Chapter 33: Four Dark Arrows Fly (Part II)
The United States is worthy of being a world hooligan, acquiring and settling in many livelihood enterprises of the Great Xia Dynasty, and even major news media and websites have a lot of shares.
The next day, a number of well-known news websites highlighted a news article on the front page headlines of the United States with different headlines. The article "American people use a feat to tell us how huge the gap between Xia and the United States is" became popular on the Internet.
The text is as follows:
"Just a few days ago, the Americans successfully launched the world's most powerful super rocket ~ 'Falcon Heavy'. Although the SMIC-class rocket crashed during the recovery process, it deviated from the target by about 100 kilometers, and only one of the three recovery boosters is currently working normally. But the successful return of the two boosters and the launch of the sports car into space made the launch successful enough. ”
"In the eyes of some media, the successful launch of this rocket has made the dream of 'landing and colonizing Mars' more and more realistic, let alone returning to the moon..."
"But compared to these gimmicks, what really shocked us Daxia people was that not only did our dynasty not have a rocket of this magnitude at present, but we were still about 10 years away from building a rocket of this magnitude. What's more, it's a private company in the United States that our country is desperately trying to catch up..."
"To put it more bluntly, this time the Americans used their pure strength to tell us the Great Xia people why they are still the strongest country in the world, and how huge the gap between us and them is..."
In the early morning of November 14, Beijing time, the eyes of the world were on NASA's Kennedy Launch Center. Because SpaceX, the most bullish private aerospace company in the United States, has launched a super heavy launch vehicle ~ 'Falcon Heavy' that can [completely crush] all the rockets in the world at present. Let's explain it in the way that we Daxia people can best understand: The carrying capacity of the "Long March 5" carrier rocket, which was hailed by our Daxia people one year ago, cannot even reach half of the "Falcon Heavy" of the United States. ”
"To put it more intuitively, the Long March 5, which only made its first flight in November 2016, can only transport 25 tons of cargo to the 'low earth orbit', and its limit can only transport a Mars probe of about 5 tons to Mars, while the 'Falcon Heavy' of the United States has a 'low earth orbit' payload of 63.8 tons, and its payload to Mars is three times that of ours, which is 16 tons. ”
"Of course, everyone must ask what does this 'Falcon Heavy' 63.8-ton 'low earth orbit' payload mean? Do you know the manned lunar landing program that our Great Xia Dynasty intends to realize in 2030? To realize this plan, our current Long March 5 payload is completely insufficient, and the Long March 9 super rocket that is still being planned is needed. But if the Americans want to return to the moon, they can already achieve this goal that we Daxia people will take another 12 years to achieve with the 'Falcon Heavy'. ”
"However, SpaceX's dream is to land and colonize Mars... And it's not about going to the moon. ”
"But in the United States, can a private company really make rockets? Where did he get the talent? Here we have to mention the history of the space hegemony between the United States and the woolly bear. We all know that as early as the 50s and 60s of the last century, when our Great Xia Dynasty was just established and industrialization was just beginning, the two superpowers, the United States and Mao, had already begun to send astronauts into space with rockets. Among them, in the late 60s, the Americans even developed the 'Saturn 5' super heavy rocket, which no country can surpass today, and its payload was nearly twice as much as today's 'Falcon Heavy Model', and successfully sent American astronaut Armstrong and others to the moon. ”
As a result, the U.S. aerospace industry, which started very early and reached an astonishing height half a century ago, has naturally cultivated a large number of aerospace talents for today's U.S. aerospace industry, as well as rich aerospace resources that can be used by private enterprises. Musk, the boss of SpaceX, has also become a beneficiary of 'planting trees for predecessors and enjoying the shade for future generations', and after SpaceX was founded in 2002, he quickly recruited a large number of talents with rich experience in aerospace science and technology. ”
"Musk's team has invested and put in energy for more than 10 years, just to make a rocket refined and an engine stronger. As a result, they not only achieved today's success in the Falcon Heavy, but their Falcon 9 rocket has become the world's cheapest, most stable and reliable rocket. As a result, it has successfully occupied the absolute share of the world's commercial rocket launch market, and almost squeezed out the Europa and Mao Bear, which originally occupied the mainstream of the market!"
"Not only that, Musk's team also took the lead in realizing the technology of rocket 'recycling' in the world three years ago, so that important components such as rocket thrusters, which were completely discarded after launch in the past but are extremely expensive, can be recycled and reused, thus 'subversively' solving the main cost problem of rocket launch. ”
"Why don't we have this kind of rocket in Great Xia?"
