Chapter 444: Trap of Star Technology

When Luo Jia talked about the grasshopper rocket, part of his face suddenly showed a bitter smile.
"Hey, don't mention it. I predicted that Grasshopper was a joke, but in the end I became a joke, and I was beaten up and swollen."
"Everything is the same. Although Musk is arrogant, he really has a few brushes. From grasshopper to Falcon 9, he has created miracles and hit the world's face again and again."
"As one of the people who did not like Musk at first, the grasshopper was a black spot in my life."
Most of the people who spoke of this type were older, and participated in the scientific community's large-scale mockery of Musk and grasshopper rockets.
That was the case in 2012. Musk made a small grasshopper called Grasshopper, claiming to change the world, but was ridiculed by the scientists. No one thought of him, he thought he must be crazy.
Until October 2013, the seventh successful launch of the grasshopper rocket reached 744 meters, and the scientific community still ridiculed Musk.
However, time will eventually prove who is the real stupid. Just three years later, Musk's successful launch of Falcon 9 shocked the world. Two years later, February 6, 2018, has a great history of aviation. The landmark Falcon heavy rocket was also successfully launched.
This time, the scientific community is no longer face-faced, but it has no face!
The cost of the Falcon 9 is 60 million US dollars, while the North American Hercules and Delta rockets and the European Allana rockets with the same thrust are about 200 million US dollars. The Falcon is only one-third of them.
Not to mention that the Falcon Rocket can be recycled.On June 25, 2019, the Falcon Heavy Rocket successfully recovered a fairing worth six million US dollars, plus an expensive first-level rocket booster, which reduced commercial launches. Great cost.
It is a pity that due to the difficulty of recovery, Musk abandoned the secondary rocket recovery plan, otherwise he could control the launch cost of the Falcon to a horrible 10 million US dollars. You know, it was previously recognized as the cheapest in the world. The launch vehicle, the Huaxia Long March series, is also close to 100 million US dollars, and Musk is better, 20 million US dollars to help you launch satellites, he can also make millions.
Just look at the development history of Huaxia. You know that the low cost is really scary. Based on the calculation of carrying one hundred satellites per launch, the cost of a single communication satellite launch is only 200,000 US dollars. Because of this confidence, Musk Only dare to put forward the world's shocking star chain plan.
Luo Jia said with a smile: "Of course Musk is very strong, but it is often said that a guy with three gangs is behind NASA, which is known as the Emperor of Science and Technology. NASA has given Musk tremendous help regardless of manpower or funds. "
"Liu Cixin once said that weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is."
"No matter how many research directions we have achieved before, we are all novices in the face of large-scale space races. We must take a low profile and take every detail seriously."
Luo Jia made the brainstorming team understand the fact that North America is not a fool. They dare to start a space race. They have the confidence. Behind it are countless scientific research accumulated over decades and tens of trillions of dollars.
When Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon in July 1969, 90% of the brainstorming group had not yet been born, and the gap was too great.
As for some people who suspect that the lunar landing plan is fake and that NASA has deceived the whole world, it can only be said that children with intellectual disabilities are more happy, and there are even people who believe that the earth is flat, and they ca n’t make sense to those anti-intellectuals. The best way is to Agree with them and keep them stupid.
The members of the brainstorming team have a feeling at this moment, it seems that this guy Musk deliberately dug a pit, a prehistoric giant pit, and then wanted to bury Star Technology in it.
"Mr. Luo, Musk isn't going to pit us!" Chao Anbang of the Materials Department said, "I simply calculated, to catch up with NASA's decades of technology accumulation, and participate in the space race, the entire company You have to jump on it, it will take 20 years. "
"I also plan to do deep submersible research after the semiconductor development is over, and set up a Ministry of Marine Ecology. If I start a space race, I want to go to Mariana to build a villa, I'm afraid I will completely lose it."
