When the space shuttle Ra reentered the atmosphere from low Earth orbit.
At this time, a group of management from the Land Alliance Association also entered the safe house and held a secret video conference.
The spokespersons of the four major forces, as well as Kong De, as the president, all looked bad.
"Judging from the analysis and conclusions of the technical department, this space shuttle..." Bill paused for a moment: "Okay! Let's call it a space shuttle! It is very large in size and its mass has most likely reached 20,000 to 30,000 tons.
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The four major forces all have outer space monitoring methods and have also obtained some data. Naturally, they have no doubts about the data that Bill said.
Duke, the spokesperson of the Europa Consortium, raised his glasses, his face full of solemnity:
"Judging from the appearance of the space shuttle, the weight of the spacecraft on its back is about 40 to 45% of its total weight. In other words, the load ratio of this space shuttle is 40 to 45%, which is too much.
It’s terrible.”
Very scary indeed.
Because currently the launch vehicle with the best payload ratio is the latest improved version of the Space Exploration Company's Falcon Heavy, with a maximum takeoff weight of 1,557 tons, a low-Earth orbit payload of 71 tons, and a payload ratio of 4.6%.
When comparing the two, the gap immediately appears.
The gap of nearly 10 times is simply terrifying.
After all, without the emergence of Homo Sapiens Corporation, the four major forces would never have come together to cooperate in establishing the Earth Alliance, let alone provide the Earth Alliance with more than US$200 billion in annual funding.
Anyway, we need to keep the production costs in every link as low as possible, and also improve the living standards of ordinary people, so that we can retain people.
The answer is that 95% of the 5% will fall back to being ordinary people, the 4% of the 5% can maintain a worse but relatively decent life than before, and the 1% of the 5% will continue to be their rich people.
After all, Homo sapiens has built a project similar to a space tower in the Nemanya region and operates suborbital flights every day.
In order to win over those ordinary people and prevent them from being sucked away by the Homo sapiens company, all parties are now using all their methods, basically using both soft and hard tactics, sticks and carrots.
Although it is still not as good as the super space shuttle of the Homo sapiens company, at least the gap will not be too big.
Of course, the management of Ground Alliance are very aware that the load-bearing capacity of Jeju Island’s space tower platform is limited.
Then comes the problem.
Now it's no longer possible to give them. If the deductions and searches continue, all ordinary people would rather go work for the Homo sapiens company than stay and breathe the free air of America.
If the 1,557-ton Heavy 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 payload ratio will reach 24.5%.
Adding in permanent migrant workers from Africa and Latin America, the number of employees at Homo sapiens companies is quickly approaching the 3 billion mark.
"Zhang, I remember that one of your research institutes successfully researched total nitrogen anions?" Alexander asked.
"Of course there is no problem with cooperation, but I don't see your sincerity." The man spread his hands with a smile on his face.
According to calculations, if the space tower project can succeed, the fuel consumption of launching from the regional earth to low-Earth orbit will be reduced by about 20%.
Perhaps many people think that the middle class or the small rich want ordinary people to work for Homo sapiens companies, and it is best never to go back and compete with them.
At the same time, the four major forces began to collude together. Those who had money provided money, those who had mines provided mines, those who had industry provided industry, and those who had people provided people.
Faced with the increasingly strong pressure from Homo sapiens in the aerospace field, Ground Alliance also hopes to succeed in the space tower project at this time.
When they heard about the space tower project, everyone agreed to accelerate it.
This is not only the aerospace field, but also in other fields.
Dilian does not have that much money.
In fact, the middle class and the small rich are now the most embarrassed group, and they actually really want ordinary people to stay.
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 to 700 tons of supporting facilities. The final capacity that can be used to carry the launch vehicle is only about 160 to 260 tons.
There are no farmers on the farm.
However, they also have very complicated feelings about Homo sapiens companies.
With this load-bearing capacity, there is no way to use the Heavy Falcon. Even the Chang 5B of more than 800 tons cannot go up. We can only use some small launch vehicles.
Even if a lot of obstacles are set up, there is still no way to stop this trend.
There are no workers in the factory.
After all, the labor force and consumer market of ordinary people are the cornerstone of the entire social system.
Assume that in a city with a population of 1 million, 95% are ordinary people, 4% are middle class, and 1% are rich.
Ground Alliance even regards the space tower project as one of the core means to catch up with Homo sapiens companies.
"We need to strengthen cooperation!" Bill took the opportunity to suggest.
The person from the fourth force also spoke: "Logically speaking, ordinary fuel cannot reach this load ratio at all, but our detection satellite did not detect the gamma rays produced by nuclear explosions. What kind of fuel did they use?
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There are no migrant workers on the construction site.
If the project fails, it will become even more difficult for the local government to run out of funds.
It’s not that the Ground Alliance doesn’t want to do it, but as an experimental project, the first-generation prototype system will definitely not directly build a very large space tower.
The Homo sapiens company can casually build a large space tower platform in the Nemanya region without even batting an eye.
Without ordinary people, how can you maintain a high-quality and decent life?
There are no waiters in the restaurant.
If you look at the projects you undertake, you have to be careful with your budget, and you have to make compromises and wrangling internally.
The man shook his head: "It was successful, but the stability is very poor. There is currently no way to passivate it, and the production process is only at the laboratory level and has not yet reached industrial standards."
Ordinary people are the cornerstone of the existence of the middle class and the rich.
But the four major forces must achieve high welfare within themselves, otherwise they will have no way to compete with the Homo sapiens company.
The tax on the rich in North America has been raised to the extreme. Big families such as Morgan, Rockefeller, Mellon, and DuPont are gritting their teeth and giving some meat to ordinary people.
At this moment, the management of Terrestrial Alliance was extremely envious, jealous and hateful towards the space division of Homo sapiens.
When 95% of ordinary people disappear from this city, can the remaining 5% still maintain their previous decent life?
"There are currently only two types of fuels that have an energy density that is more than 10 times higher than current ordinary fuels." Duke glanced at everyone: "One is total nitrogen anion, and the other is metallic hydrogen."
You must know that in the second half of the first year of the Galaxy, the number of permanent migrant families working for Homo sapiens companies in Asia exceeded 47.36 million, with a population of more than 173 million people.
The existence of the Homo sapiens company has indeed brought a huge impact to the entire earth.
This is not just a matter for the North American and Europa Commonwealth.
If the gap was 2 to 3 times, then they would not be so fearful and powerless, but with a gap of almost 10 times, it is really difficult to compete and catch up.
Kongde hurriedly came out to smooth things over: "Cooperation! We must communicate with each other. I heard that a 500-meter-high airbag has been built in the recent space tower project in Jeju Island. The progress of this project must be accelerated!"
There are no ordinary customers in the market.
Not changing? The population will be sucked dry by the Homo sapiens company, and it will destroy itself without a fight.
Therefore, the four major forces have reached a situation where they have to change.
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