Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 2477: The Science Team Lands on the Moon

In the context of global turmoil, stable, low-cost and large-reserve energy resources have become an important resource that all countries and regions are paying attention to.

Because the United States has a weak industrial chain and even lacks many industrial links, it does not have as much "interest" in new energy, solid-state batteries and environmentally friendly energy as it once did. And because voters "dislike" nuclear power plants, there is no way to build nuclear power plants on a large scale in recent years. Therefore, it chooses to pick up its former fossil energy, sell shale oil and other resources, and slowly develop new energy-related technologies.

Although Daxia has long since gotten rid of energy constraints due to the development of the entire industrial chain in recent years, there is a saying that goes, you can never have too much of this stuff.

In particular, Jiuzhou Technology, a "big energy consumer", has opened up a "cheap route" to the moon. The helium-3 deposited on the surface of the moon has become the core goal of Jiuzhou Technology and Daxia's current interstellar energy development because of its fusion energy density that is 4000 million times that of traditional fossil fuels.

The scientists and engineers who landed on the moon this time also had important tasks to accomplish.

When the Moon-Chasing spacecraft skillfully entered the correct orbit according to the navigation and landed in the lunar basin, Zhang Tianhao saw through the porthole a silver matrix composed of hundreds of hexagonal solar panels, which glowed with cold blue light under the sunlight.

As the head of the Titanium Star Department of Jiuzhou Technology, his main mission this time on the moon is to build his own company's helium-3 refinery on the moon. However, before that, he also needs to visit the Moon City with his fellow scientists.

Perhaps it was because even though the fellow astronauts had passed special moon landing training, their experience and age were quite different from those of ordinary young astronauts, so there were always people communicating frequently in the public chat channel of the spacecraft flight.

"I heard that there is already a space molecular cuisine restaurant in the Moon City. Shall we go there together?"

"I am more interested in the results of projects such as Moon Rice and Kirin Fruit. Seeing is believing. The nutritional value of this kind of thing..."

"If I don't come to the moon to do experiments, my students will leave me behind. In this era of rapid technological development, even though we are sixty years old, we can't really fall behind."

"Professor Liu, are you sure?"

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When the hatch of the Moon-Chasing spacecraft slowly opened at the landing area next to the lunar base, geologist Professor Zhang Xiuting saw through the porthole a scene that he would never forget - outside the dome covering an area of ​​1.2 square kilometers, countless robots and large equipment were working in an orderly manner, and as for the starry sky outside the dome, except for the old guys on his side who were paying attention, the engineers on the construction site had no intention of looking up at all.

"Please keep quiet and keep your breathing rhythm... follow the staff and voice instructions. If you are worried that you can't understand the instructions, you can turn on the simulated guidance function of the helmet display, call the voice wizard directly, and say the task..."

Although these things have already been simulated and trained, the staff and service butler AI still did not take it lightly.

After all, we should always be prepared for the worst.

If any scientist or engineer makes even the slightest mistake in these matters, it will cause considerable trouble.

Professor Zhang Xiuting did not act arrogantly, but honestly turned on the simulation guidance function.

After turning on this function, he saw a virtual person appear in his field of vision. Not only could he have a conversation with the person, but he could also give advance reminders and demonstrate how to open and close some devices, and also briefly explain some important precautions.

"Hey, is this virtual butler still the same as the one in the simulation training?"

"It is said that the communication needs of the Moon Base and Moon City Phase I projects will be met by the interplanetary signal base station built by Jiuzhou Technology?"

"Oh my, this light and floating feeling is much more interesting than training for weightlessness..."

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Although these experts and professors are in their fifties and sixties, they, who were born in the 1980s and 1970s, are not slackers. So in the process of experiencing the new environment, there are often some seemingly shallow complaints, and occasionally someone will even take a few seconds to take photos and check in without affecting their work.

Inside the protective dome of the first phase of the Moon City are floating gaseous clouds and starry sky ceilings that simulate the atmosphere of the Blue Planet. This is to prevent the humans living here from having to face the deep sea of ​​stars and causing mental problems.

This is mankind's first alien city with a complete ecological cycle. The intelligent robots and staff in the city have already prepared to welcome the scientific expedition team.

