Day 5 (4) The greatest is born to death

The clock beats second by second, and time passes slowly in oppressive silence.

Tang Yue walked around the main hall of Kunlun Station, occasionally standing close to the bulkhead for a while, and then turning around, like a bear that had been locked in a cage for a long time and showed stereotypical behavior, he kneaded the joints of his hands uneasily, and the anxiety in his heart was fully revealed.

"Wind speed?"

"Forty-three meters per second." Tang Yue glanced at the anemometer.

The old cat nodded, it looked calmer and more composed than Tang Yue, staring at the computer screen expressionlessly, of course, this may also be because the robot's facial expressions are not rich in the first place.

"Lower the initial phase angle...... Lower the phase angle again! There is still room for squeezing for orbit accuracy...... There's still room for squeezing! The old cat gritted its teeth as it tested every step of the Eagle spacecraft into orbit over and over again on the computer, "Wind speed? โ€

"Forty-three meters per second."

"The cumulative error of pure inertial navigation is more than seven meters, which is unreliable, unreliable at all...... Wind velocity? โ€

"Forty-three meters per second."

It doesn't know how many times it asked about the wind speed, but the old cat finally revealed its anxiety and nervousness, although it didn't show it on its face, it was also worried about the damn weather, and subconsciously asked about the wind speed over and over again.

The person and cat in Kunlun Station have tried their best, but their strength is too weak, and standing opposite Tang Yue's old cat is the vast and majestic universe.

Reality is the cruelest thing in the world, it is not a story or a fairy tale, at the critical moment of life and death, there will be no savior falling from the sky, there will be no hidden master suddenly appearing to turn the tide, and there will be no perfect ending that has been written, how many tons of propellant can push the lander into a high orbit, and it is impossible to add one meter more.

The old cat hit the enter key on the keyboard, and once again simulated the process of entering orbit of the Eagle spacecraft.

"The wind speed in the ascending section is 43 meters per second, and the initial orbit measurement is ...... Phase Modulation Wait...... Fail. โ€

"The wind speed of the ascent stage is forty-three meters per second, it enters the initial orbit, adjusts the phase angle, and begins to transfer the orbit...... Fail. โ€

"The wind speed of the ascent stage is forty-three meters per second, it enters the initial orbit, adjusts the phase angle, begins to transfer the orbit, and enters the parking orbit...... Fail! โ€

"Failure!"

"Failure!"

The old cat has lost count of how many times it has failed, it has a billiard cue in its hand, and it has to hit a billiard ball into the hole from a thousand meters away, and it is normal to fail when it is blindfolded and in the storm.

There is chaos theory in physics, which shows that a complex whole with too many influencing factors cannot accurately predict the outcome, such as the weather, the butterfly effect is one of the very famous concepts, "a butterfly flapping its wings in South America, two weeks later can cause a tornado in North America", a small deviation in the initial conditions, after systematic amplification, can lead to a large difference in the results.

So no one can put this billiard ball into the hole, there are too many influencing factors on this table, from the cue stick to the billiard ball to the wind speed to the smoothness of the table.

But the old cat still insists on finding the glimmer of hope for success, it does not hesitate to fight against chaos theory, against the laws of physics, against the results of calculations, it insists on believing that in the vast sea of complex parameters, there must be a group that can successfully cancel out all the errors, so that the Eagle spacecraft and the United Space Station can be perfectly successfully docked.

For a robot born of logic, against mathematics and physics, it is probably the most fearless courage and the most tragic life to die.

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"This is the United Space Station, the 712th call to Kunlun Station, Mr. Tang Yue, Mr. Cat, please answer ...... received"

Mai Dong called Kunlun Station softly.

There was no response in the communication channel, and it is likely that the radio waves emitted from the space station did not pass through the sandstorm below, and the Kunlun station did not receive it at all.

The core module of the crystal was full of all kinds of mechanical noises, the girl was wearing blue overalls, wearing headphones, suspended in the air, connected to the bulkhead by a headphone cable, and the temperature in the space station rose after the sun rose, so Mai Dong slightly reduced the power of the insulation system.

"This is the Joint Space Station, the 713th call to Kunlun Station, Mr. Tang Yue, Mr. Cat, please answer when you hear it."

"This is the Joint Space Station, the 714th call to Kunlun Station, Mr. Tang Yue, Mr. Cat, please answer when you hear it......"

Mai Dong reached out and twisted the knob to turn up the volume slightly.

"This is Kunlun Station! This is Kunlun Station...... Mai Dong? Mai Dong ...... Can you hear me? โ€

"Mr. Tang Yue?" Mai Dong heard that this was Tang Yue's voice, she pressed the headphones in surprise, stepped forward to turn up the volume to the maximum, Tang Yue's voice was vague in the noise.

"Mai Dong...... Mai Dong, can you hear me...... This is Kunlun Station......"

"I can get it!" Mai Dong replied, "Mr. Tang Yue, how is the situation over there?" How about Mr. Cat? โ€

"The old cat is trying to adjust the Eagle ship, and I'm in the wind to get in touch with you! It's a bit windy here......"

Holding on to the communication antenna, Tang Yue shouted loudly, trying to drown out the loud noise, he felt like a CCTV reporter who stuck to the front line of reporting in the midst of a typhoon, and like a victim who was struggling to support himself with a telephone pole in the flood.

"Comrade Mai Dong! I have good news for you...... That's when the Eagle ship is ready! Anytime...... can be launched! Your supplies are about to arrive! Your supplies are about to arrive! โ€

"I know, Mr. Cat has already told me."

"That'...... I'll ...... you again Again! Tang Yue shouted, his voice intermittent in the channel, "You must ...... Hold on to it with confidence! The party and the people will not give up on you! Won't give up...... it! โ€

Mai Dong was stunned for a moment, there was a click in the headphones, and the contact was interrupted.

"Mr. Tang Yue? Mr. Tang Yue, what's wrong with you? โ€

Mai Dong panicked, she didn't know what was going on underneath, Tang Yue suddenly cut off contact.

Kunlun Station.

The old cat tapped on the keyboard, turned his head distractedly and glanced out, and saw Tang Yue slowly getting up, the latter had just fallen down without standing firmly, and even someone rolled out with the antenna, fortunately, there was a safety rope to pull, otherwise I don't know if I could find it back.

Tang Yue panted and propped up the antenna, plugged the loose data cable socket back in, and began to adjust the angle of the antenna, but no matter how he adjusted it, he couldn't find the original signal, and there was only endless current noise in the channel.

Whether the Kunlun station can contact the space station is a matter of luck, after all, the sandstorm overhead is moving, and the radio waves may be able to break through the interference when the condition is slightly better, but the activity of the sandstorm will cause the contact to be interrupted.

Tang Yue anxiously adjusted the knob of the antenna, but the frozen and stiff gloves kept slipping, and he couldn't adjust the angle he wanted no matter how he turned, damn it...... He still hasn't finished speaking, why did he suddenly interrupt?

Tang Yue was wearing heavy Mingguang armor, staggering around the antenna, staggered around the wind by the storm, and the old cat looked at him, his back was clumsy like a bear with its claws stretched out to reach for bananas.

It's really poignant to think about, why is the world so difficult?

You see him swaying in the storm as a fragile weed, but he stubbornly stood there, refusing to fall.