In fact, this obvious error in the numbers is not because the scientists in the scientific research base are not rigorous, and the administration, external propaganda and scientific research of the main Yanbei Space Exploration University are not a set of systems, and even the external propaganda of the school and the base is not a set of systems.

It just so happens that the internal and external propaganda of the base is the least valued department, so it is understandable that there are occasional errors and omissions in the release of various news.

Not to mention that at this time, no one is in the mood to pay attention to whether there are any contradictions before and after the external propaganda.

Compared to Chen Xi's safety at this time, these are all trivial.

Even in the eyes of many people at the base, even more than 2,000 floating ships to join the search team is not enough.

It is difficult for ordinary people to understand the emptiness of space, but these scientists in the base are well aware of it.

Wu Gang, Nuwa, and Kuafu, which represent the current pinnacle of science and technology, are giant scientific research and exploration ships that are like a drop in the ocean when they are thrown into the Earth-Moon Channel, not to mention the safety escape pod on a backward floating ferry ship. Even all safety capsules are equipped with a star positioning system.

However, the positioning of the star positioning system may not be so accurate at present, and the difference in space is a few thousand kilometers, which is about the same as a difference of one or two centimeters on the scale of tens of meters. Think about how many ships can be cram into a radius of several thousand kilometers.

Second, at this critical juncture of capturing Enceladus and transforming Mars, most people hope to get this matter done before Ning Xiao returns to Earth, and it is best to save Chen Xi alive. Otherwise, with Ning's temperament of protecting his shortcomings, no one can say what he will do, and whether it will affect the key historical process of human transformation and colonization of the planet.

Damn, think about it, a bunch of people are going to explode, how could such a thing happen in the Earth-Moon Passage?

You must know that the current situation on the earth can really be described as dancing on the tip of a knife.

Transforming planets, colonizing planets, like reaching out to pick up stars, sounds romantic. But behind it is the consumption of countless resources. Not to mention anything else, the annual consumption of subsidies for the population reserve plan for planetary colonization alone is calculated in trillions.

In addition, the base's non-stop shipbuilding, opening up space lanes, various large-scale space experiments, and even the upcoming voyage of Nuwa to capture Enceladus are extremely heavy burdens for the earth. Now the whole situation can still maintain a relatively peaceful situation, which is really based on Huaxia's huge space advantage and the imminent alien migration of human beings.

If the transformation of Mars is shelved indefinitely, and there is a real problem with the space immigration program, there is a high probability that the problems on Earth will erupt at some point, and at that time, it will not be like in the movie, saying that unity can be united.

……

In the solar system, near Mars, the Earth's large research ship Kuafu flies like dust around a small comet.

Judging from the comet's orbit calculated by the brain, this belongs to the position where the comet orbits the Sun and is about to enter perihelion. Like other comets, this small ice-like object is composed mainly of ice, dust, and rock.

Theoretically, the comet numbered 271 on Earth is a medium-sized comet, with a diameter of about 11 kilometers in its nucleus and a tail about the same diameter as the Earth.

It's definitely a rare sight in the universe, and it's exciting to think about.

Of course, it is extremely difficult to do this, and it can even be said that it requires patience, and it needs to slowly guide the alien to change its trajectory. The specific principle is to use anti-gravity matter, with the help of the gravitational pull of nearby planets, to modify the comet's orbit little by little until it is captured by the gravitational pull of Mars.

The principle is quite simple to say, but there are two main difficulties in practice, which is also difficult and that is also difficult......

This stands for measurement and calculation.

The comet's mass, velocity, gravitational force passing through various planets, and other data directly determine how to arrange anti-gravity materials on the comet, including the distribution and structure of the maximum efficiency.

That's practical.

It is conceivably difficult to place anti-gravity matter on a comet under the set conditions.

It is impossible for humans to approach, only by robots.

Robots with a ten-year warranty on earth are disposable consumables here. There is virtually no possibility of recycling. But fortunately, there is no need for humanoid robots with precise joint components to do this, and in fact, robots with limbs are not as easy to use as simpler and cheaper suction cup robots in this environment.

