XVIII. Attention! There is a Gundam here! (below)

Under the dark and deep cosmic starry sky, on the lunar wilderness full of craters, a black humanoid intelligent body is slowly moving.

Although it is four meters tall, its appearance is also majestic, its dark armor plates shimmer with a faint cold light, it holds a thick black and hard cylindrical blasting canister in its mechanical hand, and a bunch of miniature rockets for adjusting posture and moving short distances in space are inserted on its back, just like the ancient legendary steel god of war, but compared to the desolate and vast lunar surface and the infinite universe, it still seems so small.

As an autonomous robot that gathers the essence of the cutting-edge jishu of the Japan Self-Defense Forces' Automated Weapons Research Institute, this humanoid bipedal body has a rather lengthy name: General UnilateralNeuro-linkDispersiveAutonomicManeuverSynthsis System. But most people are more accustomed to calling it an abbreviation: Gundam!

At first glance, this Gundam seems to be masculine and murderous, and it seems to have a lot in common with the combat humanoid weapon of the same name in a series of Japanese national science fiction anime works. But in the eyes of today's Shijie military experts and aerospace scholars, it is a collection of blindness, subjectivity, waste and uselessness and many other drawbacks, and it is purely a super pit product that has climbed the wrong science and technology tree.

For example, this Mobile Suit Gundam is currently under the remote control of Sayaka Sanae, carrying out the mission of collecting moon rocks. It is a popular former defense minister of the Japanese Ministry of Defense, a fanatical otaku who is not old-hearted and "radish control" ("radish control" in Japanese otaku terminology refers to "robot control"). Because the English "robots" of "robots" is very similar to the pronunciation of "radish". It is very similar to the English "rabbit" of rabbits, so the Japanese animation industry calls "robot control" "radish control". With the strong support of the radish control otaku people across Japan, despite the advice and opposition of many senior experts, the R&D decision was made arbitrarily by talking to himself.

At the request of the Minister of Defense, to be exact, according to the description in the comic books. This Gundam robot should have the following properties:

It must be able to fight from afar, but it must also be able to fight at close range;

It must be able to fight at the bottom of the sea, but it must also be able to fight on the surface;

It needs to be able to fight on the ground. It is also necessary to be able to fight in the sky, and even more so, to be able to fight in space outside the atmosphere;

It must be able to slaughter soldiers and snipe chariots;

It needs to be able to destroy fixed bunkers, but it also needs to be able to fight large warships. Even to be able to destroy giant fortresses of the man-made planetary level;

It should be visible in every corner of the universe. Deserts, oceans, jungles, cities, gas planets, asteroid belts......

And the most important thing is this: it must look like a human being, absolutely, no matter what!

It should have a head and limbs, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and fingers, and be as murderous as the statue of the ancient Greek god of war.

It should hold a knife in one hand, a shield in the other, and an extra-large individual missile on its back, just like a special forces warrior in the age of Earth......

As a result, an "artifact" that completely ignores the needs of real combat, the laws of physics, and the budget cost has emerged. It's just the ...... Up!

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Although, the senior experts and veteran engineers of the Japanese Ministry of Defense. After getting the above design requirements from the mouth of the Minister of Defense of the Radish, he almost fainted from a collective stroke. Immediately, he jumped out and said that the current level of science on shijie could not support such a crazy delusion...... But this minister of carrot control and defense with brain cramps said to a group of experts and professors who rolled their eyes: As long as the heart is filled with the surging "soul of steel", none of the above jishu problems are problems!

In order to rally voters to support his "real-life version of Gundam R&D Jihua", the minister spoke so eloquently in his speech in Akihabara.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Now let's talk about it, I want to become a 'carrot control'! I have to admit that with the rapid development of modern society, the quality of life of young people in China is getting higher and higher, but their mental condition is becoming more and more corrupt, more and more lacking in social responsibility, and more and more lacking in the spirit of perseverance and perseverance! The lack of these good qualities has caused no Spider-Man in our society! There is no Batman! There is no Superman! There are only those anime characters who sell cute and meat, and there are even people who have blurred their gender perception and can only shout 'cuteness is justice'!

Therefore, this is the most haode era, because our lives are becoming more and more colorful; This is the worst of times, because many young people have forgotten what kind of spirit they should really worship and follow!

Luckily, in this best and worst of times, we still have the 'turnip' animation – attention! I'm talking about the real "turnip" animations, not the ones that have the 'turnips' appearing. Some new animation works that sell cute meat without the appearance of "radish" but lack of "soul of steel",It's not qualified to be called "radish animation".。 The real 'radish' animation must have the 'soul of steel', and it must make people dare to take on the responsibility of the times, only in this way can it wash away the muddy water, create heroes, and be called the real 'radish' animation! And only a man with backbone cultivated with a real 'radish' animation will understand the essence of the phrase 'robots are a man's romance'!

