As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 207 Lunar Space Station

“In the past two years, China’s science and technology development has made great strides, and in many areas we have caught up with or even surpassed developed countries in Europe and the United States.

For example, the China Seed Group has developed so fast in recent years that I can't understand it. A large number of high-quality genetically modified seeds not only occupy more than 95% of the market in China.

The seeds of China Seed Group also account for more than 60% of the global GM seed market, forcing Monsanto to lay off a large number of employees worldwide. Bayer even laid off its entire branch related to GM seeds.

The seed giant Syngenta, which was previously acquired by China, has been fully taken over by China Seed Group. Syngenta, which was previously unwilling to let China interfere in their work, is now begging China to take over in its entirety.

Deep Blue Storage's biological storage server is unique in the world. In order to import Bei Ming No. 1, America and the European Union are even willing to make certain concessions to China in the Pakistan Agreement.

In the field of aerospace, our traditional strength, we successfully launched the first lunar space station in human history before America.

It seems that astronauts are about to go to the lunar space station to carry out scientific research missions.

The above-mentioned are all government-led scientific research projects. China Seed Group and Deep Blue Storage are both state-owned enterprises directly managed by the government.

Our progress in government-led scientific research projects in recent years has been amazing, but the development of Internet giants in the field of scientific research has been lackluster.

Traditional manufacturing companies, on the other hand, have good R&D outputs, but the profits of these manufacturing companies are very slim.

On the contrary, these Internet giants in China have made huge profits by relying on China's vast market, but they do not have much hard technology to show off.

Take Tencent as an example. As a de facto monopolist in the social field, it makes a fortune by controlling the traffic entrance and launching various skin-changing games.

With a net profit of more than 200 billion RMB per year, it only makes model innovations and has not made any contribution to China's technological development.

Ali at least came up with cloud computing. Tencent saw how effective their cloud computing was, so I also wanted to build a Tencent Cloud.

Huawei’s annual profit is about half of Tencent’s, but Huawei’s R&D investment is nearly three times that of Tencent.

Although Huawei has many controversial aspects, its R&D investment is much stronger than Tencent.

The top private enterprises in China in terms of net profit all want to follow the path taken by others and imitate others' products, or to put it bluntly, plagiarize.

It is said to be an Internet giant, but how many influential open source projects has it actually created?
The situation has been slightly better in the past two years, at least a VR operating system has been developed.

The biggest gap between us and America is the contribution of private enterprises to the development of science and technology. The gap is too big.

America has a series of giants such as Apple, Google, SpaceX, Oracle, etc. that have technological innovations in different fields.

There are also open source companies such as RedHat, OpenStack, and MySQL AB, which I know about. There are countless R&D companies that focus on niche areas.

China's private enterprises that actually consume resources invest little in research and development and have almost no output.

Instead, it relies on manufacturing companies with meager profits to produce.

Many people already knew about Merlin before he made his debut in front of a global audience.

It was also at that time that domestic giants began to recruit fresh graduates from the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy on a large scale.

At that time, graduates from the mathematics and astronomy departments were able to get higher salaries than programmers because they knew about the existence of magic coins.

And the existence of magic has been confirmed from certain channels.

I suspect that China's rapid progress in scientific research has a lot to do with magic.

By the way, why was Apple the first company to mine magic coin?

It is determined by the corporate genes that although domestic companies have resources, they lack the corresponding environment and mechanisms.

Past causes lead to present results

I believe that the first domestic giant to mine magic coins will be either Huawei or Kechuang Biotechnology. "

The news that Apple acquired the Magic Brain sparked heated discussions around the world. Except for America, no other country expected Apple to publicly release the live video of acquiring the Magic Brain.

Scientists who consider themselves to be at the top of their field are very interested in magic and the systems behind it.

A large number of self-recommendation emails were sent to Apple's designated email address.

While the outside world was in turmoil, America successfully completed its moon landing plan.

Lindgren led Hines and Watkins to carry out this moon landing.

Lindgren and Hines are white men, and Watkins is a black woman.

Watkins is the first black woman to fly to the International Space Station.

