Chapter 377: Before Returning To Earth
Everything went as smoothly as expected.
Before the test, similar scenarios were also simulated in the Earth laboratory for testing, and the tests went very smoothly as well, which led to sending the demo to the Moon.
At the beginning, only two kinds of people went all in: ruthless gamblers and reborn ones who had opened their heavenly eye.
Lin Ran has a cheat, but it’s not a cheat to the future, it’s a cheat to the past. This cheat isn’t enough to give him 100% confidence that the technology development path he proposed is definitely feasible.
But now, it has at least proven that this path is theoretically feasible.
So, for Lin Ran, theoretically feasible means practically feasible.
Under his personal operation, advancing along this technology path has two most important advantages: one is efficiency, which Lin Ran brings, and the other is the upper limit, which comes from the inherent properties of low-temperature superconducting material itself.
China’s superconducting chip path officially started at this moment.
In the future, it will continuously receive resource tilt.
From the perspective of Earth audience, they saw Lei Jun clapping to congratulate:
“Why do I feel something’s off? Lei Zi celebrating Huawei chip demo test successfully completed?”
“It’s fine, what’s so strange about it? Doesn’t Lei Zong always say to pay tribute to competitors?”
“Anyway, this is indeed a moment worth the whole nation celebrating!”
“Superconducting chip proven feasible, I’m already looking forward to the mobile phone equipped with superconducting chip being released on Earth.”
“Then don’t dream about it, superconductivity is also superconductivity on the Moon, not on Earth.”
The audience’s discussions in the live broadcast room were very heated, at such a historic moment.
The content from the first two days was very rich, but the later content seemed a bit boring.
In the gray-white Moon environment, continuously laying 3D-printed components on the surface according to laser markings.
Lin Ran is doing this work, Lei Jun is also doing it, giving quite a feeling of railway workers, except they’re not laying train tracks, but electromagnetic launch rail.
Due to low gravity and spacesuits, the progress was extremely slow.
“Professor, I don’t understand, why do real people have to do this? Can’t it be handed over to robots like laying solar panels?” Lei Jun asked.
The short video clip of robots laying solar panels on the Moon went viral on TikTok and Douyin, considered a paradigm of videos that look like AI-generated but are actually filmed in the real world.
Of course Lei Jun had seen it.
Lin Ran pointed at Wei Xuhang and said: “That one started with real people laying too. After real people laid it and got enough video, then Earth had enough training materials.”
Wei Xuhang said: “Yes, we started just like this. We joked that we were the black slaves of the new century, inserting solar panels on the Moon was like planting cotton.”
Such words are quite politically incorrect, what does “new century black slaves” imply?
Anyway, the subsequent long live broadcast was facing the desolate Moon environment, then continuously repeating the laying of electromagnetic rail modules.
During this process, there was dialogue, dialogue between Lin Ran and Lei Jun, still with many highlights, but compared to the freshness of the first day, it was much weaker.
Moreover, at this time, an explosive enough news broke simultaneously on Earth, and this event quickly attracted global gaze.
That was big T encountering assassination during his own campaign speech.
Lin Ran and the others at the Moon base saw the picture news through the network.
Lin Ran momentarily thought he had seen wrong—no, this assassination and rolling how is it so similar to mine?
Lei Jun said: “It’s over, with this assassination survival from great peril, I feel big T’s chance of being elected has exceeded 80%, which is not good news for us.”
Lin Ran asked curiously: “Why is it not good news?”
Lei Jun said: “My personal feeling, just a feeling.”
Considering it’s a live broadcast, Lei Jun was still very restrained, unwilling to talk about his real thoughts.
Lin Ran said wistfully: “I thought assassinating the America president was an ancient tradition, already buried in the long river of history, but unexpectedly it can be reenacted now.”
He thought after returning to Earth, download the high-definition video to appreciate it properly, see how similar it is to his own Randolph rolling.
New hotspot appeared, old hotspot quickly covered.
The live broadcast room still had many people, still lots of discussion, but the heat of this Moon landing globally was rapidly declining.
“Lei Zong went to the Moon to be an ox and horse, Lei Zong probably thinks, when I was selling Xiaomi mobile phones I said I went to the factory to screw screws, shot short videos of wearing dust-free caps holding screwdrivers, those were all posed, now I actually ran to space to be your ox and horse laying bricks, and still spending huge sums at my own expense to be an ox and horse.”
“Ran Shen seems too friendly to Lei Zi, knowing you came to the Moon for marketing, okay, I’ll arrange activities for you to do work, so you always have material, always have heat.
If staying in the base resting every day, then occasionally running to desolate moon soil to see scenery, I dare say the heat definitely wouldn’t be as high as now.
