They’re all reborn, what’s wrong with being a little more almighty?

Chapter 262: Teach you how to build a social platform
Gonzalez put down the phone receiver. Just now, he had a phone call with a colleague in Chile. According to his colleague, the discovery of Gillies 581C has become a hot topic in the international astronomical community, and all astronomers are talking about it.

"How is it? Have you confirmed it? Is that Gillis 581C fake?" Hernandez came over excitedly. He was still hoping that things would turn around.

“That planet is real. Several European observatories that we have collaborated with have confirmed it. After calculations, they came to the same conclusion as the Chinese.

Moreover, this matter has become a hot topic in the entire astronomical community. Several astronomical research institutions in the United States and Europe have applied to us for cooperation, hoping that we would share data.

The director also asked me to express my gratitude to the Chinese scientific research team. If it weren’t for them discovering Gillis 581C, there wouldn’t be so many institutions looking for us to cooperate with.”

"Why? We were the ones who gave them the data, so they should be thanking us for their gift. Why should we thank them?" Hernandez was not convinced.

"Thanks to the spectral data of Gillies 581C, we don't have to worry about funding for next year, and we will even have some money left over. Our year-end bonus may also depend on this discovery," Gonzalez replied.

Upon hearing this answer, Hernandez suddenly felt extremely aggrieved. He thought he was here to serve as a Tianlong, but he didn't expect that after all this time, he still had to rely on others for food.

Just then, there was a knock on the door, and a guest came. Gonzalez walked to the door and opened it, only to see Professor Fang and Professor Li standing at the door with smiles on their faces, each holding a gift box in their hands.

"Mr. Gonzalez, we heard that you were going back to your country, so we came to say goodbye." Professor Fang said, raising the gift box in his hand, and then said, "This is just a little gift to express our gratitude. Please accept it."

Don't hit someone who smiles at you, especially since they came with gifts, so Gonzalez invited the two of them in.

When he opened the gift box, he saw a set of porcelain tea set inside. Gonzalez quickly pretended to be surprised and said that he liked the gift very much.

After a few pleasantries, Professor Fang showed a look of regret.

"Mr. Gonzalez, it's a pity that you have to return home soon. If you could stay for another week, you should be able to meet Professor Michel Mayor."

Hearing this name, Hernandez next to him couldn't help but exclaimed: "Are you talking about Professor Michel Mayor of the University of Geneva?"

"Yes, it's him! Professor Mayor plans to visit our Tsinghua University for three days and will arrive next week." Professor Fang's tone was full of showing off.

The Chilean duo on the opposite side had expressions of horror.

Your astrophysics center, which is still using equipment from the 1980s, was able to attract a visit from Michel Mayor. This is simply a leap forward for the better!

Chile has so many world-class observatories, but they can't even invite Michel Mayor. How dare he come to visit your place? It's really unfair!

At this time, the Chilean duo was completely filled with envy, jealousy and hatred.

Professor Fang saw the expressions of the Chilean duo and immediately felt very happy.

"You little brats, let's see if you still dare to show off. You ignored me yesterday, but today I will make you out of my league!"

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Michel Mayor is a Swiss astrophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Wolf Prize in Physics, the Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the Albert Einstein Medal, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a member of the European Academy of Sciences, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences... (seven or eight lines omitted here)
Michel Mayor's greatest achievement was the discovery of 51 Pegasi, the first exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.

It is common knowledge that planets revolve around stars, but before Michel Mayor discovered 51 Pegasi, this was just a guess among scientists.

At that time, scientists could only confirm that within the solar system, planets orbited around stars. Once outside the solar system, they could not determine whether this was still the case. They could only rely on speculation, without any empirical evidence.

Until Michel Mayor confirmed that there was a planet orbiting the star Pegasus 51. This proved that there were planets orbiting stars outside the solar system.

At the same time, this also proves that the solar system is not the only one in the universe. In the vast universe, there are countless solar systems, and perhaps there are countless planets similar to the Earth and countless intelligent species similar to humans.

This discovery also earned Michel Mayor the Nobel Prize in Physics.

There are some people who can win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their achievements in astrophysics, but these winners are more or less related to NASA. They are either funded by NASA or have cooperated with NASA on projects. The 2006 Nobel Prize winner John Mather is simply a NASA researcher.

