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Chapter 363: Chasing the Opportunity

The launch preparations for the Daxue Mountain Base will be completed soon.

Now, except for the maintenance on weekends and holidays, the [Earth Cannon] can maintain a launch frequency of 10 times a day, and nearly 100 tons of materials are transported to the sky each time, which has become a very stable ground-to-air logistics transportation system.

Such powerful space transportation capabilities have made experts and scholars all over the world full of jealousy and envy. Now, only bald eagles and rabbits still have hope of chasing, other countries, including the foot-basin chicken, the feather bear and the Europa, cannot create such powerful electromagnetic rail cannons like the [Earth Cannon].

It is said that the Bald Eagle's super electromagnetic rail gun has begun to be built. They plan to build an electromagnetic rail launch base in the southwest of the Nevada Mountains, mainly in the cliff terrain somewhere on the eastern slope of the Cordillera Mountain. Since it is a granite landform, it can easily withstand the huge recoil force generated during launch, which is much less difficult than the construction of the Daxue Mountain Base.

When talking about this, Li Maoye asked Academician Ma beside him: "But I heard that their construction period has been delayed and they have been working for more than five years but have not completed the first phase of the project yet?"

"I heard that their first phase of the project was going to be tested, but the stairs only sounded and no one came down!"

Academician Ma said that the other party was just a younger brother. If you want to compete with rabbits for infrastructure, you may have to hire bald eagle workers from the 1940s and 1950s to take action, but those people probably turned into bones and lying in the cemetery long ago!

There is no way, the workers in the Rabbit family are too powerful. The first phase of the [Earth Cannon] project was completed in just over a year, and the first test was run and the "Starlink" satellite was launched perfectly, which made Musk win another bet.

Relying on the transportation capabilities of the [Earth Cannon], SpaceX quickly built the Starlink system and quickly operated and used it for global users, causing the company's stock price to rise a lot.

Speaking of the Starlink system, after it was taken over by Meow Star Group, the original satellites have been basically replaced and replaced with communication satellites developed by Rabbit on their own. Not only does it install the Starlink engine and have the ability to change the orbit, but its service life is much longer than that of the Starlink satellite.

The mining work of the lunar base requires largely to rely on the Starlink system for communication, otherwise the signal delay of remote mining will be so high that it is unbearable. If a failure occurs, it may lose communication with the lunar base.

With the support of Starlink system, Blue Star surface 5G communication has almost no delay, and the popularity of Snake Eye VR equipment has made working from home and remote work a trend of the times in recent years.

At noon on the day of the cannon launch, Li Maoye watched the process at the launch command center of the Daxue Mountain Base. [Earth Cannon] was very different from six or seven years ago. Academician Ma wrapped a layer of sound insulation outside the electromagnetic track, which looked like a giant white pipe pressing on the Daxue Mountain from afar.

However, the sound insulation layer is very good. When the cannon is fired, the sound of the orbital cannon running is almost no longer heard in the command center of the base. Instead, when the electromagnetic rocket cabin shoots out of the muzzle, a loud roar is heard, and then it disappears into the sky at a speed that humans can hardly see clearly with their naked eyes.

Li Maoye learned through the monitoring data on the screen that this launch had no problems as usual. Judging from the image sent back by the camera in the electromagnetic rocket cabin, it will soon enter low-altitude orbit, and then ignite the starry sky engine to fly to the Lingxiao Palace Space Station.

When the electromagnetic rocket pole reaches its destination, it will dock in the designated area of ​​the space station, and then wait for the staff to clear the cargo inside, and then start the automatic return program and return to the ground.

"Well, there is no need to throw the cargo out now!" Li Maoye said that this approach is much better than before. A few years ago, the electromagnetic rocket cabin needed to be unloaded through projectiles. Now, after the space station is built, there is a better way to solve the problem.

Everything is going on very normal. After all, this system has been in operation for so many years and has sent multiple space stations and Guanghan Palace Moon Base to space. In addition to Rabbit's own space station, the Daxueshan Base will also conduct external orders and often help other countries or companies organize launches and delivery.

Even the squat chicken, feather bear and Europa have transported supplies to space through the [Earth Cannon]. It’s not that they can’t do these things, just because the [Earth Cannon] delivers goods more cost-effective and safe and fast, and can transport hundreds of tons of supplies to the sky with one launch, and there is no other special reason.

Rabbit announced the expansion plan of the Lingxiao Palace Space Station in a very high-profile manner, and in addition to the base of the Moon Guanghan Palace, it also plans to build a new Jade Rabbit City, which is intended to be used for lunar travel services.

