It's normal to develop some black technology in the future, right?

Chapter 415: Genius also understands the ways of the world
Although Chen Yuanguang had a smile on his face and spoke in a gentle tone, repeatedly emphasizing that we have made sufficient preparations, this is definitely not an act against a certain country or region, but a launch in the commercial space field.

It's like pointing a gun at you and saying I'm going to shoot, but the shot is not going to hit you, but the shot is going to hit the monster behind you, and I won't let you look back. How can you guarantee that the bullet won't hit you?

Even if Chen Yuanguang's words were exaggerated and even if he showed them detailed materials of specific arguments, they would still feel scared.

Over the past few decades, the consequence of excessive publicity about the power of nuclear weapons in public opinion is that nuclear weapons have become a taboo. Everyone assumes that no one will launch nuclear weapons. Even if Russia is counterattacked and invades its homeland, no matter how they clamor, most people in the society will not believe that Russia dares to use nuclear weapons.

But the intensive launches by the Chinese in the gray area now make everyone feel real fear.

What the Chinese netizens can think of, the professionals present here can naturally think of as well. China can use asteroids to routinely use nuclear bomb launches, greatly reduce costs, and in the process greatly optimize the launch accuracy and ballistic calculations of nuclear bombs.

This is the most real threat to them.

Since the Chinese can send their nuclear bombs to hit asteroids with a diameter of only a few thousand meters in deep space hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, why can't they hit the presidential or prime minister's motorcade while it is moving?

Precisely because the potential threat is so great, almost the entire world is paying attention to China's launch.

No major "international media" came out to make sarcastic remarks. Everyone held their breath and waited for the results of China's launch to come out before manipulating public opinion based on the specific circumstances.

When Napoleon returned to Paris, the press could shout

"Mr. Wright, I am Albert, the president of the Safran Group in the Asia-Pacific region. We have had a long-term and good cooperative relationship with Guangjia Aerospace in the past."

Safran Group did not have a headquarters in China in the past. They only had one office in China, which was located in the non-core CBD area of ​​Yanjing. Their Asia-Pacific headquarters was in Singapore.

Since Safran Group cooperated with Guangjia Aerospace four years ago and acquired the Pioneer series rocket technology from Guangjia Aerospace, Safran Group's Asia-Pacific headquarters moved to Shenhai, and the Lion City headquarters was downgraded to the Southeast Asia regional branch.

This is also one of the cases where the Guangjia Aerospace Industry Chain attracted investment for Shenhai.

A large number of upstream and downstream companies surrounding Guangjia Aerospace have settled in the Yangtze River Delta, and foreign capital with cooperative relations with Guangjia Aerospace has settled in Shenhai one after another.

It is well known that the quality of suppliers in the aerospace industry is much better than that of the civilian manufacturing industry. Therefore, in recent years, a number of civilian consumer product companies based on aerospace materials have been established in Shenhai.

Because the industrial driving effect of Light Armor Aerospace is so obvious, it is estimated that Light Armor Aerospace will eventually land in Shenhai, and a few of them will also drive industrial growth of hundreds of billions of RMB. If calculated on a larger scale, it would be hundreds of billions of US dollars.

It is precisely because of the successful case of Light Armor Aerospace that even if SpaceX only has funds to build cars, everything else is blank. The competition in new energy vehicles has also entered the second half, and everyone is fighting fiercely, and many car companies have fallen.

The internal environment is unclear and the external environment is extremely cruel, but a large number of local governments still spare no expense in the hope that Space can be established in their city.

"The questions raised by the previous guests were all focused on the field of environmental protection. After all, the Earth is our only home. Everyone is very curious about this question. I would like to ask, in the future, will the use of nuclear bomb technology to change the trajectory of asteroids be normalized?

If so, if asteroids frequently appear in low-Earth orbit in a certain year, will Guangjia Aerospace capture every one of them, or are there selection criteria? "

Chen Yuanguang said: "Of course there are selection criteria, we will only target near-Earth asteroids that contain metals.

Rocky asteroids are of limited value, and lunar soil is more than sufficient for our needs, so we have no plans to use rocky asteroids for a long time to come."

"Mr. Wright, I am Rohit, the president of Temasek. I have a small question about space mining and hope to discuss it with you."

