Die on Mars

Tang Yue typed on the keyboard word by word, "In the first half of the fourteenth century, the Italian poet Dante Alighieri created the famous long poem "The Divine Comedy", which for the first time reflected the later literary and artistic expressions in the long and dark Middle Ages. The dawn of humanistic thought that emerged during the Renaissance. In the long poem, Dante uses the first-person perspective fsuzkvbfcccccccc..."

"Tang Yue!"

Lao Mao pulled Tang Yue's face up from the keyboard and patted his face.

"Go and rest if you're too sleepy."

"It's okay, it's okay, I can still hold on." Tang Yue rubbed his eyes and shook his head, yawned, and continued typing on the keyboard. "Dante narrated his journey from the earth to Mars from a first-person perspective..."

The old cat shook his head, pressed Tang Yue into the chair, and dragged him away from the computer. If he kept writing like this, Dante would become the first person on earth to land on Mars.

It asked Tang Yue to sit on the edge to rest and wake up. Recently, Tang Yue's mind has been filled with the orbit of Mars and Orion. He is almost crazy. He talks in his sleep at night and calculates the mass of the lander. One hundred tons plus one hundred tons equals three. Hundreds of tons of algorithms.

"What is this?" The old cat raised a toe in front of Tang Yue's eyes.

"one."

"What is this?" The old cat raised another toe.

"two."

The old cat suddenly raised its four toes and said, "What is one plus two?"

"Four."

"Look at you, your mind is completely confused. You can't even add in elementary school. Tang Yue, don't do anything now. Rest first. Miss Maidong also needs to rest. You two need to relieve stress, otherwise your body will collapse. ." The old cat waved his paws and continued to sit back on the chair in front of the computer, staring at the data on the monitor.

The second simulation test failed and the old cat’s face was swollen, and now the old cat’s face is still burning.

Laomao doesn't know what exactly went wrong. It's unreliable to just rely on a workstation for rough simulation. It requires a wind tunnel, a fatigue tester, a structural strength testing machine, and a lot of special industrial testing equipment. Each one They are all huge gadgets, none of which are found in Kunlun Station.

Lao Mao really wants to stuff the entire Orion 2 spacecraft into the assembly plant and measure every detail of it.

"When can the third model be carried out?" Tang Yue asked, "How sure are the successes?"

"Model Four ended five minutes ago." Old Cat replied.

Tang Yue was surprised.

"The results of it?"

"We created the largest fin-stabilized discarding sabot in history." Lao Mao replied. "The sixty-meter-long main truss successfully got rid of all burdens and dived down at seven times the speed of sound. The scene was spectacular. I think it It can easily penetrate the armor of an Iowa-class battleship, and skewer a Ford-class aircraft carrier into a candied haws."

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"Old Cat, tell me the truth, is it impossible for this damn simulation test to succeed?" Tang Yue asked, "You told us before that Orion 2 can land vertically, is that just nonsense?"

"of course not."

"Look into my eyes and speak." Tang Yue sat up straight.

The old cat stared at the monitor, and the movements of its paws slowly stopped. It was silent for a moment and turned its head.

"If I said it was impossible for the Orion 2 spacecraft to land, would you give up trying?"

Tang Yue was stunned.

"Won't."

"Then why do you ask this question?" Old Mao crossed his arms, "The vertical landing of the Orion 2 spacecraft is only theoretically feasible. Do you know what is theoretically feasible? A high school student who failed in every subject, he It is theoretically possible to get admitted to Tsinghua University, as long as the right time, place and people are right, the whole world revolves around him, as long as he works hard enough and his grades improve by leaps and bounds, as long as he happens to hit all the questions before the exam."

Betting on college entrance examination questions?

As a person who has experienced the college entrance examination, Tang Yue is very familiar with this metaphor made by Lao Mao.

Teachers who set the questions for China’s college entrance examination: Don’t brag, you millions of people just bet, if your bet is right, I will lose.

"As long as the Orion 2 spacecraft does not have any accidents when landing, the engine does not malfunction, the attitude control does not have problems, the navigation system works normally, the main truss does not suffer from excessive fatigue, the lander docking mechanism is well sealed, and the atmospheric environment does not change, every day If every detail meets our expectations perfectly, then it will land safely."

"Do you believe it yourself?" Tang Yue asked.

"Believe it." The old cat said calmly. There was no expression on the cat's face. It seemed that it really believed that what he said could come true.

It really believed that the Orion 2 spacecraft could land without any problems.

"Even if the probability of success is only one in ten million, I am willing to believe it." Old Cat said, "I know you are very anxious, but there is only one way we can go. We should be grateful that there is a possibility of success. You try to think Think about it, if Orion is theoretically impossible to land, then what should you be doing now? Sitting in despair and waiting for death? The fourth mode failed, there is still the fifth mode, the fifth mode has failed, there are still six modes, seven modes, eight modes and nine modes! We You can keep experimenting until you succeed.”

Tang Yue doubted the authenticity of what Lao Mao said, but he could not confirm whether Lao Mao was lying.

Perhaps the Orion 2 spacecraft cannot land successfully at all. The so-called theoretical possibility is just made up by Lao Mao to fool laymen like them, in order to artificially create a false hope before the comet arrives, so that Tang Yue and Mai Winter will not fall into complete despair in his last days.

If this cat was really acting, Tang Yue and Maidong would definitely not be able to tell.

The old cat has the motive to do this. In a desperate situation, it has the responsibility to protect the safety of Tang Yue and Maidong.

"I promise you, before the comet hits Mars, I will find a way to catch Miss Maidong."

Tang Yue observed the old cat's expression, which was as calm and calm as ever. To be honest, he couldn't tell the expression on a robot cat. Tang Yue didn't know how much of what the old cat said was true and how false.

Tang Yue sighed.

"Three models after three models, and if this continues, the comet will hit the boss."

"You should have confidence in me." Old Cat patted his chest, "I will conduct the fifth simulation test next. Do you believe that I will succeed this time?"

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Five hours later.

"Failure is the mother of success." The old cat sat upright and spoke righteously.

"You said the same thing when you failed in the ninth simulation test. That time it exploded earlier than before." Tang Yue curled his lips, "After failing so many times, is your success due to dystocia?"

"Don't worry, I guarantee you that we will definitely succeed in the next test." Old Mao originally wanted to use his cat grid to guarantee it, but after thinking about it, the last simulation test was guaranteed with cat grid, and the result was that Orion exploded and re-entered. Atmosphere seventy seconds later.

"Mr. Cat, how sure are you of success in the next test?" Maidong asked.

"Miss Maidong, look out the window." The old cat said, "What did you see?"

"Mars."

"It's so sure."