Although the body is very tired, but heat explosion okay? How many more cars did Xiaomi sell this month? Stock price soared how much? Lei Zong has already made a fortune.”
There are many automaker self-media bloggers on Douyin also analyzing this matter:
“How to evaluate this Lei Zong Moon landing, and whether founders of other car companies in the future car circle will follow suit?
My personal view is everyone is very envious of this wave of traffic, and very envious of the promotional effect and breakthrough effect brought by this Lei Zong and Ran Shen Moon landing. When I chatted with other automakers executives, they were all extremely extremely envious. I can’t say how much money Xiaomi spent on this marketing specifically, but it’s definitely an astronomical figure, not reaching hundreds of billions but close enough.
But they all agree that this is definitely worth it, extremely extremely worth it for automakers. Your brand image and founder image gained unprecedented promotion in this round of Moon landing, from Shanghai, Yanjing, New York, Paris these first-tier cities domestic and abroad, to third- and fourth-tier cities in China and Americans’ big rural areas, these places all have an impression of the Xiaomi brand.
Including some investment institutions didn’t they make research reports showing Xiaomi’s search volume on Google significantly increased this month, and sales curve in Europe had a slight uptick?
These are immediate effects, long-term effects will slowly emerge in the future, they think it’s very profitable, and I think so too.
At least the money spent has an effect.
In the past year, we’ve seen many brands, many automakers, their money spent with no effect at all, placing advertisements in airports, high-end magazines, traditional television stations, but unable to stop sales volume decline.
If spending money could produce an effect, then traditional joint-venture automakers wouldn’t have been this miserable over the past year or so; they don’t lack money.
So I think it’s great.
But if it were someone else, even someone like President Yu of AITO who already has a strong internet sense, the effect would still have a big question mark; let alone other founders who can’t even manage self-media.
Everyone can run through possible company founders in their minds: is the effect not as good as Lei Jun’s for each one?
The only one I can think of who might have a better effect than Lei Jun, do you know who it is?
Bullet screen with all sorts of names, from Jack Ma, Pony Ma, Robin to Zhou Hongyi, Li Bin, Ideal, etc., car anchors reading them one by one, then shaking their heads after: None of them, you didn’t say the name in my heart.
Musk could, if it were Musk it would definitely have an effect, but he’s a foreigner and can’t come; domestically, it’s Zhang Chaoyang.
If Zhang Chaoyang went, there might be an even better effect; after all, he’s a physics PhD from MIT, and he’s been lecturing recently, possibly creating academic resonance with Ran Shen. Though Ran Shen talks about professional content that he definitely doesn’t understand, they could communicate more in sync.
He could become a bridge, letting everyone better understand the significance of this moon base test.
And that his effect would be better is just a guess, my personal guess.
On Reddit, Americans have already sparked a wave of reflection.
“Our super tycoons’ space trips VS Chinese tycoons’ space trips”
Then paired with two pictures: the former lying in the International Space Station looking out the porthole, the latter bending over to lay moon bricks on the moon’s barren land.
Actually that’s not called moon bricks; it just looks like bricks, it’s not actually bricks, but everyone likes calling it that.
“This is why we’ve been gradually pulled apart by China over the past nearly twenty years: their tycoons pursue productivity, manufacturing products, creating value, even changing the world, while our tycoons only think about numbers, addicted to the wealth game, every rise in paper numbers.”
“We’ve always done easy things with huge revenue; China does whatever has revenue, that’s the difference between us, and the reason for the current situation.
That’s also why even though General Aerospace buys aerospace technology from China, I still choose to support them: they’re starting to try difficult things, which is clearly a good start; we’ve finally begun.
Just like what we did to Germany and England in the past: using others’ technology isn’t shameful; the key is we need to restore manufacturing, no matter what means we take.”
“China has been progressing; we landed on the moon sixty years ago, sixty years ago I watched Americans land on the moon at home, back then I thought sixty years later humanity would build cities on the moon.
Sixty years later today, humanity has indeed built cities on the moon, but it’s not America, it’s China; China had nothing sixty years ago, but now they have everything.”
Another Reddit post isn’t comparing American and Chinese tycoons; posted by a European, it picks an even more interesting angle:
“We’ve gotten used to Europe lagging behind in almost every modern technology industry you can think of: computers, internet, photovoltaics, semiconductors, new energy vehicles, etc. And after European companies lag, their idea is we just won’t do this industry, we have no advantage, we should exit.
In European industry news, what I see most is we’re exiting another industry, front lines keep retreating, just like the French army, habitually surrendering.
What products did we sell in the world in the past: machinery, electronics, optical instruments, medical devices, agricultural products, etc.; now we still sell what products in the world.
All emerging industries have nothing to do with us.
