Technological Hegemony

The Xingchen Technology headquarters in Baoshan is deserted, except for the security department and a few colleagues who stay behind in the company, there is no personal shadow. The largest hardware department and software department have all been on vacation.

When Musk announced the Starlink project and challenged Xingchen Technology, An Ran once asked Luo Jia if he would end his vacation early and call the team back.

Luo Jia rejected the proposal, and smiled and said a famous saying of Zheng Banqiao, "Thousands of hardships are still strong, let the wind go from east to west!"

Just kidding, Xingchen Technology, as the most powerful scientific research army on earth today, doesn't even have this bit of concentration, how can it get along in this world.

Therefore, after half a month of Musk's arrogance, the most tough guys in the Chinese science and technology circle assembled without haste. As usual, all members of the brainstorming team were present, sitting in the highest conference room, waiting Roja's order.

Luo Jia, who walked onto the stage, looked around and found that many people were tanned.

Before the Spring Festival, Luo Jia sent an email to all his colleagues, hoping that they would go out more during the holidays, see the world changed by themselves, talk about their feelings when they come back, and think about what they can do for the world.

"Which one of you will tell about what you have seen and felt about this holiday?" Luo Jia asked with a smile on the stage, not in a hurry to assign tasks to everyone.

"I'll come." Dr. Ling Feng, who is always optimistic, stood up, "I went to North America during the Spring Festival. Yes, I went to the enemy's stronghold. It's nothing strange. As the saying goes, if you know yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles."

Everyone laughed, Dr. Ling Feng is almost sixty years old, and his adventurous spirit is still the same as before, and he is more aggressive than most young people.

"According to my observations, North America has changed a lot, but this change is not subversive. It's just that there are more and more high-end products from China, such as our electric cars, our mobile phones and computers. What I mentioned is that 99% of the next-generation mobile phones and computers sold in North America are smuggled goods, and the authorities can't even collect a penny of tax. They are also very troubled by this. If things go on like this, North America is afraid that it will become a big smuggling country Woolen cloth."

Everyone laughed, thinking Dr. Ling Feng's idea was very interesting, but having said that, the result of not opening up the import of electronic products is not a lot of smuggling, which is an irresistible economic law.

Dr. Zhang Yuechuan from the Department of Optics said: "The places I go to are different, and the feelings are very different. I went to Japan and South Korea during the Spring Festival and found that the impact on East Asia is quite serious."

"The shipbuilding industry was the first to fall in South Korea. The shipyards of Hyundai and Daewoo have all shut down. Now Busan, an important shipbuilding town, is full of drunk unemployed workers.

High-end restaurants have closed and roadside liquor stalls, serving kimchi and instant noodles as well as cheap spirits, have flourished. "

"The most expensive dish in the roadside wine stalls is pork neck, cut into thin slices, and stewed with kimchi soup. The price is not expensive, but still no one buys it. Most people only have edamame and kimchi in front of them. Add a piece of fried tofu."

Zhang Yuechuan's description was quite detailed, a gloomy and decaying heavy industrial city unfolded in everyone's mind.

Unemployed IT elites can come to China to make a living. However, for those shipbuilders and sailors, unemployment is like a nightmare. With the collapse of the economy, it is not easy to find new jobs.

Shipbuilding, shipping, steel, automobiles, as South Korea's pillar industries have collapsed one after another, the country is rapidly returning to their original historical status.

Reading thousands of books, traveling thousands of miles, watching TV and news reports, is far worse than experiencing it yourself. This is why Luo Jia suggested that everyone go out and walk more. Now it seems that the effect is remarkable. After the New Year Everyone came back with a lot of emotion.

Wei Jianing of Star Software Group thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that we have really changed the world. The technology we developed has been integrated into every aspect of life. When people eat and sleep, they call When whining, everyone is using our technology!"

After talking about what they had learned during the holiday, everyone looked at Luo Jia, who stood up from his seat and pulled out the huge whiteboard that had been prepared, as well as red and black bold ink pens.

The brainstorming group cheered up immediately, and a new journey was about to begin. If nothing unexpected happened, the aerospace department of Star Technology would soon be born to meet the challenges from across the Pacific Ocean.

Confident expressions appeared on everyone's faces. Since its establishment, Xingchen Technology has not suffered a single defeat, so everyone is full of confidence in the future. They think that Musk must have lost his head, and actually asked Xingchen Technology if he dared to fight?

The tough guys know a lot, but they just don't know what it means to be afraid!

Luo Jia saw the disdainful expressions on everyone's faces, frowned slightly, and then stretched his brows, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that everyone is very confident. Indeed, although we have never been involved in aviation In the field of aerospace, but in this field, we have a good technical reserve."

"For example, Cao Yuan's graphene preparation technology, Musk's Falcon rocket uses stainless steel, if we use graphene, the performance will definitely be much ahead of them, which is basically a blow to dimensionality reduction."

"In addition, we also have ultrasonic motors, battery storage technology, laser technology, electromagnetic technology, optical sensing technology, third-generation artificial intelligence technology and so on."

