Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 2470: The First Phase of Moon City "Tops Out"

A busy person who is either in the laboratory, on a project, or in various meetings does not actually have that much private time to cultivate or manage relationships.

In addition to having lived two lives and having a special golden finger in his mind, Gu Qing actually does not have that many opportunities to interact with ordinary women.

The year 1034 in the Yin calendar passed in the blink of an eye.

When the calendar turned to 1035, Gu Qing was already 40 years old.

The sage Confucius once said of himself: "At fifteen I set my heart on learning; at thirty I stood firm; at forty I had no doubts; at fifty I knew the will of Heaven; at sixty I was able to listen to others; at seventy I followed my heart's desire without transgressing the rules."

At the age of thirty, Gu Qing not only set his ambitions, but also built up a huge industry.

But when he was forty years old, he began to have some doubts, and these doubts became even stronger when data from distant Mars was transmitted back.

"So, living on Mars for a long time is feasible given our current human lifespan, but humans as a species cannot survive on Mars for that long?" Zhang Tianhao looked confused.

Gu Qing looked at the data sent back and some parameter information of the Mars experiments, shook his head, and nodded.

He said: "There is a significant low shear wave velocity anomaly in the area 5 to 8 kilometers below the surface of Mars. Geographically, this does prove that Mars once had a large-scale liquid water layer, and even the amount of water was enough to cover the entire surface of Mars to form a global ocean 500 to 780 meters deep.

These water sources are widely distributed in tiny cracks and pores in the crustal rocks. According to large-scale model predictions, their reserves may reach the equivalent of 1.6 kilometers of water depth.

In addition, on the surface of sand dunes in some areas, there are phenomena and materials with characteristics such as crusts, cracks, hydrated sulfates, and opals. This is enough to prove that there was still intermittent liquid water on this planet in the low-latitude regions of Mars for about 10 billion years.

Even the Raman spectrometer of our exploration spacecraft detected micron-level fluorescence signals on the surface of Martian sedimentary rocks. This suspected microbial metabolite is also an important part of the chain of evidence on Mars.

But now you can see that Mars has water resources, but the reserves are extremely touching, or even scarce.

If we want to build a truly alien home, stable natural water is a must, and we cannot rely too much on energy electrolysis and difficult mining like the moon base.

Precision instruments will eventually malfunction, and no matter how powerful the technology is, there will always be special moments when we need to rely on raw resources.

Just like now, solid-state batteries and wireless directional charging technology have been popularized in major cities in China, but when users buy their first car for their family, they still prefer hybrid rather than pure electric cars.

What we are worried about is that under special circumstances, hybrid cars can still be operated by adding gasoline, but pure electric cars will become electronic waste if they have no power supply.

The same is true for home building.”

Gu Qing's analysis made several core engineers fall into deep thought.

Mars is already the most habitable planet in the solar system, and it is not too far from the Blue Planet. If an accident occurs, we can still seek support.

If Gu Qing wants to complete the basic mission of the Dimensional Empire, he needs more rare materials to break through the technical bottleneck. The moon has been excavated and developed for such a long time, but no new materials that can be used for breakthroughs have been found, so Gu Qing now places more hope on Mars and several other planets.

The former is much easier, while the latter planets are simply bottomless pit projects that require a lot of money. In addition, there are some meteorites, which are also surprises, but the degree of surprise is too low, so Gu Qing does not have much hope for them.

At present, the transportation cost of Jiuzhou intelligent robots and various construction equipment has been reduced to 10 yuan per ton during the construction of the lunar base city and resource exploration, which is one ten-thousandth of the transportation cost of those "old" aerospace powers.

The distance between the Blue Planet and Mars fluctuates in the range of tens of millions of kilometers, and there is a considerable bottom line for the transportation cost.

After thinking it over, Gu Qing looked at the frowning brows of the young engineers in front of him, and suddenly patted Zhang Tianhao and Yingsu on the shoulders.

He said: "We have to eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time. The next best radiation window will be in October next year. By then, let's see if we can send a few more Mars spacecraft to visit Mars and collect more resources for analysis. By the way, we can also help build a launch base on Mars for the No. 1 Mars spacecraft to facilitate the subsequent return mission.

During this period, we should manage the Moon City well and strive to build it into a real alien city. We can also collect better data from all aspects and lay a more solid foundation for the Mars operation."

After Gu Qing said this, Zhang Tianhao, Ying Shu and others nodded subconsciously, and the doubts and deep thoughts in their eyes were also kept in their hearts.

After this small meeting, Zhang Tianhao waited for Gu Qing to leave, and then he inadvertently whispered: "Do you feel that there is something wrong with the teacher recently?"

Yingshu pushed up his black-framed glasses and asked, "Mature?"

Chu Ci nodded at the side. "Well, if you sum it up like this, I feel like he has matured a little bit. No, he is not a little bit mature. Mr. Gu now gives me the same feeling as some old professors, kind and amiable."

"Although the word amiable is not very suitable for a handsome guy, I don't know why, but I somewhat agree with your idea, Chu Ci."

"What do you mean by my idea? I knock, Lao Zhang, are you setting a trap for me?"

After a few complaints and jokes, these young elites that Gu Qing had devoted some of his attention to cultivating began to discuss the progress of some major projects they were managing.

After everyone left, some of Jiuzhou Technology's core projects ushered in a new round of small-scale acceleration.

For example, the lunar city construction project, which was originally planned to successfully complete the top-off of the first ring urban area in 1036 in the Xia Yin calendar, has already reached the final stage in the middle of 1035 in the Xia Yin calendar.

At the end of the year, Daxia Aerospace Group and Jiuzhou Xinghai Company jointly issued a special project progress announcement.

"On November 1035, 11 of the Xia Yin calendar, the first phase of the Moon City project has completed the construction of a protective dome covering an area of ​​12 square kilometers, and the main construction of the first ring city has been completed..."

As soon as this announcement came out, the launch schedule of America's moon rocket was postponed for another month.

NASA engineers are not afraid of failure, but... they don't want to be the scapegoat.