Technology invades the modern world

Chapter 24 A Little Touching

"From the beginning to the end, you never showed up in public, only I did.

As for how you can participate in it openly, Blue Origin needs to make an effort and let Blue Origin pay for Stony Brook University to initiate a joint research project, similar to the NASA-funded project, and then you can use this as an excuse to go to Blue Origin to work on a regular basis.

This means that from the beginning to the end of the project, you had nothing to do with me on the surface, and your relationship with Blue Origin was limited to the Blue Origin-Stony Brook joint research and development project, which was used to circumvent the first bullet point of Section 126 of the ITAR and Section 1 of the EAR.

Lin Ran was thoughtful after listening to this.

"The whole plan still has a bit of a problem, which is how to ensure that Blue Origin doesn't sell us out."

This is also what Lin Ran is most worried about. If you are sold and cannot be sent back to China, and are imprisoned for several years or even decades, you will really feel hopeless and lose all hope.

In prison, I dared not open the door and disappear no matter what.

"Don't worry, Blue Origin will never sell us out.

I have recently sorted out all the public information on the market. As you said, NASA does have the idea of ​​subcontracting the return to the moon plan to companies.

Some NASA officials and the Vice President have begun to make statements in private, including in 2014 when NASA tried to give Boeing the order to return to the moon.

Considering the bad relationship between Bezos and Musk, Bezos himself must be particularly eager to make a comeback in the aerospace field.

If Blue Origin can snatch NASA's order from SpaceX, it will not only be a huge commercial success, giving Amazon further potential, but also mean that it has surpassed Musk.

And they will definitely do everything they can to keep it a secret for you.

Because once NASA's order is given to Blue Origin, will they voluntarily admit that we have Chinese help? Will they then conduct a re-audit and re-tender the order?
There's no way they'll expose you.

But there are still a lot of risk points.

The first thing is that you have to convince Blue Origin that this is not a traditional transaction. I have powerful patented technology and I can inquire about prices one by one and find a suitable buyer.

You can only have one target, such as Blue Origin. You can only talk to it from beginning to end. If it doesn't do it, you look for someone else, like Orbital Space, and then it will sell you out.

So you have to come up with convincing enough evidence at the beginning to convince Bezos directly.

I'll help you make this connection. With the Fabian Society badge, I can find a senator from the Donald Trump Party and ask him to help arrange a fifteen-minute private conversation between you and Bezos at the campaign fundraiser he's holding for the president.

I saw that the election gala is scheduled for three months from now, which means you only have three months to prepare, which is one month longer than the two months you mentioned.

Is there enough time?"

Lin Ran was very grateful. If someone else had told him that they could return to the moon, he would never have believed it. But when he told Li Xiaoman about it, the other party actually made preparations according to what he had done to convince Bezos.

"Sister Xiaoman, if this requires using up your connections, then forget it." Lin Ran looked at Li Xiaoman's delicate profile, his voice a little dry.

Having stayed there for half a year in 1960, he was well aware of the influence of the Frankfurt School. Now, 1960 years have passed since 60, and this influence has increased many times over, and has become a big tree deeply rooted in America.

The Jewish group behind it is one of the actual controllers of America.

Even if Li Junnan was just a passing figure in history, the connections he left behind could secure him a 15-minute one-on-one conversation with the world's richest man, but such connections are ultimately limited and consumable. The Li family is not a prominent family, and such resources will be gone once they are used up.

I could have kept it to find a top law firm after graduation, or a top job in the financial industry.

Although Lin Ran was fully confident in himself and it would be easy for him to become a truly big man in both time and space, what really touched him was this unconditional trust.

He made such an outrageous request, but the other party had been preparing as if he really had the ability to do so.

While he was working hard in 1960, the other party was also not idle.

It is very difficult to find a Democratic senator, and it is even more difficult to arrange it three months later.

"Randolph, this is a big gamble, but the cost of this gamble is far less than you think." Li Xiaoman naturally knew what Lin Ran was thinking.

She went on to say, “Of course, I have used up all the friendships I had built up in the past, and it will be even harder to ask others for help in the future.

But friendships will be used up sooner or later. Even if you fail this time, I can become a famous lawyer in the future and our friendship can still be rebuilt.

In America, friendship itself is a process of constant consumption and reconstruction; it is not a disposable item.

You don't need to be too stressed.

And if you can really convince Bezos, it won't be that my friendship is wasted, but that our friendship will become even deeper, and next time I can ask him to do something more difficult.

So the only chip I paid for this gamble was a tiny insignificant friendship.

The key is whether you can convince Bezos once and for all."

Lin Ran nodded silently: "Okay, don't worry, I will definitely convince Bezos."

Li Xiaoman said: "Then there is the last one, I need to remind you.

You said earlier that you wanted to replicate the Apollo moon landing. From today's perspective, the Apollo moon landing was just a coincidence, with a success rate of perhaps only 30% to 40%, but America succeeded.

That's perfect. Have you ever thought about this: if you helped Blue Origin achieve a return to the moon, would the White House still have the motivation to push this project forward? Besides gaining prestige, would Blue Origin be able to secure a major contract from NASA? Could it even get a piece of the congressional budget?

Obviously not, so you need to use the Apollo moon landing as an excuse to let the robot return to the moon, and it would be best if it fails a few times during the process, like 10 launches, 6 successes and 4 failures.

When it succeeds, the lunar module will also be filled with robots, not real people, which will serve as an advertisement for the robotics company that Bezos has invested in.”

After listening to this, Lin Ran asked:
"I still have some doubts. Blue Origin has had many cooperative projects with NASA in the past. Can I, a Chinese, really participate in the joint research project between them and Stony Brook University?

Even if this project has nothing to do with restricting sensitive areas.

Another question is, if I get involved, will someone discover my connection to Blue Origin's return to the moon project, potentially causing unnecessary trouble?

(End of this chapter)