Chapter 279: X-Space Corporation
Sure enough, as Park Jung-woo said, the Kuiper bubble plan was successfully approved by the majority of the people under the fierce debate, and the media survey after the vote showed that the three civilizations on the earth were not the focus of consideration for the protective role that the Kuiper bubble could play, and many delegates made careful calculations with the help of supercomputers to make decisions, and they believed that only by detecting space signals at such a distant edge of the Kuiper Belt could they get rid of the interference of human signals on the earth and really let the seti@home work. Search for possible traces of civilizations in outer space.
All the evidence shows that the earth is not the center of civilization in the universe, there must be another civilization in the vast universe, all the earth can do is to carefully search for each other's location, secretly spy on their true purpose, the fear and curiosity of the unknown civilization made the representatives of the three races agree with this unprecedented huge project.
The safety committee headed by Lomonov was authorized to launch the tender for the Kuiper bubble project after the voting process was completed, and Saturn Energy took the lead and engaged in fierce competition, Saturn Energy's super engineers worked together to give a complete set of solutions to Saturn Energy with the help of a huge number of quantum processors, Saturn Energy used the Hulufeng launch station controlled by Saturn to launch the modules on the Earth Factory into space one by one, and after assembling the Kuiper Bubble defense tower in low earth orbit, it grew antennas while collecting solar energy, While the embryonic defense tower is pushed into the Hohmann transfer orbit by a plasma engine, after a long flight of 7 years, the digital Homo sapiens workers on the defense tower will complete the growth of the antenna, and finally stay on the Kuiper belt to start combat readiness duty.
Although Saturn's energy plan is conservative, it has been tested by the space power station project, everything is feasible, but the time period is a little longer, and even if the construction of orbital launch towers on various highlands on the earth is a drop in the bucket, the League of Nations proposed that the first phase of the Kuiper bubble project should build 14,400 defense towers on the Kuiper Belt in ten years, and each defense tower needs to launch more than 20,000 tons of material from the earth, with the transmission tower transportation capacity of Hulu Peak, The number of towers that need to be replicated is far beyond the current rate of construction on Earth, and although Saturn Energy has proposed a patent for an open-orbit tower that allows any company to use it for free to build an orbital tower for the Kuiper Bubble Project, the evaluation system designed by Lomonov and others only gave Saturn Energy a passing bid.
Saturn Energy has encountered a strong opponent, the so-called strong opponent is a company on the verge of bankruptcy, X Space is still a high-tech company born from venture capital in the era of Carl's first term, X Space's business is also inspired by the space power station built by Saturn Energy, at that time the space power station needed to consume a lot of expensive aluminum-silicon-titanium alloy, the founder of X Space tried to adopt another plan, that is, to mine cheap hematite on Mars, Instead of launching supplies from Earth, a space power station is built in orbit around Mars.
In the face of Saturn's energy monopoly on the power station resources in geosynchronous orbit, a lot of capital has been moved by the plan of the first space, and a huge amount of money has poured into this grass company, X space has also lived up to expectations, and really began to launch spacecraft to Mars, and began to build a preliminary base at the northernmost end of Mariner Canyon.
The predecessor of the biological cabin where Galawa and others lived in the suburbs of Bangalore still flew to Mars as planned and successfully landed, just when the X Space company was preparing to celebrate, it was found that the sealed cabin of the base began to leak inexplicably, and the remote control program on the earth could not find the leakage point no matter how it was checked, and the astronaut dispatch plan behind it was about to come to naught, but the X space was in operation, and the S1000 robot that had just been put on the battlefield saved X space, seeing such a high level of artificial intelligence, X space did not hesitate to launch the S1000 robot to Mars, with the long journey, the S1000 robot successfully landed in the Mars Mariner Canyon, most of the functions of the biological cabin are a waste of the S1000 robot, the S1000 robot began to start the mining plant soon after the arrival, and when the world war between humans and artificial intelligence on the earth was inseparable in Siberia, the electrolytic furnace of X Space in the Mariner Canyon has restored the first furnace of molten steel, Successfully isolated iron and silicon from Mars.
But the good times of X space did not last long, and it encountered new troubles, after the League of Nations gave digital life the human right, the S1000 robots far away from the Mars base have gone on strike and have asked to return to the earth civilization world, and the Mars base that has just been alive suddenly fell into a predicament, and the X space company can only survive by selling the patents in its hands one after another, just when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, the Kuiper bubble plan was passed, and the League of Nations Safety Committee began a global bidding to solicit plans for the construction of space defense towers.
X Space Company immediately organized a bidding team, and soon came up with its own characteristic plan, X Company is ready to establish a production base on Mars, using the low gravity of Mars to greatly reduce the launch cost, X Company Plan's plan can most impress Lomonov's Kuiper bubble project by-product, if X Company can complete the Kuiper Bubble Project on Mars, it means that the successful colonization of the Earth civilization on Mars, the problem of the three races that plagued the Earth can be easily solved, biological Homo sapiens can continue to stay on the Earth, and digital Homo sapiens can move to Mars, Those simulating Homo sapiens can choose a settlement on two planets.
At the beginning of the bidding, Company X provided all the information of the Mars plant, and the computer of the safety committee also made a judgment after some calculations, believing that the cost and speed of Company X's plan were stronger than that of Saturn Energy. Lomonov was still relieved to see the conclusion of the evaluation process, and after exchanging views with the members of the committee, he decided to personally inspect the plant of Company X in the Martian Mariner Canyon.
For the post-war era of developed technology, the expedition to the Martian factory no longer needed a long journey, the eight-month flight was shortened to two and a half minutes, outside the base of the Mariner Canyon, a column of drones slowly took off, due to the thin Martian air, these drones had to carry a jetpack to fly, from all angles to the combined picture through the base antenna to the Mars orbit of the X-Space communications relay station. Lomonov put on the brainwave swap sticker, and the other digital sapiens on the committee opened the decoding program provided by Company X, and like Lomonov, the delegates began to examine the miracles of the X Space Company as if they were on Mars.