Capítulo 942: Chapter 339: A Technology Expo Worth Rembering (Part 2)
In short, no country will likely be able to successfully land on the Moon without Huaxia’s permission in the future.
Huaxia seems to have never officially declared that the Moon belongs to Huaxia. Yet, it has already beco an established fact.
However, Richard soon felt relieved.
Actually, having the Moon developed by Huaxia is quite good. At least it’s better than having it occupied by his own people.
After all, with Huaxia people developing the Moon, ordinary people like him might even get a taste of the benefits.
But if those resources were first occupied by greedy capitalists, perhaps people like him wouldn’t even get the crumbs.
They might even force countless ordinary people like him to co to the Moon to mine for them…
After all, capitalism inherently needs to exploit and enslave productive tools to maximize the extraction of all sorts of surplus value.
Honestly, Richard often doesn’t understand what those big capitalists are thinking.
How much money can a person use in a lifeti? When the money reaches a certain amount, it is just a number.
It’s sothing you can’t take with you when you are born, nor when you die. Why do those people, even though they already have more money than they can spend in a lifeti, still refuse to give up every opportunity to continue increasing their wealth?
And many of these opportunities can only be obtained by exploiting the poorest of the poor.
That’s probably what Richard finds most baffling.
The poor don’t covet the fortunes of the rich, yet the rich are constantly thinking of how to scrape together every last penny from the poor…
Indeed, it seems like every big capitalist deserves to be hung on a lamppost…
For a mont, Richard’s thoughts wandered far off.
But Thomas beside him wasn’t thinking so much; he was already excitedly asking Richard to quickly take pictures with him.
Forget about the scenery on Earth, with Zhang Qi’s help, they took a whole set of photos on the Moon, witnessed by countless global viewers.
Alright, even though everyone knows this was achieved through holographic technology, the Moon scenery is undeniably real.
After taking photos, the two finally followed Zhang Qi to the underground space of the Moon Base.
Indeed, the underground space developed over the past six months is far larger and more spacious than the surface part.
Apart from the central hall of at least 300 square ters, divided into various functional areas, there are a dozen small rooms scattered around.
Everything seems well-organized.
“This is the basent floor, also our main activity area when we don’t need to perform outdoor tasks.
This is the gym, and next to it is the small movie room, and the digital reading library…”
John and his son followed Zhang Qi’s introduction, taking a tour around the entire basent floor.
During this, they also encountered three other researchers from the Moon Base in the ga room.
The three were playing the latest version of StarCraft together. Watching their concentration in gaming on the computer, Richard thought he might still be on Earth.
If it weren’t for the gravity here being vastly different from Earth’s, even indoor walking requires controlling one’s pace…
“This is… incredible! It feels almost no different than being on Earth.”
“Haha, it’s still different. Every day, you only see those few familiar faces; it gets boring.
That’s why everyone really welcos you. There’s a special welcoming ceremony prepared for you during dinner tonight.
I’ll take you to your room first; since you’ve been staying in the spaceship capsule for so long, you must be exhausted too.
You can take a shower and relax. The dinner will start in two hours, and I’ll co to inform you.
After the dinner, you can enjoy the activities in the recreation room. Rest well tonight, and I’ll take you out for a walk tomorrow.
Like the lunar soil collection activity. Each of you can carry no more than 200 grams of lunar soil back to Earth.
Here, we’ll help you pack the lunar soil. So when you return to Earth, you can use it to make various handicrafts.”
As he spoke, Zhang Qi had already led them to a room.
Presumably, rooms on the Moon are still quite scarce.
The father and son could only squeeze into one room, but Richard didn’t mind these details.
He just curiously asked, “This is the basent floor; is there another layer beneath?”
“Of course.”
Zhang Qi replied confidently, “But there’s not much to see on the second underground floor. It’s mainly the base’s power and life support equipnt room.
I usually don’t go down there unless it’s for the weekly routine equipnt checks, when professionals will go down for maintenance.
However, all the equipnt is actually connected to the base’s internal managent computer. If there really is a problem, the main control computer will directly give an alarm.
Of course, up until now, the equipnt room on the second underground floor has been running smoothly without any issues.”
Richard understood.
There’s nothing more to say.
The equipnt room is indeed not a place for idle people like him.
Not to ntion, if any equipnt fails, he can’t bear the consequences.
Opening the door brought another surprise.
Richard initially thought the room arranged for them as a father-son duo would be like a standard hotel double room, good enough.
But unexpectedly, the room was a two-bedroom suite. The living room even had a Tai Chi Computer specifically prepared for him.
“You should rest first. I’ll notify you later to join the dinner at the cafeteria.”
With that said, Zhang Qi left first.
Leaving John and his son to start reminiscing about the first half of this amazing journey.
…
“This Moon landing live broadcast was very successful. Although it was late night in most Western countries, the total global viewership across platforms exceeded 300 million.
Especially on TikTok, the highest number of people online was 178 million. The engagent from netizens was evidently high.
Currently, topics about ordinary people landing on the Moon have mostly beco trending on various countries’ networks. The ‘lucky Richard’ hashtag has already exceeded a billion views…”
…
Earth, Huaxia, Yanbei University.
Qiao Yu, who just finished a presentation, was listening to the briefing he had just received.
In terms of pure data, the results are indeed quite good.
To subtly influence societal trends, first, you must bring the content to countless ordinary people.
Simultaneously, they must be willing to spend ti to understand it.
Having 300 million people globally simultaneously watch the live broadcast, especially when Huaxia didn’t do much internal promotion and the Western Hemisphere was at dawn, is quite a remarkable figure.
Richard had a point.
Using his perspective for a global broadcast this ti does indeed have the purpose of showing everyone how powerful Huaxia is now.
The best is for everyone to have a rough idea in their hearts, dispelling so bad thoughts.
Although the most direct way to show strength is still like before with West University, directly launching an instructional-style war.
But obviously, Huaxia doesn’t consider this, or rather finds it unnecessary.
Raw power tends to intimidate, cause submission but also easily incites defiance.
This can actually be seen from horror films in different cultures.
Western horror often seeks that visual shock, whereas Eastern horror aims to make the audience feel an inner tremor.
In fact, the latter makes the struggle against fate seem more futile.
Of course, the main goal is to intimidate those big capitalists.
With such high popularity, it’s impossible for the big capitalists not to pay attention naturally.
Let them watch more, and naturally, they’ll know how to choose wisely in the future.
In this era, having cliff-edge-leading technological capabilities, especially in the space sector, should be enough to instill fear in so and influence those decisions.
As for structural conflicts, in front of overwhelming technological prowess, they’re just minor issues.
Qiao Yu’s consistent view has been to make the cake big enough for everyone to salivate at first sight.
Of course, whether they can actually co to the table and eat this big cake, that’s another matter that requires detailed discussion.
Qiao Yu is quite adept at these things.
After all, he’s very experienced at dealing with them. Huaxia only needs to set the rules; who can co to the table and eat, it’s up to these skilled folks to rely on their abilities.
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