This can lead to significant cost savings.

Of course, cost is not the only consideration, the most important thing is to be able to see the huge fireworks on Mars.

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……

In the watchtower of the Kuafu, Ning Xiao was patiently teaching a little boy who looked to be only eight or nine years old next to him.

"The planet's designation is: 2025-06879......"

Before Ning Xiao finished speaking, the little boy began to answer: "I know, Dad, it means that this star was discovered by us in Huaxia, and 2025 means that it was discovered in 2025!" ”

"Hmm...... Yes, but what I'm going to tell you today is ......."

"But Dad, this star is so small, why is it so small?"

"Forehead ......"

"By the way, Dad, that star is Mars, right?" The little boy started messing around with his little hands on the screen.

"Hmm."

"Then why did you drive the comet we were following to Mars? I heard the teacher say that every star has life, and if you drive the comet to Mars, won't it hurt if they collide together? ”

"This question...... Who told you that the stars are alive? ”

"Teacher Zhu? She told us the story of the stars. ”

"Well, this is a kind of liberal arts student thinking, which is the personification of inanimate things......"

"Huh? Dad, what is liberal arts thinking? What is anthropomorphism? ”

"Liberal arts thinking is all about ...... Forget it, you go play with March. ”

"Yay!"

Ning Xiao gave up after all, what if he was a world-renowned mathematician and scientist?

When it comes to educating children, being unprofessional is being unprofessional.

The questions that the third grader kept popping up were enough to consume the patience he had accumulated overnight. Then fall into cognitive impairment.

In fact, it is not so difficult to admit that his child is not so good, but there is one thing to say, Ning Xiao thinks that the child's gene is most likely to follow his mother.

Well, fortunately, Lu Xiaoya never denies this.

Watching the picture of the little guy picking up the desperate kitten and the little hands kneading on the cat's head, the mood was inexplicably much better.

The reason why I brought Lu Xiaoya and the little guy with me on this mission to transform the Martian environment, especially because I brought Xiao Ningjie despite the opposition of the old people in both families, was to take the child to see the world, and it was best to cultivate the child's curiosity about the starry sky in this space environment.

Ning Xiao firmly believes that interest is the best teacher.

Just like when he was a child, although no one cared about him, his grades have always been good, and it is really not because a child from a poor family can realize early that only learning can change his fate, purely because he is very curious about those science knowledge, so learning can make him have no distractions, and it can even be said that solving a difficult problem is a kind of happiness.

But apparently he was deflated by this set on his son.

In addition to showing an infinite interest in space during the first week on board, the children completely lost all interest in the outside world. I just felt that the space was empty at the beginning, and the school was not as lively as the school, and I even began to regret playing with my father on the boat.

This has to do with the positioning of the kua-paksha. The biggest difference between Kuafu and Wu Gang and Nuwa is that this is a purely scientific research mission ship, and there are no entertainment facilities on board except for the most basic living material support. There are only a lot of warehouses, automatic production lines and laboratories.

These things are obviously not attractive to a child who is only nine years old in a month. In addition, Ning Xiao is very busy most of the time, only accompanied by his mother and a kitten, and he has not rebelled on the boat

Yes, although ten years have passed, March is still a kitten. Of course, in the eyes of others, this cat is not another cat, and others also include Lu Xiaoya. Just last year, the old March "passed away", and the family, especially Xiao Ningjie, was sad for a while.

So a few days later, Ning Xiao brought a young kitten, still named "March", and the family returned to its former peace.

Anyway, March is the most ordinary pastoral little orange cat, basically as long as the coat color is changed slightly, no one will think much about other places even if they are very similar to the previous March.

No way, March is indeed very nonexistent.

That year, when Ning Xiao told Du Bangle that their gang didn't know where they were backward at all, but the words that March came to the old man's eyes and said were probably explicit. But the old man still didn't realize what kind of existence the cat was, and only glanced at it briefly.

What's even more ridiculous is that the gang focused on the cat food and canned food that March usually ordered, and even used his love for March and the replacement of a cat that looked like March to psychologically profile him.

