Technological Hegemony

Before watching Luo Jia's weekly routine live broadcast, Musk rushed to the airport as if his ass was on fire, got on his Gulfstream G650 private jet, and rushed directly to the White House.

People are still on the road, Musk got the news, Shu Lakel of the Semiconductor Alliance, Mason of the Oak Ridge Laboratory, Jerry En of the Bell Labs and others, also set out on the road immediately, it seems that North American scientists are not confused , knowing that this is the rhythm of a big event.

The President also gave Musk a face, sent a special car to meet him, and took Musk directly from the airport to the White House.

After all, the president is a politician. No one in the scientific community likes politicians. Although everyone is very respectful on the surface, it is only for the sake of power and money. Musk is the liaison of the authorities, coordinating the cooperation between the authorities and major scientific research institutions , is the liaison hub between the authorities and those bad-tempered scientists. For many things, the President also relies on Musk's genius status.

"No way? Luo Jia said it himself. He wants to pull a rope between the zero station and the earth's equator. How can it get to you? It will become a space elevator?" After hearing Musk's eager words, the president , said puzzledly, in his understanding, ropes and elevators are not the same thing.

"President, do you actually believe Luo Jia's words!?" Musk wanted to cry without tears: "How did he kill Google back then? Also, he deliberately leaked the structure of the Karmen vortex street power generation array, but did not tell Only carbon fiber materials with a strength of more than 6,500 can withstand violent vibrations, which caused us to lose a lot of money in the imitation process and cost dozens of lives. He did it! It would be a ghost if he could tell the truth!"

Seeing Musk's excitement, the president said in amazement: "Could it be their propaganda for nanomaterials? If this rope reaches the earth from synchronous orbit smoothly, but is still unscathed, it is enough to prove that the new material of Xingchen Technology has extremely Strong performance, so that they can make efforts in the field of construction and clothing, and occupy a huge market share."

The famous Star Technology Group, vying for market share in the clothing field?

Looking at the president with flamboyant blond hair and his confident eyes, Musk suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

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Luo Jia's live broadcast ended on time. However, the plan to build a space elevator has just begun. The whole company was so excited that they couldn't sleep at night, waiting for the latest news from the direction of Weigu Island.

When the javelin dragging the rope appeared over the equatorial sea, it was already the morning of the next day, like a black line rapidly approaching the horizon. After a whole night of flying, the rope set off from the synchronous orbit, passed through the atmosphere, and finally arrived at Earth.

Kacha~

The rear of the titanium alloy javelin unfolds,

Like a small parachute, it uses air resistance to slow down its speed.

The space rope made of a mixture of carbon nanotubes and graphene nanotubes has withstood the test without breaking. With a bang, the titanium alloy counterweight javelin fell into the water, and the falling rope continued to fall from the sky.

The place where this scene happened is far away from human habitation, in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Otherwise, if it is witnessed by those islanders living nearby, it might be regarded as some kind of miracle. After all, a large piece of rope fell from the sky, stretching more than thirty thousand This kind of thing is beyond imagination.

The military personnel who had been waiting in the nearby waters immediately rushed up, manipulated the diving machinery, and salvaged the rope.

The No. 1 rope is not stressed now, and its length is far more than 36,000 kilometers. After all, it is only a quarter of the thickness of a human little finger. Even if it is made of advanced nanotube materials, it is impossible to hold the distant and huge At Station Zero, the real purpose of the No. 1 rope is actually just traction.

After the diving machinery grabbed the rope, the staff quickly fixed it deep in the center of Weigu Island, and then the engineers installed an ultrasonic traction motor on the No. 1 rope. Behind this traction motor is the No. 2 rope .

"start!"

Following the order of the on-site commander Cao Yuan, the ultrasonic motor began to accelerate and climbed into space. Along the No. 1 rope, the No. 2 rope was sent to the synchronous orbit, and the robot construction team waiting at the No. 0 space station got the No. 2 rope. After that, it will be fixed on the bottom of the space station.

At this time, there are two ropes connecting the earth and station zero. Continue to do the same, and you can turn two ropes into four, four into eight, eight into sixteen, and sixteen into sixteen. Thirty-two.

When the number of nanotubes connecting the earth and the zero station is large enough, an amazing pulling force can be generated, and the space station and the earth are tightly tied together, just like a thin string pulling a kite.

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"Together with the joint research results of the intelligence department, the science department, and the space department, we have confirmed that the thing that Xingchen Technology built on Weigu Island is a space elevator." Musk said in a heavy voice in the conference room these words.

"Space elevator!?"

"Shouldn't a space elevator be a solid building? Why are there lots and lots of soft ropes?"

The generals and ministers raised many questions. Regarding this, Musk could only say with a wry smile: "The sturdy space elevator is the Tower of Babel in the Bible, and the Chinese people don't believe in God. What they built is a scientific building." Set up the soft nanotube rope, and then use the earth's rotation to bind the zero station to the earth like flying a kite."

"I guess it won't be long before they get enough nanotube wires, maybe a thousand, maybe five thousand, I don't know the specifics, but I know that so many high-strength nanotube wires add up to enough to support a A space elevator with a loading capacity of tens of tons, or even hundreds of tons, will run."

Load hundreds of tons! ?

Everyone was shocked and speechless. The speed of the space elevator is not so fast. The speed of the rocket entering space can exceed the first cosmic speed. The space elevator is lifted by a motor, and the speed is definitely not as fast as the rocket.

But the key is the cost. The space elevator uses electricity, and electricity is almost completely free for Huaxia, which has the Karman vortex street power generation technology!

"What's even more frightening is that the space elevator can not only transport goods to space at almost no cost, but also transport goods in space back to Earth." Musk said in a deep voice: "If the minerals on the earth are like a grain of sand, , then the minerals in the universe are like a boundless sea.”

"Once the space elevator is established and space mining develops, the existences like Australia and Canada, which are sparsely populated and started by selling resources, will be the first to be affected and quickly fall from developed countries to poverty."

"Of course, the impact of the space elevator on the world must be more than that. As we all know, there is a large amount of helium-3 stored on the moon. The synchronous orbit station is called Project Zero, and the space elevator is called Project One. The No. 1 project should be the moon base."

There was another silence in the conference room, and everyone felt that things were really serious.

"Damn it, I really want to use Tomahawk missiles to knock down Huaxia's space elevator!" A bald general clenched his fists with fierce eyes.

Although more than one person thought in his heart to blow up the space elevator of Xingchen Technology, everyone knew that it was impossible, because Huaxia was a nuclear-armed country.

We should be grateful to those predecessors who created the miracle of two bombs and one satellite in the difficult years. Looking at the attitude of North America today, wanting to swallow China alive, it is not difficult to imagine that China is not a nuclear-armed country. The current situation, Definitely going to be tougher.