Homo sapiens.

The space shuttle enters the runway.

This is a slanted runway with a slightly upward angle, and the direction of the runway is east by south, which is to take advantage of the angular velocity of the earth.

In addition, there are 6 guide rails on the runway. These guide rails are maglev super-heavy guide rails and also electromagnetic catapults. The purpose is to keep the space shuttle from contacting the ground and reduce the friction caused by contact with the ground.

"Space Shuttle reaches electromagnetic acceleration region."

"Maglev system activated..."

"Electromagnetic acceleration push plate connected to space shuttle..."

The space shuttle La, which was less than one centimeter up, floated up slightly, and the six specially designed electromagnetic acceleration thrusters at the back had been stuck on the landing gear of the space shuttle.

"The electromagnetic acceleration system is activated..."

The huge nuclear power of the base is quickly injected into the electromagnetic accelerator.

Driven by 6 ultra-large electromagnetic accelerators and in a state of magnetic levitation, the space shuttle Ra soon sped up on the runway.

This 12-kilometer-long electromagnetic acceleration guideway will increase the take-off speed of the space shuttle to about 1.5 kilometers per second, which is about 4 times the speed of sound.

And on the wings of the space shuttle, a large number of micro-wings have also begun to be fine-tuned in order to make full use of the air lift.

Although it is not as abnormal as the Phoenix Airliner and the Jinpeng transport aircraft, it can increase the lift by at least 11% to 13%.

The 12-kilometer rail is neither long nor short.

For the faster and faster space shuttle, it soon reached the end.

The space shuttle soars into the sky from a 33-degree slope.

At the moment of exiting the ramp, the shuttle's autopilot system ejected the first burst of metallohydrogen particles.

The explosion chamber has been heated to hundreds of degrees Celsius.

When submetallic hydrogen and liquid oxygen are injected, a chain reaction is triggered instantly.

boom!

In an instant, energy equivalent to 260 tons of TNT was released.

This explosion is not the end, however, but the beginning.

Boom boom boom...

A steady stream of submetallic hydrogen particles and liquid oxygen were injected into the four detonation engines.

The terrifying explosion shock wave made the space shuttle faster and faster, coupled with the adjustment of the lift direction of the wings, the space shuttle began to rush towards the Karman line at an angle of 48 degrees.

It took about 57 seconds for the space shuttle Ra to break through the Karman line.

This giant weighing more than 2 tons rushed out of the Karman line under the gaze of the whole world.

The space shuttle Ra did not separate from the space shuttle Solar on its back at this time, but continued to carry the space shuttle Solar.

It was not until the Homo sapiens space station reached the 1500-kilometer orbit that it was separated from the space shuttle Lieyang, and then the space shuttle La turned around and returned to Earth.

That's the scary thing about the super shuttle.

To be precise, submetallic hydrogen.

Without submetallic hydrogen as fuel, such a huge load cannot be pushed into outer space, let alone return to Earth by itself.

At this time, there are about 27.3% of the fuel left on the La, which is enough for it to slow down and brake by itself when it re-enters the atmosphere.

However, for this launch mission, the Space Business Department also arranged an additional space mission for the space shuttle Ra.

That is to go to the No. 3 space junk station in low-Earth orbit, and bring a batch of scrapped satellites and previously collected space junk back to Earth.

These obsolete satellites belong to Homo sapiens itself, as well as to forces such as Lucia, America, and the Europa Consortium.

For example, some of the hundreds of obsolete communication satellites of the Space Exploration Corporation were collected in one area by space recovery satellites, and then compressed into cubes.

Now the Ra space shuttle will bring these things back to Earth.

Although it is a scrapped satellite, there are many rare metals and radioactive substances inside, which must be properly disposed of.

Soon the space shuttle Ra arrived at Space Junk Station 3.

With the help of that large space junk recovery satellite, dozens of tons of space junk were stuffed into the built-in transport cabin, and fixed and counterweighted.

Then the space shuttle Ra started the engine again from a position of 420 kilometers in low-Earth orbit.

But this time when starting the engine, it is only a slight acceleration, and it does not need to be too fast. After all, this is re-entry into the atmosphere, and the earth's gravity and gravitational force will help accelerate.

4 Chapter Ninety

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 launch vehicle 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 from regional Earth launches 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, 5% of the 4% can maintain a poorer but relatively decent life than before, and 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.

Chapter 491 A Strong Drug

Red River Delta Plain.

In this densely populated area, there were 2300 million people living here at its peak, and only about 1247 million people remained at this time.

The real estate in the local area has completely collapsed. It used to take 30 to [-] years to buy a pigeon cage, but now no one cares about it even at a [-]% discount.

The situation of the Red River delta plain is also repeated in several other delta plains in Asia.

Population plummeted, real estate collapsed, and the consumer market kept shrinking.

After losing the support of a large number of ordinary people, the urban middle class quickly fell into the ranks of a wave of bankruptcy, which accelerated the number of people who went to Homo sapiens to work, and then triggered a vicious circle.

In order to keep the population, the old men had to cut their flesh.

The first year of Xinghe, October 12th.