Chapter 92 Intrigue and deception
Donuts are a new generation of famous electronic pets. Runmei is famous on the Internet for its delicious donuts.

The older generation of Runren Ding councillors can still negotiate terms and get knives from testing agencies. When the donuts are Runmei, they are directly transported to the hibernation center by pickup trucks.

The angry donuts blasted the Americans on Twitter for being unethical:

"Is America sick? If you don't go to the hibernation center, you will be locked up forever. Illegal immigrants are not human beings, right?"

“Why the hell won’t you let us out? We have to find a job before we can go out. If we don’t find a job, we have to hibernate forever?
Does anyone know if my body will be damaged? Will there be any side effects from repeated hibernation within a month? "

“Why do I feel like something is wrong with this style of painting? Some illegal Mexican immigrants in the surrounding area have begun to think this is a good thing.

Here they have food and clothes, they feel refreshed after waking up from hibernation, and they have electronic devices to play with. They feel this is simply paradise and don't even want to look for jobs anymore.

No, I have to leave. I feel like human hibernation could be addictive!"

"Old Mo is really disgusting. He takes advantage of your hibernation to disgust you!"

In the end, Donut couldn't escape the fate of being crushed. The only difference was whether he was detained by the Immigration Bureau or in a human hibernation center.

The technology is spreading quickly across America, with very different results in Los Angeles and Austin.

Because it involves putting illegal immigrants into hibernation, even though their consent has been obtained on the surface, it still has a somewhat brutal connotation.

In addition, this is an unproven technology, and human rights organizations believe that it violates the human rights of illegal immigrants, sparking considerable protests. Therefore, it is not easy to promote it on a large scale.

But the situation in Austin is completely different. They found that with human hibernation, the cost of managing illegal immigrants was greatly reduced.

Originally, they would keep these illegal immigrants in the Immigration Bureau for a maximum of half a year before releasing them. After all, they were not detained. These people needed food, drink, defecation, urination and space to move around, and they needed someone to manage them.

Through human hibernation, management costs are directly reduced by half.

The Governor of Texas publicly announced in an interview that he would expand the scale of the human hibernation center. His explanation for this was:

“We cannot determine the mental and physical state of every illegal immigrant, and our medical system is understaffed to provide every illegal immigrant with complete treatment.

Human hibernation is a good technology. After receiving the treatment, they can enter a new life with a new look and a peaceful mind. "

The red states thought, if I can’t move the border wall, I can move against the illegal immigrants pouring in.

Treating the symptoms but not the root cause is still a treatment. Once the donkey party steps down, we will have treated both the symptoms and the root cause.

The human body's hibernation has opened a curtain on the earth, and the American social division and the wrestling between donkeys and elephants have opened a curtain on its impact on society.

In the future, human hibernation will not be abused like it is in modern time and space. It can only be used for space travel and to extend the life of a few people.

At that time, there will be no need to rely on human hibernation technology to treat diseases.

"Wright, Stanford would like to invite you to serve as an honorary professor and teach an introduction to human hibernation technology.

Are you interested?" Levitt said.

As Chen Yuanguang's mentor, earliest partner, and the one who was fleeced, Chen Yuanguang's academic cooperation with Levitt was even more than that with his nominal mentor, Mongi Bawindi.

Including the papers that simulated and predicted the evolutionary path of viruses during the epidemic, the names of Chen Yuanguang and Levitt were also attributed to them, so much so that many people in the academic community have always believed that Levitt was Chen Yuanguang's mentor.

Chen Yuanguang looked at Levitt and shook his head helplessly: “You know, human hibernation technology is too sensitive.

There was no way I was going to go to America.

You can come to Fudan to teach, but it is unlikely that I will go to Stanford.

If I could go to America, then when SpaceX helps me launch a space probe, I would be there myself instead of staying in the office and watching the Zoom live broadcast that Musk arranged for me. "

At this time, Levitt had already become a professor at Fudan University, and he was the kind of professor who could really teach classes, not just a purely honorary one.

Levitt initially thought that this was because China did not allow him to go. Later, he thought about it again and realized that if China did not allow him to go, his life would be in danger if he went. Then, like Chen Yuanguang, he shook his head helplessly.

