Great Country Academician

At the end of July, when the news of the breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology was still constantly refreshing the Internet, another amazing news emerged from all over the world like bamboo shoots after rain.

China's manned Mars landing spacecraft has reached the near-Earth orbit of Mars!

The first manned Mars landing in human history is about to begin!

Like a thunder after spring, manned Mars landing, this news that once occupied the entire Internet hot search and occupied everyone's sight for more than a month ago, has awakened from everyone's mind again.

This sudden news can be said to have shocked many people.

The previous second they were still discussing what changes and impacts the breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology might bring to the whole world.

The next second, humans are about to stand on Mars down to earth. This amazing news shocked everyone like a bolt from the blue.

For those space enthusiasts who are always paying attention to the progress of manned Mars landing, especially Chinese netizens, this is undoubtedly the biggest carnival and grand event since the development of space technology by humans.

In two days, human footprints will be completely imprinted on another planet.

This is undoubtedly the biggest monument in the history of space exploration. It is also the most applaudable moment.

However, for those in Western countries, especially Americans, the news that they are about to achieve manned landing on Mars is far from wonderful.

Although they have fallen behind China in the space competition in the past two years, and even suffered a big setback in the plan to return to the moon.

But as a superpower that has dominated the first position in space exploration in the past few decades, there are still many Americans who believe that they will catch up or even surpass China in space exploration sooner or later and regain the first position in space exploration.

However, when the news of manned landing on Mars came into view again, it was like the sky falling for those who believed that they would catch up with China and even regain the first position in space exploration.

On Twitter, Google, Facebook and other websites, under the deliberate promotion of Xinghai Research Institute and China Space Administration, the news of manned landing on Mars almost replaced the breakthrough of carbon-based chip technology overnight and occupied the first place in hot searches.

"God, the Chinese are going to land on Mars soon!"

"Damn it, what is our NASA doing? Even the historic first of manned landing on Mars can be taken by others!"

"One step behind, step by step behind, I think we should launch probes to more distant planets, such as Enceladus and Jupiter, and launch manned programs after confirming safety, and regain the glory that should belong to us!"

"Are you crazy? Manned landing on Enceladus and Jupiter? You know, there are places where probes have never reached. Do you want our astronauts to die?"

"Shit, those Chinese have already built a base on the moon. Do we have to watch them build another one on Mars now?"

"Impossible! Even if they have the ability to land on Mars, they have no chance of building a Martian base on it. You know, that is Mars, hundreds of millions of kilometers away. "For Mars, the transportation of materials alone is enough to drag down the entire China. If they really want to do this, it will be our luckiest opportunity!"

"But they have the most advanced space shuttle, and less than two months of manned landing time. If they really choose to build a base on Mars, it is not impossible in theory. Especially they have experience in building a base on the moon."

"You think too much. There is a window period for landing on Mars! Although it only took the Chinese less than two months to land on Mars, there is only one such opportunity every year."

"Except for July every year, Mars is at least hundreds of millions of kilometers away from the earth at other times. Even if there is a space shuttle, it will take at least several months. If they want to build a base on Mars, they must spend ten or twenty years!"

The news of the Hanhai manned landing on Mars has aroused considerable debate on major foreign platforms.

Especially in the United States, many people are scolding NASA for spending tens of billions of taxpayers' money every year without knowing what they are doing, and they are also worried that China will soon build a base on Mars like on the moon, and then carry out activities such as Mars development and Mars immigration.

After all, everyone in the world knows that the infrastructure capabilities of the Chinese are as abnormal as crazy demons.

As long as they want, it seems that there are no skyscrapers that cannot be built, and no cross-sea bridges that cannot be built.

Even on the moon, which is 400,000 kilometers away, the Chinese built an outpost scientific research base in just two years.

Judging from the brilliant achievements in the past, it is not impossible for them to build a scientific research base on Mars.

In particular, they have the experience of building bases on the moon, which has worse conditions than Mars.

Of course, there are also people who are not optimistic.

In the eyes of many Americans, even if China has mastered the technology of manned landing on Mars, it is still not an easy task to establish a permanent base on Mars.

After all, the long distance between the earth and Mars is not comparable to the distance between the earth and the moon.

For the current space technology of mankind, landing on Mars is severely limited by the window period.

Only from July to October every year, when Mars is closest to the Earth, can the landing operation be carried out. At other times, the distance between Mars and the Earth is enough to stop all these operations.

The difficulty between manned landing on Mars and building a base on Mars is more than one level different.

Especially in the summer of Mars, there are overwhelming Martian storms, which are enough to destroy any life and buildings on Mars in the eyes of many people.

To build a permanent base on Mars with harsh conditions and withstand the harsh storms on Mars is almost impossible for human technology at present.

While countless netizens are discussing the manned landing project, on the other side.

On Pennsylvania Avenue, one meeting after another is constantly held in the Capitol and important offices of various departments.

Thanks to those Chinese people, there have been almost one parade after another on Pennsylvania Avenue during this period, and their proud stock market has also been red like a cliff.

First, there is a breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology.

