Belgium, Brussels, European Parliament.

The headquarters of the European Union, which has always been known for its chaos and quarrels, is unusually quiet at the moment, and everyone is attentive, listening to the report of ESA Director Gilcoot.

"According to our analysis and the information we have received from our allies, the No. 1 passage established by Xingchen Technology between Weigu Island and Station Zero is actually a space elevator!" Gilkut said with a gloomy face.

Space Elevator!?

That thing in sci-fi!?

The parliamentarians were all dumbfounded, they couldn't believe their ears at all, and their expressions were stiff, as if they had been struck by lightning.

It is hard to imagine that at a time when the EU is squabbling over how many refugees it should admit, for the Paris climate agreement, for equal rights for men and women, for LGBT equality, and for these messy things, the Chinese people have unwittingly built a space elevator.

"Xingchen Technology, they are really powerful!"

"More powerful than North America! When Musk announced the completion of Starlink, I also opened a bottle of champagne at home, happy for my allies, but in a blink of an eye, Xingchen Technology threw out a space elevator that was more powerful than Starlink! ”

"With the birth of the space elevator program, there is also nanotube technology, a rope less than the thickness of a little finger, which can withstand thousands of degrees of high temperature and pressure, plus a load of 750 tons! It's a miracle in the history of materials science! ”

"What are we going to do? Where does Europe go from here!? North America at least came up with the Starlink program and restarted NASA, but what about us? With endless quarrels and ruffles every day, the experts of ESA are about to be poached by Xingchen Technology! ”

First shocked, then complained, and finally scolded angrily, scolding tired of drinking coffee and eating macarons, this is the usual routine of the nobles and lords of the old continent of Europe.

In fact, according to the current situation, the strength of North America alone is already difficult to stop Xingchen Technology, so North America is happy to see a plate of scattered sand Europe.

Because Europe continues to do nothing, North America's position as the dominant Western alliance will become more and more solid, and more and more European powers will wholeheartedly support North America and unite the Caucasian world.

……

Tokyo, Chiyoda-ku, Prime Minister's Office.

Koichi Inomi, the chief executive of the Industrial Innovation Agency, is sitting on the couch next to the Prime Minister at the moment, and in Neon, the Industrial Innovation Organization has a very special position, serving as a hub for communication between the neon authorities and the major chaebol companies.

I think that at the beginning, Sanyo, Sharp, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, and a series of giants around the LCD panel, inseparable, and South Korea's Samsung, LG and Huaxia BOE, Huaxing Optoelectronics and other latecomers, and from behind the continuous catch-up, it is the industrial innovation institutions to come forward, to overcome public opinion, to take out the panel assets of each company to reorganize, the establishment of JDI.

Of course, JDI, who concentrated the power of the entire neon, failed to stop the ferocious attack from Huaxia, which is another matter.

In short, although the industrial innovation organization is low-key, but the strength and means are good, the prime minister urgently summoned the industrial innovation organization, obviously there are some information that is inconvenient to make public, but he hopes that the chaebols will know, and it needs to be conveyed to the public.

"It has been confirmed that what Xingchen Technology has established on Weigu Island is a space elevator, a real space elevator."

The prime minister lowered his voice and solemnly told the news to Koichi Nengmi, and after a while, Koichi Nomi's head buzzed, and the whole person was stunned.

Although Chinese people have never liked neon, but we must also admit that neon is the best country in the whole Asian science fiction atmosphere, Yoshiki Tanaka, Matsumoto Kiyohari, Komatsu Sakyo, these science fiction writers have long been famous all over the world, in recent years, Liu Cixin's science fiction masterpiece [Three-Body Problem] landed on neon, sales exploded instantly, in just five days, it was reprinted eight times, which shows the rich science fiction atmosphere of neon society.

Influenced by this, Koichi Nomi has also read a lot of science fiction books, so when the prime minister mentioned the space elevator, many magnificent space operas immediately appeared in his mind, and he couldn't extricate himself for a while.

"It's worthy of Huaxia." The prime minister sighed: "Anyone can only suppress them for a while, and it is absolutely impossible to suppress them for a lifetime, as if I see that the tide of the times is coming inexorably, and history will eventually return to its original position." ”

Nomimi Koichi nodded slightly, from the new white hair on the prime minister's sideburns, it can be seen that he is anxious in his heart, sandwiched between the two giants of China and the United States, life is really sad.

On October 22, 2019, the new neon emperor ascended the throne, Russia sent two bombers without saying a word, and returned after a circle around the neon, the angry prime minister's face was green, but he didn't even dare to let go of a fart, in the end, this world is still the world of big hooligans.

"What do you mean?" Nomi asked with a frown.

The prime minister thought for a moment, dipped his fingers in the tea, and wrote four words on the table, don't mess with Huaxia.

Suddenly, Gongyi Nomi fully understood that North America could not compete with Huaxia, so he recruited his younger brother to help, not only Europe, traditional allies such as Australia, but most countries in the world are standing in North America, whether they want to or not, Huaxia has formed a lonely battle in fact.

There are still North American aircraft carriers stationed on Okinawa, so it stands to reason that Neon is also going to stand in North America, but today the prime minister came to see Gongichi, and what he conveyed was another meaning, stand in line, but don't rush to the front, to rush, let those whites rush.

