Chapter 196
“I heard that the big guy will be transported to the International Space Station today.” said Andre, a Danish astronaut and one of the current crew members of the International Space Station.
"Yes, the news delivered to us by the ground command station is today." said Constantine, Da Mao astronaut and one of the crew members.
"Compared to flowers, I think a long sleep should make me feel more comfortable." Constantine said with a smile.
The mission time of the International Space Station is very long. For the permanent crew members, the most important thing to worry about during their space career is one or two hundred days.
In order to solve the psychological problems of astronauts, space agencies have thought of many ways, including planting flowers on the International Space Station.
“I want everyone to take a small piece of the earth with them during their space journey. This should be much more meaningful than sleeping.” O’Hara, another female Amerikan astronaut, obviously disagrees with this statement .
"Red kale and zinnia flowers are the only two flowers. The scarcity of species reminds me that this is space, not the earth." Constantine shook his head.
O'Hara said: "No, there are only these two kinds of flowers now, and there will be more kinds in the future."
Constantin was helpless: "The problem is, the environment here is... Can't make me think this is Earth.
I would just feel like we are drifting in space, existing alone somewhere other than Earth.
Flowers cannot make me think that I am back on earth now. "
After finishing speaking, Constantine continued: "On the contrary, when I wake up from hibernation, I will feel that a new period of life has begun.
Such a new life will rekindle my interest and curiosity in this space journey.
I think this should be much better. ”
There is still a lot of boring time in the space station. It would be great if there was something like human hibernation that could allow them to rest and kill time at the same time.
“I think the best thing is that it allows you to have a long enough sleep cycle instead of the low-quality sleep you usually get when you sleep at night.
I’m really fed up with it. The mechanical noise that surrounds me every day when I sleep is enough,” Constantine complained, “I’m even more fed up with the feeling of being woken up by the noise every day in a small cubicle.”
There is something very special about the International Space Station. The noise caused by many devices, such as air conditioners, fans and machinery, will affect astronauts' sleep all the time.
And due to the special environment, there will be light interference.
"Weren't you provided with an eye mask and ear plugs?" O'Hara asked.
Constantine stood upside down in the space station, looking expectant: "O'Hara, you need to understand that not everyone can get used to earplugs.
There is a foreign object in the ear It's not always a good feeling.
Most of the time I'd rather endure the noise than have that thing in my ears."
O'Hara said, "I want to remind you. Yes, I checked the shipping order, and there should be only one human hibernation device shipped this time
And we have 11 permanent astronauts, so I'm afraid it won't be your turn. "
Andre reminded: "Sorry, this is a human hibernation equipment purchased by the European Union. Whether it is Amerikan or Da Mao astronauts who want to use it, they have to queue up later. "
O'Hara was obviously dissatisfied with this: "The EU and the Commonwealth are allies, and I should be added to the queue. "
Constantine thought that if he was excluded and would not be able to use the human hibernation equipment, this would be unacceptable to him: "Although there is a small problem between Da Mao and the EU.
But we are also in Eurasia, so I think I should be qualified to use this thing. ”
Andre shook his head and said: "I have to ask the ground for instructions.
And don't think this thing is so wonderful, maybe it won't work in space.
You have had it before Has anyone experienced human hibernation services from China?”
Constantine raised his hand and said: “I, you know that Chinese products are very popular in Damao, not to mention that they are high-end products from China.
The human hibernation center in Moscow is quite popular.”
O'Hara said: "I wanted to try it, but NASA claimed that this thing may cause unknown risks to astronauts, so I couldn't use it.
And in the federal government, it is difficult to determine how popular this thing is. Imagine that a human hibernation service costs a full $100.
This price is even more expensive in New York and California.”
Constantine laughed: “I saw it on RT media. According to reports, you initially wanted to use this method to prevent ethnic minorities and illegal immigrants from causing trouble.