Although Jiuzhou Xinghai Company made technical guarantees for stable live broadcast, Daxia officials did not choose to broadcast it online in real time in the end. Instead, they asked the Xiahua Society's lunar branch to do the filming and interviews, and then waited until the evening news program to broadcast it.

Xishu University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University... This group of universities that have cooperated with Jiuzhou Technology for many years have specially reserved time for teachers and students to watch news programs today.

Although the members of Daxia's scientific expedition team knew that they would definitely be on TV today and were trying their best to manage their facial expressions, they were still unable to keep their facial expressions stable when they passed through the disinfected corridor, took off their lunar suits, put on their regular lunar suits, and entered the Moon City.

The air purified through 23 processes makes them feel like they are breathing blue star forest oxygen.

The main dome with a diameter of 1 kilometers adopts a hexagonal honeycomb structure, but the gaseous clouds and starry sky dome floating inside that simulate the atmosphere of the blue planet amazed the "middle-aged people" in the scientific expedition team.

The most eye-catching central ecological park is a 3000-square-meter space where, although the height of the lunar rice plants has been compressed to a "short" level of 40 centimeters by gene editing, each rice ear can produce hundreds of plump grains of rice.

In addition, there are special Qilin fruits with stable properties, hidden in the needle-shaped leaves, and some traditional Chinese medicines made from Taoyao raw materials are also scattered among them.

Not far away, a white-painted robot dispatched by the medical center was carefully collecting medicinal materials and checking the absorption of nutrient solution.

Yu Hongbin, the head of Jiuzhou Technology in Moon City, saw that everyone's eyes fell on a mountain-shaped stone with "Shi Gan Dang" written on it, and then explained: "This is a stone gan dang that Mr. Gu selected from the original stone of Mount Tai to pray for blessings."

50 years ago, the "New Tai people" of the Paleolithic Age lived and multiplied at the foot of Mount Tai, and the emperors of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties continued to worship Mount Tai, forming the pinnacle of faith. Since the First Emperor, 12 emperors have worshipped and offered sacrifices to Mount Tai, and the stones of Mount Tai have also been endowed with spirituality.

The "Jijiu Zhang" of the Western Han Dynasty once recorded: "The teacher is a fierce tiger, the stone gan Dang, nothing can invade, the dragon will never end". There were also stone carvings in the Song Dynasty with the words: "The stone gan Dang, can suppress all ghosts, suppress disasters, bring happiness to officials and health to the people". In modern times, it has also included the following functions: curing diseases, acting as a door god, warding off evil spirits, and preventing wind.

But no one expected that the founder of Jiuzhou Technology, which has always been regarded by global users as the most powerful in the technology industry, was so "superstitious" that he transported a piece of Taishan stone from the blue planet to the moon!
The photographer from Xia Hua Society was very sensible and took a close-up photo of the stone.

The three characters "Shi Gan Dang" are written in powerful strokes, like a small Mount Tai coming straight towards you. This is also a unique artistic expression of Daxia Chinese calligraphy stone carvings, which are both words and paintings.

As Yu Hongbin and other staff members, as well as the fat white robots, introduced the products, the middle-aged people in the team of scientists gradually became "addicted".

"The technical utilization scheme for water recycling mainly uses algae and nano-membrane composite purification system for recycling..."

"The oxygen is provided by the space cyanobacteria cultivation wall in the city. The current cultivation scale can release enough oxygen for at least 3 people to breathe every hour. We will optimize and expand the cultivation scale in the future. Of course, in addition to plants and algae supplying oxygen, there are other oxygen supply channels..."

"This is a polyethylene composite wall developed and manufactured by us, based on lunar soil. It can shield 99.7% of cosmic rays and has strong earthquake resistance, sound insulation and heat preservation capabilities."

At the last moment of the news, photographers from the Xiahua News Agency presented the spectacular "Earthrise" scene to global audiences.

The azure planet rises slowly from the lunar horizon, looking so unique among the sea of ​​stars.

Many viewers around the world who were watching the news were impressed: "Everyone says you can watch the sunrise, but I didn't expect 'Earthrise' to feel like this."

