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在气体巨星上采集气体并不是打开罐子盖这样简单的事情。要采集需要的气体，需要对特殊的电离纤维丝进行校对，以从大气中捕捉对应的气体分子。如果错误的物质进入到了容器中，哪怕只有百分之几的错误都能够毁掉整个产品的质量。同样，一旦气体从大气环境中被收集起来，采集平台必须要对自身质量和浮力的变化进行校对和补偿。除此之外，至于冷却和将这些气体转存到用于运输的储藏罐的过程就简单多了。正如这项技术的一位先驱所说的：“采集器本身必须就要像一个活的生物，吸进所需要的东西，排出不要的废物。”

Extracting gas from a gas giant requires more effort than simply opening a door into a container. Each specific type of desirable gas requires an ionized filament to be calibrated to attract only the right particles from the atmosphere. Even a fraction of a percent error could spoil an entire batch of product by tainting it with unwanted material. Likewise, once the gas is extracted from the surrounding air, the platform's equilibrium tanks must be adjusted to compensate for the added weight or buoyancy. Beyond that, it's a simple matter of supercooling it and transferring the liquid form into a container for transport. As one pioneer of this technology accurately described it, “The extractor itself is much like a living organism, breathing in what it needs and expelling that which becomes cumbersome.”