Chapter 1640: The person who pursues his dreams (third update, please subscribe)
This is an ordinary and great era.
Many people use such words to describe this era.
A group of ordinary people have created great achievements here, thus achieving this great era.
So it is ordinary and great.
In fact, all great achievements are created by ordinary people.
"...We were driving the Sno-cat tractor and relied on the aerial re-classification to successfully cross the Antarctic continent."
In the auditorium of Nanyang University, as professor of geology Yang Wendu once again told the students about their exploration eight years ago.
Eight years ago, in 58, the SEA Antarctic Expedition Team conducted an Antarctic crossing.
Before this, humans had not crossed the Antarctic.
In fact, this glory originally belonged to Britain, but the emergence of SEA changed everything.
In that year, for the need for space exploration, the UK rented overseas territory, including West Falkland Islands, to the SEA. When the island was handed over, the Falkland Islands affiliated investigative agency was also sacked. This institution was the British Antarctic Investigation Agency, and its head Fux was planning polar exploration at the time.
He envisioned a mechanized Antarctic crossing with air support, allowing him to carry out a scientific plan, but with the layoff of the agency, the Fux Polar Crossing Plan, which should have been achieved in 58, was stranded. .
However, his plan was not completely put on hold.
At the same time, SEA Nanyang Investigation Research Institute has also launched this plan.
On January 24 that year, he set out on an inspection of the Sno-cat special transport vehicle and arrived at the Scott base in McMurdo Bay on March 28, completing the first land crossing in Antarctica in 125 days, with a journey of more than 4,593 kilometers.
That was the first time that humans traveled through the Antarctic continent. This feat is inseparable from a special transport vehicle called Sno-Cat.
Sno-Cat is a vehicle designed for ice and snow environments, with wide tracks that allow it to easily cross complex terrains such as deep snow and ice ditches. Its sturdiness and reliability helped the expedition a lot.
After their success, although countries have successively established inspection stations in Antarctica, none of them have implemented crossing plans.
When Yang Wendu talked about the adventure across the Antarctic continent, his tone was full of pride. Although he had not paid much attention to the outside world until now, they were all in humans in any case. The history of polar adventure has left an extremely strong mark.
As his narrator drove the Sno-cat special transport vehicle several times and almost fell into a glacier crack, the audience was shocked by the risks.
And among these people, one is extremely special.
It was Bai Zhicheng, who had just been admitted to Nanyang University. He was the first Antarctic man born in Antarctica in SEA!
His ID card clearly states his household registration - Yinglong Town, Antarctic.
For others, Antarctica is only an existence on a map or in museums and zoos, but for him, Antarctica is his hometown.
He was born in Antarctica and grew up in Antarctica. He didn't come to Chang'an until five years ago.
After the speech, Bai Zhicheng did not leave immediately, but took the initiative to find Yang Wendu and introduced his ideas to him.
In front of the professor, Bai Zhicheng pointed to the Antarctic map and said:
"Although you have traveled through Antarctica, you have traveled through mechanized ways. Until now, humans have never been able to travel through the Antarctic. Crossing Antarctica, I mean hiking. "
As a young man born in Yinglong, Antarctica, Bai Zhicheng has always wanted to return to Antarctica and Yinglong, but he did not want to return empty-handed.
He wants to achieve something in Antarctica. After all, in this era, people always want to leave some of their own achievements for the era.
"Zhicheng, in fact, the United States and the Soviet Union also had similar plans."
Yang Wendu looked at the students and said:
"However, because the risk is too great, you have to I know, it's a journey of thousands of kilometers, and the risk is too great. We were able to succeed last time. In addition to snowmobile, there is also the Air Force transport plane providing us with airdrops of materials along the way. That's it, the whole process is full of Risk. "
In fact, Yang Wendu and Bai Zhicheng are old acquaintances. After all, they started from Yinglong back then, and when Bai Zhicheng was always with them, they even wanted to go on an adventure with them at one time .
But in the end he still failed to achieve his career, but it was from then on that time that he also had such a wish in his heart. "Zhicheng, you are from Antarctic and you know the risks of Antarctic better than everyone, so, I think your plan is still a bit under consideration. After all, it takes at least 200 days to complete this task, and the sled dog The supplies carried by sleds are far from meeting the basic needs of team members and sled dogs. The reason why we chose to use snowmobile to conduct mechanized crossing and recharge through airplanes was for this reason. "
As the person in charge of the Antarctic project, Yang Wendu naturally knew that the possibility of hiking was slim, and it can even be said that it was absolutely impossible to succeed, after all, the supplies were there.
