Technology invades the modern world

Chapter 376 An exceptionally fulfilling lunar journey

From Lei Jun's perspective, today is the first day since arriving on the moon. The whole schedule is already quite packed, including landing, a long-distance journey, and the completion of grid connection for the nuclear fission power plant.

I also made a significant contribution to this process, shouldn't I wait until tomorrow to start working?

Why do we have to start working again after just a short rest?

"Am I here for tourism or to work in space?" Lei Jun began to wonder.

"Mr. Lei, the moon's day and night cycle is different from Earth's. One lunar day is roughly equivalent to 29.5 Earth days."

Therefore, it's impossible for you to rest on the moon according to Earth's schedule.

Generally speaking, when Neil and Buzz, who were part of the Aldrin and Armstrong moon landings in the 60s, were on the moon, they could only sleep for two or three hours at most before waking up.

Because this is a completely unfamiliar environment.

Because Wei Xuhang has come to the moon so many times, he has been able to sleep for up to ten hours, which has set a record for the longest continuous sleep time for humans on the moon.

You go first. This is my second time here too. Based on past experience, our first sleep lasted two and a half hours.

In other words, after we finish eating, we will all go to the rest room to sleep, and we will leave when the time comes.

Group rest is to avoid being disturbed. With the advancement of technology, there is no need for shift work. Various sensors monitor parameters, and alarms will be triggered when abnormalities occur.

We weren't so extravagant as to provide each astronaut with a separate room.

In short, all we need to do now is eat and then everyone can rest. You can use this time to charge your Xiaomi glasses, and if you want to look at your phone for a while while eating, that's fine too.

There's Wi-Fi here, but the latency is quite high, though posting a Weibo post with a picture is still manageable.

Lei Jun's eyes lit up, and he took out his phone from his luggage to take a group photo.

This time, the Xiaomi glasses can finally be put to use. They can be pointed at Xiaomi phones to effectively promote them.

Lei Jun is well aware that audiences around the world are watching now, and this video will continue to be played on various social media platforms in the future, with clips spreading virally.

This will generate a very good long-tail promotional effect.

“Come on, Professor, let’s take a group photo to commemorate our first day on the moon!” After Lei Jun finished speaking, they sat down at the dining table, where three silver-packaged disposable space meal boxes were placed. The photo captured all three of their faces.

"Our Xiaomi phones also have a certain wide-angle capability for their front-facing camera, which can capture a relatively complete shot in one go," Lei Jun explained.

The last scene that viewers on Earth saw was the screen of the Xiaomi phone, where Lin Ran, Lei Jun, and Wei Xuhang smiled and waved.

"Alright, see you all in four hours!" After Lei Jun finished speaking, the Xiaomi glasses were turned off.

After the first day's live broadcast ended, it was already 7 a.m. Beijing time on Earth. Many Chinese people had stayed up all night to watch the entire live broadcast.

How would you rate Lei Jun's first live stream of his lunar journey?

"Hey, Lei Jun was talking about how he, a test-taker from a small town, was able to travel to the moon one day. He said it was his honor, and that he owed his success to the development of China."

This statement truly moved me deeply. Our lunar exploration program was initiated by the state in January 2004.

The original plan was to first launch a lunar orbiter, then use an unmanned rover to achieve a soft landing on the moon, and finally launch a probe to collect samples on the moon and return them to Earth.

The original plan was for 20 years. Yes, 20 years doesn't mean we'd send people to the moon; it just means we'd collect samples from the moon and bring them back.

The lunar landing was finally completed in 2020 by Chang'e 5, which landed near Mount Lümke in the Oceanus Procellarum, four years ahead of schedule.

When Chang'e 5 returned to Earth with 1731 grams of lunar samples, it was the first time in 44 years that humans had brought back samples from the moon. At that time, the moon was still in America.

At the time, everyone's expectation was that we could achieve a manned lunar landing before 2030. Even the most optimistic people did not think that we could complete the lunar landing in 2021, have a lunar base in 2022, and complete the grid connection of a nuclear fission power plant on the moon in 2024.

