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

"my country's GDP has exceeded 90 trillion yuan for the first time, and the proportion of high-tech industry output value has increased rapidly."

On April 11, the National Bureau of Statistics finally released last year’s economic data report.

This was originally supposed to be released at the end of February or early March, but due to the confusion in the timing of various major plans last year, the Bureau of Statistics took an extra month to sort it out.

Lin Ju flipped through the emails pushed by the internal reference website. The data was consistent with the outside world, but some analyzes were more detailed and comprehensive.

The GDP in 2017 reached 92.3 trillion yuan, approximately 12.4 trillion U.S. dollars, with an average per capita of 65,500 yuan, an increase of over 16%.

For comparison, Aramco's data also broke through a new high and reached an astonishing US$21.8 trillion, an increase of 11% compared with last year's US$19.6 trillion.

Judging from the data, the two super economies are developing rapidly in almost parallel, but this year's exchange rate has almost no change compared with last year, and is still stable at 6.7, which means that the purchasing power has relatively little fluctuation.

Obviously, the two super economies are injecting more vitality into the world economy, one is openly releasing water, and the other is secretly opening the floodgates.

Lin Ju doesn’t remember the specific figures of the original world line, but he has an impression of Aramco’s GDP exceeding 20 trillion US dollars and China’s exceeding 100 trillion yuan. The former should be in 2018, and the latter should be around 2020.

The impact of the space race was clearly huge and had predictably ostensibly positive effects.

In particular, the GDP growth rate both exceeded 10%, which was a grand event that only occurred 10 years ago.

However, according to the suggestions of several experts in the internal reference article, they hope to slow down various large-scale projects in the next few years to prevent the economy from overheating. It is stated that there are certain risks in the current prosperity, and the recommendation is still to focus on stability.

Lin Ju didn't know whether the higher-ups would adopt these opinions, but at present, it seemed that various space programs had no plans to reduce their budgets. Zhong Cheng, the space director, was very wealthy and was still supporting new projects everywhere.

"Tuk Tuk"

There was a knock on the half-open door. Zhong Cheng opened the door directly and sat on the sofa. He took a sip of tea to moisten his throat and said:

"We lost one humanoid, 14 burned."

"??"

"Just half an hour ago, the battery of 14 exploded while charging outside the residence module. The main body has been damaged. The astronauts are dealing with the wreckage urgently. No other losses or casualties were caused."

"How could a nickel-metal hydride battery...oh, it's possible."

Lin Ju's first thought was that the detection robots designed by Xinyuan generally use nickel-metal hydride batteries, which are very stable, but he immediately realized that there was something different.

14 was an emergency modification of the early No. 2 robot. It uses high-performance lithium batteries, which will inevitably produce lithium dendrites over time. If the lithium dendrites continue to grow, they will pierce the battery pack separator and cause a fire and explosion.

The spontaneous combustion and explosion of lithium batteries does not require additional oxygen. It contains its own oxidant, so it cannot be prevented at all.

Although the electronic control system of the Warrior 2 series is very complete, it is designed for the earth after all. If it is used in space in a hurry, it will really lead to loss of control.

14 is not expensive compared to other spacecraft, but it is still regrettable to lose such a time-tested assistant.

"Then why don't we stop using the other three units? Although they have all been replaced with nickel-metal hydride batteries, we still need to check the design problems."

"I think so too. Fortunately, 14 didn't enter the living cabin to recharge, otherwise..."

Zhong Cheng put down his tea cup and couldn't help but be afraid of the scene he imagined.

Even though these robots with dirty surfaces are generally not allowed to enter the habitation module, the Aerospace Development Commission has astronauts to manually repair and upgrade the robots. If something goes wrong, it will be a real heavy loss.

"I immediately asked people to re-examine the design risks. The next batch of humanoid robots sent up must be more specialized in design, especially those that need to enter the living cabin in the future.

Also, although this matter cannot be made public, all informed teams must be more vigilant, and it is not okay to be too improvident in aerospace,”

"We'll talk about this later, and we can't delay our normal work."

Logically speaking, this is already a major accident, but Zhong Cheng does not intend to disrupt the normal deployment. At worst, he will temporarily hide all the robots in the cave to hibernate. There is no time for internal investigation at this juncture.

