Chapter 347: Light Armor Space Station Sets Sail

Buffett and Bill Gates, one is a representative of Wall Street and the other is a representative of Silicon Valley. Although they are older, their influence will only be stronger than when they were young.

Their statements prompted the American elite to further pursue the Wright Health Center. A large number of Silicon Valley stars who became rich in the 90s came out to express their interest in the Wright Health Center.

The interests of the upper and lower classes have always been in conflict. The lower-class people can only fend for themselves on the streets, and the middle class can only live in community health care centers at best, which have nothing but a bed.

You rich people are able to enjoy such a favorable environment.

This sense of class division caused a lot of arguments on Twitter.

However, in this round of confrontation, emotional abuse rarely spread, but instead a large number of conspiracy theory-related tweets were flying around.

"What Wright prepared for them was not a health care center, but a coffin. The rich people could have lived another ten years, but after entering Wright's health care center, they may only live for one year. Wright will greatly shorten the lifespan of these rich people through hibernation equipment.

Then send them to the space cemetery prepared for them.

Otherwise, you would have to live ten years before buying Wright's space cemetery. Wright only made one deal every ten years, but now Wright can make one deal every year.

As for the cost, the life span of the rich is the cost. The Wright and Gates conspiracy group has gained a lot of benefits and reduced the population of the earth. This is part of Gates' population removal plan. "

“Why did the robot disconnect from the Internet? I seriously suspect that the robot inside Guangjia Aerospace has lost control. After losing control, the robot indiscriminately attacked humans, causing a large number of casualties.

However, this news was suppressed by China and not reported.

What are the fundamental demands of all human beings? Sex and violence. Robots cannot do the former yet. So what will HBM robots, which are cultivated with human brain waves, pursue? Naturally, violence.

It is precisely because of the loss of control of the networked robots that caused casualties that the robots in the health care center were disconnected from the Internet this time. But don’t think that this will make you safe. The underlying logic of these robots cultivated with brain waves contains violence. Sooner or later, they will lose control in the health care center. "

This is very contradictory. They hate the fact that the rich can enjoy extraordinary treatment, but in conspiracy theories they describe the Wright Health Care Center as being fraught with danger. The two concepts are logically opposite, but they appear so reasonably in the same group of people.

Because the White House allowed the entry of new energy vehicles from the East, the owner of the White House is no longer a god in the eyes of the rednecks. In the eyes of the rednecks, he has failed to resist the transformation of the deep government in Washington and has turned from a dragon slayer into a dragon.

This is also a fatal blow to the Democratic Party. If they can't get the votes of the rednecks, are they going to compete with the Democratic Party for the votes of illegal immigrants? They don't even look in the mirror to see how good they are. In terms of mobilization ability, they are far behind the Democratic Party.

Musk also retweeted the conspiracy theory and wrote: "Very interesting point of view, Hollywood can make it into a science fiction movie like the Machine Crisis."

Musk is already thinking about how to leave this White House.

Because the underlying logic of these operations by the White House is for the good of America. If it does not compromise with the East, the dollar will not be stable. If the dollar is not stable, then everything will be over.

But from an operational perspective, that would be tantamount to offending all of one's base.

I knew you were idealistic, but I didn't expect you to be so idealistic.

For the sake of America, he sacrificed all his own interests. Not only did he gain nothing and lose his base, but he also sacrificed the political life of his successor.

If the strike protest in Detroit gets any bigger, the entire MAGA will be finished next year, and the rednecks will need to wait for the next appealing slogan.

Musk felt very disillusioned. It turned out that there really was such a person in Washington. He wanted to sit on the fence, but if he failed, he would have to suffer the consequences.

When the time comes next year, I won't be liquidated, but SpaceX will definitely be finished.

Once the Donkey Party comes to power, they will definitely find ways to target SpaceX.

It was mentioned earlier that Blue Origin had received a lunar landing order from NASA, but the full details were not given at the time.

How did this order come about? It was forced upon Bezos by the Democrats.

In 21 years, NASA held an interstellar spacecraft bidding, and this time the spacecraft to be built was to go to the moon.

