As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 315 Going to Mars (ask for a monthly pass!)

It was Huaguo's lead in the orbiting the moon project that led American to choose a more radical route in the Mars project to land on Mars.

American previously invested in NASA in the range of 200 billion to 300 billion yuan per year.

And their counterpart in China, CNSA, has a much smaller budget than NASA.

Huaguo's investment in the aerospace field was only announced in 17, about 20 billion yuan, and NASA's budget for that year was 200 billion yuan.

Later, the CNSA budget of 100 billion yuan circulated on the Internet was estimated by foreign agencies based on CNSA’s launch.

In fact, CNSA's labor costs and manufacturing costs are much lower than NASA's, which also causes Huaguo's actual purchasing power to exceed the budget by a lot.

Even so, Huaguo's actual investment still lags behind NASA.

In recent years, NASA's budget has soared from the previous 300 billion yuan to more than 800 billion yuan.

"So this time we chose to land on Mars in the middle of next year.

This landing on Mars can only succeed but not fail, and everyone knows the consequences of failure. "

"The gentlemen in Congress are not going to allow us to fail with such ample budget.

If you fail, everyone has to step down. "

In the face of Huaguo's pressing step by step in the aerospace field, reporters pressed American's senior officials on various public occasions.

When the director of NASA faced inquiries from both houses, his answer was: We will definitely send the American man to Mars in 2027.

Therefore, the senior officials have also maintained the same caliber externally:
"Huaguo has made remarkable achievements in the aerospace field, but there is still a big gap compared with us.

It's not that we can't build a space station around the moon in near-moon orbit, but NASA's goal at this stage is to go all out to Mars.

The moon is not our biggest goal, and the entire NASA is preparing for the march to Mars. "

The director of NASA is appointed directly by the president, but needs to be approved by the Senate.

If NASA skips the ticket, the consequence is a replacement, a change of blood from top to bottom.

There is a huge gap between landing on Mars and landing on the moon, much larger than the gap between Google and Baidu.

The most critical point is that there is a time window for going from Blue Star to Mars, which is the shortest distance between Blue Star and Mars.

The blue star and Mars come close every 26 months.

If the fuel-optimized Homan transfer round-trip method is adopted, with Bluestar's 2020 technology, it will take about 500 days for both the outbound and return trips, and more than [-] days to stay on Mars.

It took a total of nine hundred days.

The first is the materials that need to be carried, and the second is the challenge to the astronauts' mental health.

It took only 50 hours for Apollo 75 to fly to the moon [-] years ago.

And if you carry a lot of materials, it will take longer.

Later, the Apollo 11 manned spacecraft brought astronauts and supplies, and it took more than four days to land on the moon.

"Nine hundred days, none of our astronauts has the psychological quality to endure such a long wait.

Judging from the current fuel technology, at most one person can be supported to go to Mars.

A person has to spend [-] long days in space. I think the first astronaut to go to Mars should not use the magic brain for him?
The unknown effects of using the magic brain on the human body are unpredictable.

Armstrong only stayed on the moon for two and a half hours, but our astronauts will spend five hundred days on Mars this time!

We have chosen a radical plan on the Mars plan, and we must be relatively cautious in other aspects.

My concern is that when astronauts use the magic brain, their thinking activities will become more active.

The psychological judgments made in the past will be invalid.

Although at present, after using the magic brain, there will be no major changes in personality.

But on a lonely voyage of more than 900 days, even small changes could have unintended consequences. "

NASA's vision is to use the magic brain for the astronauts of the Mars program.

It is hoped that a series of experiments can be carried out around the magic brain on Mars.

For example, test the delay time of watching the magic forum.

Electromagnetic wave signal transmission takes time.

American's fifth Mars exploration rover successfully landed on Mars in 2021. At that time, it took 13 minutes to transmit the picture of Mars from Mars back to Blue Star.

They were very curious about whether there was a delay in transmitting the data from the magic forum back to Blue Star, and how long the delay was.

This is very important, it is related to judging the signal transmission method adopted by the magic brain.

