spaceflight manual

Chapter 207 For the memory of forgetting

Qin Qiong noticed Wang Ping'an's expression and asked, "Why, did you see Quantum Rose?"

"Hey, have you learned to read minds after staying on the ground for a few years?" Wang Pingan teased.

"Strictly speaking, this is related to my current job. My first job was to deliver notices. When the recipient saw me, he passed out and cried loudly. This is not the most uncomfortable thing. "

Wang Pingan: "Isn't it the most uncomfortable?"

"Well, the most uncomfortable thing is the kind of people who have a particularly high awareness, especially those who have experienced the last war. They seem to be used to it. They will pull me to sit down and drink some wine, and then start to recall bits and pieces."

Wang Pingan raised his eyebrows: "I always feel like I can imagine that scene. It should be like how my dad remembers his comrades-in-arms every year during Qingming, right?"

Qin Qiong stared at Wang Ping'an for a few seconds, and said, "I haven't seen how your father recalls his comrades-in-arms, but I have seen how you recall Xiao Fang. That's how it is."

Wang Pingan frowned: "What did I recall about Xiao Fang? Have I recalled it in front of you?"

"You fucking forgot, right? The year Xiao Fang just left, I saw a spaceship parked in front of the monument in L2, and then I offered a docking invitation. You also drank me a good glass of wine."

Wang Pingan: "Oh, it seems to be the case. But didn't I behave normally that time?"

"Yeah, it's normal." Qin Qiong glanced at Angeli, "Speaking of which, after arriving in the current department, I discovered one thing, it seems that among the veterans who have lost their comrades, there is a market for Zhang Li. "

Wang Ping'an frowned: "When I was in L2, I stopped a guy who was bewitched by tension and tried to rape a psychiatrist. Are there many of them on the ground?"

"There are a lot of them, especially those who are not suitable for space missions according to the psychological diagnosis. Those who are dismissed are usually assigned to the Qingshui yamen who read newspapers, and many people go crazy instead."

Wang Pingan: "Qingshui yamen who read newspapers?"

"Look! I knew you didn't care about being obsessed!"

"Okay okay, how did they go crazy? No psychology follow up?"

Qin Qiong pointed to herself: "I'm the one responsible for psychological follow-up. This is what my department is responsible for. Many people have to participate in mutual aid groups every week, and diagnosis is almost every two weeks, but quite a few people still Will choose to believe in the existence of quantum ghosts.

"I personally suspect that Zhang Li actually understands quantum physics very well, so he has precisely chosen fields that cannot be refuted at present. His pseudo-scientific theories that seem to be nonsense are actually carefully arranged. Those pseudo-sciences and the current There is nothing contradictory about science."

Wang Pingan nodded: "Pseudoscience generally violates basic common sense, and the most common one is the violation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics. The theory of tension does not.

"But Zhang Zhang's theories can be seen as pseudoscience at a glance. Which real scientific theory does not involve mathematics?"

Qin Qiong: "If there is mathematics in Zhang Li's theory, then we can tell it is fake at a glance, right? It is precisely because there is no equation or equation in his theory that he has such a market among veterans of the Space Force."

Just as Wang Pingan was about to answer, his mobile phone said: "Zhang Zhang himself has no educational background related to quantum physics. He should not understand quantum physics theory. In fact, as long as you have met him in person, you will know that his theories are pseudoscience."

Wang Pingan: "It's not the first time you've said that, so what's going on? What can I see in Zhang Li?"

"Hey, let's keep this kind of thing in suspense, and you can only leave a deeper impression when you see him directly."

Qin Qiong stared at Wang Ping'an's cell phone: "What's wrong with your cell phone?"

"Modules are all modules." Wang Pingan said perfunctorily.

Qin Qiong raised her eyebrows: "Okay. But your phone just said that you still want to see Zhang Li?"

Wang Pingan: "Yes. It is said that I will no longer be bewitched by his theory after meeting him. I am not bewitched now, but sometimes I think, it would be great if there were quantum ghosts. This is the same as my It’s one thing to sometimes wish there were real Force or magic.”

Qin Qiong also smiled: "For the matter of the Force, let's talk about each other. When we were in the flight academy, we also acted in the stage play of Star Wars together. The instructor was speechless."

