Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Chapter 1308: Orbital Habitat Drawings

When Director Li finally succeeded in seeing the Ark, it was already the next evening.

“Why don't you just say you can't see anyone, and you won't even get back to me? ”

Hearing the complaint in this sentence, the ark laughed embarrassingly, but did not give any explanation, just pretended not to hear, and made a gesture on the teacup on the coffee table.

“You must be tired of driving this far. Have a cup of tea. ”

Seeing that Ark had no intention of reflecting, Director Li lost his temper for a while and sighed.

“It's not like I said you, it's such a big thing. If you don't say anything, you just go away and kiss your ass. Isn't there something you can't say? Of course, I didn't come here to blame you for anything, I just wanted to say to you that the whole world is waiting for you to come out and squeak, even if it's just a few words. You can't refuse to do that. ”

Ark: “Brother Luo has already said, I have seen the video of him doing debriefing, it is good to say, even if let me go, it is just to repeat his point of view, it is not particularly significant. ”

“Professor Luo is Professor Luo, why don't you understand that what you want to hear is your voice, not him or anyone else. ”

What difference does this thing make?

Looking at the sincere Director Li, Ark Boat was not able to say anything, so he sighed softly.

“What do you want to know? ”

Director Lee immediately said, "How likely are we to achieve hypervelocity navigation through hyperspace technology?" If so, how long will it take? ”

Gently sipping the coffee on the table, the ark pondered for a while and then said.

“Transgalactic navigation through hyperspace technology is a promising direction, and my intuition tells me that this path is probably possible. However, if that direction is to become a reality, it will have to be at least a century later. ”

“A century later…? ”

“Yes," looked at Director Li with a lost expression on his face, the ark nodded down and continued, "from theory to reality is not so fast, any excessive science towards technology takes time to precipitate. Besides, I don't like to push hypervelocity as a strategic goal as soon as I come up. ”

Director Li: “Why? ”

“Because it doesn't make much sense. ”

Dropping the coffee cup in your hand, the ark looked at the old man and continued, "It would be more realistic to use hyperspace technology to communicate between planets than to navigate hyperspace, and hopes would be greater within a century. And the former study will certainly inspire the latter, and before sending a high-quality spacecraft further afield, we must first figure out how to achieve our plan on photons or electrons, microns, τ particles, and so on...”

Looking out the notebook and taking the notebook seriously, Director Li said with a smile when Ark was slightly stunned.

“There's nothing to remember about these things, even if you write them down, nobody knows what's going on in 50 years. ”

“How can it be useless? I remember everything you said! ”

Looking at Director Li, who had become somewhat paranoid, the ark shook its head. Just as he was about to say something, the old man who had finished taking notes closed the grass notes and looked at him and said seriously.

“These are important things that you said, and just recently, Central Television is planning to do a show on this, if you have time... think about it? ”

“Let's talk about the show next time,” from the old man's tone, the ark doesn't think it's important to touch, so instead of thinking about it, we changed the subject to continue, "Speaking of which, you just came, I have one other thing I want to discuss with you. ”

As soon as he heard that Ark had something to discuss with himself, Director Li immediately raised his mind.

“Go ahead! ”

“Don't be so nervous," the Ark laughed, continuing, "in the long run, I suggest we start the Mars program. ”

The moment I heard this, the look on Director Li's face suddenly stunned.

I didn't expect him to have that look, and the ark didn't care, just keep saying it.

“… Furthermore, I am talking about such a launch, not just symbolically, but as part of our long-term strategy for the development of our space programme and putting it into concrete work. ”

Seeing Ark does not seem like a joke, Director Li gradually converged the look of surprise on his face, and the expression grew more serious.

“Did you find something? ”

“… what did you find? ”

Sitting upright, Director Li stared at the ship with a glance and continued with a keen tone: “Like that hyperspace passage... did you find a stable way to open it? ”

Seeing him seemed to misunderstand what he meant, the ark sighed and patiently explained.

