Chapter 690 Prince Faisal: I never took it so seriously when I was in school!
After Xu Chuan refused several times in a row, Prince Faisal also knew that his request to purchase a space shuttle was probably not feasible.
However, this does not mean that this matter is completely unfeasible. As Xu Chuan said, it would be more appropriate to go directly to Huaguo Business for this kind of transaction.
Perhaps given some conditions, China may agree to its request to purchase a space shuttle.
It's just that the person in front of him also has the ability to facilitate this kind of transaction. In addition, academic people are generally relatively light-minded and may not care much about interests, so he wanted to try this.
After thinking for a while, he decided to change his perspective to achieve his ultimate goal.
"Xu, let's put aside the purchase of the space shuttle for now. How about we talk about another cooperation?"
After thinking for a while, Prince Faisal smiled and said.
Xu Chuan glanced at him curiously and said, "Prince, please tell me."
Prince Faisal cleared his throat and said: "Based on the cooperation in the lunar biosphere project, we require the Xinghai Research Institute to provide interstellar transportation resources to help the Middle East consortium build a mosque and a lunar hotel on the lunar surface."
"Of course, it's not free, we get paid for it."
Building a mosque and hotel on the moon was a decision they had discussed at an internal meeting. It was not a sudden idea on his part. The preparations were quite complete, and there were even relevant design drawings, but they were not taken into space.
On the opposite side, Xu Chuan was not too surprised when he heard this request.
Building a lunar hotel to carry out lunar tourism was originally a method he used to attract large investors from the Middle East to invest in the lunar biosphere project. But now he has added an extra mosque, which is expected.
After all, for Arabs in the Middle East, mosques are faith.
He remembered a statistic. It seemed that in the twenty years from 1982 to 2005, not to mention other countries in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia alone spent more than 75 billion yuan to build 200 Islamic universities or colleges in various countries around the world, 210
Islamic centers, 1,500 mosques and more than 2,000 primary and secondary schools for Muslim children.
This shows the status of mosques and Islam in the hearts of these bearded men.
As for the lunar hotel, do these people want to build a tourist base on the moon and at the same time expand the influence of Islam?
Even today, the other party repeatedly mentioned purchasing a space shuttle to him, which may have paved the way for this matter.
Now think about it, these big dogs have long set their sights on cutting-edge tourism such as space travel and moon travel.
Although it is difficult for space travel and lunar travel to be open to the general public today, after all, each trip requires millions or even billions of money.
But for those super-rich people who stand at the top of the pyramid, they can spend hundreds of millions or even 100 million to complete a space trip while ensuring their own life safety. Travel to the moon is nothing.
Although the proportion of rich people is small, there are still a lot of them, especially the bearded people in the Middle East. They are a circle of super rich people, and they know all kinds of super rich people.
It is not difficult for them to find customers for space travel and moon travel.
Suddenly, Xu Chuan suddenly remembered an additional transportation condition that Prince Faisal had finalized during the previous negotiations on cooperation in the lunar biosphere project on the ground.
To put it simply, the Middle East Consortium is willing to spend 10 million RMB per person to purchase earth-lunar transportation resources from Xinghai Research Institute.
I have to say that there is no one who is not good at doing business.
If the transportation conditions are put behind the construction of the mosque and the lunar hotel, the space agency will definitely get a lot of money. After all, this is an additional project.
The previous lunar transportation conditions of 10 million soft sister coins per person were actually based on scientific research. Huaguo, or Xinghai Research Institute did not make much, only six or seven million.
After all, the cost of each traditional manned moon landing is calculated in units of hundreds of millions. Ten million is already very cheap.
Of course, if a space shuttle can be purchased from him, then the transportation cost can naturally be saved.
If a space shuttle is fully prepared and the cargo bay is renovated into a habitable cabin, it will have no problem at all to carry 30-50 passengers to the moon.
A one-time buyout is much better than continuously purchasing transportation resources from China.
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In the living cabin, Xu Chuan thought for a while and then smiled and did Tai Chi.
"Mr. Prince, I don't know much about lunar surface engineering. This kind of cooperation should wait until we land and then communicate with professionals."
He refused people's request to purchase a space shuttle, and he would be embarrassed if he refused to build a mosque and a lunar hotel on the moon.
And this is the method he uses to attract people to invest in the lunar biosphere. What he says must be done.
But he still forgot about the specific negotiations, after all, he was not a professional business person.
Building a mosque and a hotel on the moon is not an easy task. The amount of work, difficulty of construction, cost of funds, profits, and cooperation methods all need to be calculated and considered.
A win-win situation requires a long history and cannot be just a one-time cooperation.
Opposite him, Prince Faisal smiled and nodded, saying: "Of course, this kind of work can be left to the people below."
