Great Country Academician

Chapter 908 The Beginning of a New Era

Xu Chuan didn't pay much attention to the rumors and conspiracy theories on the Internet, nor did he take them to heart.

Since I chose to disclose relevant information before, these things have already been prepared.

What he cares about is the change this discovery will bring to the entire society.

Human beings are not alone in the universe.

Life does not only exist on the earth. In the vast and boundless universe, space is not desolate.

These conjectures that have been debated by countless people for countless years have finally come to a conclusion.

Different from ordinary people's various speculations about extraterrestrial life, Xu Chuan is more concerned about the fact that this incident can finally draw human eyes to the space above our heads.

The discovery of fossils of life on the moon will bring a scientific revolution to the entire society.

This is the beginning of a new era, which will surely bring about earth-shaking changes to the entire human civilization.

As he said in the Nobel Lecture earlier, only civilizations that yearn for the universe and the galaxy will have sufficient potential and future.

Late March.

The popularity of discovering extraterrestrial life on the moon has not yet passed, and related topics are still rising on major platforms.

In the Xiashu Space Base, the silver-white and black second-generation space shuttle Fuyao is quietly staying on the spacious runway.

Many engineers and technicians are inspecting the space shuttle in front of them, including various instruments and equipment inside the cabin.

In order to ensure that the overall condition of the space shuttle can carry out the unmanned mission, the person in charge of the space base personally led the team to conduct detailed and meticulous inspections of various parts of the space shuttle.

There are hundreds of thousands of parts, and each one has to be ensured without any errors. There is no doubt that this is a very tedious and long work.

In particular, the communication system and intelligent control system are top priorities.

A voyage to Mars and a space mission to the moon are two completely different concepts.

The latter is less than 400,000 kilometers away from the earth, while the average distance of the former is much farther.

With an average distance of more than 200 million kilometers, landing on Mars will take much longer than landing on the moon.

In the era of traditional chemical-fueled launch vehicle technology, the journey from Earth to Mars would have taken several months.

For example, the American Mars probe Perseverance flew for 203 days and took nearly seven months to successfully reach Mars.

Although this is related to the route and window node selection of Perseverance’s landing on Mars, the distance of its landing route on Mars is a full 482 million kilometers.

But this is enough to prove how long it will take to land on Mars.

However, in the era of electric propulsion engine technology based on small fusion reactors + aerospace engines, the time required to land on Mars is much shorter than that of traditional chemical fuel launch vehicles.

Based on the current various performance parameters of the second-generation Fuyao at the Xia Shu Space Base and the current distance between the Earth and Mars, it will take about fifty days for them to land on Mars this time, which is about a month and a half.

This is mainly affected by the distance between Earth and Mars.

Every July to October is the time when the Earth and Mars are closest to each other, and the average distance can be reduced to less than 70 million kilometers.

Based on this distance, Fuyao can land on Mars in about a month.

But this time period is reserved for subsequent manned missions as a window period.

After all, the longer the weightless environment lasts, the greater the impact on the bodies of astronauts performing space missions. If you can reduce the time of flying in space as much as possible, shortening it as much as possible is the best choice.

On the other hand, compared to the moon, Mars has an atmosphere, and the entry and landing process of the lander is more complicated, requiring higher technical requirements and more precise control.

Especially in the absence of unmanned control, landing on Mars will place higher requirements on onboard computers and related intelligent judgment and control programs.

However, this problem is easier to solve on the new space shuttle.

The core computing system that controls the operation of small fusion reactors is a specially customized small supercomputer.

Compared with traditional spacecraft and landing modules, even though it is designed to control high-temperature plasma turbulence, it also has stronger computing power than traditional computers.

On the runway of Xiashu Space Base, Xu Chuan and Academician Chang Huaxiang stood together, looking at the Fuyao space shuttle not far away.

"With no one on Mars, and manned missions on Mars, it feels like we are not far away from building a scientific research base on Mars."

Standing next to Xu Chuan, Academician Chang Huaxiang said with emotion.

He never thought that he would one day see manned missions to Mars, or even build a scientific research base or even colonize Mars.