Therefore, in order to reshape our increasingly decadent national spirit in the new century and re-cultivate the 'soul of steel' that has inspired a generation of people to work hard, it is necessary for us to set up a great goal for the people that is full of the spirit of the times and can fully inspire people's hearts! Just as the Americans worked together to realize their dream of landing on the moon during the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the past, we Japanese should work together to get a real Mobile Suit Gundam! This is me as a politician of conscience. It is a duty to be fulfilled in the post of Minister of Defense no matter what......

All in all, as a dignified man with the 'soul of steel' in his chest, he should play Gundam! ”

- Alas. It's all risen to the level of "reshaping the national spirit", and it seems that this Mobile Suit Gundam really can't be developed without development!

Eventually, when the Minister of Defense, who claimed to have only read comic books in his life and had a bed full of Mobile Suit Gunpla models, desperately forced an order to research and build Mobile Suit Gundam amid the applause of the nationwide "carrot control" voters, the poor designers had to spend half a month looking for merit for the Gundam. It took another half a month to hypnotize myself, and then I could barely start drafting the drawings.

β€”β€”Because the conditions of Jishu are really not up to standard, under the hard prays of a group of experts and engineers. The Minister of Defense reluctantly lowered his requirements and agreed that the prototype version of the Mobile Suit Gundam would not have to be manned, as long as it could be remotely controlled by radio.

When the first prototype Gundam was completed, the Minister of Defense forcibly issued the order. He has already been removed from office because of the fall of the ruling party.

Thereupon. The development of Mobile Suit Gundam, a "superscience fantasy weapon", was naturally halted and failed.

The only prototype unit that was completed, after the disbandment of the research team, has been tossed back and forth between the various research institutes and warehouses of the Self-Defense Forces, and no one willing to take over has been found. On the eve of being scrapped and dismantled, Zuihou finally intercepted His Excellency Yu Mahaku, who was searching for lunar exploration equipment everywhere, and then loaded it into a plane and transported it to the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, and then was teleported to the moon by Wang Qiu.

Although in order to adapt to the needs of the lunar mission. The Gundam was urgently equipped with a fully enclosed cockpit and a life-sustaining system that was said to be capable of 48 hours of continuous operation. But given the unreliability of this shiyan weapon, and the terrifying bumps, Sanae Rika, a very security-conscious Japanese shrine maiden, seems to prefer its remote control system - so now she is sitting in the cockpit of the Wu Gang 14 spacecraft, watching its path intently through the surveillance screen, carefully maneuvering it towards a majestic moon rock.

However, due to the fact that the bipedal robot is not stable or even difficult to walk in actual walking, and the miniature rocket on this Mobile Suit Gundam is slightly lacking in thrust, it is useless...... As a result, Sanae Rika tossed around for twelve hours with the remote control, but she was unable to move the Mobile Suit Gundam to the intended target location - in order to prevent the debris from splashing during the blast from smashing the moon landing ship and the "Moon Village", the giant moon rock that was set as the target of this explosion was very far away from the landing sites of the two spacecraft in front and behind.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Sanae-sama, I've already collected four buckets of small pieces of moon rock, why haven't you started work yet? ”

Seeing that a long time had passed, the Mobile Suit Gundam remotely controlled by Sayaka Sanae was still grinding halfway, and Miss Shikame, who was still a little cowering and cowardly, and didn't dare to speak loudly, couldn't help but be a little anxious, "...... If you really can't do it, just change me to play Gundam! ”

Unlike the imposing Mobile Suit Gundam used by Sanae Rika, the Moon Rock Collecting Machine assigned to Kameko was a much more rudimentary one, consisting of a remote-controlled six-wheeled electric vehicle chassis the size of an orange box, with a round metal bucket welded to it to hold the captured Moon Rock, plus a toy crane bar that rotated and telescoped, and a grab that appeared to have been removed from the top of the claw machine.

Naturally, this humble little piece of is not a regular product of Japan's aerospace department, but a group of energetic science and engineering students at the University of Tokyo who use their spare time in private to produce student assignments – and their last more famous work, by the way, was a miniature remote-controlled helicopter that flew in a cramped room to serve trays of food in a restaurant......

However, what is surprising is that when many expensive professional aerospace robots lie on the moon on the spot, showing the true colors of the useless pit daddy, this amateur work of the East University student runs quite smoothly on the lunar surface, even if it works continuously for a long time, there is no fault at all. And in the hands of the absolute layman, Shikame Flame, the collection efficiency is amazing, and it only takes an average of three hours to collect a bucket of Moon Rock specimens - of course. The large pieces of the moon rock cannot be grasped, and only a few small pieces of rock are scattered and exposed on the surface of the lunar soil.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Although I didn't know anything about mechanics or astronautics, when I was in school. I've always been a master of claw machines! ”

β€”β€”In the face of the surprise and admiration of classmate Wang Qiu and others, Miss Lu Muyan proudly showed off.

