Dreaming about space

Chapter 8 Answers to Questions and Answers (Additional update for @家icabaiyinmeng)
"Hurry up and put on this spacesuit." Liang Tian urged, "Go and take a look at Mars Fashion Week for me."

Fang Yuan looked at the centenarian in front of him, whose eyes were filled with the light of dreams.

For a moment, I felt a little dazed.

He began to wonder if his hostility towards [Old Man Liang] had been misplaced.

Apart from anything else, what else can a dying old man not confess?
Fang Yuan reached out and took the spacesuit, but had no intention of putting it on directly.

He walked to the console, manually set it to orbit Mars three times, and then tried to dock with the Mars relay station.

In this way, he would have enough time to review the past 100 years of his life with the chief architect of the human immigration plan to Mars.

This old man is the same age as Dongfanghong No.[-].

This old man has witnessed with his own eyes the 100-year glorious history of China's aerospace industry.

Is it possible that this old man is really a respectable chief engineer of human space immigration?

"When I was young, in the orphanage, I heard people say that my parents were the most proud students of Chief Designer Liang Tian."

Fang Yuan finally asked the question that he really cared about, but he did not use a question sentence.

I don’t know why, I just feel awkward.

"Yes. Your mother's research results in the field of helium-[-] energy refining still affect the entire lunar helium-[-] energy industry. Without your mother, the earth's energy may have experienced an era."

After hearing these words, Fang Yuan felt mixed emotions in his heart.

What Liang Tian said is true.

On February 2 every year, what people miss the most is Academician Dai Bingyan.

"Well, my mother's academic research paper back then is still the most cited."

Liang Tian responded with a look of relief: "Yes, your mother is a little genius just like you. Your mother should have been only 15 years old when she went to college."

"Why does Mr. Liang remember so clearly?"

"Isn't that right?" Liang Tian was filled with a sense of pride that only a teacher would have. "Didn't everyone in the orphanage tell you that your parents are my most proud disciples?"

"My mother does have research results that can change the lunar energy industry, and she has always been remembered for this. My father does not have this level of achievements."

Fang Yuan felt grievances for Academician Fang Xinyang in his heart.

"Your father's achievements should actually be greater than your mother's, or at least at the same level."

Liang Tian corrected Fang Yuan's statement and said, "Your father and mother, they have made each other successful."

"Mutual success?" Fang Yuan didn't know why.

Liang Tian grabbed Fang Yuan's hand, patted the back of his hand lovingly, and said aloud: "Both of them are not only my most proud disciples, but also my most proud red thread."

"If that's the case, then why did you shut down my father's laboratory with your own hands?"

Fang Yuan didn't like to beat around the bush.

He didn't say it before because he had long recognized the facts he had heard with his own ears and felt it was completely unnecessary.

"Shut down your father's laboratory?" Liang Tian raised his eyes and looked at Fang Yuan: "Are you talking about me?"

Fang Yuan looked directly into Liang Tian's eyes and responded without hesitation: "Yes."

"Xiao Fangyuan, where did you hear this news?"

Liang Tian reached out to touch Fang Yuan's head, but Fang Yuan avoided it.

"I..." Fang Yuan hesitated, "Does it matter where you heard it?"

Fang Yuan did not mention Lan Zhuyi because it was completely unnecessary.

"It's not important." Liang Tian smiled, "I didn't shut down your father's laboratory, I just stopped you from being sent to the moon."

Fang Yuan's eyes widened, he was really shocked at this moment.

He originally thought that if Liang Tian questioned his source of information and refused to admit that he had led the shutdown of the Moon Earth Throwing Laboratory, then he would tell the story based on what he heard with his own ears when he was a child.

Before he even opened his mouth, Liang Tian told the whole story himself.

After being shocked, Fang Yuan opened the valve of memory and repeated the first words in his memory in the most vicissitudes of his voice: "Don't mention Fang Xinyang and Dai Bingyan in front of me. As long as I am here, none of you will." I want to open a backdoor for this little doll and go to the moon to implant a laboratory brain module."]

This time, it was Liang Tian's turn to be surprised: "Little baby, how did you know?"

"Wasn't I right there?"

"That's it..." Liang Tian seemed to be lost in thought. After a few seconds, he asked, "You were... less than three years old at the time, right?"

Fang Yuan responded: "Exactly three years old."

"Did you remember it so well back then?" Liang Tian smiled with a hint of relief: "No wonder the people from the Commercial Space Administration said you were hostile to me."

Fang Yuan had no idea such a thing existed.

Looking back, it's not that surprising.

After all, he didn't hide anything in front of the staff.

His various reactions at that time were expressions like "No one can open the back door for this little baby" and he listened to it again.

In the end, Fang Yuan was not surprised to be successfully selected into the Galaxy Proximity Project, but more importantly, he felt that he had hidden it deeply enough for so many years.

It was so deep that people from the commercial space agency felt that it was impossible for him to have other ideas.

Now that the words have come to this, Fang Yuan became more direct: "Then do you have anything to explain?"

For so many years, these first words in my memory have always been hidden in Fang Yuan's heart.

