Chapter 524: The Navigator

"Yes, as a person who has taken a long time on the road of science and technology, I still prefer to let everyone enjoy the convenience of technology, and some people have a distrustful attitude towards today's technology.

This is also understandable, I believe that in the future, we Datang Technology will provide you with a better and better product experience. ”

Ye Fan naturally knew the meaning of the reporter's words, and with some ambiguous words, he lightly brushed aside the previous topic.

"As for the arrival of the Age of Interstellar Discovery, it is naturally coming, the Age of Interstellar Discoveryβ€”we will eventually be the outcasts of the Great Age!"

Ye Fan waved his hand, and a huge picture of holographic projection appeared directly in front of everyone.

[Have you always seen the starry sky, haven't you ever been a little in awe and curiosity about it? 】

I am a pacifist in this world, and the first thing I receive is the blessing of your civilization, warning you: do not answer! Don't answer! Don't answer!!

There are thousands of stars in your direction, and without answering, the world will not be able to locate the source.

If answered, the launcher will be located, your civilization will be invaded, and your world will be occupied!

Don't answer! Don't answer!! Don't answer!! ”

....

These are a few lines of big characters, and it also covers the question that Ye Fan wants to answer this time.

"In "The Three-Body Problem", Ye Wenjie disregarded the warning of the Three-Body Problem No. 1379 listener to seek more possibilities to move forward, after all, 'without the fear of high places, you can't experience the beauty of high places'.

In the movie "Interstellar", the earth in the near future is covered with yellow sand, wheat, okra and other basic crops have been extinct due to wilt disease, human beings no longer look up at the stars as before, indulging their imagination and inspiration, but counting down the few remaining scenes under the ravages of sandstorms every day.

NASA took the opportunity to send several astronauts to distant galaxies in search of habitable planets. This is where the story begins......

With the harsh global environment, energy consumption and derivative problems have made more and more discussions from all walks of life focus on alternative resources and even alternative planets.

Is it possible for an illusion that used to appear only in science fiction literature to become a reality? In the annals of future history, how many lines of text have we separated from the legendary node of the interstellar expedition? ”

Ye Fan's words are thought-provoking, because not only the movies, but also all show the beautiful imagination of human beings eager to go to space and embrace the universe without exception.

"The Age of Interstellar Exploration is not something that can be achieved by the efforts of one generation alone, it requires the joint efforts of generation after generation to achieve this goal.

And I can only be regarded as a third-generation struggler, and at the same time, I am also the guide to guide today's science and technology to the Age of Discovery. ”

Ye Fan's gaze became deeper, and at the same time, he glanced at all the reporters present, and said again:

"A few years ago, no one knew when the Age of Discovery would come. The earth's atmospheric dome seems to be the upper limit of our life stage, and there are always people who are not willing to do so.

A year before the launch of Apollo 17, a baby named Elon Musk was born in South Africa, and his parents did not expect that their son would become the second founder of the future interstellar age of discovery.

When Musk grew up, he traveled across the ocean to study Amejian, and soon became the most well-known entrepreneur and young billionaire in the United States.

Yet he found that the elites were talking about the internet, the financial tsunami and the Victorian supermodel, and no one was casting wild eyes on the stars anymore.

The Apollo moon landings and Star Wars, which had changed several eras, were suddenly as far away as old dreams. It made him depressed.

In 2001, he unexpectedly met a non-governmental organization called the "Mars Society", and at a fundraising dinner, members introduced a project: to make a space capsule with rats orbit around the earth to simulate the gravitational environment of Mars.

Musk goes one step further, he wants to really ship these rats to Mars, and there are going and returning, and the rats can reproduce on an interstellar journey.

The Mars Society can no longer hold Musk's dreams. He founded his own Mars Life Foundation, hoping to awaken people's ambitions to go to the stars. Foundation experts upgraded the Mouse Project to a "Martian Oasis". ”

According to the plan, Musk needs to buy a rocket to launch a mechanical greenhouse to Mars, which will collect Martian cuttings or soil and grow plants, so that the first breath of oxygen can be produced on Mars.

At the time, Musk said, 'There will be creatures on Mars, and we sent them there, and we want to tell thousands of teenagers that it's not scary.' ’

Since then, Musk has planned to spend $20 million to $30 million to complete this plan, but the launch alone exceeded the schedule

So, in the early winter of 2002, 30-year-old Musk decided to go to the country of goose and build a few old ICBMs to use as launch vehicles.

However, after going there, Musk finally understood that the people of the goose country did not have the sincerity to make this deal, and just wanted to knock him hard, the starry sky was hidden outside the gray sky, and the world in front of him only had cold faces.

Everyone was drinking, and Musk was typing in the front row. After a while, he turned around and showed the spreadsheet on his laptop screen, 'Brothers, I think we can build our own rockets',

Four months later, Musk's space exploration company, SpaceX, was founded in an old warehouse in the suburbs of Los Angeles, and when the first employees were hired, they were told that SpaceX was aiming to become the Southwest Airlines in the space industry. ”

In the following 15 years, SpaceX successfully launched rockets 38 times, obtained a cumulative order of 10 billion US dollars from NASA, and realized the relaunch of recovered rockets at the beginning of this year, reducing the cost of space to 1% of the original.

At this time, Amijian has temporarily lost the ability of manned spaceflight, and astronauts can only ask for help from the goose country when they go to the space station, and after SpaceX develops the Dragon spacecraft, it has become the fourth entity on the earth that can fly to the space station.

The first three are countries: Ameijian, Goose Country, and Huaxia,

And in 2018, SpaceX will use its own manned spacecraft to send two private passengers to orbit around the moon.

Fifty years after the first flight of Apollo 8, the gears that had been stagnant for a long time in the void finally began to turn again.

The moon is only a short-term goal, and what Musk is looking at is still Mars.

After developing rockets and manned spacecraft, Musk plans to build a satellite manufacturing plant in Seattle and launch 4,000 solar satellites into low-earth orbit by 2030.

At that time, anywhere in the world, all you need is a pizza-sized receiver to connect to the Internet at high speeds. ”