The Goddess Shines on America

Regardless of the fact that the school is on holiday, there are currently many jobs in the UK, and Alice doesn't have time to stay in Los Angeles all the time. So anyway, James was also a teacher, and since it was a holiday, the whole family took advantage of the holiday to live in England.

Others are wandering around London, and Alice can naturally stay in this research institute.

The most important topic of the current period is Lockheed's side.

That is, the development of new explosives.

Explosives are substances that can burn violently in a very short period of time under the action of a certain amount of external energy, and then explode. Under normal circumstances, the chemical and physical properties of explosives are stable, but regardless of whether the environment is sealed or not, the amount of charge, or even in the case of zero oxygen supply from the outside world, as long as there is strong energy excitation, it will detonate the outside world stably Form work.

When the explosive explodes, it can release a large amount of heat energy and generate high-temperature and high-pressure gas, which can damage, throw, and compress the surrounding materials. The basic reason is that explosives can generate a large amount of heat and gas in a short period of time during the rapid combustion process, so the constituent elements of explosives are very important.

In a chemical reaction, a large amount of energy is stored in the form of chemical bonds between the different atoms of the reactants. When the compound molecules decompose, the products may use some of this energy to form new bonds, but most of the "remaining" energy will form High heat.

Compounds with related elements tend to generate related gases during the reaction. The heat speeds up the individual gas particles, making the pressure even higher, and the concentrated gas expands rapidly under extreme pressure. The direct manifestation of explosive explosion is to rely on sufficiently powerful high-pressure gas to kill, so that it can destroy buildings and cause casualties. And if the gas expands faster than the speed of sound, it creates a powerful shock wave.

For professionals, it is not difficult to create known explosives. Because the scientific names of many explosives are composed of this substance, in theory, any undergraduate who has successfully graduated from the chemistry department of a university can produce 90% of the known explosives in the world with sufficient laboratory materials and equipment.

In fact, even drug production, in principle, is the same, it is an act that even high school dropouts can try. It's just that many raw materials are not what you think, and you can get what you want, so most laymen are kept out of the door. Just like a basic nitrogen tank, not everyone has the ability to sneak into a chemical plant, not to mention that many people don't even know where to find it.

It is not difficult to make existing ones.

So what about developing new ones?

In the office and study on the top floor of the Institute, Alice has already bought an entire chemistry book at the university library level.

Return from the underground to the fifth floor above the ground, stay for a while, and then go down one floor.

"Gentlemen!"

The door of an office was opened, and Alice walked into it slowly: "Who can spare an afternoon, do me a favor?"

Now is of course the time to go to work. Dozens of programmers share a large office building, and four or five people can occupy a large office. In this room, simply six people raised their heads in unison.

"No problem, Boss." A skinny young man was extremely diligent: "Killing or fire prevention, smuggling or drug trafficking, you can talk about it, there is nothing I, Connelly, can't do!"

"Oh, my dear, I'm sorry, it's not related to computers." Alice winked at Connelly apologetically, causing the people around to chuckle: "I want you to lie down in this city." University of Exeter, buy something that is only used by the chemistry department."

"Chemistry Department?" Another programmer said: "Boss, didn't we just build a medical research institute below? Let them get out a little bit?"

"It's not that simple." Alice shook her head and smiled, "Not just bottles and cans, but I also need to use the school's media to buy some special raw materials. Liquid nitrogen tanks, liquid oxygen tanks, and various heavy chemical raw materials , the dean of the chemistry department of their university must have a channel."

This task did come suddenly, but it was really interesting.

where is this This is the world of super programmers. Don't look at the ternary system as a distant goal, but everyone is busy with their own small projects, and there is a lot of daily communication with each other. Alice was invited by Lockheed to develop new explosives, which is not news at all.

Therefore, five of the six young men immediately stated that they would live up to the boss's entrustment and buy a large amount of materials for her as quickly as possible. You know, these people are not only a group of hot-blooded young men, but also a group of folk masters recruited from all corners of the country to participate in the research and development of new explosives. What could be more interesting than this?

"Sorry boss, I just came up with an idea here, so..."