What about China? In the past they could only sell ceramics, tea, and silk; now they sell what? Cars, electronic products, home appliances; giants like Volvo, Kuka, Syngenta falling one by one into Chinese capital’s hands.
Every day I wake up and check industry news, most afraid of seeing European automakers announce exit from new energy vehicles, because they’re most accustomed to surrendering, sticking to their past comfortable fields until Chinese companies come over, either beaten down or acquired by Chinese companies.
Facing the same competition, facing suppression much harsher than what European companies face in the same field, facing the blockade network woven by America uniting all developed country allies, what did China do?
Government concentrates industry, government identifies which companies for each key technology node, government sets what to complete at each time node; besides providing ample capital, government leads everything; they’ve never said to give up, always advancing, even though Reuters, The Times and such media widely report that all managers of the policy-led funds were successively arrested, but China kept advancing.
So we can see Huawei’s flagship models using their own chips again, Kirin chips returning after five years.
If Europe faced such targeting, European companies in such a predicament, we’d surely see in the news Huawei’s phone business sold entirely to Google, Huawei claiming it’s a great cooperation, just like Nokia’s phone business sold to Microsoft.
The gap between us and China is right here: China leads us far too much in execution, perseverance, and mobilization; in the past I’d think China could only be chasers, but today, after seeing their superconducting chip—not a PPT project, not promotion for promotion’s sake—they really built the laboratory and completed the first step, the superconducting chip test; I realize China is no less than Europe and America in creativity too.
For America’s attempt to lock China’s artificial intelligence development ceiling through computing power, I originally thought their success rate was 70%, now maybe only 7%.
China’s innovation through integration of existing technology is the fruit of decades of consistently cultivating science and engineering talent.
I look forward to Europe changing, but I don’t know how Europe will change.
This post is the hottest on Reddit’s artificial intelligence channel; it seems unrelated to artificial intelligence, yet also related.
It resonated with countless Europeans.
“I’m in Paris, a French person; though I really don’t like your statement about the French army, I have to admit, in daily life, surrounding European brands are vanishing, and the remaining European brands, many are produced and manufactured in China, shipped across oceans to Europe; most typical are Siemens and Bosch.
Many times I see made in China identification on their products; precisely because there are too many products labeled European brands but actually from China, even if I want to support European local industry, I don’t know how to avoid such situations.
From an individual consumer’s perspective, instead of paying high premium to European companies for Chinese products, why not just buy cost-effective Chinese brands directly? At least they’re definitely from China.
“Europe still has some technology companies, but compared to the past, these companies are fewer and fewer, and they’ve all been acquired by foreign capital; the most typical example should be ARM, which supports 99% of smartphone chip architectures, but was acquired by Japan’s SoftBank.”
“I’ve never understood: America’s General Aerospace can buy China’s technology, why don’t our companies negotiate?
China’s moon base has already proven that the space age has arrived; if Europe misses this space age again, I think Europe will have no future.”
“I’ve always thought low-temperature superconducting chips are a highly creative idea, and the ones proposing it are China, who lack nothing in execution; we should see formal enabling of superconducting chips in the near future.”
“Won’t this affect the moon environment? Don’t we need to condemn China’s excessive development behavior on the moon?”
Naturally, there are clueless white leftists in the replies.
Europe and America NGOs haven’t skimped on accusing China’s this moon landing, accusing China’s nuclear fission power station, thinking such behavior will cause environmental destruction on the moon—what if nuclear radiation appears?
Little do they know, the moon faces all sorts of particles at any time, it’s inherently a high-radiation environment; radiation levels not much worse than the surroundings of Fukushima nuclear power station after the leak.
It features pure natural pollution-free.
In the last four hours before leaving the Moon, they laid a 20-meter electromagnetic rail base, which will continue to expand in the future, all the way to Degelach Crater.
“Lei Zong, in the last four hours, we’re about to embark on the return journey, how about it?” This time it was Lin Ran’s turn to wear the Xiaomi Glasses.
At the Moon Base, wearing the cabin spacesuit, he looked very capable.
“This must be an unforgettable lifetime experience. I’ve never missed Earth’s food so much.
Although you’ve tried your best to make the food varied, with all kinds of canned fruits, I still want to eat hot steaming food, roast duck, fried chicken, barbecue. Just thinking about it excites me.” Lei Jun looked intoxicated, as if he had already eaten it.
Lin Ran smiled and said: “It’s indeed worth missing.
Thanks to transportation ability, our astronauts actually eat much better than the Apollo Moon Landing astronauts back then.”
Lei Jun nodded and said: “That’s for sure, it’s just incomparable to Earth. This makes me realize even more that we must cherish Earth well; it will be our only home for a long time.”
Lin Ran then asked: “So Lei Zong, what do you think about making you lay moon bricks? Do you feel like we’re abusing you?”
