"It can't be!"

With a critical mentality, Fred clicked on the video called [Asteroid Mining Record] on the official website of Star Ring Trade, and his expression gradually changed from disdain to suspicion, and then from disdain to shock. When he saw www.biquge.info two robotic arms pop out two laser knife-like blades, his heart suddenly contracted suddenly.

And then, there was the exclamation of "This can't be!" earlier.

The video continues to show.

The two blades of light staggered, cutting two holes in the ore body without hindrance, and then the tool turned into a hammer, and the large piece of ore was peeled off the asteroid in three strokes and five by two. The mechanical hammer hammered on the ore body, and at the same time, it also "knocked" in his heart, and the technical strength shown by Future Mining completely shattered the doubt and disdain in his heart.

He is the editor-in-chief of the technology section of The New York Times, and in recent years, he has summed up a pattern, that is, compared with Apple's and Microsoft's product launches, readers seem to be more and more keen to understand what new things the Future People Group has come up with.

Since NASA announced that the ring trade dragged the Bennu asteroid to Earth-Moon orbit, he has published more than a dozen articles in a row to follow up on it.

"Who gave the madmen on the other side of the Pacific the power to drag three billion tons of explosives near our homes?"

"Technology must be restricted, and unrestrained technology will only hasten our destruction! This time it was three billion tons of explosives, but what about next time? Ten billion tons? God will not be able to save us then! We will be like the dinosaurs, extinct in the hard landing of an asteroid!"

As the editor-in-chief of the science and technology edition, it seems that there is something wrong with his ass when he says these words. But as an editor-in-chief who climbed up from a journalist, he knew exactly what a journalist should say. The seriousness and rigor of the news? No, no, no, it was the old imperial calendar of the last century. News without gimmicks has no future!

Therefore, he chose to go against the mainstream society.

At the same time, he also believes that he has an obligation to stand up and remind Americans who blindly pursue futuristic technology to be rational with the man who is constantly expanding.

Because of his spicy rhetoric and controversial speeches, he was even invited as a guest on a well-known American talk show and appeared on the TV show as the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times.

On his computer, a document criticizing the Ring Trade for dragging asteroids to the Earth-Moon system has been redacted, and will be published when he can bring it back to the Society. For this document, he traveled almost all over Washington state's colleges and universities, and even flew to Massachusetts, where he found astronomical experts who taught at Harvard University to prove that mining on the Bennu asteroid was impractical and dangerous.

He was confident in the report.

Because the Harvard professor patted his chest and assured him that even the world's top technology would bring back a few mineral samples from the Bennu asteroid at most. Transporting ore back and forth from 400,000 kilometers away consumes fuel that is several times more expensive than the ore collected.

It turned out that the professor had been in the lab for too long and could no longer keep up with the times.

And the video released by Transwarp Trade simply swelled Fred's face.

No way?

Transwarp Trade told him with practical actions what it means to make the impossible possible.

Wordlessly, Fred rubbed his sore brow.

"Fake, what have I been doing in the past half a month......

He put too much effort into this report. However, if it is published, it is simply sticking your face over and making people beat it again.

But if you just give up......

When he finally made the decision to abandon the report, he felt like his heart was bleeding.

……

Huaguo, Shangjing City.

In the space technology laboratory of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, an old professor with gray hair is meticulously staring at the images on the computer screen, occasionally amazed. Standing behind him was an old man with a straight waist and a dignified face, as well as a middle-aged man with a Chinese face.

The old man's name is Liu Zhusheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Some time ago, he had just returned from Koro Island, and before he had rested for two or three days, the old leader found him and handed him a video file. The footage in the video is a working video of Transwarp Trade's newest spacecraft, the Electric Ray P-1. The country was very interested in the engine used by the electric ray P-1 and the "laser knife" that cut through the ore body, so it found him, who is the most prestigious in the field of aerospace in China, and hoped that he could carefully figure it out and see if he could see what clues could be seen from the video.

watched the video more than a dozen times, and finally when he watched it for the twentieth time, Academician Liu sighed and forked off the video.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man standing behind him couldn't wait to ask.

"How's it going? Academician Liu, do you see something?"

Liu Zhusheng glanced at him, picked up the teacup next to him, moistened his throat, and said unhurriedly.

"If I'm not mistaken, their engines are electric propulsion. ”

The middle-aged man's expression was slightly moved, and he was about to say something, but Academician Liu slowly spoke before him.

"I know what you want to say, it's nothing more than that it's impossible, electric rockets have more than an order of magnitude less thrust than chemical rockets. ”

"But I'm going to tell you right now that the specific impulse of an electromagnetic propulsion system is much higher than that of a chemical fuel propulsion system. Using the principle of electromagnetic acceleration, it is theoretically possible to obtain an exhaust velocity that is 1~2 orders of magnitude higher than that of chemical fuels. I don't know what the spacecraft of the future will look like, but I'm sure it's impossible for the spacecraft of the future to be strapped to bundles of fuel canisters and waste a lot of valuable fuel on accelerating the fuel itself. ”

"It's impossible to say that we can't do it with our technology. ”

Academician Liu's words left the middle-aged man speechless.

As the person in charge of Huaguo Aerospace Science and Technology Group, only this old man who designed the Shenzhou series dared to talk to himself like this, and he was convinced. Although his administrative level is much higher than his, in terms of importance to the country, ten of him is not as good as an academician with real skills.

At this time, the old man, who had been standing there without saying a word, slowly spoke.

"What about the laser knife that cuts through minerals?"

"That's not a laser knife," Academician Liu shook his head, "Although it's not something in my field, I also know a little." That thing, presumably ion jet technology. By spraying a jet of ions at a temperature of tens of thousands of degrees, not to mention the ore body, even a piece of depleted uranium steel is placed there, and it has to be poked out. ”

The old man's face changed slightly, and the shock on the middle-aged man's face became even more obvious.

This means that even if the tank is placed in front of the ion jet knife, it has to be the same as paper paste.

Suppressing his shocked expression, the old man asked in a deep voice.

"Taking this electric ray P-1 as an example, how big is the gap between us and them in electric propulsion and ion jet technology? Is it possible to imitate similar equipment?"

Liu Zhusheng shook his head.

"Our starting point in the field of aerospace is too low, and there is still a big gap between us and the United States and Russia. If it is directly compared to Transwarp Trade...... Truth be told, there's no comparison. ”

There's no comparison......

The middle-aged man couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Although he never imagined that the Aerospace Science and Technology Group could develop a similar spacecraft in his hands, Liu's answer still made him feel a thick bitterness in his heart.

At this moment, the old man with a majestic face spoke again.

"Strengthen cooperation with Transwarp trade, especially in the field of space. Now that the vast prospects for the development of resources in outer space have been proven, we must not be left behind in this regard. As he said this, the old man looked at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man understood and nodded immediately.

"Understood!" (To be continued.) )