At the same time, the other side.

In the headquarters building of the Science and Technology Institute on Fuxing Road, a conference was held in the fields of aerospace, biology, engineering, and materials. Seminars of experts and academicians in many fields are also being held.

Outside the spacious conference room, Academician Xu Hongchang, who was wearing a simple gray shirt, walked into the conference room with steps, and many people were already seated at the conference table full of nameplates.

Scanning the conference room, there was a hint of surprise in his eyes.

Today's meeting was notified at short notice, and it was said that it was an internal meeting, and the content was not told.

At first, he thought it was just a small meeting, which had something to do with his area of expertise, and this kind of meeting was often for him, and he didn't pay much attention to it.

Now it seems that the guess is a little wrong, judging from the nameplate on the table and the people present, the academician-level scholars present at this meeting are more than double digits.

Looking at this posture and battle, it should not be easy to discuss.

Glancing at the people present, Academician Xu Hongchang withdrew his gaze with interest and walked to his position, and just as he was about to sit down, a familiar voice came from his ears.

"Lao Xu, are you here too?"

Xu Hongchang turned around and looked over, and beside him, an old man who had just walked in from outside the conference room and was about the same age as him was walking towards this side with a thermos cup.

Seeing his old friend, Xu Hongchang was stunned for a moment, and asked in some surprise: "Didn't you still do research in the South China Sea yesterday, why did you end up here today?" ”

On the opposite side, Academician Wu Weihua, who walked in with a thermos cup, put the thermos cup in his hand on the table with a smile, and said: "I received a notice temporarily, saying that there is a more urgent meeting to be held, so I came over." ”

Saying that, like Xu Hongchang, he glanced at the conference room and sighed: "It's worthy of him, this speed, this influence, tsk, big outrageous." ”

Hearing this old friend's emotion, Academician Xu Hongchang was stunned for a moment, and then asked curiously and quickly: "Do you know what today's meeting is about?" ”

Wu Weihua nodded with a smile and said, "If I'm not mistaken, I should know." ”

"What? Don't sell it, say it quickly. Xu Hongchang urged.

Wu Weihua shook his head, smiled and said mysteriously: "It has something to do with the family with your surname." ”

"Where is my surname?"

Hearing this, Xu Hongchang thought quickly in his mind and asked, "You mean the one over there?" ”

Wu Weihua said with a smile: "Who else can have such a great influence besides him." ”

Hearing this, Xu Hongchang asked with interest: "What about today's discussion?" ”

Wu Weihua smiled, sold a pass, and said, "You'll know later." ”

On the side, Xu Hongchang glanced at him and scolded: "You old guy, you still have a hanging appetite." ”

Wu Weihua smiled, did not speak, sat down in his place, and his eyes fell on the nameplate of the conference table again.

Aerospace, Biology, Engineering, Materials. Tsk, just the academicians he knows are more than a slap in the face, not to mention those academicians and experts in other fields who are not familiar.

If I'm not mistaken, this meeting must have something to do with the Lunar Biosphere Project, right?

Of course, he can't be sure, but from the experts and scholars attending the meeting, it is very likely that it is the lunar biosphere project.

After all, apart from this, he couldn't think of any plan or project that required so many experts and scholars from different fields to discuss together.

But what made him a little puzzled was, if it was the lunar biosphere project, why didn't that person come?

As the hour hand on the wall reached ten o'clock, all the leaders, experts and scholars from all walks of life and fields participated in the conference.

In the spacious conference room, the staff who maintained order closed the door of the conference room and stood up behind the door.

At the conference table, the meeting was finally started. The person presiding over the meeting was naturally Yuan Zhouli, who was a science and technology scholar.

Standing in front of the microphone and clearing his throat, Yuan Zhouli announced the start of the meeting and continued: "I am tired of taking time out of your busy schedule to come here to participate in this meeting, because of the urgency of time and confidentiality, I did not inform you of the content of the meeting in advance, and I hope you can understand."

After a slight pause, he continued: "In the next meeting, the discussion will involve the moon above our heads, because it involves a more sensitive international situation. ”

Hearing this, everyone sitting in the conference room had different expressions on their faces, some were surprised, some were surprised, and some were interested and really like that.

But at this point, everyone turned their attention to the silver-white screen in the conference room.

There, a PPT picture has been screened.

