Day 333 (2) Captain Cook on Mars
Hearing this answer, Tang Yue was slightly stunned, but he was not surprised.
"yes...... I don't believe it either. He pulled out the paper from the envelope, and according to the letter, he was going to fight a lawsuit unprecedented in ancient and modern times, and he was going to claim compensation from this incredible civilization for all the losses of human civilization.
Tang Yue has never been in a lawsuit in his life, and he has never fought with anyone, let alone with aliens.
He didn't even know what his opponent would be, judging from the rhetoric and tone of this letter, the initiator of all this has the ability to evaporate tens of millions of stars in an instant, for the humans on the earth, this is undoubtedly a god-like civilization, and Tang Yue wants to face the god alone and take this god to court.
It sounds like a chimpanzee in Africa suing a human infrastructure group for compensation for the rainforest that has been damaged by development.
Humans would probably have put the chimpanzee in a zoo for a tour around the world.
Tang Yue folded the letter paper into a paper airplane and threw it out vigorously, "you——! How far is it, how far is it for me——! Whoever believes in you is stupid*——! ”
"You wait for me! Silly*——! None of you can run away! I'm going to sue you for losing your pants——! ”
Tang Yue yelled hoarsely at the horizon.
"Bastard——! Fuck you——! FuckFuckFuckFuck! Fuck your mother——! ”
The old cat sat on the side, watching the paper airplane draw a parabola like a stone and land on the sand.
Tang Yue's swear words were all accepted by the world, but unfortunately no one replied to him, Tang Yue shouted that he was tired, turned around and patted the old cat's head, "Let's go, let's go back to dinner." ”
"I don't have to eat."
"Then go back and recharge."
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The old cat lay on the desk, "swished", and drew a 60-degree arc on the white paper cleanly, and then cut the fan with scissors, and marked a fine scale on it with a ruler and a marker.
"What are you doing?"
"Sextant." The old cat pulled a thin wire out of the drawer, bit it off with his teeth, and straightened the measured length.
"Sextant?" Tang Yue had heard of this, but he was not familiar with it.
"Centuries-old antiques, you don't need them at all now, but at the beginning of this century, learning how to use a sextant for positioning was still a must for pilots and astronauts." The old cat tied a screw to one end of the thin wire as a counterweight, and shook it high, "We have to cross hundreds of kilometers of desert, and we can use a sextant to accurately determine our latitude and longitude - of course, provided that your sextant itself is accurate." ”
Tang Yue opened a bag of canned beef, turned his head and glanced at the simple tools in the old cat's hand, they were all simple and easy-to-obtain materials in Kunlun Station, paper, pen, wire, screws, pen holders, fine line all-purpose glue, how simple it was, he couldn't help but worry about the accuracy of this thing.
"The simpler the stuff, the more reliable, because in these seemingly rudimentary tools, you are often dealing with the most basic and rigorous mathematical calculations and physical laws, and they cannot have bugs." The old cat narrowed one eye, dipped a thin needle in ink and drew a scale on the paper, holding his breath and carving it carefully, as if he wanted to carve flowers on this messy pile of waste.
"Don't we have any other way to navigate?"
"For example?" The old cat slowly writes down a small 51.000, a number less than a millimeter wide.
“GPS?” Tang Yue thought for a moment.
"Where did the GPS come from on Mars, there is no GPS here, there is no Beidou, there is no GLONASS, there is no Galileo." The old cat shook his head, "There is no China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom...... Think about it, how can there be GPS in a place where there is not even a medium movement. ”
"So what did we use to navigate when we went out before?"
"We have never been out of such a far door before, alone in the desert 300 kilometers, under normal circumstances this is suicide, when Lao Wang is still there, the farthest distance of geological investigation will not exceed fifteen kilometers." "At that time, we relied on the Joint Space Station to navigate. ”
Tang Yue silently took a bite of beef.
"Since ancient times, navigation has been a difficult job, you have been breeding on the earth for tens of thousands of years, and in recent years you have achieved accurate global positioning, what gives you such an illusion? I think it's easy to determine your position. The old cat said lightly, "Although we now have the ability to break away from the gravitational circle of the earth and fly hundreds of millions of kilometers away, we still have to use the wisdom and experience of our ancestors in this regard." ”
The old cat drew the scale on the fan-shaped piece of paper, held it up and showed it to Tang Yue, "In the era before the invention of radio and GPS, Captain Cook relied on this thing to determine the direction of crossing the ocean...... We are Captain Cook on Mars. ”
Tang Yue turned his head to look at the old cat, the cat stepped on the chair with one foot, and raised the small piece of paper very high with both paws, for it, this is a proud fruit of labor, Tang Yue also saw at this time, it was a self-made protractor, a protractor cut out of white paper.
The sextant is essentially an angle measuring tool, the protractor is the core, and the high-precision angle measurement can accurately determine the latitude and longitude, Kunlun Station is not without a protractor, but those drawing tools are not useful at this time, because their accuracy is not enough, and the old cat can only make himself throughout the process.
The old cat and Tang Yue want to go to their destination under the guidance of this sextant, the Ihidi Plain is an endless desert, there are no landmarks, and getting lost is a dead end, so the scale drawn by the old cat is the key, and it took a long time and a lot of energy to get this thing done.
Tang Yue suddenly laughed a little, it turned out that so many seemingly miraculous high-tech were illusions, and once the earth disappeared, they were all beaten back to their original shape, and they had to move out of the most ancient means to solve the problem.
They are Captain Cook on Mars.
"Laughing at what?" The old cat rolled his eyes and carefully clamped the paper protractor with a book, "Don't look at it, this thing is now the most accurate angle measurement tool in the universe, and it depends on us whether we can get to the target location accurately...... Originally, there was a better one among the stray dogs, but unfortunately the front of the car was flattened and there was nothing. ”
The old cat sighed.
The last time it drove the rover out, it fell into the ruins of an underground river valley when it returned, and the front of the car hit the ground first, and the husky unfortunately fell into a bulldog, and almost all the equipment in the front of the car was scrapped.
Tang Yue finished eating the canned beef and drank another glass of orange juice.
Kunlun Station is now piled up with endless food, enough to set a table full of Han, but he no longer has much appetite.
Mingguang armor is hanging on the wall to charge, the compressed gas cylinder is ready, tomorrow morning when the Mingguang armor cylinder can last for eight hours, after the oxygen in the cylinder is exhausted, and then replaced with an emergency oxygen unit.
"I'll check the oxygen again." Tang Yue patted his ass and got up, "When are we going to leave tomorrow?" ”
"You decide."
Tang Yue stood for a few seconds, "Then it's dawn." ”