CHAPTER 445: CHAPTER 443: DESIGN TO ADDRESS DISASTERS

For humanity, there are actually not many ways to avoid disasters.

In ancient times, human technology was not advanced, and people back then had little to no ability to resist natural disasters; floods and earthquakes, for example, could easily destroy human homes.

A large number of people would die due to disasters, and even those who survived could only struggle to rebuild their homes, with many becoming displaced.

Thus, there were often displaced people in ancient times: these were people who had lost their homes due to famines or other disasters and had no choice but to migrate to other places.

Even in modern times, when human technology is ever-changing, it’s still quite difficult to combat natural disasters.

For ordinary small-scale natural disasters, people can rely on sturdy buildings and the support provided by modern technology to resist them, at least preventing their homes from being destroyed, making reconstruction relatively easier.

However, when faced with major natural disasters that can change the terrain and alter rivers, humans have no resistance or can only barely survive.

For regional disasters, most people primarily endure them. Fortunately, in modern society, technology is relatively advanced, making post-disaster reconstruction and migration settlement of refugees not too difficult.

But global disasters like this meteor impact are not easily withstood, and escaping the disaster’s impact and undertaking post-disaster reconstruction is not an easy task.

Under such disasters, there is hardly any good method for the entire human civilization to resist them.

Originally, Chen Xin thought that the winter caused by the meteor impact would be the greatest challenge humanity faced. But now, the successive eruptions of three super volcanoes made him realize that the meteor impact and the long nights of winter are just the beginning.

To survive this terrifying disaster and continue human civilization, the challenges humanity needs to face are beyond imagination.

It is true that relying on building underground shelters can resist disasters temporarily, which is currently the limit that human civilization can achieve under current technological conditions.

To find more and better ways to combat disasters, they can only exist in science fiction.

What Chen Xin wants is to draw inspiration from these disaster-prevention methods in science fiction works.

Speaking of disaster prevention, the game "Ark: Tomorrow" undoubtedly provides the most inspiration.

In the Ark World, humans invented mobile cities to escape natural disasters. These modular cities can be freely split and combined into individual units while being self-moving, giving the city the ability to act and evade disasters, serving as a very valuable reference.

However, actually constructing a mobile city seems like a fantasy.

Not to mention Chen Xin’s current location in the Flame Country’s southern region filled with hilly river networks, which are completely unsuitable for mobile cities to travel, even in northern or plain regions with conditions for mobile cities to roam, humanity’s existing technology cannot create a vehicle to carry an entire city.

Even if Chen Xin truly creates a mobile city through system upgrades, providing relevant technology to humanity, the resources required for building a freely moving city are far too many.

More critically, Blue Planet is not Terra; there are not that many disasters to avoid, meaning the city itself does not often need to migrate and move.

Thus, for Chen Xin, mobile cities are merely a good reference, and he would create one if needed, but until then, mobile cities are not as practical and attractive as the true protagonist of "Ark: Tomorrow," Rhode Island.

Rhode Island is a massive land cruiser, roughly the size of an aircraft carrier, yet capable of traveling on land, somewhat resembling a small mobile city, but with an area and scale of only a small town.

In fact, except for not being able to travel on land like Rhode Island, an aircraft carrier constructed with modern technology is not lacking compared to Rhode Island in all other aspects.

With the size of an aircraft carrier, its interior truly amounts to a small city.

At least when measuring with today’s shelters, the interior of an aircraft carrier can indeed accommodate the population of a medium-sized shelter.

But moving an aircraft carrier from sea to land is not a simple matter, nor a problem that current human technology can solve.

The myriad issues involved, even before the disaster, perhaps only during the Cold War era by Suyia and the Federation, and Flame Country emerging after the 21st century, could research and solve.

Moreover, these three countries must invest national resources to even attempt it.

It rivals manned space flight projects as a super engineering feat that only truly great nations can accomplish.

After the disaster, Flame Country now retains enough strength, but the investment required to build such a land-going behemoth is simply too great.

Chen Xin can only consider it a backup plan, starting the research but not claiming he can definitely build it.

Although he only needs to constantly invest survival points to upgrade, bringing the land cruiser Rhode Island to fruition.

"The land cruiser is still not practical in the Southwest Region!" Although Rhode Island’s creation is listed in the plan, Chen Xin believes that deploying such a behemoth hundreds of meters long into the Southwest Region is still rather impractical.

Is there something more practical? Chen Xin records the data of Rhode Island while continuing his search.

At this moment, he suddenly remembers something.

In a novel he read in the past, there was also a depiction of disasters. One story involved the protagonist traveling to the world of the movie "2012," where instead of the government-built arks, he independently constructed a personal ark to escape disasters.

The protagonist’s method was rooted in airship technology, creating an airbag ark that could float in the sky, leading a group of people to survive the apocalyptic flood in "2012."

This could be a good idea? If it can fly, the mountainous terrain of the Southwest Region won’t form any constraints.

Thus, even if a large-scale geological disaster really occurs in the Southwest Region, causing traffic disruptions and making it impossible to enter the disaster area by road, and aircraft unable to land, there would still be a way to enter and evacuate the disaster victims.