ps. This book should not be matched with reality
Millikin, Honolulu.
Tom is an astronomy enthusiast. After traveling to this different world, Tom took the scientific research-level astronomical telescope he bought and spent a lot of money day and night to observe the starry sky.
Although naasa has not released their specific observational data, Tom can be sure that after months of calculations, the world is a flat-earth world.
But what makes people feel strange is that on the ground or sea level, there is still the same curvature as the earth.
However, Tom also conducted a four-month continuous exploration with an unmanned helicopter and came to another inference.
In this flat-earth world, curvature does exist.
But depending on the height, there is an almost imperceptible subtle change in the curvature.
The higher you go in the sky, the smaller the curvature becomes.
Suffering from the lack of a probe that can fly to higher altitudes, Tom had to terminate his research experiment.
However, he still sent a copy of the data to naasa and published his calculation results on the Internet.
It's just the poor scientific literacy of the Milikan netizens, so naturally not many people participated in the joint research with Tom.
But two months later, Tom received an email signed by a man named Jerry.
Jerry claimed to be a staff member of naasa. After receiving Tom's data, naasa also did some research on the sky, and the data obtained can indeed prove Tom's inference.
The higher the height, the smaller the curvature.
At low altitudes, this flat-terrestrial world looks like a sphere.
But once you get to high altitude, you can find that the arc of this "ball" is getting smaller and smaller, and it is closer to a plane.
This is one of the reasons why naasa has officially determined that this world is a flat-earth world.
I just don't know why, although it is a parallel world, there is something unreasonable such as curvature.
Jerry also provided Tom with an important piece of information. According to high-altitude observations, it was found that there are a total of 5 huge continents in this world.
In addition to the Scadi Continent where Milician is located, there are also 4 supercontinents.
And in the south of the 5 continents, there is a circle of glacier-covered poles, with high mountains standing, enclosing the entire sea and land.
Tom was relieved by Jerry's email, it seemed that he was not alone in the study of astronomy.
It's just that Milliken's main focus now is on the expedition of the Scarlett Continent. For the study of the sky, Congress has cut a considerable part of the funding.
So that naasa can barely maintain the operation of the naasa staff by reducing the salary, and there is no more funding for air and space research.
After all, in the eyes of the politicians of Milliken, this huge different world is a heaven-sent treasure for Milliken, the only country that has passed through this place.
It is precisely because of naasa's reduced salary that many employees were forced to resign and had to find a way to find more salary jobs to support their families.
For naasa's experience, Tom can only express his sympathy.
But it is precisely because of this email that Tom and Jerry of naasa established a channel of contact.
Tom continued his astronomical routine, which was on this day. During the boring observation, he actually discovered a faint light spot in the west.
Tom's eyes widened. As an astronomy enthusiast, he couldn't know what the light point represented.
It seems like a rocket!
Thanks to Tom using a scientific-grade astronomical telescope, and thanks to Tom's luck, he captured the light spot of this rocket.
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According to Tom's reckoning, it should be something about two Pacific Oceans west of Millikin.
But the blip disappeared shortly after, and Tom was immediately startled.
Fortunately, this astronomical telescope has a video recording function. Tom hurriedly jumped to the console, opened the video and watched it carefully.
That flickering spot of light in the distance is really likely to be a rocket.
Seeing a spot of light in such a large area of the sky is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and if you find it, you are lucky.
Tom immediately copied the footage and sent it to Jerry's email.
Jerry had left his phone number in the previous email, so Tom couldn't wait to dial it.
"Hi, I'm Jerry."
Tom excitedly said: "Jerry Jerry Jerry Jerry, I am Tom, I am Tom, God, my God, I have a new discovery!!"
It was the first time that Jerry received a call from Tom, and he was very impressed with Jerry, a very professional astronomy enthusiast who discovered curvature changes.
He smiled and said again and again: "Tom, old man, don't panic, what's the matter? Did you discover a new change in curvature again, or what?"
Tom continued excitedly: "No no no no no no, listen to me, go and see the video in the email I sent you, I'm afraid the rocket has been shot."
Jerry was taken aback: "Huh? Naasa has no plans to launch a rocket recently."
Tom shook his head frantically on the other end of the phone: "No no no, old man, I told you that I live in Honolulu, and what I observed was that a rocket took off in the west of Honolulu, about 2 Pacific Oceans away. ."
"what!!?"
Jerry immediately returned to the console, opened Tom's email, and saw nothing but a video in the email.
Jerry swallowed, put the mouse on it gently, and clicked the download button.
Soon, the video appeared on Jerry's desktop.
Jerry opened it, and as Tom had said, that blip might indeed be a rocket.
Jerry immediately invited naasa's colleagues to watch it together, and according to the appraisal of the appraiser, this was not a synthetic video, which means that the astronomer named Tom may indeed have captured the picture of the rocket taking off.
The staff of naasa immediately fried the pot. The sky is so big, how did Tom get the picture of the rocket taking off with such good luck
However, naasa immediately sent the video to the military. Regarding Naasa's inference, the military can almost confirm that 90% of them are rockets.
