Great Country Academician

Chapter 921 Three Tickets~

The electromagnetic railgun and electromagnetic sniper rifle came to an end for the time being, and Xu Chuan was ready to return to Jinling.

However, there was one more person accompanying him this time, Director Ouyang Zhenchu ​​of the Naval Equipment Department.

This leader Ouyang wanted to know the specific research situation of the exoskeleton device, so he followed him to Jinling.

Xu Chuan didn't care much about this. Along the way, he was thinking about ways to improve the electromagnetic railgun and electromagnetic sniper rifle.

Although the brain-computer interface chip and bionic robotic arm studied by Xu Xiao can temporarily solve the problem, the size, weight, and length of the electromagnetic sniper rifle have not been solved.

In fact, after trying the electromagnetic sniper rifle, he roughly knew what Academicians Wang Yong and Wang Enge wanted him to help with.

But this problem is not so easy to solve.

Because the size, weight, and length of the electromagnetic sniper rifle basically involve the most core materials, namely, copper oxide-based chromium-silver system room temperature superconducting materials.

This is the core foundation of the Thor electromagnetic railgun and this unnamed electromagnetic sniper rifle.

Only it can provide a huge critical magnetic field in a normal environment and provide sufficient acceleration for the launch of the electromagnetic gun.

If you want to optimize these problems, the only way is to improve the performance of room-temperature superconducting materials.

But with the current technological development, this is almost impossible to do in a short period of time.

Even if he has completed the mechanism theory of room-temperature superconducting materials through condensed matter physics, it is extremely difficult to further optimize it.

With thoughts flowing in his mind, Xu Chuan wrote and drew on the high-speed rail to record some ideas, ready to let people study them after returning to Jinling.

After the last character fell on the keyboard in his hand, Xu Chuan breathed a sigh of relief and habitually pressed the CTRL+S keys to save some of the ideas he had written.

Although it is a very difficult thing to continue to promote the improvement of the performance of room-temperature superconducting materials, the brain-computer interface chip + bionic exoskeleton device studied by Xu Xiao can make up for the defects of the electromagnetic sniper rifle to a certain extent.

In addition, he also learned from Ouyang Zhenchu, the head of the Navy Equipment Department, that the army has now equipped a lot of "Lynx" all-terrain vehicles.

This all-terrain vehicle with 8×8 full-time drive and eight wheels, nicknamed "Cat Car" by netizens, has excellent all-regional passing ability and also has a very good load-bearing capacity.

Perhaps the bionic exoskeleton device may not be fully equipped to soldiers in a short time, but in the army, how to transport heavier weapons such as electromagnetic sniper rifles is actually not too stressful.

The combination of electromagnetic sniper rifles + bionic exoskeletons + Lynx all-terrain vehicles will enable them to have a new form of special forces in the near future.

Perhaps the number of this force may not be large in a short time, but the combat capability will be absolutely strong!

After sending the leader of the Navy Equipment Department to Xu Xiao, Xu Chuan returned to Xinghai Research Institute.

Just as Xu Chuan opened the door of the office and was about to walk to his desk, the mobile phone in his pocket vibrated.

He took out his phone and took a look. The caller was Tang Ran, an assistant from Nanjing University.

Xu Chuan swiped his thumb across the screen and answered the call: "Hello, Tang Ran."

On the phone, Tang Ran quickly reported: "Professor, the Jinling Municipal Government just called and said that the trial operation of the porous liquefied DAC carbon dioxide collector will be officially launched. They want to invite you to attend the launch ceremony."

"Of course, Director Han from the Industrial Information Bureau said that if you don't have time, it doesn't matter."

Hearing this news, Xu Chuan was slightly stunned, and then he remembered that in the second half of last year, he had signed a contract with the Jinling Municipal Government for an urban renovation project.

The content of the contract is actually very simple, that is, the Sichuan-Hai Materials Research Institute provides porous liquefied DAC carbon dioxide collectors and cooperates with the government to renovate some urban high-rise buildings in Jinling City.

This is part of the super city he had conceived before. It regulates the city temperature by reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the city on a large scale and reducing the heat island effect.

The subsequent work will use artificial intelligence + carbon-based chips + quantum computing as the skeleton, superconducting magnetic levitation + unmanned driving as the flesh and blood, and environmental control technology as the skin to create an ideal living city.

