A local satellite TV, talk show.
"Professor Chen, today our country's low-Earth orbit satellite communication system has completed the second phase of construction."
"What do you think about this?"
The female host in colorful clothes was at the beginning of the show.
That’s the key point of this program.
"Currently, those who use this satellite communication method in the world have basically not achieved any good results."
Chen Bangru had just obtained a teaching position from a foreign university, so at this time he was very arrogant and disdainful of everything in the country.
Naturally, I don’t have a good look at the achievements of such native people in China.
"Professor Chen, can you give us a brief introduction?"
When the female host heard this, she knew that there might be a breaking point in this program.
So he quickly continued to ask.
“Now internationally, communication systems using satellite transmission methods are adopted.”
"The most famous one is the Iridium star system."
"I wonder if the host has heard of it?"
Chen Bangru, who was dressed like a human and dog, raised his hand to push up the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and asked the host very politely.
In the eyes of the outside world, Chen Bangru has always been known for his elegance, and he has always maintained his own personality.
"I know a little bit about it, but I don't know much about it."
The female host wanted Chen Bangru to tell more exciting news, so she kept praising Chen Bangru:
"Professor Chen, have you done any special research?"
When Chen Bangru was complimented by the beautiful woman, he felt like a bear had stolen honey, and said with a smile:
"I have worked with Iridium before and I have a certain understanding of them."
Chen Bangru did not clearly say what he had done with Iridium. Sweeping the floor in the Iridium office could also be said to be cooperation.
"Their technology is very advanced, and many of their engineers are former Motorola technicians."
"It can be said that in terms of communication satellites, there is still a 20-year gap between our satellites and theirs."
Neither the presenters nor the audience knew much about satellite communication technology.
So it was easy to be intimidated by Chen Bangru, who had various titles on his head.
Iridium and domestic satellite communication systems are almost on two different technical routes.
The "Iridium" satellite uses a high-orbit large satellite, and its designed service life is also very long, reaching a whopping fifteen years.
Such a satellite system requires only a small number of satellites to complete its construction.
Unlike the low-orbit satellite communication system built by Zhang Xingyang and others, thousands of satellites need to be launched to build a complete communication system.
However, his disadvantages are also obvious.
That is, the speed of technological upgrading is very slow and cannot keep up with the latest development wave of communication technology in time.
"Even Iridium, which has technology that is twenty years ahead of us, went bankrupt in the past few months due to various problems."
"At this level in China, it's not even as good as the technology we had decades ago."
"It can't be done successfully!"
Chen Bangru's remarks were very arrogant, and with such remarks, the host couldn't help but nodded.
As if agreeing with him.
Among the audience present, many people thought that what he said was good.
After all, many foreign companies that are ahead of us in technology have failed. How can we succeed on our own?
These days, domestic science and technology generally lag behind international standards.
This is why, after Chen Bangru proposed that our technology was twenty years behind others, no one stood up to question it.
After all, at this time, there was a saying that China was fifty years behind others in all aspects.
Being only twenty years behind is a normal thing in the eyes of many people.
However, this kind of remarks can only have a certain market when the country has not really shown its potential.
Ten years later, almost no one will believe such remarks. Twenty years later, such remarks will only be regarded as back-channelling.
"Then what do you think, how should our communication system be built?"
At this time, the female host began to dig a hole for Chen Bangru again, waiting for him to jump into it.
"If you ask me, we don't want to build our own communication system."
"It would be great to directly use other people's mature solutions. It not only saves time and energy, but also other people's technology is more advanced and can provide better services."
At this time, Chen Bangru made remarks that he had carefully prepared for a long time.
Of course, there is no support from some chaotic forces behind this.
No one in the studio knew.
Most of them have now been brainwashed by Chen Bangru's remarks.
After all, from a simple point of view, other people's things are more useful, so why not just buy their things and use them? !
They would not have thought of the serious consequences that would arise if such national infrastructure were controlled by others.
And the premise of this statement is wrong, actually in terms of communication satellites.
At this time, China is at the world's first-class level in terms of low-orbit communication satellites.
After all, so much money is spent like water.
Naturally, a lot of achievements have been made, especially in rockets, satellites, communication equipment, etc. The country has made many breakthroughs in recent years.
Therefore, Chen Bangru’s statement that the country is 20 years behind the times is inherently problematic.
Therefore, the conclusion he came to later made no sense.
"Professor Chen, which country do you think is the best in the world in this regard?"
The female host pretended to be ignorant and asked Chen Bangru for his opinion.
"It goes without saying."
"The most advanced one in the world right now is, of course, Eagle Sauce!"
When Chen Bangru said this, an expression appeared on his face as if he was praising some divine existence.
"As a beacon of freedom, their technology is the best on the planet!"
When he said this, Chen Bangru seemed to be praising his father, which made people feel sick.
At this time, the female host couldn't stand the other party's shameless bragging, but her good professionalism still allowed her to maintain harmony in the scene.
He didn’t do anything that didn’t fit the atmosphere of the scene.
But the other party's face still made the female host feel deeply uncomfortable.
Holding back the feeling of suffocation in her heart, the female host asked the next question:
"Then do you think that satellite communication has no advantages?"
"That's not true."
Chen Bangru did not directly kill satellite communications with a stick. After all, anyone with a discerning eye can see the advantages in this.
"Compared with traditional ground base stations, satellite communications cover a larger area."
"Take the Iridium global communication system established by Iridium Corporation as an example."
