Dreaming about space

Chapter 39 Ejection Capsule
Liang Xinghuo deliberately changed the subject.

She didn't want to face Liang Xinglan.

At least not yet.

I never thought that my escape would lead to the investigation of the 2.22 space disaster.

Twenty years have passed, and the investigation has yet to produce an official result.

From the very beginning, there were so many mourning ceremonies all over the earth, but later on, they were gradually forgotten.

Although not as completely forgotten as Miracle Babies.

But it was still buried in countless anniversaries.

It may not only be the miracle baby that is being treated in a low-key manner, but also the truth about the 2.22 space disaster.

Fang Yuan asked Liang Tian anxiously before, but got nothing.

Liang Hangyu took the initiative to mention that he participated in the investigation of the 2.22 space disaster, and Fang Yuan would not let go of this opportunity to get closer to the truth.

Fang Yuan: "How long has the investigation been going on?"

Liang Hangyu: “We have been investigating.”

Fang Yuan: "Twenty years have passed and there is still no result?"

Liang Hangyu: "This matter is a bit complicated, but fundamentally speaking, it is because after the normal flight disintegrated, no scientist survived."

Fang Yuan: "What's so complicated?"

Liang Hangyu: "On our side, only Academician Fang Xinyang and Dai Bingyan were on that starship flight. That project was not led by us. Your parents only joined other people's projects very late."

Fang Yuan: "So?"

Liang Hangyu: "So, at the beginning, we were not asked to send anyone to participate in the investigation."

Fang Yuan: "Then why did it become okay later?"

Liang Hangyu: “Because of Miracle Baby.”

Fang Yuan was stunned for a long time: "Because of me?"

He was a severely premature baby at that time and could die at any time.

How could such a little baby influence the investigation of a space disaster?

Liang Hangyu: "If no one survived, there must be something wrong with the high-strength protective shield. But you survived, so we will speculate whether there are other reasons."

The investigation direction of the entire 2022 space disaster is why the starship the scientists were riding disintegrated.

As for the protective shield ejected after disintegration, whether it is disabled or not is not the most important direction.

Fang Yuan: "Then have you found out?"

Liang Hangyu: "We got back a protective shield, the one you and your mother had together. No problem was found."

Fang Yuan: "Since there is no problem, why should my father's materials laboratory be closed down?"

Liang Hangyu: “No problem is the biggest problem.”

Fang Yuan did not agree with this logic.

Liang Hangyu continued to explain to him.

If there is a flaw in the material or a problem is found, it is a matter of improving the flaw and solving the problem.

Nothing was found, so it turned into doubts about the safety of the protective materials.

Fang Yuan and Liang Hangyu have very different interpretations of "doubt".

He himself quietly explained what Liang Tian had said before about scientific experiments.

Fang Yuan quoted what Liang Tianhe said to him, that failure in scientific experiments is the norm.

Fang Yuan's idea is very simple - [You don't care about my reasons, but what your chief designer, the designer father said, can you still ignore it? 】

Liang Hangyu: "Scientific experiments must also be carried out according to the situation. Some experiments can continue to fail because the results of failure are bearable, while others cannot."

Fang Yuan: "You mean that my father's research is not allowed to fail. Once it fails, the laboratory must be shut down?"

Liang Hangyu: "We didn't mean this per se, but it is true that after the 2.22 space disaster, no one cared about the materials your father studied."

Fang Yuan: "You mean, my father's laboratory was shut down because no one bought the materials?"

Liang Hangyu: "I don't know the specific situation of the laboratory. You keep stressing the closure, so I think this is probably the reason."

Fang Yuan: "You don't know the specific situation of the laboratory, so why do you say that even one failure is not allowed? Moreover, since no investigation results have been released so far, why do you think it was a failure?"

In Fang Yuan's view, what caused the 2.22 space disaster was the disintegration of regular starship flights in the stratosphere.

Whether the people on the starship can survive, the proportion of high-strength protective materials should not be too large.

Academician Fang Xinyang’s laboratory should not have to pay for the 2.22 space disaster.

There are many reasons why a person dies.

Before the Baobuqi starship disintegrated, no one had any vital signs.

No matter what the situation was at that time, one thing is at least certain - without Academician Fang Xinyang's high-strength protective materials, there would be no miracle baby.