"These technologies are our important trump cards. I dare not say that there will be no one in the future, at least they will be unprecedented. Even if they are thrown to the West and asked to reverse engineer them, they will have no way to copy them."

"However, I don't know if you have thought about it. We have so many cards, why Musk still dares to challenge so arrogantly? And from the perspective of behavioral analysis, Musk is obviously intentional. It seems that what he is worried about is not We are angered, but we are not angry."

The meeting room fell silent, and everyone fell into deep thought. They carefully recalled Luo Jia's language. Everyone remembered that when Musk pointed to the east, the smile on the corner of his mouth was a bit like an old fox. Behind, what else is hidden?

After a pause, Luo Jia continued: "On March 23, 1983, the Star Wars program was officially put on the agenda. We must not forget how great North America's leading edge in the aerospace field is. When North America decided to develop space Half the people in this office, including me, weren't even born when we started the weapon."

"Some people say that the trillion-dollar Star Wars project itself is a scam, which consumed the huge resources of the former Soviet Union and eventually led to the disintegration of the Mao Bear."

"Although the Star Wars conspiracy theory is very popular among the people, rationality tells us, no, the Star Wars project is by no means a hoax. The reason why the hoax is so popular is because some people want us to think it is a hoax!"

"For many years, big Vs and public intellectuals have spared no effort to build North America into a beacon of humanity. Public opinion and culture have always been the end of all hegemony. In the past, we did not pay attention to propaganda and cultural aggression and suffered a big loss. Therefore, in the future We must be more cautious in distinguishing what is the truth and what is the so-called fact that others want us to believe!"

Luo Jia's words were clearly thought through. During the holiday period, he was not idle. In addition to studying, Luo Jia also conducted in-depth thinking, analyzing every word and every action of Musk.

Sure enough, Luo Jia's words caused a huge sensation.

Assuming the Star Wars program wasn't a hoax?

This assumption is too terrifying. No one dares to guess how many years North America is ahead of China in the field of aerospace technology. Even if the Star Wars project is only half completed, its technological content is enough to leave China by a century.

"Boss Luo, are you serious?"

"How is it possible! If the Star Wars program exists, wouldn't the North American authorities have the ability to build space-based weapons?"

"I'm going, I don't dare to think about it. When I think of the words "space-based weapons," I feel hairy in my heart."

Everyone was talking about it, not because they were afraid, but because the Star Wars plan was a bit scary. Only the ignorant are fearless. The brainstorming team with scientific literacy knows the power of advanced technology. In many cases, with technology, you can do whatever you want.

Luo Jia said lightly: "Let me give a simple example. As you may know, the development of space-based weapons requires efficient and low-cost delivery vehicles. The aerospace experimental machine between the X40 and the earliest recoverable launch vehicle K-1."

"Later, Dr. Worm, the chief scientist in charge of the K-1 project, jumped from the Kistler Group to Blue Origin and developed the Shepard rocket we see today."

"To some extent, the Star Wars program never ended, but appeared in the world in another form, including the Shepard rocket, the Patriot 3 missile, and the THAAD system, all of which are derivatives of the Star Wars program. .”

"I have a detailed survey here, which counts the completion of each subsystem in the Star Wars plan. Now I will send it to your office mailbox. Please take time to take a look when you get back."

After all, Luo Jia pressed Enter on the notebook with her fingers and sent the email to everyone. The content of this email is roughly like this.

The Exoatmospheric Interceptor System, or ERIS for short, is in charge of the enterprise, Lockheed Martin.

On January 28, 1991, the first interception test of ERIS, the target RV was transported by Orbital Science Corporation's Aries missile. At an altitude of 270 kilometers, the two collided at a speed of 13.4 kilometers per second, and the RV was successfully destroyed. The test was successful.

As of May 19, 1994, ERIS has conducted four tests, three of which were successful, because it can be inferred that North America has the ability to intercept targets outside the atmosphere, and the interception height is above 500 kilometers.

Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle System, referred to as the EKV program.

In October 1990, the project was established and submitted to Martin. Marietta, Hughes Missile, Rockwell, three companies released project packages, and then in the first round of competition in 1995, Martin. Marietta's proposal was eliminated.

Next, on June 24, 1997 and January 16, 1998, the NMD flight comprehensive test, IFT-1 and IFT-2 projects were carried out respectively. According to the result evaluation, Raytheon beat Boeing and became the EKV part of the GBI missile main contractor.

There are many similar contents. After reading this email, everyone expressed shock. They wondered where Luo Jia got this information. If the information is true, the completion of the Star Wars project, which contains thousands of sub-projects, is probably Far beyond the cognition of the world.

Due to cost reasons and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the main rival in North America, more than 90% of these groundbreaking scientific research results have not been put into use and are stored in NASA's database. Only need to invest in personnel and funds, and the blueprint will be released immediately. can become a reality.

Luo Jia smiled, and said to the shocked people: "I'm afraid this is where Musk's confidence lies. North America started space research decades earlier than us. As for the relationship between Musk and NASA, It's not as simple as we thought, I wonder if any of you still remember the Grasshopper rocket that was launched on October 7, 2013?"