Of course, in addition to the transformation of the super city, another function of the porous liquefied DAC carbon dioxide collector is the transformation of the Martian ecosystem.

At least part of the technology, the pilot project in Jinling is actually to collect specific experimental data to determine whether this technology really has enough potential.

If he remembers correctly, the first phase of the urban transformation project will transform a total of ten high-rise buildings in the city center.

Although it is not difficult to deploy the porous liquefied DAC carbon dioxide collector, the transformation work can be completed in less than half a year. It must be said that the efficiency of the Jinling Municipal Government is still quite high.

The thoughts in his mind flowed through, Xu Chuan came back to his senses, and said: "When will the launch meeting be held?"

"A week later, April 28th."

Tang Ran replied quickly, and then asked: "Professor, are you ready to participate?"

Xu Chuan nodded and said, "Let's go."

Hearing this, Tang Ran immediately replied, "Okay, Professor, I will communicate with the city and arrange the itinerary."

"Well, I'll leave it to you." Xu Chuan nodded, handed the matter over to Tang Ran and hung up the phone.

The deployment of porous liquefied DAC carbon dioxide collectors and urban environmental transformation projects were not originally his turn to go there in person, so it was almost enough to let Fan Pengyue go to Senior Brother Fan's place.

However, this project itself was proposed by him, and on the other hand, it also involves the Mars transformation project that may be launched in the future. He plans to go to the site in person to see and understand the specific situation.

Jinling, Xinghai Research Institute.

In the office, Xu Chuan turned on the computer and prepared to deal with the work emails that had accumulated during this period.

Although he has been helping Xu Xiao solve the problem of accurate sensing and conversion of brain wave signals by brain-computer interface chips during this period, other work has progressed smoothly.

The second-generation space shuttle Fuyao, which carried a large number of equipment to Mars for preliminary exploration, went smoothly and had already completed half of its journey. In another half a month, it would reach Mars' low-Earth orbit.

The main research work of the CRHPC Circular Super Intense Particle Collider is still to detect and improve his strong-electric unified theory.

The remaining predicted coupling constants are being verified one by one. If the next collision experiment goes well, all the work may be completed in the second half of this year.

By then, the strong-electric unified theory will be fully accepted by the physics community. Although the physics community has almost accepted it now, he may still have to revise the paper before the predictions of the key coupling constants are fully confirmed.

For these, although he is very confident in his heart, he is not 100% sure that his research theory is correct.

After all, this involves an unknown area that humans have never touched.

Just as he was thinking about the arrangement of things in an email, another call came in.

I picked up my phone from my desk and looked at the caller ID. The call was from Academician Chang Huaxiang from Xiashu Aerospace Base.

Seeing the name, he answered the phone with a smile and said, "Hello, Mr. Chang."

On the other side of the phone, Academician Chang Huaxiang smiled and asked, "Are you back to Jinling?"

Xu Chuan nodded and said, "Just arrived in the afternoon, what's the matter?"

Chang Huaxiang: "Do you remember what you said on CCTV's live broadcast of the Fuyao space shuttle's voyage to Mars?"

Hearing this, Xu Chuan's mind instantly flashed back to what he had promised in CCTV's live broadcast room nearly a month ago, and he smiled and said, "Remember, have you picked the candidates?"

Chang Huaxiang smiled and shook his head, saying, "You are really a hands-off boss. The candidates were dealt with more than half a month ago. Tonight is the departure time for these three lucky people to go to the moon."

Xu Chuan slapped his head and smiled, "I did forget about this. I'll go there later."

Chang Huaxiang: "What are you doing here?"

Xu Chuan: "Go over and take a look. What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

Chang Huaxiang asked with a strange look on his face, "You don't really want to go up with them, do you?"

Except for this possibility, to be honest, he really can't think of any other possibilities. After all, for the current Xiashu Space Base, the already mature space technology has already transported countless astronauts and scientific researchers between the earth and the moon.

Although the three ordinary people's trip to the moon was something this person did casually, it was really nothing for them, and there was no need to go there in person.

Unless, he wanted to go to the moon with them.

Hearing this, Xu Chuan was a little bit amused and said, "Am I so untrustworthy? Didn't I say last time that I wouldn't go up with them?"