Unlike the low-key approaches in previous years, in recent years, especially since the asteroid incident, the flower planters have not been hiding anything they do, but have put everything on the table with confidence, which really makes Western countries feel a little uncomfortable.

The expansion of the space station is carried out simultaneously with the planning of Yuetu City, but the focus is different. The Lingxiao Baodian Space Station is mainly preparing for the needs of scientific and technological research and development. Even though the space station staff has not been fully supplemented, most workers can work remotely through stand-alone robots, so relatively speaking, the above work facilities are seriously insufficient.

During this expansion period, several groups of astronauts will board this synchronous orbit space station for research. At that time, they will need to hoard materials in this space station to prepare for the subsequent surge in personnel. It can be said that this is an era of aerospace development.

For rabbits in the flower planting family, this is a new feeling that has never been seen before, and it can make people feel full of passion and motivation.

However, for bald eagles and bears, we have seen this kind of situation where the people of the whole country look up at the sky, but that was the memory of the 1950s and 1960s. It seemed that all humans were full of curiosity and passion for exploration in space, and there was also the enthusiasm of the two camps to compete for the first place.

Now it is all part of the past history. Now the rabbits on the Blue Star are rushing towards the starry sky, and only the bald eagle can barely catch up. Others, such as the squat chicken, the feather bear and the Europa, have completely fallen behind. They can only watch the rabbits achieve success in outer space with envy and jealousy.

Even fake news media such as John Bull's BBC and Bald Eagle's CNN have to report on their duties faithfully. Although the words and sentences still smell sour, it finally confirmed that the rabbit has made an indelible contribution to humans' immigration to outer space.

At the same time, they also called on Rabbit to develop space stations and even lunar bases for other countries so that scientists of all mankind can also conduct outer space research and realize the beautiful vision of joint development and common progress.

"They want to eat nothing!" Li Maoye scoffed at this.

Even if the Huahua government does not openly oppose such a proposal, the Meow Star Group will not be dizzy after being praised by others, and then give up its own scientific research quota to other countries. At least it must first meet domestic needs and only allow other countries to join after having a free place.

However, Rabbit's family is short of everything, but there is no shortage of talents from all aspects. According to the principle of "rabbit priority", letting their own people go first, I am afraid that in another ten years, the huge demand gap will not be able to meet!

The Lingxiao Palace Space Station seems to be large, and now it can accommodate more than 100 people for research at the same time. It will increase to several hundred people in a few years, but in fact, this number of personnel is not enough to stuff the rabbit's teeth.

Not to mention anything else, at least even Li Maoye has not been there once, let alone free up the precious quota and allow scientific researchers from other countries to go up.

In fact, Li Maoye insists on going to the space station or the lunar base, and he can still find a way to go up, but he doesn't want to ride a liquid rocket, a means of transportation with low safety and poor experience.

"When the queen bee intelligent network is built, you can use queen bee's quantum computer to build a curvature engine. It will be much easier to go to heaven at that time!" After Li Maoye made up his mind, he no longer had to worry about when he would arrive at the moon base.

Although the development of space technology is relatively sunny, rabbits have actually invested a lot of manpower and material resources in every aspect of basic technology.

The reason is very simple. Rabbit’s view on “being beaten if you fall behind” is deeply rooted in the bones. Now that the people of the country are becoming rich, they dare not slacken at all, and strive to rank first in the world in all fields.

For rabbits, there are only two countries in the world, one is a flower planter and the other is a foreign country.

Therefore, once a certain data is not the first, the rabbit in the flower planter will restless and think that the country will be out of power in the long run.

Only when the population lost its first place, the rabbits said there was no problem, and most rabbits were happy to see the white elephant becoming the world's largest population country.

"But I think this view is dangerous!" Li Maoye said in public many times: "Our concept of population impact needs to be changed urgently. When Blue Star enters the interstellar era, countries will need a large number of high-quality populations to compete!"

At the same time, he also plans to propose relevant proposals at this National People's Congress, calling on the government to introduce policies to encourage high-quality populations to have children. Only in this way can he firmly occupy a leading position in the interstellar era.

Otherwise, according to his deduction, the only way for bald eagles or other countries to overtake rabbits is to create advantages by creating a large population. If the problems caused by population increase can be suppressed, there will definitely be a chance to find a breakthrough in the interstellar era.

However, it seems that governments around the world have not realized this. Even countries like Europa that are constantly introducing refugees have not woken up. They will only treat headaches. The increase in the number of immigrants or refugees who do not understand will not improve national strength, but will instead put the country in a turbulent situation.
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