Chapter 457 Are they here to ask for funds?
The exchange meeting on manned spaceflight and lunar exploration projects held in Beijing quickly spread throughout the Internet along with news reports.
What is unexpected but reasonable is that most of the news reported by the media are related to Xu Chuan.
"Warmly celebrate the convening of the manned spaceflight and lunar exploration project exchange meeting. The well-known scholar Academician Xu Chuan will serve as the chief technical advisor! 》
"The first manned space and lunar exploration engineering exchange conference was held in Beijing, led by science and technology, with hundreds of companies and leaders participating. 》
The titles and content of institutional media are quite serious.
As for the self-media or marketing accounts that are forwarded, the titles are as eye-catching as they come.
"shock! The chief technical advisor of the moon landing project turned out to be him! 》
"The Nantianmen Project!" Space carrier! Interstellar mining! Our mission is the stars and the sea! 》
"The father of controllable nuclear fusion enters the field of aerospace, and a new era of aerospace is coming!" 》
"shock! The father of controllable nuclear fusion actually wants to survive the catastrophe and ascend to the Moon Palace! 》
It has to be said that in China, and even in the entire world, anyone with the name Xu Chuan or news related to him is undoubtedly the most popular in the scientific research community.
In the past, similar meetings like this were generally silent on the Internet. Except for netizens in specific fields who would take the initiative to pay attention, it can be said that others would not notice at all.
This time, what is surprising is that this meeting has become one of the top three hot searches, attracting discussions among many netizens.
【Moon landing project! Awesome, my country! 】
【Excited! Go up there and see if there are any footprints, stars and stripes or anything like that! 】
[Is it possible that this is the first moon landing in human history? (Dog head!)]
[Compared to the moon landing, I think the mass catapult and the Nantianmen Project are more awesome! If you really want to make it happen, tsk tsk, then fly to the United States and throw a meteorite over the head, it will be great! 】
[Let’s go to the small island country! 】
[The Nantianmen Project actually came true. I didn’t expect to see this in my lifetime. 】
[I’m curious why the chief designer is not Chuanshen? 】
[Kawashen is not in the aerospace field, but he serves as the chief consultant. This is pretty cool, right? It’s like he has the final say on technology! 】
There was a lot of discussion on the Internet, but in reality, the governments of various countries were also overwhelmed by the sudden news.
As China restarts its manned spaceflight and lunar exploration projects, relevant information has attracted considerable attention around the world.
Atlantic coast, in a white house.
The elderly president was holding a newspaper in his hand.
The title above is famous "China restarts manned spaceflight, will the Cold War begin again in a new era?" 》
I have to say that this problem is indeed very lethal to the United States.
After all, the Cold War of the last century was one of the most glorious histories they have ever created.
That time, they succeeded in disintegrating a red behemoth into dozens of countries today, and there is no longer any threat to them.
But now, a new era of change has begun again. This time, can they still win?
While thinking about it, CIA Director William Joseph Burns, NASA Director Bill Nelson, and Princeton Plasma Laboratory Director Halifax Bruce came to the office together.
"What do you think of the news announced by China?" the elderly president asked, putting down the newspaper in his hand.
NASA Director Bill Nelson was the first to speak: "This is not good news. They have restarted the manned spaceflight and lunar exploration projects, and announced plans to build large-mass projectors and space carriers. The target is most likely to be on the moon. Rich helium-III resources.”
"According to our investigation, under the leadership of Professor Xu, China's newly established Xinghai Research Institute is conducting research on second-generation controllable nuclear fusion. We must keep up and increase investment in the aerospace field."
For NASA, no matter whether the news is true or false, they will say it is true.
After all, this is a great time to increase congressional funding for aerospace.
"Second-generation controllable fusion is not that easy to develop. You don't need to worry about this at all." From the side, Halifax Bruce, director of the Princeton Plasma Laboratory, said quickly.
