Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 2356 Commissioners

[…I bought this craft from the Spiritual Realm Ecological Mall. As a girl, I don’t know why a boy would give me this. I don’t like him, so I’m selling it at a low price.]

[Imitation of the limited edition handicraft of Jiuzhou Xinghai Company. Please look carefully. Although it is an imitation, it can definitely guarantee that the appearance is more than 80% restored...]

The attributives are all sorts of weird, but they never make it clear that what they sell are original and authentic products.

And in this world, there are indeed some users who have no common sense in shopping and spend high prices to buy these imitation handicrafts.

In comparison, acquisitions on the dark web are the real deal.

The price for acquiring the handicrafts from Jiuzhou Xinghai Company has been set at 1g of lunar materials in a short period of time, which is roughly 100 million Xia Yuan or Lingjing Ecological World Yuanbao. If there are lunar rocks and special minerals, the price can go up further.

These buyers are not afraid of being cheated by sellers, after all, they themselves are not good people.

Robin, the new head of NASA who has been in office for less than a year, has already sent a professional team to Daxia to purchase these handicrafts.

In his opinion, the samples left behind by NASA predecessors are indeed "outdated". Moreover, according to the investigation of Jiuzhou Xinghai Company's missions on the moon in recent years, the lunar soil, lunar rocks and special minerals owned by Jiuzhou Xinghai Company are all very precious, and there are lunar samples of various terrains and depths.

In order to acquire these artifacts, Robin applied for a special fund of over US$6 million, gave the team US$2 million, and the remaining US$4 million was used for research and development of authenticity identification of lunar samples.

The team did not receive the $2 million in cash, because the $2 million also included the purchase of various equipment, personnel management fees, and the design and construction costs of the lunar sample storage room. In the end, the team was left with only $600 million in funds to purchase these artifacts, equivalent to 1800 million Xia yuan today.

It seems like a lot, but...

It’s really not enough.

The team used channels to find some sellers who had real handicrafts, but the quote they got was 600 million Xia Yuan per gram. If they wanted to buy a second gram, they would have to add another million Xia Yuan, which means they would have to pay 700 million Xia Yuan for the second gram, and so on.

After the team calculated, they found that the money they spent on purchasing was only enough to buy 2 grams!

And a portion of the money was set aside to transport the artifacts. In the end, $6 million in real cash allowed NASA to obtain 2 grams of lunar samples.

Although Robin was mentally prepared, he still became a little anxious when he learned that it would cost a lot of money to safely remove the lunar samples from the artifacts.

"US$6 million. If these two grams of lunar samples don't bring us enough exciting news, I believe you will definitely not think that you will never receive such a mission in the future..."

Robin had no choice but to work so hard.

Although he has some background and connections, if he does not produce any results as the head of NASA, other competitors will definitely not be willing to let him sit in this position comfortably.

However, it was only after NASA engineers and scientists studied the 2 grams of precious lunar samples for a full week and the Jiuzhou Xinghai Company's moon-chasing starship returned to the blue planet that they came up with some "results."

"Our team of scientists screened more than 1 rock fragments from 300 gram of lunar soil, selected 20 representative sulongite rock fragments, and completed technical determinations using petrology, geochemistry and chronology techniques. The crater where the lunar soil is located is at least 10 billion years old..."

"Using the characteristics of lunar soil, we made a comprehensive comparison with previously preserved samples and determined a method for generating water through high-temperature reactions. According to this method, 1 ton of lunar soil can produce 51-76 kilograms of water, which can provide a water resource utilization plan for the construction and operation of future lunar bases. Moreover, this water is non-toxic and harmless and can be decomposed to produce oxygen..."

"Because the sample quantity is too small, there are still many experiments that cannot be carried out for the time being. If another 10 to 40 grams of sample can be provided, perhaps we can obtain more valuable data."

Robin looked at the result in front of him that cost $6 million, and the corners of his mouth twitched twice.

Finally, he remained calm and said to the scientist who came to report: "Although I did not graduate in lunar research, I remember these results. A few years ago, scientists in Daxia had already obtained similar results. They even determined the formation time of the lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin, providing an initial time anchor for large impact events in the early solar system.

Your team should have some results that can excite me and make the congressmen excited, right?

Take it out and let me see it."

Facing the curious and expectant look of the person in charge, the scientist shook his head and explained: "These are the results we have obtained so far, and the results of Daxia scientists belong to the Daxia scientist team, not us.

Sir, you should know that with only 2 grams of samples, we can't expect much. We are also thinking that after these lunar samples have been specially processed by Jiuzhou Technology, although there is no radiation and malignant materials, will there be other changes in the internal materials, such as water content, magnetism, and composition? As long as there are changes, our experimental results will need more samples to participate, otherwise..."

Robin listened to the scientist's report with a serious face. Finally, he took a deep breath and pointed to the door of his office.

"Your team should continue with the research. We will try our best to find more samples."

When the scientist turned and left the room, Robin sighed and asked his assistant to close the door. Then he took out his smart terminal and sent the message.

"If the test results are as expected, more samples are needed, and I am going to submit another funding application project."

Soon, the reply arrived on his smart terminal.

"We can handle anything below 10 billion."

Humph.

With a cold snort, Robin took back his smart terminal.

If the $10 billion is approved, he can get a reward of about $500 million, and the forces behind him can swallow at least $6 million.

However, he did not believe that the forces behind him would be satisfied with "this few hundred million" dollars. NASA had too much funding to apply for large amounts of money. This was a gold mine!

"Well, if we didn't have to share some of the profits with companies like Tesla, and give some money to companies in the military-industrial complex, perhaps this year's rocket launch would have been able to conduct a lunar orbit test."

Robin sighed in his heart and then began to edit the documents for the application project.

(End of this chapter)