After all, according to the original development of the aerospace field, China will not launch a manned moon landing project until 2030.

And now, in 2025 alone, they have built an outpost scientific research base on the moon that can accommodate more than 300 people.

I am afraid no one is more familiar with the development of the domestic aerospace field than him.

Especially the rapid improvement after the construction of Xia Shu Space Base.

Looking at the space shuttle not far away, Xu Chuan raised the corners of his mouth and said with a smile: "Building a scientific research base on Mars is not my goal."

Hearing this, Chang Huaxiang turned his head curiously and asked, "Are you really prepared to do that?"

With a smile, Xu Chuan said, "When have I ever made a joke about academic research?"

Chang Huaxiang couldn't help but take a breath and asked: "Is this kind of thing really possible?"

He knew Xu Chuan's goals and thoughts, and it was precisely because he knew that he felt extremely surprised, surprised, and even crazy.

It is undeniable that, stimulated by the Huami Space Competition, a large amount of funds have flowed into related research fields.

Whether universities in various countries have opened relevant professional courses, or private capital has poured into aerospace enterprises and related research, even countries that have the ability to participate in aerospace development have included aerospace development into key national strategies.

Especially in China, the development of Xinghai Research Institute and Xiashu Space Base has driven industries worth hundreds of billions.

These changes are visible.

But in any case, these developments are still too far away from completely transforming a planet and turning it into an environment suitable for human habitation.

It sounds like a fantasy.

Not to mention Mars, humans currently have no control over the ecological environment and climate on Earth.

Otherwise, there would not have been so many floods, droughts, typhoons and other disasters.

Hearing Academician Chang Huaxiang's question, Xu Chuan smiled and said, "It depends on our overall exploration of Mars next."

"If we can meet the minimum requirements for transforming Mars, I will definitely choose to carry out overall transformation."

"If the standards are not met, it will at least promote some of them, such as the magnetic field and oxygen, making Mars more habitable."

Chang Huaxiang asked curiously: "Is it really possible to transform the magnetic field of an entire planet?"

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Of course."

"Then what are you going to do? A hydrogen bomb explosion? A meteorite impact? Or build a large magnetic field generator in the orbit of Mars?"

Academician Chang Huaxiang looked over curiously. Based on his understanding and his ideas, there are only a few ways that he can think of to change the magnetic field of a planet. His thinking is too limited.

So he was curious about what the person in front of him would think.

Xu Chuan smiled and said: "This kind of thing, of course, requires different arrangements according to different situations. You will know when the time comes."

Hearing this answer, Chang Huaxiang couldn't help but complained: "Aren't you tempting people's appetites? You arouse people's curiosity and don't answer."

Xu Chuan laughed. This was really not what he wanted.

All methods for transforming Mars are based on the overall situation of Mars and detection data.

The method he is currently thinking about needs to be constantly adjusted based on subsequent detection situations.

No method can be 100% adaptable to the transformation of a planet.

While the two were chatting, on the other side, a reporter from CTV walked over lightly.

"Academician Xu, Academician Chang."

After saying hello with a smile, the reporter quickly explained her purpose.

"It's like this. This unattended fire detection has attracted much attention from all walks of life. Now we have tens of millions of viewers in our live broadcast room. Can we invite two academicians to come in to say hello and talk about... Something about Mars?”

After making a request, the reporter quickly added: "Of course, the camera is not pointed here, and our conversation is not recorded in the live broadcast room. If it is inconvenient for you, we can cancel this process, and there is no Any questions."

Affected by the first discovery of traces of extraterrestrial life on the moon, many people are discussing and paying attention to this mission to explore Mars, whether on the Internet or in reality.

Therefore, CTV Media submitted a live broadcast of the unmanned take-off process to the Xinghai Research Institute. A camera was set up not far away to record the live broadcast of the Fuyao space shuttle.

Upon hearing this request, Academician Chang Huaxiang smiled and waved his hand, saying: "Academician Xu, go ahead, I, an old man, will not participate."

He really doesn't have much interest in this kind of thing, and he doesn't like to appear in public.

Moreover, being in the frame with the person next to him is asking for trouble. The limelight is all on him, which is boring.