This sounds even more sci-fi than science fiction.

Although the technologies are all mature—the moon landing was accomplished in 1969, lunar landing and return, small nuclear fission power plants, photovoltaic panels, unmanned cargo spacecraft, etc.—these technologies have been around for many years and are not particularly new; they are simply improvements on existing technologies.

However, this is extremely incredible, and the incredible part is the efficiency.

As I mentioned earlier, we planned in 2004 and completed in 2020. Here, I have to bring up our old friend India again. They have a similar plan called Chandrayaan, which means lunar spacecraft. This mission was launched in 2003, a year earlier than ours, and the goal is similar: to bring back samples from the moon.

But to this day, they have not brought back any samples from the moon.

In the past, India could have emphasized that the reason they had not completed their mission was because their destination was the lunar south pole, and they were to bring back water ice from the lunar south pole. Therefore, they had not been able to complete their mission, and no country had been able to land on the lunar south pole.

This is also the main argument that the Indians on Twitter used to prove India's victory after China's Chang'e 5 mission succeeded in 2020: our goal is bigger, so it's normal for us to be late.

This is why the Indians were all on edge after Apollo Technology successfully landed a manned lunar probe in Shackleton Crater at the lunar south pole; they only wanted to bring back samples, while we had already sent our people up there.

The rover that India launched to the lunar south pole was about the size of a shoebox, and it was a one-way trip—it went there but couldn't come back. We're sending cargo ships to the lunar south pole one after another, and the base has already been built.

What I want to talk about is efficiency. China's space program is more efficient than India's, by at least 50%.

But the efficiency of Apollo Technology under Lin Ran's leadership was nothing short of absurd. They landed on the moon in just over a year. Who could have imagined that before?

In the past, space enthusiasts have always said that Musk's SpaceX shattered the aura of aerospace as a high-end technology. One rocket after another exploded, but in the end, the Falcon 9 was created. Through extensive testing and iteration, it was on the right path and eventually reached its destination.

Similarly, the existence of Apollo technology broke the space program's traditional time scale of ten years, making one year enough, with each year bringing a new look.

I feel that Apollo technology is 10 times more efficient than any other space agency in the world, not just China's space program, but also NASA and SpaceX.

Only Lin Ran could achieve such efficiency.

Then there was the lunar base shown in the live stream. In fact, if you are an enthusiast, or even just a little bit concerned about the progress of the lunar base and watch the news, you probably won't be surprised. In the past, when astronauts such as Wei Xuhang, Qian Fei, and Zhao Jianguo went to the moon, there were live streams.

It's just that it's not like Lei Jun's live stream, which is so comprehensive and from a first-person perspective.

But they all do live streams, including Apollo Technology's official account, which also creates 3D animations to explain what they're doing and what they've already accomplished.

Lunar bases, unmanned cargo spacecraft, lunar rovers, and lunar solar panels are nothing new; I've seen them many times.

What's unusual this time is that the interior of the base has been revealed in a more comprehensive way, compared to the previous fixed perspectives. It's much more complete now. Judging from the interior decoration and structure, it's similar to an Antarctic research station, and it should be further expanded in the future. It's even possible that a lunar hotel is not out of the question.

Nuclear fission power plants are also interesting because they are small enough that China's bases could be spread all over the moon.

Only now can we truly say that the moon is an inseparable part of China.

For foreign countries, especially America, their window of opportunity is running out. Judging from the progress of Apollo technology, it will take at most five years. If you don't come within five years, there will be no place for you on the moon.

Finally, let's go back to the live broadcast. I saw some people complaining online, saying that since the mission was so heavy and there were so many things to do, why bring Lei Jun along? Why insist on doing a space tourism project this time? Bringing a burden like that, any other astronaut could have done better than Lei Jun.

What I want to say is that without Lei Jun, the live stream wouldn't have been so successful. Even with Ran Shen, the live stream's effectiveness and viewership would have been significantly reduced.

I know some people might wonder why we need to promote ourselves or do live streams. I want to say that things are completely different now than in the past. Corporate image and entrepreneur image are both very important. You can't stop doing this just because you don't need it now.