The companies that participated in the bidding included Blue Origin and SpaceX, and in the end SpaceX won the bid because anyone with normal intelligence could tell which of the two companies was more likely to build a spacecraft to the moon.

Then a magical operation happened. The Senate felt that it was the Senate, not NASA, and we needed double insurance and had to find another company to build a spacecraft to the moon. One company was not enough.

The reason is impeccable, and there's nothing wrong with double insurance, just in case SpaceX fails.

In 21 years, the Democratic Party has controlled both the House and Senate and the White House, and they can do whatever they want.

Maria Cantwell, a senator from the Democratic Party, has introduced a bill called the Endless Border Act.

Just hearing the name will definitely make you confused. What the hell? Is America going to expand its borders indefinitely?
No, this bill is in the field of scientific and technological innovation. Its core can be simply summarized in one sentence: finances should support basic research in key technology areas to strengthen America's leadership in key technologies, as well as support the commercialization of these technologies in America.

The bill itself is very grand and fully justified. The financial support included in this bill means that NASA must simultaneously issue an order to go to the moon to Blue Origin.

You should know that when bidding, Blue Origin's bid was twice that of SpaceX.

Of course, in the end the bill was passed, and NASA had no money, so it didn't get twice as much. SpaceX got $30 billion, and Blue Origin got $34 billion, which was slightly higher.

Since the Democratic Party has been so good to Blue Origin, Bezos naturally reciprocated the favor and made a one-time donation of 24 million US dollars to the Democratic Party in 1000 years. Four years ago, the donation was in the millions.

Amazon employees made political donations through committees, 87% of which went to the Donkey Party and only 13% to the Elephant Party.

Now the White House has offended all of its supporters.

Originally, the White House wanted to find an excuse. Although we allowed Dongda's new energy vehicles to enter the American market, we also allowed them to build factories in America, and we created hundreds of thousands of jobs.

This could be a reason, but after Lao Wang’s recording was exposed, everything was over.

As the Democratic Party is destined to come to power next year, it is natural that SpaceX will be targeted.

Musk just had one feeling: he didn't gain anything from this speculation.

As soon as the Chinese New Year is over, Guangjia Aerospace will begin its intensive launches this year.

After the successful test launch of the composite-powered rocket, they will begin intensive launches of space stations this year.

The construction of a space station is not something that can be accomplished overnight. It doesn't mean that I can just pack it up and launch the entire thing at once.

Like the Tiangong, the core module came first, and only after the key technologies of the core module were tested and perfected, the experimental module was built.

"The design of our Guangjia space station is more standardized than Tiangong, and more precisely, more daring. It is a bit like the concept of stacking building blocks," said Chen Yuanguang, making a gesture of building blocks. Next to him were a group of scientists and officials from the European space industry.

After the University of Tokyo and Europe reached a package of cooperation agreements, everyone wanted to see the rocket launch of Guangjia Aerospace.

France bought a space station module from Guangjia Aerospace three years ago. If France bought it, it was equivalent to me buying it. Other European countries thought so too.

So this time we came to visit in groups.

If the launch of the core module goes smoothly, it is expected that the French module will be launched by the middle of this year.

This is very important to France.

This means that they are the only two countries in the world with two space stations, the first being China and the second being France.

Although it is not wholly owned, a stake in it is also impressive.

France hopes that Guangjia Aerospace will send its module to the International Space Station before it is retired.

By then, I can brag about it in various international occasions.

I have two space stations in the sky, did you know?

"I know about this plan. In 1973, America had a Skylab space station plan.

At that time, I was still working at NASA and I participated in this project. At first, we hoped that each basic module would have 6 docking points, which would be a bit like the six faces of a cube. Each module would have 6 docking points, so that the space station built in this way could be infinitely expanded.

Of these six docking points, five can be expanded infinitely, and one is permanently connected to the airlock.

As Skylab expanded beyond its original scope, it transformed from a laboratory into a spaceport.

It later failed a feasibility test because the orbit of the space station would face atmospheric resistance.

