The comet is gone.

Tang Yue packed up, patted his ass and prepared to go home.

"We've got a life back." The old cat and Tang Yue walked side by side, strolling on the sand, with meteors above their heads, and a large number of fine Xiaoice crystals in the comet of Tomcat drew a bright stream of light after entering the atmosphere, "At the most critical moment, six points were thrown." ”

"If there is a god in this world, then what is he doing at the moment?" Tang Yue asked.

"Maybe you're petting the cat." The old cat said lightly, "I think God is a cat slave." ”

"Why isn't he walking the dog?"

"Because all the dog parties in this world have perished."

"I suddenly understood a little bit of the believers who believed in the existence of God, and if I were a Christian, I would surely fall down on my knees and weep and thank the Lord for His gift and deliverance...... There will always be a million believers in this world who pray to God when they are in trouble, and the prayers of 999,900 of them are useless, but there will always be a hundred coincidences. Tang Yue said, "In the end, these hundred coincidences were regarded as miracles. ”

"Survivorship bias?"

Tang Yue thought for a moment and nodded.

"Comet Tomcat hitting Mars, Deimos hitting comet, these two events are extremely unlikely for us, but for the one above our heads......" the old cat pointed to the starry sky overhead, "whether it is a 1 in 10 million probability or a 1 in 100 million probability, it doesn't make any sense, for the universe, everything is mediocre, this is the principle of mediocrity." ”

"The principle of medicality?"

"We think it's inconceivable that Demos will hit a comet because the probability is so small, but in fact the odds of Demos appearing anywhere are equal, and its orbital eccentricity can go from 1.79 to 1.80 to 1.81 or 1.82, and every result is mediocre."

Tang Yue asked leisurely: "We are also mediocre?"

The old cat nodded, "Yes, you and I are mediocre. ”

"That sounds a bit disappointing." Tang Yue smiled slightly, "You must know that everyone has once fantasized that they are the center of the world. ”

The old cat took off the helmet of the spacesuit, threw it into the air and stretched out its claws to catch it, "There is no conflict between the two, if you want to make yourself sound more important, you can bring out the principle of human existence to prove this." ”

"Tang Yue, Mr. Cat, this is the United Space Station." Mai Dong's voice sounded in the headphones, "Can you hear me?" There is nothing wrong with the communication, right? ”

"The signal is normal, are you okay, girl?" Tang Yue asked, "The space station is not affected by the comet, right?" ”

"Everything is normal inside the space station."

The collision of Comet Tomcat-Tang-Mai with Demos formed an extremely sparse ring in orbit 20,000 kilometers away - the nominal ring cannot be seen with a telescope, and the old cat said that if the material fragments in the ring were evenly distributed in orbit, the distance between every two Xiaoice crystals larger than a millimeter would be more than 4,000 kilometers.

The old cat estimates that Comet Tomcat left behind 500 billion tons of material in orbit around Mars, most of which is thin gas.

This thin halo has no effect on the space station in low earth orbit, the only thing that may be interfered with is the Mars communication relay satellite, the three relay satellites are all located in a synchronous orbit at an altitude of 17,000 kilometers, Lao Mao and Tang Yue are worried that they will be damaged in the impact, but fortunately their worries have not come true, and the relay satellite is still working normally so far.

"Girl, we're having a meteor shower here."

"Really?" Mai Dong's eyes lit up, "How big is it?" ”

"Very, very big." Tang Yue took a deep breath, "This is definitely the most spectacular meteor shower ever seen by humans, and it doesn't come from a certain constellation...... All day. ”

The girl exclaimed in the channel, she couldn't see a meteor on the space station, Mai Dong had never seen a meteor shower, and she couldn't imagine what the most spectacular meteor shower in human history was, it was a gift from fate to congratulate the three of them on their immortality.

"In the face of the most astonishing natural landscapes, human language is always clumsy, your brains are not strong enough to contain the greatest creation in the world, your vocabulary is not enough to describe the most majestic power in the world, you can only say big, very big, very, very big." The old cat snorted, "Cats are different." ”

"What would the cat say?"

"Cats can talk......," replied the old cat, "meow." ”

Tang Yue opened the hatch of the airlock room, and the old cat got in.

Tang Yue followed the old cat into the airlock chamber and closed and locked the outer hatch.

The lights are on in the hall of Kunlun Station, there are horizontal and vertical monitors on the table, and there are two armchairs crooked at random in front of the table, still quiet and warm, Tang Yue stepped into the hall, as if he had returned home from a wet and cold winter rainy night, put away the wet umbrella, the fire was lit in the fireplace in the room, the surging heat wave baked his face hot, and the firewood crackled in the flames.

Tang Yue took off his Mingguang armor, held a glass of water, and stood in front of the shelf to play with the tomatoes.

"Sons, Daddy is back alive." Tang Yue pinched the dropper and irrigated it one by one, "Are you happy?" ”

"Tang Yue, Mr. Cat." Mai Dong asked, "I...... What should I do next? Do I still need to go down? ”

The comet no longer poses any threat to the space station, and the United Space Station is currently in a fairly safe situation, and Mai Dong no longer needs to force a landing.

"Do you want to come down?" The old cat asked, "Miss Mai Dong." ”

Mai Dong nodded, "Yes." ”

"Again, we don't force or guide you to make any choices, the choice is up to you." "You can choose to stay on the station, or you can choose to land, but I need to remind you...... Miss Mai Dong, you have to take into account the risks behind the choices you make. ”

Staying in orbit is undoubtedly the safest, and forcing a landing with the Orion 2 spacecraft is extremely risky - the old cat decided to use this method because the impact of Comet Tomcat would destroy the space station 100%, and under the pressure of the comet, it had to do everything possible to rescue Maidon, whichever is the lesser of two powers.

But now the comet is gone.

Mai Dong can take the comet's arrival as an interlude, how she lived before, how she will live in the future.

"Yes...... But haven't our mock tests been successful? ”

The old cat sighed secretly.

They planted a seed in Mai Dong's heart, telling her that it was possible to make a successful landing, so the girl could no longer live like before...... Once you have given someone in a desperate situation a possible way out, an illusory hope, a plausible promise, then the person will no longer be willing to sit still.

"Miss Mai Dong, the ground simulation doesn't explain anything, there have been so many accidents in history, which ground test has not been successful? But the accident still happened. "Now that the comet threat is gone, there's no need for you to take this dangerous path." ”

"I ......"

"I agree with the old cat." Tang Yue stood in front of the shelf, "The landing of Orion II is too dangerous, girl, you don't have to gamble with your life." ”

"What if I insist on going down?" Mai Dong bit his lip, "Wouldn't this decision be selfish?" ”

The old cat was stunned.

Tang Yue was also stunned.

They all laughed.

"No, no, Miss Mai Dong, you have the right to make any decision and bear the corresponding consequences, it is just a choice, there is no right or wrong, no one can blame you." "If you insist on coming down, then we'll have to start the landing plan." ”

Tang Yue finished watering the tomatoes and sat on a chair with a blanket.

"It's coming another day, and I'm so happy for the sun."

"Why?"

"Because it can see me again, I think the sun should be relieved to see the comet leaving the orbit of Mars, and will express this emotion: Tang Yue will rise as usual tomorrow." 8)