After a pause, the prime minister said meaningfully: "It's not just a matter of the space elevator, it's just that the light is too dazzling, and the whole world is staring at the space elevator." ”

"In fact, in just a few months, Xingchen Technology has come up with robots, nanotubes, and space elevators, a total of three killer features, which seem to accelerate the rhythm of the attack."

……

A few days later, when people finally realized that the so-called No. 1 passage in Luo Jia's mouth was actually the legendary space elevator, a ten-magnitude earthquake-like turmoil inevitably swept the whole world.

Everyone was shocked, although so far, between Station Zero and Weigu Island, only a thin nanotube line has been pulled, which is far from the final form of the space elevator, but the construction is still going on, and it is impossible to stand the nature of the madness of the Chinese nation.

One silver ultrasonic climbing motor after another made its debut, quickly attracting everyone's attention, this little thing was in a round barrel, which could be firmly stuck with the nanotube line with gears, and then relied on the torque of the motor to tow the No. 2 rope into the air.

After reaching a height of 1,000 meters, the climbing motor stopped, and the engineers installed a second motor, with a nanotube line of 36,000 kilometers and a staggering 360 tons of weight.

Even according to the calculation of 60 kilometers per hour, it will take 25 days to transport the No. 2 rope to the zero station, which is a long time and a heavy task, so Xingchen Technology has adopted a simple and crude plan, using as many as 24 ultrasonic climbing motors for traction, transporting the nanotube with a total weight of 360 tons at the fastest speed, and the load of a single motor is about 15 tons.

On the one hand, it is transported from the equator to space, and on the other hand, it continues to throw cables from space, at an average rate of one every 24 hours, and strive to build the first space elevator within a year.

The space elevator will use 512 super ropes made of graphene nanotubes and carbon nanotubes, a single rope is less than the thickness of a human thumb, but it can carry 750 tons, excluding its own weight of 360 tons, and the redundant load is as high as 390 tons.

It has to be said that the space elevator is not only a miracle in the history of space exploration, but also a miracle in materials science, after a simple calculation, it can be known that the total load of 512 nanotube lines is 199,680 tons.

Most of them should be allocated to station zero, as well as as as safety redundancy, in addition to the main wire and spare wire, will also occupy a lot of weight, 36,000 kilometers of height, Xingchen Technology's wireless power transmission technology no matter how to send power over, can only use high-power cables, the outer layer plus graphene material protection.

As for the running part of the space elevator, it will adopt a circular upper and lower five layers design, mixed people and goods, the top floor is the crew compartment, and the lower four floors are dry bulk cargo warehouses, frozen cargo warehouses and so on.

Two hundred and sixteen high-performance ultrasonic motors are responsible for driving, with a maximum load of 120 tons per machine, auxiliary passive safety slow descent system, accidental separation ejection system, and a series of safety measures, with a single running time of 48 hours, an average of one round trip between Weigu Island and Station Zero once a week, transporting no less than 5,000 tons of mass of goods, and the ultimate carrying capacity of 8,000 tons.

The passenger compartment has 148 lie-flat cabins, a dining room and galley, an emergency medical room, eight shared bathrooms and two multi-purpose rooms.

There are a total of 12 staff members, including four elevator controllers, two safety officers, two medical staff, four flight attendants and logistics administrators.

In addition, there are a variety of cargo bay robots, but the robots are not counted in the total number of people, considering that the initial construction of Station Zero is mainly construction, so the first space elevator is mainly freight, and the total number of passengers on board is only 160.

After the initial completion of Station Zero, the larger No. 2 and No. 3 space elevators will be built, as well as a large space dock extending from the central axis.

In short, Centron Technology has a huge plan that spans the next few decades, if not hundreds of years, and in comparison, the Starlink project in North America, although also crazy, is obviously not crazy enough.

"Hahaha, let me laugh for a while, those who think that Station Zero is just a space station, you see, a slap in the face, right?"

"Many people also say that Station Zero has no prospect of making money, and it can't compare to the Starlink project in North America, but in the end? Station Zero is actually part of the space elevator, and if this project is done well, we will be able to use the resources of the entire solar system! ”

"Everyone, please don't deviate from the rhythm, the real meaning of the space elevator is neither to make money, nor to bring down resource-based countries such as Australia, the straight men of Xingchen Technology, relying on the space elevator, turned space into their own back garden, this is the greatest significance."

"What I said upstairs is very right, going to Tibet or something is simply weak, if you have the ability, you will go to space, and you will have a trip that you can go!"

"Although they were the first to land on the moon in North America, they never conquered it, and Xingchen Technology obviously wants to be more than just space explorers, they also want to be conquerors and occupy the moon and even the entire solar system!"

"If that's the case, I can only say that Xingchen Technology is awesome!"

The emotions that have been suppressed for a long time because of the Starlink plan are finally happy, and the people of China feel that they have finally breathed a bad breath, North America wants to destroy the Great Wall of China, and just one day later, Xingchen Technology has extended the edge of the Great Wall to outer space!

From now on, the geosynchronous orbit with an altitude of 36,000 kilometers is the new Great Wall of China!