Chapter 270 Martian Rescue?

"Is Long going to die?"

Wei Ming soon found out about this.

In the meeting room of the Black Hole Universe Development Company, he said with a hint of sarcasm.

"This topic has been discussed a lot on the Internet, and everyone says it is the heaviest loss for all mankind."

Wu Chenwu said: "In the short video, many people are crying their hearts out, more sad than if their parents died. Some are organizing large-scale fundraising activities, holding a collective mourning of billions of people, and holding the highest-level "ball funeral", just short of wearing mourning clothes for him."

"If we talk about landing on Mars, his adventurous spirit should be worthy of our admiration and respect."

Chief Engineer Long Tianhao said: "But most of the reasons for his failure in this mission were his own fault. He killed himself."

"Is it possible that the ascent module engine cannot be repaired?"

Wei Ming asked: "As long as the fault is eliminated and the engine is ignited smoothly, is there still a possibility of a miracle? It's not time to be desperate and sad now, right?"

Maybe if we hit the engine a few times with a hammer, the fault will be fixed. Now those who are crying and sad are not wasting their emotions and tears in vain.

"Impossible."

Long Tianhao shook his head: "I watched the landing video of the Dragon 4 spacecraft landing module. The landing was very smooth, but I calculated the data and found that more than 2 tons of mass were missing, indicating that there was an oil leak somewhere. As expected, the ascent module leaked, and the remaining fuel could not send them back to the orbital module. So after discovering this problem, they basically gave up struggling and returned to the landing module to wait for death."

Of course, it is also possible to force the engine to start and let the ascent module take off.

But after reaching an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, it will be pulled back by the gravity of Mars and fall freely.

As for the end, it will definitely be extremely tragic.

It is better to stay where you are and suffocate slowly. At least you have a complete body, and you can send text and pictures through the communication system to report your situation, so that everyone on Blue Star will know his deeds.

Although he failed as a pioneer, his spirit will live forever. Later generations should not be discouraged or give up!

In other words, he will show off until the last moment in the live broadcast of pictures and texts. Even if he dies, he must pose in a decent and heroic posture.

Wei Ming is convinced.

He thought to himself, "Long Laotie, you really want me to double-click 666 for you, right? Well, you've passed the test, and I want to give you a few cruise ships and rockets."

"Boss Wei!"

At this time, the young scientist Chen Jian stood up and said, "I think we can help a little bit in this matter, and give a little hand to rescue Elon Musk on Mars. Although this person is indeed a bit flamboyant and high-profile, he is very courageous and capable. In any case, he deserves the word "pioneer" and has a great and glorious side. He just died like this..."

He shook his head: "Out of humanitarianism, I think we should help him."

"There are so many people suffering in this world, why should we help him? You know, he is a billionaire."

Wei Ming immediately looked at him, tapped the table with his knuckles, and said lightly: "Just a few words of humanitarianism can't convince me."

In fact, seeing Long Laotie's failure, he also had the idea of ​​helping him, but after thinking about it, he realized that his current situation was all caused by himself step by step. He could save him this time, but he might not be able to save him next time.

He also exposed his identity (although many people already know it, most people don't know it).

It's really not worth it.

Listening to the sound of his knuckles tapping, Chen Jian fell into thought, and several people next to him signaled him with their eyes, asking him to stop talking, so as not to annoy the boss.

"I don't think he is a typical capitalist, but a true technologist."

Chen Jian added: "The stock market is the stock market, but the electric cars and rockets his company sells are always pursuing a goal, cheap, so that ordinary people can afford it. For example, Tesla's car prices have been reduced year by year, and reusable rockets have indeed lowered the threshold in the aerospace field... To be honest, he has made great contributions to human technology. If there is no strong competitor, he almost represents the hope of mankind."

"If his flame is extinguished, the human exploration of the universe will be severely hit, and it may never recover and sink for decades, causing human attention to return to the ground. This world will probably be more turbulent, more involutionary, and even fall into despair."

"Of course, this is another future I assume, but I personally think that Elon Musk is a very good person. Musk is worthy of respect and rescue, and should not die so regretfully. "

"I don't quite agree."

Another middle-aged expert said: "Even if Elon Musk is a great saint who saves the world, what does it have to do with us? Mars belongs to our company! If he successfully returns, won't it attract more countries to go there? Where is the company's interest? In addition, the company's biggest trump card has been exposed. What consequences do you think will result? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Have you considered all these, young man? "

"Don't say that I am cruel and mean. From the perspective of the company's interests, rescuing Musk will not bring any benefits, but will only cause trouble! It is better to let him stay on Mars forever as a spiritual symbol. This is a good thing for him and for everyone. A fallen hero is far more meaningful than a standing hero. "

"That's right. "

"That's indeed the truth. "

"Perhaps when a hero falls, more people will follow suit and be willing to become new heroes. This is actually a good thing."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Chen Jian opened his mouth, but hesitated. He looked at his boss Wei Ming, and wanted to say: But since you clearly have the ability to save a person, but let him die instead, is this really acceptable in terms of conscience?

But he still didn't say it out loud. Such words were too holy, and other people couldn't accept them. He himself felt naive and ridiculous, and would only be severely scolded.

Moral kidnapping is easy!

But everyone can ask themselves: When you see rogue cats, stray dogs, homeless people on the roadside, and people suffering from famine on TV, you must have the ability to help each one, but will you? Do you want to do these good things?

It's much harder to be a good person than a bad guy. At most, you can just be a normal human being who doesn't do a bad job and donate some money occasionally.

"Let's adjourn the meeting. Let's discuss this matter."

Wei Ming clapped his hands and announced the adjournment of the meeting.

People left one after another.

"Mr. Wei!"

Suddenly an idea flashed in Chen Jian's mind, and he walked towards the figure, came to him and said, "Mr. Wei, I have a better way. I don't need to rescue Elon Musk back to Blue Star, but let him stay there forever." On Mars, you only need to provide them with some food, water, oxygen, some crop seeds, and building materials, so that they can survive on Mars."

"In this way, they are equivalent to the first batch of 'Mars immigrants'. They can help the company explore how to survive on Mars. If they can use the resources you provide and survive smoothly, then they can learn a lot of good experience. , and when used in the subsequent large-scale immigration, it can be regarded as making the best use of materials and talents.”

"We only paid a small amount of materials, and we were able to avoid exposing our trump cards and not harming the company's interests."

"Mr. Wei, what do you think of my method?"

He looked at Wei Mingdao cautiously.

Let Long Laotie be the first pioneer to immigrate to Mars and explore the experience of surviving on Mars?

This idea made Wei Ming's eyes light up.

Other experts who heard about this plan did not raise any objections and thought it was feasible, despite the language barrier.

"You kid."

Wei Ming smiled and patted Chen Jian on the shoulder: "This is a good idea. If Long Laotie can see you alive in the future, he will have to call you his savior."