So, now that Xiaomi and Huawei are both making cars, why aren't OPPO and Vivo making cars? Is it because they don't want to? People are gradually realizing that new energy vehicles can create an entire ecosystem. A big reason why they don't make cars is that their founders don't have a clear and cohesive public image like Lei Jun and Yu Dazui, which would make product marketing more effective.

The marketing network that enabled OV to get started in the past is not applicable to new energy vehicles. Now it seems particularly difficult to build the founder's image. Zhou Hongyi has tried her best, but she has not been able to do it and has not been able to bring Nezha back to life.

These things are not important to Apollo Technology now, but how can you guarantee they will remain unimportant in the future?

If superconducting chips prove feasible, and this leads to third-generation semiconductor technology that can operate at room temperature and pressure on Earth, Apollo Technology is beginning to extend its reach into the consumer electronics field. In that case, how important is the personal image of the "God of War" (or "Burning God")? Is a personal image necessary to reduce the company's marketing costs?

From a business perspective, for Ran Shen personally, the reason he would make this choice is even simpler: he can handle everything by himself, so whether or not he brings a third astronaut is not important. Since it is not important, he will bring a passenger this time and try to conduct a trial operation of lunar tourism.

I suspect that what the God of Burning was thinking was that he could handle everything personally, and with such a rich array of projects, he could effectively promote lunar tourism.

Look how luxurious my place is, how unique the scenery is, and how many things there are to see. It's incredibly attractive to wealthy people who can afford it.

The selection of Lei Jun, for example, was clearly carefully chosen to leverage his existing popularity for publicity.

As a result, the entire live stream had a synergistic effect greater than the sum of its parts. I checked all the foreign forums I occasionally browse, from Reddit to 2ch to Naver, and found that all of them had discussions about the live stream on their homepages, indicating its significant impact.

That's not all. Musk tweeted that he watched the entire live stream, and every tech blogger on Twitter praised the live stream, discussing everything from the moon landing and lunar base to the demonstrations of various technologies and the live stream effects of the AI ​​glasses.

This is a true demonstration of China's technological progress on a global scale, making more countries realize what a lunar base means.

"Thanks for the invitation. I live in a rural area in the southern part of North America. In this remote place, besides the university, there are only farms, oil extraction equipment, a large number of unemployed rednecks with jobs, white nerds, etc. In short, the main feature is localization."

I'd like to give a brief introduction. The university I attend is called Texas Tech University. It's located in the western plains of Texas, which is very remote and rural. Apart from the university itself, there's almost nothing else that's attractive. The surrounding area is mainly cotton farms, vast flatlands, and oil pumps and oil equipment that can be seen everywhere, because West Texas is one of America's major oil-producing regions.

This place is described by many as a backwater, and the university has a large number of white nerds in engineering and petroleum-related fields.

This is a very, very traditional southern America. At my university, whites make up more than 8% of the student body. If you include Hispanics and Latinos, then the white population is close to 5%. Asians are very rare, and blacks make up only 5%, which is quite surprising.

Most of my friends are white nerds. During the live broadcast of the moon landing, I had a local space enthusiast friend who hosted a BBQ at his villa. He ate the BBQ while watching the live broadcast in an open-air environment.

Overall, it was great. The barbecue here is really good; the meat is cheap and juicy.

Everyone enjoyed watching it because both Ran Shen and Lei Zong are very well-known and they were full of witty banter. Despite the language barrier, they were still able to understand it with the subtitles.

I was able to get along well with them thanks to the rapid rise of Apollo Technology. Apollo's moon landing attracted their attention, and they came to me for advice, hoping that I could tell them news related to Apollo Technology that the American media would not report.

In short, they considered me a space expert, even though I was just relaying the opinions of professional bloggers on Zhihu and Simplified Chinese social media platforms.

The whole process was pleasant until a white man suddenly asked, "Why are all the Chinese moon landings by Asian men?"
As soon as those words were spoken, the atmosphere at the scene became like a viral infection; no one spoke, and a sudden silence fell.