Although China has unexpectedly announced a high-profile plan to restart manned spaceflight and lunar exploration projects this time, it is completely different from its previous low-key actions. It even announced science fiction things such as a large-mass catapult and the Nantianmen Project. But in the eyes of insiders, these are almost impossible to achieve.
The NASA space agency said that the other party is targeting the abundant helium-3 resources on the moon, which is even more nonsense.
Although the first-generation deuterium and tritium controllable nuclear fusion technology has been solved, the second-generation controlled nuclear fusion problem is much greater than the first-generation.
What Bill Nelson said is just to ask for more scientific research funds from NASA.
But for a country, there is an upper limit on the total amount of scientific research funds.
As the NASA space agency takes away more funds, the Princeton PPPL Plasma Physics Laboratory will naturally receive much less.
You must know that in the past two months, when China completed the ignition of the Qixia controllable nuclear fusion demonstration reactor project, the United States also quickly started its own controllable nuclear fusion demonstration reactor project.
The spherical NSTX device in the PPPL laboratory is the fusion equipment closest to the Dawn Fusion Device modified by Professor Xu of China.
Coupled with the strong mathematical capabilities of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Professor Fefferman's research on the NS equation, the US energy industry has invested a large amount of scientific research funds, more than one billion meters of gold, into the pppl plasma laboratory. middle.
Including the subsequent super demonstration reactor project to be built in Washington State, PPPL Laboratory can also use its original technology accumulation to get a large share of this super project with an investment of over 10 billion meters of gold.
But if the United States is drawn into the space race of manned spaceflight and lunar exploration, the old men in Congress will definitely reallocate budgets and funds for existing scientific research projects.
Now that the basic foundation of controllable nuclear fusion has been lost, if the aerospace field fails again, the voices from the outside world will probably be even more unpleasant.
Therefore, even if the controllable nuclear fusion project is urgently needed by the United States, as the world's largest aerospace power, they may not be able to bear the thought of being overtaken or even surpassed by the Chinese in this field.
Therefore, it is estimated that allocating funds to NASA is a foregone conclusion.
However, Halifax Bruce does not want this amount of funding to be too large.
After all, too much money has been allocated to the aerospace field, and controllable nuclear fusion will naturally get less.
Hearing what Halifax Bruce said, NASA's Bilson immediately looked over, stared at him and asked: "But the person leading the lunar exploration project is Professor Xu. Can you guarantee that he can't do it?"
"Don't forget about controllable nuclear fusion. If it happens again in the aerospace field, who will be responsible then?"
Hearing that troublesome name, everyone in the office frowned involuntarily.
Halifax Bruce coughed slightly and said: "My friend, you don't have to be so excited."
After a slight pause, he continued: "As far as I know, Professor Xu only serves as a technical consultant, not the general person in charge like controllable nuclear fusion."
"If the news I received is correct, China will build a large strong particle collider. This was proposed by Professor Xu. I believe his attention should be focused on this."
"Am I right? Director William."
As he spoke, he looked at CIA Director William Joseph Burns.
Across the desk, the elderly president also looked over.
William Joseph Burns nodded and said: "According to the intelligence we have collected, China is indeed determined to build a large strong particle collider. They are currently communicating with CERN."
"However, the manned spaceflight and lunar exploration projects are also in their plans. And according to the intelligence, Professor Xu is not just responsible for the empty position of chief consultant."
"The newly established Xinghai Research Institute in China is led by Professor Xu. According to the information obtained, their manned spaceflight and lunar exploration projects will most likely be carried out in the Xinghai Research Institute, or in cooperation with it. .”
Hearing this, the elderly president thought for a moment and asked: "What do you think we should do?"
Director William shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, and it is not within the scope of my responsibility. No matter which field you invest in, I have no objection."
"But I would rather increase investment in the CIA."
"After all, no matter what, we have to know what our opponents are doing. This is the basis and only then can we formulate a countermeasure plan."
Hearing this, the elderly president couldn't help but rub his temples.
There are no meaningful opinions at all, they are just here to ask for funds!
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