Previously, the number of magic brains was limited, and the distance between the moon and the blue star was too close, and similar experiments could not produce a clear distinction.

Now that these conditions are ripe, NASA wants to carry out a series of experiments around magic on Mars.

In addition, I want to test whether magic can be used on Mars, and how strong it is.

This is the most important purpose.

Although other countries cannot know the whole picture of what happened in London, they all have their own channels to roughly know what happened in London.

And magic is only effective within London, which is not only known to them, but also confirmed by London.

Therefore, American wondered whether the magic brain provided by Merlin and the spellcasting ability obtained through the magic brain would be invalid when they reached Mars.

In addition, there is also the difference between the effectiveness of spellcasting on Mars and Blue Star.

A mage who obtained spellcasting ability through the magic brain has no magic power, let alone any meditation method to improve spellcasting ability.

The mages of American could not find what was the factor that determined the strength of the spellcasting.

"The cost of sending a human to Mars is high, and we need to achieve as many strategic goals as possible.

Magic is the most important research object in the next era, and this landing on Mars is an excellent opportunity for us to widen the gap with other countries in magic.

I'm sure the American astronauts will not be overwhelmed by this little difficulty.

And it wasn't for him to go up after Blue Star became a mage, but for him to use the magic brain to become a mage after he got to Mars. "

The chief scientist of NASA didn't finish his sentence. His subtext was that even if the astronauts have psychological problems on the return journey after using the magic brain, there is little loss.

As long as their goals can be achieved, the loss of an astronaut is an acceptable price, although the cost of training astronauts is high.

Anyway, after the magic brain user dies, the right to use the magic coin will be released.

This level of subtext is understood by all the NASA executives present.

"I think it can be done, we have entered the final round of astronauts, I believe they can successfully complete the mission."

NASA's Mars program has four astronauts on the final shortlist.

On the eve of landing on Mars, the four astronauts will be sorted by lottery, and the space program will be executed in order.

The default is to implement the Mars plan on the 1st, but if the physical examination of the 1st fails, it will be changed to the 2nd, and then postponed in turn.

As for why the method of drawing lots is so primitive, it is because spaceflight is similar to sailing, and spaceflight is nothing but sailing in the 21st century.

The executive planner determined by luck can also use his good luck in the subsequent execution of the plan.

The eighteen astronauts selected for the Apollo program were determined by drawing lots.

When it comes to the physical and psychological qualities that are selected among tens of millions of people, luck is even more important than other conditions and has become the decisive factor.

"According to this plan, let the astronauts carry the magic brain to the sky, and at the same time reserve the right to use a magic coin.

We set the exchange place of the magic brain as the landing site of the astronauts on Mars.

We've always had questions about Merlin's teleportation abilities.

Although the radio signals we received back then were from Pluto, this was only calculated.

Mage is likely to be able to forge the source of the signal, so whether Merlin can achieve such a long-distance item transmission, we need to verify through experiments. "

In the Mars project's first Mars landing plan, there are a few people who are safe, and most of them are radicals.

Even though NASA has shunted some overly radical elements to commercial airlines such as SpaceX, radical elements still dominate the interior.

There is also a large number of fanatics who believe that explosions are art.

In fact, the main reason is that the technology is not mature enough. If the technology is mature enough, it can completely allow astronauts to enter a dormant state during the journey.

Just like falling asleep, the astronauts just need to stay awake before entering orbit and after leaving orbit.

In addition to the journey, you can enter the dormant state.

If space dormancy can be achieved, it will not only greatly relieve the psychological pressure of astronauts, but also significantly reduce the food that needs to be carried.

It's just that there are still some technical difficulties that cannot realize the space dormancy technology.

Mainly in space, the cockpit is very small, and living in a narrow and lack of light space will feel cramped and depressing.

Although NASA has successively launched three relay communication satellites in the orbit of Mars in recent years.

On the way to Mars, the astronauts can fully connect to the Internet and use WiFi to connect to the Bluestar network.

The delay is relatively high, which does not affect astronauts browsing the web and chatting.