No one spoke, no one ate, and everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, until a white man asked me: "Why are all the people who landed on the moon Asians Asian men? Aren't there any other skin colors?"
Then I said that we had sent eight people to the moon, and they were all Asian men.

His smile froze when he found out. He had been happy, but suddenly he stood there, frozen as if he had been put into a freezer, and muttered: Why were we white and black women on the moon? Why do we have to endure discrimination in our own country?
Suddenly, the crowd started screaming and howling. The beer they had drunk earlier probably started to take effect, and then all sorts of F**K**n and F**K White House were shouted, and the scene was in complete chaos.

Then suddenly everyone started chanting "Great Again," and someone took out a big T-shirt and a flag. I really wanted to ask if these things were made in China, but I was afraid that if I asked, I wouldn't be able to leave this villa, so I held back.

Before I left, the party organizer chatted with me and said he envied China. He said that China is not affected by the damn LGBT issue. Even though all the astronauts who landed on the moon were male, no one would say anything. He was so envious. He said that our country has become like this because of too much LGBT stuff.

I just wanted to offer my perspective on this matter.

My impression is that the stronger China becomes and the faster its technology develops, the more direct its impact on the outside world will be. These redneck white nerds might never have understood China in their entire lives, but this live broadcast has given them a new understanding of China.

Their impression of China is shaped by the media. On Zhihu, setting aside negative comments, for these rednecks, it is a country with over 99% mainstream ethnicity, no LGBT narrative, and a powerful nation.

Everything here is simply a paradise that conservative rednecks dream of.

But now, with the widespread availability of live streaming, they realize that such a conservative paradise can develop unprecedented technology, and that technological progress is so remarkable, in addition to its ideology conforming to their aesthetic.

They might think that if our country returns to conservatism, stops using the LGBT narrative, and stops pursuing those values, then we can get back on track.

Although Texas is a traditionally red state and has been for many years, I can feel a clear shift in the political climate, and it is highly likely that Texas will make a comeback in this year's presidential election!
The narrative logic of the past is dying out and disintegrating.

After returning to Earth and seeing this answer, Lin Ran thought to himself, "Isn't the Godfather good to you? He even helped you with your campaign in this way."

Lei Jun posted on Weibo: "This is the most amazing journey of my life. I am honored to have traveled with two people and personally experienced the Xiaomi rover. The first day was so exciting. I can hardly imagine how exciting the rest of the journey will be. Welcome everyone to watch my lunar journey from beginning to end!"

The post included two pictures: a group photo of them at the lunar base and a photo of the Xiaomi rover.

The former has a Xiaomi phone watermark, while the latter has a Xiaomi glasses watermark.

The number of likes exceeded five million in just one hour, and it is considered to be very likely to become the Weibo post with the most likes in history.

Compared to the Weibo posts of popular celebrities, this is absolutely genuine.

Four hours passed in the blink of an eye, and it was already 11 a.m. on Earth, when everyone started going to work.

Many people hadn't had a good rest yet, and then stayed up all night watching the live stream, immersing themselves in the moon landing experience.

I have absolutely no motivation to go to work right now.

Just four hours later, at 11:07 AM, a large number of viewers flooded into the official live streaming channels of Lei Jun, Xiaomi Group, and Apollo Technology.

"Open the door!"

"I'm so anxious!"

"Urgent, urgent, urgent!"

Why isn't it open yet?

"Open the door!"

These comments appeared in the live stream and on Weibo.

No livestreamer stepped in to save the day; Xiaomi simply posted a Weibo message:
"Please be patient, the exciting part will continue soon."

It took a good ten minutes before the base finally appeared on the live stream screen.

Lin Ran and Wei Xuhang appeared in the frame, looking ready to go.

"We are now heading to our next destination, which is also a cargo spacecraft. It has a 3D-printed factory module designed based on the lunar environment, and we need to transport it back."

"Then we completed the installation and trial run," Lin Ran said.

Lei Jun stood up, and the image seen through the 3D printed glasses began to shake.