“You overestimate my abilities. This problem, which requires concentrating on the wisdom of an entire civilization and taking decades or even hundreds of years to solve, is not something that can be done by someone clapping their head. But if it has anything to do with hyperspace channels, it has something to do with it. ”

Director Li: “What kind of relationship? ”

“Think about why Singapore doesn't have a high-speed train. ”

“What kind of high-speed train does Singapore want,” Commissioner Li said with a smile. "In their little sesame place, they can sneak around the national line in a single car. Unless it's a transnational high-speed train, there's no need to build that thing, is there? ”

“Exactly,” the ark continued, "a lot of people actually misunderstood the logic of technology development, not because of hyperspace pathways, so that we could expand towards a more distant world, but because we extended our boundaries to a distant world, so we had to develop technologies that could incorporate them into our actual control. ”

“Science is pure, but technology is born to solve problems, and it can only be solved if we have a real need for hypervelocity navigation and communication. And if we stay on the planet, or within the Earth Moon system, probability is never going to solve that problem. ”

Director Lee frowned and said thoughtfully: "So... should we plan a place like the Guangdong District on Mars, as you wish? Creating demand to solve this problem? ”

“If you can't rush it, you still have to eat it,” he said, smiling lightly and continuing in a serious tone, "but as I said, whether the hyperspace tunnel opens steadily or not, Mars is an essential part of our space strategy. In the long run, we can first consider establishing a settlement on Mars similar to a lunar examination station, and then move forward slowly with our plan. ”

Director Li asked seriously: "How long has this been a cycle? ”

“A hundred years. ”

“Hiss...” sucked in a cold breath, Director Li said, "A hundred years... this cycle is really long enough. ”

“So I have a corresponding medium-term plan,” the Ark laughed, "because of the changes in orbit, it's hard to plan a stable flight for Mars right now, and it's hard to ensure the safety of the colonists in Mars' settlements. However, as a medium-term goal, we do not need to look directly at Mars, but rather consider a less difficult LaGrand Day. ”

Director Lee frowned softly: "LaGrand Day? ”

The ark nodded down: "That's right. ”

“LaGrand Day Point, also known as Flat Point, is the five special solutions to the problem of restrictive trisomy in astrodynamics. The L2 point is the hotspot for international deep space exploration and is located at a distant point on the Sun and Earth connection. But I'm not talking about L2 here, I'm talking about L4 and L5, or Trojan dots. ”

“As a medium-term plan, my idea is to build a permanent space station on L4 or L5, with tasks related to material transit, mineral resource processing and ship docking, repair and even manufacturing. ”

“If the Lunar Palace is our outpost for the Earth's Moon, then the base of LaGrand Day Point will be our outpost for the Solar System. It can be not only a transit station for us to Mars, but it can also help us reach out to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and become our factory in space. ”

Staring at the description of the Ark, Director Li couldn't help but open his mouth and say what he wanted, but for a moment and a half he didn't know how to describe his own surprise.

It took a while for him to speak slowly.

“That sounds too...”

Ark: “Too much thought, right? ”

Director Li did not speak, but his expression was obviously acquiescent.

“I admit that the plan sounds somewhat far-fetched, but at the height of time, it is absolutely hopeful. As I said before, we do not need to do it as a three-year, five-year goal, but as a long-term plan with a 50-year, 100-year engineering cycle. ”

“In the short term, this project may be a loss, but I believe that all losses will be of value in the future. This wealth will bring tremendous benefits to our descendants, even if it seems unprofitable now. ”

After a pause, the ark continued, "It is not unprofitable to correct it, at least because of this centennial plan, that our space industry will flourish. ”

Perhaps touched by the last sentence of the last ark.

After a long time of serious reflection, Director Li nodded seriously.

“I will take your opinion to Chang 'an Street and can't guarantee it through me… In fact, I'm afraid the Elder General has no way of deciding, and I can only give you an outcome after the meeting has been discussed. ”

The look on the ark eased down.

“Thank you, then. ”

Director Lee asked, “Do you have anything like a plan here? If you can, please make a copy. After all, there is no point in saying it, and it would be more convincing if there were a visible solution. ”

“Knowing you'd say that, I'm ready. ”

Smiling slightly, the Ark pulled a thick pile of file bags from under the coffee table, placed it on the coffee table and gently pushed it in front of Director Li.

Looking at the file bag on the table, Director Li stunned slightly, picked it up from the coffee table, removed the cotton wire at the seal, and smoked a piece of paper out of it.

“This is…”

Two words just came out of the mouth, and half the time, it got stuck in my throat.

Unbelievably looking at the content on the paper, Director Li's eyes stared at the boss and seemed to be unbelievable what he saw in front of him.

“… an orbital habitat with a Stanford ring configuration, where every engineering parameter on the blueprint is rigorously calculated and, if conditions permit, there is no problem even if thrown directly to the construction unit to do so. ”

Appreciating the face stuck in amazement, the ark picked up the coffee cup on the coffee table, took a sip, happily continued, "Although it's not a plan, but if this thing... should be enough? ”

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