Bai Zhicheng, only seventeen years old, looked at the teacher and said, "What if it weren't a sled dog?"
"What? You don't need a sled dog, hundreds of kilograms of supplies, and it's even more impossible to carry by manpower."
Looking at the student in front of you, Yang Wendu shook his head and said:
"Zhicheng, I know What do you think, but I can tell you that it is impossible, absolutely impossible, maybe one day, you may cross the Antarctic, but absolutely not in this way! ”
Facing the teacher's answer, Bai Zhicheng said: "I am from Antarctic. If I can, I hope that one day I can achieve this goal."
There are always some people in this world who have the ideal of immortality in their hearts and use their own unique way. It was on this day that Bai Zhicheng set a goal for himself - to travel through the Antarctic.
Then, Bai Zhicheng entered the gym and conducted physical exercise. After all, if you want to travel through Antarctica, your physical requirements are very high.
As in the past, after two hours of physical training, Bai Zhicheng came to the library, searching for information in the library, and planning a route to cross Antarctica.
No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one read!
Although Bai Zhicheng grew up in Antarctica, he had never left Yinglong. His knowledge of Antarctica was not necessarily more than others. He could only read the information about them when they traveled through Antarctica in the library. .
"The wind is very strong..."
When seeing the wind mentioned in the time travel log, Bai Zhicheng's brow raised slightly, and the most common thing in Antarctica is the wind.
"Since sled dogs cannot be used, what about using the wind?"
Use the wind... Bai Zhicheng subconsciously thought of kites and thought of combining kites with skiing. In fact, he was in Antarctica when he was a child. When the wind blows, he and his friends have played such a game, which is to fly a kite with a sheet and let the wind drag him forward, and they even have a kite skiing competition with their friends.
"If you use kite skiing, you can definitely speed up the crossing speed, so that the amount of materials can be brought down..."
After this thought came to his mind, Bai Zhicheng was lying on the table and outlining the pattern of the ski kite. Just when he was concentrating on this research, he didn't notice that the library was empty today.
And on the other side of the library, there were people inside and outside a reading room. Since there were teachers and students from various colleges, one of them was from today. Foreign scholars are the protagonists here. People standing in front of the door always stand on tiptoe to look at the scholar who is communicating with teachers and students.
The scholar sometimes laughed and sometimes answered the students' questions. Although this scholar is not a SEA scholar, he is quite famous. This time he came to Chang'an not to give lectures, but to treat his illness. After being discharged from the hospital, he had been recuperating. When he came to Nanyang University to visit his old friend, This scene happened only after people knew about it.
Although the man had just recovered from a serious illness, he did not refuse in the face of the warm invitation from the teachers and students, and came to the library to communicate with the teachers and students. The communication between them was all academic.
Although men specialize in literature, history and philosophy, and Nanyang University is a science and engineering school that is famous for science and engineering, these students are not only focused on science and engineering, but they also have a certain degree of knowledge about literature, history and philosophy.
For a moment, the teachers and students communicated with each other and had fun. However, as time passed, Chen Shengshen, as a friend, still saw his friend's face becoming a little sallow, and thought that his friend had just had a major operation. Then he took the initiative to say: "Friends, it's getting late now. The sir has just finished the operation and has just recovered. He can't sit for a long time. I think that's all for today. If there are any shortcomings, please feel free to ask everyone. Understand. "
When Chen Shengshen said this, the others noticed the fatigue in the man's face and stood up to express their apology.
After everyone left, they chatted with some friends on campus for a while, and then the man left the library. After getting into the car, he looked at the campus in the twilight and the students on campus. The man said to Chen Shengshen beside him:
"I think it was the most appropriate thing for you to choose here at the beginning."
"Yes," Chen Shengshen nodded and said: "In recent years, SEA scientific circles have been around. The successes achieved are world-renowned, inventions, innovations, and even the Nobel Prize has been won repeatedly. It is ashamed to say that although it has been highly valued here over the years, the research results have not been outstanding. , I am really ashamed..."
Listening to the friend's feelings, the man certainly knew that he was polite. After all, as a mathematician, he has had very significant research results in the past ten years. It is well known that the Nanyang Mathematical Science Institute, which is mainly based on pure mathematics, has been established and served as the director.
They were chatting, driving away from the campus and heading towards Chang'an City. More than an hour later, Chang'an, which was like a pearl in the twilight, came into view of the two...
( This chapter is over)