Technological Hegemony

When Wen Chengling mentioned fullerene, the word liar immediately came to Luo Jia’s mind. Since fullerene’s antioxidant capacity is 125 times that of vitamin C, it is often used in the field of cosmetics. Collect IQ tax from female compatriots and manufacture products that claim to be able to quickly whiten skin.

But Luo Jia never expected that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory had made a breakthrough in fullerenes. If the content of the anonymous letter was true, it would have to attract Luo Jia's attention. Further master the secrets of life.

"How likely do you think this letter is to be true, and why did the writer remind us?" Luo Jia asked the Wen family brothers.

Wen Chengling frowned and said, "I also can't figure out why someone would remind us that the people who can know the progress of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's research and development must be their internal personnel. Logically speaking, people in Cold Spring Harbor should hate us. After all In the field of immune activation, Cold Spring Harbor lost to us, which can be said to be a complete defeat, which is quite miserable."

"Could it be because of potential safety hazards?" An Ran rubbed her chin and said, "Like last time, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's immune activation technology caused heavy casualties. There are kind-hearted scientists who remind us to prepare early in order to avoid a repeat of the tragedy. .”

Luo Jia shook his head, "It's unlikely. That's the top team led by James Watson and Reinhardt. Last time they had a problem, it was because of impatience. If they were more cautious, they might not lose. I don't believe Watson Big guys like Sen and Reinhardt will fall twice in the same place, which is too insulting to their IQ."

Everyone nodded. The probability of a top scientist in the world falling twice in a row because of safety is too low.

"Deliberately lure us into the game? Let us spend energy on fullerenes to buy time for Cold Spring Harbor?" Shen Lang guessed.

"It's possible." Wen Chengfeng nodded slightly, "Fullerene is a three-dimensional cage structure composed of carbon molecules, and the number of carbon molecules is not fixed, it can be twenty, or three hundred, five Hundreds, because fullerenes produced in nature usually have sixty carbon molecules, so they are also called C60."

"To put it simply, even if we know that Cold Spring Harbor is studying fullerenes, we still have no way of knowing which structure of fullerenes they are studying, whether there are any substances that match it, etc. If we open another rich If the Leene research line is used, it will undoubtedly increase the burden."

Luo Jia nodded slightly, and after listening to everyone's opinions, he made the final decision.

"Responding to all changes, the Department of Life Sciences maintains the original plan, not seeking the fastest, but seeking the most stable. Yesterday in Cold Spring Harbor is a lesson for us. They used to be the most famous life science laboratory on earth, but now became notorious,

There is no other reason, the pace is too fast, and it just hit the egg. " Luo Jia said.

Wen Chengling nodded and agreed: "Understood, don't worry about any anonymous letters, we will continue to stick to our own rhythm, and my character is precarious, so I am not going to move."

Luo Jia nodded, "Very well, let's end the meeting."

"By the way, An Ran, ask the secretary to arrange a time. Director Guo Shouyu of the National Astronomical Observatory will come this afternoon. It seems that he is in a hurry. We'd better meet him together."

An Ran showed a strange expression, "National Astronomical Observatory? What's the matter with them? They found a comet that was about to hit the earth. The whole world is in danger, so they came to ask us for help?"

Puff~

Everyone laughed, except for Luo Jia, the second most powerful person in the company was An Ran, but this man still kept a bit of innocence in his heart, as soon as Luo Jia said that the people from the observatory came, he immediately thought of the end of the earth, and his thinking was also Quite strange.

Luo Jia smiled, "If it was really that serious, it wouldn't be the director of the observatory who came here, at least it would have to be a minister or something."

"Don't think too much, Director Guo came to us to complain. The National Astronomical Observatory, Purple Mountain Observatory, Shanghai Metropolitan Observatory, and the three major domestic astronomical observatories have recently encountered troubles and urgently need our help."

...

"Son of a bitch!"

"Musk is a bastard!"

Director Guo of the National Astronomical Observatory came to Xingchen Technology to make a complaint. Just after a few chats in the office in the afternoon, the director, who wears black-rimmed glasses and has a strong scholarly air, started to swear.

"In just half a year, Musk's damn Starlink project has launched more than 4,000 satellites, and they are occupying a fucking low-Earth orbit!"

"How do we observe this!?"

"If this continues, our entire astronomical observation system will be destroyed by Musk!"

"There's money inside and out!"

"The National Astronomical Observatory has more than one observatory, but dozens of large and small ones. From the capital to the western Xinjiang, how much money has the country invested in these projects, and how much youth have my colleagues dedicated!?"

"Yangbajing, Kashgar, Ali, Xilin Gol, many observation stations are set up in remote and barren places for better observation conditions. Many of our researchers stay in these places for a lifetime, it is too hard!"

"It's good now. Musk's Starlink project is getting more and more crazy. I wish I could build a thousand satellites a week. As long as we open the mirror, satellites, satellites, satellites are all fucking Musk's satellites, more than 4,000 The first satellite has brought huge troubles to our space observation work. Our group of astronomical observations has already worked very hard. Musk directly tripled our hard work! The probability of error has also tripled Times!"

"I heard that according to Musk's plan, he will eventually place more than 100,000 communication satellites in low-Earth orbit. This is simply killing us!"

