Super God-Level Top Student

For ordinary people who don't often deal with intelligence, one thing is quite counterintuitive: the work of discerning intelligence often consumes more resources and time than the task of obtaining it. Hence, for specific intelligence personnel, analytical ability may be even more crucial than the ability to acquire information.

The powerhouse 007 types from movies are hard to come by in reality.

Especially in the internet age, acquiring so-called intelligence is easy. Yet determining what's true and what's false is often something even the most professional intelligence agents find confusing.

One thing that is certain: in intelligence analysis, logical reasoning is particularly important. Analyzing and judging trends from significant figures' discourse has always been a required skill. This is also why official reports, which people often see, not only fit into templates, but the bigger the matter, the fewer the words.

It comes down to 'What do I want to do, how to do it, you slowly guess.'

Intelligence in the scientific field is quite similar. Apart from the obviously fake ones, there's still a lot that requires verification. This is why even a specialized department like Langley must hire numerous industry experts as consultants, many of whom might not even be aware they are working for Langley.

Even large companies are starting to implement assembly line operations, weakening individual influence in this era; crossing industries is truly like crossing mountains.

For example, how precise was Huaxia's chip factory before? What are the technical details? Can it truly replace traditional lithography equipment? This requires dismantling the chips for analysis.

Also, there's the recent explosive claim that Huaxia has completely mastered more advanced glass substrate packaging stack technology, allegedly surpassing Intel's level. At least, this information doesn't belong to the obviously fake category, but its authenticity remains unknown and needs further analysis and validation.

Of course, there are some obviously fake contents.

For instance, Xilin University of Technology Physics College applied to build a high-energy physics laboratory and verified a brand-new technology for constructing a High Energy Particle Collider. The particle accelerator used by this collider is very small, which is considered micro.

Its total length is just over ten meters, with the widest radius being less than four meters, and the cost is only less than thirty billion yuan.

Most importantly, the performance standards for designing this new type of accelerator initially referenced CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Indeed, when this news reached the West via all sorts of chaotic channels from Huaxia, even those staff in charge of collecting intelligence felt it was too unrealistic, despite not being experts in physics.

It was so fake that if the intelligence didn't mention the name Xilin University of Technology which was highlighted for attention long ago, those working on organizing this piece of intelligence wouldn't even bother to conduct a second verification.

Comparing something over ten meters with the collider stretching tens of kilometers underground, it can only be said that Huaxia people are truly imaginative. It's akin to a two-year-old baby competing against Tyson and managing a draw.

If it weren't for Langley recently assigning a new host, such information simply wouldn't be reported; it would directly be dismissed in the initial screening phase.

Otherwise, with the massive influx of intelligence pouring in worldwide daily, verification tasks would exhaust special consultants.

After this message went through initial filtering, it was quickly placed before relevant experts. Advances in communication modes also significantly saved time; such information, not classified as high secrecy, could be discussed via online video.

"Is this a joke? Although discerning physics at this level indeed requires some skill, even if this message were brought to Harvard, Columbia University, Princeton, or the Berkeley Branch to show any physics undergraduate student, they would tell you that at current technological levels, this is impossible.

Unless there was a major revolution in physics, allowing our technological level to leap forward. Otherwise, you might as well tell me Huaxia people have completed small-scale nuclear fusion technology, and it's controllable."

Karsten Hegge patiently finished reading the incomplete report, laid down the file, and directly voiced this evaluation.

This person is indeed an expert, a tenured professor of physics at Yale University, and also vice chairman of the P5 report. He participated in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica expansion plan.

However, the person on the other side of the video apparently wasn't giving up and continued, "Thank you very much, Professor Hegge, then why do you think this application was made? For instance..."

"For instance, Huaxia might want to initiate another scientific competition. Fine, that's how I interpret it. Just like what you previously consulted, they want to build a space base, start the space age... Yes, I admit, these are wonderful visions. But clearly, these require time and accumulation.

Environmental control, life support, materials for space construction, energy supply, radiation protection, space logistics... Which of these can be easily realized? Or rather, if we set the same plan, how much funding could the Congress approve to make this human dream come true?"

Karsten Hegge said dismissively.

Of course, this critique isn't just targeting Huaxia colleagues but also entails more self-reflection.

Not only has NASA's funding gradually decreased year by year, but the most infuriating part is numerous funds are inexplicably spent. Places genuinely needing money must remain unseen. Granted, there's subjective bias, like thinking one's project is surely more important than others.