Through life and death, the legend reappears
Early in the morning, the first rays of the sun slowly lifted the curtains. It was another colorful morning, bringing freshness to the world. The light from the eastern horizon carefully infiltrated the light blue sky. A new day gradually moved from afar. The pigeon in the cage was chirping, which woke up the bastard and the fly. They gently pushed open the window, and a fresh and fragrant air blew in. They took a deep breath. Ah! This was the warmth after the rain, expanding the trajectory of life. The two of them cleaned the pigeon house, fed the pigeons, released the pigeons, and finished all the post-processing. "Heh heh, what do you have to say today, brother?”the mixed chairman said. Little Fly said,"Hehe, it really is Monkey Sun jumping out of the Water Curtain Cave. The good show is yet to come.""Hahaha, could it be that you're eating sugar cane instead? Each segment is sweeter than the last.""Then you wait and see.""Then let's begin." Little Fly opened her mouth again.
In the 1970s, our country's military pigeon team was ordered to participate in a top-secret mission. The 50 pigeons tried to experience the experience of passing through death. It could really be said that they had passed through the limits and created a myth, recreating the legend of the Queen Mother and the Green Bird. At that time, China was preparing to test a hydrogen bomb. They wanted to send 50 pigeons to Lop Nur in Xinjiang to participate in the hydrogen bomb test and do a life and death crossing to see if they could pass through the contaminated area of the nuclear explosion. The standard for calculating the explosion of nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs was TNT equivalent. Simply put, it was the power of the explosion of TNT explosives. The average atomic bomb's explosion power was in the million-ton range, while the hydrogen bomb's was in the ten-million-ton range.
"Can a hydrogen bomb destroy the Earth?" The mixed director asked in surprise.”The fly replied,"It can't destroy the earth, it can only destroy the species on the earth." If all the nuclear bombs in the world exploded, Earth would enter a state of 'nuclear winter', and Earth would restart.”"Aiyo, you scared me to death! So powerful."
Little Fly introduced,"The hydrogen bomb uses an atomic bomb as a detonator to ignite the thermonuron material. The high temperature generated by the explosion of the atomic bomb ignite the thermonuron material and carry out the fusion reaction.(also known as thermonary-nuclear reaction), which released a lot of energy. The fuel of a hydrogen bomb could be either tritium or lithium deuteride. As there was no critical mass limit on the amount of thermonary-nuclear raw materials, a hydrogen bomb could be made very large. The explosive power of a general hydrogen bomb could range from hundreds of thousands of tons to millions of tons, even tens of millions of tons. It only took a few millionths of a second for a thermonary-nuclear weapon to vaporize and scatter all the materials from the beginning of the explosion. Therefore, the thermonary-nuclear raw materials must have a fast reaction speed. Therefore, the fusion reaction between tritium and helium was the easiest. Under the same high temperature, this kind of reaction would be the fastest and the reaction duration was the shortest. Additionally, the energy released in the reaction was very large, which was easy to increase or maintain the temperature of the thermal nuclear reaction. Therefore, the initial thermal nuclear weapons were made of helium and tritium as nuclear materials. They were both hydrogen atoms. Therefore, this kind of bomb was also called hydrogen bomb. In the shell of hydrogen bomb, It was filled with helium and tritium, which were the nuclear materials for hydrogen bombs. In addition, there were three separate uranium or helium blocks as nuclear materials for atomic explosions. In addition, there was a detonation device made of ordinary explosives. When the detonator caused the explosion of an ordinary explosive, it would quickly compress the separated nuclear materials, which would produce a fission reaction. At the same time, it would immediately produce the ultra-high temperature required for the fusion reaction of the helium and tritium. Under such a high temperature, the nuclear electrons of the helium and tritium would be stripped off and become a gas composed of bare nuclei and free electrons. The helium and tritium would collide with each other at a speed of hundreds of kilometers per second, and the reaction of synthesizing helium would be carried out rapidly and violently, releasing a large amount of fusion energy. This completed the entire explosion process of the hydrogen bomb.
