I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

"Throughout the 20th century, we didn't see much of you, but now it's completely reversed."

In the auditorium, after hearing Bob Rosser's emotion, Wu Yunfeng kindly reminded:

"It's not that there aren't any. There are many other people like Frank Young over there who have left their names, but it's really relatively few."

Bob: "You are really... amazing. I know a lot about this and know what a huge step this is. Now I fully believe in your ability to turn TEPA into a reality. Fermilab will definitely contribute to it." This support goes above and beyond!”

"..."

Ever since Ye Changsi announced the successful first flight of "Teng Yun", the afternoon agenda was completely disrupted. Everyone wanted to hear what the aerospace plane was about.

So Ye Changsi could only explain based on some information pictures on his mobile phone. Tengyun was different from Xuehu. Although the technical level was higher, it was a public project. It was beneficial to disclose some content appropriately.

When the specific appearance and power structure of Tengyun were revealed, the audience of tens of thousands of people marveled and were shocked by the sophistication and boldness of its design.

Although the Institute of High Energy Physics has many capable people, its achievements are limited after all. Now the Spaceport has helped them regain the initiative, allowing everyone to clearly understand China's technological strength, and no longer have the slightest contempt as before.

For three hours in the afternoon, the topic went off topic and became aerospace related. When some scientists heard "a mode of transportation as cheap as airplanes", they even proposed the concept of building physical experimental facilities in space, which immediately attracted a lot of supporters. Then all kinds of wild ideas popped up, and the whole afternoon went by like this.

By the time they walked out of the venue still unfinished, Teng Yun had passed over A Mei for the second time.

…

presidential palace.

When Sullivan opened the door to the President's Office, he felt a strange silence. There were seven or eight people standing around the table, their heads lowered and doing nothing.

John, who had been looking down at the fax, raised his head and said calmly:

"Go get McMaster and Kelly and ask them to come here."

"They're on their way sir."

John nodded and said nothing more, then turned the swivel chair 90 degrees and looked at the corner with empty eyes.

After maybe a few minutes, there were hurried footsteps outside, and McMaster and Kelly walked in one after the other.

There was a breathless pressure in the entire office, so that there was no sound in the surrounding air. McMaster felt that his breathing was as loud as a vacuum cleaner.

"president……"

"Go and close the door."

John interrupted him and waited until the heavy solid wood door was closed before taking a deep breath, holding the fax document with trembling hands and suddenly smashing it to the ground.

The pieces of paper fell messily onto the expensive carpet, making a rustling sound.

"Gentlemen, gentlemen, do you know what happened?!"

John's voice was not very loud, but almost every letter was squeezed out from between the teeth with the owner's dissatisfaction, and the muscles on his face became distorted as a result.

"Raymond, tell me why we didn't receive any news."

McMaster took a step forward and explained awkwardly:

"Well... they have paid a lot of attention to the confidentiality of spaceflight since 2015, and 'Tengyun' itself is a very high-level secret project. We have no reliable channels other than public information."

"Yes, but if you look at their reports, 26 top scientific research institutes and more than 700 companies participated, more than half of which were private companies. This was not many years ago. Didn't you find any abnormalities? "

John questioned everyone present, and even doubted whether the person he took over was a fake Ami.

The intelligence was unreliable and the technology was unreliable. He didn't feel the two biggest advantages at all.

He even suspected that he was only able to come up because everyone else saw that this was a mess, and he deliberately chose an inexperienced person to shirk responsibility!

The shadow brought by the "thunderstorm" is still hovering over the Western Pacific, and now "Tengyun" is coming again. I don't think they will launch another rocket into space with a weight comparable to the Long Beach-class nuclear-powered cruiser soon. What else can’t Chinese people do? !

On the other hand, not only did NACA almost miss the mark when it landed on the moon, but now it has done almost nothing and is being further and further left behind by its opponents. Could it be that all the funds that are several times the opponent's are being fed to the dog?

"Fred, you are in charge of the Air Force, tell me whether there are any aliens in Area 51."

"Uh... Sir, this really doesn't exist. If you really don't believe it, you can go and visit it yourself."

"very good."

John glanced around the crowd:

"Then please tell me, how should we deal with the aliens who support them alone?"

"..."

Seeing that no one spoke, John simply lowered his head and began to collect the scattered pieces of paper. Others immediately helped him sort them out, and finally handed them into his hands.

"Look... FATS, our nuclear-powered space shuttle, is expected to make its first flight in March next year. The good news is that Boeing has restored the manufacturing capacity of the STS launch system. It can support both Artemis 3 and Endeavor next year. No., that’s good;

Why haven't MSP, air-launched small space shuttles started testing yet? Haven’t several units of Dream Chaser been produced?

Look again, this is NOVA. The Saturn VII rocket has nothing yet. The starship is preparing for its third flight. Well, we all know that the Xinyuan III has already flown and is about to retire.

…”

John carefully counted the projects that were derived from the fight, and finally found that the fastest among them still needed less than half a year, and the slowest had not even started design design, and it was simply behind to a terrible point.

While they are catching up, their opponents are still moving forward faster and faster, and the gap will only get wider if this continues.

This result made others even more speechless. Although this is true, it is still difficult to accept it.

At this time, Sullivan added fuel to the fire:

"These are just scientific and technological achievements. Now they have to win over people's hearts. Although super accelerators cost a lot of money, the cost for them is not as high as they imagined, and it is not even as high as the LHC.

Scientists from all over the world support them regardless of nationality. This is a very dangerous signal, and top talents will slowly be lost in the future.

While cutting-edge physics is useless now, the scientists who study them are truly priceless. "

This conclusion touches on Aramco’s greatest advantage: the gathering of cutting-edge talents.

Not only because of the infrastructure, but also because of the large number of cutting-edge scientists. If they are shaken, it will be a devastating blow.

"Then we will also build an accelerator, a bigger and better one. We can also involve Europe, and we will definitely be able to make it bigger than the Chinese!"

McMaster said something, and then immediately attracted ridicule:

"The federal finances are not unlimited! Do you want the federal government to go bankrupt?"

"Okay, calm down gentlemen."

John stopped a few people who were threatening to explode and knocked on the oak table solemnly:

"We will not give up, we will not accept such insults, now has reached the most dangerous moment, we have to tell the people, tell the members, let democracy make the decision!"