From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 507

A group of people in the conference room decided on their next plan after a period of research and discussion.

So it didn't take long for the National Space Administration CNSA to join forces with the Dingguang Aerospace Research Institute to formally lodge an international protest. Of course, their evidence was also released.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also helped them speak out.

After all, no matter what, this incident was obviously the biggest risk they faced at the time.

If we use the example of a high-altitude parabola, someone threw a stone into their house from downstairs first, and when they stood on the balcony and saw the stone flying towards them, they subconsciously blocked it.

They hit it off.

Of course, they just won't admit that they blocked the stone anyway. After all, no one can provide evidence for this matter.

Even if the piece of debris they blown up was indeed in the direction of the dragon spacecraft, no one can prove that it was the debris they blasted that finally caused the dragon spacecraft to explode.

Not to mention that they also found evidence that the three pieces of space junk were actually suicide satellites.

As for how to prove which country these suicide satellites belong to, there is no need to prove it at all. After all, only SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft had the opportunity to drop these three suicide satellites at that time, and the orbit that the Dragon spacecraft passed before was also Very close to the orbit where the Tianchariot is located.

So there is basically no need to prove this point, it is an obvious fact.

Therefore, after the statement of protest was issued, it once again aroused heated discussions around the world.

In order to prevent the success of the "Ying" project, the Americans want to blow up the Tianchariot?
Still failed?

This melon was eaten all over the world, and everyone was shocked.

This is really omnipotent, and it also makes people all over the world see clearly the offline of this country.

Even when they were in the space race with the Soviet Union, they didn't do this kind of thing, but now, they actually broke through the bottom line?
Suddenly, the whole world was full of verbal criticism.

"I really didn't expect them to do such a despicable thing, it's really shameless!" 』

"People can be incompetent and shameless, but they can't be shameless and incompetent at the same time. In the end, this country did it! 』

"To be able to use this method to prevent other people's plans to set fire to the fire, I can only say that I will believe in any kind of conspiracy and tricks they want to use in the future. 』

"No wonder SpaceX's "Dragon" spacecraft stayed in orbit for nearly two days, and then they started to move after the Tianchao took off. It turned out that they were waiting for such an opportunity! 』

"Yes!There was news before that SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft was said to have stayed in orbit for a long time due to a malfunction. It turned out that it was waiting for the Tianren to take off!How despicable! 』

"..."

In this way, people from almost every country in the world spit on the United States.

Especially now, more and more countries no longer succumb to the power of this country, but choose to change their families. Those who have support will naturally not be afraid.

As for the citizens of the United States, when faced with the scolding from all over the world, many people also sent over to scold their ruling party.

Anyway, for the vast majority of the American people, even if they have nothing to do, they still have to scold their ruling party, not to mention that this time this group of people is even more angry.

Many loyal Christian believers also believe that their Statue of Liberty was smashed by the dragon spacecraft because God sent down divine punishment, warning them that their current behavior is actually reaping the consequences of themselves.

So just like that, a march against the president, against NASA, and even against SpaceX started.

And the superposition of these kinds of incidents immediately made the White House and NASA become overwhelmed.

What happened this time was a major challenge for their ruling party.

They have never encountered such a difficult scene.

"Fuck, didn't you promise that you wouldn't be seen? What's going on here?"

In the White House, the president looked at the Secretary of State in front of him and their NASA director Eisenberg, and got angry.

Both the Secretary of State and Eisenberg lowered their heads. This matter was indeed their worst luck.

In fact, they were all ready to be discovered, but the premise was that their plan could be successful.

As long as the plan is successful, it is easy to say anything, just kill it and refuse to admit it, and then reach a settlement secretly and it will be over. Anyway, the problem that money can solve is not a problem at all. The momentum is quite fierce, but the US dollar is still the currency hegemony.

Print and you're done.

But the point is, if their plan doesn't work out, then they're clowns.

Therefore, they are powerless to justify such a result.

After scolding for a long time, the president finally got tired of scolding, so he gave up.

Sitting back in his seat, he couldn't help but recall the past.

Ten years ago, they didn't have to care about this kind of problem.

But the current situation has completely changed, and the international situation cannot be compared with those in those years.

Now, it can be said that they have been criticized by so many countries in the world for the first time.

Basically, only a few countries that are still controlled by them did not participate.

"Okay, tell me, what should we do now?"

asked the President after a long sigh.

After the Secretary of State and Eisenberg looked at each other, the Secretary of State stepped forward and said, "No matter what, we must not admit it to the outside world."

