Chapter 1040: Far and Great

Xiongzi Technology’s residence in Dongbin—opposite the Seventh Institute, the yard of Lanshen Power was full of middle-aged people, many men and girls, with different skin colors.

Standing in the crowd, Liu Qun looked enviously at the few people who finally got to the front and grabbed the stools, and stretched their sore legs.

There were two people arguing next to them. Liu Qun saw that they looked familiar, and nodded at each other. It seemed that the two were astronauts from another team and had seen them during training before. But no deep friendship.

Liu Qun listened sideways, and heard the two complaining: "Bear kid's technology is too much, we are astronauts, let's come to the interview, at least there should be a stool."

"I think, at least give me a bottle of water... I'm dying of thirst. Sigh, what do you think our captain forced me to do here? It's not worth the money to go to the moon now..."

"If the Silence is going to land on the moon soon, so many people are going up, it's really worthless for us to go to the moon again, can we still be ahead of the Silence?" Another person joined the discussion, whispering complained.

Liu Qun curled his lips, if he only came to fight for this opportunity for "whether it's worth the money", then why did he want to be an astronaut in the first place? Putting so much energy into other fields may have already been "valuable".

And landing on the moon, is it great?

Liu Qun couldn't help but think of his dream.

It was like a child's play, lightly boarded the dream of the moon.

This is the most absurd, unscientific and most realistic dream that Liu Qun has ever had. It is so contradictory, so contradictory that somewhere deep in Liu Qun's heart, he feels that it actually happened, but he can't believe his intuition.

Next to Liu Qun, there was a white man with gray hair. His age was estimated to be the oldest among all the people waiting for the interview. Although his hair was already gray, his body was still strong and he stood up straight.

He estimated that he could understand Chinese, so he tilted his head and listened for a while, shaking his head constantly.

"Landing on the moon is a very great and sacred thing." He stood up straight and said in Chinese with a perfect accent: "It's like now that humans can cross the Pacific Ocean in more than ten hours, but if You can drive a small boat and cross the entire Pacific Ocean by yourself, it is still something to be proud of for a lifetime!"

He waved his hands and said loudly: "Distance makes great achievements!"

Everyone else stared at him with wide eyes, looking at the old white man with almost fanatical gleam in his eyes.

Liu Qun glanced at the interview materials in his hand, and the old white man seemed to realize his intentions, and introduced himself with a smile: "Jonash, you can call me Old Joe, that's what my friends call me."

"Old Qiao, you speak Chinese well!" Liu Qun said.

"Of course." Old Qiao nodded again and again, "I'm planning ahead, after all, my dream is to go into space, and in a few years, the International Space Station will expire, and the only space station in space may be the Chinese space station. , how can you do it if you don’t know Chinese?”

"Not necessarily now." Liu Qun said, the current plan of the lazy gods may have disrupted the progress of the aerospace industry in the world. When the earth trebuchet is built, there will be as many flying objects in space...

"No." Old Qiao shook his head. "I have seen the design drawing of the earth trebuchet, and it is all in Chinese. I heard that the signs of the Bridge of Stars are also all in Chinese, without any foreign language signs."

Liu Qun opened his mouth, then shook his head, which is probably lazy style.

After chatting with Lao Qiao for a few words, Liu Qun learned that Lao Qiao is not actually an astronaut, but an engineer. He has participated in some astronaut training and had the opportunity to fly into space to repair the space station. This opportunity was lost due to illness.

Since then, this has become the biggest regret in his heart.

"Since we are recruiting flight crew, someone must be responsible for the wrench." Old Qiao said to Liu Qun, "And don't underestimate me, I have almost got all the pilot licenses, as long as I can get on the ship, I am willing to do anything..."

Just at this time, the line that was queuing up finally moved a bit, and the few seats in front became vacant, and Liu Qun and Old Qiao sat down.

Although the notice to Liu Qun stated that it would be before 18:00 in the afternoon, it was already evening. And at noon tomorrow, Xiongzi Technology's spacecraft will be launched, how can this be in time?

Also, is going to the moon... really great?

Perhaps Old Qiao heard Liu Qun's murmur, and he responded: "Of course it's great. Do you know how far the moon is from the earth?"

How far is the distance between the earth and the moon?

When you look up at the bright moon, you may feel that the moon is big and round, like a washbasin, so big that you subconsciously stretch out your hand, wanting to grasp this huge monster with a quarter of the diameter of the earth in your hand.

And when you pick up the camera in your hand and want to take pictures of the big, bright and round moon in the sky, you will find that what you take is just a small spot of light, even if you use a Xiaomi mobile phone. Same.

It turns out that whether it is the sun or the moon, the reason why they appear so big in your field of vision is because you have a magical brain that magnifies it and highlights its important position.

The distance between the earth and the moon is 400,000 kilometers, which is 30 times the diameter of the earth.

What is this concept?

If you are reading a novel with your mobile phone, the word on the upper left corner of this page is Earth, a small ball with a radius of 6371 kilometers, so where is the moon? The moon is a point in the lower right corner of the word in the lower right corner.

Squeeze the corner of the mobile phone and rotate your mobile phone, and you will get an earth-moon system. You can clearly imagine that the earth and the moon are far less intimate than you imagined.

Now focus your gaze on the earth—the word in the upper left corner, and imagine that you suddenly become an invisible tiny point on this planet, standing there, looking up at the moon.

The sky is full of stars, the universe is endless and vast, and everything is unfolding before your eyes.

That's right, you saw it, the moon, stretch out your hands to measure it, hold it between your fingers, remove the interference of the night sky, and you will find that it is actually as small as a star in the morning, just like that Far away is so small, far from being so big after your brain enlarges it.

If an object with a diameter one-fourth that of the Earth was only that big, how far away would it be from you?

And that's just a straight line distance.

How far would it take to go to the moon?

Now put your hand on the word in the upper left corner, and slowly draw circles around that word at a speed many, many times slower than that of an ant crawling, each circle is bigger and faster, and the speed of each circle is faster Faster, like spinning around a slowly unraveling rope, eventually the circle is as big as half of your screen, and then you are suddenly captured by the moon's gravity, turn an S-shaped turn, and start spinning around the moon, The circle became smaller and smaller, and the rope that was slowly loosened just now was tightened again.

Eventually, you landed on the moon.

Before that, you orbited the moon 30 times.

This is the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

A straight-line distance of 400,000 kilometers, and tens of times of twists and turns, a distance of tens of millions of kilometers.

"No matter in any era, those who can cross this distance with their own efforts are great." Old Qiao said, he clenched his hands, "I must be this great once in my life." (To be continued. )