Grace is still a little unimaginable: "Even so, a space city, even if it is calculated based on 10,000 tons, 25 times the International Space Station, to send so much material into space, I think it is definitely not just a simple rocket transportation problem, but also a complete space research and development system. Moreover, it is definitely impossible to avoid global cooperation?"

"Indeed," Simon did not deny this time, saying: "But you must also know that one thing is, the larger the scale, the lower the relative cost. Just like satellite development, it is difficult for ordinary people to imagine that a high-end satellite will cost billions of dollars from R&D to being successfully sent to space and put into use. In fact, the main reason is that it cannot be mass-produced, or there is no need for mass-produced. Of course, there is still an inevitable gray area. And I really have to explore the limits of space pursuit technology. Therefore, I will cut off all kinds of unnecessary gray links as much as possible, and I will try to avoid the space exploration team of the Westeros system being as bloated and inefficient as the aerospace departments of various countries such as NASA. In short, although I am very rich, my goal is to do the most with the least resources."

After listening to Simon's words carefully, Grace looked at the little man with a little admiration. She temporarily stopped the movements in her hand, turned around and leaned against the kitchen counter, and asked, "So, what kind of space city are you planning to build?"

"I happened to draw some patterns, but on the computer, if you are interested, I will show you before going to bed at night," Simon said, turning on the fire, putting oil into the pan, and preparing to fry steak. Seeing that the woman was staring at herself with a curious baby, she could only continue: "Basically, the first generation of space city mainly has two aspects. One is to have a gravity warehouse. You may have seen it in some science fiction movies to create artificial gravity through rotation. You must know that if humans want to stay in space for a long time, 'gravity' is definitely a very important thing. The second is to conduct space navigation, and the first space city must at least be able to complete the flight between the earth and the moon. So, it is a space carrier, but it is also possible."

The grass style drawn by Simon is the super space station model in Ridley Scott's "Martian Rescue" in memory. As for the specific design plan, this is the problem of the professional and technical team.

Seeing the man start frying steak, Grace turned around and was busy again, and continued: "I still feel a little unimaginable. Even if the space carrier is only 10,000 tons, which is equivalent to one-tenth of the large federal aircraft carrier, it is actually very large."

"From the space scale, it's actually just a speck of dust," Simon said. "So, the first generation of Space City is just an experiment, involving experiments of various technologies. In the second generation, my goal is to reach at least 100,000 tons to complete the navigation between Earth and Mars."

Grace said in the man's tone: "Is the third generation going to rush out of the solar system?"

"Of course not, this matter is still too far away. The third generation, my goal is to further improve various technical details and realize a complete closed loop in which a human being can survive for a long time in space without replenishment."

Grace suddenly thought of something: "In this way, does it mean that once some extreme event occurs on the earth, such as World War III, we, and even our children, may have another way out besides the island of Tasmania you arranged?"

Simon nodded: "Of course, this is another basket for eggs."

Even though he has clear goals for the future, Simon's attitude as a thorough pessimist has not changed.

As I said, some things are something engraved on the level of human genes and cannot be changed. After all, plundering is easier than production, and destruction is easier than construction. Therefore, building a space city is also a possible choice for your family in the future, and in some cases.

As for more people on this planet, Simon can only say regrets.

Grace got confirmation from the man and said, "But we can't live in space forever, right?"

"Even the most extreme wars cannot last forever," Simon said. "Some situations really happen, we are just temporarily moving to space and can come back when the ground situation is stable."

That's right.

Grace nodded again, fantasized for a moment, and shook her head with a smile: "I still think this matter sounds very sci-fi and very far away."

"It's all done step by step." Simon said: "It's not a problem for humans to land on the moon in the 1960s."

Grace hmmed and continued, "So, how much money do you plan to invest in the first generation?"

Simon did not answer directly, but said: "First of all, this is why I pursue the reuse of rockets. The current Space City plan is still in its prototype stage. However, according to the final planned volume of 10,000 tons, based on the current price of other mainstream heavy-load rockets, about 20 tons and 100 million US dollars, it would cost 50 billion US dollars to send 10,000 tons of material into space, not to mention that it will definitely not avoid various failure losses and losses. Besides, the potential of reusable rockets is that the 30 tons of load of Falcon 9 may eventually be compressed to only cost hundreds of thousands of fuel, even if it is reduced to the cost of 5 million US dollars per time, and all 10,000 tons of material will be sent into space, it only needs..."

Grace had already calculated it quickly and couldn't help but snatch it: "About $1.5 billion?"

"It's hard to imagine, right?" Simon smiled and said, "The latest Ford-class aircraft carrier planned by the federal government will have a budget of tens of billions of dollars."

"You are changing the concept and using freight to deal with the cost," Grace poured cold water on the man's interest: "According to the quotation of a 20-ton heavy-load rocket of $100 million, the International Space Station only needs $2 billion, so where does it cost hundreds of billions?"

Simon shrugged slightly, turned over the steak that had already smelled in the pan, and said, "The problem is that I can compress the delivery cost of a 10,000-ton space city to the same level as a 400-ton space station. Then, the final cost and budget of a complete space city will definitely be in a far lower cost range than ordinary people imagine. Perhaps, a budget of $300 billion should be sufficient. If you calculate it in the next twenty years, this amount will be easy for me."