As a person born in the 40s, he is well aware of how rare it is to have a planet with peace as the main theme in the past thirty years, how fierce the struggles were in the world before that, and how the threat of potential war affected everyone.

Now this trend is rising again, preventing such an outstanding scientist as Chen Yuanguang from setting foot on American soil. Levitt couldn't help but sigh that time is a cycle.

“I’ll help you reject it.

Now there are only two of us, and we are in your office, Yuanguang, will human hibernation technology have any side effects?

You think this is to satisfy an old man's curiosity." Levitt said, calling Chen Yuanguang by his Chinese name.

Chen Yuanguang knew that Levitt was a smart man, and even if he knew there was a problem, he would not say anything. Because human hibernation is a consensus between the Donkey and the Elephant parties, his speaking out would have no effect at all.

As for why he wanted to know, after thinking about it carefully, Chen Yuanguang didn't think it was really out of curiosity, but if there were side effects or potential harms, he would oppose it in his own way.

His words are useless, but he can mobilize the power of the scientific community.

If Chen Yuanguang said that human hibernation technology has side effects, Levitt could use Chen Yuanguang's words to reversely prove what the side effects are, and then ask the scientific community to join forces to put pressure on America to conduct a comprehensive inspection of human hibernation technology.

Chen Yuanguang thought to himself: An old fox is still an old fox.

Then he remained calm on the surface: "There are no immediate or short-term observable side effects.

You can go and look at the experimental data. Our experimental data will be published quarterly.

If you want to see our internal experimental data, I can show you the latest one.

As for my personal feeling, I also think there are no side effects.”

Levitt said, “What about habitual hibernation and addiction?”

The former means that after multiple hibernations, the human body will develop a habit of hibernation, and even if no hibernation equipment is used in the future, it will involuntarily enter a hibernation state.

Chen Yuanguang denied: "How can a few dozen hibernations change the habits that people have developed over tens of thousands of years?

Addiction is even more ridiculous. Can anyone be addicted to sleeping? "

After Guangjia Technology went public, Chen Yuanguang felt like he had unlocked an achievement. If there was a badge system, he should have obtained the badge of a listed company.

As Guangjia Technology performed rapidly in the capital market, state-owned assets from all over the country became more confident in Guangjia Aerospace. Even if Chen Yuanguang wanted to cooperate with SpaceX to launch probes and related satellites, Shenhai helped him to block it.

"We have a lot of work to do right now. This is just the first round of probes. The next round of satellites will come after this round of probes is completed.

We are currently modifying the gamma-ray spectrometer and we will design a new generation of gamma-ray spectrometer.

Compared with the traditional method of using low-resolution spectrometers, which takes months and a lot of computing resources to draw a map of the elemental composition of the surface of a large celestial body from orbit, gamma rays are more in line with the needs of asteroid mining. The opportunity for asteroid mining is fleeting, its orbit is unpredictable, and the time it appears in a suitable mining orbit is very limited.

We need to quickly determine whether it is worth mining and whether we can make a profit or at least break even after a mining trip.

The time period of several months for the surface element composition map is too long and we cannot tolerate it. "Chen Yuanguang was having a remote video conference with Musk.

Musk is obviously very interested in asteroid mining and he got up at 4:30 in the morning to attend this meeting with Chen Yuanguang.

He was very curious about Chen Yuanguang's plan, whether he was just talking for fun or he really intended to do it.

In the short term, the economic benefits of asteroid mining are much higher than going to Mars.

Only when asteroid mining is truly realized can Musk see the hope of transforming Mars and building a Martian city in his lifetime.

Chen Yuanguang continued: "As you know, all objects in the solar system are constantly bombarded by cosmic rays.

These high-energy particles from deep space hit the exposed surface of the asteroid at great speeds.

This smashes the atoms in the top layer and produces a shower of secondary particles including neutrons.

The neutrons then collide repeatedly with atoms in the material, producing gamma rays in the process.

We use gamma-ray detectors to record the intensity and wavelength of gamma rays coming from the asteroid's surface.

By analyzing this spectrum, it is possible to determine the concentrations of many important rock-forming elements, including oxygen, magnesium, silicon and iron, not to mention precious metals such as gold.”

Chen Yuanguang’s idea is very clear, or rather, the idea of ​​early human asteroid mining in the future is very clear.

