Return to the exciting era of 1999

Chapter 2357 Why aren’t we the ones leading the way?
"They are all yours. Remember to take good care of them. America's father is coming to see you, haha..."

The great Chinese netizens have never stopped making fun of this group of people and have been ridiculing them in various ways.

The dismantling of the fragments was still going on at the scene. What no one expected was that flame cutting had little effect on this piece of almost pure metal. After a can of oxygen, the oxyacetylene only cut a small notch on the surface of the metal block, and that was all.

The entire live broadcast room was packed with people at this time, and many people brought their own goggles and stared quietly at everything on the scene.

"What's going on? Why is this piece of metal so difficult to cut? What is the composition of this thing?"

Looking at the situation on the scene, everyone in the command center was confused. At this cutting speed, it would be difficult to remove the piece of metal by the end of the year.

"Bring on the saw blade, diamond saw blade. Quick, get another small piece down and send it to the laboratory for simultaneous testing. If this goes well, it will make a big difference in our technological progress."

Qi Jia was the most excited person in the entire project team, so he was worried that everything would go smoothly, as that would mean that the things he brought back this time would have almost no value.

Now that it is so difficult to cut, it proves that there must be something in it that the company does not know.

It's not that the other party has not thought about using sonic cannons to bombard the surface of the metal blocks. On the one hand, they don't know what the effect will be and whether it will destroy the organizational structure of these materials. On the other hand, this thing is very radioactive and consumes a lot of electricity.

Qi Jia felt very painful every time he conducted an experiment, because no one knew how much money this thing cost.

The huge gas cutting machine was transported into the protective cover in pieces, and the huge saw blade began to enter the interior. This time, various protections were urgently installed around it to prevent the saw blade from breaking and damaging the protective cover.

Ji Donglai would occasionally take a look at the project progress, and Qi Jia would send Ji Donglai an audio and text message every once in a while.

"Old Qi has some things to do now, you guys just keep an eye on it, I'm going home to enjoy life, I wish you guys a great legacy in history, everyone!"

After greeting Ran Bo, Ji Donglai's family drove back to Yakou Village. Compared with the past, the protection of Ji Donglai's home was increased to another level this time.

No one knows the value of this alien object. Countless people will go crazy for it. So before this thing is divided up, Qiu Yuzheng personally sent people to protect Ji Donglai's house.

At this time, on the other side of the ocean, in the highest-level meeting room of Bald Eagle, a group of foreigners were arguing with each other.

A large screen was broadcasting live the scene of Ji Donglai's men cutting the golden comet fragments. At this time, they were already on the second saw blade. All the debris at the entire cutting site was caught with something, and no loss was allowed.

People wearing protective clothing kept sending the debris out of the protective shield. Specialized people marked them in ziplock bags, and some people took them out for experiments.

"All of your companies are said to be world leaders. I want to ask you very bluntly, why is this matter not led by us? Why did he appear in China? Why is the report you provided to me irrelevant to this matter?"

"Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent on you every year. What we want is to lead the world in all aspects. I want to ask you, what are we leading now? Drinking Coke, eating bread, watching videos on YouTube, buying Transformers toys, driving racing cars or mermaids are all black?"

Facing a group of big men in suits and with red faces shaved, the C position asked loudly.

The group of people below didn't care at this time. Everyone present was the CEO of the top technology company in the entire New World or the senior leader of the national laboratory, a technical engineer. No one really took the person above seriously.

It is precisely relying on the existence of the following group of people that the Bald Eagle has been able to exercise de facto leadership, supervision and exploitation over the world in recent years.

No one expected that a private company from China could unexpectedly accomplish what NASA claimed would cost $750 billion.

The spacecraft probe launched from the space base has been on the march for more than a year, and by the end of this century it is claimed to be able to reach the only golden comet in the solar system that can be seen by advanced space telescopes.

Certain departments are operating at every moment, receiving these signals from the distant starry sky, letting all countries in the world know that there is still a world-leading existence here.

If this theory is true, then what did Ji Donglai capture?
Does the country want the fragments or not? Under what name? From whom?
"Ahem, they are using our theoretical scientific research and various inventions to achieve current things. We don't need to worry. As long as we are still ahead in these things, we will still be invincible. This is just a small matter. There is no need to make a fuss."

