouldn't rain in the next few days? I shouldn't have believed them. I washed a lot of clothes today and hung them on the balcony to dry. I have to go back to collect the clothes..."

Zhang Siming, the team leader sitting across from the table, said calmly, "Don't worry! Those are not dark clouds..."

Ali, who was about to stand up, translated through the translator implanted in his ear. He immediately sat down again and asked in confusion: "Team leader, isn't this a dark cloud?"

Zhang Siming casually explained: "Well, this is the Sky City that the company transported from the north."

"Castle in the Sky?" Ali stood up, walked out of the restaurant, came to the sidewalk, looked up, and sure enough, he found a large, regular object floating high in the sky.

Many curious people also walked out of the buildings, came to the streets and alleys, and looked up at the city in the sky.

Zhang Siming in the restaurant did not join in the fun, but poured some more plum juice into the ice cup.

Another engineer, Kyo Yokota, also stayed at the side. He ate the fried pot stickers and said, "This is almost exactly the same as the fried dumplings in my hometown."

Their group consisted of ten members, from all over the country, including three Seres, four locals, one Japanese, one Korean, and one Annamite.

Ten people speak five languages.

Although these people all speak English, at this moment they all communicate in their native language.

This is made possible by the nano-earphones implanted inside their ears.

The nano earphones were originally a product of Shuyuan Technology Company, which is the company that developed the nanotube human vital signs detector and is also one of the companies invested by Hailufeng Company.

The original purpose of developing this product was to provide medical equipment to help deaf patients improve their hearing.

But at the beginning of this year, a large number of non-patient users also went to the hospital to undergo nano-earphone implantation surgery.

The reason why there are so many medical implants for non-patients is that the nano earphones developed by Shuyuan Technology are so good.

As a special bone conduction headset, nano earphones not only have the advantages of traditional bone conduction headsets, but also solve the shortcomings of traditional bone conduction headsets.

What are the disadvantages of traditional bone conduction headphones?
First, the sound quality is relatively weak. The sound transmission method of bone conduction headphones makes them inferior to traditional in-ear or head-mounted headphones in terms of sound quality restoration and richness. The low-frequency effect is often not good enough, and the layering and detail of the sound need to be improved.

Second, there is the problem of sound leakage. Bone conduction headphones transmit sound through skull vibrations. During use, some sound may be transmitted through the air, causing people around to hear certain sounds. When used in a quiet or privacy-required environment, it may affect others or leak personal information.

The third problem is the limited wearing stability. The ear-hook design of some bone conduction headphones may cause shaking or slipping during strenuous exercise, affecting the user experience. For some users who need to do high-intensity exercise, they may need to choose a more stable style or take additional fixing measures.

Nano earphones are directly implanted in the external auditory canal, so the above three problems do not exist at all.

At the same time, the nano earphones also solve the shortcoming that traditional earphones need to be charged. They directly use human body power generation technology to provide all-weather power supply for the operation of the nano earphones.

Of course, nano earphones are not without their drawbacks. One of them is that you need to carry "a host" which is slightly larger than a button and is responsible for receiving sound, translating sound, filtering noise, and transmitting the translated information to the earphones.

Usually, for the convenience of carrying, this host will be integrated into a watch, which can also enhance its signal and battery life.

This watch and the matching watch for the body's nano detector use the same system.

Many people who are going to work overseas will go to the hospital to implant nano earphones. Now, iFlytek's translation software, combined with AI technology and the recently developed 7-nanometer language processing chip, has extremely powerful functions, and the accuracy of translating mainstream languages ​​can almost reach 95%.

As long as the other party does not use local slang or obscure niche words, normal daily communication and work communication can basically be guaranteed.

The nano earphones plus the host watch require implantation surgery at a hospital, and the cost is about 6,000 yuan.

However, this implantation surgery only guarantees basic usage rights, and these overseas workers generally do not choose the basic version.

