397.Chapter 397: Ice
Linfield came to Downing's side, and in addition to accompanying him on an expedition to the North Pole, he was also tasked with urging him to fulfill his promise. At Princess Louise's wedding two years ago, Downing gave the bride a magic communication tool that she had never met with the world - a Bluetooth communication pen.
At that time, Downing promised Lin Fei that he would build a production line for the next generation of communication pens in Seoul, and Lin Fei let him go, and now she came to ask, when will this second-generation production line be released? And what does the second-generation communication pen look like?
In other words, this second generation has really been developed, and the global parcel transport system - mechanical albatross once again played a role, first using a jet cargo plane from Beijing across 8,600 kilometers to Seattle, which took 11 hours, and then through the guò albatross to deliver the package to the fifth village in Canada, 2,000 kilometers, taking about 20 hours.
The twelve members who accompanied Boss Tang on his expedition to the North Pole, plus Linfield and Tang Ning himself, a total of 14 people, all received a special gift. Downing deliberately did not introduce any superfluous information, leaving them to study for themselves how to use this second-generation communication pen.
It turns out that the first generation of communication pen can pull out a plastic input keyboard from the pen cap, and the core of this second generation is to make this plastic piece into a display screen. Of course, it is not possible to make a display from a thin sheet of plastic that can be retracted into a pen cap with existing liquid crystal technology.
Boss Tang asked the team to use an innovative method - projection. There is a miniature projector on the cap of the communication pen, and the plastic sheet is no longer the thing that depicts the keyboard, but has become a screen the size of a playing card, which is no different from a large-screen mobile phone, but the display effect is slightly similar.
Even so, the technology is amazing enough, and the content that can be displayed suddenly becomes extremely rich. It can now easily view long telegrams and display color pictures, but video is still not strong enough to display it.
The light sensor on the screen can roughly know where it is blocked by a finger or stylus, so it can interact with low precision in a way that simulates touch, which means that users can click on the "button" on the screen, and there is no problem with any hyperlinks, going back, closing, turning pages, etc.
The stylus has been retained, so that users can input with high precision, handwriting, and drawing, and Tang Ning hopes that this seemingly cumbersome thing for ordinary users will help improve the artistic ability of the entire user group, so he will take the lead in expanding "pen" and "paper", rather than just considering whether the electronic pen is useful to the public.
Let it be stored first, and ordinary users will often use it, and then produce more real artists on the huge base of using the pen to create. This is Boss Tang's own idea to promote the development of human art, and it is also a way of thinking that free capital cannot have.
Now, the Bluetooth communication pen can be ashamed to say that it is a "smart pen". Send telegrams, read the news, read the web, read e-books, and look at photos.
In the icy and snowy Arctic, Boss Tang's friends were fascinated by the first serenade on the eve of the mobile era, and enthusiastically discussed the convenience brought to life by this tall communication tool.
The hidden technical details are that the communication pen itself cannot communicate with the satellite, but as long as there is a Bluetooth network of the IBM system around it, and there is a satellite communication function in the network, these Bluetooth communication pens all have the ability to communicate with the satellite.
All the snowmobiles in Boss Tang's team have satellite communication functions, so the communication signal here is very good.
How excited the Governor of Goryeo was, the second generation had improved so much, it was obvious that it would become a gold-absorbing machine, and it might be much more profitable than the first generation of communication pens. Boss Tang said: "The original communication pen is rented for 10 euros a year, and after this product comes out, it will replace the position of the first generation, and the first generation will become 5 euros." ”
As far as Lin Fei knows, there are a total of 3 million users of the communication pen, which is a huge income of 30 million euros, and she estimates that the first batch of users who have high requirements for communication tools will soon completely switch to the latest version of the communication pen, and all these 30 million euros will flow into her great Goryeo kingdom.
Japan's economy grew near zero due to the Windsor industrial retreat, and Greater Goryeo was expected to surpass Greater Japan this year, in 1874. Goryeo's per capita GDP is almost at the level before Britain was sanctioned, and it can call itself an economic powerhouse without modesty.
When Linfield took over the Korean Peninsula five or six years ago, he never imagined that he would be able to rule a country with an economy greater than Japan's, and half as powerful as England.
Considering that there was a possibility of war with Japan in the future, and Goryeo would become the front line of the war against Japan, she was excited to play with the smart pen and asked Tang Ning to greatly increase Goryeo's defense value and combat effectiveness.
Japan's combat effectiveness is quite ferocious, in recent years, a total of about 10,000 fighters have been accumulated, and there are only 2,000 in the territory of Goryeo, no wonder Governor Lin will feel a little uneasy, although there are two great powers of the Chinese Federation and the Soviet Union to help, the overall strength is much stronger than Japan, but I am afraid that when the time comes, the distant water will not be able to save the near fire, and the Great Goryeo that she worked so hard to build will be blown up by the Japanese.
Linfil hoped that Goryeo's military strength could be on par with Japan's, and with the current strength of the AH73, the latest fighters of the Entente could be one enemy and two enemies, and Goryeo needed at least 20,000 fighters. The people present were all trusted by Tangning, and he revealed the plan for the next generation of fighters.