"They only took the lead once. We have been leading for many years. Is it necessary to be so nervous? Besides, it is a private company. In fact, they have the unconditional support of the country behind them."

"It can get the return capsule from the National Planning Agency, so who can sell it to us? This can only be said that their country is supporting them, but what about us? No one supports us, so it's not surprising!"

A big shot lit a cigar and looked at the person above with disdain in his eyes.

Especially when Ji Donglai obtained this fragment, in the eyes of the other party, it was just a useless meteorite fragment and had no value. The value of this thing was more of a film and television value, an emotional value, something that made a bunch of people blindly happy. Otherwise, why would Ji Donglai do a live broadcast?
Now more people are paying attention to ByteDance, which is something that can make money. Many people are calculating the revenue brought by Ji Donglai's live broadcast, which seems to be very considerable.

There are also people developing related products, and they are also Ji Donglai's subordinates.

"Everyone, don't you think what you said is ridiculous? Any technology that cannot be converted into numbers on the economic periodic table is useless. It is just like the fireworks and gunpowder invented by China. They are useless things."

"So what if we have a lot of technology? Without Steve Jobs, your technology would just be locked up in the lab and rot. No one would know that the technology ever existed until the patent expired or the archives were eaten up by termites."

"Why haven't we produced any creative talents in these years? Who can give me an answer? Especially this time, our equipment is so advanced, why didn't we discover this golden comet that was so close, but discovered something so far away?"

Facing a group of big guys, C position looked at Elon Musk. Except for him, almost no one at the scene could be compared with Ji Donglai.

Especially this celestial body discovery is epoch-making.

Many people don't know what this means, but the person sitting in the C position knows it very well. The other party even asked someone to cover up the news that his country spent a huge amount of money to launch an ultra-long-distance space-time probe in advance, otherwise he would be held accountable.

Why don’t we go for the close-up one, but go for the long-distance one?

"Can I speak?"

An engineer sitting in the last row leaned against the wall and raised his hand. He couldn't find the C position for a while. It was only after his assistant came over and pointed it out that he found the white-haired old man.

The C position doesn’t even know the old man’s name. He didn’t know him when he was young, and he still doesn’t know him now.

The assistant spent a long time searching for information before C position found out the old man's name. He was a senior scholar at MIT and was older than C position.

"Speaking!"

Ask someone to pass the microphone to the other party, and the C position moves his body.

“I want to ask everyone here, what is our real invention?”

The old man had a sharp gaze, his hair was all silver-white like Einstein, and his face was covered with various spots, but it did not affect the other person's voice at all.

Everyone in the room was stunned, looking at the old man with almost idiotic eyes, especially the group of big men with white skin.

"I suggest you go back and read some books before you come here to talk. From rockets, space shuttles, missiles..."

An obviously young white man loudly questioned the old man, but the old man didn't look at him, but just pushed his glasses.

"Half of these came from the former Soviet Union, and the other half came from Germany. What did you locals invent?"

The old man's words made the middle-aged man who had been talking incessantly shut up.

Because what the old man said is correct. Many of the things here are rooted in the organizations that the old man mentioned. Although many people do not admit it, it is the fact and there is no point in quibbling.

"From NASA to Pentagon, all the core technologies were absorbed, transformed and created from MIT. I have witnessed it all, and no one knows better than me how these things came about. Steve Jobs, the technology businessman, is the same as Elon Musk who is sitting here. They created a product, but they did not create any technology."

"NASA was created by our college. There were several Chinese engineers involved. Excellent and irreplaceable Chinese engineers undertook most of the work. We are just followers. From then until now, we have been repeating the same operation and feeling complacent."

"Did we come up with Feng Xi's Karman Theorem? Although many people are unwilling to admit it, it's useless to be stubborn. Including Qi Jia, who led the Uni-President Intelligence's comet fragment capture mission this time, he also worked under me."

"He was once one of the outstanding engineers in Bell Labs. After him, I have never seen a high-quality Chinese engineer. Although you still have a large number of engineers from them, there are no such outstanding technology leaders anymore. They are all followers! No leader!"

The old man looked at the group of people in front of him, his eyes reflecting endless mockery, and no one at the scene dared to respond, because that was the fact.

This is the current situation of these companies.

(End of this chapter)