I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

“The patient had a slight cold before taking the flight, and coupled with irregular work and rest schedules, the impact of diarrhea was amplified. Excessive emotions may lead to sudden syncope. He needs to pay more attention to rest and reduce the number of late nights and stimulating foods.

If there are still problems later, consider treatment. Now he seems to be in good health. "

The doctor talked a lot and finally made Zhong Cheng understand that Lin Ju was fine and didn't even need medicine.

In fact, the latter was already awake before he was carried onto the helicopter, but Zhong Cheng took him to the Military Region General Hospital for a comprehensive examination. Finally, he was safe.

According to the doctor, the biggest problem lies in physical weakness and excessive emotions. Zhongcheng knows about the body, but the emotions... he won't faint from excitement, right?

"I just neglected to exercise. I didn't know why I got like this when I had a fever. I really caused trouble for you."

Lin Ju's performance was normal, showing his health by jumping around.

"Don't you fly too frequently? The weather is always changing...it's still troublesome to travel between places. You should fly less in the future."

"..."

Let a person with a jet pilot license fly less... Lin Ju finally nodded and did not refuse Zhong Cheng's kindness.

"Then don't come here in the past month. Anyway, you are letting go of the company. United Mining can't cause trouble if we have it. You must have a good rest during this period."

Zhong Cheng did not take it lightly because of the appearance, and his tone was full of no doubt.

"This... okay, then I'd better go back to Chengdu. Maybe it's because the climate in the north is really not suitable for me."

Seeing that Lin Ju did not show off his strength, Zhong Cheng was very satisfied and gave another instruction:

"If you really can't sit still, you can go to the IAU. I've heard about what they are doing, so we can have a chat first."

The International Astronomical Union has made inquiries before, and the base has given two options, both of which are small nuclear engines with a thrust of 1 to 5 tons, but with enhanced power generation capacity and stability, and can continue to operate for 40 or 60 years. The quotations are respectively 2.8 billion and US$3.8 billion.

These plans were forwarded through the Beijing Branch. Although the 15th and 16th committees leading the matter did not give a clear answer, they stated that they had begun to form a team to prepare to discuss detailed price issues, indicating that there should be hope.

Domestic people are quite optimistic about this project. Anyway, scientific research organizations all over the world are pooling money together. If you can make it yourself, it won't be much, so you should maintain an encouraging attitude.

But Lin Ju's attitude towards deep space exploration is completely different now. Before, it was still dispensable, but now it must be launched as soon as possible.

Humanity has very little detection information about Titan. Although several deep space probes such as "Pioneer 6" and "Cassini" have passed by one after another, the detection capabilities of those old antiques are very limited, and only the detection capabilities of Titan have been obtained. Six most basic external conditions.

So far, people only know that Titan's gravity is similar to that of the moon, and it has a thick atmosphere that is 1.5 times that of the Earth and filled with more than 99.84% nitrogen. There are very few details about the geographical environment on the surface.

Manned landing is not just a matter of sending people over recklessly. It requires at least several unmanned missions to obtain sufficient information before planning a landing operation.

Of course, what’s more troublesome is the reason. Landing on Mars is reasonable, but why would it be troublesome to land on Titan, which is an order of magnitude more difficult? Generally speaking, the environment there is not as good as Mars.

Eight years, the real time left for him is only six years at most. Six years to land on the satellite of Saturn, and also to carry out a mission to Mars. The plan is bound to be arranged very quickly.

…

Class B base.

When the C810 landed on the runway, all the senior executives who could arrive were already waiting on the apron. They all knew what it meant for their boss to come back.

However, Ye Changsi already had a bad premonition. He already knew that Lin Ju suddenly fainted and the base would organize regular physical examinations, which could only indicate the influence of external factors.

But the login mission in December should be to give out rewards, shouldn’t it...

This strong doubt was completely confirmed when Lin Ju got off the plane. In the safest place, the latter did not hide the solemn look on his face at all.

"What, a space elevator?"

Unexpectedly, what everyone heard after sitting down in the conference room was good news. Lin Ju printed out the explanatory information on "Chi Ren", which immediately aroused great excitement among most people.

