Mercury, the most temperamental planet in the solar system, she runs fast, about 88 Earth days can revolve around the sun, and she herself only rotates one week in 58 Earth days, that is, one day on Mercury is equivalent to 176 Earth days, it takes so long for the sun to cross her meridian twice, and her two revolutions are exactly equal to three revolutions. What is this concept? At a certain time on Mercury, the Sun rises above the horizon, rises and stops, begins to descend, descends for a while, and then rises again, just like ...... It's kidding you - so Zhang Tianhe firmly believes that people on Mercury are crazy, because they can't even use a sunrise - but no one on Mercury runs to see the sunrise, because as soon as the sun rises, the temperature is terrifyingly high, up to more than 460 degrees Celsius, and it is difficult for people to be in the mood to watch the sunrise in such high temperatures.

The construction of Mercury is mainly underground, and the Martians have taken out a lot of resources and technology to build the Mercury Mining Company, which is not only a mining industry, but of course determines its downward characteristics when it is designed. From the very beginning, the mining company on Mercury was built in the shadow of the craters at the north pole of Mercury, which never gets sun, because there is only one problem to face: cold! The temperature on Mercury can drop to minus 170 degrees Celsius at night! But if it is built somewhere else, it will have to face a bigger problem than this, heat! As soon as the hot and cold attack people will cause problems for no reason, and the machinery will also lose its strength and cannot be maintained. The Martians are still smart, they use a set of orbits to move the equipment exposed to the sun, and they place people deep in the shadow of the craters that never see the light of day, and these craters have perpetual frozen water ice at the bottom, and yes, Mercury also has water, which solves most of the water problems.

Since living in such a cold place, the thermal cycle is very important, and in the early days of Mercury, there were no fusion furnaces built on the planet, and all the energy was supplied with solar energy. Mercury receives the strongest solar radiation in the entire solar system, and the Martians use a slide to pull the solar panels, like a sunflower, where the sun goes, and the device orbits around Mercury, connected to Mercury Mining Company through some high-strength materials, and it looks like flying a kite. The solar panels produce enough energy to power most of Mercury's production activities, and in the first few years the Martians weren't prepared to put fusion furnaces on Mercury, there was no need for that, and they didn't trust the people on Mercury too much to give them this infinite amount of energy. But then, as the demand for minerals on Mars increased, and the size of mining companies expanded, Mercury prisons were built, and it became more and more difficult for people to open mines, and the first fusion furnace was built on Mercury.

The reason why it will be more and more difficult to open mines, because if they want to get high-quality ore, they can only dig deeper and deeper, and the lower they go, the denser the crust of Mercury will be, and because Mercury's orbital eccentricity is very large, she will fly around the sun along an elliptical orbit, and the sun will have tidal friction on her, and the lower down this force will have a more obvious effect on the geology, and the mines will become extremely unstable, and it will take more effort to maintain and maintain them. And Mercury Mining Company slowly has its own scientific and technological needs, all operations must be based on more stable and lasting energy, so after a series of protracted negotiations, the Martian Council still agreed to the request to build a fusion reactor on Mercury. Now, because there are no restrictions on energy, Mercury Mining Company has dug a considerable space underground, built a huge city, and various institutions in Mercury's crust at a depth of several kilometers, and is faintly on an equal footing with Mars. They are a bit like the dwarves in fantasy novels in the past, who live in caves and like to mine, and the more they dig, the more addicted they become, and they are simply uncomfortable if they don't dig a pit for a day.

Then some people ask, if they can build a huge underground city on Mercury, why don't the Martians develop Venus? You must know that the planet most Earth-like in the solar system should be Venus, with mass, density, volume, and the same dense atmosphere, so it stands to reason that Venus is more valuable for development...... This thing is not said so, a planet like the earth and the earth are two different things, if it is interstellar development, like the earth is not a good thing, because the planet's gravity is very large, then her atmosphere must be dense, which means that aerospace is very difficult, you have to penetrate a thick atmosphere when pushing a huge spacecraft into space, in fact, this is very unfavorable for aerospace. Moreover, the atmosphere of Venus is mainly carbon dioxide, this gas is very heavy, much heavier than the air on Earth, and the air pressure on the surface of Venus is more than 92 times that of Earth. No matter which planet is developed, the human way is often to establish a colony first and then radiate outward, it is very difficult to build such a point on Venus, and Venus is hotter than Mercury, and there is a very active and complex climate environment on her, that is, the weather is extremely unstable, all kinds of sulfuric acid rainstorms, dozens of winds are common, and it is very difficult to develop a point that can radiate outward. Of course, human beings have the determination and courage to overcome difficulties, but what they need more is a motivation - what do I want? Is it just to show that I can do it? There is rarely this kind of logic in this world, not nothing, it is rare, this kind of logic does not exist in the general public, that is, there may be a few Martians who have hot brains and want to go to Venus to colonize people, but most of them will not go, it is meaningless and very stupid and difficult, and there is not much Mars ore available on Venus......

