Homo sapiens.

Chapter 489
When the space shuttle Ra re-entered the atmosphere from low Earth orbit.

At this time, the management of the Earth Federation Association also entered the safe room and held a secret video conference.

The spokespersons of the four major forces, as well as Kong De, who is the chairman, all looked unhappy.

"Judging from the analysis conclusions of the technical department, this aerospace..." Bill paused for a moment: "Okay! Let's call it a space shuttle! Its volume is very large, and its mass is very likely to have reached 2 to 3 tons. "

The four major forces all have outer space monitoring methods, and they have also obtained some data, so they naturally did not doubt the data Bill said.

Duke, the spokesperson of the Europa Consortium, raised his glasses, his face full of dignity:
"Judging from the shape of the space shuttle, the weight of the spaceship on its back is about 40-45% of its total weight, that is to say, the load ratio of this space shuttle is 40-45%. Terrible."

Terrible indeed.

Because the carrier rocket with the best load ratio of the ground link is the latest improved version of the Space Exploration Corporation's heavy-duty Falcon, with a maximum take-off weight of 1557 tons, a low-Earth orbit payload of 71 tons, and a load ratio of 4.6%.

Comparing the two, the gap immediately appeared.

The gap of nearly 10 times is simply terrifying.

If it was a gap of 2 to 3 times, then they would not be so fearful and powerless, but with a gap of almost 10 times, it is really hard for people to resist and catch up.

The person from the fourth force also spoke up: "Theoretically speaking, ordinary fuel can't reach this load ratio at all, but our detection satellite didn't detect the gamma rays produced by the nuclear explosion. What kind of fuel did they use? "

"There are currently only two types of fuels that have an energy density 10 times higher than the current common fuel." Duke glanced at everyone: "One is full nitrogen anion, and the other is metallic hydrogen."

"Zhang, I remember that one of your research institutes successfully researched the total nitrogen anion?" Alexander asked.

The man shook his head: "It was successful, but the stability is very poor, there is no way to passivate it for the time being, and the production process is only at the laboratory level, and has not yet reached the industrial standard."

"We need to strengthen cooperation!" Bill took the opportunity to propose.

"Of course there is no problem with cooperation, but I haven't seen your sincerity." The man spread his hands with a half-smile.

Kong De quickly came out to smooth things over: "Cooperation! We must communicate with each other. I heard that a 500-meter-high airbag has been built for the space tower project in Jeju Island recently. The progress of this project must be accelerated!"

Hearing about the space tower project, everyone agreed to speed up.

After all, Homo sapiens has established a project similar to the space tower in the Nemanya area, and operates suborbital flights every day.

Faced with the increasingly strong oppression of Homo sapiens in the aerospace field, Dilian also hopes to achieve the success of the space tower project at this time.

The Earth Alliance even regards the space tower project as one of the core means of catching up with Homo sapiens.

According to calculations, if the space tower project can be successful, the fuel consumption for launching from the local Earth to low-Earth orbit will be reduced by about 20%.

If the 1557-ton heavy-duty Falcon is launched on the space tower platform, it means that its payload can be increased by 311.4 tons, the total payload can reach 382.4 tons, and the load ratio will reach 24.5%.

Although it is still not as good as Homo sapiens' super space shuttle, at least the gap will not be too big.

Of course, the management of the Earth Alliance is very clear that the load-bearing capacity of the space tower platform in Jeju Island is limited.

According to the design plan, the launch platform of the Jeju Island Space Tower has a maximum carrying capacity of about 860 tons, minus the 600-700 tons of supporting facilities, and finally it can be used to carry the launch vehicle, which is only about 160-260 tons.

With this load-bearing capacity, there is no way to use the heavy-duty Falcon. Even the 800-ton Chang-[-]B has no way to go up. Only some small launch vehicles can be used.

It's not that the Earth Alliance doesn't want to do it, but as an experimental project, the first-generation prototype system will definitely not directly build a super-large space tower.

The Union doesn't have that much money either.

In case the project fails, it will become more difficult for the Land Federation's stretched funds.

At this moment, the management of the Earth Alliance is really envious and jealous of Homo sapiens' space business department.

Looking at the projects I have done, I have to plan carefully, and I have to compromise and wrestle internally.

And Homo sapiens can easily build a large space tower platform in the Nemanya area without even blinking an eye.

However, they are also very complicated about Homo sapiens in their hearts.

After all, without the emergence of Homo Sapiens, the four major forces would never come together to form a joint Earth Federation Association, let alone give Earth Alliance an annual funding of more than 2000 billion US dollars.

The existence of the Homo sapiens company has indeed brought a huge shock to the entire earth.

This is not just in the field of aerospace, but in other fields as well.

In order to win over those ordinary people and prevent these people from being sucked away by Homo sapiens, all parties are now doing their best, basically using both soft and hard methods, sticks and carrots.

Taxes on the wealthy in North America have been raised to the extreme. Big families such as Morgan, Rockefeller, Mellon, and DuPont are all gritting their teeth, digging out some meat from their mouths for ordinary people.

Now it’s impossible not to give it, and if you keep searching, all ordinary people would rather go to work for Homo sapiens than stay and breathe the free air of America.

At the same time, the four major forces also began to collude with each other, with money giving money, mines giving mines, industry giving industry, and some people giving people.

Anyway, it is to reduce the production cost of each link as much as possible, and to improve the living standards of ordinary people, so that all people can be retained.

This is not just a matter of the North American and Europa League.

It is that the four major forces must achieve high welfare internally, otherwise they will have no way to compete against Homo sapiens.

You must know that in the second half of the first year of Xinghe, there were more than 4736 million permanent migrant families in Asia who went to Homo Sapiens, and the number exceeded 1.73 million.

Adding permanent migrant workers from Africa and Latin America, the number of Homo sapiens employees is rapidly approaching the 30 billion mark.

Even if a large number of obstacles are set up, there is still no way to stop this trend.

Many people may think that the idea of ​​the middle class or the small rich is that ordinary people want to work for Homo sapiens company, and it is best not to go back and compete with them.

In fact, the middle class and the small rich are now the most embarrassing group, and they really hope that ordinary people will stay.

After all, the labor force and consumer market of ordinary people are the cornerstone of the entire social system.

Assuming a city with a population of 100 million, 95% are ordinary people, 4% are middle class, and 1% are rich.

Here comes the question.

When 95% of ordinary people disappear from this city, can the remaining 5% maintain their previous decent life?

The answer is that 5% of the 95% will fall back to being ordinary people, the 5% of the 4% can maintain a poorer but relatively decent life than before, and the 5% of the 1% will continue to be their rich.

Ordinary talents are the cornerstone of the existence of the middle class and the rich.

Without ordinary people, how can you maintain a high-quality and decent life?
The restaurant has no waiters.

The factory has no workers.

There are no farmers on the farm.

There are no migrant workers on the construction site.

The market has no ordinary people customers.

do not change?The population will be directly sucked dry by the Sapiens company, and it will be destroyed without a fight.

Therefore, the four major forces have reached a situation where they have to change.

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