Chapter 514: Timing

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Sunny stood at the doorway of the room, looked at Barbara and Phoebe sitting on the couch, and said, "What are you two doing here?" ”

Phoebe knew what Sister Sun was doing to see her, but Sister Sun in this state was sometimes similar to a child who deliberately found fault, and Phoebe knew how to deal with it, so she shrugged her shoulders and said, "I did everything my sister wanted me to do." ”

Sunny immediately smiled and glanced at Barbara, and said in English without any notice, "Barbara, what about the movie?" ”

Barbara pointed to the two paper bags on the side of the wall and said in the same English: "There, one of the paper bags has not been graded, and it was bought directly at the Berlin Film Festival." ”

Sunny nodded, walked over, first glanced at the contents of the bag, and then said in a deliberately complaining tone, "Barbara, you didn't bring anything delicious." ”

Barbara glanced at Phoebe, who spread her hands to Barbara, signaling that it was your problem.

Barbara then remembered that Phoebe had told herself that it was actually very simple to have a good relationship with other people in Girls' Generation, just prepare something delicious, but Phoebe never ate snacks, which made Barbara not develop the habit of preparing snacks at all.

However, Barbara didn't intend to compromise with Sunny, saying, "I don't care about you lazy girls. Buy your own delicious food. It's not enough to worry about one of the most troublesome things all day, you have to worry about a few of you. ”

"Hey, hey~" Sunny really didn't mind, and then ran away with two paper bags, and at the same time said, "Hmph, you don't let Phoebe cook for you at every turn, you're also a lazy girl, and you're greedy." ”

"Yikes!" Barbara thinks it's one of the best words in Korean to learn.

"Loveless~" Sunny stuck out his tongue and said, "If you two have something to talk about, don't close the door." ”

Barbara was stunned, a little uncomfortable with Sunny's sudden change in style, but Phoebe nodded naturally.

After Sunny left, Barbara said in Russian, "You Sun Sister is quite shrewd. ”

Phoebe nodded with a natural smile.

Barbara glanced out the open door again, then shook her head, sorted out her mood, and said: "One more thing, the Pentagon hopes that the construction of the Atlantic Floaters will progress faster, and it is best to allow the Navy to use the outer ports this year." ”

Phoebe couldn't help but wonder, "Oh? Why is that? ”

Barbara spread her hands and said: "They didn't say it in detail, but we had to be careful of the Russians, so I used my authority to ask the NSA, it turned out that the Venezuelan Navy was going to conduct a live-fire exercise in the Caribbean Sea with the Russian Navy, and the interesting thing is that although the Russian ship has not yet arrived, the target ship used for the exercise is ready, and it is a warship sold by the United States to Venezuela before." ”

The relationship between Catholicism and Orthodoxy is closer than that of Protestantism, so many South American countries still give face to the Russians, after all, they do not want to be the backyard of the Americans. Although the United States regards the Americas as its backyard, whether it is the Soviet Union or the Russian period, these surface ships of Orthodox Christianity have a lot of supply bases in Central and South America, and the most interesting thing is that the target ships selected are made in the United States, who dares to say that this is not intentional?

The fact that Russia and Venezuela are preparing to conduct exercises will certainly stimulate the Pentagon and the Admiralty, and it just so happens that the main framework of the Atlantic Floaters built by Titan has been dragged to the predetermined position, which makes the US Navy see a new means of containing the maritime forces of other countries -- in fact, before this, when Phoebe dragged the Pentagon to the Atlantic Floaters project, they were still not very cooperative, and as a result, as soon as the news of the Russians going to the Caribbean to perform came out, The Pentagon immediately remembered that Titan was a reputable supplier to the Department of Defense.

Phoebe is not very surprised that Russia plans to go to the doorstep of the United States for military exercises, after all, it can be seen from the intelligence obtained in the past that NATO has also advanced to Russia's doorstep, and with NATO's tiger skin, there are more contradictions between Ukraine and Russia.

Therefore, Phoebe did not comment on Barbara's news, and in this regard, she knew that it was best to keep the same pace with the United States, after all, her previous plan was to use the United States to develop Titan, so after thinking about it, she said: "If the construction plan is changed, many functional areas, especially the compensation system that counteracts ocean currents and sea breezes, will not work properly, which will not only greatly increase the construction period, but also have to pay a lot of additional towing and mooring fees." The cost of lost time caused by the delay is not enough, but the cost of the boat and fuel that can be used to stabilize the towing can't be let out, right? If the Pentagon is responsible for this part of the cost, it is not impossible to change the construction plan. ”

In fact, while Phoebe was thinking about this matter, she was still thinking about another thing, that is, sure enough, Keos's intelligence collection system can only obtain intelligence from the perspective of analyzing big data, fortunately Barbara was given enough freedom, and Barbara was still very effective at the critical moment.

After listening to Phoebe's words, Barbara nodded suddenly, although she was not from a professional background, but as the chief assistant by Phoebe's side, she was still very clear about the construction plan of the Atlantic Floaters. According to the plan, after the main framework is in place, priority should be given to the construction of the gravity heat source system, and then there is the displacement compensation system of Titan's unique technology - after the construction of the floating island is almost 8,000 square kilometers, such a large floating island will definitely be driven by ocean currents and monsoons, so it needs to have the ability to correct its own position.

Realizing this function obviously requires a huge amount of energy support, for this, Phoebe did not consider the use of nuclear or chemical energy, but used a more ingenious method of gravity compression of more than 100 air chambers in the floating island itself to create a heat source, and at the same time use the low temperature below the sea level, forming a huge temperature difference to convert into electricity, of course, the main energy supply system also includes ocean currents, wind energy, solar energy, in general, the entire Atlantic floater is very environmentally friendly - if not considering the impact on the structure of life in the open sea.

