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

Chapter 417 External Response
"That's pretty much it."

Musk's entire schedule was extremely tight, and he didn't even have time to rest. The first thing he did after returning to his residence was to have a meeting with Washington, thousands of miles away, to discuss the first-hand information he heard from the Light Armor Aerospace site today.

In the past, when Musk came to Shenhai, he either stayed in a hotel, like when he came to discuss the Shenhai Super Factory in 19, he stayed at the Holiday Inn Express in Pudong, or he stayed in the mansion his mother bought in Shanghai.

This time it was different, he lived at No. 1469 Huaihai Middle Road.

Although this place is where the embassy is located, normally, White House bureaucrats do not stay here when they come to Shenhai, because the facilities and layout here are designed to meet the needs of office, meeting and visa business, and do not include the task of receiving bureaucrats on business trips from Washington.

The comfort of the hotel is much better than here. In the past, whether it was the president or other bureaucrats who came, the common choices were either the Peace Hotel or the Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

The latter has hosted many presidents.

But there was no way, since this business trip was mainly based on confidentiality, and the White House obviously did not want their remote meeting to be overheard by China.

After Musk finished speaking, the White House bureaucrats supplemented what Chen Yuanguang had explained to the bigwigs after the meeting.

Obviously, even though Musk and American envoys in China had already left the scene, Chen Yuanguang's words were still immediately reported to the White House.

"So, Andy, what do you think of China's plan, and how long it will take us to catch up with China in near-Earth asteroid interception?
Is one year enough?"

That's right, the President's patience only lasts one year.

Because there is only a little over a year left until the election at the end of next year.

If he can't do it, it means he is planting trees and letting future generations pick the fruits.

It would be fine if the descendants were still American, but the problem is that 99 percent of them are LGBT. This cruel reality makes the president only care about one issue, which is how long it will take to resolve the issue.

Andy, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University, has worked with NASA in the past and was responsible for NASA's asteroid orbit redirection program, the chief scientist of the DART program.

Andy was stunned after hearing this. He wondered if the president had Alzheimer's disease like the previous president. Didn't the White House official just repeat what Wright said? Wright split up so many sub-problems, and it was impossible to complete the construction of this model within a year.

“Sorry, Mr. President, this is too difficult.

I expect that we will be able to catch up with China's current progress within five years at the earliest.

If we could adopt the approach of Oppenheimer's time and bring together scientists in related fields to work together to tackle this project, the progress would be extremely smooth and the time could be shortened to three years at most.

But in one year, no matter who came, he couldn't do it, even if Wright came to American to lead the project again. "

Three years, three years and the day lily has become cold.

Moreover, the time period of three years is too clever. Those who plant trees will enjoy the shade, and I have become the one who plants trees.

"What if we can get the technical details from China?

That is, can the specific results of the subjects mentioned by Wright during the introduction be accelerated? "The President refused to give up.

Everyone here feels that they are now like Russia during the Cold War. The other side is America, and they have to keep up with any technological innovations made by the other side.

After we catch up, the other side will come up with new technological innovations.

Then you have to catch up again.

This is too passive.

What is even more helpless is that they have no other recourse except moral condemnation and making a few comments in public opinion, but even these comments are becoming increasingly powerless.

First, the hard power is here. The Chinese can go to the space station for a trip without spending a million dollars, and they can use nuclear bombs to mine asteroids at any time. No matter how you manipulate the global media to stigmatize the Chinese, you can't explain why there is such a big gap between the Chinese in reality and the Chinese in public opinion. In the era of self-media, the credibility of mainstream media has become weaker and weaker.

Secondly, the global media is already controlled by the Donkey Party. When the Elephant Party was in the White House, their cooperation was very limited, and they would always blame the White House for China's rocket-like development.

Combining these two points, the White House now has fewer and fewer cards in its hand. It is not at all like the time when Trump had endless cards in his hand.