It's actually pretty good. It was convenient for Ning Xiao to hide the origin of March.

Now that Ning Xiao is ready, after letting the kitten "pass away" due to an accident in a few days, he released the news and used the technology of the laboratory to make a body for the cat, and designed a special artificial intelligence system embedded in the body in the external publicity......

In this way, you can directly whitewash the identity of March, and you don't have to be so troublesome in the future to order cat food and canned cat food every month. In fact, he thought about doing this last year, but was vetoed by Lu Xiaoya. The child's mother is not worried that the technology of the base is not up to standard, and the kitten made is not real.

She just thinks that the child is still too young and doesn't quite understand the importance of life. If March is made into a robot cat that can move all the time and even speak as long as it is recharged, it may have a bad effect on his growth, such as losing his reverence for life itself.

Regarding her mother's worries, Ning Xiao chose to agree.

Anyway, the small controllable nuclear fusion technology has not succeeded, and there is really no way to explain why this lab-built robot cat does not have a charging interface. It's better to wait for a few more years, when Xiao Ningjie grows up, he has at least a sense of reverence for life, and the nuclear fusion technology is also mature, and everything will fall into place when the time comes, which is good.

Of course, most of the time in March has become a playmate of elementary school students, but fortunately, this cat will not always have the same impatient mood as him.

……

"Ding Dong" was accompanied by a crisp prompt sound, and the hatch of the observation module automatically opened, and a melancholy Governor of the Moon walked in.

"Ning Xiao, where's the progress of the mission? How long will it take for this comet to hit Mars? He also said that he came to take us to see the big fireworks, and it has been several months since he came out this time, what about the fireworks you are talking about? ”

Obviously, for Mr. Lu, this journey was really boring.

Space scientific research is like this, most of the time is actually in the open space to do computing tracking, most of the operation is through the intelligent brain directly control the robot operation, most of the time is dull or even boring, just like the life of most ordinary people.

The only difference is probably that you can predict the final splendor, which is to go through a long wait, and most of the time is actually calculated and corrected, if you don't immerse yourself in it, it's really boring. Especially for a girl like Lu Xiaoya, who likes to be lively, after the freshness is over, she feels even more bored.

But his wife's complaint made Ning Xiao smile on her face.

It is difficult for ordinary people to experience Ning Xiao's feelings, and in his current position, he actually doesn't live like a normal person anymore. For example, in any public place, it is inconvenient for him to speak with his statement. Every sentence will be interpreted by many people in a variety of ways, a little ambiguity may come with a phone call, and even if the sentence itself is not ambiguous, combined with the upper and lower contexts, it may convey a misleading meaning.

Even many times it is inconvenient for him to take a stand.

Fortunately, Ning Xiao usually doesn't talk much, but now he naturally has less, and no one will force him to do anything he doesn't want to say.

The trouble is that he has now truly lived as a god in the eyes of many people.

Probably only when he was at home, he could hear this kind of complaint, and occasionally he was angry with his son who didn't think he was very smart, which is actually quite good.

Speaking of which, thanks to March.

If it weren't for March, there would be more headaches to be in his current position, such as suspicion and worry. With his position in the base and the resources that the base now controls, it has constituted an extremely large interest system.

With the management system of the March leading base, there is naturally no need for Ning Xiao to worry about betrayal, slackness, and radicalization...... and other problems that may arise in those scientific research bases in film and television dramas, and the slightest change will be noticed and then dealt with.

or ascend and secretly descend to take back authority, or retire directly, or talk and warn...... It has been proven that artificial intelligence is much more powerful than real people in controlling human nature.

This is also the reason why Ning Xiao can have the opportunity to personally bring his wife and children to the distant Mars to carry out this mission......

So in the face of the dissatisfaction of classmate Lu, Ning Xiao was very happy.

"Come on, trust me, it's still a ...... away"

"Meow ......"

The news that suddenly exploded in his mind made Ning Xiao turn his head and look at the kitten suspiciously......

"Huh?"