In fact, Phoebe takes environmental protection into account, not how much she cares about the earth's ecology, but does not want people to use environmental protection excuses to hinder the construction of floating islands, so the Atlantic floaters did not use traditional energy as the main energy source, as for nuclear energy, Phoebe naturally did not touch, after all, if you want to build a nuclear power system, the NSA will turn a blind eye if you are sneaky, but on the Atlantic floaters, it is obvious that Titan itself will not obtain a construction permit.

Of course, all of this is thanks to Titan's development of new materials, without which air chambers and pipelines that can withstand enormous pressure cannot be built.

The problem now is that if the port that will be built in the later stage of the floating island will be limited according to the Pentagon's intentions, it will obviously affect the construction of the main energy supply system, so the first problem is that the construction process needs to be redesigned, although it is difficult for Phoebe, but Phoebe does not plan to follow the Pentagon for everything, after all, if the main energy system is delayed, the displacement compensation system will also be postponed accordingly.

Barbara still agrees with Phoebe's choice to give face to the Pentagon, but she also knows that the cost of fixing such a large floating island is not small, so she said: "Well, you want to help them, but you have to ask them to compensate for something, right?" ”

Phoebe nodded, calculated carefully, and then said: "Well, let's quote one million per day, so it's only three million a month." ”

Barbara hated the iron and said with hatred: "Why are you so honest, just notify them according to the price of three million a day." ”

Phoebe shrugged her shoulders and said, "This matter can also piggyback on the problem of the space recycling company, if they also support Ebron, the daily offer can be reduced to $800,000." ”

Barbara suddenly realized: "So that's what you meant. Well, indeed, if it's 100 million a month, the Pentagon will probably have to scratch its head. Well, then give them an offer of two million, and if you support Ebron, it's one and a half million! ”

Phoebe commented: "You're so dark. ”

Barbara hurriedly shook her head and said: "What the hell is it for me, the Pentagon's budget for various overseas bases every day is almost so much, not to mention that ours is still a pure floating base at sea." After pleading that she was not black, Barbara said: "By the way, if the Pentagon thinks the Atlantic Floaters are good, will it want a few more?" ”

"Why do you think I bought the riverside shipyards in Detroit and put them together? And even if the Pentagon doesn't want it, there are other countries that will need it, of course, we don't care about non-NATO countries, so as not to get into trouble, but it's not impossible to sell one to Saudi Arabia so that they have more say in the Persian Gulf. But we can't sell it directly to them, we still have to let the Pentagon act as a middleman. But it can't be sold to Israel, there are enough warships in the Mediterranean, and the stability of Europe is important to us. ”

Barbara pondered for a moment what Phoebe was talking about, nodded suddenly, and then asked, "So, you have long had the idea of building floaters in the Pacific Ocean?" ”

Phoebe nodded: "Of course, Titan has always been a project for large institutions, and we will try not to involve the civilian market in the future, and the maintenance of customers in the civilian market is very troublesome." But let's be honest, don't be too crazy about the Pentagon, although the floating is built according to anti-nuclear standards, but if it is deployed too much, it will still increase regional tensions, and I don't want to have to hide in the floating before our space program even begins. ”

Barbara knew that Phoebe meant a potential nuclear war, but judging from her experience in Eastern Europe, even the fighting nations didn't actually plan to use this kind of weapon, after all, everyone now has a bunch of secondary weapons, so just use this first.

However, Barbara didn't intend to convince Phoebe not to think about nuclear war, after all, as the leader of Titan, there is nothing wrong with being prepared for danger in times of peace, so she just smiled: "Hehe...... In terms of the cost of the floaters, do you think the Pentagon might buy that much? That's still our cost, not the sale price, and according to your design ideas, people who don't know German can't complete the maintenance of the core area at all. ”

"That's right." Phoebe nodded, she didn't deny it at all, who made her employee base, German, and the most conservative group of Germans ever, for the cohesion of the company, she naturally wouldn't consider using other languages, of course, except for the floating islands controlled by Titan, other floating islands Phoebe would not be as big as the Atlantic Floaters, so it is not impossible to change the core area to the English system, but if you want to get the most complete functions, if you don't have the full management of Titan people, forget it.

At this time, the two of them heard Phoebe's name being called, and what they had to say was finished, so they heard the sound and walked towards the kitchen.

Taeyeon was washing something at the kitchen sink and didn't know what to wash, and when Su-young saw Phoebe coming, she said, "Phoebe, you hurry up and take Taeyeon away, she has to make dinner." ”

"Yikes! You haven't eaten the food I cooked! Taeyeon said hatefully.

"Hey, hey~ Barbara, you're here? What's the movie again? Sunny says hello to Barbara, but also reminds Taeyeon not to be too stubborn.

Taeyeon then remembered that Phoebe had just said that Barbara was coming, so she also turned back to greet Barbara.

Barbara asked, in half-baked Korean, "What are you doing here?" ”

Suyoung pointed at Sunny and said, "She said that Taeyeon's scrambled rice cake is similar to a bloody scene she watched recently, and she will never eat Taeyeon's food again......"

"......" Sunny spread his hands wordlessly, indicating that he was telling the truth.

"Yikes!" Taeyeon screamed again, then lowered her head and continued to work.

Barbara gave Phoebe a funny look, and Phoebe didn't know what to say, but to be honest, she didn't like to eat fried rice cakes very much, and she didn't want her sisters to eat them, because this thing was nothing more than a combination of carbohydrates and seasonings, and it was actually no different from noodles...... If it is served with rice, it will increase the burden on the stomach and pancreas......

However, Sister Taeyeon is naturally interested, so it's better to follow her......