Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Tip of the Horns

Ouyang Baiyuan's car drove out of the office building at noon, but it was nearly four o'clock in the afternoon when he arrived at the parking lot of the Institute of Science and Technology.

The man walked to a white car, opened the trunk and put the carton in, raised his hand and was about to close the trunk lid, stopped again, took out a few pieces of paper from the carton, stared at it for a while, then raised his hand and scattered it, the paper fluttered in the air, the man did not mean to pick it up, turned around and got into the car and started it, and walked away.

Ouyang Baiyuan stared at the few pieces of paper that fell to the ground, feeling curious, and instructed the assistant:

"Ah Guang, pick it up and I'll take a look"

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British writer Andrew Smith interviewed nine living astronauts who landed on the moon, and later revealed a surprising inside story in his book "Moon Dust: Searching for Those Who Fell to Earth":

Nearly all of the American astronauts who landed on the moon returned to Earth and were unable to cope with the sudden fame and extrasensory psychological effects of the moon landing.

Some of them have a nervous breakdown, some have become drunkards, and some are immersed in depression......

Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced in 1961 that Americans would be the first to land on the moon. This was a bold dream that even the director of NASA at the time did not know how to realize.

Amazingly, however, from the summer of 1969 to December 1972, 12 American astronauts landed on the moon aboard the Apollo spacecraft, using navigation technology that was more "primitive" than modern mobile phones.

Most of the astronauts who landed on the moon were US Air Force test pilots in the 50s of the last century. In the 60s of the 20th century, as pilots, they were involved in NASA's Apollo moon landing program. In those days of space mania, they all thought they were risking their lives for the future of humanity.

Next, starting from the 70s of the last century, with the gradual decline of the "space fever", the 12 astronauts who landed on the moon also encountered a series of chaotic "earthly lives". NASA's grand plans collapsed, but most astronauts who landed on the moon found it difficult to find their way to struggle on Earth.

Several of them have special symptoms, such as James Owen, the pilot of the Apollo 15 lunar module. It is not difficult to know from his interview memoirs that the "mysterious feeling" of the moon landing tormented him deeply.

He once discovered a 4.5-billion-year-old crystal known as the "Origin Stone" on a rock in the Apennines of the Moon. Whenever he recalled this incident, he always felt as if the "Origin Stone" was waiting for him there.

When he returned to Earth, he became religious. and established a religious organization called "Goofy". After that, he led two expeditions to Mount Ararat in Turkey to find traces of Noah's Ark.

Until 91, he died of a heart attack.

Let's talk about another astronaut who was a household name in the United States at the time, Edgar Mitchell, the pilot of the lunar module of the Apollo 14 spacecraft, who has said in many public speeches that when returning from the moon to the capsule, there is a strange feeling of being watched by something.

He felt a psychic contact with the intelligent beings in the universe. Upon returning to Earth, Mitchell began to study the mysterious paranormal. He founded an "abstract science society" in California that specialized in the study of human consciousness and various paranormal events.

Owen's companion on the moon, Charles Duke, was similarly unable to cope with the psychological shock of the moon landing. Upon his return to Earth, he began to drink heavily and often abused his own children. Duke is the youngest living astronaut to land on the moon. He later converted to religion and called the moon landing "the dust of my life."

Alain Beane, the commander of Apollo 12, was the fourth man to land on the moon and later became a famous painter. However, the subject of his paintings is always the same: the use of oil paints mixed with moon dust to depict the surface scenes of the moon that he has seen.

He brought all that moon dust back from the moon. Bean said that when he returned to Earth from space, he swore to himself, "If I could get back to Earth, I would do what I loved." ”

Perhaps, in terms of the degree of knowledge about the moon, these people have a well-deserved right to discover, as for what they found on the moon, or whether they actually landed on the moon, there is no way to find out.

At least according to Nie Peng's current few moon walks, except for the horizon of the large arc, the vast starry sky as black as ink, and the aqua blue planet that has hardly changed its position, there is nothing special, although there is indeed an indescribable sense of loneliness when he was working on the moon alone, but due to Jiaying's mistakenly joining, Nie Peng has taken the construction of the moon base as his own business.

For this special business model with no competition and no cases to refer to, he has also discussed with Jiaying more than once, in addition to relying on the special environment of the moon to cultivate new biological agents, what they can do at present is still too little, which is like an uncivilized ape in ancient times, guarding a huge community of wild animals, but dying of famine because he could not find food.

In the afternoon, I took the decoration company to the factory to measure it on the spot, saying that it was decoration, but in fact, for this kind of laboratory, it is nothing more than adding partitions according to Nie Peng's meaning and differentiating the functions of each section, and there is no aesthetic statement.

Looking at the 3D view outlined by the designer on the spot, Nie Peng even thought of the Colosseum in ancient Rome - the kind of overhead on the first floor, and the appearance of reserved compartments from the second floor.

After "Jiaying" set the decoration style, paid the deposit, Nie Peng and Jiaying found a Western restaurant, and chatted about the future economic resources while eating with low music, "You said that if we launch the cultivation tank as the main business now, is it appropriate?" ”

After pondering for a long time, Nie Peng, who really couldn't figure out how to explain the "space station rental quota", asked Jiaying.

"It's suitable, if you don't push it out now, what are we doing to decorate the factory? What will you rely on to make money when the time comes? Jiaying took a sip of the thick soup, curious why Nie Peng asked this question.

"But how do we explain the origin of the space environment? We don't have a launch base, and we don't have a relationship with the state, so once we come to investigate, we can't explain it. ”

"Poof" Jiaying almost drank a mouthful of soup into her trachea, hurriedly found a napkin to wipe the soup overflowing from the corner of her mouth, and looked at Nie Peng as if she was looking at a rare animal in the country.

"You're not going to tell me that you're going to tell the customer that you can take samples into space for cultivation, right?"

If it is said that if it is a scientific research career, ten Jiaying trapped together may not be able to catch up with Nie Peng, but when it comes to business ideas, Jiaying doesn't know how many streets she can throw off Nie Peng.

"Then how can we say that if there is no real evidence, why should people believe us?" Nie Peng wondered.