Xueba's Sea of ​​Stars

Chapter 233 The Legend
Following Professor Winifred out of the banquet hall, before Wu Bin asked him what he needed, Professor Winifred introduced a burly middle-aged man to him and said, "This is Angus Professor, our chief engineer for Mars exploration at NASA."

"Hello, young Chinese scholar." Angus extended his right hand to Wu Bin.

Wu Bin was taken aback when he heard the name, feeling that he had heard it somewhere before, but thinking that the names of foreigners are almost the same, so he stretched out his hand and shook him without thinking too much.

"Hello, Professor Angus."

After shaking hands, Professor Angus said, "I read your paper on solar sails twice, it's very exciting, and I found that you are very good at solving practical problems with mathematical and physical tools, which is very rare."

Wu Bin: "Actually, the modeling and programming were done by two of my teammates, and I just showed their achievements."

After listening to Wu Bin, Professor Angus and Professor Winifred looked at each other and smiled, "It seems that you are very humble." Then I will introduce myself again, "My full name is Angus Dennis, and I used to be with you Discussed the application of graphene to space shuttle and space station."

"Oh!! It's you!"

Now Bin Wu remembered that this professor had talked with him after he published the paper "Graphene Filled Rubber Nanocomposites".

In fact, Wu Bin has already published this paper across fields. During that time, because he was stuck on a bottleneck in the conductivity of graphene, and because he was afraid that his path would become narrower and narrower, he decided to change his mind, and soon remembered Cai. The engine and aerospace that the teacher told him at the beginning.

Wu Bin, who thought of doing it, went to listen to a few lectures on aerospace materials taught by Professor Shi. After listening, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, because materials in space will experience changes from extremely high temperature to extremely low temperature, which will cause materials such as rubber to expand and contract. , then loses its strength.

But if the high temperature resistance of graphene can be utilized, this will no longer be a problem, so the paper was born in the end.

"Have you applied for a patent?" Professor Angus asked Wu Bin.

"Well, the professor at the school made arrangements for me."

The concept of applying for a patent was instilled in him by Professor Liu Yubo, and it also made Wu Bin understand that applying for a patent is not only for finished products, but also for invention patents, utility model patents, design patents, technical patents, etc. Can apply for a patent.

For the definition of academic papers, the patent law has been changed again and again. The current official terms are:
Simply put, the content of the application should be discovered, invented, created, and advanced, rather than repeating, imitating, or plagiarizing the work of predecessors.

But the concept of invention and creation is too vague. Some people dare to apply for it without changing the molecular structure, which makes the patent office have a lot of work.

From the proposal to the approval, it is necessary to go through a series of complicated procedures such as one-pass, one-pass reply, Zhongtong, Zhongtong reply, etc. Generally, each laboratory will have a special person in charge of this part.

Of course, making it so complicated is also because of the importance of patents in this century. It represents the hard power of a company or a research institute.

For example, the research institutions under AT&T, a large US telecommunications company, owned hundreds of thousands of patented technologies and produced a large number of Nobel Prize winners.

However, AT&T, which is so strong to this level, finally went downhill. There are many reasons for this, but it also means that even if your family is rich in gold and silver, it refuses to conform to the times. I have to explain.

Professor Angus, who shook hands with Wu Bin again as if reacquainted, said with a smile: "So don't hide it, I believe your teammates also have certain strengths, but it's too easy to be the main force in the team." distinguished."

"Actually, they really..."

Hearing that Wu Bin wanted to defend himself, Professor Angus immediately waved his hand and said, "Okay, this is not the point we are going to talk about today. I asked you to come out just out of curiosity." He looked at Wu Bin's Eyes: "Are you interested in aerospace?"

Wu Bin: "Yes, I have always been curious about astronomy."

After hearing this, Professor Angus immediately said, "Then you should come to MIT to study as a graduate student. MIT's aerospace engineering department is definitely the best in the world."

After hearing this, Wu Bin couldn't help laughing a few times, and said, "The University of California also said the same thing."

He had revealed his interest in astronomy when chatting with Professor Brad before, and Professor Brad immediately told him a story.

It is said that there was a dormitory in the California Institute of Technology in the late 30s, and the five guys in it were all very capable masters. They carried out rocket experiments in the dormitory all day long, and called themselves "Rocket Boy (Rocket Boy)".

But often walking by the river, there is no way that your shoes will not get wet.

The rocket experiment is not a joke, and the danger must be extremely high. Once their fuel experiment failed, causing the dormitory building to explode and catch fire, but fortunately there were no casualties.

But the school couldn't stand these "dangerous elements" and kicked them out of the dormitory.

However, the "Rocket boys" did not give up at all, and quickly organized a group of like-minded friends, went straight to the desolate San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles, and continued to conduct experiments in an abandoned stinky ditch.

During the experiment, accidents such as oxygen supply pipe fires and fuel explosions often occurred, but all of these people had rich experience in escaping, so they did not experience any casualties despite experimenting in such a rough experimental environment for so long.

And their former classmates gave them a new title after hearing the news.

"Suicide Club"

In the end, God did not disappoint these persistent "Rocket boys". After three months of various tests, they finally created a rocket that would not explode.

This news quickly spread back to the ears of Professor von Karman, the master of fluid dynamics at Caltech at the time. In addition to being surprised that these boys were not dead, he also felt that they were teachable, so he used his power to kill these boys. Individuals all recalled the school, and personally taught them the necessary knowledge of spaceflight.

This "suicide club" has since officially changed its name to "Caltech Guggenheim Aviation Laboratory"

With the official support, these "Rocket boys" were more unscrupulous in doing various experiments, and soon they had a new idea.

Strapping a rocket to a propeller plane, so that the plane can go up faster, and with this idea, they won two grants totaling 1 US dollars, and finally in 1, the jet aircraft experiment be successful.

In this legendary story, the most important protagonists are of course the five original "Rocket boys"

They are professional aerodynamics master [Frank Marina], self-taught ghost chemist [Jack Parsons], super genius mechanic known as the brain of the future [Ed Foreman], proficient in fluid The dual genius of mechanics and rigid body mechanics [Jeffrey Walker].

And the strongest student in Huaguo known as the father of Huaguo rockets, the father of missiles, the founder of manned spaceflight, and a world-renowned strategic scientist!
Qian Xuesen!
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