Technology Bigshot Chapter 533: : Is there a baby on Mars? ]
Washington, NASA Headquarters.
"These **** media don't even want their faces for the click rate! They should be controlled!" Charles Boer angrily threw the "New York Times" on the table, and the news recently was just Thinking about it makes his face red, hot and embarrassed. NASA has not shared news on the official self-media Instagram recently.
Because I don't dare, everyone knows about the shooting of the first bird. This mutual spray incident can be said that NASA is the source of everything. Just look at NASA's 7 million followers on Instagram. That's good news, but at times like this, even NASA is afraid to go out.
Are there still few companies and institutions lying down?
"Sir, it's actually not a bad thing, at least we have attracted 7 million followers during this period, and the cumulative number of followers has exceeded 10 million, which is worth celebrating." Bol's secretary said with a smile.
"Damn good things! You like to lose face, don't you? Don't you think things aren't bad enough?" Charles suddenly became annoyed when he heard the secretary's words.
"Actually, we can make good use of this wave of fans, as long as the wind blows." The secretary laughed.
"Like..." Charles glanced at her and said.
Charles' secretary said eloquently: "We haven't posted the latest news on Ins for a long time. With the help of this wave of fans, we can publish some of our news from time to time. For example, we are on the 'Tianzhou'. Astronauts on the Internet can broadcast their daily activities in space on YouTube and so on. NASA can do some more people-friendly things. Although we are a government scientific research institution, we must keep pace with the times and make more Being close to the people can at least provide some help in applying for funding, and having support is the key.”
Charleston, who gradually calmed down, suddenly realized, "Indeed, XlouS has done a very good job in this regard. Some time ago, it also released the video of the test flight. This company never misses the opportunity to attract fans. , although he does not need support to apply for funding, but these fans can transfer to his major companies to consume their products, the reason is the same. This matter is left to you to handle, do you understand that the image of NASA is very important? For the money!"
"Yes, sir, for the money! Also, sir, don't forget the meeting in ten minutes." With a **** smile, the secretary pointed to his wrist and left Bol's office.
Charles retreated from a trace of depression in his heart, and then came to the conference room. The participants were basically all there, including Elon Musk. In addition, there were Alphabet and Bigelow Aerospace. The person in charge of the meeting gathered more than 20 people, most of them were technical engineers or astrophysicists.
The people here are the top elites in the United States, gathered at this moment, all to discuss the same topic - landing on Mars.
"The plan has changed. XlouS recently announced big news. They are going to build a large space station on Mars. The purpose is unknown, but this information is very important to us." Charles Boll came to the meeting and looked around at everyone. Said: "Landing on Mars is indeed the main purpose of political missions, but if we think so now, we will lose!"
Musk, who was sitting next to him, said solemnly: "XlouS is going to operate a large space station in the orbit of Mars, obviously with a clear purpose. If we just send astronauts to the surface of Mars and get access to A title of landing on Mars for the first time, although it is a huge political victory, but from a business perspective, we spent so much energy and money just to leave a footprint on the surface of Mars, and this business is a blood loss to my grandma's house!"
"But, what can be on Mars? What can be commercialized?" Another said puzzled. .
Charles glanced at each other, "Then how do you explain that XlouS wants to operate a kiloton-sized super space station in Mars orbit? It will be operated for at least 25 years?"
Charles' rhetorical question left him speechless.
"We don't know what treasures are on Mars, but XlouS may know. Otherwise, why would Ren Hong make a 'Twin Plan' at all costs? Do you really think that his money is too much to burn?"
"I think it's important to understand the motives of XlouS, it's very important!" someone added.
"This kind of thing is not something we should worry about, and we are not professionals in intelligence. The CIA has begun to intervene." Charles looked around and said: "What we have to do is to get our job done, although I don't know if XlouS is interested in it. Something on Mars, but at least it gave us a crucial message, that there must be treasures on Mars, and we can't wait until the CIA has reliable intelligence to start strategy, it's too late by then."
"Mr. Bol, what do you mean?" asked another NASA person curiously.
Charles was silent for a moment, then said: "We have to prepare in advance, as Mr. Musk said, if we burn tens of billions of dollars just to leave a footprint on Mars, then it's not too bad to lose. , we cannot follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union, a huge victory on the surface, but a complete loss in fact.”
"So, we need to set a higher goal. This time, the Mars plan not only needs to complete the goal of landing on Mars and complete a political mission, but also establish our own Mars outpost base on the surface of Mars. This way , we will have more time to deal with it, there is an outpost base on Mars, and when the treasure is found, we can also take a share of it, so as not to be helpless at the critical moment."
"Mars, there must be a baby, we don't know, but XlouS knows the baby!" Charles said with absolute certainty at the end.
At this time, one of the scientists in the audience left the seat and walked to the large crystal screen on the wall of the front desk of the conference, and the distribution map of the solar system appeared on the screen, he said: "Mr. The outpost base is an almost impossible task. In three and a half months, Mars is about to enter the closest distance to the earth, which is the golden launch window. If we are to build the outpost base according to Mr. Charles' request, it means that the entire plan will be It needs to be reformulated. We need to send the required facilities of the outpost base into space. During this time, we have missed this golden launch window. If we want to catch up to Mars, we need to carry more fuel, and the outpost The increase in supplies required by the base means that we need more propellant fuel, more thrust, and higher investment, but it is basically impossible..."
After that, the scientist looked back at Charles, "I know it's urgent, but... it can only be done one step at a time, there is no room for sloppy, this is a space activity!"
"Damn!" Charles scolded in a low voice, he also knew that this was an indisputable fact, don't rush, Mars will not wait for you, and will be far away every second.
The discussion stalled for a while.
Elon Musk, who hadn't spoken for a long time, looked at the star map on the main screen. Just when everyone was silent, his eyes suddenly lit up and he stared at the screen and said excitedly, "I think it's okay!"
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