History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 22 The Observer

The mournful and long howling of wolves, mixed with the barking of dogs from the same throat, echoed in the space station.This is a gray long-haired peach-faced Alaskan sled dog with a mixed pedigree. It was sent from the breeding base to the "Gu Lanlan No. [-]" space station when it was three months old.

Bought from the breeder and been the owner of this Alaska for almost eight years.Zuo Fei remembered that it took him almost half a year to let this not-so-intelligent pet dog know that his name was "Spinach".The Alaskan dog breed is naturally stubborn and dull, which makes Zuo Fei's training on spinach extremely difficult.Coupled with the various habits and movement patterns of dogs, carnivorous vertebrates, which are imprinted into genes by the earth environment, the growth experience of Spinach and Zuo Fei in the space station is always full of twists and turns.During its growth from a puppy weighing less than five kilograms to an adult dog weighing more than 70 kilograms, it is full of memories of all kinds of hardships, anger and jokes.

Zuo Fei, who was born and raised in Yunjin Planet, the planet with the most developed tobacco industry in the human universe, has a stable career prospect that most humans envy.If she follows the plan of her parents who work at the Institute of Plant Sciences and the Regional Logistics Allocation Center, she should be able to successfully enter an internship position on the planet with a good salary and moderate work pressure after completing all education and vocational training at the age of 23.

It may be due to deliberate design and arrangement. Since Yunjin Star was bought by the Tobacco Association three years ago and developed into a single industrial planet, it has been using high welfare and "appropriate" work pressure to let the residents control their consumption. Fertility desire.Of course, the long-term fertility rate of about 270% cannot maintain long-term normal operation, which makes the association need to continuously absorb new immigrants from the entire human world.Zuo Fei's parents struggled to win the job opportunities among billions of applicants for being the most job opportunities on all inhabited planets.They and the other lucky ones also know that the job opportunities they are given will of course come with the pleasure of sacrificing some of their family happiness.

Zuo Fei, on the other hand, started going to school at the age of six until the end of basic education at the age of 19. She never raised her hand to speak in class or answer questions from teachers.The shy fear of communicating with people made her give up all possible careers that the most automated and unmanned tobacco industry in the universe could give her, and chose to become a researcher in a space station in the lonely universe.

Her dullness, jerkyness, nervousness and anxiety when facing people are exactly the same when she gets along with spinach.She also knows that people who usually don't like to communicate and get along with others can always open up to some extent when facing pets that only belong to them, and can chatter about the troubles in their lives to their cats and dogs.And even though Zuo Fei is living with Spinach in this huge space station with only her and this dog, she always closes her lips to Spinach and cherishes words like gold, so that Spinach can only understand "come here" and "eat" , "Don't make trouble" and "Be good" are the most common and commonly used human languages.

Cowardly, withdrawn, lonely, Zuo Fei often evaluates himself in this way.When she was in her teens, the high-speed electromagnetic car performance team, one of the best in the Virgo supercluster at that time, came to Yunjin Star.Dazzling stunts, chasing performances, and formation displays won the craziest and most sincere applause from hundreds of thousands of spectators, as well as hundreds of millions of spectators who enjoyed the grand event through the holographic live broadcast.Although Zuo Fei, who was on the 90.00th floor of the observation tower in the center of the scene, was also affected by the warm atmosphere, she was extremely worried about the safety of those athletes or drivers driving at high speed in the car at that time.Of course she knew that with the level of human technology, in the atmosphere of a planet like Yunjin with [-]% three-standard gravity, "flying close to the ground" at a speed of Mach [-] to [-] basically has no safety hazards.However, during the entire five-hour performance, her heart was always tense, and her hands were always sweating nervously for the people in the flying electromagnetic car.

According to an anonymous survey report, no less than 70.00% of the children born in Yunjinxing and receiving all basic education have different degrees of withdrawn personality.It is said that most of the parents are unable to care for their children due to their working hours and too much pressure.Zuo Fei's situation has indeed been a relatively common phenomenon in the past 100 years.

Spinach, who can't speak and has a huge body, is the partner Zuo Fei has always dreamed of having since childhood.Under the requirements of scientific institutions and researchers, the gravity produced by the central centrifuge of the space station can usually only maintain about half of the standard gravity of the earth.Creatures growing under such gravity conditions, including humans, will be slightly larger than individuals with the same physical conditions under standard gravity.Spinach has nearly [-] cubic meters of activity in this space, which is almost the exclusive space between it and its owner. In addition, Zuo Fei’s almost doting overfeeding makes this Alaska’s shoulder height and weight exceed the standard gravity. similar.

The ancestors endowed each Alaska with a warm and soft inner fluff, so that Zuo Fei can almost set the rest time for dimming the lights of the space station every day, rest his head on the belly of spinach, and put his arms around his pet dog to enter a new cosmic standard night .Every time he fell asleep peacefully in the space station in the eternal darkness, Zuo Fei secretly rejoiced that he could spend another day without interruption and communication.In such a relatively isolated environment, she only needs to face the stars, and the station researcher spends every second of "working for herself", which makes her feel more at ease and comfortable when she falls asleep every day.

Every time, when greetings or instructions are sent from the main star or other Newton-level giant visible light telescope array space stations, or long and short messages are sent in the public information exchange area where all stationed researchers and staff in this star area are located, Zuo Fei Will be fidgeting.If the other party transmits information in the form of voice, or describes events with long paragraphs of emotional words, she will always convert those voice messages into cold text, or let the computer convert those long paragraphs into "useless words". "The emotional expression is filtered out and then displayed.

