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If a similar large-scale aerospace project were to be replaced by the old era, I am afraid that even if it takes decades to integrate global forces, it will be difficult to take shape, and even if it is left alone, life imprisonment will gradually be released, and all new projects will die young, and the projects will slowly depreciate into broken copper and iron, which is a very possible thing.

Because of such a large-scale aerospace project, although some of the links still have a certain amount of scientific research and economic benefit feedback, but as far as the overall project is concerned, it is definitely a huge investment, and the return on investment is far away.

This statement is by no means a sensational thing, but the most realistic thing, because even the power of the state is by no means endless, and the source of the state's strength is fiscal revenue, which is nothing more than the sum of the income from taxes, profits paid by state-owned enterprises, national debts, and some other fragmentary items, and the fundamental source is still a part of the human, financial, and material resources extracted from the labor income of all the people.

The amount of resources that the modern state power has drawn from the society through this kind of means can be said to be an astronomical amount, but this astronomical figure, in the face of an even more astronomical financial budget, is also beyond its reach, and after deducting all kinds of conventional administrative expenditures, it is too difficult to engage in such a space project that costs hundreds of millions of dollars, and if one is not careful, there is a danger of dragging down the state finances, and no one wants to do it when they are idle.

Even if you know how important this project is, it is tantamount to the Great Wall of China to protect the nomads. But as long as the crisis does not really turn into a threat. So. Ignoring the crisis is a high probability event.

Although it is said that the money earned is always to be spent, the country and individuals alike, if they have money, they can't help but want to spend it, and they spend it everywhere if they shouldn't spend it, and even if they earn some money, they will save it and spend it slowly, but how much money the country has spent that year, and it is not enough to spend the money that year. It is not uncommon for some people to spend all their fiscal revenues for the next year and the next year, resulting in a large fiscal deficit.

But there are different ways to spend money.

If you want to spend all the money where it should be spent, then sometimes even if it is a little deficit or something, it is nothing, because if you spend money where it should really be spent, then there will always be positive feedback, and when the time comes, the results will come out, not increase the income. It's about reducing losses, maybe the opportunity comes. The deficit was smoothed out again.

If you are afraid, you will spend this money in places where you shouldn't spend it, spend all your money on wine, wine ponds, meat forests, luxury enjoyment, etc., and spend all your money on these places, then not only will the money be wasted, but it will also lead to the spread of bad habits, and in the long run, it will even cause social rigidity and turmoil, etc., and when the time comes, when there is a crisis, the whole political system will fall apart and the regime will collapse.

However, although that is said, the right to interpret whether it should be spent or not is in the hands of officials at all levels, and even though the aerospace engineering project is a long-term and future-oriented project, no matter how important and significant, it is innumerable to invest, and it is difficult to say whether there are results or not, and the return on investment is too long, whether from the perspective of investment or from the perspective of doing business, it is obviously not the most suitable option for spending money in the eyes of officials。

The problem is that once you really think and do this, it is obvious that you will not be able to get out of the pit, and the country's precious resources will be blind, and such a road will obviously not go far.

In fact, if you really want to govern a country, even if you don't enjoy extravagance, don't degenerate, there are countless places where you should spend money, and if you want to squeeze out a lot of resources to develop the aerospace industry, it is also an extremely painful and risky choice, especially to carry out a series of major aerospace projects in a short period of time, which costs a lot of money, which is even more prohibitive.

It is important to know that it is not an easy task to maintain the operation of a normal and modern country, and internally it is necessary to balance the people and officials from top to bottom, and to maintain stability and development. It can be said that it costs money to carry out diplomatic activities, international trade, maintain a balance in combat strength, and ensure national security, and the expenditures of administrative organs at all levels, various public services, the military, and the R&D and production of the national defense industry.

Can you save the salaries of officials? Can you still raise a large number of moths in ********, and if you dare to deduct their wages, isn't that a blatant attempt to instruct them to go to society to collect and scrape and engage in collusion between officials and businessmen? When the time comes, they will not be able to find an excuse to clean them up, and the officials will push all the problems clean up as soon as their salaries are not enough to support their families, and everything will become a problem of the system!

Expenditures on various public goods, water conservancy, transportation construction, education, medical care, and old-age care, etc., these are the endogenous driving force of a country, which looks inconspicuous but is related to the development foundation and potential of a country.

As for the investment in the army and national defense, this is more about national security, about the ultimate security guarantee of the existence of the regime, once the army's combat effectiveness is not good, there will be problems both internally and externally, and when the time comes, you will see what the concept of the country will not be wiped out and the species will be wiped out!

It can be said that any part of these financial expenditures in all aspects is indispensable, and their inputs are also very huge, and the level of their inputs is directly linked to the level of social development and the international and domestic situation, and it is not something that can be reduced casually, and if we want to draw trillions of dollars of funds from the overall fiscal revenue for the development of the aerospace industry, even if it is spread over several decades, it can be described as an extremely heavy burden.

Even the United States, one of the top international bigwigs of the old era. Except before the nineties. It is a desperate struggle for global hegemony with its opponents. In addition to playing the big investment in aerospace for decades, after really bringing down the opponent, it immediately stopped this big project, what Star Wars is no longer done, even the already mature moon landing technology has been abandoned, and I am reluctant to spend resources on maintenance, and as a result, after decades, it is said that even the drawings of the spacecraft can not be found. Sounds ridiculous!