After the great changes in Singapore, both Temasek and other official companies controlled by Singapore have undergone a major reshuffle.

Temasek, as the lifeline of Singapore's economy, is naturally no exception. After Di Lan was removed, he was replaced by Luo Xide, a rare person in Temasek's senior management who had no direct interest relationship with the Lee family.

However, like Dilhan, Rohit is of Indian descent. However, unlike Dilhan who has been working in Temasek, Rohit had been working in Mumbai, India before joining Temasek, including at Citibank Mumbai branch, McKinsey India branch, Morgan Stanley Mumbai branch, etc.

Luo Xide’s ties with the American financial circle are much closer than with the Li family.

"That is, asteroid mining is an absolute loss-making business. After listening to your introduction, I know that to successfully hit an asteroid, you need to use ultra-high-precision nuclear weapons. The cost of a single asteroid is at least tens of millions of dollars. Even if it's only ten million dollars, using three at a time will cost thirty million dollars.

Considering the cost of bringing it back from the moon, a thousand tons of metal minerals might cost $100 billion, or $100 million per ton.

Because Temasek has invested in Australia's Ford River Group, I am very clear about the cost of Australian iron ore. The cost for China to import 1,000 tons of iron ore from Australia includes sea freight, value-added tax and insurance costs, which will not exceed US$100,000 when all is added up.

So is this a bit too expensive from a cost perspective?

Unless there's an asteroid that's all gold, it's going to lose money anyway."

(There is no tariff on iron ore imports)

This kind of rhetoric is also the main argument of those who oppose China's vigorous development of the aerospace industry on the simplified Chinese Internet. At first, you can't do it, so just brag about the aerospace industry. Later, you succeeded, so what? Are you as awesome as America? Today, as China is gradually achieving its goals, the rhetoric has changed to "being too ambitious and losing more than you gain".

It's just that Musk's plan to send people to Mars is the future of mankind and the light of mankind, while Chen Yuanguang's plan to mine from space is a waste of effort. In view of the current situation of the Internet in simplified Chinese, these gods are basically treated as electronic pets, and their comments are regarded by netizens as rare animal exhibitions, for fear of scaring them away and making them lose the fun.

“Of course what you said is partly true.

In addition, I want to correct one thing. The cost of a high-precision nuclear bomb is tens of millions of dollars. This is for other countries. Considering that Guangjia Aerospace can launch a large number of nuclear bombs to reduce the cost, the cost of a single bomb will not exceed 10 million RMB at most. "This number shocked the foreigners present. What is the modern war fighting for? When there is no generation gap in technology, it is nothing more than internal strength such as production capacity, organizational efficiency, and production cost.

Your 10 million RMB per bullet is still the most, while my 50 million USD per bullet is still the least. How can we win this war? If we take production capacity into account, the Chinese are producing bullets as fast as making dumplings, while it takes you half a year to produce one bullet. The gap is even greater.

The most nervous Japanese at the scene did a quick calculation in his mind: 10 million per piece, that would mean spending 5 billion RMB would be enough to clean up the mess for Japan.

If the Chinese really cleaned up the mess, would America really avenge Japan? Everyone was terrified.

“And as the technology matures, the cost will continue to decrease.

In the past, China Aerospace used the Long March 8.5F carrier rocket to send our astronauts to the space station, and the cost per launch was million RMB. Now we use the Changkong space plane to send astronauts into space, and the cost per launch is less than one million RMB.

We've reduced launch costs to less than one percent.

Likewise, the cost of space mining will continue to decrease.

Furthermore, if we simply talk about transporting the iron ore back to Earth for use, I believe the cost will not be comparable to that of Australian iron ore for a long time.

But if we build a base on the moon and use iron ore on the moon, the cost should now be cheaper than sending iron ore from Earth to the moon.

In addition, the value of the technology itself is not taken into account.

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Then we will give a matching price to the mined iron ore through high value-added products. I believe there will be many people on the earth who are willing to pay for it compared to the premium generated by ordinary iron ore.

If the only consideration is cost, then I think Elon doesn't need to go to Mars. He just needs to go to the New World like Owen did and buy a piece of land that is large enough to accommodate 100,000 people, and then conduct his social experiment.