"Well, don't admit it if you don't admit it, but the question is, how many people will believe it by then?" The president said: "Now the whole world knows it."

The Secretary of State smiled, and then said: "This is an interesting question. Think about it when we bombed the gas pipeline, the situation was similar."

The president nodded, that's true, it happened before, and they still have some control over various media, so it's not a big problem.

Then he said, "Well, what then?"

After a moment of silence, the Secretary of State said: "Next, we should also focus on our Mars plan. This time, the development of the AB plan has far exceeded our expectations. .”

"It can be said to be a complete failure."

After all, who would have thought that there would be such a powerful laser weapon on the Tianchariot?

It directly ruined Plan B, which was originally guaranteed to succeed.

Hearing what the Secretary of State said, the President slammed his fist on the table vigorously, showing an angry expression.

Then he suddenly turned his gaze to Eisenberg, and asked, "Eisenberg, tell me now, what else can we do to ensure that our rocket can be the first to reach Mars?"

"Absolutely, it cannot be surpassed by their Tianchao!"

And Eisenberg was taken aback when he heard this.

What?It's such a time, and you still want to guarantee this number one position?
He can only say one thing about this, he really does not change his original intention.

Then he shook his head and said, "No, Mr. President, the fuel left on our Mars spacecraft is not enough."

"The remaining fuel on it is for them to return home later. We can't use up all the fuel for them to go home."

Hearing this answer, the president's face immediately revealed an expression of unwillingness.

In this case, wouldn't they have a high possibility of complete failure?
To be honest, the various performances displayed by the current Tianchariot have already made him PTSD. God only knows how fast this Tianchariot can board the fire.

But now that Eisenberg has said so, he has nothing to do.

However, at this moment, the Secretary of State next to him suddenly said again: "But what if we change the method, instead of letting them go home by themselves, we go to pick them up?"

Eisenberg was taken aback, and asked, "What do you mean?"

"That is to say, let them use the fuel used for the return flight to accelerate, and then we will immediately rebuild a fire rocket and launch it."

The Secretary of State said calmly.

But from the eyes of the Secretary of State, what Eisenberg saw was a kind of ruthlessness to achieve the goal regardless of the cost.

Especially now that the price they might pay is the lives of those five astronauts.

No wonder this guy was able to come up with a plan to crash the Tianchariot.

However, Eisenberg flatly rejected such a plan.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible to use such a plan, unless you're crazy! Once you do, they won't be able to get out of Mars in time to get out of Mars by the time they land on Mars and encounter some dangers!" "

Eisenberg sternly refused: "I believe you have all seen "The Martian". In the movie, when the fire landing team encountered a Martian dust storm at the beginning, they escaped from Mars quickly through the landing module."

"If you want to do this now, you are depriving our astronauts of a chance to escape!"

But when he heard Eisenberg's words, the Secretary of State just smiled, and then said, "Eisenberg, don't say it so seriously!"

"After all, you've said it now. It's just a movie. In reality, our astronauts won't be able to encounter a Martian dust storm by accident, right?"

"What's more, the life support system we prepared for them includes the function of resisting Martian dust storms, so the possibility of this kind of thing happening is even lower."

Eisenberg snorted coldly: "I know what your plan is, but I will never allow you to joke about the lives of astronauts."

The Secretary of State smiled and waved his hands, and said, "It's not that serious, how about this? Let's ask our astronauts and leave the decision to them. You should agree to this?"

"That's not okay, this kind of thing can't be left to them to decide by themselves, they don't know what kind of situation they will face at all." Eisenberg shook his head again.

He said no because he knew exactly how stupid that Jayden Armstrong guy was.

The main reason why this guy was selected as one of the five candidates before was because of his name, otherwise, in the primary selection stage, this guy would have failed to meet the standard at all.

But for the sake of political show, they let this guy in, and even became the captain of their fire squad.

Thinking of this guy sending them more than a dozen short videos almost every day asking them to help run his TOKTIK account, Eisenberg hated his teeth and regretted letting this idiot in.

Once you tell them about this, with the IQ of Jayden Armstrong, an idiot, he definitely doesn't want the title of "the first human to land on Mars" to fall into the hands of others.

At that time, even if the other four people do not agree, Eisenberg is very suspicious that Jayden will force the other four people to agree.

Therefore, he will never give them the decision-making power in this matter.

However, when he heard that Eisenberg still refused, the Secretary of State's face suddenly turned cold.

"Director Eisenberg, you don't think that if our Statue of Liberty falls, you can deprive others of their right to freedom of choice?"

"You are slandering!" Eisenberg immediately said angrily: "Even if I deprive them of their right to free choice, you are depriving them of their right to life through inducement!"