"First of all, there is the innate gap, as the editor said earlier: the United States has successfully sent astronauts to the moon in 1969 with a super heavy rocket with a payload of hundreds of tons such as 'Saturn 5'. And in 1970, we launched our first artificial satellite into the sky with a Long March 1 rocket with a payload of only 300 kilograms, modified from a long-range missile..."
"However, rockets, a field involving basic disciplines and the level of industrialization, cannot catch up overnight. Therefore, when private companies like SpaceX in the United States are already developing super rockets such as "Falcon Heavy", we must also stabilize our "Long March 5" step by step, and then consider realizing the "Long March 9" in 2030, a domestic heavy rocket with light engine technology that is completely different from the "Long March 5". ”
"Therefore, although the launch of the 'Long March 5' in 2016 has made us from a 'space power' to a 'space power', we Daxia people must not be 'fluttering' because of this, and feel that we are very good. Compared with the Americans, we are still 'students', and today's successful launch of the 'Falcon Heavy' by the Americans, we should wake up even more!"
As soon as this article came out, many forums were in an uproar, and Daxia netizens said: Xiaobian let everyone know the gap between Xia and the United States, which is right!
"To tell the truth, there is still a gap between us and the world's most advanced aerospace technology!
"The gap between basic science and engineering experience is not something that can be caught up in just three or four decades. Take your time. ”
"The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard. ”
"Admit the gap!"
"Gou~"
"No dogs!"
"The huge gap is not who bundles more, but that the strongest rocket engine of Mao Xiong is better than that of Great Xia. Xiaobian should seek truth from facts, the gap between the bundles is not so huge, the US imperialist strength is not in the thrust, the US imperialist is strong in orbit determination and satellite technology. ”
Of course, some netizens do not blindly worship the technology of the United States, but give a more rational analysis.
"Daxia Aerospace should take the road of self-reliance, task-oriented, and run fast step by step. When it comes to heavy-duty rockets, they were the heaviest when the Americans landed on the moon, so why are they gone? The drawings are lost? What we need now is not to compare the size of the rocket boosters, but to compare the number of rocket boosters bundled, but new technology. The heavy-duty rocket required for Tiangong Station is being prepared. ”
"The Heavy Falcon is, to put it bluntly, three Falcon 9s tied together. At its core is a Falcon 9, and the first stage of two other Falcon 9s is used as a booster. Therefore, the first stage of the Falcon Heavy has 3x9 = 27 'Merlin-1D' liquid oxygen kerosene engines, and during the take-off phase, up to 27 'Merlin-1D' engines will work at the same time. This configuration makes the Falcon Heavy the rocket with the largest total number of take-off stages since the N1 Super Rocket in the Furry Bear era. Mao Xiong's super rocket N1 was dragged down by 30 engines and failed one after another, and finally buried Mao Xiong's moon landing plan. ”
"Upstairs is right, the lesson of the woolly bear N1 super rocket blood SpaceX will not be unaware, but there is really no other way. 'There is no diamond, hard porcelain work. SpaceX can't build a rocket engine with high thrust, and only has the 'Merlin-1D' engine with less than 100 tons of thrust, and in order to increase the total thrust, it can only bundle 27 'Merlin-1D' engines to make up the number. ”
But the voices were quickly drowned out in a wave of worship.
At this time, some actresses and fresh meat also came out to join the heat, and posted messages one after another to express "Congratulations to Mei Dad on the successful launch" and "Private ownership is good!". Even some big Vs jumped out to analyze the gap between Xia and the United States.
A famous big V published an article "The Inspiration of the Falcon Heavy Rocket".