Viewers followed Lei Jun's camera as he changed into his extravehicular activity suit and then entered the rear compartment of the lunar rover.

Once the image settles and then shakes slightly, viewers watching the live stream know that another journey has begun.

"Mr. Lei, are you asleep?" Lin Ran asked. "When I first went to the moon, there was no lunar base yet. Buzz and I didn't sleep at all because we only stayed for a short time, just a few hours."

This was also my first time sleeping on the moon. Because the gravity is only one-sixth that of Earth, it was really amazing; it felt like I could float away with just a little effort.

Lei Jun said with a wry smile, "I don't know if I fell asleep or not. When I first lay down, my mind was full of random thoughts, and I didn't notice any difference from Earth. Then, in a half-dream, half-awake state, I felt the light in the lounge turn on, and then I heard you calling my name."

Lin Ran smiled and said, "Relax. We'll be staying here for seven whole days. You'll naturally fall asleep as soon as you get tired during those seven days."

Although Lei Jun couldn't see Lin Ran's smile clearly through the helmet of his spacesuit, he always sensed a hint of cunning in it.

More than seven hours have passed since they landed; this hour is, of course, Earth's unit of time.

At the edge of Shackleton Crater on the south pole of the moon, there were no clouds in the sky, the sun was already low on the horizon, and the moon was getting closer to night, with long shadows like ravines cut by ice blades.

One lunar day is equivalent to 29.5 Earth days, so they will leave before nightfall fully sets at the lunar south pole. Therefore, although it may appear as if the sun is about to set, it is actually still quite early.

"Coordinates confirmed. The cargo hold is 340 degrees east of north, 1,120 meters away." Wei Xuhang marked a green dot on the navigation screen.

Lin Ran and Lei Jun were sitting in the back. After hearing this, he thought for a moment and then said in the communication channel, "We'll take the north slope detour. The road surface is gentler, and the towing will be more stable. That thing is more delicate than a nuclear fission power plant, and it can't tolerate the slightest accident."

On Earth, Li Yiqing and Xu Xian were also watching the live stream. This was the end of their doctoral careers at Yenching University, and they were about to leave the campus. Li Yiqing successfully received an offer from Apollo Technology, while Xu Xian, because of the big problems he had made, planned to stay at Yenching University for another two years to complete his postdoctoral studies and then seek a teaching position in China.

To put it more directly, he hopes to teach at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Shenhai is a good place, and Jiao Tong University is one of the top 3 universities. It has the academician and Fields Medal winner Lin Ran. Jiao Tong University's mathematics department has been successful in recruiting students in recent years, and it has also been successful in recruiting young teachers. It has been expanding.

This means there are many available spots, and that's where Seohyun is aiming.

In their last moments on campus, they watched a live stream in their dorm room, each staring at their own laptop, exchanging a few words every now and then.

"No, Qing Shen, isn't this live stream revealing a bit too much information? The Shackleton Crater location was actually found by the Americans."

Then, if we expose so much geographical information and specific location during the live broadcast, wouldn't they know everything about our base, cargo spacecraft landing sites, and so on?
"Shouldn't these be kept secret?" Xu Xian asked.

He figured that Li Yiqing, who was about to join Apollo Technology, must know something about these things.

Li Yiqing said, "I don't know, but I don't think it's a big problem. After all, America didn't even land on the lunar south pole, so there's not much to worry about. They can't even get here, so what can they do even if they knew?"

Seohyun posted a message on Zhihu, hoping to get answers from her fan base.

On the moon, they had arrived in front of the cargo spaceship, which was parked on a flat rock surface, and the hatch had been remotely unlocked from the ground.

Lin Ran and Lei Jun got out of the car, their movements slow as they wore spacesuits.

“The module weighs one ton and 140 kilograms. The gravity on the moon is only one-sixth that of Earth, but we still have to be careful,” Lin Ran said.

Wei Xuhang operates the automatic lifting platform in the cargo compartment from inside the vehicle.

The hydraulic cylinder slowly lifted, revealing the main frame and four fixed supports of the silver-cased 3D-printed factory module.