This is a material that the system has clearly informed can be used as the basis of a space elevator, and it has high-temperature superconducting properties, so it can almost directly be used as the main body of a space elevator.

Once the space elevator is built, it will definitely bring about truly disruptive changes. It will sweep all chemical rockets and aerospace planes into the garbage heap in an instant. It is impossible to imagine the drastic changes it will bring.

And although "Chiren" clearly requires a breakthrough in gravity technology, the synchronous communication plan also requires microscopic gravity technology, which happens to save research resources. Counting the large amount of technical data brought by the former, the future path suddenly becomes Be clear.

Not to mention the huge potential of other potential uses of "Chiren", which can be called a landmark innovation in the field of materials science, and the prospects are simply unimaginable.

Most people were so shocked by this joy that they forgot about Lin Ju's solemn look just now. Only Ye Changsi was shocked, but he still suppressed his caution and asked Lin Ju.

The latter did not answer, but just signaled the carnival executives to quiet down, and then spoke calmly:

“We got two new missions, the first one: landing on Mars;”

Everyone nodded as expected, this is not a problem for now, the extreme state can even be completed within 12 months.

"The second mission - we are going to land on Saturn's sixth moon to search for possible surviving aliens. The period is 96 months."

"..."

The sealed underground conference room suddenly fell silent, and the good sound insulation created absolute silence.

The shock of this news was no less than that of an atomic bomb, silencing all voices.

Some people wanted to speak but stopped, and they all communicated with extremely shocked eyes.

Ye Changsi also felt that his mind was blank. Although he had foreseen the possibility of extraterrestrial civilization, he still underestimated the destructive power of this information.

After being stunned for a while, he finally broke the silence:

"Titan...is it related to the one on Mars?"

"I have no idea."

Lin Ju shook his head. Although the influx of two different alien civilizations into a small solar system at once should be ridiculous, but the system did not tell him and he could not make a judgment. The fact that there were aliens was enough to subvert his previous world view.

"So we have to go to Mars and Saturn. The time left for us is only 8 years. Even if we rush there at the fastest speed, it will still take one or two years. Time is tighter than we imagined."

Compared to Plane Zero, which is so mysterious that it only has one coordinate, the Titan mission, which almost directly states that there are aliens, is simply creepy.

Of course, these scientists and engineers at the base do not think that the life above is just some small bugs, they are definitely intelligent individuals.

And based on the radio environment in the solar system and hundreds of years of modern astronomical observation history, at least 90% of the aliens on Titan are likely to be outsiders.

So a civilization that can travel across light years to the solar system...even if its current state may be very bad, it cannot be taken lightly. Before the emergence of the mass-energy equation in 1905, no one believed that a bomb could destroy a city.

Similarly, even from the perspective of human science, there are several ways to easily destroy the earth and even the solar system. Who knows what terrible last resort alien civilization has.

There is also Plain Zero with unknown consequences. Putting the two unknowns together makes everyone feel troubled.

Lin Ju watched a group of elites glare at each other and simply continued:

"We have plenty of time to study what is there and what the consequences will be. Now our most urgent task is to start doing it immediately. The Mars exploration regulations are basically fine. The main thing is to arrange the mission to Saturn, which is too far away."

As a gaseous planet in the sixth orbit of the solar system from the inside to the outside, Saturn is even farther than Jupiter. It is the farthest place besides Uranus and Neptune. The difficulty of manned landing on Titan is comparable to landing on Mars. About the same as the moon.

At the beginning, Kennedy actually wanted to land on Mars directly. Fortunately, he was persuaded by his staff, otherwise it would either be canceled or the finance would be directly ruined.

The risk of landing on Titan is not just that of flying a little longer than landing on Mars.

“First we have to launch the probe as soon as possible… There will have to be at least two, not three or four successful unmanned landings, and we don’t know anything about it.

However, the cycle of Saturn's opposition to the sun is very short, almost once a year, which is too late for us. Let me think about it... it will happen again from June to July next year. It will be no problem to launch an orbiting probe, and then launch a pathfinding lander. , first obtain the land situation and then prepare for precise landing. The space department has no problem, but it needs the nuclear engine budget, and conventional power will definitely not work. "

Xiao Gangtian was the first to respond. He had thought about these plans before, and the approximate time would be fine.