"Hehe, life is precious, and love is more expensive. If it is for freedom, both can be thrown away." The Secretary of State said with a smile: "Obviously, freedom is more important, so, Mr. Eisenberg, this matter , obviously you are the more hateful."

"you……"

When Eisenberg was about to continue to refute this absurd theory, suddenly, the president's voice came: "Eisenberg Conti, you are now officially fired."

"My subordinates don't need a cowardly director of the space agency like you." The president said: "Human spaceflight is originally for freedom in a greater sense, and what this requires is enough adventurous spirit and courage. "

"And you, now you are completely unworthy."

Hearing the president's words, Eisenberg was stunned.

He was fired like this?

At this time, the Secretary of State showed a smile on his face, and then said: "Mr. Conti, this is the President's Office. If you don't have an appointment, please go out immediately, otherwise I will call the guards."

He looked at the presidential secretary next to him again, and said to him, "Why don't you let Mr. Condi leave the White House?"

The secretary reacted, nodded immediately, walked up, and said to Eisenberg, "Mr. Candy, please."

And Eisenberg's face was already livid with anger, and then he said angrily: "Stupid! You are insulting human spaceflight!"

Then he waved his hand, turned around and left, and when he closed the door, he slammed the door with a loud noise, which made everyone outside the door stunned. When did their Director Eisenberg be so brave?
How dare you slam the door of the president's office?

How noisy is this?
Of course, in the office, when he heard the loud bang when the door closed, the president immediately stood up angrily, "This bitch's son..."

However, the Secretary of State quickly smiled and said to the President: "Well, Mr. President, at least in the future, we will not see such cowardice again."

The President nodded, indeed.

But then he snorted coldly and said, "I should have changed this guy when I knew I took office."

The Secretary of State smiled and waved his hands, and then said: "Then Mr. President, let's determine the next NASA director now, so that we can implement the plan we just mentioned."

"Well." The president nodded slightly, "I hope this plan will definitely allow us to reach Mars as soon as possible."

The Secretary of State said: "You can rest assured. Actually, I have already consulted aerospace experts to calculate it. As long as fuel consumption is not counted, we can reach Mars at least one and a half months earlier, which is about mid-August."

The president's eyes suddenly lit up: "Okay! Well done!"

"Secretary of State, you are still smarter. Look at the other people, they are simply a bunch of idiots."

The Secretary of State smiled and said very humbly: "It's all for our party."

Then he said: "Oh, by the way, it should be passed to NASA. Eisenberg Condie is no longer their director."

"Also, we really need to ask our five astronauts first."

"They won't refuse?" the president asked, frowning.

"It's enough to add some money." The Secretary of State said indifferently, "Then we can assure them of the chance of success, and they will definitely agree."

The president nodded, "Okay, then do as you said."

"Ok."

The Secretary of State nodded.

Then he picked up his mobile phone and called the space agency to inform them of the incident.

And NASA was very surprised after learning about this incident. Did they change their boss?
Of course, compared to this surprise, NASA seems to have gotten an even more shocking result.

"What? You said that the piece of space junk that caused the Dragon spacecraft to explode probably came from one of the three BSS-type satellites."

"And what caused all of this was the Tianchariot?"

The Secretary of State widened his eyes, never expecting to hear such amazing news.

"Did they do it on purpose?"

"Impossible? 99.999% chance is a coincidence? All right, I get it."

"Oh? The astronauts on the International Space Station are continuing to resupply now? Their solid waste is about to run out of place? Shet, tell them to bear it up and contact SpaceX to see when their Dragon spacecraft can launch again. "

"Got it, hang up."

Putting down the phone, the president frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"

The Secretary of State replied: "The cargo hold on the International Space Station for storing solid waste is running out of room, and the astronauts on it are making a fuss. Damn, they don't know how to pull less."

The president twitched the corner of his mouth, and then asked: "I'm talking about the one in front, the Tianchao caused the Dragon spacecraft to explode?"

The Secretary of State shook his head helplessly, and then stated the results of the current investigation.

"However, now that they have first revealed that the three satellites are suicide satellites, even if we release the results of this investigation, I am afraid that we will not be able to take advantage of public opinion."

The Secretary of State smiled wryly, "Is this really what we have reaped?"

After the president heard the news, his blood pressure was full again.

In the end, the clowns turned out to be themselves?

"F... gram!"

Then he glared again, clutching his chest, probably suffering from angina again.

Seeing this, the Secretary of State quickly ran outside again and called for a doctor.

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(End of this chapter)