This is a matter of national celebration for China and its allies.

However, for those countries at the top of the silicon-based semiconductor industry chain, it is not so beautiful, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as terrible.

Just like the United States now, from the White House to Silicon Valley, from chip manufacturers to media reporters, from ordinary people to the grandfathers in Congress, they are all busy running around for this matter.

Those omnipresent media reporters squat in any corner that the masters can't imagine, and then they may pop out at any time to put the microphone or recorder into their mouths, chattering about what the government can do to solve and save the stock market and the United States.

But what makes everyone headache is that in the face of breakthroughs in carbon-based chip technology, they have been operating in the market and technology in the field of silicon-based semiconductors for decades and have little power to fight back.

The 28-nanometer preparation process still uses the design of analog silicon-based chips, and the performance of the manufactured chips is enough to compare with the high-end process of 14 nanometer silicon-based chips.

It is hard to imagine how powerful the performance of carbon-based chips will be when they find circuit design and functional design that are truly suitable for their own structure.

In the face of such breakthrough technology, if there is no corresponding development to match it, then the regulation of the national government is actually of little use.

Capital and the market will make a choice.

However, it is not just this one thing that makes the US authorities feel overwhelmed.

While the breakthrough of carbon-based chip technology is still hanging in front of everyone, China has another headache for everyone.

That is their manned Mars landing project, which will soon send astronauts to the surface of Mars!

This is the most surprising news in the aerospace field, which shocked the world.

Especially for the United States, although it was mentally prepared when China started the manned Mars landing project, it was still difficult to accept it when this day came.

In a meeting room in the White House.

Mr. T, who was re-appointed in January this year, once again summoned his staff team and officials from relevant departments.

However, what they are going to discuss today is not China's technological breakthrough in the field of carbon-based chips, but the development of this competitor in the field of aerospace.

"The latest news is that the Chinese Space Agency disclosed their progress of manned landing on Mars an hour ago. At present, the space shuttle has reached the near-earth launch orbit of Mars and will launch the landing capsule on time at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning Beijing time to carry out the landing operation."

"In addition, there is another news from the CIA. China may be planning to build a scientific research base on Mars after the successful completion of the manned landing project, just like the scientific research base on the moon, and launch the first wave of Mars immigration activities in the next five years."

In the conference room, sitting in the first seat, listening to the report of NASA Director Bilson, the president who has been in office for only half a year couldn't help rubbing his sore nose with his fingers, and his face was full of fatigue.

Since the research institute called Xinghai Research Institute made a breakthrough in aerospace technology, China's development in aerospace has been like wings.

Space shuttle, manned moon landing, construction of lunar outpost scientific research base, international lunar biosphere cooperation project

A series of aerospace developments have left them far behind.

As the world's number one aerospace power and the field that Americans were once most proud of, they have now completely collapsed and can only watch their opponents break their monopoly in outer space step by step, and establish a new order without any way.

What makes everyone more pessimistic now is that China is about to achieve the epic of manned landing on Mars, which is a historical record.

If they can barely comfort themselves with the fact that they have landed many times in the past, and force the level of China and the United States in aerospace to the same level.

Then facing the manned landing on Mars, they almost have no other reason to make up for themselves.

After all, that is a field they have never stood on.

If those Chinese people really succeed in sending astronauts to the surface of Mars, then they will really lose.

This is undoubtedly the most uncomfortable day in history for Americans who have always been proud of aerospace and have even formed a space culture.

But whether it is for the authorities or NASA, they seem to have no other choice but to watch the other side step by step ahead of them and go further and further.

Although the space shuttle technology has been restarted, the test of the Perseverance space shuttle is also quite ideal. It is expected to carry out manned lunar missions and related space exploration activities this year.

But even if the space shuttle is restarted and Perseverance is owned, they still find it difficult to look back at the opponent on the other side of the Pacific.

Today, the gap between the two countries in the field of aerospace is like that in the early twentieth century.

The difference is that the leading and the catching up are completely opposite.

Facing the new space shuttle with a miniaturized controllable nuclear fusion reactor + aerospace engine as the core foundation, their Perseverance can't even see the taillights of the opponent.

More importantly, almost all of their technologies developed in the field of aerospace for decades have been based on the traditional chemical fuel launch vehicle system.

Whether it is NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing and other companies, whether in the last century or now, their means of entering space are still chemical fuel launch vehicles.

And the most desperate thing is here.

Just like silicon-based chips encounter carbon-based chips, the gap between traditional chemical fuel launch vehicles and the new technology of small fusion reactors + aerospace engines is as big as the difference between heaven and earth.

From controlled nuclear fusion, to aerospace, to chips. In these three most important areas of modern society, they have all lost to their opponents step by step.

Especially now, at the critical stage when the Chinese are about to land on Mars, anyone knows that they have lost completely in this space race in the 21st century.

Not only are they seriously behind China in the development of the moon, but they are also about to lose the honor of the first manned landing on Mars.

But what is even more powerless is that they have no countermeasures or solutions to this.

They can only watch the other side constantly breaking new records in the field of aerospace bit by bit.