Since the donkey party’s financiers steal first, it’s normal for the elephant party to follow suit, right?
So the president subconsciously thought, why can't we directly use China's achievements and speed up the progress? If it can be shortened to one year and done before the election, it can be regarded as a shot in the arm for subsequent candidates of the target party.

It's hard to estimate how much impact Musk's chopstick-held rocket had on the presidential vote in 24 years.

Andy felt desperate. He didn't know how to explain it to the President.

Fortunately, Musk spoke up at this time: "Mr. President, first of all, we cannot be sure whether Wright's words are a cover-up to cover up the real scientific research results.

In other words, as to the source of the multi-celestial body model he mentioned, whether it was from China's Natural Science Foundation or other scientific research institutions, or directly from Guangjia Aerospace, we have no way of identifying it.

In the presence of a large number of foreigners, Wright did not hide this at all. It is very likely that this was a tactical deception due to his dissatisfaction with the Donkey Party's theft of room-temperature superconducting technology.

So even if we get the relevant technology, it is unlikely to shorten the time to one year.”

After Musk finished speaking, Andy added: "Yes, even if what Wright said is true, and we have obtained all the research results of China on the mathematics of multi-celestial body models, we need to finally assemble it into a complete scientific research result, which is not an easy task."

The White House is holding meetings, and so are other countries.

It’s similar to what the boss thinks. The only countries that have the ability and willingness to keep up are Russia and France.

The former is that they do not have the financial resources to maintain such a huge project. You have completed the first step, which is to get the asteroid to the moon, but there are still countless steps to make use of the asteroid. Russia simply does not have the economic strength to build a lunar industrial system.

The latter is such a huge budget, tens of billions of euros, that it will not pass the Congress at all. Charles de Gaulle is a lame duck president in France, and there are many people in Congress who oppose him. In recent years, due to external circumstances, the budget invested in aerospace has been enough. If tens of billions of euros are added, not to mention the opponents in Congress, even Charles de Gaulle’s allies may not vote in favor. Therefore, only France can really keep up.

After discussing for a long time, these companies only felt frustrated, as they had to watch China's pace of entering the space age getting faster and faster, and found that they could no longer keep up.

I forgot that there is another country to catch up, that is India.

At 2050 a.m. Yanjing time after the launch by China, India issued an official statement. On the one hand, it condemned China, saying that it was irresponsible to use nuclear bombs like this. On the other hand, it said that if China could do it, so could they, and India would complete the asteroid orbit change project before .

Why 2050? Because the completion time of India's permanent lunar base construction plan is scheduled for 2050.

In India's lunar plan, the lunar sample return is in 2028, which is next year. Although due to the stimulation from China, the head of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation, which is India's official space agency), Somanath, has repeatedly stated in front of the media that he wants to speed up this progress and they can complete this plan without waiting until 2028.

Every time China makes a technological breakthrough in the field of aerospace, Somanath will come out and shout, don’t forget that we in India also want to land on the moon.

Of course, when he said this, those under him who were specifically responsible for the lunar sampling program all said that we are still proceeding according to the original plan and that they have not received any notice to complete the project ahead of schedule, which is quite disrespectful.

As for this incident, few people paid attention to it on the Simplified Chinese Internet, because India has never been taken seriously by the Chinese. However, a joke happened not long ago, adding another joke to the collection of Indian jokes on the Simplified Chinese Internet.

India said it would complete lunar sampling in 2028. Due to the lack of heavy rockets with sufficient thrust, they planned to use two self-developed high-thrust carrier rockets to send the Chandrayaan-4's thruster, lander, and ascender modules into space in two batches, and then dock them in space.

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To be more precise, they dock in Earth orbit, reach lunar orbit, and then separate. One part goes to the lunar surface to collect samples, while the other part stays in lunar orbit waiting for the sampling module to return.

India has never achieved a space docking, but it dared to formulate such a complicated plan, with multiple dockings and separations. And seeing that the lunar sampling will be carried out next year, India has to conduct the first space docking test this year.

Let’s try docking once in low-Earth orbit first.