That’s a lot cheaper than sending 100,000 people to Mars.”

The Owen that Chen Yuanguang is referring to here is Owen, an Englishman who sold his property in the early 19th century, bought land in America and created the "New Harmony Commune" in order to establish an ideal social model to solve problems in the real world.

Irving spent $15 to buy land and buildings in Indiana. From 1824 to 2024, there are exactly two hundred years. Based on the average annual inflation rate of 1.43%, this amount of money is roughly equivalent to $3500 million today, which is a drop in the bucket for Musk.

The Chinese present applauded one after another, and the big boss sitting in the front row said directly: "Yuan Guang, aren't you going to use space ore to build cars? The price will definitely not be cheap. The cost alone cannot be suppressed. I may not be able to afford it, but I will personally help you promote the product at some entrepreneurs' seminars."

Don't say that big guys can't promote products. Back then, when it came to high-speed rail, wasn't it the big guys who promoted products directly on site in Europe? They published signed articles in European media to introduce the benefits of China's high-speed rail. After the sales promotion, Hungary and Serbia came to sign orders to build the Hungary-Serbia railway.

The Belgrade-Novi Sad section in Serbia was officially put into operation in 22 years.

Regarding the direct civilian carriers of China's commercial aerospace industry, it is not uncommon for bigwigs to help Space sell goods. The upstream and downstream industrial chains and employment that this can drive are not as good as China's high-speed rail, but the high-end jobs it creates are much more than China's high-speed rail.

Foreigners' questions are all focused on environmental protection and threats to the earth. Basically, you can only use this excuse to try to dissuade China from large-scale civilian use of nuclear weapons.

There were only a few foreigners who got the chance to ask questions. Although the others who did not get the chance looked unwilling, they still had to move on to the next stage.

"The nuclear bomb launch is about to begin. Since this launch involves some secrets, the entire process will be demonstrated by 3D animation. Of course, I believe that after the launch, the satellites of various countries will restore the launch path and asteroid orbit change phenomenon that are the same as in reality." Lin Jia's gentle female voice was transmitted to the entire venue through the microphone.

Suddenly a loud shout interrupted her speech:

"Wright! Is the launch of Light Armor Aerospace a provocation and intimidation to America? If you continue like this, you will end up like Albert Widman sooner or later!"

Lin Jia's face changed after hearing this. Although she didn't know who Albert Widmann was, it was definitely not a good prediction. She whispered to the staff next to her, "Get rid of him, and then find out who called him later."

There was a commotion at the scene and the guests were whispering to each other. The situation gradually quieted down after the troublemakers were taken away.

Chen Yuanguang slowly picked up the microphone and said, "I want to explain that the reason why we finally chose nuclear bombs is simply because nuclear bombs are the most efficient way.

From a pure energy perspective, the impactor used in NASA's DART mission in 2022 will hit the asteroid Dimorphos at a speed of 6.6 kilometers per second, generating kinetic energy of approximately 1.1 times 10 to the tenth power joules, while the energy released by the explosion of a small nuclear bomb is at least two orders of magnitude higher than this.

Our decision is based entirely on rational and pragmatic considerations. We are not provocative or threatening, and I never think that America and we are rivals or competitors. We are just doing what we believe is right and beneficial to the future of mankind and to building a common destiny for mankind."

After he finished speaking, the big boss applauded first, and then everyone else followed suit. Even the foreigners, who looked unhappy, were swept up in the atmosphere and had to clap symbolically.

A thought flashed through the minds of all the Chinese present: "Who said geniuses don't understand the ways of the world? Geniuses really understand it too well. If word gets out, the favorability rating in Yanjing will definitely go up a level."

"I'm sorry, I was delayed for a moment. I looked at the data sent back by the launch pad. The first nuclear bomb has been launched and is approaching the asteroid at a very fast speed.

We mainly hope to use the impact force generated by a nuclear bomb explosion to change the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid and allow it to enter a relatively ideal Hohmann transfer orbit.

We have simulated and verified this launch many times using computer models. Unless there are any accidents, the nuclear bomb will eventually collide with the asteroid near its metal core.

Because this is the most efficient, it can more effectively change the orbit of the asteroid by leveraging the mass and rigid structure of the metal core."

(End of this chapter)