"This is impossible!"
With a critical attitude, Fred clicked on the video titled [Record of Asteroid Mining] on the official website of Star Trading. His expression gradually changed from disdain to suspicion, and then from disdain to shock. When he saw two mechanical arms popping out two laser-like blades, his heart suddenly contracted.
And then, there was the previous exclamation of "This is impossible!"
The video continues to play.
The two light blades intertwined and cut two holes in the ore body without any hindrance. Then the tool changed into a hammer and peeled off the large piece of ore from the asteroid in three strokes. The mechanical hammer hit the ore body, and at the same time it hit his heart with a "dong-dong" sound. The technical strength displayed by Future Mining completely shattered the doubt and disdain in his heart.
He is the editor-in-chief of the technology section of the New York Times. In his work in recent years, he has concluded a pattern: compared to Apple and Microsoft product launch conferences, readers seem to be more and more interested in learning about future people. The group has come up with something new.
Since NASA announced that the ring trade will drag the Bennu asteroid into the Earth-moon orbit, he has published more than ten articles and followed up on this.
"Who gave the lunatics over the Pacific the power to drag three gigatons of explosives close to our homeland?"
"Technology must be restricted. Unfettered technology will only increase our destruction! This time it is three billion tons of explosives, but what about next time? Ten billion tons? By then God will not be able to save us! We will ask the dinosaurs Same, extinct in the asteroid's hard-on 6!"
As the editor-in-chief of the science and technology section, it seems a bit wrong for him to say these words. But as an editor-in-chief who climbed up from a reporter, he knows very well what a journalist should say. Seriousness and rigor of journalism? No, no, no, those are all old imperial calendars from the last century. News without gimmicks has no future!
Therefore, he chose to go against the mainstream society.
At the same time, he also believes that he has an obligation to stand up and remind Americans who blindly pursue future technology to deal rationally with the ever-expanding man.
Because of his pungent and controversial remarks, he was even invited as a guest on a well-known American talk show and appeared on the TV show as the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times.
In his computer, a document criticizing the Star Ring trade for dragging asteroids to the Earth-Moon system has been edited, waiting for him to take it back to the society for publication. For this document, he traveled to almost all universities in Washington State, and even flew to Massachusetts to find experts in the field of astronomy who taught at Harvard University for advice, proving that mining on the Bennu asteroid was impractical and extremely difficult. dangerous.
He was very confident about this report.
Because the Harvard professor patted his chest and assured him that even the world's most advanced technology could only bring back a few mineral samples from the Bennu asteroid. To transport ore back and forth from a distance of 400,000 kilometers, the fuel consumed must be several times more expensive than the ore collected.
It turned out that the professor had stayed in the laboratory for too long and could no longer keep up with the development of the times.
The video released by Star Ring Trading almost made Fred's face swollen.
impossible
Starring Trading showed him with practical actions what it means to make the impossible possible.
Wordlessly forking the video, Fred rubbed his sore brow.
"Fake, what have I done in the past half month..."
He put a lot of effort into this report. However, if you show off, you are simply sticking your face out to be beaten again.
But if you just give up like this...
Finally making the decision to abandon the report, he felt like his heart was bleeding.
…
Huaguo, Shangjing City.
In the Aerospace Technology Laboratory of the National University of Science and Technology of China, an old professor with gray hair was meticulously staring at the images on the computer screen, marveling from time to time. Standing behind him were an old man with a straight back and a dignified face, and a middle-aged man with a Chinese character face.
The old man's name is Liu Zhusheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He had just returned from Coro Island some time ago, and before he had even rested for two or three days, the old leader found him and handed a video file into his hands. The scene in the video is a working video of Starlink Trading’s latest spacecraft, the Electric Ray P-1. The country was very interested in the engine used by the Electric Ray P-1 and the "laser knife" that cuts the ore body, so it found him, the most prestigious person in China's aerospace field, and hoped that he could carefully study it and see if he could learn from the video Some clues can be seen in it.
After watching the video for more than a dozen times, Academician Liu sighed and closed the video when he finally watched it for the twentieth time.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man standing behind him couldn't wait to ask.
"How is it? Academician Liu, do you see anything?"
Liu Zhusheng glanced at him, picked up the teacup next to him, moistened his throat, and spoke slowly.
"If I'm not mistaken, their engines use electric propulsion technology."
The middle-aged man's expression changed slightly, and he was about to say something, but Academician Liu slowly spoke before him.
"I know what you want to say. It's just that it's impossible. The thrust of electric rockets is more than one order of magnitude smaller than that of chemical rockets."
"But I want to tell you now that the specific impulse of the electromagnetic propulsion system is much higher than that of the chemical fuel propulsion system. Using the electromagnetic plus principle, theoretically you can get an exhaust degree that is 1 to 2 orders of magnitude higher than using chemical fuel. I don’t know what the spacecraft of the future will look like, but I am certain that the spacecraft of the future will not be tied to bundles of fuel tanks and waste a lot of precious fuel on the fuel itself.”
"What you want to say is impossible, but it's just that we can't do it with our technology."
Academician Liu's words left the middle-aged man speechless.
As the head of Huaguo Aerospace Technology Group, only the old man who designed the Shenzhou series dared to talk to him like this, and he was convinced by what he said. Although his administrative level is much higher than him, in terms of importance to this country, ten of him cannot compare to one academician with real ability.
At this time, the old man who had been standing there silently spoke slowly.
"What about the laser knife that can cut through minerals?"
"That's not a laser knife," Academician Liu shook his head. "Although it's not something in my field, I know a little bit about it. That thing is probably ion jet technology. By ejecting ion jets with temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees, let alone It’s an ore body, even if a piece of depleted uranium steel is placed there, a hole has to be poked out.”
The old man's face changed slightly, and the shock on the middle-aged man's face became even more obvious.
This means that even if the tank is placed in front of the ion jet knife, it has to look like paper.
After suppressing his shock, the old man asked in a deep voice.
"Take the Electric Ray P-1 as an example. How far behind are we in electric propulsion and ion jet technology? Is it possible to imitate similar equipment?"
Liu Zhusheng shook his head.
"Our starting point in the aerospace field is too low. Compared with the United States and Russia, there is still a big gap. If we directly compare it with the Star Ring trade... To be honest, there is no comparison at all."
There's no comparison at all...
The middle-aged man couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Although he had no illusions that the Aerospace Science and Technology Group could develop a similar spacecraft on his hands, Senior Liu's answer still made him feel a strong sense of bitterness.
At this moment, the old man with a majestic face spoke again.
"Strengthen cooperation with Star Ring Trade, especially in the aerospace field. Since the broad prospects for the development of outer space resources have been proven, we must not be left behind in this regard." When saying this, the old man looked at It was the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man understood and nodded immediately.
"clear!"(.)