"This is impossible!"
With a critical mindset, Fred clicked on the video on Celestial Trade's official website called [Asteroid Mining Record]. His expression gradually changed from disdain to doubt, and then from disdain to shock. When he saw the two mechanical arms eject two light blades that looked like laser knives, his heart suddenly shrank.
Soon after, there was the exclamation of 'This is impossible!' from before.
The video continued to play.
The two light blades crisscrossed and cut two holes in the ore body without any hindrance. Then, the tools turned into hammers, and large pieces of ore were peeled off from the asteroid in no time. The mechanical hammer hammered on the ore and at the same time hammered on his heart. The technical strength demonstrated by Future Mining completely shattered the doubts and disdain in his heart.
He was the editor-in-chief of the technology section of the New York Times. In recent years, he concluded that compared to the product launches of Apple and Microsoft, readers seemed to be more and more interested in learning about Future Group's new products.
From NASA's announcement that Celestial Trade dragged the Bennu asteroid to the Earth-Moon orbit, he had published more than a dozen articles in a row and followed up on this.
"Who gave the madmen on the other side of the Pacific the right to drag three billion tons of explosives near our home?"
"Technology must be limited, and unrestrained technology will only accelerate our destruction! This time it's three billion tons of explosives, then what about next time? Ten billion tons? God can't save us then! We will be like the dinosaurs, extinct in the hard landing of the asteroid! "
As the editor-in-chief of the technology section, it seemed inappropriate for him to say these words. But as an editor-in-chief who climbed up from a reporter, he knew very well what a journalist should say. The seriousness and rigor of the news? No, no, no, that was the history of the last century. News without gimmicks had no future!
Therefore, he chose to go against the mainstream society.
At the same time, he also believed that he had the obligation to stand up and remind the UA people who blindly followed Future Technology to rationally treat the man who was constantly expanding.
Because of his harsh words and controversial statements, he was even invited as a guest on a well-known talk show in the UA as the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times.
In his computer, a document criticizing Celestial Trade for dragging the asteroid to the Earth-Moon system was edited, and it could be published once he brought it back to the newspaper. For this document, he went to almost all the universities in Washington State and even flew to Massachusetts to consult an expert in the field of astronomy who taught at Harvard University. He proved that mining on the Bennu asteroid was impractical and extremely dangerous.
He was very confident about this report.
Because the professor from Harvard University patted his chest and assured him that even with the world's top technology, at most, he could only bring back a few mineral samples from the Bennu asteroid. Transporting ores from 400,000 kilometers away would consume several times more fuel than harvesting ores.
It turned out that this professor had been in the laboratory for too long and could no longer keep up with the development of the times.
The video released by Celestial Trade made Fred's face swollen.
Impossible?
Celestial Trade used practical actions to tell him what it meant to make the impossible possible.
Fred silently closed the video and rubbed his sore eyebrows.
"F * ck, what have I been doing for the past half a month …"
For this report, he put too much effort into it. However, if he published it, it would be like sticking his face out for people to slap him again.
But if he just gave up …
In the end, he made the decision to give up on this report, and he felt his heart was bleeding.
…
Hua, Shangjing.
In the Aerospace Technology Laboratory of the University of Science and Technology, an old professor with gray hair was meticulously staring at the image on the computer screen, and from time to time, he was amazed. Standing behind him was an old man with a straight back and a stern expression, as well as a middle-aged man with a square face.
The old man's name was Liu Zhusheng, an academician of the Hua Academy of Sciences.
Some time ago, he just returned from Coro Island. Before he could rest for two or three days, the old leader found him and handed him a video file. The picture in the video was the working video of Celestial Trade's latest spacecraft, the Stingray P-1. The country was very interested in the engine used by the Stingray P-1 and the "laser knife" used to cut the ore body, so they found him, the most prestigious person in the aerospace field of Hua, hoping that he could carefully figure it out and see if he could find any clues from the video.
After repeatedly watching the video more than a dozen times, Academician Liu finally sighed and closed the video after watching it for the twentieth time.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man standing behind him couldn't wait to ask.
"How is it? Academician Liu, did you find anything? "
Liu Zhusheng glanced at him, picked up the teacup next to him, moistened his throat, and said slowly.
"If I guessed correctly, their engine uses electric propulsion technology."
The middle-aged man's expression changed slightly, and he was about to say something, but Academician Liu slowly spoke before him.
"I know what you want to say, it's impossible. The thrust of electric rockets is more than one order of magnitude less than that of chemical rockets."
"But I want to tell you now that the specific impulse of the electromagnetic propulsion system is much higher than that of the chemical fuel propulsion system. Using the principle of electromagnetic acceleration, in theory, the exhaust velocity can be obtained 1 to 2 orders of magnitude higher than that of chemical fuels. I don't know what the future spacecraft will look like, but I can be sure that the future spacecraft will not be tied to bundles of fuel tanks and waste a lot of precious fuel on accelerating the fuel itself. "
"What you want to say is impossible, it's just that we can't do it with our technology."
Academician Liu's words made the middle-aged man speechless.
As the person in charge of the Hua Aerospace Science and Technology Group, only the old man who designed the Shenzhou series dared to speak to him like this, and he was completely convinced. Although his administrative level was much higher than his, in terms of importance to the country, ten of him couldn't compare to a truly capable academician.
At this time, the old man who had been standing there without saying a word slowly opened his mouth.
"What about the laser knife that can cut minerals?"
"That's not a laser knife." Academician Liu shook his head. "Although it's not in my field, I also know a little bit. That thing was probably the ion jet technology. Through the ion jet with a temperature of tens of thousands of degrees, even a piece of depleted uranium steel will be poked through, let alone an ore body. "
The old man's expression changed slightly, and the shock on the middle-aged man's face was even more obvious.
This meant that even if a tank was placed in front of the ion jet knife, it would be like a piece of paper.
The old man calmed down and asked in a deep voice.
"Take this Stingray P-1 as an example. How big is the gap between us and them in ion thruster propulsion and ion jet technology? Is it possible to replicate similar equipment? "
Liu Zhusheng shook his head.
"Our starting point in the aerospace field is too low, and there is still a big gap compared to the UA and Russia. If we directly compare with Celestial Trade … To be honest, there is no comparison at all. "
There is no comparison at all …
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly.
Although he had never imagined that the Aerospace Science and Technology Group could develop a similar spacecraft in his hands, Senior Liu's answer still made him feel bitter in his heart.
At this moment, the dignified old man spoke again.
"Strengthen cooperation with Celestial Trade, especially in the aerospace field. Since the broad prospects of the development of outer space resources have been proven, we must not be left behind in this regard. "When the old man said this, he looked at the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man understood and immediately nodded.
"Understood!"
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