Die on Mars

Tang Yue didn't know whether the Buddha was still alive or not. He was not a Buddhist. Tang Yue could recite the Pure Mind Mantra but could not recite the Diamond Sutra. However, Tang Yue vaguely remembered that the Buddha's jurisdiction seemed to extend beyond the earth. In Buddhism, it is said that calamities are divided into small, medium and large. Three kinds, among which a small kalpa lasts 1.68 million years, every twenty small kalpas is a medium kalpa, that is 33.6 million years, and the last eighty medium kalpas are a big kalpa, then one The great tribulation lasts for 26.8 billion years.

It is currently known that the age of the universe is about 13.8 billion years, which is not long enough for a Buddhist kalpa. The Buddhist scriptures say that thousands of Buddhas are born every great kalpa - which means that nothing existed before the big bang. , and a large group of nagging old monks.

But what kind of Bodhisattva is Namo Gatling Bodhisattva?

Tang Yue took another sip of strong coffee, closed his eyes hard and opened them again. At this time, he no longer cared about saving water. If the old cat were here, he would never let him be so extravagant and waste fresh water to make coffee. .

With the old cat away, he can let himself go as much as he wants, and no one will care about him when he goes to the sauna.

Maidong left the Crystal cabin, dexterously bypassed the cables floating in mid-air, and passed through the cabin interface. She needed to conduct routine inspections of the space station and at the same time take care of the plants in the petri dish. A Chang Shan Hai Jing, Run Tu, and They haven't seen Ophiopogon japonicus all day. The Joint Space Station will pass over Kunlun Station in another forty minutes. Ophiopogon japonicus can use this gap to complete its daily routine.

"Tang Yue, I think we are doing this too slowly." Maidong put on his headphones, "Thirty-six hours have passed since Mr. Cat lost contact, and we have been watching photos for twenty-four hours. , we have only analyzed 1,400 photos, which is only one-sixty-sixth of the total workload. By the time we finish looking at all the photos, won’t it take us two months?”

"Yes." Tang Yue nodded, "More than 1,500 hours."

Maidong dragged out a certain control panel of the space station, checked the cables with a probe, and then pressed a button. "Is there any more convenient and faster method? Aren't we very pressed for time? Image interpretation should be as fast as possible."

Tang Yue leaned back on his chair, the images on the computer screen switched, and the photo number jumped to 1480.

"What other methods can we use? The highest resolution of the camera is only five meters, and the maximum field of view of the lens is only more than 2,000 square meters. To call this a remote sensing system is an exaggeration. Unfortunately, it is still a Zeiss product." Tang Yue sighed, "We only have a fire stick, how do you expect to be able to compete with the Webb telescope?"

Logically speaking, it is not difficult to search for target objects on the surface of Mars. If we let the people from Jiuquan Wenchang come over, they can come up with 180 different plans, and each one is more concise and convenient than the other. What is high precision? Surface scanning imaging, super image fuzzy contrast recognition, not to mention the use of the joint space station, they have the ability to find old cats thousands of miles away on the earth.

But no matter what method is used, there is a premise, and that is imaging.

High-precision and high-resolution surface imaging is the key to everything. This is the common denominator and the basis for implementation of all solutions. Other fancy parts such as supercomputer AI comparison and recognition are just to shorten the time and speed up. If imaging is If you can't take one step forward, everything behind you will be empty talk.

"If we have a super powerful telescope with a resolution of less than one meter and a field of view of more than one square kilometer, then why do we have to work so hard?" Tang Yue said, "Take two panoramic photos and let the computer compare them. Wouldn’t there be results? The problem is that we don’t have them.”

This is true. Tang Yue did not want to use such a primitive and slow method. He used violent search with naked eyes for a long time, which almost blinded his krypton gold eyes. However, the basic conditions were too poor and he had no other more convenient tools besides his eyes. .

"To be honest, you are lucky to have found this optical tracking system." Tang Yue said, "If we don't even have this thing, we will be really helpless. Just slow down... we have to Believe me, the old cat has a very tough destiny."

"The Chenxi cabin has it." Maidong pushed the control panel back, "Efficient observation equipment is available in the Chenxi cabin."

"I know there is one in the Dawn Cabin, but the Dawn Cabin has been damaged." Tang Yue shook his head.

When the morning sun's bulkhead broke during the impact, a very serious depressurization accident occurred. The old cat closed and locked the hatch, cutting off the supply of electricity and air. Now the morning sun's cabin is just a cold tomb, and it is completely incapacitated. use.

Maidong thought for a moment, "I can try to restart the equipment in the Dawn Cabin."

Tang Yue was surprised.

"Don't mess around, girl!" Tang Yue was very strict, "Don't open the hatch without permission, let alone enter the Dawn Cabin!"

The last time Laomao and Maidong tried to repair the Dawn cabin, they failed in the end. The interior environment of the Dawn cabin, which had been leaking and depressurized for more than three months, was no longer much different from the outside world. No one knew about those who were exposed to vacuum low temperatures for a long time. Whether the equipment in it can still work. Maidong is absolutely unable to restart the Dawn Cabin alone. She is just a layman, and rash actions may lead to catastrophic consequences.

The old cat is missing. If something happens to Ophiopogon japonicus again, Tang Yue can really find a crooked neck tree and hang himself.

Hmm...then he won't be dead for a while.

"Did you hear that?" Tang Yue was very worried that the girl would do something stupid on impulse. "You are absolutely not allowed to open the hatch! You are not allowed to enter the Dawn Cabin!"

"Oh...I know." Maidong said.

"Promise me."

"I promise you that you will never open the hatch or enter the Dawn Cabin without permission," Maidong said.

"I swear on the lives of Chang and Shan Hai Jing."

The girl was stunned and curled her lips, "You are so cruel."

Tang Yue shrugged, no poison, no husband.

"If the equipment in the Dawn Cabin cannot be activated, then we need to change the search method. If we continue to search at the current speed, it will take another two months. It is definitely not an option to continue like this." Maidong pondered, "Yes. Isn’t there a faster way to search?”

"The method we are using now is already the most efficient. We scan sequentially and search by number. There will be no omissions. If we continue to search using this method, we will definitely find the old cat."

"We can actually change our thinking." The girl pinched her hair and twirled it around her fingertips, "Prioritize the search for the location where Mr. Cat is most likely to exist."

"Isn't its most likely location the landing site of the Chelome probe, within 60 kilometers from the Kunlun Station?"

The old cat has been out of contact for forty-eight hours. According to the normal traveling speed, its position can only be within 60 kilometers of the Chelome. Any further away will exceed the performance limit of the Martian stray dog.

"No... no, this area is still too big." Maidong shook his head, "Think about it, Tang Yue, whether Mr. Cat's vehicle was damaged or the antenna failed, the biggest reason was that he was hit by a huge external force. But this won’t happen when driving normally on flat ground.”

Tang Yue was startled.

"It is impossible for Mr. Cat to roll over on flat ground. The most likely cause of the accident is the terrain." Maidong continued to explain.

Tang Yue understood, "So we should prioritize searching areas with cliffs, steep slopes and ravines?"

"Bingo!"

Maidong snapped his fingers, indicating that what Tang Yue said was absolutely correct. If the old cat really overturned the car, it would probably have fallen into a deep ditch or the bottom of a cliff.

This kind of steep terrain is very rare in the Yixi Plain. As long as Tang Yue and Maidong investigate one by one, they will most likely find the scene of the car accident.