Chapter 15 Chapter 15 A Few Details That Matter to Everyone's Life and Death

The government in Washington now knew where Director Barbicane was.Nobody doubts the authenticity of this telegram.The consul in Zanzibar is very safe, and the information he provides will not be wrong.This was fully confirmed by several subsequent telegrams received.The location is exactly in the middle of the Kilimanjaro Mountains in Africa, in the Wamasai Mountains, about a hundred miles from the west coast, a little below the equator line.There the engineers of the Arctic Experiment Association will complete their colossal work. In 1849, Rebvinia and Dr. Krav conducted the first survey of the mountain.Later, travelers Otto Niles and Abbott climbed the mountain again.How did Barbicane and the others settle down at the foot of the famous mountain without anyone noticing?How did they build workshops, iron furnaces, and recruit enough people?How did they connect with the dangerous local tribe and its treacherous and cruel chieftain?None of this is known.May never know, as September 22nd is only a few days away.

Maston learned from Mrs. Ewangelina Scobie that the secret of Kilimanjaro had been revealed by telegram from Zanzibar.Hearing this news, he drew a wonderful "Z" shaped curve in the space with his iron hook hand, and said, "Hmph! Cables! Even telephone lines can't send people there! Another six days... Beep, bang, everything will be fine!" This pile of onomatopoeia resounding through the sky is like the roar of Colombian cannons. Anyone who hears the shout of the Secretary of the Gunners Club will be amazed at the vitality of those old gunners. Obviously, what Ma Sitong said made sense.It was running out of time to send the police to Vamase to arrest Director Barbicane.Even if the police start from Algeria or Egypt, or even Aden, Massawa, Madagascar, or Zanzibar, they can reach the coast quickly, but there will inevitably be difficulties.Passing through the mountains will encounter obstacles and may encounter resistance from blacks and domineering tribal leaders.In this way, the police cannot arrive as scheduled.

Therefore arrests to prevent experiments must be abandoned. Arrest, impossible, that would never be easier than inferring serious consequences.Because the exact time and location of the launch is already known, then it's just a matter of calculating.Calculations, although quite complicated, are within the reach of algebraists and ordinary mathematicians. Since the consul's telegram in Zanzibar was sent directly to the Secretary of State in Washington, the federal government initially kept it secret.It is intended that, when it is published, the consequences of changes in the Earth's axis in terms of differences in ocean levels will also be noted.In this way, the inhabitants of the earth can calculate their own destiny according to their respective positions.

Because the people must be anxiously awaiting the conclusion in order to decide how to escape. On September 14, a telegram was sent to the Washington Longitude Office asking them to deduce the final result from the point of view of ballistics and geography.On the third day, the result was calculated, and it was immediately notified to countries in the old and new continents through submarine cables.Published in thousands of newspapers.Newspaper vendors in every major city, in the old and new continents, shouted its shocking headlines everywhere. "What's going to happen?" This is the same question being asked all over the planet in every language.

The Longitude Office came forward with an urgent notice: The experiment that Director Barbicane and Captain Nicole attempted was this: On September 22, at midnight local time, a projectile of 180,000 tons was fired from a cannon with a caliber a million times larger than 27 centimeters.The initial speed that can be produced by gunpowder used is 2800 kilometers, produces recoil. If the launch site is a little below the equator line, that is, 34° east of the Paris meridian, at the foot of the Kilimanjaro Mountains, and it is launched southward, the mechanical effects on the earth's surface are as follows:

With the shock of Sunday's movement, a new axle is ready in the blink of an eye.According to Ma Sitong's speculation, the original axis will deviate from 23°28', and the new axis will be at right angles to the ecliptic plane. Where are the ends of the new axis?Since the launch point is already known, this can be easily deduced.We already have the calculations. The northern axis ends between Greenland and Grinel Land, in the Baffin Sea, where the current tangent to the Arctic Circle runs.The southern axis is located on the edge of the Antarctic Circle, a few degrees east of Ardley Land.

New Meridian 0°, starting from the North Pole, passing through Dublin, Ireland, Paris, France, Palermo, Sicily, Great Sylt Bay on the Thiene Coast of Tripoli, Obaid in the Darfur Mountains, Kilimanjaro, Madagascar , the Kerguelen Islands in the South Pacific, the New South Pole, the Antipodes of Paris, the Cook Islands in Oceania, the Society Islands, the Guadra Islands, and Van Cove in the Seaside of British Columbia, the New Britain region of North America, and near the North Pole of the Melville Peninsula. With this new axis through Baffin Bay and out from Adley Land, there would of course be a new equator.The sun will draw a constant diurnal curve on the equator for all eternity.The new equator will pass through Mount Wammasai in the Kilimanjaro Mountains, the Indian Ocean, Goa and Chicholi just below Calcutta in India, Mangala in the Kingdom of Siam, Geso in the Gulf of Tonkin, China's Hong Kong, Rassa Island in the Pacific Ocean, Marshall Islands, Gaspar Islands, Walker Island, Cordillera Mountains in the Argentine Republic, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Trinity Island in the Atlantic Ocean, Saint Helena Island, Congo Sao Paulo, Luanda, and finally meet on the other side of the Kilimanjaro Mountains, in the Wammasai region.