"They only used 77 satellites to build a global satellite system."
"Let everyone be able to call freely from anywhere in the world."
"It's not like China. Thousands of satellites were launched to cover the entire country."
"It's incomparable to other people's advanced technology."
Even when Chen Bangru was introducing the advantages of satellite communications, he did not forget to belittle the level of domestic communications satellites.
The key is that most of the people present didn't feel there was anything wrong with such an inferior concept of sneak exchange.
On the contrary, I feel that Chen Bangru is worthy of being an expert. What he talks about is professional, and he explains the gap between the domestic and international advanced levels.
No one at the scene knew that these were actually two different technical routes.
This is also related to the fact that information was not particularly developed at this time.
If in later generations, when the mobile Internet is highly developed, if you want to refute such rumors, you only need to explain clearly on social networks the technical characteristics of the low-orbit satellite communication path we are taking.
But at this time, information was not that developed, and even relatively primitive social networks were still in their infancy.
At this time, OICQ had not yet changed its name to QQ, and was still struggling.
There are very few media through which people receive information. Basically, there are only a few channels such as radio and television.
This is also an important reason why these insiders can see the problem information at a glance and can show it on TV openly.
"With these seventy-seven satellites, you can make calls anywhere on the earth using an Iridium mobile phone!"
Chen Bangru happily introduced the power of Iridium's technology to everyone present and to the cameras.
It's as if he was also involved in this project and contributed a lot.
Many viewers present, combined with the fact that he has had in-depth cooperation experience with Iridium.
I have already imagined the image of a tall scholar.
“That’s the advantage of satellite communications!”
"Be able to make calls at will regardless of terrain, distance, and limitations of various natural environments."
What Chen Bangru said made sense to a certain extent, but he still didn't tell some of the facts.
That is, even the Iridium company, which in his eyes is extremely technologically advanced, has poor communication quality.
Sometimes, the phone has no signal just inside the room.
You must go to an open area outdoors to make a phone call.
This is unacceptable to many people who need satellite phone services.
It's not just a hassle to use, for those who could spend tens of thousands of dollars on Iridium satellite phone service in the 1990s.
Trouble is only secondary, being embarrassed in front of others is the most important.
All my business partners who were traveling with me could just take out their mobile phones to make a call, but I had to go outside to make a call. It was really a shame!
However, Chen Bangru did not tell these things. It was not that he did not know about it, but he deliberately concealed it.
"The domestic communication system actually requires the launch of a full 4,000 satellites to build a nationwide communication network."
"Compared to others, it's just rubbish!"
At the end of his answer, Chen Bangru no longer concealed his praise for foreign countries and his contempt for China.
If it were twenty years later, any normal person who surfs the Internet all year round would be able to see that this guy is actually a large-scale "public knowledge".
But at this time, the term public intellectual had not become as bad as it would become in the future.
Therefore, Chen Bangru's remarks gained a large number of fans.
"Moreover, according to the description of NASA's authoritative experts."
Chen Bangru also felt that what he just said was not shocking enough, so he directly cited NASA to endorse his remarks.
In this era, communication around the world is not so developed, and it is very difficult to collect the opinions of a person on the other side of the world.
So even though what Chen Bangru said just now was basically made up by him, basically no one questioned it since everyone had been brainwashed by him.
"These satellites launched in China are actually space junk!"
"It will cause great pollution to the future space!"
"And it will have a great negative impact on ground-based astronomical optical observations!"
"After the construction of the domestic low-orbit satellite communication system began, many foreign astronomers have pointed out more than once that their actions have greatly interfered with ground astronomical observations!"
"They are currently joining forces to organize this project."
It was the first time for everyone present to know that this seemingly high-end project could have such a bad impact.
"The performance of domestically designed satellites is extremely poor and their service life is very short. After their service life is exceeded, they will become garbage in space."
“Seriously affecting the safety of other countries’ space satellites!”
"Last month, there was almost a satellite collision!"
"Fortunately, when the accident was about to happen, the Takajia family's satellite maneuvered in time to avoid the tragedy!"
The audience present and the beautiful host also gave expressions of surprise in time.
Let Chen Bangru continue to talk about this topic.
"This is only because these satellites mainly cover the country."
"I heard that they are now planning to carry out the third phase of construction and will launch tens of thousands more satellites into the sky!"
"Then the probability of space accidents in the future will greatly increase!"
"These tens of thousands of junk satellites are like tens of thousands of space mines, which will pose a great threat to the orbits of most satellites."
"Hence my appeal!"
"Cancel the construction of domestic low-orbit satellite communication projects."
Chen Bangru's last remarks really surprised everyone, after all, everyone knew what he was thinking.
But I didn't expect that he would say it directly in front of many people during the interview.
Even the female host, who had always maintained good host qualities before, changed her expression slightly at this time.
Fortunately, she calmed down quickly.
At a very fast speed, I finished the final statement of this program and ended this interview.
After the program was completed, she declined Chen Bangru's request to invite him to dinner, and she breathed a sigh of relief, as if she had survived a disaster.
But after thinking about the content of this interview, she laughed again.
She could already imagine how much discussion such a report would cause after it was published!
One day later, the interview program was completed and aired on prime time on satellite TV.
The audience in front of the TV, after watching this program.
Suddenly, there were many discussions about the satellite communication system that I had never paid attention to before.
Especially the debate over whether this project is even necessary.
Almost overnight, it swept across the country!
Please vote for me, please vote for me! ! !
(End of chapter)