Lin Ran inspected the external reinforcement strips and vibration dampers of the module, confirming that the latches were intact. "Okay, now we're going to pull it down."

Yes, this was also on a trailer, with the cargo door extending downwards to create a ramp made of metal plates. Lei Jun and Lin Ran grabbed the rope in front and slowly pulled the 3D printing factory down.

"Tethering frame in position," Lin Ran shouted over the radio.

Wei Xuhang drove the probe vehicle in reverse to the front of the lifting platform, and the robotic arm extended, aligning the towing hook with the connecting ring below the module.

With the increased traction weight, the vehicle speed was limited to five kilometers per hour, and the peak motor current once soared to 90% of the rated power when climbing hills.

Lin Ran said, "Wei Xuhang, pay attention to the temperature readings of the power system. If the battery temperature approaches 45 degrees, we'll stop and rest for a while."

Wei Xuhang said, "Understood, Professor!"

He thought to himself, "This is the professor's first time here, yet he knows the entire lunar base, the operating mechanisms of all kinds of equipment, and the dangerous parameters like the back of his hand. He truly lives up to his reputation as a professor."

45℃ is a sensitive battery temperature. If the battery explodes, they will have to go back to the base to bring back a spare battery.

Half an hour later, they returned to the base's protected area.

Outside the airlock, steel alloy tracks are laid on the ground to facilitate the entry and exit of heavy equipment.

The module was slowly pushed into the assembly workshop.

The workshop is a low-pressure nitrogen environment with the temperature maintained at 15°C to reduce changes in metal thermal stress.

Wei Xuhang got off the vehicle and removed the transport reinforcement belt.

Lin Ran extended the four support legs, and the electric hydraulic rods smoothly lowered the module onto the foundation platform.

"Align the positioning hole... Okay, lock." He confirmed that the positioning hole was engaged.

Lin Ran then connected the main power cable; the plug was a double-sealed aviation connector.

In addition to connecting to the lunar base, the signal lines can also be directly connected to the control center on Earth.

The display screen lights up, and a row of self-test items turns green in sequence: cooling system normal, print head temperature control normal, lunar soil feed hopper ready to be filled.

They then poured a truckload of lunar soil into the feed hopper.

Wei Xuhang complained, "This is the result of three whole days of hard work by Qian Fei and me when I came to the moon the time before last!"

The lunar soil particles are first passed through a vacuum screening machine to separate out gravel larger than 2 mm, and then sent to a high-temperature sintering furnace.

When the furnace temperature rises to 1200 degrees, the oxides in the lunar soil are partially reduced, and the remaining silicates and aluminosilicates melt into an extrudable slurry at high temperature.

The first printing command was issued, and a 50-centimeter square hexagonal structural brick was printed.

The nozzle moves along a set trajectory, with each layer being 5 millimeters thick.

Cooling air vents blow through to prevent the material from rapidly shrinking and cracking in a vacuum.

Twenty minutes later, the first lunar soil brick was formed.

Lin Ran squatted down and checked the dimensions with a measuring ruler and vernier calipers; the error was less than 0.3 millimeters.

"This is a miracle!" Lei Jun exclaimed. "These bricks are made from lunar soil!"

The live chat was flooded with "666" comments.

This screenshot from the live stream has gone viral on social media around the world.

"Witness history: the first brick in human history made from lunar soil!"

"I see a glimmer of hope for the future: humanity can build a lunar base using existing raw materials on the moon. This is the path to sustainable development."

Ohhhhhhh!

"It's incredible."

Lin Ran thought for a moment and asked, "President Lei, what do you think would be a suitable price for this thing if we brought it back to Earth and sold it?"

Lei Jun said, "It depends on the cost. If you price it at ten times the cost, I think everyone will buy it, provided that it has no radiation."

If it emits radiation, then even if people wanted to buy it, it wouldn't be allowed to be sold on the market.

Lin Ran nodded: "That makes sense."

He took the lunar soil brick and tapped its surface lightly with his spacesuit-clad hand, producing a dull echo.

"The strength should be sufficient," Wei Xuhang said.