Later, rich white people paid to occupy all the beds, and ethnic minorities occupied them. In order to snatch the 'benefits' that originally belonged to them, they have become more violent. ”
Many times the policies you think of are often distorted during the actual implementation process to a point that you can hardly imagine.
Because Guangjia Aerospace was blacklisted, Guangjia Technology’s human hibernation equipment was no longer exported to Amerikan.
It was originally planned to build more than a thousand human hibernation centers across the United States, but in the end there were only a few dozen, scattered in various states.
This has led to a serious shortage of beds. The physical and mental relaxation of the human body after hibernation, coupled with the relief of physical fatigue, makes the middle class and wealthy people enjoy hibernation.
While white people pay in cash, illegal immigrants and ethnic minorities live for free, and federal grants are far less than cash.
The operators of the human hibernation center are not willing to reserve their beds for illegal immigrants and ethnic minorities who are prostitutes for free. They are all upgrading their beds to high-end facilities in order to make money from white people.
Human hibernation has changed from a means to a middle-class enjoyment in Amerikan. The spread of social media and breakthroughs in Chinese science and technology have further deepened this impression.
And white people deprived them of special "welfare", and ethnic minorities and illegal immigrants had more than one quarrel.
Human hibernation enjoyed by line Runners like Donuts was the last wave. Later Runners were still locked up in the Immigration Bureau, lying on the floor and being held as piglets.
Of course, the illegal immigrants who cause trouble do not include Chinese. The Chinese think this is a way to deprive their freedom, so much so that they think it is very free even when they are detained in the immigration bureau.
"This is life, and Washington can't be everything." Of course O'Hara knew what Constantine was talking about, she said with emotion.
Andre said: "Like O'Hara, I have never experienced it because I have been training at Amerikan.
I heard that there seem to be two human body shops in Denmark. Hibernation center, but I haven't been back yet.
During the Amerikan training, like O'Hara, there were no beds, and NASA told us not to go.
Constantine. Can you tell me how it feels? ”
Constantine's face was full of aftertaste: "It's just sleeping, the feeling of sleeping very deeply.
Then you sleep for a very long time. When you wake up and look at the time, you will feel that time and space are intertwined, as if suddenly Coming to the future, although this future only lasts a few days.
In the end, you will feel very relaxed and have a renewed passion for everything.
This is my personal feeling, socializing. I don’t feel anything like the pain relief advertised in the media.” Andre was fixed on the edge of the operating table, looking at the time stamp expectantly: “I hope it can bring me a surprise like the one in 2015.” ”
Andrei has served on the International Space Station for a long time. Among the other two, Constantine is also an old man. He knew immediately what the other person was talking about:
“I think it will bring you far more surprises than That time in 2015."
O'Hara had only served on the International Space Station for less than three years. Obviously he didn't know much about what they mentioned, so he asked: "Andre, that surprise in 2015. What does it mean? "
Andre said: "The coffee machine is what you use every day
Until then, we had to drink freeze-dried instant coffee.
In 2015, NASA designed a coffee machine specifically for use in space without telling us, and then let SpaceX send it to the space station in 2015.
You can understand that compared with coffee made by a coffee machine, freeze-dried instant coffee is almost the same as drinking pot water. "
Constantine agreed with Andre's metaphor: "I think the previous freeze-dried instant was probably a little worse than washing the pot with water. "
Andre said: "Can you imagine how wonderful it would be to admire the Earth from space and then have a cup of freshly ground espresso?
While the lack of gravity in space prevents the foam from rising to the top, it's still a slim drop-off compared to coffee on Earth, but it's good enough and I'm satisfied.
This is an experience I had never had before 2015. "
O'Hara was shocked: "What? Is there a coffee machine on the space station? How come I don't know?
Where is she? "
Andre smiled bitterly and said: "Because it had a minor accident, it was transported back to Earth in 2017. ”
Speaking of this thing, it's quite interesting. The International Space Station is divided into two segments, one for Da Mao, and the other for Amerikan and its friends.
