Chapter 947 Not Just Farming
Recently, the Internet has been swiped by the space elevator, and the attention to the Bennu asteroid has not formed enough heat.
From the beginning of the doomsday theory in 2000 to the bland Christmas of 2012, people have been baptized by all kinds of strange doomsday theories.
Even if Jiang Chen stood in front of the media in a serious manner and told them that there is a colony ship from the stars that has traveled to the solar system from 20.5 light-years away for almost a century, people would at most smile heartily and give this incomparably rich director Post a few labels like "humor" and "love to tell bad jokes".
Thanks to this, although the voices protesting against the irresponsibility of the Star Ring trade were harsh, they were not too strong.
However, this does not mean that certain countries will give up using this as an entry point, and make irresponsible remarks on the "space hegemony" that the star ring trade is forming.
Such as the United States, such as their little partner the European Union, and Latin American countries.
The European Space Agency first protested the "irresponsible" behavior of the new country and asked the new country to explain the incident at the United Nations General Assembly in September this year.
Hua Guo just expressed that he will pay close attention to the progress of this incident, and believes that the new Congress will properly handle the issue of the Bennu asteroid. Considering the recent cooperation with the Star Ring Trade on the microgravity laboratory project, Hua Guo's diplomatic rhetoric is relatively peaceful, but it is clear that the Star Ring Trade has pulled the Bennu asteroid to the world without the knowledge of the international community. There is some dissatisfaction in the Earth-Moon system.
The wording of the United States is quite tough, requiring the new country to immediately produce evidence that proves the safety of the Bennu asteroid, otherwise NASA will start studying the plan to destroy the Bennu asteroid in outer space.
When he heard Zhang Yaping's troubles, Jiang Chen suddenly laughed out loud and said in disdain.
"Destroy? Where do I put it for them to destroy, but they can destroy it?"
Landing on an asteroid is much more difficult than landing on the moon, and it is even more difficult to transport enough explosives to blast it up. Of course, Jiang Chen believes that NASA has the ability to calculate the orbit of the asteroid, and he also believes that spaceX has the ability to send explosives there.
but!
Send tens of tons of special explosives up, and then install it? Just rely on the toothpick of the Falcon 9? Transferring 10% of the US's annual military expenditure to spaceX, and giving them two years to study the plan and two years to implement the plan, Jiang Chen believes that they may really have the hope of blowing up the Bennu asteroid.
Anyway, his space elevator won't help deliver the explosives.
Jiang Chen's reply to Zhang Yaping was also very simple.
"The solution to this matter is just one word, delay."
"Our mining plan has been launched in advance, and the edited asteroid mining video will be made public soon."
"Aren't they worried about being hit on the head by an asteroid? Then let them take a good look at the gap between indigenous people and civilized people. When they see our ability to use knives on asteroids, they won't be suspicious there gone."
"I'm going to go to the Future Mining Industry to do business in a while, so I'll hang up first."
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In the Pentagon, William James, wearing a Marine Corps uniform, was led by a civilian secretary to the door of a conference room.
Not long after he returned to Washington from Koro Island, almost as soon as he got off the plane, he was invited here by a special car sent by his superiors.
The female secretary nodded slightly to him, pushed open the door of the meeting room for him, and then stepped aside.
James said thank you, walked in the door, and when he saw the people in the meeting room, the expression on his face was suddenly surprised.
It is impossible for Bolden, the black director of NASA, to know that in this country with severe racial discrimination, blacks who can reach the ministerial level are all heroes or idols worshiped by African immigrants. Sitting next to Bolden was DARPA director Anthony Kerrigan, a thin, white man with a hook nose and freckles.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA for short. This incredible department has another nickname, that is "SHIELD".
As for the two people sitting at the top, it was even more serious.
One is the current Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, and the other is US President Hillary Clinton.
Taking a deep breath, William James was about to give a military salute to his immediate superior, but Mr. Carter had no intention of talking nonsense with him, so he opened his mouth impatiently.
"Mr. James, we would like to hear what you have seen and heard in Halo City."
Of course, William James would not refuse. The reason why the U.S. government sent the Marine Corps captain to attend the first opening ceremony was to inquire about intelligence.
The black soldier nodded, swallowed and spoke after spitting.
"After about five hours of voyage, we arrived at the synchronous orbital space station, which is Star Ring City."
"Slower than a rocket." Mr. Kerrigan lowered his voice and said next to Hillary. "Our Falcon rocket will take less than half an hour."