"Little doll, I can explain your doubts to you."

Liang Tian helped his son speak out at this time.

He is the mentor of Fang Xinyang and Dai Bingyan. Except for the investigation of the 2.22 space disaster accident, he did not participate in it. In most cases, he still knows more than Liang Hangyu.

Liang Tian's main job was at the Eighth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology in Shanghai, and most of the students he brought out were also from the Eighth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology in Shanghai.

Before he was re-employed after retirement, he went to Shanghai Jiao Tong University and became the tutor of Dai Bingyan and Fang Xinyang.

Dai Bingyan and Fang Xinyang’s research is both related to earth-moon energy.

Dai Bingyan's main achievement is the extraction and preservation of helium-III energy.

Fang Xinyang's main focus is how to transport energy refined on the moon to the earth as quickly and cost-effectively as possible.

The couple's research results are complementary to each other.

It’s almost the same when the results come out.

Fang Xinyang is researching materials based on the goal of achieving the goal of projecting energy from the moon to the earth.

After the material came out, it was first used in the field of automatic escape of spacecraft.

Twenty years ago, Fang Xinyang was not the only one researching high-strength protective materials.

Every regular starship flight that leaves the earth is equipped with automatic escape equipment.

The ejection of an independent high-strength protective cover is just one of the ways to escape.

Because Fang Xinyang's materials have never encountered failure since they were developed and put on the market, their popularity is naturally the fastest.

However, what made this material famous was not its application in automatic escape devices.

Instead, Fang Xinyang conducted a simulated moon-to-earth throwing test and achieved success.

Although Fang Xinyang is a top scientist in the fields of materials and energy transportation.

When he proposed the moon-to-earth throwing hypothesis, it was still regarded as a joke by many people.

[Pack the refined helium-1 in such a high-strength material, and use the fact that the moon's gravity is only 6/2050 of the earth's to launch it directly from the moon to the earth in the form of a trebuchet. ]Such a bold assumption would also be out of line in the [-]s.

But Fang Xinyang successfully completed this experiment.

If Fang Xinyang's path continues, energy transportation between the moon and the earth will be many times more efficient than it will be in 20 years.

Liang Tian told Fang Yuan.

Fang Xinyang's moon-to-earth throwing experiment was undoubtedly a success.

But this test is the same concept as the iron knot used to make the Aoxing launch test belt for [Chang Erbian].

The inside of the protective cover is filled with non-flammable and explosive blunt materials of the same quality, not absolute zero helium three.

Liang Tian: "We call helium 2.22 the perfect energy, and we must have valued the clean nuclear energy properties of helium [-]. The [-] space disaster has caused people to doubt the previous moon-to-earth throwing test."

This method of protection is not 100% safe.

Accidents can happen at any time.

If the moon-to-earth throwing test is really launched, is it equivalent to launching a huge missile from the moon to the earth?

Liang Tian: "Little baby, think about it for yourself, if you can't make it foolproof and absolutely safe, what will be the result?"

Fang Yuan: "Aren't these experiments only conducted in no-man's land?"

Liang Hangyu answered at this time: "First of all, the development of science and technology has made human gatherings appear in the middle of deserts and oceans. There are not many no-man's lands left in the traditional sense."

"What about the second thing?" Fang Yuan.

Liang Tian and Liang Hangyu explained to Fang Yuan together.

The purpose of the moon-to-ground throwing test is to transport helium-[-] energy.

Assuming the test is successful, the amount of energy contained in the protective cover will definitely increase.

If it is not foolproof, even if it fails once, it may destroy an entire city, or even more.

No matter how good this protective material is, no matter how convenient this transportation method is, the earth cannot bear the extremely small probability of failure.

"That's still weird!" Liang Xinghuo interrupted at this time.

From the beginning, he just wanted to change the subject, but later he was attracted by the story of Fang Yuan's father's laboratory being shut down.

Liang Xinghuo also had his own opinion.

Wu Zizi: "Dong Yao, what do you think is strange?"

Xinghuo's mother, who had been silent until now, also chimed in.

Is this concern from my mother?

Even if you don't speak, are you still paying attention to her?
Liang Xinghuo needed time to digest so much information he received this day.

She couldn't tell how long this would take.