"After all, it is aerospace. Thousands of subprojects are larger than the research and development of semiconductors. In addition to aerospace engines, we must also launch aeroengines. The electrical department can start pre-research on electric aeroengines and strive to complete them within two years. Well, the Ministry of Machinery and Chemistry is the main force. "
"If this is the case, is the quantum department still set up? From the current known conditions, the quantum direction is also a huge pit, and the scale is not smaller than life science."
Ordinary people often have a misunderstanding that scientific research is a flash of light for one or two people, but it is not clear. In fact, scientific research also requires a lot of manpower to pile up.
Taking the semiconductor industry as an example, although Xingchen Technology has created a complete semiconductor industry chain from upstream to downstream, but so far, Huaxia Semiconductor has not completely replaced North America's hegemony. The main reason is not that the technology is not in place, but because of manpower lack of resources.
It is funny to say that China, which has always been known for its many people, could not find enough engineers to support the semiconductor industry.
However, this is the fact. The talent gap of at least 400,000 semiconductor engineers has made Huaxia companies have the idea of ​​their neighbors. They have paid high salaries to go to Japan and South Korea to dig people. Even Star Technology, which is a benchmark in the field of China ’s technology, has also dug up .
Talent is actually a kind of hegemony. According to 2018 data, more than 60,000 doctoral students graduated in North America that year, 80% of them were foreign students.
Knowledge is the primary productive force. It is no exaggeration to say that in the land of North America, the most intelligent brains in the world are gathered. It is difficult to think of underdevelopment.
Even more frightening is that more than 60,000 doctors did not return to their hometowns after graduation, and 80% of them remained in North America.
Judging from the current situation, if Xingchen Technology accepts Musk's challenge, the company will not think about developing agriculture and developing quantum in the next 20 years or even longer. As for deep-sea exploration of such interest activities, Unable to carry out.
Because they don't have enough staff.
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North America, Washington, White House.
"Twenty years!" Musk said to the president with a smile, "If Star Technology accepts my challenge, it will bring twenty years of respite to the entire North American scientific research community."
"They will be anxious because of the large and complex space program. We, who have been given respite, can quickly close the gap with them in the fields of electrical, optical, chemical, and semiconductor."
"The best way to deal with opponents at the level of Xingchen Technology is not to defeat them, but to find ways to entangle them and not let them go too fast."
After listening to Musk's explanation, the president smiled exaggeratedly, his body fluttered.
"Well worthy of being a famous super genius, I know that you must have a way to deal with the Star Technology!" The president grabbed Musk's shoulder affectionately and said very excitedly: "God bless the United States! Your plan is really great, if Xingchen Technology is caught in this endless scientific research competition, and we will be able to take the lead! "
"The only question is, can we hold Star Technology for so long just relying on the technology in the NASA reserve? I heard that those Chinese people are very hard-working. Before the Spring Festival this year, they have already been tidy because of the development of a semiconductor plan. There are no holidays for two years. "
"It is unthinkable that 220,000 engineers and scientists work twelve hours a day without any holidays and work day and night. What kind of scene would it be, the terrible Chinese people ~ EbookFREE.me ~ they It's like a bunch of machines. "
After listening to this, Musk shook his head with a smile, "Master, please forgive me for refuting your point of view. What is terrible is not Huaxia, but a belief called ideal. In the beginning, almost everyone was an idealist. "
"As for our technology reserves in the space field, you can rest assured that investing in space research and development with the power of the country and an enterprise researching space technology are completely different levels of existence."
"This is like a long marathon. We have already run halfway, but Star Technology has just set off. In this case, even if we walk slowly, it is enough to keep our lead all the way to the end."
The prisoner's dilemma of the technology chaser. Luo Jia once specifically talked about this issue. Under the same route, other marathon runners start first, and later you will have a hard time catching up with them, because you are also working hard while you are running. Dashed.
Star Technology needs to mobilize hundreds of thousands of engineers and scientists to pursue vigorously, and North America only needs a small team of several thousand people to maintain its leading edge.
It's not fair, but it's reality.