In this sense, the Earth protects humans well, but one of its basic characteristics is that it seems reluctant for humans to fly into outer space. The same is true of the sun, which also has an atmosphere, and it also has a huge gravitational pull, and he protects the earth and the humans on it from all kinds of stars, electromagnetism, and radiation outside the solar system, but he also shows that he does not want humans to fly out of the solar system...... When a person is a child, his parents and the adults around him will always give him all kinds of protection, don't get out of the sight of adults, otherwise there will be other ill-intentioned people who will abduct you, pump you left and right, prick you with needles, and paste your mouth with slippers, which is conceivable. But people, when you are young, it is very easy to be disobedient, so there will be no one else to kidnap you and beat you, and you will run to touch the electric door, this is human nature, always want to play something that you can't understand, can't deal with, so the voltage of general household electricity will be 220 volts or 150 volts, no matter how big it is, it will electrocute people, but there are always people who will run to touch, not only children, but also adults...... The electric door can be said to be a particularly apt description of the characteristics of human hands, this thing is not cured.

Returning to Mercury, the earthlings used to give her a rather apt name called Mercury, which is an ancient Greek mythological name, and it is said that this god has wings on his body and runs fast, specializing in delivering letters to people. The Martians felt that the name was too earthy, and that Mars had basically eliminated the myths, legends, stories, and religions of the earthlings in the past, and that which acted on people's consciousness and spirituality, and guess what, the Martians thought that the paranoid belief in something was the source of the earthlings' destruction. When Jesus was alive, he told people not to worship idolatry, not to engage in rituals and celebrations, not to build churches and erect his statue and play all kinds of tricks, but to do good, to pray, and to comprehend the light of the human heart Chinese from the bottom of their hearts...... In China, no religion can reach the power of the West in the ancient earth, because for the Chinese, the most fundamental use of religion is to serve the people, and if you are free from this use, you will not survive, and you will immediately be marginalized by the intelligent Chinese. The vast majority of Chinese do not have a firm belief, they will only believe when they need to, for example, if you want to take an exam, you will worship Confucius, if you want to fight, you will worship Guan Gong, if you want to get rich, you will worship the God of Wealth, and if you want to get rich, you will not pay attention to Guanyin, no matter what god the Chinese will not pay attention to. It doesn't matter what kind of god it is, when you come to China, this hot land will be secularized, that is, you have to be useful to others, otherwise why worship you, I still want others to kowtow to me...... From the perspective of human survival, this view of faith is actually the most scientific, because it is the Chinese who survive the most after the thermonuclear war!

This topic is too profound, suspend the discussion, in short, in fact, the Martians' initial various statements are the statements of the Chinese, such as the name Mercury, which is the name of the earth leopard, and it is a bit of a god nagging, the Chinese are most afraid of the god nagging, so they no longer use this name, only call Mercury a messenger.

The road to Mercury's development is actually quite bumpy, but the two points mentioned above cannot be avoided: survival and energy. Only after these two things are ensured can a civilization develop its personality, and only then can it develop its personality, and Mercury is finally capable of developing its own personality after it was built from the fusion furnace, but unfortunately its character has developed a little deformed, and it can't help but be deformed. Because life on Mercury is extremely difficult compared to Mars, and the planet seems a bit unusual in every way, people who have lived on it for a long time have become as eccentric as she is.

"Come, talk about your impression of the Mercuryians." There was still a day before reaching the orbit of Mercury, and Zhang Tianhe always had to do some intellectual activities before going to bed, but now he no longer chatted with Shi Kening, so he changed to Jenny Yang now. It's almost time for the stars to go out, and the crew may all have something to drink in the bar on the living floor to relax and get ready to rest, Zhang Tianhe called Jenny Yang to the captain's room, got her some fruit and wine, and he drank a little tea and lay on the couch to chat with her.

"Hey! Mercury has been an integral part of Mars since ancient times, what to say Mercury people......"

"The world is impermanent, Mars used to be an inseparable part of the earth, we have to accept reality and face reality. I'm interested in your theories, and I'd like to hear how you interpret and understand the Mercuryians today. ”

“…… Belch...... I haven't been thinking about that lately, I'm concentrating on other issues. ”

"What's the problem? Let's hear it. ”