"This robot is good, how about using it in space?"

"Generally, the efficiency is definitely not as high as that of multi-legged robots, but the advantage is that the life span should be quite long, and the maximum 10 years under high-intensity activities, the humanoid still has an advantage."

At the B-level base, the big guy's hand touched the prototype of the Warrior II, pulling the joints from time to time to try to move a few times.

When the Warrior I was demonstrated at the air show, the space agency, which participated in the Explorer series of robots, realized that Xinyuan Robotics had made significant progress.

With the fluency of Warrior One, there is definitely the assistance of AI and advance calculation, and simple one-to-one signal synchronization cannot be so flexible.

So when Lin Ju returned to Xinyuan to personally supervise the H2M offline, several people from the Aviation Development Commission also took the special plane to the B-level base to go around.

The Warrior II robot is not particularly technically different from the Warrior I, except that it has been specially processed and is a verification machine for the lunar environment.

The problem that machinery working on the moon often faces is the annoying charged moon dust, and the movable joints cannot be completely sealed, which is easy to gradually age due to the increase in working hours, increasing the failure rate.

The explorer series of robots also has such a risk, and the solution is only the traditional means, anyway, the positioning of the explorer series is cheap consumables, and the little spider in the early stage of prospecting can survive 400 working days to be considered a victory.

Although the Warrior series of humanoid robots will also be criticized for not being as efficient and flexible as Xenomorph robots, its huge advantage is that it can wear spacesuits.

The range of motion of the joints of the human structure is far less than that of special-shaped robots such as the Explorer, so a simple spacesuit can solve the problem of moon dust and greatly extend the service life.

Mistakes have improved reliability, and Lin Ju only heard from the engineers later.

Warrior II will be followed by Warrior III and IV, and a variety of multi-series ground engineering prototype tests will be sent to the moon in the official version.

The big guy's eyes turned to the Warrior I, who was absorbing a huge number of human movement samples not far away, and was trying to walk like a polio patient, but tripped himself and fell to the ground.

In fact, the military is more interested in this thing than the space agency.

Modern warfare has been updated and iterated in N versions, and classic army tactics such as trench line shooting, armored cluster charge, and artillery fire coverage have gradually been restrained by various high-tech weapons, and only one last fortress remains: urban street fighting.

For example, the location of overseas peacekeeping missions to rescue refugees is in a labyrinthine slum inside, where it is impossible to identify the presence of militants, and there will be bomb vests and scout attacks if you are not careful.

Commonly used UAVs and cruise missiles can only be used to limit their use in order to avoid accidental damage, and tanks and armored vehicles are not flexible enough, and the main advance still depends on infantry.

Technology is changing with each passing day, but flesh is still flesh, and the flesh that a million years ago was able to kill with a stone axe is still irresistible.

No matter how good an army is, once it gets caught up in street fighting, the exchange ratio is extremely heavy.

Most of the robots that can be used now are tracked or micro UAVs, which have a bit of a role but also have shortcomings in tactical effects, and the flexibility is still not enough, and they can't keep up with the speed of infantry maneuvering, and the limitations are not small.

Humanoid robots are different, they can be used as undead comrades to mine for you, disguised as real people to attract firepower, and can also easily replenish weapons and ammunition.

He gave Lin Ju the potential military use of the Warrior series, who thought for a moment and shook his head:

"The Warrior series is controlled by AI autonomously, and if you lose the network in front-line combat, then it means that you will give all your life to AI, whether it is a blessing or a curse, and how big the impact will be;

In fact, the best is still the mechanical exoskeleton, but there are too many troubles to use on Earth. ”

Big guy: "You're also working on this?" ”

"Of course." Lin Ju took out the tablet inside the base, looked for it, and came up with a few sketches of exoskeleton spacesuits.

"Or the moon, one-sixth of the mass can greatly reduce the power consumption of the exoskeleton while carrying a fairly heavy battery, the overall pressure is lighter than that of the earth, and it can be put into practical use in the next two or three years.

On Earth, energy is still a huge issue, and there is no guarantee of 24 hours of basic activity. ”

"Battery......"

The big guy thought to himself that this is indeed a big problem, and the cost of space use is much higher than that on the ground, tens of millions are cheap, and it is so expensive to distribute to the army that it cannot be tossed, and ten robots or exoskeletons are estimated to be able to catch up with the cost of a synthetic battalion.

But what does this have to do with him giving people to heaven? He didn't send people to the western heavens.

Speaking of sending people to heaven, the big guy remembered that Ami did a big job yesterday.

John didn't know if he wanted to be like Kennedy, but in the TV debate, he borrowed from the Merlot sect's "we choose to go to the moon" and made a "we choose to go to the Mars".

It's a lot of fun, the competition between Artemis and Dawn is not the same as the last space race, the honor of both sides is far less important than before, both are more pragmatic, and the first place is long gone anyway.

After all, according to the scientific research progress of countries around the world, controllable nuclear fusion will be successful in this century, and it can be basically determined that it can be before 2050, so it makes sense to compete on the moon to occupy helium three ores and rare earths in advance.