Seeing Academician Chang Lao walking away quickly, the corners of Xu Chuan's mouth moved but he hesitated to speak.

After thinking about it, he smiled and nodded and agreed: "Okay, then let's chat with the netizens in the live broadcast room for a few minutes."

On the one hand, Yang Ma's face still needs to be given. Academician Chang Lao has run away, so he has to deal with it.

On the other hand, it is also good to use this live broadcast to systematically popularize various conspiracy theories and rumors about extraterrestrial life that have been circulating on the Internet during this period.

In short, he has absolutely no intention of going to the live broadcast room to pretend to be beta.

Hearing Xu Chuan's agreement, the CTV reporter also breathed a sigh of relief and said quickly with a smile: "Then wait a moment, I'll have someone come over right now."

After that, he trotted over and called the camera guy.

After a while, the guy with the camera on his shoulder trotted over.

"Hello everyone, before the Fuyao space shuttle begins its journey to Mars, we are honored to invite Academician Xu Chuan to the live broadcast room as a guest."

Standing next to Xu Chuan, the reporter greeted the audience in the live broadcast room and quickly moved away from the C seat, allowing Xu Chuan to stand in the center.

Looking at the camera, Xu Chuan smiled and said hello to the audience in the live broadcast room.

"Hello everyone."

As he entered, the live broadcast room of CTV went crazy instantly. The live broadcast room that could not be swiped with gifts, could only be swiped with barrages.

[Fuck! Chuan Shen! ]

[Male God! My male god! ]

[Oh my god, Chuan Shen actually appeared! Still so handsome! Love love love! ]

[Chuan Shen Chuan Shen, I really want to travel to the moon, give me a ticket! When will the moon tourism business be opened to the public? ]

[Hasn't it always been there? I remember that the business recruitment on Chuan Shen's Weibo has always been there. ]

[Don't want 65 million, don't want 55 million, just 19.98 million, and you can experience a "space travel" that is no different from taking an ordinary plane! ”】

【Poor~, no money, damn it!】

【Chuan Shen, is it true that microorganisms were found on the moon? Do aliens really exist?】

【Aerospace technology should be improved quickly! Let me fight aliens while I am still alive!】

【Two-dimensional foil!】

【The charm of a single-page family tree! Who wouldn’t be crazy?】

The comments in the live broadcast room were so crazy that thousands of comments could be scrolled past in the blink of an eye.

However, most netizens’ concerns are basically in a few aspects, such as when can we travel to the moon and Mars; whether aliens exist; whether extraterrestrial microorganisms will cause serious damage to the earth’s ecological environment.

After selecting a few targeted questions from the live broadcast room and giving a scientific explanation, looking at the comments that were still swiping the screen crazily, Xu Chuan smiled and said:

“I see that many people are very concerned about when they can travel to the moon or Mars. "

"Let's do this. During this live broadcast, I will randomly draw three people in the live broadcast room and provide free flights from the earth to the moon. The travel time is three days. All expenses will be covered by me. You just need to spare some time and luck~"

Hearing this news, the whole live broadcast room suddenly went crazy.

[Me!]

[Me!]

[Choose me!]

[Sacrifice ten years of life, you must win!]

[Sacrifice all my ex-boyfriends, bless me to win!]

[Sacrifice my friends' single life for thirty years! Bless me to win!]

[.]

For a while, the whole live broadcast room went crazy.

Aside, the CTV reporter was stunned for a moment, and hurried over, whispering quickly and nervously: "Academician Xu, is this appropriate? "

She really didn't expect that this person would do this in the live broadcast room. Draw a place to travel to the moon in the live broadcast room? This is really a one-size-fits-all.

Xu Chuan smiled and explained: "It's nothing. Now the manned lunar landing technology is quite mature. As long as ordinary people have undergone a period of training, it is no problem to take a space shuttle to the moon."

He explained casually, smiled and looked at the camera, and then said: "Don't rush to refresh the screen. The quota is conditional. The selected person must be over 18 years old and under 50 years old, and have a healthy body without invisible diseases."

"I will put the relevant rules on the official website of Xinghai Research Institute. You can take a closer look at it when the time comes."

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