There is still a thin atmosphere where it is located, and the space station needs array wings to minimize air resistance.

In the past, the thrust of the Hall engine was not as great as it is now, so we needed the support of the array wing. "

The translator next to me was sweating profusely. No matter how professional the translator is and how comprehensive the preparation is, he would still be confused when it comes to these professional terms from fifty years ago.

What the heck is a formation wing?

At times like this, the advantage of Chinese comes into play. You can more or less guess the general idea, but you really can't guess what the professional vocabulary means.

“Each of our modules will be equipped with a small Hall engine to combat air resistance.

At the edge of the space station module is a dedicated compartment responsible for storing solar energy. In order to ensure the scalability of the space station, we will not use solar panels to obtain electricity.

In the long-term plan, we are more inclined to build a large number of solar panels on the surface of the moon, store energy through the moon, and then return the batteries charged on the moon to our space station.

Our ultimate goal is to enable the space station to achieve a balance of water, energy and air without the need for supplies from Earth.

The solar energy on the moon will also be used to decompose the water on the lunar surface into hydrogen and oxygen, and the oxygen will also be transported back to the space station from the moon." Chen Yuanguang said.

The French officials and scientists present had smiles on their faces. We also have a share in this space station, and they were so proud that they were about to overflow.

Scientists from other countries felt a little jealous, but it was okay because they knew they would be able to use it in the future. After all, Europe is a whole.

Sooner or later, we will get the equipment purchased by France.

On the contrary, officials from other countries, especially those from the European Space Agency, are very unhappy. What makes them unhappy is that the European Space Agency has made things difficult for France in the past, and France will return the favor in the future with equal or even higher standards.

Another gray-haired scientist said with emotion: “It’s great to be young. This reminds me of the Freedom Space Station Project.

That was the predecessor of the International Space Station, and at the time only America and part of Europe were involved in the project.

We had the same ambitions back then, and the plan for Freedom Station was to build a space shipyard.

The short-term plan at that time was to build a spacecraft for landing on the moon on the Freedom Space Station, and the long-term plan was to build a spacecraft for launching to Mars and a Mars transport vehicle on the Freedom Space Station.

(The total cost of the Mars project is 5000 billion US dollars, and the Freedom Space Station is an important transit station)

Although the Freedom Space Station was part of Reagan's Star Wars, it disappeared with the collapse of the First Big Thing.

However, the scientists who were responsible for the entire project set it up according to a real and feasible plan.

The design and feasibility study alone took more than half a year, and the entire plan is expected to cost $5000 billion and take to years. The American Academy of Sciences also approved the entire project and deemed it completely feasible.

At that time, the White House strongly opposed it, believing it was too expensive. What was the concept of 80 billion US dollars in the 250s? Even if it was just a budget, spending billion a year was an astronomical figure.

Due to the collective opposition of Congress, the entire plan became temporary. In 90, the Augustine Commission was established to coordinate space work. It believed that going to Mars was necessary, but it was not a short-term goal.

After the collapse of the Russian Federation in 1992, the entire plan was completely abolished and Dan Goldin became the new head of NASA. During his tenure, all recent human exploration beyond the Earth's orbit was abandoned, the Freedom Space Station project was cancelled, and the International Space Station project was not started until 98.

As a scientist who has experienced that era, I can only express my envy for the development of China's aerospace industry in recent years.

"In theory, the space station could be expanded to several thousand and still function normally.

But the more modules a station has, the more complex it becomes, and the less secure it becomes. Every extra airlock connection, extra electrical system, and extra pressurized volume is an additional point of failure.

If its dimensions are significantly stretched, reinforcement structures will need to be added to resist the increased gravity gradient torque at the ends.

Technically, each end of the station is in slightly different orbits, which puts constant stress on its trusses. Depending on how far additional modules are chained together, further reinforcements may be needed to relieve stress on the connections between modules.

Then the larger the space station, the more people there are, which also means that the corresponding life support system has higher requirements.

Dr. Wright, what does Light Armor Aerospace think about this?"

(End of this chapter)