Wang Pingan: "That's right, you were playing Skywalker at that time, and I was playing Han Solo. I said no, I had to use the Force. In the end, the script was changed, and Han Solo became the number one in the universe who used the Force to shoot guns." Cowboys."

"Your cowboy, frankly, incorporates elements of Cowboy Bebop. It's a hodgepodge of cosmic sci-fi works in the pre-space age. I remember that Han Solo's Millennium Falcon also got a personal computer, and the image was taken from the animation Cosmos. .”

Wang Pingan: "That's right, the computer of the spaceship has been turned into Kaina, why don't you let me, Han Solo, use a lightsaber, Kaina's captain Kane also uses a lightsaber!"

"It would be nice to let you use the force to shoot a gun."

Angeli: "Did you still do this kind of activity in your flying school days?"

"Red May, everyone wants to produce a show. Our team produced this one, and the instructors were speechless, but I didn't expect the academy to like it, saying that the space opera in the pre-space age embodies the spirit of human exploration.

"Actually, there is no spirit of exploration. Everyone wants to play the characters in the stories they read when they were young."

When Wang Pingan said this, a smile appeared on his face involuntarily.

Angeli: "Xiao Fang also participated?"

"Participated, she played R2D2."

Angeli: "What do you play?"

"R2D2, that cylindrical robot." Wang Pingan said and gestured with his hand, "She is just the right height, you know, she also had a lot of fun acting herself, and during that time she deliberately used beep beep when she spoke. voice instead."

Qin Qiong: "At that time, our team didn't have anyone who was suitable to play Kaina. The girls in our team didn't have the figure of Kaina. The first-generation adjusters obviously had a good body shape. It's because our entire team didn't have any girls to choose. .”

Wang Pingan: "Maybe the father wanted to choose, but he was afraid of his wife. Anyway, we couldn't help it in the end. Kaina turned into a tequila girl. Who played it?"

"Liu Gang, there are two coconuts growing on the coconut tree on the side of the college road." Qin Qiong suddenly paused, his expression sank, "Liu Gang died, don't you know?"

"When did it happen?" Wang Pingan asked.

"Just last year, he died on Mercury. The radiation protection layer of the space station was aging. Just when the solar storm came, it only leaked a little bit, maybe a gap of about three millimeters, and he just caught up with it. But if he changed his posture at that time Even a little bit, you can't die."

Wang Pingan silently picked up the wine bottle and filled their glasses.

Angeli opened a new cup: "I should have a cup too. After all, I'm also a second lieutenant of the Space Force."

Wang Pingan filled her up silently.

The three drank silently, and then Wang Pingan asked: "There are laboratories on Mercury, right?"

"Yes, because that place is too close to the sun, and the cost of mining resources on the planet is too high, private companies will not go there, so it is used as an experimental base by the Space Force. As long as no private people will go there, it is easy to keep it secret.

"In addition, it is also easy to obtain energy over there. As long as the solar panels are opened, there will naturally be terawatt-level energy. The ultra-high-energy coils and antimatter production devices of the Institute of Physics are all there."

Wang Pingan was stunned: "Antimatter... When can we use antimatter as energy...

"Now it's at the terawatt level. Antimatter is used as an energy source. What word should be put in front of the unit of power? At that time, we might all be able to jump faster than the speed of light."

Qin Qiong smiled and said: "Maybe we will use a new unit at that time. After all, Watt is just a craftsman. In fact, I think that when our reactor stops boiling water, it is time to change the power unit."

Wang Pingan: "I agree, no longer boiling water is a great progress for human beings. Although human beings are still throwing stones, they no longer boil water after all."

Erin: "Throwing stones?"

Angeli explained: "They are talking about an old stalk that materialists often say. The old line of human beings is to boil water and throw stones. In the past, nuclear reactors used steam to drive turbines to generate electricity, and they were still boiling water in essence. .”

Erin: "Isn't it now?"

Angeli: "No."

Wang Pingan laughed suddenly: "I can't imagine how big a turbine can reach a terawatt-level power."

Qin Qiong also laughed: "I'm afraid that the turbine will be very scary just because of friction and heat."

Irene looked at everyone suspiciously: "What are you laughing at?"

Angorie shrugged.

Qin Qiong: "Since you're going to see Zhang Li, why don't you eat at my place?"

"I don't know, I..." Wang Pingan looked at the phone.

