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The "Moho Drilling Plan" was actually the first scientific drilling plan. It was launched in the late 20s. Its main purpose was to drill through the Moho, uncover the secrets of the earth's mantle, and achieve major breakthroughs in geoscience research.

There are many problems in the drilling plan on the earth: First of all, the core of the earth is not "dead", the crustal activity is still frequent, and there is a large ocean on the surface of the earth. If you want to drill underground, you must first overcome the problems of underwater operations.

The site selected for the Moho Project was to drill on the coast of Te La Jolla, and eventually drilled 948 meters into the ground at a water depth of 315 meters. However, it was aborted due to technical difficulties and high costs.

On Mars, engineering construction is much simpler. There is no ocean covering the surface. You only need to find a relatively low point on the surface, and then select a suitable location to start building the Moho drilling.

On the other hand, Mars is smaller in volume and density than Earth, so drilling is not difficult, and there is no need to worry too much about possible crustal movements that may affect drilling.

The benefits are several:

Although it is very different from the Earth, it is still a planet, and humans have never obtained geological samples at this depth.

Furthermore, since it is now confirmed that there is water on Mars, and it is buried deep underground in the form of ice, it means that there is likely to be a large amount of minerals underground on Mars, and resources will never be short. One more mining method means one more choice.

Finally, drilling into the Earth's mantle, in theory, current technology will not cause any devastating damage to the planet, but the Earth's crust is a complex system. Even if it does not destroy the Earth, it may cause a major earthquake, tsunami, or something like that, but it may cause a tremor to the Earth. It's a bit shaky, but for humans it's a big deal.

Besides, there is a "god" in the earth's core.

The drilling plan for planetary cores will help researchers deepen their understanding of the planet formation process, which is very helpful for the advancement of planetary transformation technology. You must know that there are many planets in the habitable zone in the universe, but the planetary cores are extinguished. If a way can be found to rekindle the core, it would be a huge breakthrough.

Further, Harry was able to get the information he wanted from these technological breakthroughs: if he wanted to detonate the planet's core and blow up a planet, how much energy would it take.

After discussion by the Scientific Research Department, the site for the Mars Moho drilling was finally decided on the Greek Plain, which is the lowest point on Mars.

"Then let's start transferring resources." Harry read the entire Moho drilling plan and found no problems.

"Sir, Ms Hardy and Mr Osborne are requesting communications."

"Access."

"Harry, there may be some problems with your plan. The Earth Alliance plans to arrange a new director for the UNSC." Felicia said directly.

Facing Felicia's question, Harry scratched his head--Did Lian's wings become stiff?

I sold them some engineering ships, enough for them to develop within the solar system, but where are they?Is this floating?

Fortunately, I didn't announce the FTL engine to them.

After listening to Felicia's report, in simple terms: they were greatly inspired by the vigorous development of the Mars colony--

What incentive?Of course it's an incentive to grab resources.

Breaking out of the Earth, colonizing Mars, and mining asteroids would be a huge technological breakthrough. We don’t know how many years or months it will take to break out of the solar system. What if we don’t find a way to balance the countries now and there will be a shortage of resources in the future?

They began to express their implicit dissatisfaction with Harry Osborn sitting in the position of supreme commander of the UNSC, and planned to strengthen their control over the UNSC through the establishment of a parliament.

Mars is the first colony of mankind. They want to establish a "Mars Parliament" in the UNSC in the name of Mars to become the highest authority of the UNSC, and the members are naturally representatives of various countries.

In other words: the "traditional" way society operates, weighing on Harry Osborn's head.

This incident is of course a good thing for other countries, but it is a bit difficult for the Norman authorities: everyone knows that the Osborne Group can get to where it is today without Norman's help.

Norman still has his last year in office. Three years later, the situation in the United States has become much better. The crime rate has dropped, foreign wars have stopped, welfare has improved, and even the environment in neighboring countries has improved a lot.

But Norman was the last obstacle to the establishment of the Mars Parliament, so now some not-so-beautiful voices have emerged in the United States.

"Now there are marching groups, and most of them are saying that I have made the United States lose its hegemony." Norman said nonchalantly.

It’s nothing more than that, “number one in the world”, “world hegemony” and the like.

If you insist on saying so, this statement is not bad. The United States has indeed lost its hegemonic position. In the past, the United States also used its hegemonic position to inject blood to interest groups, such as the Roxon Group and AIM.

In essence, there is no difference, but in the past it was the military industry that hollowed out the United States. The military-industrial complex made a lot of money, but ordinary Americans did not enjoy any benefits.

It is the Osborne Group that is hollowing out the United States now, but at least they have obtained cheap nuclear fusion energy, excellent aerospace technology, universal health insurance, a hyper-realistic virtual reality community, etc.

At that time, Norman's slogan was "Great Again". Greatness does not necessarily mean riding on others' heads. Stability and development are the core needs. Investing resources in the Osborne Group has eliminated the gap between the rich and the poor, reduced the crime rate, and improved Isn’t it great to increase the employment rate and allow humans to walk off the earth?

So Norman really doesn't think there is any problem. This kind of attack from foreign forces does not pose any threat to him. Living a good life is really good.

After all, the American people were kidnapped by the government to fight in the past. They fought more and meaningless wars to keep the military industry alive, but ignored the living needs of more ordinary people. The people's livelihood was not necessarily much better.

Now Norman is more like expressing their "needs", spending tax money on transactions with the Osborne Group, and building the United States. The two are different.

As for those MPs who have interests connected with the Beat Company, they are now receiving funding from the Osborne Group.

The capital, the people, and the top officials are all Norman's people, and there is no reason why Norman should not be re-elected.

However, the establishment of a parliament in the UNSC is indeed very consistent with the inertia of past propaganda. This cannot be reversed in one or two strokes.

But the problem is not that big. At most, it will lose some support, and Norman can just veto it with one vote.

"They've put out a speaker, and I guess they're trying to start a tug of war," Norman said.

Harry understood their intention at once: Norman would still be in office for at most 5 years, and starting to promote and hype this topic from now on, it would also become a competitive weapon in the next presidential election.

There is no reason for the candidates to help Harry maintain his position. On the contrary, after several other forces have hyped up the "anti-Austrian" topic, candidates who support anti-Austria will naturally get these votes.

It may not be possible once, but the ultimate purpose of this move is to curb the expansion of the Osborne Group, which can be a long-term process.

Besides, five years is not that long in the first place, and they didn’t know that in just a few days, the Osborne Group had already flown out of the solar system.

Before Harry could think about it, Felicia said something that surprised Harry:

"And they've found a breaking point - there's been a synthetic killing in Detroit."

This is no small matter.

No wonder they suddenly became dishonest. It turned out that there was a flaw.

Harry touched his chin. There was nothing wrong with the synthetics in the Osborn Group, but something happened in the United States?