But NASA is afraid to open up this authority, because it wants to reduce the external stimulation received by astronauts.

In case some consultations on the blue star irritate the astronauts and cause unimaginable consequences.

Especially in a journey of [-] days, it is necessary to reduce similar effects as much as possible.

However, considering such a long journey, NASA has equipped the astronauts with some entertainment facilities.

Among them is the brain-computer connection VR that is physically disconnected from the network, and some games are pre-loaded in it.

In addition, I brought an Amazon kindle, and books can make people feel calm during the journey.

The budget provided by American to NASA has increased significantly, which has brought about a high degree of prosperity in the commercial aerospace field.

Many of American's commercial airlines originally served NASA.

The same is true for Huaguo. For listed companies in the aerospace field, the largest customer is CNSA.

Affected by this good news, SpaceX's Starlink project took shape earlier than expected.

Starlink is nominally a satellite Internet built by Musk—civilian infrastructure, but it can actually play a strong role in the military.

In the large-scale operation in early 2022, it was thought that the basic network facilities would be blown up and the network would be disconnected. As a result, the other party used Starlink to continuously spread the news.

SpaceX sent satellites to the sky in batches with the help of very low rocket launch costs.

As early as five years ago, in 2021, SpaceX launched about 60 Starlink satellites each time.

The number of Starlink satellites launched by Musk before was around 2250, accounting for half of the total number of Bluestar launches in history.

Musk originally planned to complete the launch of 2027 Starlink satellites in November 11.

Affected by the high prosperity in the entire commercial aviation field, 2025 Starlink satellites have been launched by the end of 12000.

At the end of 2026, this number becomes 15000.

Starlink has covered all areas of Bluestar, from the North Pole to the South Pole, from the Sahara Desert to Mount Everest, and Starlink's satellite communication services can be used.

From the perspective of Internet access speed, the transmission speed of Starlink is only a few thousandth of that of 5G, and the effect is similar to that of 4G.

The technical principle of Starlink satellites to achieve network transmission is very simple.

One of the most important indicators of network communication is traffic density. 5G can provide 100Tbps of bandwidth per square kilometer.

It relies on a large number of base stations for protection.

If you feel similar to 5G when using 4G, you will not experience the advantages of 5G.

This is because there are not enough 5G base stations around you.

Each of the 5G base stations built by Huaguo can provide a bandwidth of 15Gbps, while each satellite in the Starlink project is 20Gbps.

If you compare it alone, the effect of a single satellite of Starlink is better than that of the base station, but the problem is that the two are not comparable in quantity.

By 2022, China has built nearly 160 million 5G base stations.

It will continue to increase according to demand in the future.

The completion of the Starlink project is only 12000 satellites.

In other words, in terms of the number of hardware alone, Starlink is one-thousandth of 5G.

But the most important thing about Starlink is its application in no man's land.

In no man's land, you can't repair the base station to that place, but Starlink can achieve 4G network speed signal transmission.

At least the live broadcast is completely enough.

In other words, wilderness live broadcast novels seem unrealistic from the technical perspective of 2020.

Where did the internet come from in the wilderness?
But by 2026, the 15000 Starlink satellites in Blue Star orbit will continue to provide communication services for areas without base stations.

The wilderness live broadcast has become a very popular channel, and the human curiosity-seeking psychology is fully reflected in it.

Although the monthly price of 100 meters is a bit expensive for ordinary people.

But for companies operating in no man's land, this price is too cheap.

At the same time, for the ruthless bloggers who engage in live broadcasts in the wild, they can earn far more than 100 yuan from live broadcasts.

Its uses in emergency communications, disaster response, and military are enormous.

Of course, the military use here only refers to communication in extreme situations, such as the Starlink satellite interception of nuclear warheads boasted on the Internet, this is pure bragging.

Starlink is still very, very far away from achieving this, and it is almost unrealistic.

And from a business point of view, this stuff doesn't make money.

Because the cost is too high, the installation fee is 500 meters, and then the monthly usage fee is 100 meters.

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