Chapter 398: Freedom into the Space Age
Isn't it just the successful manufacture of an aerospace aircraft, now it's 2035, science and technology has developed to a very advanced level, aerospace aircraft (space shuttles) and the like, Huaxia got it out ten years ago, and successfully carried out many space missions, realized reusability, and greatly reduced the cost of space exploration, which is not an uncommon thing.
The Star Glory, a 100% private airline, is definitely far inferior to the national team in terms of technical strength, and it has only been established for more than ten years, and it has accumulated a lot of money, and there have been many financial crises in the middle, burning tens of billions, but in terms of technical strength, it still does not rank among the top five in China, and it still does not have too high competitiveness.
Even if the aerospace plane is built, I am afraid that it is a high cost, the technical level is average, and the performance is also a general product, at most it is a gimmick and decoration, even if the test flight is successful, it does not mean that it can achieve good results in the market, so although it has also aroused the group excitement of netizens on the Internet, and the public opinion response is enthusiastic, but at most it is excited for three or five days, and then it becomes ordinary and flat, which does not seem to be so far-reaching and huge.
But for Xu Yuan, this is definitely a remarkable milestone event.
A breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion is no less important than some time ago.
Because of the aerospace aircraft, in order to be successfully developed, there are three core technologies, like a roadblock, blocking the front, and all of them must be solved.
The first is the variable cycle aero engine technology, that is, through the new variable cycle engine, a huge thrust is generated, so as to accelerate the aerospace aircraft to seven times the speed of sound, at an altitude of more than 40,000 meters, but also more energy-saving, so as not to consume all the fuel.
The second is plasma engine technology, which uses a special method to accelerate the working fluid in the plasma state to more than 1,000 kilometers per second, and the power-to-weight ratio exceeds 100, which can continue to accelerate the aircraft with greater thrust and enter the space environment at a height of more than 300 kilometers.
In space, the working fluid in the aircraft is less, the fuel is basically consumed, and it can only rely on the light energy generated by the sun to irradiate the solar panels on the back of the aircraft, and begin to charge the aircraft, so that all the high-energy batteries with an energy density of 580wh/kg can be supplemented with more electrical energy, so that the aerospace aircraft, with a thrust of about 300 kilograms, drives the aerospace aircraft, which can not only reach the lunar orbit more than 300,000 kilometers away, but also slowly weaken to achieve the moon landing, and also ensure the remaining electricity. It is allowed to push the working fluid and allow the aerospace aircraft to return home.
The carrier does not exceed a hundred kilograms of lunar rocky soil.
When you come back, all you need to do is take a few waves and find a safe airport to land.
Variable cycle engine + ion engine + high-energy battery and high-efficiency power generation plate, only the aerospace aircraft that meet these conditions at the same time can achieve the moon landing and return, which is equivalent to the threshold of three superpowers, only the big countries can cross, and they may not be able to cross all of them.
But Star Glory, a private aerospace company, has successfully broken through the three fortresses with its own efforts and inspiration - although the dozens of senior engineers who have spent high salaries have brought some technology and experience and played an important role, but this kind of thing cannot be publicized in a big way, otherwise it is a trivial matter for the aerospace aircraft to be banned, and the company is lost.
Anyway, the Star Glory Company has achieved a technological breakthrough, crossed that threshold, and became one of the very few, announcing that it has the qualification to explore the deep universe, which also means that it has the opportunity to occupy the first place, and in the process of mining space resources in the future, it will definitely have a place and get a very fat cake.
Not only that, the Star Glory company invested by Xu Yuan also has an important late-mover advantage: low cost.