America has a manned lunar landing plan for 2024, and no one can object to letting her go there.

"There needs to be black footprints on the moon." A black political activist said after Watkins successfully landed on the moon.

The combination of two white and one black perfectly conforms to the political correctness of America.

"Apollo 18, the moon landing program has finally been restarted. You know, I was always fascinated by the story of the Apollo moon landing when I was a kid."

"That's how I grew up to be an astronaut."

"But I never thought I would be able to be part of the Apollo program and restart Apollo 18."

Lindgren's face was full of emotion as he chatted with Watkins before takeoff.

Lindgren was speaking from the heart; before becoming an astronaut, he was a medical doctor at an American university.

Being a doctor in America was far more lucrative than being an astronaut, not to mention that when Lindgren started working at NASA's space center, he had no guarantee that he would become an astronaut.

Watkins also said with emotion: "Yes, the Apollo program, which has been dormant for 50 years, will be restarted in our hands."

The last Apollo spacecraft was Apollo 17. After its successful launch in 1972, no new Apollo spacecraft was born.

NASA has said before that it would restart the moon landing plan every time, but it has always remained verbal.

No real action.

"It's been more than fifty years since then. The moon must have undergone a lot of changes in those fifty years."

"The lunar probe and lunar orbiter have brought back the latest data, and we need to reconsider the lunar landing site."

"It would be best if we could cooperate with China. We can go to the Chinese lunar space station first, and then travel back and forth to the moon from the lunar space station." Lindgren said with a hint of complaint in his tone.

Watkins motioned for him to be quiet: "Are you crazy?"

"We are in direct competition with China. Previously, we were able to cooperate with Russia on the International Space Station, but we did not cooperate with China."

"The Chinese built a space station all by themselves, not to mention the moon landing program."

"If it were so easy to cooperate, we wouldn't have completed the moon landing program independently."

"You need to be more cautious. NASA's top brass have already been embarrassed by the Chinese."

"Their lunar space station has occupied NASA's original planned orbit, which was the optimal lunar orbit calculated by NASA."

"It will be beneficial to the future round trips to the moon. NASA has investigated this matter several times, and they suspect who passed the news to China." "If your thoughts are exposed, you will definitely be investigated by the higher-ups, and it may even affect this moon landing."

The three of them trained together for a long time for this moon landing plan.

Including a few years ago, when Watkins first boarded the Freedom Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, it was Grindlund who led the team.

The two have developed a certain friendship, so Watkins' first reaction after hearing Grindren's remarks was that you have to be careful about what you say.

Grindren realized that there was something wrong with his words, so he lowered his voice and said:
"Originally, we should launch a lunar space station first, and then consider landing on the moon."

"Fifty years ago, during the Apollo moon landing, a total of ten landing sites were selected and then launched."

"What about this time? There are only five moon landing sites, which is half as many as before."

"The lunar landing sites currently selected are all located on the near side of the moon at mid- and low-latitudes."

“Many core lunar science objectives cannot be fully achieved due to the limited spatial distribution of available landing sites.”

"There's something about this being a moonshot for the sake of a moonshot. It feels like a rushed moonshot plan without any thorough preparation."

"I asked Bob about this, and he told me that scientists disagreed about rushing to the moon."

"This is a completely hasty plan pushed by NASA officials for certain interests."

There are very few landing sites on the far side of the moon.

The corresponding field work such as on-site dating, in-situ element and mineral analysis, and low-frequency radio observations on the far side of the moon cannot be carried out well, which will hinder the research of scientific objectives provided by the NRC.

For example, the bombardment history of the inner solar system is uniquely displayed on the Moon and cannot be observed.
Because the largest lunar impact basin (SPA) is located on the far side of the moon, landing on the near side of the moon will lack effective in-situ detection.

Furthermore, the absence of a landing site at high latitudes will result in insufficient support for in situ analysis and the return of cryogenically preserved samples from the lunar poles.

This in turn hinders the research goal: the lunar poles are special environments that can witness wave fluxes late in the history of the solar system.

From the perspective of higher-level figures, America's moon landing plan is just a preview of frequent moon landing plans in the future.