He worked hard to become stronger.

Whether you wanted to go to the moon before or come to Mars this time, you all want to make yourself better.

Having a brain set is only the first step towards excellence.

Fang Yuan's ultimate goal is to have more say and make decisions about his own affairs.

"No. I did say that, and I also asked the people below to strictly implement it."

He didn't even deny it in person.

Liang Tian's attitude made Fang Yuan feel a little uncomfortable: "Why are you? If you don't like the laboratory version of the brain module, then why do you want to have it implanted?"

"What does this have to do with the brain group, little baby." Liang Tian sighed, and then lovingly patted the back of Fang Yuan's hand, "I don't want you to be like Liang Xinghuo."

"Are you afraid that I will be as good as her and take away the halo that belongs to [Mars Cave Yao]?"

As an elder, it is human nature to seek the welfare of your juniors, but to be so blatant is still a bit incompetent.

"You are inherently better than her. What does this have to do with whether I am afraid or not?"

"Do you think I'm better than [Mars Cave Yao]?"

Fang Yuan himself didn't think so.

He hated Liang Tian's hypocrisy, but he didn't hate Liang Xinghuo.

Although he doesn't have a brain group or a dedicated channel, there is no way he can invite Liang Xinghuo to live virtually.

You can still learn about the [Mars Cave Unit] and [Mars Exploration] series through other channels.

He has always dreamed of going to Mars, so he will naturally be interested in Mars exploration.

"Xinghuo is just an ordinary girl. She should have had a happy and beautiful life. It's all my fault."

No matter how you listen to this old novel, you are never on the same channel.

"Wrong? What's wrong? In the entire solar system, who doesn't know that the Martian cave is the most outstanding report card of the Mars immigration plan, and it is better than all living things on the earth."

"That's how it seems to outsiders. When you see Martian Cave Yao, help me say sorry to her. She must not think so."

The more determined Liang Tian was, the more Fang Yuan couldn't understand.

"Little doll, you know, even though I was very radical from the beginning, when I designed the human Mars immigration plan, I never thought that it would enter the execution stage so quickly."

Liang Tian didn't ask why he hadn't arrived yet after so long even though he was already arriving at the Mars relay station.

Since Fang Yuan wanted to know, he seriously told Fang Yuan one by one the origins of some unknown settings in the Mars immigration plan.

Several countries have begun to build lunar energy bases since 2030.

But the plan for human beings to immigrate to alien planets, whether it is the moon or Mars, was actually launched at the same time.

It can even be said that the Mars immigration plan will start earlier.

Mars immigration is not as mature and saturated as the Moon, mainly because of the distance issue rather than the start time issue.

Immigrating to Mars is not a new concept. People have been talking about it since Liang Tian was a child.

It sounds very romantic and desirable.

But when it came to the implementation stage, there began to be a lot of opposition.

One very important point of view is that human babies have no way to survive normally on Mars.

Even if there is no shortage of air, food and other things, it is still difficult.

Not only is it difficult, but there is also the possibility of genetic mutations.

People who hold this view mainly take into account the differences in the gravitational environments of Earth and Mars.

No matter how much we modify the magnetic field and atmosphere of Mars, there is no way to change the mass of Mars itself and the gravity of its core.

This view holds that the gravity of Mars is only 0.38 times that of the Earth, and the descendants of human immigrants may have genetic mutations due to the environment.In other words, Martians and Earthlings will be very different starting from their appearance.

The upper limbs will be very thick, the lower limbs will gradually degenerate, and the height will be much higher than that of people on earth.

In short, after all the hard work, they immigrated to Mars, and in the end all their descendants turned into monsters.

From the perspective of gravity, the moon, which is only 1/6 of the earth, is much more dangerous than Mars.

The first human laboratory version of the brain group appeared on Mars instead of the moon. The discussion about the gravitational environment is a very important reason.

If it's just a scientific experimental base, it doesn't matter how troublesome or bad it is, or whether there are any special circumstances.

If humans were to live in the past for a long time, that would be a completely different matter.

Liang Tian had a different attitude towards this matter.

Human body and appearance have been slowly formed over the long history, and will not suddenly undergo huge changes just because of immigration.

The earth is so big and there are so many races, but in terms of appearance, they are still pretty much the same.

Changes in the gravitational environment will definitely have a great impact.

If humans lived on Mars, they might age more slowly because of the small gravity.

At least the sagging and sagging will definitely not be as serious as on Earth.

Problems such as joints may be greatly alleviated on Mars.

Then there is the mammal breeding experiment on Mars. Indeed, no sudden and huge changes were found.

It was an extremely intense discussion in the academic community. At the end of the discussion, some scholars believed that other mammals are completely different from humans.

Other mammals can walk and run from birth, but can humans do the same?

If a human being lives alone in an environment like Mars, he may never learn to walk upright in his lifetime.

These discussions are not directed at anyone, but everyone expresses their own opinions, and no one can convince anyone.

Finally, when Liang Tian designed the plan for human immigration to Mars, he added a lot of acceptance criteria.

Through standardization one by one, it has reached a level that satisfies the vast majority of scientists.