After all, NASA is a product of the Cold War, created by the Americans to fight the Soviets. In the eyes of many astronomers, NASA's scientific research motivation is obviously impure. They do not conduct scientific research because they love astronomy, but to suppress the Soviets.

Therefore, many scholars who study astronomy, on the one hand, hope to get research funds from NASA, but on the other hand, they despise NASA from the bottom of their hearts, which is a typical case of someone complaining about the cook after he has eaten.

Michel Mayor, on the other hand, was a pure academician. He taught at the University of Geneva and later served as director of the Geneva Observatory. This purely academic career also established Michel Mayor's academic status in the field of astronomy.

Of course, Michel Mayor is really talented. In addition to confirming that planets orbit stars, he also invented the HARPS spectrometer, revealed the large number of super-Earth subpopulations appearing in tight orbits, and constructed a concept of planetary formation. Any of his research results is heavyweight.

Michel Mayor also trained many talents in astrophysics. Most of the well-known astrophysicists in Europe today have taken Michel Mayor’s “Saffi Course”.

With his academic status, scientific achievements, various awards, and a group of disciples who can stand on their own, Michel Mayor is a "scholar" in the European astronomy community. In Jin Yong's novels, he is Zhang Sanfeng or Wang Chongyang.

That is why the Chilean duo were shocked when they heard that Michel Mayor was coming to visit Tsinghua University.

The National Tsing Hua University Center for Astrophysics doesn’t even have the latest interstellar maps, so why would it be worth it for Michel Mayor to visit?
I can understand that you, Master Zhang of Wudang, visited the Huashan Sect and Kongtong Sect, but why did you visit the Axe Gang? Is Zhizunbao your illegitimate son?
As for the Center for Astrophysics of National Tsing Hua University, they never dreamed that they would have the opportunity to host an astronomer of the level of Michel Mayor.

In order to welcome Michel Mayor's visit, the entire Astrophysics Center was busy. If time permitted, Professor Li would like to hire a construction team to renovate the Astrophysics Center.

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At this time, Zhang Wei simply became a hands-off boss.

What does Michel Mayor's visit have to do with me? I'm a biologist, I'm going to the biology laboratory to do experiments, don't bother me!
Then Zhang Wei rushed to the office building rented by Campus Network and met Wang Xing.

"Junior brother, you guessed it right. Facebook has cancelled the registration restrictions!" Wang Xing said.

"Actually, this is not difficult to predict. There have been rumors in the United States for a long time!" Zhang Wei replied.

"To be honest, I was a little surprised. I thought Zuckerberg would always stick to the campus social market segment, but I didn't expect it to be opened to non-campus users so soon."

"In fact, at the end of last year, Zuckerberg merged the university version and the high school version of Facebook, which shows that his ambition is definitely not just campus social networking."

Zhang Wei paused and continued, "We agreed at the beginning that if Facebook is open to the public before the end of the year, our campus network will also launch this function. Now your team should have no doubts about this!"

"You have to accept the defeat! Even if there are still people who are unwilling to do so, I will convince them. We have to keep our promises to investors!" Wang Xing nodded seriously, and then continued: "However, if registration is fully opened, there will indeed be some difficulties in a short period of time." "What difficulties?" Zhang Wei asked with a smile.

"Once the campus network is fully open for registration, there will inevitably be a lot of additional users, which will put pressure on the server. I am worried that the existing server may not be able to handle so much data." Wang Xing replied.

"I understand. We just need to add more servers, right?"

"This is the best solution at the moment." Wang Xing nodded.

"And then renting a new server will cost a lot of money?" Zhang Wei continued to ask.

Wang Xing smiled awkwardly, agreeing with Zhang Wei's statement.

"Hey, senior brother, you are quite capable when asking for money. You didn't even mention a word about money!" Zhang Wei sighed.

"Actually, I am also planning to raise funds recently. Several venture capital companies are very interested in our campus network, but the conditions they offer are quite harsh, which I don't think is appropriate." Wang Xing continued.

"I'm sure no one is as suitable as me, your junior brother!" Zhang Wei laughed and continued, "Okay, I'll invest another million on the campus website!"

"Or US dollars?" Wang Xing asked excitedly.

"Euros! I don't have that many US dollars on hand, but I do have some Euros." Zhang Wei replied.

All the money Zhang Wei won from the World Cup was in Euros, and now all of it has been transferred to a Swiss bank. After a while, Zhang Wei plans to transfer the money to Hong Kong and Singapore to avoid the impact of the European debt crisis.

