William James was surprised.
He never imagined that he just shot a 20-second video, uploaded it to YouTube, and then transferred it to his Twitter, which would cause an uproar on the Internet.
He is not a big Internet celebrity. There are no more than a hundred people following him on Twitter. Most of them are his real friends, and some are mostly random netizens. He never expected that within just two hours of uploading his video, it would spread like a virus to all major social platforms. The number of views on the original video has easily exceeded 100,000, and is rapidly approaching the 500,000 mark.
Happiness comes too suddenly and inexplicably.
Before William even realized what was going on, he watched the number of followers on his Twitter skyrocket.
Two hours ago, he spotted a meteor outside the window of the space elevator.
That's right, it's a shooting star!
As we all know, meteors are formed by the friction of meteorites in the atmosphere. There is no air in the universe, so it is naturally impossible to form a gorgeous tail flame. He was sure that he saw it correctly. The bright spot was dragging a trail of flames! In the dark universe, it is so conspicuous!
Unlike most civil aviation aircraft, when the altitude exceeds 100 kilometers, the space elevator can access the Internet through the quantum communication satellite of Starlink Trading, and the Internet speed is quite fast.
Clicking on the video he uploaded, he opened the comment page. After watching the 20-second video, netizens left their own comments of amazement.
"God! What did I see? There are actually meteors in outer space? Isn't this a sight that can only be seen in the atmosphere?"
"Everyone, please stop watching. I am a pornographic appraiser by profession, and I watch thousands of videos a day. I can responsibly say that this video was photoshopped! There are so many unreasonable things that I I don’t know where to start complaining.”
"Upstairs, you are not a real pornographic appraiser at all! I am doing video appraisal for the court. From a professional point of view, there is no synthesis at all in this video. In addition, PS is an image processing software. Please forgive me. Read more and speak online.”
"A great god appears upstairs!"
William stared blankly at the lines of comments on his phone.
He never expected that the video he uploaded would arouse such intense discussion.
"The Twitter name of the person who uploaded the video is William James. I went to the official website of Star Circle Trading and saw this person's name in the list of foreign guests participating in the first train! This video should be real, but why is the space elevator Can I still access the Internet?”
"Are you a pig? Every place covered by Starlink Trading's quantum communication satellite has internet access. Free WiFi is available everywhere in New Zealand. You actually ask why you can access the Internet."
Such a result really made him dumbfounded. Just when he was about to post something on his Twitter account, the elevator attendant's voice rang in his ears.
"This ch-001 train is about to arrive at the station. During the deceleration phase of the train, upward gravity will occur in the carriage. To avoid accidents, passengers are asked to return to the cabin and fasten their seat belts. The current traveling speed is 21 kilometers per second, and the deceleration time for… "
The angular velocity is constant, and as the height rises, the linear speed of the elevator itself will naturally increase. The macroscopic manifestation is that the further away from the earth, the more obvious the feeling of weightlessness in the elevator becomes. When the elevator travels to the synchronous track, the linear speed of the passengers and the elevator will also reach the synchronous track orbiting speed, and it will be completely weightless at this time.
During the terminal deceleration phase, passengers move upward according to inertia, and the g value of the gravity parameter in the carriage will become a negative number, and the ceiling and floor may be inverted. Therefore, the flight attendants warmly reminded passengers to return to their seats and fasten their seat belts before entering the deceleration phase.
William looked at the unedited tweets on his phone, sighed helplessly, stuffed his phone back into his pocket, and returned to his seat to sit down. He made up his mind to wait until he arrived at the terminal space station, Halo City, before replying to those curious comments.
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The video was also seen by Jiang Chen, although it was a week after the video was uploaded. The video is so popular that it even has the potential to challenge the large-scale documentary "Space Elevator Journey" launched by BBC, a cooperative media of Star Circle Trading!
It has to be said that humans are gossipy creatures.
Some people speculated that it was an alien spacecraft, others speculated that it was a burning asteroid, and even funny Chinese netizens commented that it was a Taoist friend who was undergoing a tribulation.
However, Jiang Chen, who was lying on the bed playing with his mobile phone, saw through the true identity of the "UFO" at a glance. What kind of spaceship is that? Isn't that the Bennu asteroid captured by the Star Ring Trade?
A few days ago, the technical team led by Kerwin dragged it into the Earth-Moon system and is now making the final adjustments to bring it as close to the Earth as possible.
The closer to the Earth, the lower the mining cost. But what Jiang Chen didn't expect was that the rocket hanging in front of the asteroid could be seen so clearly in a synchronous orbit? !
Jiang Chen suddenly lost all sleep, sat up from the bed, changed into a comfortable position and leaned on the pillow.
His fingers moved across the holographic screen and he typed keywords with his voice. Jiang Chen concentrated on browsing relevant news on the Internet.
Within two minutes, he found what he was looking for.
As early as the day after the video was uploaded, the White House received a petition to investigate the "extraterrestrial meteor". In just five days, the petition surpassed 100,000 signatures. According to regulations, when the number of signatures reaches 100,000, the White House must respond.
The White House's approach was also very straightforward. It found Bolden, who had just returned from Canberra, and handed over the investigation task, which was considered to live up to expectations. After two days of investigation, NASA Director Bolden used the White House's official website to investigate the matter. Clarification came out.
It has nothing to do with extraterrestrial civilization or Martians, it is just an asteroid. And this asteroid has a lot of background. Its name is Bennu. The scientific community predicts that it will collide with the Earth at the end of the 22nd century.
A "net" of special material is hung on the asteroid, and eight rocket engines are connected in front of the net. The mystery was revealed. The elongated light was not the "tail" of an asteroid at all, but the flickering tail flame of a rocket flying in front of the asteroid.
The mystery was revealed, and the Bennu asteroid was pulled from its original orbit into the earth-moon system. And all of this turned out to be man-made, which really made NASA's old experts break their glasses, and also worried about Mother Earth.
According to data observed by NASA, Bennu orbits the sun at an average speed of 63,000 miles per hour, which is not inferior to the Earth's revolution speed. A collision with the Earth would be equivalent to detonating 3 billion tons of explosives!
It’s not comparable to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, but it’s certainly enough for all of humanity to drink!
Jiang Chen logged on to the official White House website and looked at the time when NASA published the report. It happened to be five o'clock this afternoon. At that time, he had just signed a contract with the president of Hilton Hotel, and then the two of them went to have a meal together at a Hilton hotel.
"No wonder I didn't receive any news at all. This timing is such a coincidence," Jiang Chen muttered to himself, holding his chin and lost in thought.
He did not register the plan to capture asteroids with the United Nations, because in his opinion it was completely unnecessary. If he did, it would be asking for trouble. Apart from causing unnecessary panic, there would be no benefit at all.
Now this asteroid has attracted the attention of the United States, or the whole world. Although there is no direct evidence that those eight rocket engines are the work of the Star Ring Trade, you can guess which company in the world can achieve this with its aerospace technology.
SpaceX is already risking its life just to send a detector to that asteroid to collect rock samples!
Either aliens are making a joke on the earth, or the Star Ring Trade is making a joke on all mankind.
Thinking of this, Jiang Chen couldn't help but pinched his brows with a headache.
What should be done
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