Chapter 466: Moon Base (Monthly Pass Plus Update)
At the beginning, the reporters were still full of enthusiasm and listened to Lu Qiujian's speech with great interest, but the more they listened, the more they felt that what he just said was somewhat inconsistent with today's battle!
Although all of these projects are very lofty, whether it is the Shenzhou Project or the Beidou Project, these Huaguo have already started, and even if there is no Lu Qiujian, they will be carried out gradually according to the schedule, and the new Tianqin Project and Wukong Project are enough for ordinary scientists, but the sum of these two will not exceed one billion dollars, which seems to be a little too small!
One billion dollars is still small, not because they don't treat money as money, but the key is that the amount of funds announced by the Xihe Plan is too frightening, and their expectations for Lu Qiujian are too high! According to their thinking, since the youngest Nobel laureate in history has returned to China with such a high profile, how can they have something more exciting!
Lu Qiujian didn't let them wait too much, and soon finished introducing the projects mentioned earlier, and came to the finale; PPT turned the page again, and an antique picture appeared on the big screen, only to see Chang'e with a jade rabbit in her arms leaning on the window of a palace with carved beams and paintings, looking at Wu Gang who was sweating like rain under the laurel tree, and the five eye-catching big characters above the pattern were particularly eye-catching-Guanghan Palace Plan!
Seeing these five words, the reporters who were originally a little sleepy exploded, what does Guanghan Palace represent in the classical mythology of China is a self-evident thing, and now Lu Qiujian has come up with a plan named after this, is it to establish a permanent base on the moon? This is something that no one in the United States has done!
Fortunately, the reporters of Neon Kyodo News were deeply influenced by Chinese culture, and they quickly guessed the intention, while those reporters from Europe and the United States were forced to do so, what is so special about these five words? Why do Chinese reporters have such a big reaction? They hurriedly grabbed the Chinese reporters around them and asked.
However, Lu Qiujian did not let them wait long, and immediately turned to the next page, this time the pattern style changed from classical to science fiction, in the crater of the moon, a building full of science and technology was erected proudly. Astronauts wearing spacesuits emblazoned with the flag of China are busy inside and outside the building.
Some of them had just stepped off the ramp of the spacecraft, some were picking up a piece of lunar ore and studying it carefully, and some were carefully taking care of the thriving potatoes indoors, and were experimenting in the laboratory with various advanced instruments, and at this time, without Lu Qiujian speaking, those foreign reporters also understood the meaning of those five words, "Oh my God, isn't it enough for these Chinese to travel all over the world? Do they want the entire moon to become the territory of China?" An Associated Press reporter covered his forehead and let out a frustrated sigh.
"According to Article 5 of the Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, which entered into force in 1984, the Moon and its natural resources are the common heritage of mankind and may not be appropriated by any State on the basis of sovereignty claims or by exploitation, occupation or any other means;
"Come on! Whether it's NASA or the European Space Agency, although they have listed a series of lunar base plans, our government is frightened by the huge amount of money! The investment in this area is completely incomparable with that of the Chinese people! When the Chinese base is established. Our base may not even be finished with the drawings! What can we do to organize the Chinese at that time? Economic sanctions? Housewives who can't buy discounted goods at Christmas will let any president who makes that decision get out of the White House!" the Associated Press reporter shrugged and complained.
"More than 10 years have passed since NASA put forward Mendel's plan, and the moon base still exists only in the computers of NASA scientists! I don't think China has achieved its goal so quickly!" The Reuters reporter looked relaxed, in his opinion, since his former little brother and current big brother were unable to do it, how could the Chinese people possibly do it?
Mendel is the former head of the Houston Space Center in the United States, he proposed the Mendel plan to build a lunar base in the early 90s, and led the scientists of the United States to start a series of preparatory work, such as the famous "Biosphere 2" experiment is the precursor experiment of the plan, if the ecological balance can be maintained in a fully enclosed environment, then it is very beneficial for human beings to establish a permanent base on the moon.
Mendel's plan would take 100 years and hundreds of billions of dollars. According to the plan, now the United States should have begun to deliver heavy infrastructure equipment to the moon, but now there is not even a shadow of this matter, and it is obvious that they have been postponed indefinitely by the United States.
The commotion lasted for several minutes. Lu Qiujian didn't stop it, just watched them tightly on the stage, and waited for them to calm down again before continuing to give his speech, "The Guanghan Palace Project is expected to take 30 to 50 years. "He started by cutting Mendel's plan by more than half. "There are four steps, the first phase is from now until 2012, in which we will launch artificial satellites to survey the moon. The best construction site was selected and the design was prepared based on the data fed back from the satellite. ”
"In the second stage, we will launch a lunar spacecraft to carry astronauts and construction equipment to the moon, and conduct field surveys at the previously selected sites to prepare for pre-construction; at the same time, on Earth, we will manufacture building components that can meet the needs of the base based on the data fed back, including a gravity capsule to maintain astronauts on the moon, a space plant cultivation room and other living places, a laboratory for scientific research, and a small fully automated factory for mining and processing lunar resources."
"In the third phase, we will transport these fabricated building components to the moon, and let astronauts and robots assemble these components to build a lunar base that can meet basic needs, and carry out a series of scientific research work, and at the same time prepare for the expansion of the base in the later stage!"
"In the fourth stage, based on the existing base, the minerals in the lunar rocks will be collected to produce oxygen, metals and other raw materials needed to maintain the survival of astronauts and expand the base, and expand the scale of the base, so that more astronauts can start a new life and scientific research on the moon."
At this time, the venue was silent, and all the reporters were shocked by the magnificent picture displayed by Lu Qiujian on the big screen! )
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