Tang Ning said that fighters that can take off and land vertically have the ability to fight to the limit, such as being able to fight to the point that there is almost no fuel, at which point enemy planes without vertical landing capabilities cannot go back, while helicopters can land halfway. Another example is that the two sides fought a fierce battle, the runway was completely destroyed, and the other planes could no longer take off and land, while our side was okay.
So he still preferred this aspect to the fixed-wing fighter route of the Entente. However, in order to improve aerodynamics, the next generation of attack helicopters will make a balanced compromise.
The twin rotors are still retained, but they are reduced by a whole circle, and they become a mode between the large rotors and the propellers, the aircraft has wide wings, which are integrated with the fuselage, like bats, and the middle of the fuselage is hollowed out to place medium twin rotors, the beauty of this twin rotors is that they can be tilted into propellers, and when the fighter plane is off the ground, it immediately begins to tilt and transform, and slowly increase enough speed to complete the transformation while flying forward and upward.
This fighter will rely on superb engineering technology, and have the advantages of both helicopter and propeller fixed-wing aircraft, at least comparable to the fighters of the Allied countries in terms of maximum speed, and win a decisive victory in the way of take-off and landing.
Everyone looked at the design drawings drawn by Tang Ning casually, and they were fascinated, after all, it was impossible for the Entente to surpass our god-level scientists in technology.
Downing's idea of fighters is not to surpass the opponent in terms of performance, but to make a fuss about tactical flexibility, so far he has not developed on a large aircraft carrier, because the aircraft carrier is slow, the target is large, when the latest inclined twin-rotor fighter comes out, the number of Pelican aircraft carriers has dropped to 30, and it takes three to compare with the British Cyclops aircraft carrier.
But the speed of the opponent's aircraft carrier is 40 kilometers, and the Pelican aircraft carrier is 500 kilometers, and the assembly speed is more than ten times that of the opponent.
Everyone knows that the biggest reason for Napoleon the Great's defeat is that the Prussian army arrived on the battlefield a little faster than Napoleon's friendly army, so this more than ten times the speed of assembly will play a powerful role in the complex and changeable battlefield.
After a few days of vacation in the last woodlands of the Arctic, the expedition finally showed up and headed for the more inhospitable tundra terrain. As far as the eye could see, there were knee-high birch trees. The branches of these small trees are thin and dry, and although they cannot be made into furniture, they are full of energy, because the dwarf birch trees can be ignited directly.
At this point, they could no longer build romantic wooden houses arbitrarily, so Master Tang decided to build an earthen house, and the material was endless soil, and they specially found a place with a high clay content, which could be violently pressed into adobe bricks.
The ice drilling equipment of the firewood machine has become a soil drill, and the underground soil bricks that have been mined originally have a certain humidity, and they become dry and hard when they blow in the dry and cold air, which simply saves the surface heat treatment process, and the key is to add bricks and tiles to the house immediately after suppression, so that the bricks can be combined more perfectly.
Tang Ning's team had already honed the technology of the automatic construction machine when they were studying the construction of the Beijing Courtyard House, and the expedition team was idle on the sidelines, pointing at the hard-working bricks and talking and laughing.
The team couldn't find a material that could be used to build the roof, but fortunately, the polar tundra was very dry, and the four walls could be built with high energy and windproof.
The desolate tundra was so desolate that the frigate birds had only found the first hare twelve kilometers away from their camp, and if ordinary people had entered it, they would have to go hungry. And they just can't eat big fish, and the hunting queen with the Bluetooth crossbow is constantly harvesting, enough for a few of them to eat a full stomach.
As soon as five earthen huts were built, they had no patience to stay in this wild place, and set off to continue north, challenging the extreme cold.
This time, they learned to be obedient, and they must find a place with water, and fishing is a very fun thing. There is no shortage of this in Canada, where after 200 kilometres of tundra, there are immediately large expanses of ice-covered water that are inaccessible to people, so there are no competitors, and the fish production under the water is quite diverse.
After a 1,800-kilometre trek from Edmonton, they finally saw the Arctic Ocean and admired the brilliant Northern Lights during the long winter nights in the Northern Hemisphere. In Village No. 9 on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, they used snow pressed into sturdy snow bricks to build igloos.
90% of the air in heavy snow can only be turned into good building materials if it is strongly pressed. Similarly, only very small igloos can be capped, otherwise only snow brick igloos with only four walls can be built. In order to be comfortable and generous, they built igloos with only four walls, which looked quite good as ice villages.
In the Arctic Ocean, there was no more bioenergy to fuel, so windmills were used to electrolyze water to produce hydrogen, which was lit and smoked in tents in the igloos to warm like spring. The most exciting thing is that after the igloo is built, there are polar bears visiting their home, and I am really glad that they can hide behind the thick snow bricks, and the big polar bear brother cannot knock it down.
Polar bears are making final preparations for the cold winter, and she is trying her luck at walruses that she usually doesn't dare to catch. Walruses are bulky on land, but their long tusks can be fatal to polar bears, and the one they saw was most likely a mother bear because she needed more food to nurse her offspring