Chapter Seventy-Seven: Space Tracking
After calculating the scheduled route, Shu Yunpeng transferred the spacecraft to automatic navigation. After entering the automatic navigation program, the spaceship does not need to be stared at all the time.
However, Qin Huaiyu never wanted to leave the bridge. Although she had already had the experience of space voyage when she followed Shu Yunpeng on the ninth ship, it was still different after all. At that time, her duty was to be his bodyguard, and she only needed to pay attention to his safety, but now, she needs to keep an eye on everything in the whole operation to avoid accidents.
"You can't see anything, go to sleep!" Shu Yunpeng said to Qin Huaiyu.
People who see a model of the solar system in a textbook mistakenly think that it is scaled down according to the actual scale of the solar system, but this is not the case. If you reduce it proportionally to the actual size of the planet and the actual distance between the planet, it will make people break out in a cold sweat.
Let's try to scale down the real model of the solar system, for example, to a sphere with a diameter of one meter, and the other planets to see how about it:
Mercury: 0. 348 cm, day distance 41.36 meters,
Venus; The diameter is 0.8 cm, and the day distance is 77.29 meters,
Earth: 0.9 cm in diameter, 106.86 m in daily distance,
Mars; The diameter is 0.48 cm, and the daily distance is 162.86 meters.
Jupiter: diameter 10.21 cm, solar elongation 555.93 m,
Saturn: 8.61 cm in diameter, 1021 m in solar distance,
Uranus; The diameter is 3.65 cm, and the day distance is 2050 meters,
Neptune; The diameter is 3.54 cm, and the day distance is 3217 meters,
The Kuiper Belt (where Pluto is located) dwarf planets are about 0.1-0.2 centimeters in diameter and have a solar distance of about 8,000 meters.
Oort Nebula: about 500-1000 km from the Sun.
Imagine starting from the Earth with a diameter of only 0.9 centimeters, walking about 56 meters away, and finding the ball with a diameter of only 0.48 centimeters is Mars!
This is calculated on the assumption that all the planets are in the same straight line, i.e., in a chain of nine stars...... By analogy, you can see that the emptiness and vastness between the planets are maddening!
It's just the state of the solar system, what about the Milky Way? What about the entire universe? …… Don't be fooled by some irresponsible sci-fi films, interstellar voyages, in addition to unknowable heightened dangers, are also indescribably boring, which is really not a pleasant thing!
However, for the sake of visual intuition, textbooks draw a full picture of the solar system so that the distance between the planets is very small, almost one after the other. This so-called complete map of the solar system, which shortens the distances between planets, is misleading. It has almost convinced most people, including some famous science fiction writers.
"You go and rest, Captain, I'll stay here," Qin Huaiyu turned back to Shu Yunpeng and said, "I'll call you again if there's any situation." ”
"I don't know how long this trip will take, you have to take it easy, Huaiyu!" Shu Yunpeng hugged Qin Huaiyu's waist and said gently: "You are so focused, your physical exertion is too great, I regret bringing you here!" ”
"I'm fine, Captain."
"Forget it, I'll accompany you here......" Shu Yunpeng saw that Qin Huaiyu refused to leave, so he had no choice but to sit down.
He looked at Qin Huaiyu and couldn't help but sigh with emotion. This trip is your own business, and you shouldn't drag others down. But people are always afraid of loneliness, even the strongest and most persistent people, at some point, they need someone to accompany them to settle down. On a long trip that he didn't know the time, he had to face the empty, vast and dark void for a long time, and he couldn't help but feel fear, so he dragged Qin Huaiyu here.
"Do you know what I'm trying to do this time?"
"I don't know, but I guessed a little......" Qin Huaiyu replied softly.
"Really? Let's talk about it! ”
"You think you're here because the Jones guys did it...... You want to figure out what's going on. How do you want to be, how did you come here, and how do you go back......"
Shu Yunpeng was taken aback: "You think so thoroughly, is there any basis?" ”
"There have been several times when you have called out a person's name in your dreams...... I believe that person is your lover in your world......" Qin Huaiyu blushed and said with a slurrel. Hearing Shu Yunpeng's dream words, it was as if she was snooping on his privacy, and she felt very embarrassed.
"Then you're still coming with me?" Shu Yunpeng was a little surprised. He didn't know that he could talk in his sleep, and he said something like this: "Don't you feel wronged? ”
"I cherish every minute and every second with you......"
Shu Yunpeng was stunned and couldn't speak for a long time. The softest place in his heart was hit by Qin Huaiyu's last words!
Both of them were silent, I don't know how long it was. Shu Yunpeng was behind Qin Huaiyu, looking at her delicate neck, and couldn't help but kiss her.
"Huaiyu, I never asked you, do you have any relatives?"
"No more...... Qin Huaiyu didn't look back, and replied softly: "When I was very young, my mother died, and I was raised by the Red Cross ......"
"Oh, I'm sorry......"
"It's okay...... I was very young when my mother died, so I can't remember what she looked like...... There are a lot of children like me, orphans of the dead, raised by **. Many children are together, but they don't feel lonely......"
"You've suffered a lot, haven't you?"
"No, the aunts of the Red Cross, were very good to me. They all say I'm quiet, not messing around and likable......"
Qin Huaiyu blushed when he said this, but Shu Yunpeng didn't see it: "You are indeed likable, not only quiet and gentle, but also beautiful, they must like you......"
"Participating in the selection is also the ...... they suggested I to come"
Qin Huaiyu was a little embarrassed, so he didn't say any more. But when she participated in the selection, she did listen to the advice of the aunts of the Red Cross. They said that God sent a normal man, and our Huaiyu is truly qualified to accept this generous gift from God!
"Really? That's a bit of a risk! Shu Yunpeng said: "They don't know me at all, so they are not afraid that if they fail, you will be sent to the Mars base to mine?" ”
"Afraid! But at first she didn't know that there was such a punishment, and when she knew that she was on the list, she couldn't regret it...... "She really regretted it at the time, because if she didn't participate in the selection, she could have stayed with the Red Cross."
Shu Yunpeng hugged Qin Huaiyu tightly, and he was also afraid. He couldn't imagine that such a cute little beauty would be sent to the Martian base if he was not careful...... Oh, not yet! I remember that after seeing the Mars base at that time, and seeing Zhao Mengyao's tragic situation, when he asked them, she said that she would shoot herself in the head......
"I'm scared too......" Shu Yunpeng said emotionally, hugging her tighter at the same time, as if she would disappear as soon as he let go.
The two rolled down on the deck of the bridge, kissing desperately, and eagerly undressing each other......