Filtering is filtering, these irrelevant information that most station researchers on the space station will not glance at, Zuo Fei always reads the concise and clear parts carefully.She hopes to find some way to care about the world outside of herself from these few words.At the beginning, she didn't know what she was looking for, and she didn't know what to target in the vast mountains of information and seas of people.But she knew in her heart that as long as she continued to pay attention silently and kept watching with both eyes, the various information she saw would always fill her lonely and cowardly heart with comfort and comfort.

Every cosmic standard month, according to the regulations of the Astronomical Council of the star area where the "Gu Lanlan 25" stationed by Zuo Fei, the station researchers are allowed to have ten standard hours of free observation time.At the age of 120, after finishing the [-]-month internship as a station clerk and sending off the last researcher, Zuo Fei will make full use of the [-] hours of observation time that belongs to him every year.

This kind of habit is not because there will be any serious events in these messages, but purely because Zuo Fei hates the high frequency of communication from the bottom of her heart, and every "extra text" that enters her brain.She knows that her personality may point to the category of "cowardly" in many ways, but she also knows that a space station stationed by one person needs someone like her who is "able to be lonely" to serve and work for it.

The Astronomical Council has deployed a total of 23 "Gulanlan class" visible light band space astronomical telescopes in the entire Wuji star area.All these huge telescopes are manufactured and assembled on the Yongquan star geostationary orbit in the industrial center of the star area.The primary mirrors of these Newtonian reflector telescopes, which are controlled with nanometer precision by water ice and ground in a [-] Kelvin sky environment, have a diameter of [-] kilometers, and are among the most cutting-edge observation equipment in the visible light band in the entire universe.

The observable limit star magnitude is 47.31; the light-gathering ability is 700 billion times; the maximum effective multiple is more than 0.04 million times; the angular resolution reaches [-] milliarcseconds, which can extend the human vision to the observable universe. Edge, to explore the details left over from the thousands to tens of thousands of years of the Big Bang after the original Big Bang of the universe.Of course, such a telescope can yield equally interesting sights when used "up close" in the ten parsec range.

During the ten hours that belong to him each month, Zuo Fei will maneuver the eyepiece space station and the main mirror space station where he is located, and locate and point to the inhabited planet in the star area.Groups of mammoths walking slowly in the Great Cloud Star Alpine Reserve, children playing and playing in the kindergarten on the outskirts of the southern mainland of the New Vancouver Star, bathing in the sunshine in the three-dimensional farm of Winster Nice Star stretching thousands of square kilometers The young crops in the village, and the young couples arguing by the window in the residential area next to the Baerxing heavy mining equipment factory can all be seen through this huge telescope.

The personality formed since she was a child prevents Zuo Fei from expressing her heartfelt care and love for others and things. These emotions hidden under the surface of cowardice, dullness and loneliness become more and more intense as she grows day by day and year by year. .During a free observation time, she aimed the telescope at a large construction site of a newly built urban commercial center in Hamamatsu Star, wanting to appreciate the sense of order jointly constructed by humans, robots, buildings to be completed, and large and small engineering equipment.Although a sudden earthquake did not cause any human casualties on site, it caused the damper on the top floor of a nearly completed skyscraper that was being installed to fall directly to the third floor underground, smashing at least fifty or sixty robots working on site.

Zuo Fei, who witnessed the accident with his own eyes, maneuvered the entire space telescope to the next direction to be observed, and hid himself in a small storage room on the space station, staring straight at the darkness for seven hours.Although loyal Spinach was impatient, he failed to find Zuo Fei with his poor sense of smell.It could only blindly turn around in the space station in a hurry, and let out a wolf howl mixed with dog barking.

During the seven hours of "confinement" to himself, Zuo Fei didn't know whether he felt sorry for the robots driven by dozens of binary instructions, or he didn't want to see anything destroyed or destroyed from the bottom of his heart.When she crawled out of the storage room in the dark and saw Spinach, who had hoarse her voice two hours ago and was almost exhausted, stood up and licked her face, she still held Spinach and shed tears.

At this time, she remembered that these seven hours should be the first time in seven years since Spinach was born in the breeding base and traveled for more than 20 hours to come to her. Hours.Looking at the peach-shaped face Alaska's natural smile, she blamed herself even more.She blamed herself for not using her ignorant emotions and behaviors to hurt Spinach who loved her.But she thought, there are always various accidents, dangers and contradictions in this world and this universe every second. Although she is powerless to intervene, she always finds a way to dispel the innate feeling in her heart. Come uneasy.

Zuo Fei chose to write everything she saw into words.These words include more than 53 hours of her own time in the 300 years of stationing in the "Gulanlan VII" space station, and she followed the plan of the Astronomical Council and pointed the telescope at the edge and depths of the universe for more than 45 hours. , Everything that comes to mind.She poured everything she observed in the best time of her life into "One, Two, Three Things about the Warmth of Human Beings in the Universe" with her own unique language habits.

"The One, Two, and Three Things of Man's Warmth in the Universe" was completed in 1227 Universal Era and published the following year.In the decades after the publication of the book, it was unknown, and it was only a minor celebrity in the astronomy circle where the author Zuo Fei was.She didn't get much of a substantial royalty until Zuo Fei died in 1271, but she knew, and those who knew her, that it didn't matter at all.

In the year 3000 of the Universal Era, the editorial committee of "The History of Human Universe Development" discovered this diary-like book written by astronomy researcher Zuo Fei when sorting out the important bibliography of each historical period.The editorial committee quoted a lot in the history of the cosmic era from 1170 to 1223 in the "History of Human Cosmos Exploitation", which Zuo Fei silently observed and wrote about human beings, The content of the planet and the universe.

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