The coffee machine was sent by NASA, so it was installed in the Amerikan flight section. The astronauts in Da Mao were not allowed to use the coffee machine for a time.
Even if Da Mao’s astronauts go to America’s flight segment, they can only watch astronauts from other countries drink.
After numerous protests, the Da Mao astronauts were allowed to use the coffee machine together.
After enjoying it for a few times, the coffee machine returned to Earth.
O'Hara's face was full of shock: "The problem was repaired and then shipped up. Why didn't it come up again?
You know that after I drank pot water for more than a hundred days on our flight, How touching was it to drink real coffee after returning to Earth?
Now you tell me that you didn’t have to drink pot water in space.”
Constantine said: "Probably they don't want to spend their budget on this.
You know I talked about this problem with Vladimir Kozhevnikov, the designer of the Russian segment, and he said it was too expensive< br>
After all, you know, Roscosmos is not as rich as NASA.
As for why NASA doesn’t do this anymore, I think it’s because all their budget is given to SpaceX, and they don’t have any money to spend on coffee machines anymore. "
O'Hara sighed: "Well, it seems that the astronauts' entertainment activities are not that important. "
"From the perspective of the Earth's command room, being able to see the beautiful scenery is already a first-class pastime. "Constantine said.
O'Hara complained: "The problem is that not everyone likes taking photos as much as Chris. We need some new entertainment modes to adjust the mood. ”
Chris is also an astronaut and has taken more than 30,000 photos during his career as an astronaut and shared them on Twitter.
"So the big guys were sent to us on the ground to relax." Andre pointed to the human hibernation equipment that was being transported on the operating interface.
“How do you feel?”
In the queue, astronauts from European countries were naturally given priority. As a member of the crew, Andre got the first opportunity to lie down in the human hibernation chamber. .
This was also his first experience of human hibernation. When he woke up, Andre did some simple exercises to allow his muscles to adapt to the environment again, and then looked at the astronauts gathered in a circle outside with curiosity written on their faces. Said:
"Exactly what Constantine said, very good, never been so good.
The first time I slept so well in space, better than the best sleep I have ever had on Earth Okay."
After Constantine finished speaking, the remaining astronauts began to fight
"It's my turn next"
"No, It’s me.”
"Andre is a European astronaut, and the next one should be the astronaut of Americen."
"What Americen, this is equipment bought by the European Union, and the computing power it buys doesn't matter. All European astronauts should experience it once before it is the turn of the American astronauts.”
“This is China’s equipment. Judging from the close relationship between Damao and China, it should be the next one. We are right.
Mike, you are wrong. This equipment is not purchased by the EU. This equipment still has part of the property rights of Guangjia Aerospace.
The EU just bought the ownership.” >
The astronauts present were in an uproar.
You must know that this thing is different from a coffee machine. With a coffee machine, you only need to wait for one minute before it is your turn.
The waiting time for this thing is three to five days. If you wait for the EU astronauts to queue up first, then thirty days will pass.
The result was that everyone kicked out the Da Mao astronauts first, and the EU and Amerikan astronauts took turns in alphabetical order.
Then there are Maple Leaf Country and Neon.
Disputes in space soon became anecdotes that spread to Earth.
It can be regarded as a round of advertising for human hibernation equipment.
Someone at NASA even disclosed the sorted list to the media, and the media marked each person's nationality at the end of the list.
This matter has also been hotly debated by people around the world. Everyone thinks it is very interesting. The Chinese people have seen the charm of Made in China. The American people have started to make trouble again and want to import more human hibernation equipment. .
The people in Da Mao are dissatisfied with this and believe that they should also transport Taiwanese human hibernation equipment.
Only French people were furious on social media because they discovered that there were no French astronauts on the list.
“Isn’t this the equipment that we paid for? Why don’t you see a French name on it? Does our government pay for it to show love to others?”
(This chapter End)