The explosion of a hydrogen bomb was a nuclear fusion reaction that was powerful enough to destroy everything around it. It would produce a temperature of tens of millions of degrees, and the intense flash it produced could temporarily blind the eyes of people thousands of kilometers away. The intense radiation produced could even penetrate a 10-centimeter-thick steel plate. In fact, the nuclear weapons tests conducted by various countries were all comprehensive experiments. In addition to conducting nuclear tests, it was necessary to conduct experiments on various animals and plants to resist strong heat, strong light, and strong radiation. This experiment was also to test whether the military pigeons could continue to carry out missions under the conditions of atomic war.
"Tsk tsk, my god!" Dong Hun stuck out his tongue.
Little Fly: At that time, the General Staff Department of our army transferred a pigeon team of 50 pigeons to do the transfer, along with two teachers to Beijing 207 Research Institute.
At that time, the farthest military pigeon had to take off from a distance of 50 kilometers from the heart of the explosion, pass through the mushroom cloud, and fly to a pigeon nest 50 kilometers from the other end of the heart of the explosion. When the hydrogen bomb exploded and the military pigeons took off, everyone's hearts were in their mouths. The shock wave came over and knocked over the people present. Half an hour later, all 45 pigeons came back. There were only five missing. At that time, five pigeons were reported missing. All five pigeons had test records on their feet.
The disappearance of five pigeons made everyone feel bad. Not only did they lose the outstanding pigeons of the military pigeon team, but it also meant that the pigeons did not completely complete the mission. However, after they finished the experiment and returned to Kunming, what surprised them was that the five pigeons actually flew back to their hometown in Kunming from the distant Lop Nur. This was simply impossible! At that time, the staff thought that the five were missing. In fact, they were eating saline-salty water at the base. They were not used to it, so they wanted to run back. In addition, they were too frightened and desperately returned to their hometown.
At this point, the military pigeon team had completed the secret mission. All 50 military pigeons had successfully passed through the mushroom cloud and completed a seemingly impossible mission. From Lop Nur to Kunming, how did the military pigeons fly back from the super long distance of 2750 kilometers?
To go home, that was all the pigeon thought of after going out, so it flew back. In fact, there was a set of precise navigation technology that supported their return to Kunming.
In 1967, Cornell University in the United States experimented with racing pigeons to find out how pigeons found their way home. The results of the experiment showed that the pigeons were able to return home smoothly because of a combination of many factors. Pigeons had a precise biological clock in their bodies, and they might be able to remotely sense the Earth's magnetic field. Their good visual ability allowed them to see infrared rays and auroras. They also had extraordinary hearing and could hear ultrasonic waves. scientists even believed that pigeons could hear the sound of the wind blowing through the mountains thousands of kilometers away.
From Lop Nur to Kunming, the military pigeons had to cross the Taklamakan Desert, Kunlun Mountain, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and Qilian Mountain. It was believed that the strong perseverance of the military pigeons had also helped them create this legendary flying record, which had not been broken until now. How the military pigeons survived the mushroom cloud was still an unsolved mystery. Please look at the geographical environment of this 1,000-mile cross-country.