Now that the new equator is determined by the new axis, it seems entirely possible to work out the problem of ocean level differences, which are crucial to the safety of the inhabitants of the earth. First, the leaders of the Arctic Experiment Association have minimized the level difference as much as possible.If launched northward, it would spell disaster for the most civilized parts of the planet.Conversely, if fired south, it would only affect sparsely populated, desolate areas—at least, areas threatened by flooding. Below is the distribution of seawater flooding when the old axis disappears and the new axis is created:

The Earth will split into two circular shock waves that meet at right angles at Kilimanjaro and its antipodal point near the equator in the mid-Atlantic.Thus, four spherical sections are formed: two in the northern hemisphere and two in the southern hemisphere, with zero level difference at the dividing line. 1. The first spherical section in the northern hemisphere is located west of Mount Kilimanjaro, and will include the African part from Congo to Egypt, the European part from Turkey to Greenland, from British Columbia to Peru in the Americas, and on the same level as San Salvador Brazil, and finally all of the North Atlantic and most of the Equatorial Atlantic.

The second spherical section is located east of Mount Kilimanjaro and will include most of Europe from the Black Sea to Sweden, European Russia and Asian Russia, Arabia, almost all of India, Persia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Turkestan , China, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the upper Pacific Ocean, and the Alaska belt in North America, as well as the Arctic belt that has been transferred to the US Corporation of the Arctic Reality Association with great regret. 2. The third spherical section in the southern hemisphere is located east of Kilimanjaro and will include Madagascar, Maris Islands, Kergelen Islands, Mauritius, Reunion, all the islands in the Indian Sea, until the Antarctic Ocean of the New Pole, Malacca Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sunda Islands, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New Calistonia, the entire South Pacific and its countless archipelagoes, extending to 160° of the present meridian.

The fourth spherical section is located west of Mount Kilimanjaro and will include southern Africa, from the Congo and Mozambique Channels to the Cape of Good Hope, the South Atlantic Ocean to the 80° parallel, and the whole of South America from Pernambuco and Lima, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, Maruino Islands, Hawaiian Islands, Shetland Islands, and the southern Pacific Ocean east of longitude 160°. These are the four spherical sections separated by the zero line with no level difference. Now, let us see what effect the sea will have on the surface of these four spherical sections when they overflow the ocean floor and hit the continents. There is a central point of greatest influence on each spherical section, where sea water either comes in or leaks out. According to Ma Sitong's absolutely accurate calculations, at some points, the maximum level difference will reach 8,415 meters.From these points, the level difference gradually decreases until the zero line at the edge of the spherical section is formed.From a security point of view, it was at these points that Barbicane's experiments had the most serious consequences. These consequences are further divided into two cases. On the opposite spherical sections of the northern and southern hemispheres, the seawater overflows and rushes to the other two opposite spherical sections. On the first spherical section, the Atlantic Ocean is almost poured out, and the maximum point of lowering is almost at the same level as Bermuda, and the seabed will be exposed at a place where the ocean depth is less than 8,415 meters.Between America and Europe there will be vast lands which, if the great powers of America, England, France, Spain, and Portugal are not ashamed, may divide these new lands in proportion to their territories, and place them among their own domains.After the water level drops, the sea level of the coastal areas of Europe and America will rise greatly.The air of seaside towns, at an altitude of up to 20°-30°, will also be very thin, about as dense as it is at present at a mile above the ground.This will involve a large number of cities, to name just a few of the major ones: New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, Panama, Lisbon, Madrid, Paris, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, etc.The only cities that maintain their normal positions are: Cairo, Constantinople, Danzig, Stockholm, and the western coastal cities of the United States.As for Bermuda, the air will be rather scarce.To be more specific, it is equivalent to a pilot flying at an altitude of 8,000 meters, or climbing on the roof of Tibet like a mountaineer.Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for humans to live there. The same thing will happen on the other side of the ball, where it is facing the said area.A quarter of the water in the Indian Ocean, Australia, and the Pacific Ocean will flow to the waters south of Australia.There the greatest level difference will occur at the edge of the Nui subland.Cities such as Adelaide and Melbourne will see the ocean level drop eight kilometers.Although the air layer there will be pure, the air pressure will be too low for breathing. In the two spherical sections where seawater pours out, the changes that will take place in various regions are roughly the same.Where the sea has not fully vented, there will doubtless be islands formed by seamounts. If there is nothing wrong with rising parts of the continents due to the decrease in air density, what about those areas that will be submerged by flooding sea water?At lower than normal air pressure, a person can still breathe.But a few meters underwater, people dare not breathe at all.This will be the case in the other two spherical sections. On the spherical section northeast of Kilimanjaro, the highest water level will be at Yakutsk in Greater Siberia.Subtracting the current altitude, the city will be submerged below the water level of 8,415 meters.From here, the water level gradually decreases, until it extends to the zero line of no level difference, which will flood most of Russia, Asia and India, China, Japan, and Alaska in the United States across the Bering Strait.The Ural Mountains may emerge like small archipelagos above eastern Europe.As for Portersburg, Moscow, and Calcutta, Bangkok, Saigon, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Edo in another spherical section, these cities will disappear under different depths of sea water.That's enough to drown the Russians, Indians, Siamese, Indochinese, Chinese and Japanese.If they don't have time to migrate before the disaster. In the spherical section southwest of Mount Kilimanjaro, the disaster is not serious, because most of the spherical section is covered by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.The water level in the Maruiino Islands will rise by 8,415 meters.That is to say, due to this man-made flood, large areas of land will sink to the bottom of the sea, especially in South Africa from Lower Guinea and Mount Kilimanjaro to the Cape of Good Hope, and from Peru, central Brazil, Chile and the Republic of Argentina to the Cape of Good Hope. South American triangle formed by Fuego and Cape Horn.Despite their size, the Argentinian Matagonias would not escape destruction, since they would have nowhere to escape, and the entire Cordillera would sink to the bottom of the sea. This is what might have happened had Director Barbicane's criminal plans not been stopped in time: new ocean levels rising in some places and falling in others.This is the possibility that we can inform all concerned people on the planet.