Chapter 26: The Dream of Spaceflight

A complex and huge plan has finally revealed the tip of the iceberg, and everyone is excited to participate in this plan. This time the space program can be different from the "agricultural transformation program" a few weeks ago, it is more complex, magnificent, magnificent, is the ultimate product of mankind's struggle with death, struggle with fate, its difficulty can be said to be the highest level in history!

The initial agricultural transformation program was technically speaking, there was nothing particularly difficult, it was just a matter of execution and the amount of engineering. But this time the space program is different, the volume of engineering directly up several times not to mention, there are a large number of difficult points need technical breakthroughs, what nuclear propulsion clouds, sounds exciting, but a large number of details, all need to be deduced by researchers one by one.

The U.S. government did not publish the drawings of the Orion project, everything needs to start from scratch, but this does not in any way hinder the ambition of scientists.

Ambition to ambition, ambition to ambition, the road is underfoot, there is no room for trickery. Science is rigorous and cannot be rushed or forced, and it cannot be diverted by the will of a leader.

These discussions between scientists, Oliver found himself unable to intervene, especially the top human scientists, they have reached this level, naturally have some of their own code of conduct, but also will not have any sincere attitude towards the head of government.

They sometimes look at Oliver more like a fat sheep to be slaughtered, because the scientists want to squeeze more energy and resource indicators out of him.

"Gentlemen, without the previous design drawings, is there time?" Oliver managed to interject.

"Mr. Oliver, it's 2020, do we still need to resort to technology from 70 years ago?"

Felix said nonchalantly, "We have supercomputers, we have the best researchers, a whole 30,000 of them! Over forty of them have won the Nobel Prize and over thirty have won the Fields Prize ... Mr. Oliver, would we play with our lives?"

He growled loudly as if he had received an insult to his character.

"Believe, believe ... then you guys first busy!" Concerned about not being sprayed in the face instead, Oliver ran away in the dust and turned towards another discussion group.

This is the discussion group on engineering and construction, two people are arguing loudly, all kinds of jargon, all kinds of data, a series of popping up, dazzling people.

"This circuit design of yours shouldn't be like this, if the scale expands later, won't the load be insufficient?" A middle-aged man with white hair at the temples yelled at the top of his lungs, his face red and seemingly very angry.

"What do you know? This is the latest and most intensive way, designed according to Mr. D. Doran's thesis!" The young man also roared defiantly, with the aura of a newborn calf not afraid of a tiger.

"No, I absolutely disagree with such a proposal!"

An old man and a young man were arguing, but when they saw Oliver walking by, they stopped in unison, like hungry wolves seeing fresh meat, their eyes lit up in unison.

"Captain Oliver ah, our power indicators have you considered, no steel, no cement, what to build a house ah?"

"Yes, and the problem of cables, should increase the supply, no thousands of tons of cables, the ship can not be electrified ah!"

The two stopped arguing and suddenly stood on a united front, and the young man even intentionally blocked Oliver's way, not letting him go.

"Alas, you know, about energy indicators, have to be unified planning before ..." Oliver said a word, and turned around in the dust, you block my way, I turn around can always be?

These scientists, some of them are better to talk a little, some of them are not polite at all, whatever you are a leader or something, no resources, I take what production ah?

Faced with these, Oliver can also understand, not to mention angry. These human civilization's most elite existence, will not let themselves die so easily, he settled down in turn.

The magnificent space program took a week just to discuss the preliminary outline, and this was done in an extreme hurry. Some scientists did not sleep for three days and nights, and once the meeting was over, they passed out and had to be carried back to their bedrooms.

This is only a preliminary outline ah, more and more content needs to be filled, more technical difficulties need to follow the breakthrough ...

This day, Oliver sat in the office, rubbing his head with a headache. All sorts of strange programs piled up like snowflakes all over the office, no, now it is already a paperless office ... should say, these massive files piled up his computer.

This time, the space program is all about "fast, hard and accurate". Fast - the construction cycle must be short, because people do not have much time; hard - the power must be large, the intensity must be high, the more violent about good; accurate - the accuracy must be high, space well The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you are not too far off.

A large number of design solutions have a Soviet-style peculiar sense of beauty: simple and brutal, a more than a scary.

Oliver clicked on the first one, "Preliminary ideas about bombing mines with nuclear bombs"! This is the nuclear bombing of the mine rapid mining program, and not which crazy guy came up with, the key is also justified, what anti-radiation clothing and so on are designed to look a little bit of credibility?

Oliver did not know what to say, and then clicked on the next one, "billion tons of nuclear weapons design drawings"! His eyes lit up, this thing is so fast to get out? Could it be that those scientists have the design drawings of nuclear bombs in their heads all the time?

The next proposal was even crazier, "Billion-Ton Nuclear Weapon Research Plan"!

The "Big Ivan" on Earth is claimed to have a 100 million tons level, but in fact, it is only 50 million tons of tnt equivalent, but it is also very big. Here five thousand tons, one hundred million tons does not refer to the mass of the nuclear bomb, but with the tnt explosive comparison derived.

For example, a nuclear bomb after the explosion of the energy released and 1 million tons of tnt equivalent, then it is called 1 million tons of nuclear bombs.

Oliver finally knew why the coalition government wanted to put nuclear bombs in the base, if these scientists are crazy, the earth can be destroyed in minutes.

Then look at the following, "about the possibility of using laser ignition hydrogen bomb", "large ecosphere construction program", "a new partial dimethyl hydrazine manufacturing program", "titanium aluminum alloy research", and "spider robot collection plan", there is even the creation of Iron Man armor, at first glance is not very reliable, could be which elementary school students sent up?

Oliver no longer knows what to say, facing a large number of things that look okay, he feels that his poor knowledge is simply not enough, whether it is physics, chemistry, all are not enough.

A program, how there must be tens of thousands of words, if you read a novel, not much use of the brain, five or six minutes to finish reading. But these are not novels, 20 to 30 minutes is the minimum, sometimes, his poor knowledge of physics and chemistry turned over and over again, but still can not read ...

Then what to do, do you sit here all day long to read the program? Do not have to do other things? These scientists sent the program to themselves, all for one purpose - for energy, for resources!

But what if you can't read it? It's annoying, Oliver sighed.

Luckily, he had an assistant, Yuriko, a workaholic who was unusually happy to sit in front of the computer and work for more than sixteen hours a day, transforming these programs into something he could understand.

But he couldn't rely on Yuriko, so Oliver decided that he needed to refresh his knowledge on all fronts.