Scene 1, Taklamakan Desert: The Taklamakan Desert covered an area of 330,000 square kilometers and was the second largest mobile desert in the world. Driving on the desert road was like rowing a boat on the ocean. Unfortunately, people's eyes fell on the horizon too early. However, looking at the Taklamakan Desert from the 1413-meter-high Chokatagh Mountain (Red-White Mountain) in the hinterland of the Taklamakan Desert, it was a different kind of vastness. The Taklamakan under the vast sky was boundless. It could produce a strange power that could shock people's hearts, making everyone who faced it feel that the gains and losses of life were insignificant. The Taklamakan Desert was located in the center of the Tianshan Basin in southern Xinjiang. It was the largest desert in China, the tenth largest desert in the world, and the second largest mobile desert in the world. The entire desert was about 1000 kilometers long from east to west, 400 kilometers wide from north to south, and covered an area of 330,000 square kilometers. The average annual rainfall did not exceed 100 millimeters, with the lowest being four to five millimeters. The average amount of water evaporated was as high as 2500- 3400mm. Here, the pyramid-shaped sand dunes stood 300 meters above the plain. The strong wind could blow up the sand wall to three times its height. The sand dunes in the desert were long and continuous. They were often moved by the wind. There were also a few plants in the desert. Their roots were unusually developed, dozens or even hundreds of times more than the ones on the ground, so that they could absorb water from the ground. The animals there had the phenomenon of summer hibernation. The desert was 1200 to 1500 meters above sea level in the west and south, and 800 to 1000 meters above sea level in the east and north. The sand dunes were 200 meters high. There was also information that showed that the Taklamakan Desert was the largest mobile desert in the world. The hinterland of the Taklamakan Desert was rated as one of the five most beautiful deserts in China. As it was located in the center of the continent, surrounded by high mountains, the Taklamakan Desert was full of fantasy and mystery.
The Taklamakan Desert's mobile sand dunes covered a large area. The height of the sand dunes was generally 100-200 meters, and the highest was about 300 meters. The types of sand dunes were complex and varied. The compound sand hills and sand ridges were like dragons resting on the ground. The tower-shaped sand dunes were in the shape of honeycombs, feathers, and fish scales. They were unpredictable. There were two tall sand dunes in the desert, which were red and white. They were called the Holy Tomb Mountain. They were made of red sand rock and white plaster respectively. They were formed after the surface of the ground was exposed. The wind-eroded mushroom on the Holy Tomb Mountain had a strange shape. It was about 5 meters tall and could accommodate more than 10 people under its huge cover.
Scene 2: Mount Kunlun: Mount Kunlun starts from the Pamir Plateau in the west. The mountain range is about 2500 kilometers long, with an average altitude of 5,500 - 6,000 meters and a width of 130-200 kilometers. It is narrow in the west and wide in the east, with a total area of more than 500,000 square kilometers. Within the territory of China, it spans across Qinghai, Sichuan, Xinjiang, and Tibet. The highest peak is the Gonggeer Peak in Wuqia County, Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang (about 7649 meters above sea level, or 7723 or 7719). It was the basic framework of the plateau topography and an important natural division boundary of Qinghai Province. The Black Sea at the source of the Kunlun River was 4300 meters above sea level. The lake water was clear, birds flocked, and wild animals roamed. There were precious rock paintings of Yuniu Gully in the Kunlun River. Yuxu Peak and Yuzhu Peak were covered in silver for many years, and the mountains were surrounded by clouds and mist. The Kunlun Spring on the north bank of the Kunlun River was the largest unfreezing spring in the Kunlun Mountains. It formed the wonder of Kunlun's June Snow Reflection, a natural wonder that was dozens of meters deep. The Taklamakan Desert was flanked by a majestic mountain range next to the Talimu River. Tianshan was in the north, Kunlun was in the south, and Pamir was in the west. It gradually transitioned to the east until it reached the Lop Nur swamp basin. In the south and west, between the desert and the mountains, there was a slope-shaped desert lowland composed of pebble debris. Several small mountain ranges and mountain chains formed from the sandstones and clay of the Old and New tertiary periods (66.4 million to 1.6 million years ago), rising from the western part of the desert. The curved Majara Mountains stretched southwest between the Hetian and Yarkand valleys. It was 145 kilometers long, 3 to 5 kilometers wide, and the highest altitude was 1635 meters. On average, it was only 300 to 350 meters above the surface of the desert. Nearby was an isolated mountain range surrounded by moving sand dunes. The Tokhtakaz mountain range was 1560 meters above sea level, and the mountains were 183 to 244 meters above the plains.