Because before the development of the aerospace aircraft, Xu Yuan set the tone, to develop two types of aerospace aircraft, one is the emperor version, the other is the beggar version, it can be clearly seen from the name that the emperor version of the aerospace aircraft is for the astronauts who are serious, so the price is very high, the cost is also high, and the redundancy coefficient is large, the purpose is to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
The beggar's version of the aerospace aircraft, in order to save more costs, even the astronauts have been cut, directly into an unmanned version of the aircraft, the internal parts and materials, are also cheap, just use the cheapest, redundant backup or anything else do not need to be considered, the battery can be less bringing, the cargo volume from the moon back to the blue star has been increased to 150 kilograms, the cost performance is very high, if from the space environment, such as gold, rare earths and other high-value metals are mined, and can be purified and taken away, human beings from space to extract resources, it can be completely profitable, instead of continuing to throw money into it and not seeing returns for a long time, exhausting the confidence of investors.
In other words, the use of low-cost aerospace aircraft manufactured by Star Glory Company can allow mankind's space exploration to reach a critical point of profit and loss, as long as it can bring high-value minerals or minerals.
"Yes, very good, I actually won another super jackpot, only spent 50 billion, and got more than 40% of the shares of a company with a future market value of at least 10 trillion, if you increase investment, it is no problem to get control, let the aerospace aircraft, completely for my use, so that all the resources in the solar system have the possibility of being developed and utilized."
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"It's best, to pack the most core technology, bring it to the Ming world, and then start to cultivate top talents from a young age, at least 500,000 people, about ten or twenty years, the talent system of the Ming world, eat through the core technology of variable cycle engines, plasma engines and high-energy batteries, and then even if you don't import goods from the modern society, you can achieve most of the technical autonomy, and the dependence is greatly reduced again, even if you cut off the connection in the future, the Ming universe can also develop independently, Don't fall into passivity and paralysis. ”
"On the side of modern society, the competition is still a bit fierce, the global population has exceeded 10 billion, and the number of countries is close to 300, although it is about to be able to exploit the resources of outer space, setting off waves of capital frenzy, all of them have to go to space to expand in the enclosure, or huddle together for warmth, technology sharing, cooperative development, and have formed several forces, both cooperation and competition with each other, and there are also stumbling blocks behind them, and the disputes on the blue star have been brought to space, although this is not necessarily a bad thing, But it is definitely not a good thing, especially because it causes a lot of waste of resources, which leads to unnecessary duplication of construction, which is very bad from the perspective of human civilization as a whole. ”
"And the Ming world, it is much simpler, the current hegemon-level power, only one Xujiazhuang, no one can challenge, the economic scale accounts for more than half of the Ming world, has popularized nine years of compulsory education, no one is invincible in the military, as well as gold mines, silver mines, copper ore, rare earths and other important resources, more than eighty, are only in the hands of Xujiazhuang, other forces either have no ability to occupy, if they have no ability to mine and purify, they must rely on Xujiazhuang's smelting system."
"There is also the financial field, Xujiazhuang has obtained the right to issue currency, which can issue an additional 5% to 10% of banknotes every year, without causing inflation, without bringing about the dilution effect of wealth, which will only stimulate the economy to be hotter and develop faster, and the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages."
"If it is another twenty or thirty years, even the territory of outer space will be controlled by Xujiazhuang, only I, the citizens, people and scientists of Xujiazhuang, can enter space and participate in tasks such as mining, space experiments, and space industrial production.
"Si~Si~"
Xu Yuan suddenly took a deep breath, the expression on his face became a little strange or sluggish, and after a while, he walked out of the state of talking to himself.
By the way, Hu Xuerong, who was hiding in the hole in the desk, was pulled up, so that she could stop making trouble and affect her browsing the news on the Internet.
Hu Xuerong tidied up her clothes and makeup, wiped the corners of her mouth with a tissue, and didn't take the man's words to heart, took out her lipstick, briefly touched up her lips, hugged the man's neck, and said in his ear: "Husband, what are you busy with every day, I don't think you have much to deal with, why can't you spare any time to accompany me?" The longevity medical research project I have in hand has recently achieved some results, don't you care? ”
"Oh, tell me, what's the result?" Xu Yuan was a little interested and asked.