"It's okay, it's okay~" Alice rushed to the only one who wanted to stay: "Tell me, Bobo, what idea did you come up with?"

"It's Bernabo, not Popo..."

The programmer is also helpless, because the boss always likes to call him that, and he has to emphasize it every time, and the boss ignores it every time...

"Anyway, it's like this. Look at the boss, isn't there a serial port for connecting peripheral hardware on our current computers?"

The others led the task away immediately, and he began to explain his ideas to Alice clearly: "These serial ports are now used to connect the mouse and external Modem, as well as various cameras and writing pads. Or the data transmission between two devices and computers. But I found that it has a very big disadvantage, that is, it must be powered off to be plugged in, and the transmission rate is really low..."

it turns out……

Listening to his ingenious opening, Alice silently opened her mouth.

"So what do you think?"

Bernabeau shrugged and said: "So boss, you also know that I majored in hardware as an undergraduate. Although I later passed on pure programming, my foundation has not fallen. I just want to discuss with the downstairs to see if I can provide some equipment. Support, let me... um, try to develop a serial interface that can be plugged and unplugged with power?"

What's the point of discussing with the downstairs, this is all going to the big boss directly, why do you need to pay attention to those idiots downstairs?

"Plug and unplug with power on, and increase the transmission rate of the serial interface, right?" Alice couldn't help but smile at the corner of her mouth. Really unexpected, or should I say expected? Of course, the birth time of the idea will be earlier than the time when the standard is officially promoted, but is it too early to talk about this topic at this moment?

Well, it's always a good thing.

"That's right, that's it!"

Seeing that the boss wanted to support him, Bernabeau suddenly became excited: "I have already thought of the most obvious benefits of this technology. First, we can move the damaged module to the In addition, it can also be updated or expanded without affecting system operation. At the same time, because these parts will be very reliable, we can also use them as breakers for system failure analysis and reduce costs! "

Look at Bernard's eloquent appearance, obviously he has held back his prepared words long ago, for fear that his ideas will be refuted after he speaks out. Seeing the staff so enthusiastic, Alice was too embarrassed to give him some cold water to calm down.

"The word "swap with a little bit" is too wordy, it should be called hot-swap." With a precise definition in one sentence, Alice said: "Bobo, you also know what our research institute does. With ternary computer For the long-term goal, all kinds of new computer technologies are blooming, and dozens of programmers are contending with each other. You can do what you want to do. Funding and equipment are not a problem. I didn’t look at the solid-state hard disk project that was proposed half a year ago. , did I pass without even thinking about it?"

When it comes to solid-state drives, let alone other people, Alice is a little excited when she thinks about it.

After all, it is a place where a bunch of weirdos have accumulated, all kinds of inspirations and ideas, ideas and ideas, jumping out every day without money.

In fact, the research history of solid-state drives is not short. Since IBM developed the first hard drive in 1956, this concept has been in the state of travel. Well, in the 1970s, Storag-Tek developed solid-state hard drives.

But the emergence of technology does not mean practical application, after all, the market is the real judge. Before the technology is fully mature, most people leave large-capacity mechanical hard drives unused and buy high-priced, low-capacity solid-state drives, which is purely sick.

As for this research institute...

Alice is sitting here.

In half a year, those people in the three-tier hardware department can make much faster progress than Intel and IBM...

This kind of small stove is not something everyone can enjoy~

"Come on, boy!" Alice patted the shoulder of this young man who could be her big brother, and said with a big smile: "As usual, submit a feasibility report to me for archiving, and then go about all kinds of troubles." Bar!"

It was really a surprise that he thought of the concept of Universal Serial Bus in advance. You must know that the most valuable thing in the IT industry is the qualification to formulate standards. Although there may not be direct profits, the brand value it can bring is huge. Enough to go up to hundreds of millions.

"Tsk tsk tsk, the people in my research institute are indeed talented~"

The girl happily walked out of the room, then paused, looking around.

The area of ​​the five-story gymnasium, and the patio is not really as big as a sports field. In such an empty office area, there are only dozens of programmers. That is to say, everyone can easily find an entire office as his own private research room.

Then, as the big boss, wouldn't it be easy for Alice to vacate a chemical explosives laboratory for herself?