My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 90

ARES 3 solar day 92

Berry stood by the No. 3 airlock and waited. She and Fireball originally planned to leave the living cabin through the No. 2 airlock, but just before they were about to enter the airlock, the red indicator light suddenly turned on, indicating that the outer hatch of the airlock was open - only then did Mark It's been less than two minutes since I left the habitat.

With only two airlocks left in the habitation module, in order to minimize further wear and tear on the canvas dome, they have decided to use the two airlocks alternately and prohibit them from releasing pressure at the same time. Mark had already left the No. 3 airlock before Berry and Fireball were ready. And now he was about to come in again, which meant that Berry not only had to wait for him to completely enter the cabin, but also could no longer use the airlock that had just been pressurized when leaving.

But these thoughts disappeared as soon as she saw Mark; he stumbled out of the airlock and fumbled to undo the clamps that sealed the helmet to the suit. "Flying Fire!" Berry shouted hurriedly, "Bring the medical kit quickly! Mark's condition is not good!"

However, Mark didn't pay any attention to the group of ponies around him. Changelings and dragons gathered around him. He took off his helmet, but the lower half of his space suit was still on him before he could take it off; he fell to his knees, his eyes were distracted, his mouth was open but he didn't say a word. Tears streamed down his face.

"Mark! Speak!" Berry's brain was running rapidly, trying to piece together the words she was not very familiar with into meaningful words, "Are you okay? Why are you... uh..." At this moment, she suddenly realized When I didn't know how to say "cry" in English, I had to give up.

"It worked." Mark said softly. "Pathfinder is ready for use. Its antenna is pointing at the Earth. That means it's receiving the signal." He placed his palm, still wrapped in the spacesuit, on Berry's shoulder. "Earth sent a signal. They know Pathfinder is here. They know I'm alive!!!"

A loud and heart-wrenching sob burst out, and he could no longer hold back. He leaned forward and hugged Berry tightly, burying his face in her hair. "They know I'm still alive!!!" He kept repeating this sentence, letting himself cry bitterly in Berry's hair regardless of the image, and his throat was so tight that he almost lost his voice.

And Berry didn't hesitate or flinch at all. She stretched out one front hoof and hugged Mark tightly, whispering words of comfort to him as he cried. Spitfire joined in a moment later, as did Dragonfly. Fireball was the last to act, as usual, and chose to place a paw on Mark's shoulder reassuringly.

"What's wrong with him?" Starlight yelled from her bunk, "Tell me now! Otherwise I'm going to use up the entire magic battery to float myself over!"

"He just made contact with his home planet." Berry said, "He is no longer alone."

"Then what are we now? Just decorations?" Starlight responded.

"Xingguang, this is not the same thing. Now is not the time to say such things." Tingting immediately responded.

However, this pause helped Mark regain control of his emotions. He let go of Berry, stood up and said, "Sorry for being rude."

"There's nothing to be sorry for." Berry replied, "Go and contact your tribe."

"Yes. Contact." Mark struggled to get up. "We have to contact them. What should I say? How to say it? Uh...camera. Stereoscopic imager. Need signs, need news." He staggered. Staggering towards the drawer that contained the remaining markers after the explosion of the habitation module. In addition, there are fifty precious sample box labels - these are the only paper products in the habitation module besides the operating instructions of the pony spacecraft. He began frantically scribbling on one of them; when he was done, he scribbled several shorter messages on the other two. "Okay! We still need height, we need..." He looked at the fireball and asked, "Where are those antenna scraps?"

"Scrap?" Fireball asked.

"It's those antenna fragments you picked up outside." Dragonfly explained in pony language, "Where did you hide them?"

"Just outside, under Amicitas," Fireball replied.

After Tingting conveyed this information to Mark, he struggled to put on the upper part of his spacesuit again. He ran straight to the airlock without stopping to check the sealing condition of his spacesuit. He only realized when he was halfway through and turned around to grab the three label cards he had just written.

"I don't think we'll go to the cave again today," Berry said softly.

An hour after posting his first message, Mark did another two-minute EVA. This time, his first words after entering the cabin and taking off his helmet became: "They answered 'yes'!!!"

After hearing this, Berry, Spitfire and Dragonfly began to cheer in pony style, their hooves tapping the mud in the cabin. Fireball, on the other hand, chose to cheer in dragon fashion, clapping with his own paws. Even Starlight, who was still resting on the bunk, cheered: "Woo-hoo!"