A few days ago, Musk's SpaceX, a private American company, launched and successfully recovered the Falcon Heavy, a super heavy launch vehicle that can completely crush all the current rockets in the world. On November 24, Space X will also launch the Dragon cargo spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to send supplies and scientific experiment equipment to the International Space Station. The "Great Xia People's Daily" article also said that if the Americans want to return to the moon, they can already achieve this goal that we Daxia people will take another 12 years to achieve with the help of the 'Falcon Heavy'. Can Musk's SpaceX be replicated in Daxia? Is there a market space for commercial aerospace in Daxia? Will there be a private giant like SpaceX in the future? Daxia still has a long, long way to catch up with American technology. ”
"There are so-called experts and professors who have reported that the development of the six major forces of Daxia has entered a period of comprehensively catching up with and surpassing the main body and surpassing the United States. Its economic strength is 1.15 times that of the United States, ranking first in the world; its scientific and technological strength is 1.31 times that of the United States, ranking first in the world; its comprehensive national strength is 1.36 times that of the United States, ranking first in the world; and its national defense strength, international influence, and cultural soft power are catching up and surpassing at an accelerated pace. ”
"But what is the real situation? The American Falcon Heavy has a low-Earth orbit payload of 63.8 tons, and its payload to Mars is three times that of ours at 16 tons. And our Long March 5 can only carry 25 tons of cargo to low Earth orbit. The core technology of Daxia automobile engine has always been controlled by others; Daxia steamship steam turbine technology is in the hands of foot basin and Zhuowei shipbuilding enterprises; Daxia ballpoint pen refill balls need to be imported in large quantities; Daxia special steel needs to be purchased from foot basins; many of the power system braking systems at the core of Daxia high-speed rail come from foreign companies such as Siemens and ABB; most of the mobile phone chips in Daxia come from Qualcomm in the United States; the failure rate of Daxia robots is too high, and so on. ”
"There is a saying that Americans attach importance to basic research, while Bactria prefers practical research. Although we have reached the world's leading level in some cutting-edge fields such as aircraft, computers, and aircraft carriers, regardless of the cost, there is no way to talk about a balance between input and output. The areas in which Daxia has comprehensively crushed the United States and achieved strategic output are about: high-speed rail, mobile payment, bicycle sharing and online shopping, which are the four new inventions of Daxia, but it is difficult to say how many core technologies and innovative components are included in this. ”
"Catching up with and surpassing the United States is not only in terms of technology, but the road for Daxia to catch up with the technology of the United States is still very long, how long is it?"
"According to reports, the Falcon Heavy launch cost is one-tenth of the cost of our launch, and the recovery technology is the key to reducing costs. Although the Mao Xiong national system once caught up with or even surpassed the United States in space technology, it eventually greatly depleted the country's vitality, so that the satellite landed on the red flag. Mass entrepreneurship and innovation, just shouting slogans is useless, and it must be supported by its corresponding institutional and cultural background. The United States has Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Musk, etc., and there are endless figures who have made outstanding contributions to human social civilization, scientific discovery, and technological innovation. Where are all the people who have contributed to the progress of human civilization?"
For a time, the remarks that private ownership is a representative of the advanced social civilization form were all over the Internet.
Yan Wu's progress here is very fast, and now the speed is pressed down every day, because only a week has passed, and 200 kilometers of tunnels have been completed, which is really too fast, and the investment of personnel and resources behind is a little too fast, so now it is basically three or four hours of work a night, just like that, the progress of every night is about fifteen kilometers, which makes the advance preparations of the follow-up troops barely keep up with the progress, where Yan Wu hits, lighting and power can be accessed.
Yan Wu finished his work here, and came out of the entrance and exit of the inspectors who had just opened up the tunnel with a single shot, and the exit was the location of a hydrological monitoring station to be built, and all kinds of resources had already been prepared.
When Yan Wu came out, he heard several engineers on the side talking about something, and he was very familiar with these people now, so he leaned over, "What are you looking at? What are you angry about?"
"It's not the so-called experts and big Vs on the Internet. The American National Congress had just launched a heavy rocket the day before yesterday, and its payload exceeded that of the 'Long March 5' rocket launched by Great Xia last year, and they were boasting about the gap between Great Xia and American University. It's really been a long kneeling and can't stand up, only those of us who do engineering know how powerful the Great Xia Dynasty is in terms of infrastructure. ”
"That is, a group of Daxia people are even happier than the Americans themselves because the United States launched a rocket, really, they simply forgot that they were Daxia people. ”
"Don't say it, many of these celebrities and scholars are foreign nationals, who come to cheat and eat and drink in the Great Xia Kingdom, but they pay taxes to others. ”
"A bunch of bitches raised something, it's not a thing. ”
"Fuck! And this?!" Yan Wu was furious when he heard this, the last time he went to the moon, he wanted to pluck the so-called American flag to him, but unfortunately the time was too tight and he couldn't find it. Now that the United States has launched a bullshit rocket, there are many people in Daxia who can't wait to kneel down and lick it, this attitude is simply unbearable for Yan Wu, why has the Chinese nation fallen to such a point now, where has this spirit gone? !
"How much does that thing load?" Yan Wu asked, suppressing his anger.
"It is said to be 63.8 tons, and this launch was not fully loaded, so a two-ton Truss car was loaded up, saying that it was a trial operation. ”
"Okay, I see. It's okay here, I'll go back first. "Yan Wuxin said, what bullshit rocket is only 63.8 tons, Lao Tzu brought back 200 tons of ore last time he went to the moon, Meiliguo, you wait for me.
In fact, in Yan Wu's heart, he has already regarded this earth as the backyard of his own strong star monarch, the Great Xia Kingdom is his own child, his own child is not angry, he admires the foreign and flattering, can the writer not be angry?
