Before watching Luo Jia’s weekly routine live broadcast, Musk rushed to the airport as if his **** was on fire, boarded 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 Not confused, knowing that this is the rhythm of something big going on.
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 authorities and major scientific research institutions The cooperation between them is the liaison hub between the authorities and those bad-tempered scientists. For many things, the President still relies on Musk’s genius status.
“No way? Luo Jia himself said that he will pull a rope between the zero station and the earth’s equator. How can he get to you and become a space elevator?” The president heard Musk eagerly After speaking, he said puzzledly, in his understanding, ropes and elevators are not the same thing.
“President, do you actually believe what Luo Jia said!?” 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 it didn’t tell us that only carbon fiber materials with a strength of more than 6,500 can resist violent vibrations, which caused us to lose a lot of money and dozens of lives during the imitation process. He did all the things! If he can tell the truth, he will be a ghost!”
Seeing Musk’s excitement, the president said in amazement: “Could it be their propaganda for nanomaterials? If this rope successfully reaches the earth from synchronous orbit, but remains unscathed, it is enough to prove the new material of Xingchen Technology , has extremely powerful 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 is competing for market share in the clothing field?
Musk looked at the president with flamboyant blond hair and his confident eyes, and 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 waters, it was already the morning of the next day, like a black line rapidly approaching the horizon. After flying all night, the rope set off from the synchronous orbit and passed through the atmosphere. Finally came to the earth.
Crack~
The back of the titanium alloy javelin unfolds like a small parachute, using air resistance to slow down the 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 It fell 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. More than 30,000 kilometers without a break, this kind of thing is really beyond imagination.
Military personnel who had been waiting in the nearby waters rushed up immediately, manipulated the diving machinery, and salvaged the rope.
Rope No. 1 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 As for the huge No. 0 station, 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 Number two rope.
“Go!”
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 After the second rope, it will be fixed to 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 The root becomes thirty-two.
When the number of nanotubes connecting the earth and the zero station is sufficient, it can generate an amazing pulling force, and tie the space station and the earth tightly together, just like pulling the thin string of a kite.
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“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 was in the conference room with a heavy voice said 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. They built it.” It is a tower of science, set up soft nanotube ropes, 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 exactly, but I know that so many high-strength nanotube wires add up, It is enough to support a space elevator with a load capacity of dozens or even hundreds of tons.”
Hundreds of tons of load! ?
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 speed of the first universe. But 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~Soverse.com~space mining can develop, such as 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 space elevators on the world must be more than that. As we all know, there is a large amount of helium three stored on the moon. The synchronous orbit station is called Project Zero, and the space elevator is called Project One. The No. 2 project that came down 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 is thinking in his heart to blow up the space elevator of Xingchen Technology, everyone knows that it is impossible, because Huaxia is a nuclear country.
We should thank those predecessors who created the miracle of two bombs and one star in the difficult years. Looking at the attitude of North America today, wanting to swallow China alive, it is not difficult to imagine that if China is not a nuclear power, now The situation will definitely be more difficult.