"Yeah, it's great, isn't it?" Mark said, "We are in contact! We...wait a minute," at this point he seemed to suddenly wake up from his feverish joy, "If NASA and they can only Replying to 'yes' or 'no' is not very convenient for us to communicate." He began to pace around the cabin, mumbling something vaguely to himself, so Berry could only make out a few words, such as "Both sides. ", "Three hundred and sixty", "ASCII" and the like.

Finally he nodded and said: "Fireball, I need another fourteen pieces of antenna fragments."

"Okay." Fireball said and stretched out his claws to get his helmet. Since Mark's first short-term EVA today, he has no intention of taking off his spacesuit.

Mark immediately counted out eight label cards, took out a pair of scissors from his toolbox, paused and said, "My handicraft teacher will be furious if he sees me doing this now." Then he slashed with a knife. Cut the stack of cards in half. When he was done, he placed the scissors on a workbench, grabbed the marker again, and began marking different characters on each card.

"Mark, what are you doing?" Berry asked.

"We have an encoding called 'ASCII'." Mark replied, "'A-S-C-I-I'. It can represent a total of 256 different letters, numbers and symbols. Dragonfly, please turn on computer four, Search for 'A-S-C-I-I' in all disk directories. I don't need to teach you how to do it."

"No problem, Mark." Dragonfly said and ran towards the cabinet where all unused computers were stored.

"And I can use these cards..." Mark marked the last one after a while, "to represent the ASCII code. These two cards can represent one ASCII character."

"It doesn't seem very..." Berry didn't know how to say "efficient" in English, "It doesn't sound good."

“莓莓，他这么做可是把二十六个字母，十个数字，还有不知道多少种标点符号转换成了总共十六个符号的组合，”星光在自己的铺位上嚷嚷着，“已经Good enough! Mark, you have a great idea!”

"Yes, I think so too," Mark said. "I just hope NASA thinks so too."

Spell the message in ASCII code. From 0 to F, each character is spaced twenty-one degrees apart. I'll start looking at the camera from eleven o'clock here. When the message transmission is completed, it is reset to the current position. Wait twenty minutes after finishing before taking the image (to give me time to write a response). Repeat this process at the beginning of each hour.

11:00 – STATUS

I'm fine - at least no physical problems. One spacesuit was damaged, another had a broken helmet, and the No. 1 airlock was detached and leaking from tiny cracks. A computer monitor was broken. The rest of the cabin equipment is working normally. Of the five guests, one had a broken leg and the rest were healthy. The whole group adopted two-thirds food rationing measures to wait for the grain harvest.

12:00 – HOW ALIVE

Stung by antenna fragments. Loss of pressure in the space suit leads to coma. He landed face down, blood sealing the hole. He woke up after the team members left. The vital sign monitoring computer was punctured and damaged. It was a complete freak accident. The crew had good reason to think I was dead. Not their fault.

13:00 – Food? (CROPS? )

A giant cave was discovered in area e. It's full of quartz. A greenhouse was built using the resources from the crashed alien spacecraft. The current planting area is 600 square meters. In addition, there is an additional 100 square meters of farming area in the living cabin, which was damaged in the explosion of the living cabin. The plan is to use the remaining seeds and the first batch of harvested crops in the cave for reclamation.

14:00 – WHO GUESTS

Aliens from a parallel universe with different laws of physics. Their experimental hyperdrive malfunctions, and differences in the laws of physics force them to crash-land here. Better communication channels are needed to exchange more information.

15:00 – Agree – Bring the Sojourners Out (AGREE – BRG SJRNR OUT)

The Sojourner rover has been placed one meter due north of the lander. If I can contact Sojourner, I can label each wheel with a hexadecimal number so you can send me six bytes of information at once.

16:00 – Sojourner No Response (SJRNR NT RSPND)

Deadly. Is there any other way? More transmission bandwidth is needed. There are also many photos, videos and other written materials about the first contact that you really need to take a look at.

17:00 – WORKING ON IT

The earth is going down. According to my time here, let's continue at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. Tell my family everything is okay here. Also send my greetings to my team members. By the way, to Commander Lewis, four out of the five aliens have as bad a taste in music as she does.