Die on Mars

Maidong turned off the psychological test, and the computer reminded her to see a psychiatrist, but this suggestion had no reference value. She was now alone in the joint space station. Who could she go to?

The girl raised the temperature of the air conditioner in the crystal cabin slightly, and the space station entered the shadow on the back side of Mars again. A pencil slowly floated past her eyes. If there was no external interference, the pen would move in a straight line at a constant speed until it touched bulkhead. Maidong reached out and flicked it, causing the pencil to spin and change direction.

Maidong turned around and left the core cabin. She entered the hub's node cabin through the module's interface.

The hub cabin is a nearly spherical cabin. It is located at the very center of the United Space Station and is a crossroads. The hub cabin has the most interfaces and is responsible for docking with other cabins.

On the left is the Hope experimental module, on the right is the Discovery experimental module, and in front is the Harmony service module.

All Ophiopogon japonicus plants are planted in the Hope cabin. There is a complete microgravity plant cultivation system with a total of twelve incubators, each of which has eight units.

Due to environmental constraints, plants cannot be grown in the space station by being planted in soil, watered and fertilized like on the ground. In order for plants to grow normally, the space station must have a complex set of special cultivation equipment - this equipment was developed under the leadership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, fully referencing the previous space crop planting systems of the United States and Russia, and adding a little bit of the advantages of socialism with Chinese characteristics. sex.

When cultivating plants in a microgravity environment, the transportation of water and nutrients is a very critical link. In a weightless environment, liquids will not flow freely, but will only gather into balls and float around under the action of surface tension, so engineers We use a special negative pressure porous tube to transport nutrient solution, and the liquid will flow into the substrate of cultivated plants due to capillary action.

What was finally formed was a rather complicated set of equipment. This small space greenhouse was divided into several major modules, and everything from light to moisture to temperature control was automatically controlled by a computer.

Ophiopogon japonicus has planted eight tomato plants, 23 lettuce plants, and 17 potato plants on the joint space station. The plant varieties are all carefully selected on earth and have high growth rates and high survival rates. All tomatoes have set fruit. The ones that develop faster are already ripe. Ophiopogon japonicus picks the ripe tomatoes and puts them in the refrigerator for storage.

There are still four or five unripe tomatoes, green with red, and they are heavy in the plexiglass box. They are very pleasing to the eye.

Maidong likes to stay in the Hope cabin. In her opinion, this is the liveliest place in the space station, full of life. Although the plants cannot speak, they must be whispering in some way that humans cannot detect. , Ophiopogon japonicus closes his eyes, as if he can hear their voices, which are full of lively and vibrant breath of life.

Sometimes Ophiopogon japonicus would play music for the tomatoes and potatoes. She heard that soft and soothing music could make the plants grow better... This girl's gentle maternal heart had nowhere to go but to give to these speechless plants. .

Ophiopogon japonicus opened the incubator and carefully checked the growth status of the vegetables.

"Hmm... Chang, you need to grow faster. The Book of Mountains and Seas next door has already begun to bear fruit."

Ah Chang is the name of a tomato plant.

Classic of Mountains and Seas is also the name of a tomato plant.

Ophiopogon japonicus gave each plant a name. The first tomato that sprouted was named Runtu, which was the eldest brother.

Ah Chang is the fifth tomato seedling to sprout, so he is the fifth brother.

Shan Hai Jing is the sixth brother.

The tomatoes in the space station are a big family, with eight brothers - tomatoes are monoecious anyway, and Ophiopogon japonicus says they are brothers.

The name of the smallest tomato is Xian.

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Kunlun Station.

Night has fallen, and the stars are bright in the sky. There is no artificial light pollution. Standing on the surface of Mars, you can see a magnificent Milky Way passing overhead.

If so many bad things hadn't happened, Mars would indeed be a place that could cleanse the soul. Some people say that Kunlun Station is the closest place to the universe in human society. Some people say that going to Kunlun Station is a pilgrimage - indeed some people are. I came to participate in the Mars mission with this idea in mind.

In the past dozen landing missions, many experts are devout Christians. They traveled thousands of miles to Kunlun Station, on the one hand for scientific truth, and on the other hand to shorten the distance between themselves and God.

But most of these people fell into deep self-doubt after returning to Earth.

It was such a shock to them to actually set foot on another planet. For the first time, human beings used their own feet to measure the breadth of this world. They began to doubt whether the God derived from human beings' own thoughts was really capable of creating such a universe. ——God created everything, which may be a very arrogant anthropocentrism.

In contrast, Tang Yue didn't have so many ideas.

As a materialist atheist who grew up under the red flag, he was influenced by Marx and socialism. The education Tang Yue received since childhood was: Mars? Isn't Mars just a giant clay egg that orbits the sun like the Earth? There are several such clay eggs in the solar system. What's so strange about it?

Everything about God and creation is bullshit.

Idiots bother themselves.

whispering sound.

Tang Yue spent a whole day mixing shit today. Kunlun Station may be a holy place far away from the world, but when you mix shit in this holy place all day long, it will no longer be holy.

Tang Yue and Lao Mao pounded two jars of feces, and then put them all in the garage, accompanied by the isotope thermoelectric generator, waiting for them to ferment and mature. There was still a batch of dry feces that had not been processed, and Tang Yue also put them Placed it in the garage and will come back to it later.

"Old cat."

Tang Yue sat by the porthole, holding his chin and looking out.

"Um?"

The old cat leaned on the table, crossed his legs, closed his eyes and rested.

"Last time Maidong told me that he wanted to leave some records for human civilization." Tang Yue turned around and said, "Write a memoir or something. What do you think?"

The old cat opened one eye.

"Let me ask you, which country is Picasso from?"

Tang Yue was stunned for a moment. Which country did Picasso come from? I think this was taught in junior high school history class? But it was so long ago that he couldn't remember clearly. Tang Yue knew that Picasso was a famous artist, but he didn't know what era or country this person was from.

Tang Yue tried his best to recall.

He seems to be a European, or an ancient European.

Maybe the same era as Leonardo da Vinci?

"What's his full name?" the old cat asked next.

Tang Yue:...The last name is Bi and the last name is Jia Suo?

"Picasso did not die until 1973. His full name was Pablo Diego José Santiago Francisco de Paula Guy Nipomoro Crispiano de... Rose Remedios Ciporiano de la Sandisima Trinidad Maria Parisio Crito Riz Blasco Picasso. "

The old cat shook his head and closed his eyes.

"You can't even remember Picasso's name, but you still want to pass on human civilization? Go to sleep."