DPM Chapter 61-Mutual Understanding Part 1
Translated by Snowfall77
The day after boarding list was made official, the coalition government announced the take-off date of three days later, about seven days before what Wu Xingyun had expected.
By this time, most of the people who remained at the base had tickets. Only a small number of those without tickets, still desperately hanging onto a thread of hope, hadn’t left.
Ye Fan and Wu Xingyun stayed together in Ye Fan’s basement room. Ye Fan slept in the lower bunk, while Wu Xingyun slept in the upper.
On the other bunk bed, they piled their luggage.
While was Wu Xingyun reading on the top bunk, Ye Fan took advantage of the soldier’s inattention and covertly stuffed a bottle of lubricant from Luo Ying into his own bags.
“Yun, give me a kiss!” Done packing his things up, Ye Fan stood on the bunk ladder, inclining his head towards Wu Xingyun.
Wu Xingyun moved his waist, giving Ye Fan a kiss on the cheek: “Go to sleep early. We’ve got to be ready to board tomorrow.”
Well-behaved, Ye Fan climbed down and lied in his bed, freely imagining his future life.
“Say, how fast does a spaceship sail in space? Where’s our first destination?”
Speaking without thinking, Wu Xingyun answered: “Mars. I heard those physicists say that Mars has rich natural resources and it should be relatively easy to do terraformation.”
“So we’ll become Martians?” Ye Fan asked, “Will our heads get really big, like this guy?”
Ye Fan pointed at the poster by his bed, opining: “Very ugly!”
Wu Xingyun leaned down from his bunk to take a quick look at the poster on the wall. Shaking his head, Wu Xingyun said: “Our generation won’t look like that.”
“Then……What about the next generation?” Ye Fan worried. “Our child won’t be like that, right?”
His face blushing red, Wu Xingyun countered with: “What child? Who’s having a baby with you?”
Before Ye Fan had time to respond, he was admonished by Wu Xingyun: “Go to bed! And if you disturb my sleep, I’ll make you pay!”
“Alright.” Ye Fan shut his eyes and the two men fell asleep.
The next day, when the reveille blasted, the two men were carrying their luggage, ready to board their ship.
‘Noah’s Ark’ consisted of ten huge ships, quiet and unmoving on their launch pads, able to hold fifty thousand people.
To Wu Xingyun, the ships were too backwards. Their capacity too small compared to a mothership that could carry one hundred thousand. Yet to Ye Fan, the ships were marvelously high-tech.
The streamlined shape of the bodies, the gray steel hulls, the immense turbines,—it all seemed so unreal.
Everyone lined up in rows. They had to pass inspection, then they would board their ships, leaving the Earth behind forever.
There were still a number of senior engineers suspended with safety belts doing a final overhaul on each ship. Armed forces had come ahead of time, the coalition government having selected three hundred of the strongest, most unyielding soldiers to maintain order.
Standing guard, the soldiers also manned the security gates, each passenger passing through and being tested before boarding.
Wu Xingyun and Ye Fan stood together, their bags over their shoulders, as the queue slowly inched forward.
The whole scene was methodically ordered, everyone talking in low voices.
But Ye Fan’s gaze was fixed on Wu Xingyun, inwardly wondering if today, after boarding the ship, he could finally settle certain matters.
Wu Xingyun’s eyes, on the other, roamed at will, until finally stopping on a nearby lane of people.
About thirty meters from the two men, a woman was dragged out of line and not allowed to board.
Shouting, the woman went amok. Showing no exception, a fierce soldier knocked her unconscious, her sounds ceasing.
Turning his head to Ye Fan, Wu Xingyun asked: “What’s happening?”
Ye Fan had also noticed the commotion. He’d seen the red light flash on when the woman had tried to go through the security gate. “The woman probably had contraband. Who knows?”
Wu Xingyun merely went “Oh,” and soon it was their turn to be checked at their respective security gate.
Terraforming or terraformation (literally, “Earth-shaping”) of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable by Earth-like life.
The concept of terraforming developed from both science fiction and actual science. The term was coined by Jack Williamson in a science-fiction short story (“Collision Orbit”) published during 1942 in Astounding Science Fiction,[1] but the concept may pre-date this work.
Even if the environment of a planet could be altered deliberately, the feasibility of creating an unconstrained planetary environment that mimics Earth on another planet has yet to be verified. Mars is usually considered to be the most likely candidate for terraforming. Much study has been done concerning the possibility of heating the planet and altering its atmosphere, and NASA has even hosted debates on the subject. Several potential methods of altering the climate of Mars may fall within humanity’s technological capabilities, but at present the economic resources required to do so are far beyond that which any government or society is willing to allocate to it. The long timescales and practicality of terraforming are the subject of debate. Other unanswered questions relate to the ethics, logistics, economics, politics, and methodology of altering the environment of an extraterrestrial world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming
DPM Chapter 61-Mutual Understanding Part 1
Translated by Snowfall77
The day after boarding list was made official, the coalition government announced the take-off date of three days later, about seven days before what Wu Xingyun had expected.