The result was a docking failure and the two spacecraft collided. One of the spacecraft only had external structural damage, while the other directly caused damage to its key systems, rolled over and landed on the earth.

Although there were no fireworks, it was still ridiculed by Chinese space enthusiasts on the Internet:
That's it?

Although they failed not long ago, India still claims that they will realize the lunar sampling plan next year.

The second step of India’s lunar program is manned lunar landing, which will be completed in 2040, and the third step is a permanent lunar base, which will be completed in 2050.

Given such a "grand" plan, India does have the reason and capital to launch its own asteroid trajectory change project.

But after the statement was issued, no one paid any attention to India. Not only did the foreign media not report it, but it didn't even rank among the top 50 trending searches on Weibo, as if nothing had happened.

Of course, some current affairs bloggers on the Internet will make some sarcastic remarks:
"Brother San, you should first clarify the basic concepts of space travel before talking about asteroid orbit change."

“How dare you dream of changing the orbit of an asteroid when you can’t even do a space docking? How dare you plan a permanent base on the moon when you don’t even have a space station?
I have to say that letting Ah San be the CEO of Light Armor Aerospace is really a boast. Compared with Ah San, Light God is still too modest. "

Netizens just followed suit and made a few jokes, and no one would regard Asan as a real threat.

Just like releasing a moon landing schedule, if America releases it, the outside world will doubt that they will delay it, but will not doubt that they can't do it. If China releases it, the outside world will think that China can complete it on time, but if India releases it, no one thinks that they can complete it smoothly.

Even if the time point is 2040.

"Who was the one who suddenly yelled in the meeting just now?" Lin Jia was very angry. It was just yelling and the matter was not serious. What made her angry was that the person who suddenly attacked Chen Yuanguang had a yellow appearance and spoke fluent Chinese.

He's not a foreigner, and judging by his position, he doesn't look like a staff member brought by the American Embassy.

And judging from the position, it seems that they are their partners.

This couldn't help but make Lin Jia feel angry. You said that America would definitely curse Chen Yuanguang. She could fully understand that Chen Yuanguang's existence helped China's external environment a lot, to the point where they could launch nuclear bombs just by stealing technology.

Lin Jia could not understand why the Chinese, or their partners, cursed him like this.

"Boss Lin, the news is out. It's from the executives of Shenhai Automobile. Because of the cooperative relationship between Volkswagen and us, Shenhai Automobile also cooperates with us. In addition, Shenhai Automobile is the leading company in Shenhai, so it also sent executives to participate today.

That was a vice president of Shenhai Automobile. Shenhai has already investigated. When the leader of Shenhai left, he said he would give us a reply. "

The secretary's answer calmed Lin Jia's anger: "We must fully express our dissatisfaction. Shenhai Automobile is a partner we have always valued, but there are such people among their senior management. We seriously doubt whether there are serious problems in the selection of Shenhai Automobile's senior management."

Lin Xinrui hesitated after hearing this: "Okay, I will definitely give them feedback, but isn't this a bit too radical?"

Lin Jia said word by word: "Do as I say." Then he said in a gentle tone: "These few days are a critical period, and everyone is working hard.

After these two days, everyone can start to take time off, and you can also prepare and see where to go for fun. "

The treatment, stability and working environment of Guangjia Aerospace employees are all good. The only bad thing is that there is basically no opportunity to travel abroad.

Before, even if you worked in aerospace state-owned enterprises, your passport would be confiscated, but you could still apply for a passport and go out for travel.

I can’t go to America later, but I can still go to places like Europe, Japan and Korea.

But after joining Light Armor Aerospace, they can only travel to countries like Cambodia, Laos, and Baiyue. There was a joke in the Light Armor Aerospace internal forum that their travel destinations were directly linked to the power of Laos and China.

They can travel wherever the Chinese can influence.

Originally everyone thought they would only go to Southeast Asia in this lifetime, but recently there was a rumor in the internal forum that Peru in South America might become a new tourist destination for Guangjia Aerospace employees next year.

(End of this chapter)