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"So this thing is mainly used as the outer framework of the electromagnetic track," Lin Ran continued.

He clapped and said, "Alright, Mr. Lei, now we're going to do the next task, which is to test the chips in a low-temperature environment. After the test, our main work on the moon will be completed."

Lei Jun exclaimed in surprise, "So fast?"

Lin Ran said, "Is it fast? I don't think it's very fast. Also, since this is a test in the shaded area, I can go alone. President Lei, you should go back to the base and rest for a while."

Mr. Lei, I know you are definitely interested in superconducting chips, but the problem is that the environment in the shadow zone is complex and the laboratory is very cramped. You can watch the live broadcast by connecting to a webpage on Earth.

Give me the Xiaomi glasses, and I'll take charge of the live stream.

Or we can watch the replay after we get back to Earth.

Lei Jun nodded. His disagreement was pointless; on the moon, the only recourse was to accept it.

But no matter how I think about it, it feels strange. I'm thousands of miles away on the moon, watching a live broadcast from the moon. What's going on here?

Data is transmitted from the moon to Earth and then back to the moon. The latency for watching the live stream on the moon is even higher than on Earth.

Lin Ran left the lunar base carrying a silver vacuum insulated box.

This comes from Earth, where the temperature is maintained at Earth's 26 degrees Celsius. At low temperatures, superconductivity will manifest and it will be activated.

Lei Jun had long suspected that the box contained a superconducting chip, and the result proved his guess correct.

"I hope nothing unexpected happens to the professor. There's still quite a distance between here and the shaded area," Lei Jun thought to himself.

He was left alone to rest at the lunar base, while Wei Xuhang was responsible for driving the lunar rover to take Lin Ran there.

After reaching the edge where light and darkness intertwined, Lin Ran slowly walked along the cableway laid out by Wei Xuhang and the others into the depths of the shadowy area of ​​the meteorite crater.

The laboratory is not fancy; it is a semi-underground steel frame structure covered with three layers of coating to protect against micrometeorite impacts.

It's nowhere near as eye-catching as a lunar base.

The lighting relies entirely on portable cold light panels, and the beam of light appears somewhat lonely in the vacuum.

On the wall is a row of low-temperature compatible test cabinets, with green status lights flashing on their silver-white panels.

In the temperature-controlled changing room, Lin Ran changed into low-temperature work clothes, and then carried a silver insulated box into the laboratory.

To add to that, the fact that the AI ​​glasses rely on protective clothing to ensure stable operation does not mean that Xiaomi glasses can still work in an environment of -173 degrees Celsius, which exceeds the requirements of consumer electronics products on Earth.

"The chip is in good condition with vacuum packaging, and the vibration during transportation does not exceed 0.3g." Lin Ran said while fixing the insulated box to the workbench lock, while looking at the specific parameters during transportation.

He first removed the outermost transport lock in the buffer zone of the clean chamber, and a layer of white frost immediately appeared on the inner wall of the vacuum box. This was because the residual gas condensed instantly when it encountered the low temperature.

The chip is fixed on a ceramic substrate with a package thickness of less than 0.5 mm and the edges are sealed with silver solder.

Lin Ran operated the robotic arm to send the substrate into the low-temperature testing chamber.

The temperature of the test chamber itself is two degrees lower than that of the outside environment. It is kept extremely stable through multi-level radiation shielding, with fluctuations not exceeding 0.02℃.

The first step is resistance curve scanning. Lin Ran inputs the start command, and the precision leads inside the cavity contact the test points of the chip one by one.

On the display screen, the resistance curve drops rapidly to zero below -183℃ and stabilizes at the lower limit of instrument noise.

“Zero resistance confirmed,” Lin Ran said. His voice would be transmitted back to Earth, heard by the engineering team at the control center, and also by the viewers watching the live stream.

His tone was calm, but the Chinese people on Earth were anything but calm.

A cheer erupted at the Wenchang Control Center, and everyone could see the excitement and exhilaration on each other's faces.

With the most important property of superconductivity determined, the rest are problems that can be solved gradually.