"At that time, not only us, but observatories all over the world except North America will have to lie down!"

Director Guo was very excited. Having been engaged in astronomical observation work all his life, he was almost pushed to the brink of collapse. When talking about his colleagues, his voice choked up several times.

Luo Jia frowned. Of course he knew the importance of astronomical observation. Without the ability of astronomical observation, you are like a blind man without eyes. You don't even know that a meteorite hits the earth.

Without astronomical observation capabilities, there would be no star map, and even the sea of ​​stars, you wouldn't even know where the starship was headed.

"Why except North America? Musk's Starlink occupies low-Earth orbit resources, and the North American Observatory should also be affected?" An Ran asked casually.

"They have two space telescopes, Hubble and Webb. The cost of the Webb space telescope is as high as more than 10 billion US dollars. The astronomical observation capability is unique in the world. In addition, North America also plans to launch the survey telescope LUVOIR, SST Origin, Hound Dog, etc."

"In short, North America has been preparing for a long time. They know that the Starlink project will cause the ground observatory to lose its function, so they are going to move the telescope to space. However, my country's space program started late. So far, we have no space of our own. Telescopes, as for the survey-level super space telescopes like Genesis, they are even beyond the reach."

Speaking of this, Luo Jia and An Ran looked at each other. They didn't expect that things would collapse so quickly. Musk is absolutely crazy. He launches rockets into space three or even four times a week. Throw a bunch of satellites in low earth orbit.

On November 11, 2019, when the Chinese people celebrated Double Eleven and sent money to merchants to pay IQ tax, an incident occurred at the Cape Canaveral Air Base in Florida, North America, which was enough to be loaded into the spaceflight. event in history.

When Musk launched the Starlink communication satellite, he found that one of the satellites had failed. According to the logic, the faulty satellite should be removed and replaced with a new one.

However, Musk made a move that surprised everyone. I don’t want the faulty satellite! Launch it up first, then let the faulty satellite fall down by itself.

Only those who really understand aerospace engineering will understand the meaning behind this incident.

It means that the Starlink project has entered the stage of real commercial operation. The cost of communication satellites is so low that the cost of the Falcon 9 rocket has reached the point where Musk can waste it recklessly!

Once this kind of launch rhythm is entered, the unqualified satellite Musk is too lazy to dismantle it, and it is directly sent to space to be thrown away. The symbolic meaning behind it is too great. If Huaxia does not stop it, Starlink may really be successful. From now on , Earth's low-Earth orbit will be surrounded by North American communication satellites layer by layer, like an iron wall, it will be difficult for others to insert their own satellites into it.

This is a typical hegemony of non-renewable resources in space!

And once Starlink succeeds, it will definitely have a serious impact on the global telecommunications network, this gigantic industry worth ten trillion dollars!

After listening to Director Guo's words, An Ran scratched her head. At first, she felt that the matter was a bit tricky. The three major observatories are the lifeblood of my country's space research. The huge impact and heavy losses cannot be measured by money.

In addition, he is also a bit guilty. Anyone who understands knows that Musk is so crazy to engage in Starlink, and he is not forced by Starlink. Crazy, they built the space elevator and the zero space station, these two super projects, in contrast, the only super space project in North America is the Starlink.

Of course, falling behind for a short time does not mean anything. Other North American plans to fight against Star Technology are still under intense preparation, and I believe they will be launched soon.

After thinking for a while, Luo Jia raised his head, saw a smile on his face, and said to An Ran: "It seems that the plan must be advanced."

An Ran nodded and said: "Well, although it is troublesome to adjust the plan, it is also forced by the situation. This guy Musk is much faster than we imagined."

Luo Jia rubbed his hands, "Then let's make a decision like this. You don't need to discuss it with the administration. You are responsible for adjusting the plan. I will go to the Optical Department and Mr. Lu in person."

An Ran slapped her thigh and stood up, "Okay, but the plan is a bit complicated, I need at least ten days."

"It should be no problem." Luo Jia thought for a while and said, "After all, Mr. Lu also has his own difficulties."

Master Guo was confused, he frowned and asked in confusion, "You two, what are you talking about?"

"We're talking about the space telescope." Luo Jia said calmly and calmly: "If you still remember, we hired Dr. Jean-Pierre and his team from the European Space Agency last year. "

"Now Dr. Pierre is working in our subsidiary, Xingchen Optical Group, together with Zhang Yuechuan and Mr. Lu Chengfeng, to prepare our first space telescope."

Director Guo was taken aback for a moment, and his pupils dilated rapidly, "The chief observation expert of ESA, Dr. Pierre, who is in charge of the Gaia 2 project?"

"Yes, Director Guo knows him?"

Guo Shouyu nodded heavily, and said excitedly, "I know you. We have attended several academic conferences together, but we are not very familiar with each other. By the way, how is your space telescope project going?"

After hearing this, Luo Jia habitually picked up the whiteboard and scribbled on it.

"Space station zero is like a big house, and the space telescope is like the furniture in the house. According to normal logic, the house must be built and decorated first, and then the furniture can be installed. The last step is for people to live in it."

"The No. 0 space station has not been built yet, so it's too early to talk about furniture."

"But it doesn't matter. I told An Ran and asked him to adjust the plan. Before the zero space station is completed, install the space telescope on it now!"