Mars is different, first of all, there are no major attractive ore resources on it for the time being, and even if there is, unless it can make people immortal or ascend to the sky in one step, it is not worth paying the price of traveling thousands of miles back.

Colonization is even more unnecessary, send 1,000 people to Mars and establish a permanent residence, this energy can easily accommodate 1 million more people on Earth, and the population pressure on Earth has not yet reached that point.

Clearly, John wanted to use the Mars race to return the situation to the path of the last century, where honor was greater than utility.

But, will it?

Thinking of this, the big guy casually took this as an interesting story and chatted with Lin Ju.

Lin Ju: ......

He can only say that he is expected to do this kind of thing that Red Neck did, and all walks of life actually have the same attitude as a big guy about his speech on Mars.

What's more, everyone, including John himself, didn't believe he could win.

Lin Ju himself is not easy to say, the world line has been disturbed for two years, and it is completely unpredictable who of the two candidates, John and Diane, will come up, and the traditional view is still that Diane has a much better chance of winning

But...... If he really comes up, he will really have to have a manned fire race.

Now the big guy didn't take it to heart because he thought that John was here to make up the numbers, and it was impossible to choose him, and Ami, commanded by Diane, was the same as Huaguo, and he was pragmatic.

But if John really pushed for the "God of War Ares" plan to colonize Mars, would anyone support it?

The opinion of Aramco is not clear, but the huge military-industrial complex, which has already whetted its appetite with the Artemis project, will definitely be!

The last race to the moon, after the termination of the Apollo program, a large number of supporting small companies that made a living from it collapsed, countless people lost their jobs, and the military-industrial complex could no longer eat the sky-high amount of money that Saturn V launched an aircraft carrier battle group at a time.

In order to make a profit, they promoted the even more costly Star Wars program, which cost a total of $200 billion to build a space shuttle, knowing that a monthly salary of two or three hundred dollars in that era could support the life of a family of five, and now it is trillions.

After the alliance disintegrated, but they still let Xiaobu approve the "Constellation" plan to return to the moon, and the Ares 1 rocket made a wild profit of 3 billion US dollars, and caught up with the economic crisis, and was decisively cut by Xiao Heiguo.

And the Artemis program, which was launched under the space race, perfectly fills the appetite of the military-industrial complex, and this year alone, with a total of nearly 100 billion US dollars, is enough for everyone to get satisfactory benefits.

But Artemis planned only six missions, and after that?

What about the industries that Artemis plans to re-proponte, what about the staff, and more importantly, what about the fact that the complex is not alive?

At that time, the boss must solve this problem, otherwise it will be impossible to be safe and stable, and the military-industrial complex will make a choice that is in their interests.

Colonize 1,000 people on Mars? It doesn't matter if it can be achieved or not, but it must be a lot of money.

How tempting is the prospect that the Artemis project may cost less than a fraction of that of the "God of War" Ares?

The landing of Mars is a good thing for them!

Bitter about the Fed's money printing machine, what happened to the wallet of the military-industrial complex? Diao Min is suffering from the price inflation caused by the release of water, but they have really increased their wealth.

And once the God of War Ares program is successfully launched, will the space agency follow?

Lin Ju tentatively asked the big guy this question, and the latter smiled indifferently and waved his hand directly:

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. The Ami people may be more impulsive, but the elite is sensible, and it must be Diane as the boss, how can John be?

Xiaolin, this is that you are young, and John is the one who accompanies him in this election, so he can speak casually without bearing the consequences. It's November 4th, right? The election will start tomorrow, and the results will be on the 8th, and we will see it soon. ”

"Then, if Ami really wants to carry people on the fire......"

"That's it," Seeing that Lin Ju still wanted to ask, the big guy touched his chin and thought about it carefully:

"In 2024? That is, he sent humans to Mars within his 8-year term? Well...... Even if Artemis plans to land on the moon for the first time in 2019, it will have to launch a Mars rover in 2018, an unmanned spacecraft in 2020 to send supplies and a returning spacecraft, and a spacecraft in 2022 to land on Mars in 2024.

Basically, the moon landing and the fire landing were carried out at the same time, and this pressure ...... Unless Artemis plans a follow-up mission that is delayed, it is impossible. ”

Lin Ju: "......"

Forget it, the Forward will definitely be ready by then, and it will be no problem to act as a Martian spacecraft, and it will definitely not lag behind.

Besides, it's not certain whether the favorite golden retriever boss can appear.

"Big guy, why don't we make a bet? I'm betting that John will be selected, and I'm betting on an Explorer II robot, which will be launched in December.

As for you, if you lose, give you the extra tea from your superiors behind the bookshelf......"

The big guy raised his eyebrows: "Good boy, I took this bet, if the golden retriever can be the boss, I will personally give one or two to Lingbao!" ”

Lin Ju: Thank you, big guy, for the tea!

(End of chapter)