On the other hand, no matter how bumpy and bumpy it was along the way, this Gundam, which was remotely controlled by Sayaka Sanae, finally managed to reach the designated location.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Mobile Suit Gundam arrives at its designated location! ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ The blasting system is installed! ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Remote control initiator activation! ”

Luckily for her, Sayaka Sanae was not very familiar with the performance of this Mobile Suit Gundam, and her movements were clumsy under remote control. However, after spending three times the usual standard construction time, the installation of the blasting barrel on the moon rock was finally completed.

According to Jihua from the Xichang Ground Command Center, after the blasting canister carried by the Mobile Suit Gundam was ignited. The large moon rock, which is the intended target for collection, will be broken into many small pieces. Not only will this turn the overly large rock into smaller fragments that are easier to collect, but it will also allow terrestrial experts to see between the core and surface of the lunar rock. There is a big difference in composition and structure.

Through the big screen. Seeing that Mobile Suit Gundam had finally completed the installation of the blaster, a smile finally appeared on the corner of Sanae Saka's mouth.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ OK, the blaster is installed, now it's just a matter of getting the Gundam back to a safe distance...... Belch? Why is the warning light on? ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Toot-toot-warning! Warn! The body is overheating! Please take measures to dissipate heat immediately! Please take measures to dissipate heat immediately! (Japanese)"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Cut, what the hell! It only overheated after a while...... There's no way around, so let's start the emergency cooling procedure on the spot! ”

In the midst of a piercing alarm, Sanae Rika had no choice but to pout helplessly, and reached into the computer to enter the command to start the emergency cooling program.

- Mobile Suit Gundam's exterior is equipped with heavy metal armor. There is also bulky power machinery inside, and from time to time the miniature rockets attached to the fuselage are used to adjust posture and make short distances. According to the original request of the Minister of Defense, it is necessary to mount a large number of high-energy weapons with a large amount of heat...... Therefore, in the process of its work, an astonishing amount of heat is inevitably generated.

So, no matter what weird settings the cartoonists who teach physics by physical education teachers come up with in their works. Once it is in reality, how to dissipate heat in the universe will become a big problem for a general-purpose war tool such as Mobile Suit Gundam.

Although in the cold and dead space of the universe, the ambient temperature is close to absolute zero, and there seems to be no problem of heat dissipation at all. But in fact, because the universe and the lunar surface are vacuum environments, there is no medium for convection and heat conduction (the thermos is insulated by vacuum + silver film), so the waste heat accumulated in the body of the Gundam cannot be dissipated by conventional methods.

In fact, in the vacuum universe, the only reliable way to dissipate heat is thermal radiation......

However, in this case, the Mobile Suit Gundam will become a super large light bulb that will glow violently and violently when it reaches the sky.

In the case of spaceships of the current era, it does not matter at all that the hull is turned into a large light bulb, and it can also act as an anti-collision warning light for other spacecraft...... However, in fact, due to the limitations of the original Jishu conditions and the size of the body, the "prototype universal mobile suit gundam" made by the Japanese could not use such an advanced and cutting-edge thing as radiation heat dissipation.

Therefore, this Mobile Suit Gundam, which is being remotely controlled by Sanae Rika, uses a very classical heat exhaust method......

- As the emergency cooling procedure was activated, the Mobile Suit Gundam made a somewhat awkward circle around the moon rock, circled to one of its relatively flat sides, grabbed the upper end of the rock with one arm as support, and then gently opened a piece of movable armor between the legs of the unit, and extended a thick, black and hard cylindrical object, the drain nozzle of circulating coolant, from the inside of the body.

Immediately afterward, about five liters of hot, turbid, yellowish circulating coolant was discharged and ejected under high pressure, forming a straight column of water, which then gradually evaporated into a cloud of mist in the vacuum of the moon with weak gravity.

Once the coolant was drained, the Gundam shook again to shake off the remaining coolant around the sprinklers. Next, the coolant was put away and the sprinkler head was discharged, and the movable armor under the crotch was turned off, and it was restored to normal working condition.

Wang Qiu looked at this Gundam with an embarrassed expression and made the above series of very visual actions, and then twitched the corners of his mouth and made a final sentence:

β€œβ€¦β€¦ The guy who designed this cooling system for Gundam must be some weird guy with a very obscene and dirty inner mind! ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Agree! ”

The other two Japanese girls in the cabin also nodded with concern.

However, at the same time, the sharp-eyed cosmic actress Miss Shikame Flame noticed an unusual detail on the big screen of the spaceship.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Wait a minute, Sanae-sane-sane, don't rush your Gundam away. You see, there's something over there, and it's been flushed out of the coolant! Well, it looks square, and the pattern looks familiar...... This one...... Oh, my God! Could it be a Star-Spangled Banner?! ”

Suddenly, a riot broke out in the cockpit of the "Wu Gang 14" lunar spacecraft and the ground command center in Xichang Satellite City. (To be continued.) )