Moreover, after that, the United States often launched one or two deep space exploration projects in a dozen years, feeding the hungry space industry once and sparsely, barely maintaining the existence of the technological echelon.

After decades of procrastination, the United States could not even play with its own launch vehicles, although it still blessed its own space station project, but to send supplies and scientific research materials to the space station, and even had to turn around and seek its old rival. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the head of the woolly bear Russian Federation can maintain the normal operation of its space station with the help of other people's capacity.

Arguably. This alone shows how huge the consumption of major aerospace projects is, so that the top powers sometimes have to be daunted.

That's it, it's just to maintain a small space station, and the planetary defense system that the earthlings are currently engaged in is not a one-level project at all.

Let's just say that a complete set of circumplanetary radar warning network facing all directions of the universe, this complete set of warning radar network, is composed of dozens of sub-system multi-dimensional radar networks, using a variety of radar scanning modes, visible light search, gravitational wave detection, high-energy ray observation, X-ray observation, it can be said that all the technologies that have been possessed in astronomical exploration in the past are not included, and the technologies that did not exist before are also used on a large scale, and a variety of technologies and equipment have been launched into the high-level space orbit around the earth one by one to observe and explore in all directions of the vacuum universe.

On this set of planetary radar warning network, it can be said that the cost is unimaginable, not to mention the difficulty of technology development, after all, the earthling organization because of Sima Mulong, the leader's big cheat, all kinds of mature technologies are also taken out without spending a dime, in this link of technology development, at least it also saves tens of trillions of expenses.

However, even if the research and development of technology is removed, a large number of experts, scholars, and workers will only take this ready-made technology, learn and practice it little by little, and realize it little by little, which will cause the cost of time and resources, which cannot be underestimated.

What's more, the total engineering volume of this planetary defense system implemented by the entire earthling organization is far more than this observation system, and there is also a supporting strike system and a space factory system.

Moreover, in the aerospace system engineering, in addition to those equipment operating in orbit, In addition to the design and production cost of the factory, a more critical part is the launch, launching various materials into the high orbit of outer space, technically speaking, there is no big difficulty, but the cost of the launch is indeed quite high, if the launch is carried out in accordance with the conventional rocket delivery method, the entire planetary defense system, adding up to millions of tons of launch weight, I am afraid that it is arranged to the earth, and the cost of spending tens of billions of dollars is probably impossible to complete.

In order to complete the layout of the entire planetary defense system at a lower cost and faster launch efficiency, the space projection device with a launch orbit of several hundred kilometers alone has been arranged in three, and the space elevators that deliver materials to the space orbit at a low cost are enough to build several units, although the cost of the construction of such a carrier system is also quite large, and the amount of work is huge, but in the face of the powerful industrial production capacity of the earthling organization, it was quickly completed, which greatly reduced the cost of space launchEven some extra-large metal components can be easily sent to space orbit.

The current earthling organization can be said to have entered an unprecedented, prosperous stage of space development, and there are as many as 100,000 space construction personnel who have stayed in outer space for a long time in outer space, and the long high-altitude orbit around the earth has been densely covered with all kinds of large and small space life stations, ready to supply the needs of the life and work of more than 100,000 workers and researchers.

In just over a year of construction, hundreds of thousands of tons of construction tasks have been completed, and the initial construction has become a simple space monitoring and defense system, but now because of the construction progress, the entire defense network is not dense enough, and it needs to be further replenished.

At the same time, because of the formation of the increasingly perfect aerospace observation network, it can be said that the scholars under the jurisdiction of the earthlings organization are advancing at a rapid speed for the in-depth study of the astronomical system, and there will be new discoveries and new understandings almost every day.

Now, almost every day, there is a huge amount of outer space monitoring data gathered into the ground data center, a large number of unprecedented space observation data, so that astronomers' understanding of the space environment, as well as the understanding and research of various astronomical disciplines have made rapid progress.

And all of this, there is no doubt that it is vigorously pushing the earthlings organization to move towards deep space, so that the earth civilization is getting closer and closer to a real interstellar civilization day by day!

Originally, in such an almost crazy investment in space engineering, for a normal country, there will undoubtedly be incomparably huge financial and social pressure, and the huge investment and the investment in the space industry will obviously greatly reduce the stock of social resources.

However, in the midst of the vigorous scientific and technological development of the earthlings, the turmoil and depression at the social level are almost non-existent.

The incomparably developed scientific and technological production system, as well as the unbreakable social operation system dominated by state capital, have made the living conditions of the people in the jurisdiction of the earthling organization not only not affected, but more and more happy.

There is no shortage of all kinds of living materials, the standard of living is rising, medical education, health and other resources are almost allocated on demand, even if there is a sudden serious illness, under the sound social security system, it will not have a huge negative impact on the family's finances, such a strong national public service investment, so that all citizens can almost have no worries about their own production and life, not to mention those citizens in the core jurisdiction, even the people in the newly occupied areas, are also quickly and incomparably integrated into the new social system。 (To be continued.) )