The best news is that the temperature change did not affect the superconductivity.

The comments section was flooded with "6," as everyone could only express their excitement with this expression.

The second step is the critical current test. Lin Ran gradually increased the current, from 1 mA, 10 mA to 100 mA, and the weightlessness curve remained flat and unobstructed.

When the current was increased to 1.2 amperes, slight fluctuations appeared on the curve, and the vortex motion at the edge of the superconducting state began to affect the conduction.

"The critical current is 1.18 amperes," Lin Ran reported.

The third step is called quantum interference testing, which is a key step in demonstrating the chip's quantum-level sensitivity.

A miniature magnetic field generator outside the test chamber produced magnetic pulses on the order of several picoteslas.

Interference fringes with periodic oscillations appeared on the screen: clear, symmetrical, and without any phase drift.

"Is it really okay for us to let him do this live stream?"

"It's alright. Apart from America, what other country can go to the moon to conduct tests? It's a good thing if America goes to the moon. It's better for them to focus their energy on the space race than to cause trouble all over the world, right?"

Furthermore, this is at best limited open source; a large amount of technical details have not been released to the public.

"That's true. If the Americans want to go to the moon, they'll need to find at least hundreds of thousands of industrial workers again. If they can do that, they can only rely on one of the two—manufacturing or international finance—which is good for us."

The conversation that took place in Beijing shows that Lin Ran had fully communicated with Beijing beforehand for this live broadcast. This was not a technical leak, but a pre-planned show of force, a show of force to the world.

Lin Ran stared at the screen, saved the final test report locally, and then transmitted it back to Earth Chain via the network.

"Sensitive to deviations in front-end parameters, mass production requires random sampling to ensure tolerance."

Data packaging: RT, IV, Ic(B), V-Φ, noise spectrum, S-parameters

The chip was slowly removed from the test chamber, repackaged into a vacuum box, and labeled "passed".

In the archives of Earth Apollo Technology, this will be recorded as CWCD-01: Shackleton superconducting chip prototype.

Lin Ran spent a full four hours in the laboratory on the shadow side of the moon, completing the entire process of testing and recording.

After the data is transmitted back to Earth, a report is written by staff on Earth.

Lin Ran completed all the required experiments one by one, confirming that the path of ultra-low temperature superconductivity was feasible.
There is only one trending topic pinned to the top of Weibo's hot search list on Earth:
"Successful lunar test of ultra-low temperature superconductivity"

There's nothing else, just this.

Clicking on it leads to an editorial published by the Hundred Flowers Society on Weibo:
"A Leap Towards Zero Impedance: my country Completes On-Orbit Testing of Ultra-Low Temperature Superconducting Chip at Lunar South Pole"

At 13:42 Beijing time on July 12, in the permanently shadowed region of Shackleton Crater at the south pole of the moon, 384,000 kilometers from Earth, my country's lunar scientific experiment station sent back an exciting message: my country's research team successfully completed the full parameter testing of the first in-situ manufactured ultra-low temperature superconducting chip on the moon. All key indicators reached or exceeded the design values, marking an important step forward in my country's research on cutting-edge materials and quantum devices under extreme low temperature conditions.

At the lunar south pole, researchers only need to build shielding and temperature control systems to obtain long-term, stable, and low-interference physical conditions. It is this unique advantage that makes the moon an ideal testing ground for superconducting materials, quantum devices, and core electronic equipment for deep space exploration.

"The transition of the chip to the zero-resistance state was very clean, and the critical temperature and critical current density both reached the expected upper limits," a staff member at the Wenchang Control Center explained to reporters.

He said that the research team built a vacuum vibration-damping platform, a magnetic shielding system, and a four-probe precision measurement system on the lunar surface, and conducted full-process measurements of indicators such as the chip's resistance-temperature curve, critical current, microwave resonance characteristics, and magnetic flux noise spectrum.

After Lin Ran returned to the lunar base, Lei Jun clapped and congratulated him, saying, "Professor, congratulations!"

　Just like yesterday, it won't break up once it reaches 10,000 words~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)