They are all caused by stepping into one pit after another.

Musk listened very carefully. Just from this idea, it can be seen that Chen Yuanguang was not joking.

The state you are actually going to do is different from the state you are going to run away with the money. It is easy for geniuses to accumulate knowledge, but it is difficult to fake the mental state when talking about this matter.

Musk could feel the passion Chen Yuanguang expressed when he talked about his plan even through the screen.

Musk asked curiously: "That's right, the question is how to detect gamma rays and confirm that they are indeed coming from the corresponding asteroid?"

Musk went on to say: "Previously, to detect gamma rays, you needed high-purity germanium, which requires cryogenic cooling and is very large, so it cannot be used on satellites at all.

Even the high-purity germanium needed for use on a robotic lander is not possible.”

Chen Yuanguang said: "This requires the use of a new material, and the specific new material is a trade secret."

Musk immediately changed the subject because he knew that continuing this topic would only arouse the other party's vigilance. Musk felt that there was still a long time for cooperation.

Since you want to use SpaceX's equipment, the launch of your new generation of gamma-ray detectors will have to rely on SpaceX.

Chen Yuanguang felt that Musk’s curiosity was a little too strong, and that he had to develop reusable rockets as soon as possible. The only way was to master this technology in his own hands.

The cooperation between the two parties is full of ulterior motives.

After finishing the remote video conference with Musk and watching the Falcon 9 successfully fly into the preset orbit, he turned off his computer and prepared to have breakfast.

"How is it?" Lin Jia was already waiting for him at the dining table, which was filled with bread, salad, fried eggs and sausages.

Because of the special nature of their work, they did not hire a nanny, and there were also special people who came to their home regularly to check for some monitoring devices.

Chen Yuanguang said: "It went smoothly and we have entered the preset orbit. We will enter the next orbit after the next round of level changes.

There shouldn’t be any problem.”

Lin Jia gritted his teeth and said, "It's still too expensive. One shot costs 30 million US dollars."

According to data officially released by SpaceX, each launch of Falcon 9 to low-Earth orbit costs US$6200 million, which is the price of a new rocket.

That means the first launch of the rocket costs $6200 million.

But the Falcon 9 is recoverable.

The price of the rocket for the second launch will be reduced to 5000 million US dollars, and SpaceX has a bunch of rockets that have been launched more than 10 times.

They are preparing to hit Gaussian orbit and have to fully load the Falcon 9, so the price will be more expensive than a recoverable one.

The Gaussian orbit is an elliptical orbit in which the Earth is less than 1000 kilometers from its perigee and 36000 kilometers from its apogee.

At the same time, after acceleration, it can reach geostationary orbit.

In other words, through Falcon 9, the probe can be sent to a farther place to detect more accurate data.

If we cooperate with China Aerospace Corporation and adopt the Long March series of rockets, the first thing we have to consider is the price. The quoted price of the Long March B is about 4000 million US dollars, which is a bit expensive, but it’s okay because it can be settled in RMB.

The second and more fatal point is the load. The load of the Long March B is 5.5 tons, which cannot reach the target value of light armor aerospace.

Another reason is that Chen Yuanguang hopes to obtain some launch data of Falcon 9, and the detector they carry can capture data from Falcon 9.

Relying on future technology, it is not impossible to make a reusable rocket that is much better than Falcon 9.

The main thing is that Chen Yuanguang needs to grasp the right degree and use the technology that is acceptable in this era to achieve the greatest effect.

Instead of coming up with some black technology that no one can understand and then causing unnecessary trouble.

You can take the lead, but the lead is limited.

Others' payloads are less than 10 tons, but you can create a starship with a payload of 300 tons, which is all within the normal range. However, if you use a curvature engine to create a payload of 3000 tons, that is not normal.

“There’s nothing we can do about it. Spaceflight is expensive, otherwise how could the starting budget be $20 billion?

Two billion dollars is not a small number.

Now, $20 billion is a bit tight.”

Chen Yuanguang felt a little regretful. If he had known that asking for money was so easy, he should have asked for more.

Lin Jia asked, "Are you sure?
If it doesn’t work, it will be difficult to attract subsequent investment.”

Chen Yuanguang said: "I am confident, but even if it doesn't succeed, it is not impossible for me to invest money later."

(End of this chapter)