Chapter 948

"This is impossible!"

With a critical attitude, Fred clicked on the video titled [Record of Asteroid Mining] on the official website of Xinghuan Trading, and his expression gradually changed from disdain to suspicion, and then from disdain to shock. When he saw two laser knives like light blades ejected from the two robotic arms, his heart suddenly contracted suddenly.

And then, there was the exclamation of the previous sentence "This is impossible!"

The video continues playing.

The two light blades interlaced, and cut two openings on the ore body without any hindrance, and then the tool turned into a hammer, and stripped the large ore from the asteroid three times and five times. The mechanical hammer hit the ore body, and at the same time it hit his heart hard. The technical strength displayed by Future Mining completely shattered the doubts 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 rule, that is, compared with Apple and Microsoft's product launches, 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 asteroid Bennu was dragged to the orbit of the Earth and the moon by the Star Ring Trade, he has published more than a dozen articles in a row, tracking and reporting on this.

"Who the hell gave the lunatics across the Pacific the power to haul three gigatons of explosives close to our home?"

"Technology must be limited, unconstrained technology will only speed up our destruction! This time it's three billion tons of explosives, so what about next time? Ten billion tons? God can't save us then! We'll fight the dinosaurs All the same, extinction in the hard landing of an asteroid!"

As the editor-in-chief of the science and technology edition, it seems that his ass is not right when he says these words. But as an editor-in-chief who climbed up from a reporter, he knows exactly what a journalist should say. The seriousness and rigor of the news? No, no, that's the old imperial calendar from the last century. News without gimmicks has no future!

Therefore, he chose to sing 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 the technology of future people to treat the man who is constantly expanding rationally.

Because of his pungent remarks and controversial speeches, he was even invited as a guest by 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 the asteroid to the Earth-Moon system has been edited, and it will be published when he brings it to the return agency. For this document, he traveled almost all over the colleges and universities in Washington State, and even flew to Massachusetts to find an expert in the field of astronomy who taught at Harvard University for advice.

Proving that mining on Bennu is impractical and dangerous.

He is very confident in this report.

Because the professor at Harvard University patted his chest and assured him that even if it is the world's top technology, at most it will bring back a few ore samples from the Bennu asteroid. To transport ore back and forth from 400,000 kilometers away, the fuel consumed is several times more expensive than the ore collected.

It turned out that the professor had been in the lab for too long and had lost track of the times.

And the video released by Xinghuan Trading almost swollen Fred's face.

impossible?

Xinghuan Trading told him with practical actions what it means to turn the impossible into possible.

Forking the video wordlessly, Fred rubbed his sore brow.

"Fack, what have I been doing for the past half month..."

For this report, he devoted too much effort. However, if it was published, it would be like sticking out one's own face and being hit again.

But if you just give up like this...

Finally made the decision to abandon this report, he felt his heart was bleeding.

...

Huaguo, Shangjing City.

In the Aerospace Technology Laboratory of the National University of Science and Technology, an old gray-haired professor is staring at the images on the computer screen meticulously, amazed from time to time. Standing behind him was an old man with a straight back and a dignified face, and a middle-aged man with a square face.

The old man's name is Liu Zhusheng, an academician of Huaguo Academy of Sciences.

Some time ago, he had just returned from Koro Island. Before he had rested for two or three days, the old leader found him and handed him a video file. The picture in the video is the working video of the latest spacecraft Stingray P-1 of Starlink Trading. The country is very interested in the engine used by the Stingray P-1 and the "laser knife" that cuts through the ore body, so they found him who is the most prestigious in the aerospace field in China. I hope he can figure it out carefully and see if he can learn from the video. Some clues can be seen in it.

After watching the video more than a dozen times, Academician Liu sighed and deleted 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 unhurriedly.

"If I'm not mistaken, their engines use electric propulsion."

The middle-aged man's expression was slightly moved, and he was about to say something, but Academician Liu spoke slowly before him.

"I know what you want to say, but it's impossible. The thrust of an electric rocket is more than an order of magnitude smaller than that of a chemical rocket."

"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 principle of electromagnetic acceleration, theoretically, an exhaust velocity that is 1 to 2 orders of magnitude higher than that of chemical fuel can be obtained. I don’t know what future spacecraft will look like, but I can be sure that future spacecraft won’t be strapped with bundles of fuel tanks, wasting a lot of precious fuel accelerating the fuel itself.”

"What you want to say is impossible, but it is impossible to do it with our technology."

Academician Liu's words left the middle-aged man speechless.

As the person in charge of Huaguo Aerospace Science and Technology Group, only this old man who designed the Shenzhou series dared to talk to him like this, and he was convinced. Although his administrative level is much higher than him, in terms of importance to this country, ten of him are not as good as one academician with real ability.

At this time, the old man who had been standing there without saying a word spoke slowly.

"What about the laser knife that cuts through minerals?"

"That's not a laser knife," Academician Liu shook his head. "Although it's not something in my field, I know something about it. That thing is probably ion jet technology. By spraying an ion jet with a temperature of tens of thousands of degrees, let alone The ore body is gone, even if a piece of depleted uranium steel is placed there, a hole must be poked out."

The old man's face changed slightly, and the shock on the middle-aged man's face became more obvious.

This means that even if the tank is placed in front of the ion jet knife, it must be the same as paper.

Restraining his shock, the old man asked in a deep voice.

"Taking this Stingray P-1 as an example, how far is the gap between us and them 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, and there is still a big gap compared with the United States and Russia. If you compare it directly with the Star Ring trade... To be honest, there is no comparison at all."

There is no comparison...

The middle-aged man couldn't help but smile wryly.

Although he had never imagined that the Aerospace Science and Technology Group could develop a similar spacecraft in his hands, the answer of the old man Liu still made him feel a strong bitterness in his heart.

At this moment, the majestic old man spoke again.

"Strengthen the cooperation with the star ring trade, especially in the field of spaceflight. Now that the development of outer space resources has proven broad prospects, we must not be left behind in this regard." When he said this, the old man looked at It was the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man understood and nodded immediately.

"Understood!" (To be continued.) Enable new URL