"The Euro is better. It's more valuable than the US dollar!" Wang Xing said, staring at Zhang Wei for a long time, and then asked, "Junior brother, one million Euros is not a small amount. You said you would invest, so you invested. What does your family do? International trade?"

"How do you know you're in international trade?"

"Sometimes it's dollars, sometimes it's euros. You must be doing international trade to have so much foreign exchange to use, right?"

"Then to prove that our family is engaged in international trade, next time I will invest in Japanese yen for you, one million yen!"

"Come on! How much is one million yen?"

“Then invest in the Korean won!”

"The Korean won is even less valuable! Why don't you invest in British pounds? One million pounds will do!"

After the two of them joked with each other for a few sentences, Zhang Wei changed the subject and continued, "Brother, let's get back to the point. My investment of one million euros this time is not for nothing. I have to see results after investing this money! I also have requirements."

"I understand. You are an investor, so it is natural for you to make demands." Wang Xing also changed his face and asked seriously, "What do you want? Just tell me. Do you need a certain number of registered users or a certain number of active users? You set a goal and we will work hard to achieve it."

"I don't have any requirements for registered users and active users, or I am more confident about this aspect. I believe that the number of users of Xiaonei.com will definitely grow rapidly, and it will definitely exceed 100 million in two years."

"Break through 100 million in two years? You really dare to think so!" Wang Xing shook his head. He obviously had no confidence in this number.

Zhang Wei then said: "My request is to add a few more functions to the campus network. The first one is a sharing function, which is to share the updates, articles and photos that I have published."

"This is easy to do. Just share it with your friends. But I don't think this function is very meaningful. We have already launched the function that allows you to see your friends' latest updates on the homepage. Even if you don't need to share it, your friends can also see the information you posted on their homepage when they are online." Wang Xing said.

"I'm not talking about sharing it with your friends, but sharing it on your other social platforms, such as QQ space."

"You mean, the information posted on our campus network can be directly synchronized to QQ space, so that friends in QQ space can also see the information you posted?"

"Yes, that's what I mean." Zhang Wei nodded.

"That won't work!" Wang Xing quickly shook his head.

"Why? Is the technology not capable of doing it?" Zhang Wei asked quickly.

"Technically, it can be done, as long as you link it to your own QQ space. But if you do it as you say, then others can directly see the information posted by friends through QQ space. Who will come to Xiaonei.com? This is equivalent to handing our users over to others!"

"But this is also a mechanism to increase user interaction. We are a social platform, and increasing user interaction and improving user participation are the core of our service."

Zhang Wei paused and continued, "Moreover, the number of QQ Space users is far greater than that of our campus. With the help of QQ Space, we can expand the scope of content dissemination and thus enhance our brand value. In fact, we have taken advantage of the QQ Space.

As for users, I am not worried. We can think from another angle. Our campus network can share content to various social platforms, but other social platforms do not have this function. Then, would you choose campus network to publish information or other websites?

When you go to the campus network, you only need to write a message and click share, and your friends on other platforms can see it. But when you go to other platforms, you have to republish the information one by one. Which one would be more convenient?

Over time, do you spend more time on Xiaonei.com or on other social platforms? If you spend most of your time on Xiaonei.com, it means that you spend most of your time interacting with your friends on Xiaonei.com.

Most people use social platforms mainly to interact with friends, right? If your friends don’t interact with you on a platform for a long time, will you continue to use this social platform? You will definitely go to a platform where you can interact with friends! "

"I understand! Junior brother, you are amazing. You can see so far ahead! Let's do as you say. I will ask the technical department to develop this sharing function right away."

Wang Xing nodded and then asked, "What is your second request?"

"Brother, did you grow vegetables when you were a child?" Zhang Wei seemed to be asking an irrelevant question.

"Growing vegetables?" Wang Xing shook his head blankly.

"You've never stolen vegetables, have you?" Zhang Wei asked.

"Well, when I was a child, my family was well off. My family ran a cement factory, and almost all the cement in our entire city was supplied by my family. So if I wanted to eat anything, I could just go buy it. There was no need to steal." Wang Xing said embarrassedly.

"So you're a second-generation rich man. Well, we have nothing in common." Zhang Wei sighed, and then said, "Forget it, let's put this aside for now. Come to my Weiguang Technology in a few days, and I'll show you what stealing vegetables is!"

(End of this chapter)