Chang Huaxiang said cheerfully, "That's not necessarily true. With your personality, you might not want to go up now, and then you will see three tourists boarding the plane and you will follow them on impulse."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan couldn't help rolling his eyes and said, "This time, I just happened to find you for something else."

The three ordinary tourists' trip to the moon was indeed not at his level. Even if it was something he arranged personally, it was not his turn to come forward in person.

However, he was still quite interested in this matter.

Although the modern Internet has greatly promoted the circulation of information and news, it is still quite difficult and time-consuming for real development to be implemented to the grassroots people and for everyone to feel the changes.

In fact, it is difficult for ordinary people to feel the changes in the frontier development field.

Just like the development of the aerospace field.

Unlike astronauts and scholars who go to the moon for scientific research, ordinary people's travel to the moon is the real opening of extraterrestrial immigration.

No matter how prosperous the former is, it is only the development of the country and scientific research level. For ordinary people, at most, they will only sigh a few times like "wow", "awesome" and "strong!" after the successful manned moon landing, the completion of the scientific research base, or the completion of certain scientific research results.

The latter is the real way for ordinary people to get in touch with this unattainable development.

This has a great promoting effect on the development of the aerospace field, and is complementary to the country's policy support for the aerospace field.

Especially this time, his support for the transfer of tickets for the "Moon Trip" can allow some private capital to participate.

For example, Prince Faisal of the Middle East had previously proposed to build a "mosque" and a "moon hotel" on the moon, as well as the development of resources on the moon.

When aerospace technology is sufficient to support the development of outer space, these things can actually be put on a daily basis.

Perhaps it is a little impatient in terms of time, but considering that there may be another huge "century project" in the future, it is necessary to promote the participation of the private sector in the development of the aerospace field and the development of outer space.

After chatting with Academician Chang Huaxiang for a few words, Xu Chuan hung up the phone.

After sending a message to Zheng Hai asking him to come and pick him up, he searched the email and found some work reports from the Institute of Aerospace and Xiashu Aerospace Base.

The three moon landing quotas promised from the CCTV live broadcast room at Xiashu Aerospace Base a month ago have been selected with the help of Weng Yunzong and Wen Yuanhang.

Three lucky netizens were invited to travel to the moon after being reviewed.

Two netizens chose to publicly "transfer" their quotas online, and the transferees were nothing more than those wealthy people.

According to the space travel service previously determined by Xinghai Research Institute, the business of space travel is 19.99 million (mi gold), and the business of moon travel is 49.99 million (mi gold).

In terms of the current development of the aerospace field in various countries, only China and the United States are capable of completing these two travel businesses.

But to be honest, although the latter's aerospace technology can send astronauts to the moon and achieve manned moon landing, the risk is still relatively high.

It has not been two years since the accident of the Artemis lunar module caused three astronauts to be trapped on the moon.

If China was not also carrying out a manned moon landing mission at the time and had the ability to rescue, I am afraid that the three astronauts would have been three cold corpses.

So whether from a technical perspective or safety and other aspects, in fact, only China is qualified and capable of space travel, especially the earth-moon travel business.

If the scope is narrowed down a little bit, in fact, there is only the Xiashu Space Base.

Although the price of 49.99 million MiGold for a trip to the moon is an astronomical figure for ordinary people, it is a completely acceptable price for those truly wealthy people.

But just because they can accept it does not mean that they will definitely be able to "apply" for a place on the Earth-Moon trip.

There are no so-called "civilian facilities" on the moon now. The only Yuehuatai Qianshao Research Station base that can accommodate people for travel is basically not open to the public.

All personnel going to the moon, except astronauts, are researchers, engineers and related scholars from various countries.

In other words, although Xinghai Research Institute currently has the "moon travel" item in the space travel business, it has not carried out related work.

So currently only the near-Earth space travel business is open. It can be said that those wealthy people who have experienced near-Earth travel have no way to travel to the moon.

And this time, Xu Chuan opened this hole to the public, although there are only three places, and they are randomly selected from the CCTV live broadcast room.

But for these super-rich people, it is not difficult to buy the places from these three lucky people with money.

After all, not everyone is a boss who doesn't love money.

For ordinary people who accidentally received three invitations, whether to transfer the invitations to others or keep them for themselves to travel to the moon, both are options.

The former is like winning the lottery and getting a windfall, while the latter is more like fulfilling one's dream.

No matter which one they choose, for these three people, it is a benefit brought by space development.