After a slight pause, he looked out the window and sighed: "It would be great if there was a glass of champagne here. With such a beautiful scenery, I always feel like something is missing."
Xu Chuan smiled with some confusion and said: "It's impossible to have a toast in this weightless environment. After all, the red wine will spill out when you touch the glass."
Prince Faisal: "......"
Is this person allergic to romance?
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But soon he seemed to remember something, his eyes lit up and he asked tentatively: "Xu, why don't you study artificial gravity?"
"You must know better than me that the development of outer space is definitely the inevitable path in the future. Just like we have now reached low-Earth orbit on the Xinghai, interstellar travel will definitely be the most important development in the future."
"But don't you think it's inconvenient to do anything in this weightless environment?"
"I've seen a lot of science fiction movies and novels. When those spaceships are traveling among the stars, the people inside are almost the same as those living on earth."
Listening to the Middle Eastern rich man in front of him discussing scientific matters with him, Xu Chuan smiled dumbly, shook his head and replied: "Artificial gravity is not that simple."
"This kind of technology, even if all human physicists are put into research, it is difficult to find a suitable direction."
After a slight pause, he looked at Prince Faisal with a smile and asked: "Mr. Prince, do you know why the earth has gravity? Why can we stand on the earth and move around?"
Hearing Xu Chuan ask himself, Prince Faisal was stunned for a moment, and then replied with half doubt and half certainty: "Because of the huge mass of the earth?"
Although the Middle East is extremely rich, it can be said that they are nouveau riche who sit at home and count their money. However, most of the royal families are not as miserable as some people imagine, and they are not idiots who don't understand anything.
In fact, most members of the royal family actually have very high academic qualifications. For example, Prince Harmandan of Dubai, who is quite famous on the Internet, graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the London School of Economics.
Of course, academic qualifications are one thing, but whether you have learned the knowledge is another.
Xu Chuan smiled and said: "The quality is on the one hand, and the other is because the earth is constantly rotating."
"rotation?"
Xu Chuan nodded and explained with a smile: "Yes, to put it simply, the centrifugal force generated by the earth's rotation, combined with the gravitational force generated by the earth's huge mass, is the so-called gravity."
"In physics, force interacts and is the effect of an object on an object. In other words, only two or more objects can produce a force. As for gravity, you can approximately think that the force exerted by gravity
The object is the earth, and the force-receiving object is an object on or near the earth's surface..."
After briefly explaining some physics knowledge about gravity and artificial gravity, Xu Chuan added softly at the end.
"...Simply put, if you want to create artificial gravity, gravity and centrifugal force are essential."
Across from him, Prince Faisal, who had been fed a lot of physics knowledge, had a confused look on his face. His eyes were full of mosquito coils. He could no longer distinguish the interaction of forces, gravity, centrifugal force, etc.
He stared at Xu Chuan blankly, and only heard the last sentence: "Then just create gravity and centrifugal force?"
As soon as these words came out, it was Xu Chuan's turn to be dumbfounded.
He sighed. He just used the most basic knowledge to explain his feelings, but he was playing the piano to a cow.
Create gravitational and centrifugal forces?
This is too whimsical...
Well, it can only be said that he became a rich man without finishing nine years of compulsory education.
That's not right. Whether there is nine-year compulsory education in the Middle East, whether you can learn basic physics or not is a question. After all, there is a family in the mine, so you can just sit back and spend money.
Physics and the like are not important to them at all. At most, they can learn how to manage talents or business studies.
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After finishing the exchange with Prince Faisal, Xu Chuan floated out of the living cabin, taking Tang Sijia and others with him, leaving this small room to two tourists from the Middle East.
On the side, after seeing the cabin door slowly closing, Abdul Rahman floated over from the porthole. He looked curiously at Prince Faisal who had not recovered from the trap and asked.
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"What did you guys talk about just now?"
This time I came to cooperate with Hua Guo and Professor Xu, and the leader of the team was Prince Faisal. Under normal circumstances, most things are decided by Prince Faisal.
Not only because of his status, but also because he does have this business talent.
Hearing the voice of his companion, Prince Faisal came back to his senses, couldn't help but sigh, and said quietly: "He explained to me a lot of physical knowledge about how gravity is generated, and popularized artificial intelligence.
The reason gravity is so hard to do.”
"Do you understand?"
Prince Faisal raised his head and glanced at Abdulrahman: "What do you think?"
He swore that even when he was in school, he had never listened to someone so seriously!
But unfortunately, he still didn't understand a word.
Abdulrahman moved the corners of his mouth and looked sympathetically at Prince Faisal, whose face was full of exhaustion.
It seemed like this was a painful memory, but fortunately it was not him who was responsible.
