Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

NASA Ground Command Centre.

The president roared, echoing in the conference room next door.

“Fak! What a bunch of crap! ”

“If there is going to be a dust storm there, why did you choose this terrible time to send it to our colonists?! ”

Looking at the angry President, the people standing in the conference room were silent, afraid to breathe and afraid to be relocated.

Chief Carson, in particular, had this awkward look on his face.

This would have happened completely unexpectedly.

After all, he is not God. How does he know when there will be a dust storm on Mars...

“Mr. President… we do not have a weather observatory on Mars, and although I understand your mood, we are not aware of climate change on Mars in advance. And..."

Pause, Commissioner Carson said in a difficult tone.

“In general, the frequency of sandstorms is summer, especially in global sandstorms, and rarely occurs outside of summer… things like this happen now are completely out of control, although we consider coping strategies…"

The President stared at him and asked aggressively.

“What are the coping strategies? ”

“But there have been minor accidents,” Commissioner Carson said with embarrassment, "originally in our plan to deal with the problem through resources on Mars after the establishment of methane and groundwater resource collection sites. You know, it's not a problem to go through this period of reduced daylight as long as external input resources are sufficient, but..."

“But?”

He swallowed his mouth and Director Carson continued to speak quickly, "But our colonists had just landed on Mars and were not ready to collect methane and water from Mars at all. And the methane reserves carried from Earth… do not last long. ”

Quite frankly, they had no idea that they would encounter such harsh climatic conditions just the second week after landing.

Global dust storms on Mars, while difficult to predict through astronomical observations, can be estimated. According to statistics, only once every three Mars years, or 5.5 years if converted to Earth years, occurs on average.

The last global sand and dust storm was in 2018, and only three Earth years have passed. Rather, they have a window period in Homan's transfer orbit that can be used to deliver enough supplies to help colonizers survive even in the event of an accident.

……

Nobody thought that Mars didn't play cards as usual, and only three years later, it was another sandstorm that swept the planet. Looking from the Earth's Astronomical Observatory, the entire planet has turned into a giant red egg with no sunlight on the surface...

Solar power plants are not working, which is not the worst.

Worst of all, their growing areas have just been inflated and the plants need sunshine to grow.

Only two options remain before the colonists, either to dispose of all the newly sprouted crops or to provide sunlight for them with little energy reserves.

Either way, it's hard.

“Why didn't you consider this before!” Looking at Director Carson, who explained to him, the President was angry, "I made it clear in my speech to the White House that if we could not guarantee 100% of the lives of our colonists, we would rather not send them up! ”

Carson: "Sir…”

The president stared at him and said, "Do you have any questions? Mr. Carson.”

“Yes, you did,” Commissioner Carson said with a mouthful of spit and a stiff scalp, "but you said the same thing in a closed meeting… building our edge in the space race as soon as possible at all costs. ”

The expression on the President's face suddenly felt a little stiff, embarrassed to touch his nose, and he coughed softly.

“Did I say that? ”

The Vice-President standing next to him nodded silently.

“I recall that you said that the minutes of the meeting could testify. ”

The position of vice president in the White House is a mascot, and he doesn't really need to give the president face. Moreover, he was the head of the reconstituted National Space Commission, and he certainly did not want the pot to end up on his own.

His face was somewhat untenable, the President said with his face on his face.

“None of this is the point. Whatever I say, I demand that you reconsider your response immediately! Especially you, Chief Carson! ”

Suddenly called his name, Carson subconsciously straightened his waistplate.

“Yes!”

In an unquestionable tone, the President ordered.

“In 24 hours, I need you to come up with a plan, and then execute it within 72 hours. I don't care what you do, we have to keep our astronauts safe, at least keep them alive! ”

“If you can't, you know the consequences. ”

The forehead was sweating and Carson answered with a stiff scalp.

“Yes…”

……

[New Virginia! The light of man!

“These people are really optimistic. ”

Looking at the news pop-up on the computer screen, the ark shook its head with a smile.

During the lunch break, in the office of the dean of the Jinling Institute of Higher Studies, the ark, as usual, drank coffee while brushing the papers it usually accumulated.

This is when I saw the news from the pop-up window.

“It seems that Space-X is truly in blood, and the soft text has hit the internationally renowned academic forum. ”

However, the same seems to be true of the current direction of public opinion.

Since the successful drop of the BFS ship from the landing deck, New Virginia has become a place of dreams, especially as the entire Ares program has been blown to the sky with the broadcast of the Mars Diary program...

Now it seems that the North American media are gradually moving away from the word "space race” and are focusing on the families of several colonizers, friends, and the 30-minute video that is released every once in a while.

The Ark is also a loyal “fan” of the Mars Diary and will not miss a single issue.

After all, if you want to beat your opponents, you have to know them first.

Though he used to think Musk was a little overblown when he was in North America, there was no doubt that other people were real.

At least for now, BFR rockets are already at the top of the chemical propulsion path and there is room for further lifting.

And that life-support unit...

Therefore, in addition to the “Chasing” heated Mars Diary, the Ark, through the Moon Orbit Construction Committee, would request the Qianzhou Radio Astronomical Observatory FAST project team to monitor the electromagnetic signal from Mars in real time and send him a copy of the monitored data and give it to Ai for decoding.

While decoding was not easy and not all information could be successfully solved, it was also a way to obtain information about the "New Virginia” colony.

If you're optimistic, you might be able to get some pretty critical information.

For example, resource surveys in parts of Mars…

Just as the ark shut down the web page and was about to close the lunch break, a pop-up window popped up in the lower right corner.

[Master, the number 0001 file signal has been decrypted! We need to see it now.

Watching the naughty little Egg waving the devil's fork, Ark Guan said with a smile.

“Well, pack it up and send it to my desktop… by the way, what about the other file breakdowns? ”

[It's not finished yet, they use different encryption methods for each communication, it takes a certain amount of time to crack... (; 'D) Niu]

“It's okay, just take your time. I'm not in a hurry. ”

Em will cheer up! (≥ ≤) Niu]

Em is intelligent enough, but ultimately not omnipotent.

Professional, technologically encrypted communications, even with the aid of a supercomputer, are hard to say to crack immediately.

Document 0001 is Golden Heart's first communication signal with the NASA Ground Command Center upon arrival in Mars, two weeks after being monitored and collected by the FAST project team.

The ark simply swiftly swept through the contents of the document. As expected, it was all messages such as "Report Peace” or “Request a Task”, and did not see much very nutritious content.

Just as the Ark was about to file the file on the USB disk, a knock came out of the door.

Turned off the folder on the desktop and the ark cleared the voice-clearing opening.

“Come in. ”

The door pushed open and came in waiting for light.

When he saw the serious expression on his face, he didn't even hit him with a chill and said.

“New news came from the Qianzhou Radio Observatory, and they found something unusual when they were observing Mars directly. ”

The ark leaned against the office chair and frowned: "... something? ”

“It's a global sandstorm! ”

……

(Thanks to my bookmate "Yongteng" 's allies for rewarding ~ ~ ~ The trip is over, it's time to get back to the code T.T)