Because the basic version is intended for deaf patients, its translation function is not that complete.

The nano-earphones used specifically as a translator cost about 10,000 yuan for the entire set of equipment, and a monthly rental fee of 50 yuan is required.

After all, to maintain the high accuracy of translation software, it is necessary to use AI and cloud computing technology, and to ensure accuracy through remote cloud services.

However, the nano earphones have an offline mode, which means that their translation accuracy will decrease, especially when encountering niche languages, the translation will be irrelevant.

However, iFLYTEK and other translation software companies are already improving their technology, especially by recruiting a large number of linguists of small languages. With the help of other member states within the Asian Commonwealth, it is estimated that the problem of translation accuracy of small languages ​​and local languages ​​will be solved within a few years.

It is precisely because of the emergence of nano earphones that communication within the Asian Federation has become more frequent.

In the future, with the popularization of nano earphones, the language barriers within the Asian Union will be reduced to a minimum.

However, among other members of the Asian Union, the enthusiasm for learning Chinese has not decreased due to the emergence of nano earphones. Instead, it remains high.

This is mainly because nano earphones can solve the difficulty of daily oral communication, but it is not very convenient to use translation software during written communication.

Although some companies are developing fast-translation glasses, their use is rather cumbersome, especially since the translation content has to be projected onto the lenses of the glasses, which makes the cost of such glasses very high. It is better to just use a mobile phone to take a photo and translate.

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"Cool..." Ali pushed the door open and sat back down at the dining table.

"It's nothing. You will see it every day in the future." Zhang Siming picked up the spoon and ate the seafood fried rice.

Ali was confused: "Team leader, aren't we going to the south with the engineering team?"

"Do you think all of them are going? The company is only transferring some construction personnel to the south. Our team will stay to continue the construction. Even after the construction is completed, the city will still need some maintenance personnel."

Ali was overjoyed: "Is that so? That's great! I was thinking about bringing my family over from Java Island. Team leader, how many years will we stay here?"

Zhang Siming put down the spoon and thought for a while: "How many years? At least three or four years! After all, we are by the sea, and we still need to build a sea-protection dam." "Then I'll let my wife and children come here at night. The team leader's company should be able to apply for family rental housing, right?"

"Sure, you can go to the logistics office to apply. We can rent any size you want, but you should do it according to your ability," Zhang Siming reminded.

Kyoya Yokota is considering whether to bring his family over.

Seeing his conflicted expression, Ruan Yazhou from Annan asked, "Yokota, do you want to bring your family here too?"

"Yes! I have this idea, but I don't have a wife, only my parents. They are teachers in Saitama Prefecture in Japan, and they will almost retire in a few years."

Another Seris man, Wang Fengrui, shook his head: "Haha, your retirement model in Japan is no different from not retiring at all. You might as well settle down in Sun Chaser City."

Zhang Siming also tried to persuade him: "Indeed, Sun Chaser City is a new city with the company as its core. There are many benefits for employees and their families to settle here. If you are worried about the climate, don't worry. This sky city will block a large part of the sunlight, making the daily temperature here relatively low."

After several people discussed it, Kyoya Yokota felt that it would be a good idea to settle down here.

What's more, there is another reason that Kyo Yokota did not mention, which is that earthquakes frequently occur in the Japanese archipelago, which is really not a good place to live.

Borneo is one of the few islands in the South Pacific that is not located in an earthquake zone.

In fact, if we look at it from the perspective of plates, Borneo is actually part of the Indochina Peninsula and the core plate of Sundaland, which is completely different from the marginal areas of plates such as Sumatra and Java.

As for the soil infertility problem caused by Borneo's tropical rainforest climate, it is not an unconquerable human forbidden zone for the Asian Union with extremely strong biotechnology, agricultural technology and industrial technology.

After considering all aspects of the issue, the only thing left for Kyo Yokota was to convince his parents to come over.

These employees are having lunch.

The installation of fixed cables is currently underway at the Tower of Babel in the northern suburbs of Zhuri City.