SpaceX received technical support from the DARPA division when developing the Falcon series of rockets, so Kerrigan is not mistaken in using the phrase "our Falcon rockets." It's just that when he said this, Bolden glanced at him, but didn't say anything, and looked away after two seconds.
Hillary nodded, did not speak, but continued to look at James seriously, waiting for the black soldier's next words.
"After arriving at the terminal, Star Ring Trade sent a tour guide to take us into the interior of Star Ring City."
"According to him, the entire Star City is a ring, and the ring is also the counterweight of the space elevator. There are subways, living units, and an external space station..."
Having said that, William James paused, and a trace of fascination gradually appeared in his eyes.
"The most shocking thing is that they moved the farmland into the space station."
All the high-ranking Americans present looked at each other, only Kerrigan turned his pen with disdain.
"There are also planting units on the International Space Station. This is not a special technology, so there is nothing surprising. We saw pumpkins brought back from the International Space Station as early as ten years ago. Is there anything else besides this?"
Hillary and Ashton also nodded.
Just growing vegetables in space is not a novel technology. As early as ten years ago, the United States had already solved this problem in the laboratory, and 14 years later, it approved the establishment of a space farm on the US side of the International Space Station, and successfully planted various surface plants such as cabbage and carrots.
Compared with these irrelevant technologies, they are more concerned about the potential value of Halo City in military and economic aspects.
Of all the people present, only Bolden was unmoved. When he came back from the United Nations Outer Space Summit, he knew very well how advanced the space technology of Star Ring Trade was.
It's not good to contradict your boss, but William James felt that he had to remind everyone present, so he whispered.
"But their area is two thousand acres..."
The meeting room was so quiet that even a needle falling on the ground could be heard clearly.
The spinning pen had dropped on the notebook, and Kerrigan's mouth opened slightly, closed, and then opened again, like a robot.
Sheila was expressionless inside, really expressionless, because she didn't know what expression to make to express the shock in her heart.
Even Bolden's black face changed color slightly. Even though he was well prepared, he was still shocked by the greatness of the Star Ring Trade.
Is it easy to grow vegetables in space? It's really simple.
But what about large-scale cultivation? This is completely two concepts!
An external embedded space station with an area of more than two thousand acres? Is this shit really called a space station?
Seeing that the expression of his immediate superior, the Minister of Defense, seemed not very good, William James hesitated, and asked in a low voice: "...Do you still need to continue reporting?"
"Go on," Hilary said in a deep voice.
Seeing Ashton nodded, William James continued.
"Most of the space stations are vacant land, and we only saw one of those 2,000-acre farmland."
All the people here breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that such a shocking thing is not so easy to get. Even with the financial resources of the star ring trade, only one was built.
But then, the words of William James made everyone feel better, and fell to the bottom in an instant. Kerrigan's jaw closed with great difficulty, and then dropped again.
"I asked the tour guide why those vacant lands were left unused and not all planted with wheat. He told me that this kind of external general-purpose space station has many uses, not just farming. They are going to build houses and factories on it. Just because now The population of Xinghuan City is very small, so there is no need to develop so many agricultural areas..."
At this moment, William James' speech was interrupted. A man who looked like an assistant pushed open the door and rushed into the meeting room.
Facing dissatisfied gazes, he didn't care so much at the moment, took out the iCrazy 8 mobile phone from his pocket, and greeted Hillary with a solemn expression.
"What's the matter? Mr. Eric, don't you know we're in a meeting right now—"
"The Star Ring Trade has a new move! You asked me to keep an eye on them. Believe me, I definitely didn't mean to break into the meeting room, please allow me to take three minutes of your time!"
As he spoke, the man named Eric clicked a few times on his mobile phone, and then presented the mobile phone in front of Hillary.
Is it a video, or something cut out of a sci-fi film...
Hillary frowned slightly, why did the White House assistant break into the conference room to show her this kind of Hollywood movie. Ashton glanced at the video, and didn't take it seriously at first, but he didn't know if he had discovered something, and soon his expression gradually became brighter.
As for Bolden, who was sitting next to him, his expression froze the moment he saw the panorama of the asteroid.
After a while, his stiff facial muscles twitched, and he whispered.
"This is the Bennu asteroid...the video doesn't look like CG."
Hilary, who was watching with relish, was stunned, looked at the mobile phone with a ghost-like expression, and cried out in surprise.
"This is impossible!"
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