The itinerary is arranged by mobile phone, and he doesn't know when Zhang Li is free - but as a Minke, he should be free at any time.

Qin Qiong: "Why do you always check your phone for this matter?"

"Uh, there is a schedule on the phone."

"You still have a schedule?" Qin Qiong frowned, "This doesn't seem like something you would do."

"What kind of me do you think I am, aimlessly and wherever I am?"

Qin Qiong: "Isn't it?"

"Well, it makes sense. But this time I look at my phone because I have a schedule. Student Xiaoyun, can I have dinner at Qin Qiong's place?"

Mobile phone: "Yes. But I don't think Major Qin Qiong has the ability to cook himself."

Qin Qiong shrugged: "You're right, so if you stay with me for dinner, you can only eat pre-made dishes I made with fast cooking equipment. My wife bought all the kitchen utensils in my house. She likes to learn new dishes from short videos .”

Angeli: "I think, I can cook some simple dishes."

Wang Pingan: "He doesn't have kitchen utensils for western food."

Angeli replied seriously: "I can fry Chinese food."

"How did you learn it?" Wang Ping'an asked in surprise, "Could it be your father asked you to learn it again? My father-in-law is quite awesome, and he has calculated to such a degree."

Angeli smiled: "Not this time. But in our flight academy, there is an elective course on Chinese food."

Wang Pingan: "Chinese food elective course? Are you from a flight academy? Are you sure it's not New Oriental?"

Angeli waved her hand, stood up and went to the kitchen.

Irene, who was left here, suddenly became embarrassed: "Uh, let me go and help Ms. Lyon."

With that, she also stood up and left.

Wang Pingan looked at the phone and joked: "Do you want to fight too?"

Mobile phone: "I'm a mobile phone, I can't help you with cooking."

Wang Pingan: "You can help me find the recipe."

The phone was silent for a few seconds, and then unfolded the supporting bracket, using the bracket as a leg, and went to the kitchen with a click.

Qin Qiong: "When did you have such a fashionable mobile phone?"

"Don't worry about it, let's drink." Wang Pingan filled up the wine again.

Qin Qiong was speechless: "I have always envied you, and now I am even more enviable. If you are selected to fly to the Centaur spaceship with Angeli, then I will be envious to death."

Wang Pingan laughed triumphantly: "Then you can go there with envy. But, then again, it is indeed romantic to go to the Centaur together, but it is also quite romantic if one stays in the solar system and the other goes to the past."

Qin Qiong: "Like "Voice of the Stars"?"

"That's right, the first-generation lovers who were separated by the Milky Way. One-tenth of the speed of light, I will definitely age slower than normal. When I estimate that the time is about the same, I will send a newsletter back, to Ange Li said, Hi, 90-year-old Angeli, I am 40-year-old Wang Pingan.

"Isn't that romantic too?"

When Wang Pingan said this, he heard someone singing the theme song "Through the Years & Far Away" of "Voice of the Stars": "Hello tiny star
Can you hear me call?
...

Through the years and far away
(After several years away)

Far beyond the milky way
(at the far end of the galaxy)
You're the shine that never blinks
(You are the light that never flickers)

The shine that never dies
(That light never goes out)"

He followed the sound and saw Xiao Fang with his back to this side, humming and looking up at the paintings on the wall.

Only then did Wang Pingan discover that the painting on the wall was "Galaxy" by a famous "Neo-Impressionist" artist.

"This is actually "Galaxy" on your wall..."

“Fake, replicas everywhere. I got it from a service agency because I loved the painting in high school, when it was just created, and experts debated all day whether it had artistic merit or not.

"But I was shocked when I saw this painting. There was a miniature version included in one issue of Science Pictorial, which I kept as a treasure. When I was tired of reviewing, I took it out to have a look."

Wang Pingan: "I remember some comments saying that the author of this painting is the first generation of artists who got rid of the influence of the war after the war. He is only seven or eight years older than us."

"Yeah, the paintings before him were either depicting the Great War or the recovery era. But this one depicts the 'future.'"

Wang Pingan: "The future, indeed. The universe, the last frontier of mankind."

"It's up to you to open up this frontier." Qin Qiong said while picking up the wine bottle and filling it for Wang Ping'an.

Wang Pingan said confidently, "Leave it to me."

(End of this chapter)