Liang Xinghuo is not a person who likes to feel sorry for himself.

She skipped her own emotions and directly stated the problem she saw: "Do you have any reports and information on the Mars ejection capsule on earth? Why did I hear the transparent protective material you just mentioned, and the surface material used for the ejection capsule? Very similar."

……

Fang Yuan was in Mars. Liang Xinghuo said that there was an ejection capsule at the door of the Galaxy Ship, so he naturally wanted to go out and take a look.

Liang Tian also put on his spacesuit and followed him out.

Among the three people on the Galaxy Ship, he was the only one who had seen Fang Xinyang's high-strength protective materials.

Outside the Galaxy Ship, there was only the ejection capsule that Liang Xinghuo had just sent over.

There is no ejection device.

Fang Yuan walked around and asked, "How does this ejection capsule work?"

"What you see is just the capsule, and there is an ejection device. There are ejection devices where we live. There are also ejection devices here at the relay station, but not at the height we are at. If you want to see it, just follow me. .”

Mars residents arrive at the Mars relay station through ejection capsules. They basically go to the top first and then slowly lower down.

If the ejection route is not set higher, it may directly hit the Mars relay station.

Liang Tian, ​​who came out a little behind, quickly followed Liang Xinghuo, but Fang Yuan was left behind.

Only then did Liang Xinghuo remember that Fang Yuan's spacesuit did not have the hovering function.

If Fang Yuan has a brain, she can talk to him and ask him to wait. Later, she can unload the ejection equipment and temporarily place it at the height where the relay station can dock with the Galaxy ship.

No matter how high-tech the bionic spacesuits on her and Liang Tian were, they couldn't hover and fly all the time.

The spacesuit itself cannot carry much energy.

Seeing that the brainless Fang Yuan was about to take the Mars Stairway up, Liang Xinghuo still came down to explain to him.

Liang Xinghuo: "It's useless for you to go up on the ladder. The ejection device is outside, and you can't get out even when you get to the top. Wait until I adjust the height of the device before you come out and take a look."

Fang Yuan: "Then how do the residents of Mars get up there on weekdays?"

Liang Xinghuo: "The Mars Relay Station is not open every day. There will be a time period on weekdays. During the opening hours, the top of the ladder can be opened."

"Wouldn't that take a long time?" Fang Yuan pointed to the equipment on Liang Tian and said to Liang Xinghuo: "You and your great-grandfather are together, can't you pull me up?"

After hearing the experiences of so many miracle babies, Liang Xinghuo had some empathy. She kindly reminded: "There is no magnetic bubble now. We pull you up. If you accidentally fall, it's not like you were shocked." It’s easy.”

Fang Yuan said mercilessly: "I just want to be like you! I just want to go up and have a look as soon as possible! Even if I fall to death, I'm happy!"

The pursuit of being "the same as you" has long been engraved in Yuan Datou's bones.

Of course, this time, apart from the things that were engraved in his bones, Fang Yuan was also worried about whether Liang Tian and Liang Xinghuo would say anything behind his back.

People who have been kept in the dark for so many years really don’t want to wait another second.

If there was any chance of knowing or getting close to the truth, he would not hesitate to witness it with his own eyes.

At this time, Fang Yuan was a little willful, from his expression to his words to his behavior.

Liang Xinghuo didn't mind, and was more talkative than ever.

As for why this happened, Liang Xinghuo himself didn't even respond.

Liang Xinghuo conveyed Fang Yuan's meaning to his great-grandfather through his brain.

Liang Tian quickly returned to the door of the Galaxy Ship.

In this way, Liang Xinghuo and Liang Tian each took Fang Yuan's hand and led him to the ejection device of the Mars relay station.

"Do I need to demonstrate to you two?" Liang Xinghuo quickly summoned an ejection capsule.

Regardless of what Liang Tian and Fang Yuan meant specifically, Liang Xinghuo set the ejection destination as his home.

After arriving home, he ejected himself again.

Less than 1 minute of Earth time.

During the whole process, Liang Xinghuo did not cut off the family projection in his brain.

After Liang Xinghuo finished the demonstration, he asked: "Is the ejection capsule on Mars made of the same material as the independent high-strength protective cover you just mentioned?"

(End of this chapter)