A Tech Nation Existed in the West of Millikin
This suddenly made the top management of Milliken get bigger.
Is this the earth country
Or an indigenous country
Now that the signal cannot be transmitted, it seems that only light can easily pass through the barrier.
After half a day of research and discussion, the Pentagon immediately decided to make some noise to the country far in the West to see how they responded.
In Honolulu, several nuclear bomb wells hidden here have been opened, and more than a dozen nuclear bombs have been launched into the air at once.
And Honolulu has also sounded the alarm for the first time since the crossing.
When the nuclear bomb flew to the west for a while and rose to an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, countless brilliant firelights burst out in sequence.
Tom was stunned, he had no idea what his discovery had triggered.
Does Honolulu even have a nuclear bomb
And this is the first time I have seen the explosion of a nuclear bomb in the distance with the naked eye. Even with sunglasses, the nuclear bomb exploding in the sky in the distance is still so dazzling.
…
Huaxia, National Astronomical Observatory.
"It was observed that something exploded in the sky in the eastern direction, it should be a nuclear bomb."
"Huh? Nuclear bomb?"
The news of the discovery of the nuclear bomb by the observatory also reached the side of words and deeds for the first time: "The bright light of the nuclear bomb explosion was found in the sky in the east?"
Words and actions rubbed his chin, thinking for a moment.
According to An Rui, every continent has a five-constant, so the five-constant in the east is likely to have discovered the launch of the Long March 4.
However, the probability of this discovery is too small. With such a big sky, it can actually knock down the opposite side
God knows what kind of virtue the guy who discovered the Long March 4 has accumulated in his last life, or has he used up all his luck in this life
According to scientists' calculations, there is an invisible wall that can cut off the signal in the five continents of this world.
Then the other party must also know this. If the nuclear bomb is released, it is obvious that they hope to establish a connection with Huaxia through optical means.
The more I think about it, the more I think it's possible.
I quickly saw that my speculation was sent to the center and the general army, and gave my own suggestions.
The general army responded quickly, and more than a dozen nuclear bombs were also launched into the air by the express series, bursting into clusters of flowers.
…
Honolulu Military Base.
"The nuclear bomb exploded! The other party has a nuclear bomb! They responded to us!!"
The nuclear bombs on both sides exploded in the sky for a while and then misfired, which made the Pentagon also know that there is a country in the West that also has nuclear weapons.
It's just that if a country with nuclear weapons appears in this fantasy world, it feels a little bit inconsistent with technology and magic.
Just when the Honolulu military base thought it was over, a nuclear bomb exploded in the western sky.
Compared with the previous disorderly explosions, the explosion of this nuclear bomb seems to have certain rules to follow.
An observer was stunned for a moment, took a pen and drew a picture on the paper, looked down, trembled violently, and turned his head mechanically: "General... General, well... It seems to be Morse. password."
"Um?"
The general was stunned for a moment, then reacted immediately and ordered: "Record! Translate!"
After the nuclear bomb Morse code was launched, the observer took the paper, swallowed his saliva, and slowly read it out: "This is Huaxia, may I ask which five permanent members are you?"
"ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
"Huaxia! What the hell!"
"niubility!"
"Nuclear bombs can still be used like this?!"
"The guy who came up with the Morse code of the nuclear bomb is a genius, I like it!"
Everyone never thought that in addition to crossing into this world by themselves, there was also this guy Huaxia crossing over.
Then the general ordered: "Launch a nuclear bomb... Well, in the form of Morse code, tell them, this is the Great Milliken!"
As a series of nuclear bombs took off, a series of Morse code composed of nuclear bomb explosions also exploded in the sky.
"Huaxia, this is Milijian, the old man is very happy to meet you here."
Soon Huaxia responded: "This is Aghanim Continent, Huaxia.
Lucia, Britain, and France should be on the other 3 continents. "
"Huaxia, this is the Scarlett Continent, it's great to see you.
If I can, I really want to meet you, let's put aside our stereotypes and join hands with 3 other guys to break new ground in this world. "
Huaxia simply replied with two words: "Satellite."
Milijian hurriedly replied with a long list: "Do you use satellite to contact? Good!"
However, Milliken wanted to wait for Huaxia to continue to respond, probably because Huaxia's nuclear bombs were not "sufficient" and did not answer any more.
But Milliken was very generous, and replied: "We will also find a way to launch satellites, and we will regularly launch a nuclear bomb into the sky, hoping that the other three guys will notice.
Hua Xia, my brother, it is such a pleasure to meet you. "
"each other."
Huaxia finally replied two words, and completely cut off the nuclear bomb Morse code communication.
Soldiers in the Honolulu military base cried together, they were not alone, they had their own compatriots on earth.
Although the two guys fought for "you die and I die" on the earth, but this vast world, with unlimited opportunities, in 200 years, it is impossible to continue fighting.
The news of the discovery of Huaxia immediately reached the Congress, and Congress immediately restarted the satellite program, and a large number of funds began to be allocated to naasa.
At the same time, naasa also began to recruit those employees who were forced to leave.