"The main reason I'm looking for you is another matter. Shuguang 4 will be launched in two weeks. The country proposes to combine the Guanghan Palace base and the Yushu base, or the Huayin organization participates in the United Mining's lunar construction plan. The other parties All very much in favor.”

"Of course this won't work!"

Lin Ju refused without thinking. The confidentiality level of Yushu No. 1 Base was much higher, and there was a large amount of confidential equipment. How could it be leaked so easily?

"The Aviation Development Commission will not agree, but the main reason is that we have encountered a problem. The Guanghan Palace Base and the Yushu Base are too close, and there will be some trouble later."

After the discovery of surface ice in the Qom impact crater, intensive exploration was carried out in a large area around it. Although it was proved that the ice content was far higher than expected, in the short term, it was still a little bit inside and around the impact crater that could be easily mined.

Coupled with the terrain, there are not many places around the Qom impact crater that can be chosen as bases.

The distance between Aramco’s Columbus Camp, Guanghan Palace Base, and Yushu Base is less than 10 kilometers, which is just ten minutes away from the lunar rover.

This will inevitably lead to leaks. Every move can be clearly seen by each other, which is very detrimental in the long run.

It's okay that each base is in the early stages of construction, but NACA has made up its mind to launch the "Centaur" project to land on the moon once every two months. I heard that another SL-X has been assembled and shipped from the factory, and the Dawn Project is also advancing rapidly, with at most one It will be very troublesome in two years.

Lin Ju thought hard and found that force protection was a taboo and could not be implemented, and direct expulsion was easy to be targeted, especially since the moon was unobstructed and impossible to prevent.

Direct division of territory can be avoided to a certain extent, but the international community certainly does not allow verbal horse racing to enclose territory... Wait, enclosure?

"Director Zhong, have you ever thought about us building a wall to surround the entire base, no, all the places we want, so that we can prevent illegal migration... illegal peeping.

The construction of John's Mexico wall has already begun. I think we can also use space cement or ice or steel to cast a large circle of walls. How about using lasers to smelt dangers and prevent laser scattering?

15 meters, 15 meters high should be enough, right? "

Director Zhong's eyes widened. He felt that these words were inexplicably familiar, as if he had heard them before somewhere.

…

Central Guizhou, Liupanshui.

Lu Qun cut the red ribbon amidst the sound of cameras clicking, and announced to the camera with a glowing face:

"I announce that China's first high-precision laser gravitational wave observatory is officially put into use!"

There was a large group of members of the Astronomical Society around, and they were also overjoyed and applauded vigorously.

Except for the crude and simple laser interferometer on "Lihuo", the long building they are now in houses the first large-scale laser interference gravitational wave observatory in China.

Compared with Aramco's LIGO, its sensitivity is much worse and its scale is much smaller. However, this is a ground test prototype used by Luqun as a technical verification after receiving Xinyuan Technology and financial support. The main purpose is to verify " The design ideas of Tianqin project.

The accuracy is not high but it is sufficient, and it basically meets the design requirements. It is considered a "zero" breakthrough in this field in China. Anyway, the Astronomical Society is very happy.

The "Tianqin" project consisting of space-based satellites will still take a long time, and these blank periods are just a good time to accumulate experience.

An Maowei, the president of the Beijing Astronomical Society, clapped his hands vigorously and said with congratulations but a little regret:

"Liupanshui Observatory can only be used as a teaching aid for the time being, and we don't know when we will detect gravitational waves again. This opportunity is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

Lu Qun: "The reaction that can cause it is either the collision of a super black hole, similar to the big one in the center of the Milky Way, or it is very close to us."

An Maowei: "Those who study gravitational waves finally have something useful... They wish they could detect them every day."

Lu Qun smiled. In his opinion, the Liupanshui observatory was just a transitional one with almost no practical significance. It was purely a joint production. If the domestic astronomical society did not send people to use it, he would not invest much energy in it.

However, machines are different from people. As long as it is powered on, the Liupanshui Gravitational Wave Observatory will faithfully listen to the oscillations from space and time without slacking off.