When I saw the pictures that were screened, the originally quiet conference room suddenly sounded a somewhat noisy discussion.

They exchanged surprised glances with the people sitting next to them, and many of them saw surprised expressions on each other's faces.

'Lunar Biosphere Project' + 'Lunar Outpost Research Station' composed of 'Large Lunar Integrated Base!' ’

Although everyone here today already knew that the manned lunar landing project was a perfect success, they still did not expect that this would be the case at today's meeting.

In particular, the lunar biosphere project can be said to have surprised almost everyone.

No one thought that what they were going to talk about today was actually to build a biosphere on the moon?

In the conference room, Academician Xu Hongchang looked at the picture that was projected, looked at it with his mouth open for a while, and then turned his head violently, swallowed his saliva, and asked his old friend sitting next to him:

"It's . Building Biosphere 3 on the Moon? ”

On the side, Academician Wu Weihua nodded, and just as he was about to speak, Yuan Yunchang, who was sitting at the conference table, spoke.

"With the perfect success of the Xinghai manned lunar landing project, it has become one of the major areas of future space exploration. It is foreseeable that space will undoubtedly be our future and the future of humanity."

According to the proposal of Academician Xu Chuan, chief designer of the "Manned Spaceflight and Lunar Exploration Project", the construction of a large-scale comprehensive base on the lunar surface will become an important springboard and bridge for us to go out of the earth and into deep space in the future."

"The base will take the one-month biosphere project and a lunar scientific research outpost as the core to solve various problems such as low gravity, no air, and difficult survival encountered by human beings after entering space, and at the same time, carry out various scientific research problems related to space development, such as 'material transportation problems', 'artificial photosynthetic materials manufacturing problems', and 'long-distance high-power wireless and energy transmission technology problems'."

"The project will be split into two parts: 'lunar scientific research outpost' and 'lunar biosphere project', the former is tentatively under the sole responsibility of the state, and whether to approve domestic aerospace enterprises to enter is to be determined. The latter is currently tentatively inviting the United States, the European Union, Tsarist Russia, and the Middle East. and other countries and regions to invest and implement. ”

The total budget of the large-scale lunar integrated base project is tentatively set at 300 billion yuan, with 100 billion yuan and 200 billion yuan respectively for the 'lunar scientific research outpost' and the 'lunar biosphere project', and it is expected to mobilize more than 100 universities, scientific research institutions, and non-governmental enterprises."

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In the conference room, Qin Anguo, who is a science and technology expert, read out the content of the meeting from the main seat.

In the audience, even the people who participated in this meeting can be said to be all top experts in China, and even many of them are academician-level bulls, and they were also shocked.

300 billion super project!

When this number is spoken, many people may have no idea. Or think that for an infrastructure madman like Huaguo, a 300 billion project is not enough.

But in fact, there are really more than 300 billion yuan of single projects, excluding those roads and railways that run through the country, and there are almost a handful left.

Even the world-famous Three Gorges Hydropower Project has a total cost of only 248.5 billion yuan, less than 250 billion yuan.

If you look at the aerospace field alone, the single project with the largest investment is the Huaguo Space Station, but the total investment of this project is about 10 billion yuan so far.

Of course, the investment in the space station is calculated in terms of meter dollars, which is about 70 billion RMB (when the space station was built, controllable nuclear fusion had not yet been realized, and the meter yuan had not depreciated. ）

This is a single project that has invested the most in the aerospace field in China, but in comparison, it is more than enough for a large comprehensive base on the lunar surface to build four space stations.

Sitting at the conference table, Academician Wu Weihua couldn't help but take a breath of cold air blown out of the central air conditioner, and said with some emotion: "The 300 billion project, good guy, I am really willing." ”

Although he had already guessed that the content of today's meeting was very likely to be the lunar biosphere project he had talked about before, he never expected that that guy's hand would be so big.

Three hundred billion, tsk.

Not to mention other people, even as an academician of the Academy of Sciences, he is a little sour.

Not to mention the rest, when has there ever been such a large investment in the field of biological science research?

Not to mention 300 billion, there are not even 10 billion.

For research in the field of biological sciences, more than a billion is a proper big project.

He still remembers that the National Endangered Wildlife Germplasm Gene Conservation Project cost 13.8 billion yuan that year, which was almost the top biological science project in China.

In comparison, even a fraction of other people's fractions are not enough, it is really incomparable.