Lin Ju nodded and looked at Cheng Nankai.

"We have no problem, just use A100, it's fast enough, let me do the math..."

Cheng Nankai took out his tablet and started calculating, and came up with the answer within a few minutes:

"Regardless of cost, an A100 can be launched early enough and can be accelerated by Jupiter's gravity. If it has to carry a 10-ton payload... with a total mass of 35 tons and 20 tons of fuel, it can arrive in just 12 months.

The maximum speed will exceed the third universe speed, but this method saves time. "

"11 months, let's optimize it a little more."

Xiao Gangtian said immediately:

"Leaving one month for inspection will allow us to adjust the next launch mission in time, just within one Saturn opposition. Anyway, it is just to add a little more fuel, right?"

"Yes, that's right."

Cheng Nankai directly tapped the black glass surface in the middle of the conference table, activating the monitor to display a normal-scale star map of the solar system.

"Let's build a special flying platform like the Comet. The total mass... will be increased to 50 tons, leaving enough fuel for the thrusters to come back. It will take 8 months to come back. Once two are built, they can be used alternately.

The cost of building such a platform is around 1.6 billion, which is not too high. "

"Detectors are not cheap, but we have built enough. Even if we have five detectors, the manufacturing cost is 3 to 4 billion yuan, which is reasonable.

So the total budget... 8 billion yuan. "

Xiao Gangtian quickly summed up the expenses and threw the results to Lin Ju.

The latter looked at Ye Changsi and Serev, who were also thinking and calculating while listening.

The Mars mission has long been planned and can be implemented step by step. The intrusive Titan mission will intuitively bring about a huge financial expenditure for Nagasaki. There are already many big projects next year. How to squeeze out this money? Money is an issue.

"The Titan mission can be done together with the International Astronomical Union to earn money from them, or let them inject funds into our plan. I prefer the former, which is easier to handle.

For example, if you pay them to make engines, the remaining profits will be enough to fund the unmanned detection plan. "

Serev proposed a seemingly feasible plan, but was immediately interrupted by Ye Changsi.

"no."

"It is not easy to get money from the Astronomical Society. This money is collected by scientific research institutions and space agencies around the world. It is impossible to raise all the funds at once. Four or five years is considered fast. We don't have that much time, so we can't do this."

For a long time, the base's biggest customers were either oil guys or the space agency or the military. The latter two were always generous and willing to give money, not to mention the wealthy people in the Middle East. Ye Changsi's words made everyone wake up. IAU money is not so easy to get. .

Involving the cooperation of a large number of regional organizations, it will definitely be possible if we continue to promote it, but the cycle will definitely have twists and turns, and it is unrealistic to expect the money to arrive quickly.

The conference room fell into silence again. If the money could not be squeezed out, the only option would be to cut it from the existing plan. However, the impact of the delay on both the Mars project and the moon project would be relatively large, so the choice was difficult.

Lin Ju thought for a while and looked at Xie Miao:

“Can the biological laboratory produce results that can be monetized?”

The two remaining good things in the base are robots and biotechnology. The former is more troublesome, but the latter is promising.

"This...give us two months, and several spin-off projects will come to fruition."

Xie Miao didn't panic too much. The realization of biotechnology was already in the plan.

“There are three drugs with great potential. One is the castration product of 404 injection, which is suitable for middle-aged and elderly people to use long-term treatment courses to recuperate their bodies;

The second is a by-product. We have been trying to create a controllable tooth replacement medicine. In the process of developing its supporting medicine, we came up with an injection that can repair the gums and strongly reduce inflammation... However, this is a bit tasteless, and it may be difficult to promote it. Take your time;

The third type is stimulants, the legal ones, which are also separated from 304 injections. They can provide about 2 hours of quite energetic time. The side effect is only a continuous feeling of fatigue in the next 6 to 8 hours, but there is no change. It has many adverse symptoms, is harmless to human organs, has no drug resistance at all, is relatively cheap, and has certain uses;

However, I don’t recommend it for athletes. If you insist on testing, you can still see abnormalities. "

In fact, the biological laboratory's derivative sub-projects are far more than these three, but most of them are either clueless or have difficulties in market application. Xie Miao picked out the best three among them.