Chapter 572: The Language of Simulacrum
The starry sky is boundless, the most beautiful and the light blue planet is in the huge background. The figure of Starck Airport is thrown into a blue light and shadow, like a light boat swaying in the vast blue waves.
The spindle-shaped air port slowly circles around the odd link under the gravitational pull of the planet, and maintains a vertical synchronization between itself and the planet during the rotation through the attitude adjustment device around it. In the middle of the bulging airport, there is a cone-shaped bottom facing the planet, and dozens of space elevators are connected to the ground.
The not-so-short journey to the air came to an end, and Jonny and Clark, father and son, had arrived inside the airport, and Jonny was very curious about the famous airport of Chilian, whose name he had only heard of but had never set foot in. Still carrying his baby satchel, he followed Cornell with ease. Clark, step into the endless moving walkway.
From time to time, he looked around, watching the many special vehicles on the metal road pulled by the guiding beams to and fro, the surrounding is empty, you can see the buildings in the distance, on both sides of the road, there are crowds of people, there are endless shops and dazzling goods, until he sees the obvious sign of the waiting area overhead, he reminds himself again that this is an airport, not a bustling commercial center of the city.
There is no end in sight, and the inside of the disk of the airport is simply amazing, which makes Jonny secretly calculate the area of this place in his heart, and beside him, Roger. Clark stood on the automated sidewalk with a blank face, oblivious to the booming scene around him.
"If it weren't for the recent disaster in Angel City, I'm afraid the flow of people here would have doubled." Cornell said, turning his head in front of him.
"Gentlemen, respectful and faithful, see the wisdom and wisdom, the space elevators of all the cities on the Ethersumner continent converge here, compared with the semi-military use of Huo Quzhi Airport, Starck Airport is obviously much larger in terms of internal space and ship capacity." Pointing to the vast space around him, Cornell seemed familiar with all of this.
Chimoriza, Stark, Samael Military Industry, and Huo Quzhi, these four spaceports located in the orbits of the two major planets Provistown and Chilian respectively, are the hubs of the entire Yinmeng space navigation and transportation. Titanis's "Dusty History" elective course saw a hologram of the three-dimensional details of the Chimoriza Cosmopolitan Cosmopolitan Airport, and in order to build the first space port of the Silver Alliance, it took 60,000 Kezmia space builders ten standard years to complete the construction at the cost of hundreds of victims of various accidents.
"Uncle, why did Yinmeng build such a huge spaceport? I'm saying that a space station that is 100 times smaller than this is enough in terms of passenger capacity alone. "Confronting Cornell, who seemed to be more knowledgeable than he was. Clark, Jonny blurted out a question that had puzzled him all along.
"If I had to say it, it's a great deal of success and an obsession with big things, where efficiency or saving space and resources is never on the minds of these decision-makers." Conor blinked and said, "And this only makes perfect sense on the surface, I mean maintenance, freight, rationing, it all requires a lot of storage space, doesn't it?" For those super-large space ships, they are not all acettitanium hulls with no surface, and there is obviously a reason why they are built to be so huge. They generally carry a large number of people, and all the rations they need are several times or even dozens of times higher than the conventional standard, like a mythical giant, imagine the throughput produced by their eating, drinking, and lazing. ”
"Maybe you don't have a more intuitive understanding of this, but that's actually the difference between what I said at the beginning of 'seeing with your own eyes' and 'just hearing about it'." Seeing that Jonny still seemed to have doubts, Connell laughed.
"Look at this." He took a step back on the conveyor-belt-like sidewalk so that Jonny could see the huge porthole in the open space ahead.
The bright indoor lights in the airport can't hide the silence outside the cabin, and the sea of stars outside is majestic and dreamlike. Outside the porthole, an object was emitting a white and silvery glow in the light of Micah, so large that Jonny thought it was a branch of the main structure of the airport. The towering bridge, with its tens of thousands of visitor cabins, forms the main hull, and above the giant propulsion engine, two hemispherical behemoths occupy almost all the view of the porthole in front of you.
The Four Seasons cruise ship, or just a small part of her appearance, is like a behemoth lying in a vacuum, clinging to the edge of the airport. The interstellar shuttles and carrier ships parked nearby are more like model toys in the hands of children. She stands out from the crowd and is breathtaking, in addition to its huge size, it also has a full streamlined shape, she is a masterpiece in aerospace engineering, a master of ship technology.
"What do you think this thing looks like?" Roger suddenly pointed to the huge cruise ship that was gradually revealing its full picture and asked Jonny, the corners of his mouth showed a smirk, obviously ill-intentioned, and Jonny had to shake his head to show that he didn't know.
"Stop pretending, JFK, if you can't even see this, you're losing the attention you deserve to an important part of your body, and that's obviously something that shouldn't happen to a 17-year-old." He solemnly glanced his friend up and down, then made a horrified look.
"It's really ......" immediately realized Cornell. Clark touched his chin and smiled.
"It's really ......," Jonny, who came back to his senses, curled his lips and nodded.
"A 'giant' that literally swaggers around the galaxy, but it contains a lot of idiots eating and drinking all the way......," Roger suddenly laughed from ear to ear.
"It's probably the most hilarious joke I've ever made in my life." He patted his leg and laughed.
"It's not that funny." Cornell, who was also classified as a 'fool'. Clark pursed his lips and smiled, and Jonny couldn't help but look at the father and son from the perspective of a bystander.