Technological Supremacy Chapter 456: The Rocket Race is about to begin
Luo Jia told everyone about the mergers and acquisitions that have occurred in the agricultural field in recent years. First, Sinochem Group acquired Syngenta in Switzerland. field response.
Unknowingly, three major agricultural enterprises have formed in the world, Sinochem Syngenta Group representing China's power, DowDuPont Group representing North America, and Bayer-Monsanto Group representing European power.
Luo Jia frowned and said: "The three major agricultural giants together account for more than 80% of the global market share of pesticides and seeds. This situation has never appeared in the long history of the earth."
"In this highly monopolized market, we have reason to worry about agricultural safety, but this is not the most important thing. What is important is that we have started the space program. From now on, all departments of the company must serve the space program , which includes the Life Sciences Division, including the Agriculture Program.”
"Are we also serving the space program?"
"No way, the space program still needs agricultural assistance?" Luo Jia's words aroused everyone's doubts.
Nodding slightly, Luo Jia said with a smile: "Of course the space program requires agriculture. For example, we plan to set up permanent colony bases or space stations on the moon and Mars in synchronous orbit. How can the colony base solve the problem of food, clothing, housing and transportation? From the earth to Mars, it takes an average of 200 days of long voyage, and it is obviously uneconomical and unrealistic to transport food by spaceship.”
"Assuming that we have the artificial meat technology and can use cell division to produce a large amount of fresh meat, it will greatly improve the quality of life of the colonial employees."
"For another example, if one day we go further, out of the solar system, and into the distant deep space, we must master two key technologies, one is human cryogenics, and the other is space agriculture, both of which are life branch of science."
"If this is not enough to convince you, I can give you a third example. As we all know, Mars and most of the planets in the universe are not suitable for human survival. Suppose in the distant future, we can master the cultivation of super space Plant technology allows plants to adapt to survive in harsh environments, which will bring unimaginable help to our transformation of interstellar colonies.”
Luo Jia talked eloquently and drew huge blueprints, which made everyone crazy.
Agriculture is certainly not high-quality, but adding the word space and turning it into space agriculture is another matter.
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After Luo Jia finished her speech, she left the Life Sciences Department without assigning tasks to everyone or pointing out the key points of research and development.
After all, he is not omnipotent. So far, the Golden Dome has not brought Luo Jia any data on life science. Simply put, Luo Jia does not understand life science.
Luo Jia just told the Wen family brothers to execute according to the path he designed. At the same time, he started two projects, cosmetics and artificial meat. There is meat on the table of the people.
Although he is not very old, Luo Jia loves to read history. From history, he has seen too much hunger and the deep suffering that hunger has brought to the Chinese nation.
As a descendant of a farmer whose ancestors have faced the loess and their backs to the sky, it is natural for Luo Jia to attach importance to agriculture. He stubbornly believes that the problem of food is the biggest problem in the world. We must first solve the problem of agriculture.
After returning from the Department of Life Sciences, Luo Jia continued to invest in the research of heavy-duty launch vehicles, focusing on rocket engine technology.
As the saying goes, there is no impenetrable wall under the sky. The fact that Xingchen Technology is preparing to study a 550-ton thrust engine quickly spread, which aroused the attention of the global scientific community, and then a large-scale rocket race began. .
There is no such thing as a rocket with only one engine installed. All of them are multi-machine linkage. The liquid oxygen methane engine with a single thrust of 550 tons is already very amazing from the perspective of design and parameters.
As we all know, Musk has designed four types of rockets for his space program, arranged in order from small to large, namely Falcon 9, Heavy Falcon, Large Falcon, and Super Falcon.
Among them, the Super Falcon rocket with the highest performance is equipped with an engine called Raptor. Four, twenty-eight Raptors work together to provide extraordinary propulsion for the Super Raptor.
Of course, the rocket engine of Star Technology can also work in a team, but the thrust is nearly three times higher than that of Musk's Raptor, which is obviously the rhythm of things.
Others have 200-ton, 300-ton engines, and Xingchen Technology directly increases 550 tons, which is definitely not the result that the West wants to see.
"It's coming! It's really coming!"
As soon as July is about to enter, the hottest season of the year, An Ran suddenly rushed into Luo Jia's office excitedly, and without any explanation, put the tablet in front of Luo Jia.
"You guessed right, they've been tricked, they've all been tricked!" An Ran said.
Them?
Luo Jia was suspicious, "So besides North America, there are other people who jumped out?"
"Actually, it's not an accident. They're old men. Their personalities have always been like this. North America hasn't made any moves yet, so they can't hold their breath." An Ran shrugged and replied.
Maozi wants to do something?
Luo Jia was suspicious and looked at the tablet computer An Ran gave him. The source of the news was Russia's largest news media, Russia Today.
This is the news content.
Russia and Russia recently tested the world's largest rocket engine, the RD-171MV.
The RD-171MV engine weighs 10.3 tons and has a thrust of more than 800 tons, ranking first in the world. It is more powerful and smaller than the F-1 engine installed on the Saturn 5 in North America, and it can be reused 10 times about.
When this engine is running, the combustion chamber can generate 27 million kilowatts of thermal power, which is equivalent to the power of a large hydropower station. In addition, the power of the engine turbo pump will reach 180,000 kilowatts, which is equivalent to three nuclear power of a large nuclear-powered icebreaker. The power of the power unit.
Maozi is awesome!
This nima is simply a **** assist!
Luo Jia was so excited that he almost shouted out. He couldn't help but be excited, because Maozi's rocket engine with abnormal parameters to the point of explosion is not in the manufacturing stage, let alone in the design stage, but has already been tested!
"God!" Luo Jia yelled: "When did Maozi get this big guy? The thrust of a single machine is 800 tons!? Does this thing exist to shoot frigates into the sky!?"
An Ran said excitedly: "Not only that, Maozi always does things unexpectedly, you will find surprises when you look down."
Any surprises?
Luo Jia was suspicious and continued to read, only to see that this was written at the end of the news.
"It is reported that the Yenisei heavy-duty launch vehicle is also under development. It may be composed of 12 boosters equipped with RD-171 engines and a core stage equipped with many RD-180 engines~IndoMTL.com~If not If there is an accident, within ten years in the world, there will be no launch vehicle that can qualify as Yenisei's opponent."
Luo Jia was stunned. The 12 RD-171 engines alone have a thrust of 9,600 tons. If an unknown number of RD-180 engines are added to assist, the Yenisei rocket will be a 10,000-ton super rocket!
As expected of Maozi, this guy even beat himself when he went crazy!
What is the concept of thrust exceeding 10,000 tons?
So far, the rocket with the highest thrust that humans have ever built is NASA's Saturn V, with a thrust of 3,400 tons. Mao Zi's game is big enough, and it directly broke the world record several times!
Although Star Technology's rocket, Musk's rocket, and even Boeing's SLS rocket must have higher thrust than the Saturn V, the first of these rockets has not yet been officially unveiled, and the second is not that much higher. The bottom line of the competition was 10,000 tons! This is too much stimulation for the whole world.
At this time, Luo Jia's phone rang suddenly, he looked down, then curled his lips, and said to An Ran: "The general is calling, it seems that even the old man can't hold his breath now." .”