Among them, one item is to let a human baby born on Mars grow to three years old alone.

The terms listed at that time were negotiated by all parties.

Those who objected no longer expressed strong opposition because of such a seemingly impossible "acceptance standard for a human Mars test base."

In short, Liang Tian's original intention in designing these clauses was to allow the human immigration plan to Mars to be passed.

At that time, Liang Tian didn't think much about the follow-up.

Of course, I never thought about letting my great-granddaughter become the last acceptance criterion for Mars immigrants.

The arrival of Liang Xinghuo and Liang Xinglan can be regarded as an accident.

Liang Xinghuo's mother, Zeng Ruoning, works at the Mars Experimental Base.

It takes almost three years.

Her father, Liang Xinqu, has nothing to do with this matter.

What he does is the helium-III energy channel of the moon.

With the development of the Mars test base, several major energy groups on the moon are wondering whether they can expand their business to Mars.

After much deliberation, I sent Liang Xinqu, who was not the person in charge of the Lunar Energy Channel at that time.

Liang Xinqu went back after not long investigating Mars.

There is a huge difference between lunar resources and Mars resources.

What works on the moon is not easy to copy to Mars.

Liang Xinqu waved his sleeves and took nothing away.

Instead, many, many billions were left behind...

Liang Xinqu and Zeng Ruoning were originally lovers, and they had been running for many years.

One of the two people worked hard at the lunar energy base, and the other went to the Mars human test base.

We agreed to get married when we return to Earth in three years.

Perhaps the Earth's set of precautions don't work on Mars.

Or maybe it was because we set off directly from the moon at that time and didn't have the opportunity to take precautions with the earth.

No matter what the reason was, Zeng Ruoning was pregnant anyway.

There is no saying that once you come to the Mars Test Base, you have to devote ten years of breathing before you can leave.

But it’s certainly not easy to come here.

Liang Xinqu knew he was going to be a father on his way back.

At that time, it took more than a year to fly...

Liang Xinghuo and Liang Xinglan were already born before Liang Xinqu and others went back.

The entire process of Zeng Ruoning's pregnancy coincided with the progress of all projects at the Mars Experiment Base being extremely smooth.

As soon as the two children were born, there was only one final acceptance criterion left to complete for the entire project.

In short, it is all kinds of coincidences.

All plans and acceptance criteria were proposed by Liang Tian.

At that time, there was overwhelming opposition. It was Chief Designer Liang Tian who said that there was no problem with this and there was no problem with that.

Well now, at the most critical moment, there happens to be a baby born on Mars.

At this time, if Liang Tian said no, it would mean that all the concepts he had insisted on before were problematic.

Moreover, if you are destined to have a baby and live alone on Mars, as the chief designer, you can provide privileges to your family while spending time and money to find a pair of volunteers from the earth to create humans on Mars. It’s hard to justify.

Finding volunteers is not a problem. They are all adults anyway and can be responsible for their own actions.

But what about the baby?

Has anyone ever asked the baby’s opinion?

Even if someone asked, they would never get an answer.

In fact, when the entire Mars test team evacuated, it was not impossible to take Liang Xinghuo with them.

But as a result, the entire plan for human beings to immigrate to Mars will have to be pushed back at least ten years, and then it may not be successful.

On one side is a newborn baby, on the other is the plan for human immigration to Mars.

It's hard to say which position is more correct on this scale.

Chief Designer Liang Tian was already 78 years old at the time, and he cared more about his great-granddaughter than his own academic reputation.

He was opposed to it at the time, and he didn't care whether he would become the target of public criticism.

However, when things reach a certain level, it becomes difficult to follow your own temper in everything.

If it was just his own academic reputation or a big family's financial loss, then as long as Liang Tian objected, this matter would definitely be over.

The problem is that behind the plan for human colonization of Mars is a very large number of stakeholders.

There are too many people who have devoted their entire lives to this plan.

These people all have ideals and have been doing things that they don't even think will succeed for more than ten years.

Suddenly, with the joint efforts of so many people, there was an opportunity to make the impossible possible.

At this time, Liang Tian came out to oppose again, which was denying everyone's efforts.

Everything that happened next was not within Liang Tian's plan.

Liang Xinqu struggled.

Zeng Ruoning fainted from crying.

In the end, things came to what people see now.

Originally both children were to be kept, but in the end one was taken home.

I don’t know whether I should lament that the development of the times is irreversible, or whether I should say that the time and place of Liang Xinghuo’s birth were all wrong.

If Liang Xinghuo was here now, she would definitely want to know why Liang Xinglan couldn't be the one left.

Fang Yuan didn't know that there was another Liang Xinglan. Even if he knew, this was not his biggest concern.

The chief designer said so much, but still did not answer his doubts.

"What does it have to do with whether the Mars immigration plan can pass the inspection and prevent me from going to the moon to implant a laboratory version of the brain computer?"

　There was not a word in the evening, but during the night I wrote more than 5000 words.

　　Thanks to Mr. Cai for the encouragement~
　　(づ●─●)づ

　　I don’t know if you can understand the chief designer, but I love and hate Piaopiao!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)