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

Philadelphia.

As one of the eight Ivy League schools, the University of Pennsylvania's status and scientific research strength are unquestionable. It is also famous for the birth of the world's first electronic computer, ENIAC.

John chose to give his speech on the first anniversary of his inauguration here, which seemed to the teachers and students of the school... quite interesting.

For the American and American people in this world, 2017 was really extraordinary.

Two consecutive moon landings were carried out within 6 months, one of which was so thrilling that it almost became the aerospace disaster of the century.

The status of NACA has also risen in the fierce competition, and it has set a new record of funding.

The NACA budget for fiscal year 2017 plus special additional funds totaled more than 100 billion U.S. dollars, and last year's military expenditure was only 630 billion U.S. dollars. NASA's funding accounted for one-sixth of the military expenditure? !

Only the Apollo program period can compare with it. The abnormal space craze also greatly stimulated scientific research and the declining local manufacturing environment.

Although there are still minor violations such as exploding hydrogen bombs, and the world cannot yet be said to be prosperous, people, especially the elite and middle class, feel that it is not that bad, or even pretty good.

So their evaluation of John is at least no lower than that of Xiao Hei. According to the poll conducted the night before John's speech, 68% of people thought he was doing a "good job", 18% thought he was "average", and the rest That's the objection.

This is internal statistics that can be trusted. After reading it, the staff thought that it would not be difficult to be re-elected without any accident.

John stood on the podium with confidence and spent ten minutes greeting the attendees. After receiving an extremely enthusiastic response, he puffed up his chest and shouted the slogan of this speech:

"Fly to outer space, fly to Jupiter, fly to Saturn, fly to Neptune, and head towards the outer reaches of the solar system!"

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United Mining Headquarters.

The three experts on the first Tianmu-1 landing mission have returned to the ground through three transfers. While recuperating, they are also actively formulating follow-up plans for the mission.

Yang Xinjun's space cement team went back to the laboratory to carry out improvement plans, while lead nuclear expert Jamie rested for a few days at a place arranged by the embassy, ​​and then came to the United Mining Headquarters to communicate with colleagues who were still in Tiangong or the moon. technical details.

At this time, the base will also listen through the connection method to record or provide suggestions for modification.

"...There are some areas where the previous data need to be corrected. This investigation has changed our understanding of the structure of the lunar soil. It is seriously inappropriate to apply the ideal model..."

Although none of the secrets that can be communicated publicly are complex secrets, the conversations between Jamie and other nuclear experts are still confusing to outsiders, and only four or five people in the base can fully understand what they are saying.

Among them is the newly-minted A+ physicist Cheng Nankai. In addition to nuclear physics, he has also improved his understanding of particle physics and quantum mechanics. In his own words, he "sees the world from a new perspective."

This also means that he can participate in high-energy physics and microscopic gravity research. Now the A+ level scientists at the base who can participate in this research include Ye Changsi, Cheng Nankai, Wu Yunfeng from the Institute of High Energy, and two other new theoretical physicists at the base. Scientists Qiao Wen and Gao Xie, these five people will fully lead the next several cutting-edge science projects.

They carefully participated in and listened to the exchanges between the joint mining blasting team and concluded that except for some minor problems that did not affect the overall situation, the hydrogen bomb blasting plan was confirmed to be feasible.

Including Rosen, who has not completed the inspection mission, the investigation opinion of nuclear experts from the blasting team is that it will take about 20 to 40 days to complete the simulation and optimization of the supercomputer model, and then prepare for the test explosion verification of the first hydrogen bomb.

This progress makes Lin Ju quite satisfied. This means that if everything goes well, the first hydrogen bomb will be exploded on the moon in March and the first to use nuclear bombs on extraterrestrial bodies. United Mining will definitely become a legend.

"Lao Ye, are you sure you put it in the cave?"

He suddenly looked at Ye Changsi, who heard rumors yesterday when he was communicating with the Aviation Development Commission about the nuclear power transformation of aerospace aircraft: Someone suggested using the caves discovered by the previous crash of Artemis 2 to convert the eight residential buildings in Yushu Base. The cabin and the location of the Guanghan Palace base are placed in a safe cave.

The specific measure is to move all the living areas of the base underground and seal the top of the cave with only the entrance.

The main benefit of this is not to protect against meteorites - you will definitely not be able to prevent them if they hit them anyway. The ultimate goal is to protect against the effects of cosmic rays and nuclear explosion radiation.

A layer of barrier composed of lunar rock and soil can naturally weaken most of the radiation damage, and there is no need to worry about being destroyed. It is far more convenient than adding a protective layer to the cabin.

The radiation problem in outer space has always been a big trouble. For example, the Van Allen radiation belts exist around the earth. Some people question that one of the reasons why the moon landing was faked is that human spacecraft cannot withstand the super radiation of the Van Allen radiation belts. , astronauts would die if they walked through it.

Although the Apollo program and several lunar landing plans last year proved this to be a fallacy, in fact, several landing missions chose to pass through the weakest point of the Van Allen radiation belt, and no one really resisted the densest part. part.

You must know that the Van Allen radiation belts were discovered during the Apollo program. NACA was shocked when it observed them. It was thought that they were caused by the alliance's explosion of a large-yield hydrogen bomb in space, which shows that its power is average. .

However, the eight cabin sections of the Yushu base were not designed with these considerations in mind, because the 14th-level robots have not fully explored the structure and geology of the cave, otherwise it would be troublesome if it collapsed.

Now it seems that the internal structure of the cave has been clarified, so someone would put forward such an opinion.

"It may happen in the future, but the current plans remain unchanged."

Ye Changsi replied:

"The eight cabin sections of Yushu No. 1 Base are designed to withstand those radiation problems, and moving them to the cave for construction is a bit troublesome. Besides, it will affect too much time. Their opinions are similar."

"That's good...where's the aerospace plane? What's your attitude?"

When Lin Ju asked this time, Ye Changsi's face turned obviously bad:

“No, although I guaranteed that NPAE would be able to conduct pre-mass production prototype testing before March and the radiation content of the ejecta was within safety standards, they still said that the impact was not good.

They even said that it was difficult to determine whether the test flight of the XN90 would be approved. After all, pollutants would be discharged no matter what, and they said that we cannot set this precedent.

As for the aerospace aircraft, they will still be produced as planned. The military will not make any changes to the first four aircraft, and the nuclear power plan will not be considered until it is clear. "