On the side, staring at the PPT of the screening for a while, Academician Xu Hongchang on the side suddenly said: "Biosphere engineering, this is a project that we have been looking forward to for a long time. Wouldn't it be too difficult to build it to the moon? ”

After a pause, he frowned and continued: "I'm afraid that the basic materials such as water, air, glass, and supporting metal structures alone can't be solved. If it were to be shipped from Earth, this project was really unrealistic. ”

Like Wu Weihua, as an academician in the field of biological sciences, he is naturally looking forward to Huaguo's own biosphere project, but to be honest, he is really not optimistic about the lunar biosphere project with the current technology.

In fact, Academician Xu Hongchang is not the only one who has this idea, and many other people who have come to this meeting have this kind of thought.

The difficulty of the lunar biosphere project is too great.

On the conference stage, after introducing the overall deployment plan of the large-scale lunar comprehensive base project, Yuan Zhouli picked up the water cup on the table, moistened his throat shallowly, and continued:

"The relevant situation is like this at present, and then the meeting will be discussed, so I hope that you can not be scrupled with opinions, and any ideas can be put forward at the meeting."

As soon as the words fell, one arm in the audience was raised.

Raising his hand was Academician Park Mingqi of the Academy of Engineering, an old gentleman who has long been engaged in the design theory and technology research of aerospace space agencies and special robots, and has presided over the design of the Huaguo space station.

Yuan Zhouli looked over and nodded to signal the other party to speak.

Academician Park Mingqi stood up, looked at the PPT projected on the screen and said: "Putting aside the cost of this project for the time being, the key point is the feasibility. ”

"There is nothing to say about biosphere engineering, and if this thing is made on the earth, there is no need to talk about it at today's meeting, but if it is put on the moon, the transportation and collection of various basic materials is a huge problem."

"For example, water, air, animals and plants, cement, glass, steel bar, special metals, etc., how to get these things?"

"In addition, the construction on the lunar surface is also a huge problem, and the low-gravity vacuum environment is also quite unfriendly work for construction, have you considered these problems?" ”

On the report platform, Yuan Zhouli nodded and said, "Of course, these things are explained in the planning report that was distributed to you at the beginning of the meeting, and there are corresponding questions and page numbers in the table of contents. ”

Hearing this, everyone in the conference room immediately picked up the planning report document on the table.

On the stage, Yuan Zhouli continued to answer Academician Park Mingqi's question just now: "Regarding the materials, the current tentative plan is that most of the materials will be taken from the moon, such as water, cement, glass, steel bars, metals, and so on. ”

"These things have been investigated during the manned lunar landing project, and the resources that are not on the air, animals and plants on the moon do need to be transported from the earth, but most of the construction materials have relatively sufficient raw materials on the lunar surface to meet the needs of this project."

After a slight pause, he added: "Of course, these are basic minerals, and how to convert and refine them into raw materials for construction projects on the lunar surface is a difficult problem that needs to be solved in this project. ”

Standing in front of the conference table, Academician Park Mingqi didn't care about Yuan Zhouli's addition. What he cared about was the information revealed in this Yuan Yunchang's words.

After all, as a scholar in the field of astronautics, he naturally knows the importance of the lunar base.

This is their bridgehead to the deep space of the universe, and it is also the future of human development.

However, the construction of a lunar base is enormous, especially if there is also a lunar biosphere.

If the difficulty of building a lunar research outpost alone is 100, then after mixing a lunar biosphere project, the difficulty can be directly increased tenfold, or even a hundredfold.

Not to mention the rest, water resources alone are enough to get stuck in this planning project.

After all, the biosphere needs more than a little bit of water, and it would be too expensive to transport a lot of water from the planet.

But what if water is found on the moon?

That's what he cares about.

Water, cement, glass, steel, and metal can all be self-sufficient from the moon, and this sentence reveals a lot of information.

If the basic mineral materials are sufficient, it is not difficult to refine them into raw materials for the construction of the lunar base. It's just that how to reduce costs and increase efficiency needs to be considered.

It seems that the harvest of the manned lunar landing project at the Xinghai Research Institute this time is much more than he expected.

Thinking about it, Academician Park Myung-qi's breathing became a little heavy for a while.

If this 'large-scale lunar integrated base project' can be successfully completed, they will completely occupy a leading position in the future aerospace field, and they will lead the future era!

(End of chapter)