It is an event where America flexes its muscles around the world.

With such high frequency of moon landings and high R&D investment, the official financial situation of America is deteriorating.

American's dollar bonds hit a new high.

This kind of soft propaganda, coupled with the hot wars in some regions, forced capital to flow back.

This is America's usual approach.

Landing on the moon is America's way of causing unrest and bringing back capital.

Grindren cares about the scientific research purpose, but the American officials don’t care too much.

Because there will be many more moon landings to come.

Watkins: “I know what you mean.”

“This moon landing was really hasty.”

"The five selected landing sites are all landing ellipses located on smooth plains in the lunar equatorial region."

"The geology of these areas is formed by numerous volcanic flows that coalesced."

"The region where the landing site is located is one of the youngest areas of lunar volcanic terrain."

"But as astronauts, even though we know this is a hasty plan, can we give up?"

“No matter how urgent it is, if the opportunity to go to the moon is presented to me, I will choose to go to the moon without hesitation.”

"And this time the Apollo 17 spacecraft is 2.5 times larger than the one 50 years ago."

"There will be a lot more security measures, don't worry too much, it's rare to see you so nervous."

Grindren sighed, "I'm not worried. To be honest, I'm not afraid of death."

"I'm just afraid that after this moon landing, the next moon landing will have to wait another 50 years."

"I hope this moon landing can achieve enough research goals and answer more unknown puzzles of the blue planet people."

Watkins laughed and said, "Didn't NASA tell us that there will be many moon landings in the future, and this is just the beginning?"

Grindlund also laughed: "I joined NASA in 2007. When I joined NASA, I heard NASA officials say every year that we would launch the Webb telescope next year."

"Colleagues who came earlier than me started listening to it in 2001, and as you can see, it took until 2022 for the Webb telescope to be successfully launched."

"As for the moon landing, I heard in 2018 that the Orion spacecraft would be used to land on the moon in 2020, and you also saw the result."

"This year is 2024, and we are not going to land on the moon until then."

"NASA's words cannot be trusted. Many of them are just exaggerations to defraud Congress of its budget."

"The orbit of the lunar space station is occupied by the Chinese. The cost of repeating the lunar landing will be several times higher than if there is a lunar space station."

“If this problem is not solved, the cost problem will plague NASA for a long time.”

Grindlund has been working at the Johnson Space Center since 07. He has much more seniority at NASA than Watkins and is accustomed to the habit of NASA officials of forgetting what they say.

He has always been reserved about what NASA says, and believes that the exaggeration is greater than the reality.

Watkins: "There's not just one orbit that's right for space."

"It is entirely possible to use the Gaussian pseudospectral method, introduce a maximum offset and a fixed time interval, and calculate several more suitable lunar orbits based on the baseline trajectory of real-time data."

Watkins also worked at NASA before becoming an astronaut, where she previously specialized in the Phoenix Mars Lander mission.

However, there are certain differences between the orbit of the moon and the orbit of the blue planet.

The quasi-periodic orbits in the Earth-Moon system are highly sensitive, and even small errors in position or velocity can have a large effect on the trajectory.

Therefore, the trajectory is unstable and must be controlled to maintain the corresponding orbit. The difficulty of orbiting the moon is much greater than that of the earth's space station.

A relatively stable orbit is difficult to find. As for the selection of China's lunar space station orbit, has it referred to NASA's research results?
This is pure coincidence, since the most stable orbits can be calculated.

There is only one solution to a problem. Just because America figured out the solution doesn't mean China can't figure it out.

Experts in applied mathematics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have used a stabilization strategy based on the perigee quasi-periodic orbit, taking into account the contribution of solar gravity and lunar eccentricity, and used standard ephemeris to deduce the precise position of the quasi-periodic orbit.

NASA originally thought that they were the only ones who knew about this orbit, so they were not in a hurry to occupy it, as it would be theirs sooner or later anyway.

But it was only after China's lunar space station was successfully launched that they realized that something was wrong.

The originally planned track was occupied by the Chinese.

(End of this chapter)