"Our researchers have achieved the vitality of human cells, increase by 7%, increase life expectancy by 15%, specific to life, it is estimated that life can be extended by about five years old, the effect is not bad, the important thing is that there are no side effects, this is much more secure than other life extension medical programs, and the safety is greatly improved......" Hu Xuerong talked about some professional-related content, in front of Xu Yuan, showing her role and ability.
"Not bad."
Xu Yuan nodded, five years of life extension, this is a great little breakthrough, compared with those top biomedical research institutions abroad, has achieved a huge achievement of 20 years of safe life extension, the current catch-up, can only say that there is still a gap, there is still a lot of room for improvement.
Thinking of life extension technology, in many Western countries, it is also in full swing, favored by all kinds of capital, and has made very rapid progress, and even realized the use of pig internal organs, instead of human internal organs, transplant surgery, there is no rejection reaction, the patient's survival is good, and to countless patients waiting for organ transplantation, bring great hope, but also let the whole human medicine, it seems to enter the era of organ shortage.
This also made Xu Yuan come to a speculation: those pharmaceutical companies in the West must have found countless people for drug trials, otherwise it is unlikely that the progress will be so fast, and then think that many Western interest groups have become more and more anti-human in recent years, so it is not surprising to do anything without a bottom line.
This means that even if Xu Yuan has found a lot of people, under the premise of ensuring relatively safety, he also goes to carry out drug observation tests, and it is difficult to catch up with the Western pharmaceutical groups in the estimated progress, so he can only watch them, establish a solid first-mover advantage, and come up with an amazing technology and service goal, in addition to their own people, the other target is the world's rich collective, a box of medicine for a few hundred yuan, to take two or three boxes a week, and the medicine cannot be stopped, forming a long-term dependence until death, in order to stop bringing benefits to it.
It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a 'long-term leek'.
Therefore, the biggest side effect is that the drug cycle is long, it costs a lot of money, it is easy to spend millions a year, it is not particularly rich, or it is bankrupt, and it cannot be exchanged for a few more years of life, unless the personal assets reach the level of 100 million, it is more suitable to buy Western medical services, otherwise compared with ordinary people, it is not too different.
Even so.
Even if the Western pharmaceutical groups are just for money, just for profit, and have no conscience and morality at all, because of the first-mover advantage, Xu Yuan feels that it is still necessary to come up with some funds and recruit some people to break into the interior of these pharmaceutical groups, use commercial espionage-like means to probe their technical secrets, and then find a way to steal them as an important reference, so as to speed up their own longevity medical research, otherwise they will completely rely on single-handedness and do not take some special means. It will definitely fall into passivity, and it will be far behind, and it will be difficult to catch up.
And in this regard, Xu Yuan also compiled and spent a budget of more than 5 billion, tempted by interests, recruited a lot of internal ghosts, and really stole a lot of core technologies, so that scientists and researchers opened up their research, and at the same time they were shocked, it was too anti-human, it was simply evil to the extreme, Western pharmaceutical groups, in order to help themselves and help ambitious rich people achieve immortality, privately did not know how many appalling things they did, once exposed, it was definitely a major event that shocked the world. It will cause unimaginable contradictions and conflicts, or simply war, Xu Yuan also feels that he must be careful to avoid causing trouble, after all, on the side of modern society, his strength is relatively weak, and he cannot withstand the pressure or blows exerted by Western pharmaceutical groups.
It's just that it is too dark and terrible, resulting in today's Western world, which has long been an active volcano, has long been a hell on earth, there is not much light, there is evil everywhere, and there are loopholes everywhere, just throw some money into it, you can achieve very good results, Xu Yuan believes that relying on this line alone, you can save a lot of effort, maybe within 20 years, you can achieve unimaginable success in the field of life extension medical treatment, Xu Yuan is quite confident and very sure of this.