"Okay, Brother Yan, you go slowly. "Every staff member is polite to Yan Wu, because they know Yan Wu's ability, and those who have the ability will be looked down upon wherever they are.
Looking at Yan Wu Yuanfei's figure, several engineers whispered, "Isn't our action too obvious?
"We're not lying, it's true what happened online. Someone jumped out to hold a broken rocket, happier than seeing his own father and mother, I really don't know what my surname is. ”
"Yes, you should let Brother Yan slap them in the face and give them a good look. ”
"Don't say it, hurry up and report to the top, we're done with the play, and it's none of our business next. ”
Yan Wu flew in the air, the more he thought about it, the more he didn't taste it, looking at the starlight in the sky, thinking about the Shenxiao Jade Palace that he didn't know where, and sighed. The words of several engineers do have a ** place, but Yan Wu used his mobile phone to go on the Internet for a while, and found that what others said was also true, there were too many people on the Internet who shouted that Mei Dad was mighty, and a group of people who took foreign passports to make money in Daxia were even more shameless. Is there anything that needs to go to heaven now? I'm in a good mood, send it to heaven for you, don't send any rockets. Don't pick any time, just these two days! Let those American devils see that Daxia is no worse than them. ”
"What's embarrassing, I said old man, you're too hypocritical, aren't you? You dare to say that those engineers didn't say this in front of me today? Do you believe it that I got angry and immediately flew to the Pacific Ocean to find an American aircraft carrier and broke it?"
"Believe, just believe! Then just say it, I'll do it for free, I'm just this temper, I can't get used to seeing foreign devils raising their might on the head of Great Xia, followed by a group of fake foreign devils waving their flags and shouting, I really think it's time for the Eight-Nation Alliance to enter Beijing? Even at that time, Lao Tzu also broke them all!"
"Okay, you name it, I'll come over here! I'll just say that you must have been prepared for a long time, and you guys who engage in politics have a lot of flowers and intestines in their stomachs. ”
The scarlet mecha turned a corner in the night sky and flew north, where there was a Great Xia satellite launch base, where Ms. Fu said would be waiting for him.
"The manned space station, developed by Daxia itself?" Yan Wu asked, looking at the cross-like thing in front of him.
"That's right! This is the crystallization of the wisdom of our Great Xia Dynasty's space technology research, the Great Xia Space Station. The whole was completed last year, and it is divided into five warehouses, a core cabin, two experimental cabins, a manned warehouse and a cargo warehouse. Originally, it was planned that the core module and the experimental module would be launched in 2018. Now that we have Yan Wu, it will be even better, we have added two additional experimental cabins,"
"It's too light, it's not worth it, don't be compared to the United States. The thing in front of him looked at the fight, but it was actually very light, Yan Wu quietly reached out and tried it.
"It's 118 tons in total, which is not light. What does Mr. Yan think? Are you sure?" asked a base general.
"No problem, last time I moved 200 tons of ore back, sprinkled with water~" Yan Wu's expression was very relaxed.
"Hahahaha, Mr. Yan is really humorous. This is the first phase of the space station, and I will have to trouble Mr. Yan for help in the future. ”
"No problem, but today I helped for free because I couldn't get used to the arrogance of American devils. I'm going to collect the money next time. ”
"Certainly, no problem. ”
"By the way, old man, can you give me a high-definition camera equipment, and can I broadcast this liftoff live?" Yan Wu put forward his own request.
"You mean, carrying a camera to broadcast the launch of the space station. Ms. Fu's eyes widened, as if she couldn't believe Yan Wu's words.
"Almost, I also want to take some pictures of the space scenery for our people in Great Xia. By the way, the distance is a little longer, and it is better to be able to teleport images to the moon. That's what you did on the Moon Rabbit, I think there must be more advanced equipment now, right?" Yan Wu touched his nose and said, he had his own little Jiujiu, but unfortunately he didn't cover it up well enough.
The base general's eyes were about to fall out, and he couldn't imagine what the god in front of him wanted to do, my God, don't make any big incidents!
Ms. Fu couldn't hold the mobile phone she had taken out, Ancestor, what do you want to do?
"I~ I need to call my superiors to report. Ms. Fu had a distorted smile on her face, and she didn't know whether she was crying or laughing now.
The seven Guoding of the Great Xia Imperial Court actually agreed to Yan Wu's request, which was like child's play in the eyes of Ms. Fu and the base general.
Yan Wu turned around and registered a Flying Fish account, demanding that this live broadcast be carried out by the Imperial Court TV and Flying Fish TV, and asked the Imperial Court to come forward and ask Flying Fish to allocate all the proceeds of his live broadcast to him. In order to recover the cost of this impulse, Yan Wu really tried his best.