Dozens of cables lowered from the bottom of the sky city were firmly fixed to specially built anchor points, and then the cables were tightened little by little through the winch system.

In fact, the floating height of this sky city is very stable, so only the horizontal stratospheric wind needs to be considered.

Although the wind speed at the bottom of the stratosphere can reach about level 8 to 9, its disturbance effect on aircraft is not large. The reason is very simple, that is, the air density in the stratosphere is too low.

At the same time, the wind is level 10, but on the surface and in the stratosphere, the two are different concepts.

As the cables were fixed, the city in the sky was finally anchored steadily above the Sun Chaser City.

Inside the control center of Sky City.

Wei Wentian, deputy chief of Blue Whale Aerospace, who had accompanied us all the way from Minqin County, finally breathed a sigh of relief and immediately picked up the intercom: "Attention all departments, we will arrange for personnel to take turns to rest according to the second-level management level."

"Power room received!"

"Power room received!"

"Maintenance room received!"

"logistics…"

Wei Wentian picked up the satellite phone and called the headquarters to report the situation of Sky City No. 2.

This city in the sky is not the one in Minqin County.

After all, Hailufeng Company has never liked to put all its eggs in one basket. Even if the equator in Southeast Asia has a very good boosting effect on the Sky City's space launch business, the company will not give up the Sky City in Minqin County.

This sky city at the equator is designed to maximize the use of the linear speed of the Earth's rotation. Launching a carrier rocket from a specific angle can provide the carrier rocket with an initial speed of 465 meters per second.

High-altitude launches can save fuel in themselves, and with the linear speed provided by the equator, if an electromagnetic catapult system is added in the future, the relevant laboratories of Blue Whale Aerospace have conducted simulations through supercomputers. If an acceleration orbit of tens of kilometers is used, it is estimated that up to 90% of fuel can be saved.

This improvement is definitely a milestone in human spaceflight.

After all, in this case, those launch vehicles weighing one or two hundred tons can carry more than a hundred tons of payload into outer space.

By then, let alone going to the moon, it will be more than enough to go to Venus and Mars.

It is also possible to consider launching some components on Earth, and then assembling them into a larger spacecraft in Earth's low-Earth orbit.

This will provide tremendous help to human exploration of planets such as Venus and Mars.

What's more, this launch mode can bring about huge cost reduction and efficiency improvement.

From an engineering and technical point of view, this method of launching a carrier rocket is equivalent to replacing the first-stage body of the carrier rocket, and the weight originally used for the first-stage body can be transformed into a payload.

Even China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation is very optimistic about this approach. This month they have sent many relevant scientific researchers to join the scientific research institute of Blue Whale Aerospace.

Among the scientific researchers accompanying Sky City 2 this time, one-third are from China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation.

After Wei Wentian finished reporting his work to the headquarters, he saw the two main leaders of the accompanying scientific research team, Dr. Gu Linyu and Dr. Zhou Xiyi.

"Doctors, what can I do for you?"

Gu Linyu is an insider of the company, so he spoke first: "Vice President Wei, when will the relevant equipment for the aerospace zone arrive?"

Wei Wentian looked at the internal affairs schedule on the office tablet and said, "It will be shipped from the mainland in about half a month."

Hearing this, Gu Linyu asked, "Then we can move freely for the next month, right?"

Regarding this matter, Wei Wentian did not restrict their activities: "Okay, but there are tropical rainforests all around. If you want to go to other areas, you can only take a plane or a cruise ship."

"Don't worry, Vice President Wei, we will be in the city below and have no plans to go out of town."

"Then I will let my assistant take you downstairs later, and let the Zhuri City branch arrange dormitories for you." Wei Wentian turned around and instructed his assistant on some things.

After half an hour.

Gu Linyu, Zhou Xiyi and others took the cable car with their assistants and arrived at the Tower of Babel below.

(End of this chapter)