By this time, most of the people who remained at the base had tickets. Only a small number of those without tickets, still desperately hanging onto a thread of hope, hadn’t left.
Ye Fan and Wu Xingyun stayed together in Ye Fan’s basement room. Ye Fan slept in the lower bunk, while Wu Xingyun slept in the upper.
On the other bunk bed, they piled their luggage.
While was Wu Xingyun reading on the top bunk, Ye Fan took advantage of the soldier’s inattention and covertly stuffed a bottle of lubricant from Luo Ying into his own bags.
“Yun, give me a kiss!” Done packing his things up, Ye Fan stood on the bunk ladder, inclining his head towards Wu Xingyun.
Wu Xingyun moved his waist, giving Ye Fan a kiss on the cheek: “Go to sleep early. We’ve got to be ready to board tomorrow.”
Well-behaved, Ye Fan climbed down and lied in his bed, freely imagining his future life.
“Say, how fast does a spaceship sail in space? Where’s our first destination?”
Speaking without thinking, Wu Xingyun answered: “Mars. I heard those physicists say that Mars has rich natural resources and it should be relatively easy to do terraformation.”
“So we’ll become Martians?” Ye Fan asked, “Will our heads get really big, like this guy?”
Ye Fan pointed at the poster by his bed, opining: “Very ugly!”
Wu Xingyun leaned down from his bunk to take a quick look at the poster on the wall. Shaking his head, Wu Xingyun said: “Our generation won’t look like that.”
“Then……What about the next generation?” Ye Fan worried. “Our child won’t be like that, right?”
His face blushing red, Wu Xingyun countered with: “What child? Who’s having a baby with you?”
Before Ye Fan had time to respond, he was admonished by Wu Xingyun: “Go to bed! And if you disturb my sleep, I’ll make you pay!”
“Alright.” Ye Fan shut his eyes and the two men fell asleep.
The next day, when the reveille blasted, the two men were carrying their luggage, ready to board their ship.
‘Noah’s Ark’ consisted of ten huge ships, quiet and unmoving on their launch pads, able to hold fifty thousand people.
To Wu Xingyun, the ships were too backwards. Their capacity too small compared to a mothership that could carry one hundred thousand. Yet to Ye Fan, the ships were marvelously high-tech.
The streamlined shape of the bodies, the gray steel hulls, the immense turbines,—it all seemed so unreal.
Everyone lined up in rows. They had to pass inspection, then they would board their ships, leaving the Earth behind forever.
There were still a number of senior engineers suspended with safety belts doing a final overhaul on each ship. Armed forces had come ahead of time, the coalition government having selected three hundred of the strongest, most unyielding soldiers to maintain order.
Standing guard, the soldiers also manned the security gates, each passenger passing through and being tested before boarding.
Wu Xingyun and Ye Fan stood together, their bags over their shoulders, as the queue slowly inched forward.
The whole scene was methodically ordered, everyone talking in low voices.
But Ye Fan’s gaze was fixed on Wu Xingyun, inwardly wondering if today, after boarding the ship, he could finally settle certain matters.
Wu Xingyun’s eyes, on the other, roamed at will, until finally stopping on a nearby lane of people.
About thirty meters from the two men, a woman was dragged out of line and not allowed to board.
Shouting, the woman went amok. Showing no exception, a fierce soldier knocked her unconscious, her sounds ceasing.
Turning his head to Ye Fan, Wu Xingyun asked: “What’s happening?”
Ye Fan had also noticed the commotion. He’d seen the red light flash on when the woman had tried to go through the security gate. “The woman probably had contraband. Who knows?”
Wu Xingyun merely went “Oh,” and soon it was their turn to be checked at their respective security gate.
Terraforming or terraformation (literally, “Earth-shaping”) of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable by Earth-like life.
The concept of terraforming developed from both science fiction and actual science. The term was coined by Jack Williamson in a science-fiction short story (“Collision Orbit”) published during 1942 in Astounding Science Fiction,[1] but the concept may pre-date this work.
Even if the environment of a planet could be altered deliberately, the feasibility of creating an unconstrained planetary environment that mimics Earth on another planet has yet to be verified. Mars is usually considered to be the most likely candidate for terraforming. Much study has been done concerning the possibility of heating the planet and altering its atmosphere, and NASA has even hosted debates on the subject. Several potential methods of altering the climate of Mars may fall within humanity’s technological capabilities, but at present the economic resources required to do so are far beyond that which any government or society is willing to allocate to it. The long timescales and practicality of terraforming are the subject of debate. Other unanswered questions relate to the ethics, logistics, economics, politics, and methodology of altering the environment of an extraterrestrial world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming
