Chapter 1278 - Who will dominate the next century? (1/2)

1278 Who will doe of a newspaper was the pristine blue planet

Below the Earth was a hand that e onto the planet

A face could be barely made out from inside the darkness

The face was youthful, and other than that, there was no other memorable characteristics However, even the person with the worst ability to identify so as the person was not out of touch with the tiuous

[Who will dominate the next century?]

Now, this piece of newspaper, along with many similar ones, were placed on the table of the president’s office

“What do you think,” Hill swept the newspapers aside, then rubbed her sore brows before she looked to her chief of staff, “of that Envoy-class Starshi+p?”

“…”

The chief of staff did not speak Instead, together with Secretary of Defense Carter, they silently looked at Bolden who stood next to hiot everyone’s attention, Bolden took a deep breath and h staten problehts, and now the only difficult proble will it take?” Hill asked Bolden as she stared into him

“Conservatively, 20 years, but er …” Bolden said with aardness in his tone

“This is not the same as what you said last tiressive tone “When we o, you said that you could solve the technical difficulties on the space elevator by 2040 at the latest You even said that you could build at least one elevator for the nation and connect it to the synchronousobt”

“You can’t blaued, “If Obayashi+ Gureement with us, the time required could be reduced by at least half”

“Obayashi+ Gumi?” Hill frowned, she looked at Secretary of State Kerry, who had not spoken, then said “This name sounds familiar”

“A company controlled by Sumitomo Foundation It announced in 2014 that it could complete the space elevator in 2050, and there was reliable news that they had been working on related technologies since 2010” Kerry paused for a lanced at Bolden with confusion in his eyes, he frowned “I re in our International space Station progra time Why …”

“It’s Celestial Trade,” Bolden said “They convinced theraave them a promise? You know Obayashi+ Gumi’s main focus is construction Maybe Celestial Trade has contracted out projects on Mars or the Moon to them? Anyway, they have now paid the penalty ”

“Those ungrateful wretches…” Carter cursed under his breath

“They have always been ungrateful wretches, and we should have beenthat the roohed, and added

“… Fortunately, we have found another coy from Ontario, Canada Their research on the pressurized tower reached a height of twenty kilohs in high-strength graphene reat opportunity to catch up”

However, the raphene raphene materials and this type of h many materials could be considered as steel, steel produced by differentprocesses, and different temperatures could produce vastly different properties

The sah Celestial Trade had registered nearly a hundred patents for nearly ten types of graphene materials used for semiconductors in the world, they had kept the materials related to aerospace and military fields in complete secrecy Celestial Trade rarely even exported the finished products, let alone register for patents

The office was silent again

Graphene

The daht that a ether could create an impossible obstacle for a superpower

“Isn’t there any good news?” Carter, in a distressed state, asked

The completion of the Envoy-class starshi+p created the most pressure for the Minister of Defense

He couldn’t iine what could pose a threat to that behemoth

Missiles? Cannons?