Homo sapiens.

Chapter 459 Difficult to bridge differences

The first year of Xinghe, October 7th.

Europa.

City of Munich.

Conde von Marcus, director of the Europa Space Development Agency as the host, is receiving Bill, the head of the Space Agency of the Freedom Federation.

In addition to Bill, there are also members of the free association, and many relevant personnel in the aerospace industry have also been sent, and many entrepreneurs have also arrived.

This kind of thing is naturally indispensable for the main force of the space industry in the free association-Space Exploration Corporation, and Musk even went to Munich in person.

Musk glanced at Blue Origin President Kim Duke sitting aside: "Dude, you don't think this cooperation negotiation will be successful, do you?"

"Mr. Musk really likes to joke." Duke Kim replied with a smile, obviously he didn't want to return to this topic.

Musk showed a hint of cynical sarcasm: "The group photo is full of smiles, but it's a pity that Bill's ideas are too naive."

At this time, on the stage, under the spotlight of the media, the heads of the Europa Space Agency, the Free Consortium Space Agency, and the Lucia Space Department, smiled and held hands, as if we were all a family.

I don't know, I thought they were close partners.

However, in the past few years, they were still in the same situation.

It can only be said that the pressure brought by Homo sapiens made these guys have to let go of some unhappiness in the past and focus on the future.

On the stage, Bill and Comte dealt with questions from journalists in a formulaic manner.

But Musk in the audience was already impatient.

He set his sights on Koichi Sato, the president of Fuji Heavy Industries in Japan: "Fuji Heavy Industries also has aerospace industry?"

Facing the son of the wild father's family, Koichi Sato was very respectful and nodded slightly: "Mr. Musk, our company has recently acquired a part of the aerospace industry."

"What's worth buying that garbage? You might as well invest in my space exploration company." Musk half-joked.

"Hehe... We are only looking at cheap, and those companies have some unique technologies, such as the super high-rise construction technology of the Dalin Group..."

Musk frowned: "Dalin group? Is that the company that plans to build a space elevator?"

Sato Koichi showed an embarrassed smile: "Yes, but this project is too difficult, and our company has no money to continue investing."

"Now the length of carbon nanotubes is only half a meter, there is really no need for you to continue investing." Musk looked disgusted.

Sato Koichi smiled wryly.

The space elevator at this stage is really difficult to realize, otherwise Homo sapiens would not give up making a big fuss about the space elevator project. Although Homo sapiens still has three research institutes doing related research work, there is no investment at this stage Plans for building a space elevator.

In this regard, Koichi Sato, who acquired Obayashi Gumi Co., Ltd., has the most say. After inspecting Obayashi Gumi's space elevator project, he immediately cut off this pure money-losing product.

The reason why the space elevator is a money-losing product is mainly because of three aspects.

The first problem is the huge amount of engineering work. Not to mention Dongying, which is living a dry life now, even the rotten ship America with a few catties of nails cannot handle the huge engineering amount of the space elevator.

The second problem is the cable material problem. At present, the only material suitable for space elevator cables is carbon nanotubes.

Theoretically, the strength requirement of space elevator cables is 90P, while carbon nanotubes can reach 200-800P.

However, the ideal is very full, and the reality is very skinny.

Among the major forces, the one with the strongest carbon nanotube processing technology can only process carbon nanotubes with a length of half a meter.

The carbon nanotube length of the space elevator needs to be more than 3.6 kilometers.

0.5 meters: 3.6 kilometers.

This cannot be said to be hopeless, it can only be said that the possibility is close to zero.

Even Homo sapiens company with biosynthesis technology, its subordinate carbon nanotube laboratory can only synthesize carbon nanotubes with a length of 120 to 150 meters, which is 3.6 kilometers away, and there are still four orders of magnitude.

The third problem is corrosion and aging.

This problem further raised the difficulty of building a space elevator to another level.

Koichi Sato read the relevant test reports of the Obayashi Group before and found this fatal problem, that is, the service life of carbon nanotubes in outer space is less than two years.

Obayashi's group took advantage of Japan's part of the experiment on the International Space Station to send some carbon nanotubes to the International Space Station for a two-year exposure experiment.

The result was very unsatisfactory. After two years of exposure experiments in low-earth orbit, the carbon chains in the carbon nanotubes were corroded by oxygen atoms, and the strength dropped to be worse than that of ordinary nylon ropes.

This is also the problem encountered by the relevant laboratories of Homo sapiens when synthesizing carbon nanotubes and graphene films. The affinity of carbon to oxygen and hydrogen makes the carbon chain easily destroyed.

Regardless of the empty low-Earth orbit, it actually still belongs to the atmosphere—the extension of the thermosphere, in which a large number of oxygen atoms and hydrogen atoms are floating.

However, carbon nanotubes are easy to combine with oxygen atoms, so there is almost no solution to this problem.

What's more, there are various cosmic rays, high-energy neutrons, solar storms and the like in outer space, which seriously damage the carbon chain.

Unless the cables of the space elevator can be replaced once a year, or find a way to resist aging.

After discussing with a group of engineers and researchers, Sato Koichi gave up decisively. It is okay to use PPT to cheat investment in this project, but if it is really carried out according to the plan, 1 Fuji Heavy Industries cannot handle it.

……

After dealing with the news media.

This cooperation negotiation has finally entered the closed-door meeting stage.

The core aerospace agencies of the 4 major forces, plus 27 affiliated aerospace agencies, and 53 important aerospace-related companies, had a total of 362 participants.

Bill spoke first: "Everyone, Homo sapiens has recently deployed a large number of satellites in outer space and built a space city. If we don't work together, we may not have our share in the solar system in the future."

"Cooperation can be considered, but how to allocate it? If it's still the same as before, you should play by yourself!" Alexander Piankovsky, the head of Lucia's space department, asked bluntly.

Kong De hurried out to smooth things over: "We really should discuss the specific allocation, but cooperation is better than independent development."

比尔说出自己的分配方案：“我的方案是4：3：2：1。自由联合体4，欧罗巴联合体2，露西亚1，剩下的3给……”

"Hehe, why don't you eat all of them? Then you can play by yourself?" Alexander Piyankowski stared at Bill and outputted a meal.

Musk shrugged in the audience, turned his head and joked to other business executives: "Look, this is it? Still cooperating?"

The others were silent, obviously their company was not as important as the Space Exploration Company, talking nonsense could cause trouble.

There are gods fighting on the stage, they just watch the show below.

The Quartet fought for more than two hours, but still failed to reach an agreement. Obviously, America's bad record in the past caused the other three parties to have serious doubts about this cooperation.

The scope of cooperation, the investment of capital resources and manpower, the location of the construction of aerospace bases, the distribution of results, and how to manage them.

There are huge differences on these issues.

A mob is a mob.

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