"It turns out that Jiuzhou Xinghai Company, a subsidiary of Jiuzhou Technology, really built a city on the moon with the Daxia government. Some time ago, those media newspapers said that this was a scam of the century. Unexpectedly, this is not a scam at all, but a miracle. This is a miracle city..."

"Daxia's Moon City has become a reality, but NASA's manned moon landing has not yet begun. Perhaps, even if NASA's manned moon landing is successful, it will not be possible to build a city on the moon within ten years."

"It's only been two or three years since we built a small city that can accommodate at least 10,000 people. If we give Jiuzhou Xinghai Company a few more years, this city will probably be able to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people. If the gravity problem can be solved, the number of residents may exceed one million."

"According to Xiahua News Agency, the operation of the Moon City and the lives and work of the people in the city can all be controlled by the artificial intelligence AI Wangshu at any time. Moreover, the current rules and regulations are customized by this AI Wangshu together with the scientists, sociologists of Jiuzhou Technology and the expert team of Daxia. It seems that if we want to settle on the moon, we need to learn new rules."

"If Kunlun City is a future technological city, then Moon City is a real city hanging in the sky. I don't know if I can live on the moon in this lifetime, even if it's just for a trip..."

Although there are also people who are blushing and happy, and think that this is a movie shot by Jiuzhou Entertainment. But... Although the current movie CG technology can achieve the level of "fake and real", that is only for ordinary moviegoers.

When the world's top aerospace experts and astronomers analyzed the video shot by Xia Huashe frame by frame, although they were reluctant to admit it, they finally came to the conclusion that the star map was consistent and the low-gravity environment was dynamic.

Even NASA's head Robin, after questioning the team of scientists several times, had to hold his nose and hand over a "true" report to Uncle Sam.

Uncle Sam was so angry that he smashed a lot of office supplies in the office, and the staff even treated it as "intelligence" and sold it to some media.

But if we want to investigate this matter, it is not so easy to trace it back to an individual.

After all, when Uncle Sam is angry and throws things, the noise is quite loud, and there are staff members cleaning and tidying up behind him.

However, after this burst of anger, Uncle Sam also felt a special sense of panic that was devouring his reason. In order to make himself feel at ease, he signed a temporary subsidy of 1000 billion US dollars to NASA.

It was also specifically stated that 20 billion yuan of this subsidy would be allocated and given to all participants after the manned lunar landing mission is successful.

Although the U.S. dollar is not as strong as it used to be, its purchasing power has not fallen to the level of the Korean won, so many NASA staff still have some expectations.

Moreover, this time NASA has learned from a large number of previous failures and has summarized a solution. At the same time, it relied on some channels to obtain some parameter files and cooperated with Rosen Technology to develop some "advanced" technologies. It can be said that it is full of confidence.

And the record of successfully launching three lunar rovers in recent years is not false.

Just as NASA was gearing up and actively preparing for the Christmas moon landing, Yu Hongbin and Zhang Tianhao had already followed Gu Qing's arrangements and started building a lunar nuclear factory.

In a spherical cabin with a diameter of 30 meters, dozens of unmanned excavators are putting the screened lunar soil into a magnetic separator.

The ilmenite particles separated by the magnetic field are like a black sandstorm rushing through a transparent pipe.

The nuclear plant's most important high-temperature dissociation module, as a core construction project, not only has no staff to supervise the work, but even the robots working on it are Jiuzhou Technology's top engineering robots.

The construction of the purification workshop is simpler than other projects.

To achieve a deep-freeze environment of -173°C, on the Blue Planet one needs to be careful not to leak the technology, but in the underground caves on the Moon there is no need to worry too much.

When the supercritical centrifuge developed and manufactured by the Titanium Star Department of Jiuzhou Technology can reach a speed of 15 revolutions per minute and separate isotopes, Yu Hongbin pointed to the sealed tank on the estimated model and said with emotion: "When it can be produced in the future, the helium-3 in a tank will be able to meet the energy needs of the base's conventional projects for a week."

Zhang Tianhao looked at the system data and nodded, saying, "If nothing unexpected happens, its purity should be 99.9998%."