[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-technology-invades-the-modern-world":3,"chapter-technology-invades-the-modern-world-technology-invades-the-modern-world-chapter-81":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Technology Invades the Modern World",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2269565,4430,"Chapter 81","technology-invades-the-modern-world-chapter-81",81,"\u003Cp>Kennedy’s speech and everything that happened at Cape Canaveral spread across the world within a week through newspapers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During that week, it dominated countless front pages of media outlets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From newspapers to television to radio, every medium you could think of was discussing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the vast majority of media focused entirely on Kennedy and the White House, with not a single person caring about Lin Ran’s prediction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ran’s prediction was already considered lucky if it got a single paragraph mentioned on a newspaper’s front page.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even when newspapers specifically addressed the matter, their attention was not on Lin Ran’s prediction itself, but on the belief that the entire incident had been orchestrated by the White House.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like Kissinger stirring up trouble around the globe—no matter how many actions he led, people at the time assumed they were White House decisions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But inside NASA, the reaction was entirely different, because NASA had access to Lin Ran’s predictions and the complete data on Freedom 7’s crash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This directly led to the suicide of Robert Gilruth, director of the Ground Control Center, and countless other staff members would later be implicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone wondered if McCarthy was about to make a comeback.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only this time, McCarthy’s target was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What the f**k! How is this possible!” Ernst Stuhlinger, director of the Ion Propulsion Laboratory at Marshall Space Flight Center, compared Lin Ran’s prediction with NASA’s internal accident report on Freedom 7 and found the timing predictions were astonishingly precise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ernst Stuhlinger had long heard of Lin Ran’s name—he saw it in a letter from Heines, who described the young yellow-skinned man as unparalleled in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heines also mentioned in the letter that if this man joined NASA, it would greatly benefit their Mercury program, and he hoped Stuhlinger would arrange an interview.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stuhlinger was Heines’s superior’s superior, a scientist recruited by America from Germany during Operation Paperclip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike von Braun, who remained in the rear overseeing rocket development, Stuhlinger had personally fought on the front lines, even participating in the Battle of Stalingrad as a former private second class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Stuhlinger possessed iron will—only the toughest survived the brutal winter march back to Germany.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stuhlinger and Heines were close personally; he quickly arranged the interview, but after Heines returned to Redstone Arsenal, he told Stuhlinger the man had taken a teaching position at Columbia University.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stuhlinger didn’t think much of it—after all, Redstone Arsenal had thousands of scientists, and Lin Ran’s genius remained confined to Heines’s letter; he had never seen him in person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, he encountered the name again in newspapers, on the science pages, where this young man named Randolph Lin kept creating new miracles in mathematics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Stuhlinger regret not having been more decisive and gone to New York to meet him in person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most recent time he heard the name was when the man actually joined NASA—but not as his subordinate engineer, rather as his direct superior, and NASA’s top superior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he came in with a brutal wake-up call.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using impossibly accurate predictions, he slapped every NASA employee across the face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ran’s handwritten prediction draft had been copied everywhere; nearly every NASA scientist now had a copy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides being stunned that he had predicted the exact time of failure, the deviation angle, and the final cause of the crash, everyone felt only one thing: humiliation, brutally humiliated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a NASA senior official, Stuhlinger felt this humiliation even more intensely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his office, besides himself, Kurt Debus, director of launch operations at Cape Canaveral, was also present. He asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kurt, you were with Lin the entire time he observed the launch at Cape Canaveral?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kurt nodded: “Yes, I accompanied him the whole time. Lin toured the rocket and Freedom 7.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But the circuits were sealed—he couldn’t see inside from the outside, only study the blueprints of Freedom 7’s internal design.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When Director Webb toured the rocket, Lin only glanced at it from afar; most of his time was spent in the conference room studying Freedom 7’s design blueprints.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I originally thought he was fascinated by Freedom 7’s control system design, but turns out he came to stir up trouble.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Also, from manufacturing to installation to launch, Freedom 7 was under constant security surveillance—no one from outside the launch base ever had contact with it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kurt was furious: You saw the problem—why didn’t you say something earlier? If you had, we wouldn’t have wasted this opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I understand,” Stuhlinger sighed deeply. “Whoever found our weakness deserves to win.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But I still don’t understand—how could he dare to gamble?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kurt asked: “Gamble? They must have prepared two strategies—if we succeeded, they’d just change their story.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stuhlinger explained: “Of course, they considered both success and failure. By ‘gamble,’ I mean—how could Lin dare write the failure process with such precision, down to the minute?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Didn’t he fear his prediction might be wrong?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Worse—he was right. The predicted time matched reality exactly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This can’t be explained by prior preparation—he saw only circuit diagrams and predicted this failure.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We spent half a year checking and rechecking and still missed the flaw—he glanced at it once and saw it, then made such precise and bold predictions.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He’s telling us his expertise in aerospace equals his mastery in mathematics—don’t treat him as an outsider.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In management, we have James Webb; in technology, we have Randolph Lin.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“NASA is about to face upheaval—and we have no grounds to oppose it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you lose, you accept it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If your weakness is exposed, you accept it even more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides Special Assistant for Aerospace Affairs, Lin Ran was given a new position: Director of NASA’s Manned Spaceflight Office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a newly established internal office responsible for centralized management of NASA’s manned spaceflight programs, including manned lunar missions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was, in effect, the most powerful internal body within the Apollo program.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Freedom 7’s failure, both James Webb and the White House felt only Lin Ran could be trusted on technical matters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, Lin Ran joined NASA’s Accident Investigation Committee as an investigator, assisting James Webb in rooting out problematic personnel within NASA.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Redstone Arsenal conference room, all engineers and managers at GS-9 level and above gathered together, with Lin Ran seated at the center of the tiered meeting room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing the audience, the first row directly across from him was von Braun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hello everyone. This is my first formal meeting with all of you since assuming the role of Special Assistant for Aerospace Affairs.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m not pointing fingers at anyone—I’m saying all of you here are garbage.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1096,"2026-06-19T21:37:46.551Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","6f183be0d34cfe7a89086a281f17a8dbed0c9dd4d188ab707ea0e00dd7aa7430","technology-invades-the-modern-world-chapter-82","technology-invades-the-modern-world-chapter-80",162,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ftechnology-invades-the-modern-world-cover.jpg"]