Grace paused again when she stirred the soup pot, and turned her head and glanced at the man: "It's $300 billion to build a space city, this... or, you don't often say that if you want to continue for a long time, you must have enough output to form a complete business model while investing. So, what about this matter?"

Simon said: "In fact, there is a prerequisite. In an era of lack of faith and lack of confrontation, if you want to push some people to do something, you can only tempt it. This is a business model that can generate profits. However, I am not someone else. I am not short of long-term vision. Just like, I still have enough economic strength, so I can not pursue profits for a long time in the eyes of others. Of course, I still insist that this thing requires a complete business model, but it is not yet, and I can only look forward to the future. We continue to explore when doing this. Maybe you know that diapers are currently invented for aerospace needs. There are actually many others."

Grace put some soup in a spoon, gave it to her mouth and blew it, carefully tasted it, and waited for the man to finish speaking, and then said, "In this case, you spend so much money but don't produce it directly. Even if it's your own money, you will definitely be criticized during the future planning process."

"Yes," Simon shrugged: "For example, so many people on Earth are still struggling with poverty, why don't I donate the money to help them?"

Grace smiled: "Why?"

"Because I'm an alien, I just want to go home."

"Oh."

"Do you want to go back with me?"

"Um."

We chatted without any haste and prepared dinner, and sat on the curtain wall of the restaurant in the clouds reflecting the last sunset on the high-rise buildings of Westeros Building until the "starry sky" under our feet is brighter than the sky.

After dinner, I was not in a hurry to go to the party hosted by Melisandra. Grace said she wanted to see Simon's draft about Space City, of course she was satisfied. Then she saw the big bed in the bedroom, the party, and so on, of course it didn't matter.

I still rest the next day until the new week arrives, on February 28th.

on Monday.

The new week's Monday is waking up in Jerry Hall's Greenwich Large Flat.

Jerry Hall wanted a child, and although Simon planned to restrain this, he agreed after a little consideration.

Because this is a smart woman.

Simon likes smart women because children will be very smart in the future and will be taught smarter by smart women.

In the morning, Hall's eldest daughter Elizabeth was not there. She followed London, which was the second stop of Fashion Week. James, one year younger than Elizabeth, went to his father Mick Jagger, so only Gloria, the youngest, had a meal with the two adults.

The eight-year-old girl doesn't need to pay much attention, and Simon and Hall are still talking about some serious things.

After considering the production of "Proud of the Sky Bridge", Hall finally decided to retreat behind the scenes and only be a producer. After all, even if you are pregnant, there will definitely be a lot of trouble in the future.

After choosing, Claudia Shiver, the "Snowflake Queen" was finally finalized as the host.

In fact, Hall initially considered Cindy Crawford. Cindy had been a host before, had some experience, and was a native American girl. She is famous enough and is easier to gain recognition from American audiences.

Unfortunately, the negotiation was not finalized.

It’s not that Cindy’s offer is too high. After all, the other party has to consider the way out for himself when he is retired. It’s just that the initiative is too great, and the other party’s status is indeed enough. Hall is worried that one cannot control it and will bring uncontrollable variables to the subsequent production. After all, this is definitely planned to be a series. What Cindy asked first is to sign one season, which is definitely not OK.

Relatively speaking, Claudia Shiver, who happened to be 30 years old this year, was also striving for transformation, so he readily signed a three-season agreement at one time.

Simon still thinks Heidi Krum is more suitable, but because of the child's work, he doesn't think about it anymore. This time, if it's better or worse, it's actually acceptable. In the same sentence, the current development of the Westeros system has enough fault tolerance.

Speaking of which, I remembered the Snowflake Queen’s Final**ODY.

Last time, it was the last time. Maybe I could take the time to have a try again.

At the dining table, Jerry Hall said this, reached out to help his little girl next to him wipe her mouth, and mentioned another thing: "Simon, I see that Melisandra is trying to acquire Hermes recently?"

Simon nodded.

The news should have spread.

As the king of luggage, Hermes brand, whether it is once or this time, it is the industry pearl that many fashion groups hope to win. For Melisandra, if she can win Hermes, it means that there will be an "aircraft carrier-level" brand with a sales volume of US$1 billion.

In the original time and space, Hermes was almost eaten by LVMH, which also triggered an investigation into the malicious acquisition of LVMH by the French government. However, because of LVMH's special status in France, it was finally fined three drinks and paid a fine of several million US dollars. However, Hermes was not taken down because the founding family of the brand used the poison pill plan to block LVMH's further annexation.

This time, because of Melisandra's rise, LVMH's development is far less than before, and now it is no longer able to have the desire for Hermes. However, Melisandra is strong enough, and Sophia takes decisive action.

The Hermes family's reaction was still the same as before.

After all, Hermes is operating normally, profitable, and the brand style is still at the top of the industry pyramid, so I definitely don’t want to live in the house.

However, this company is not impeccable.

Hermes is a listed company that currently owns 37% of its shares in the circulation market. Although the Hermes family holds an absolute majority of 63% of its shares, it is scattered in the hands of more than fifty Hermes family members. This means that as long as someone can take over a part of Hermes' circulating shares, more than 10%, it can easily become the largest shareholder of Hermes company.

Melisandra does exactly that.

Some non-compliant methods have also been used, mainly because the French stock market also has rules for reporting more than 5% of its shares. However, in recent days, Melisander's shareholding was first exposed, but it has reached 21%, including absorbed from the open market, and some from Hermes family members who hope to cash out.

Then, now.
Chapter completed!