The surface of the Taklamakan Desert was formed by loose alluvium hundreds of meters thick. This alluvium is affected by the wind, and the sand cover moved by the wind is up to 300 meters thick. The wind formed a variety of terrain features, and sand dunes of various shapes and sizes could be seen. The larger sand dune chains had a considerable range: 30 to 150 meters high, 240 to 503 meters wide, and the distance between the chains was 0.8 to 5 kilometers. The highest form of terrain formed by the wind was the pyramid-shaped sand dune, which was 195 to 300 meters high. The eastern and central parts of the desert were dominated by sunken sand dunes and huge, complex sand dune chains. It was also common in the western part of the desert (east of the Wada River Valley), where both horizontal and vertical (referring to the wind) terrains coexisted. Such a wind formed a variety of topographic features, which was a result of the complicated situation of the basin wind.
Scene 3: Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, or Tibetan Plateau, was the largest plateau in China and the highest in the world. Most of them are in the southwest of China, including the Tibet Autonomous Region Tibet and Qinghai Province, the western part of Sichuan Province, the southern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and parts of Gansu and Yunnan. The entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau also included parts of Tibet, Nepal, India, Pakistan, afghanistani, tajikistani, and Kyrgyzstan, with a total area of 2.5 million square kilometers. The territory covered an area of 2.4 million square kilometers, with an average altitude of 4,000 to 5,000 meters. It was known as the "roof of the world" and the "third pole". It was the birthplace of many large rivers in Asia.
Scene 4: The Qilian Mountains were located at the border between the northeast of Qinghai Province and the western part of Gansu Province. It was composed of many parallel mountain ranges and wide valleys that ran from northwest to southeast. Because it was located on the south side of the Hexi Corridor, it was also known as Nanshan. It was 800 kilometers long from east to west, 200 to 400 kilometers wide from north to south, and 4,000 to 6,000 meters above sea level. There were a total of 3306 glaciers, covering an area of about 2062 square kilometers.
The western end is connected to the Altun Mountain Range at the mouth of Dangjin Mountain. The eastern end to the Yellow River valley, and Qinling Mountains, Liupan Mountain connected. It was nearly 1000 kilometers long. It belongs to the fold fault block mountain. The widest point was between Jiuquan City and the Chaidamu Basin, reaching 300 kilometers. From north to south, it included the Great Snow Mountain, Tuolai Mountain, Tuolai South Mountain, Yema South Mountain, Shule South Mountain, Danghe South Mountain, Tuergendaban Mountain, Chaidamu Mountain, and Zongwulong Mountain. Most of the peaks were 4,000 to 5,000 meters above sea level, and the highest peak, Tuanjie Peak, was 5808 meters above sea level. The mountains above 4000 meters above sea level were covered with snow all year round, and the valleys between the mountains were between 3000 to 3500 meters above sea level.
Little Fly commented," Since the 1980s, our country has carried out several major disarmaments. However, this high-level military pigeon team has not been cancelled. What is the reason behind this?" Perhaps, the use of military pigeons was no longer as simple as communication. There was a more important reason for keeping them. However, no matter what, the military pigeons did not fear difficulties to complete their missions. The glory they created would forever win the respect of the soldiers as their silent comrades. Pigeons that can fly freely in the sky have the instinct to return home. All of its flying wisdom and endurance are for one purpose: to return home, to return to us humans. This might be a gift from nature. People can't fly, so I'll give you a companion who can fly. Kindness and loyalty, these innate qualities, made military pigeons, military dogs, and military horses respected by soldiers from all over the world. The military pigeon was a silent warrior. Although it might participate in war, it was the same as the classic painting of the famous painter," Dove of Peace ", which inspired people to reflect on war. Therefore, until today, the kind pigeon was still seen as a symbol of peace.
There is a poem that says: The power of the hydrogen bomb test explosion is infinite. Mushroom clouds rise, ghosts and gods worry. Speechless Warrior can fly as a companion. He participated in the experiment of passing through life and death. The legend of the Queen Mother Blue Bird reappeared. Peace symbolized eternal praise. From Lop Nur back to Kunming, he had crossed mountains and mountains over a long distance, creating a legend of flying pigeons. Nuclear weapons were extremely destructive, yet they still laughed at the experts for not understanding the cause.
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