Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 246 Red and Blue

After receiving a five-year $600 billion fund, Maxwell and NASA hurriedly held a press conference.

They must use a strong attitude to respond to Dongtang Space Agency and Yinhe Technology.

"...we will restart the Saturn V, and build the Saturn VII and the new space shuttle, and plan to land humans on Mars in 2030 and establish a Mars colony."

Looking at the NASA press conference being broadcast live globally on the holographic projection screen, Huang Haojie glanced at it and stopped paying attention.

The cost performance of launch vehicles or space shuttles is too low. If you want to carry out space development on a large scale, you don’t want to reduce the unit cost.

If you want to work hard to create miracles, there is only one dead end.

After all, if the development of space cannot generate economic benefits, and the space industry cannot be allowed to self-generate, the consequence will be a sad end.

Why is the old Mao Bear's economy collapsing? That's just playing off.

For NASA's follow-up, Huang Haojie and the space agency are happy to hear and see. I believe that when the mass projector is put into use, the stimulation to NASA and Mili's family will be even greater.

At that time, Milijia and NASA can only catch up with more large-scale investment.

Because once Dongtang and Yinhe Technology establish colonies in outer space, the consequences will be disastrous.

Why do you say that?
Just think about the current blue star pattern. The mushroom balance state is only suitable for deterrence inside the planet, and it is difficult to threaten the moon and Mars.

Having a colony on the moon or Mars is equivalent to having a way out. Even if someone grows mushrooms on a large scale on the blue star, it’s a big deal.

Forces without interstellar navigation capabilities can only perish in radiation, disease, and famine.

So in order to rebalance, they have to follow up with aerospace. Of course, if they choose to give in and come to Dongtang and Yinhe Technology for cooperation, that is also a way out.

In fact, there is another way, that is to play hooligans and directly grab a mass projector.

As the galaxy technology that started the space race and scientific research competition, of course it knows the possibility of jumping over the wall.

In order to deal with conflicts that may break out in the future, some preparations are necessary and urgent.

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Huang Haojie is currently in the Materials Research Institute of Yinhe Technology.

"How? Where is the development progress of the oxygen curing agent?"

Li wanted to open a report for him to read.

Flipping through the holographic projection report, he saw the situation of solid oxygen.

"At present, it can only last for 8 to 9 minutes, and the ambient temperature cannot exceed 14 degrees Celsius. It has superconducting properties! What is the status of this superconducting property?" Huang Haojie was immediately interested when he saw this description.

Li Xiang explained: "In fact, both metal hydrogen and metal oxygen have the characteristics of room temperature superconductivity, and the submetallic hydrogen produced by the curing agent has lost the superconductivity, but the submetallic oxygen can retain superconductivity. characteristic."

"Maybe this is a way to produce room-temperature superconductors cheaply!" Huang Haojie said thoughtfully.

Li Xiang nodded: "I am studying this direction."

The two came to a laboratory.

In a liquid nitrogen freezer, Li Xiang put on protective gloves and took out a small box from it.

"Here is one of the submetallic oxygens we produced, which can only be stored below minus 53 degrees Celsius. Once the temperature exceeds minus 53 degrees Celsius, the submetallic oxygen will be unstable, and the temperature exceeds 14 degrees Celsius. It will completely decompose. "

Huang Haojie also put on protective clothing, and through the transparent observation window of the small box, he saw a small piece of dark red solid with metallic luster inside the small box.

"The properties of the submetallic oxygen we produced are very similar to those of solid O8 red oxygen."

Solid oxygen O8 is composed of eight oxygen atoms. It is one of the allotropes of oxygen. Because it appears dark red, it is also called red oxygen.

Huang Haojie clicked on the holographic projection and checked the curing agent situation of the Materials Research Institute.

It was discovered that Li Xiang and the others developed six similar curing agents based on the hydrogen curing agent, and the red submetallic oxide is the effect of one of the curing agents.

As for the light blue submetallic oxygen that exhibits superconducting properties, Li thinks they call it a superconducting submetallic oxygen, and the dark red submetallic oxygen is called a submetallic oxygen.

Li Xiang took out another small box from the freezer. He glanced at it, and there was a piece of light blue in the observation window.

"This is the superconducting submetallic oxygen. It is less stable than the dark red submetallic oxygen. It must be below minus 87 degrees Celsius to maintain stability. If the temperature exceeds minus 87 degrees Celsius, it will quickly decompose."

Hearing this explanation, Huang Haojie put aside the small dark red metallox, and carefully observed the light blue superconducting metallox.

"The two submetallic oxygens should no longer need to be stored under high pressure!"

"Well! We have got rid of the high-pressure storage conditions, and now we can use low-temperature storage, but it is still uneconomical." Li Xiang said still dissatisfied.

Huang Haojie didn't speak, but smiled and continued to open the experimental report of the Materials Research Institute.

The experimental reports and research results were all on it, and he was thinking while reading.

The instability of the dark red submetallic oxygen is due to the instability of the chemical bond, which seems to be a natural defect.

Li thought that even if they added other stabilizers, it was still difficult to suppress the breaking of chemical bonds. They could only suppress the breaking of chemical bonds by reducing the molecular motion through low temperature.

The reason why low temperature can form solid matter is because low temperature suppresses the movement of atoms and molecules.

From the perspective of thermodynamics, the temperature we usually recognize is actually the performance of the movement of atoms or molecules. The faster the movement of atoms or molecules, the higher the temperature; and the slower the movement of atoms and molecules, the lower the temperature.

Conversely, the higher the temperature, the more intense the motion of atoms and molecules; the lower the temperature, the more gentle the motion of atoms and molecules.

It took Huang Haojie more than an hour to roughly read the experimental report of the Institute of Materials on submetallic oxygen.

He found a problem, or a breakthrough.

"Li Xiang, why don't you try experimenting with high pressure?"

"high pressure?"

Li Xiang was taken aback suddenly.

"That's right! Why didn't I think that the laboratory of Harvard University produced metallic hydrogen through a high-pressure method, and perhaps the submetallic oxygen can be compressed into a state that can be stored under normal temperature and pressure through high pressure."

After Li Xiang was woken up by Huang Haojie, he walked around excitedly, talking to himself at the same time, and it took him a while to wake up.

"How? This idea is feasible!" Huang Haojie patted Li Xiang on the shoulder and said.

"I don't know if it's feasible, I'm going to prepare for the experiment right away."

"Let's go together!"

Li Xiang arranged the relevant experimental equipment, and hurriedly greeted the assistants and researchers to start the experiment.

In the laboratory, a piece of dark red submetallic oxygen taken from the liquid nitrogen freezer was put into a low-temperature and high-pressure equipment.

After taking safety measures, Li Xiang urgently ordered:

"Start, start the test from the minimum pressure."

The equipment used in the materials laboratory is a machine similar to a large forging press.

Bursts of teeth-stinging sounds resounded in the laboratory.

After a while, the assistant took out the experimental samples from the equipment to check and test.

(End of this chapter)