Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 941 - 339: A Science Expo Worth Remembering
Upon hearing Zhang Qi’s words, Thomas, who had been quietly listening to the introduction, suddenly became excited.
Just a moment ago, while outside, he was particularly looking forward to having a photo taken with the grand lunar backdrop.
But unfortunately, dressed in a bulky space suit, even if he took a photo, it would be hard to recognize him.
Now, hearing that he could have his photo taken without the space suit, he was naturally overjoyed.
"Really?"
"Come along." Zhang Qi didn’t waste words, he directly pushed open a door on his left.
Richard and Thomas looked inside.
Directly opposite them was an entire layer of transparent glass, or a whole wall of floor-to-ceiling windows, about ten meters long and over three meters high.
Through this window, you could see the dense array of photovoltaic equipment just moments ago.
From this perspective, it appeared even more spectacular.
This scene again left Richard in astonishment.
Goodness, such large floor-to-ceiling windows aren’t uncommon on Earth, but how was a whole piece of glass ten meters long and three meters wide brought to the Moon?
Moreover, is the strength of such a large glass enough? You know this piece of glass doesn’t have any frame in the middle.
Not even the four edges are visible.
Zhang Qi, noticing their expressions, roughly guessed these doubts and took the initiative to explain: "This is actually not glass, but a type of holographic display technology still being refined.
Actually, what you’re seeing isn’t a whole piece of glass, but a holographic projection created through virtual restoration technology. By now, it’s almost indistinguishable with the naked eye.
In the future, we plan to expand the base, widely adopting this technology. It can help those stationed at the Moon Base quickly adapt to this environment.
No choice, as currently, we haven’t found a direct method to modify the Moon’s environment, like having an atmosphere that can regulate temperature to protect humans.
So for a long period, the buildings at the Moon Base won’t have windows. In such a closed environment, people are prone to psychological issues.
Therefore, this technology was first applied at the Moon Base. Including the bedrooms you’re resting in tonight which also have this function so you can sleep in the desired environment."
After speaking, Zhang Qi waved at a camera in the room, the grand image of the photovoltaic base slowly faded, and the background gradually turned into the deep cosmos.
Until a blue planet appeared in the middle, surrounded by the deep black of space!
Richard and Thomas instantly recognized that this was probably the background they saw when disembarking from the spacecraft, gazing towards Earth.
The next scene was a rocket lifting off, then to a leisure beach, to a tropical rainforest...
An entire large wall kept changing landscapes, each scene appearing so real, vivid and lifelike.
Finally, it froze back to the initial scene. Perfectly recreating the view outside the house.
Richard and Thomas watched this magical scene with their mouths half-open.
Richard had now roughly realized that in this lunar trip, he was witnessing Huaxia showcasing their future technology to the world.
Being on the Moon is getting to enjoy a top-tier technological journey.
"By the way, if just looking at realistic scenes isn’t interesting enough, it can also be intelligently simulated.
For instance, add some flowers and grass for decoration, have the wind start to blow, the rain to fall, and simulate the sounds of the real world."
What is called ’words come true’, this indeed is.
As soon as Zhang Qi’s words fell, a gentle rain started outside.
Evidently, this wasn’t real.
The Moon without an atmosphere certainly can’t have rain.
And the water in lunar soil mostly exists in gaseous, icy, or mineral-combined states.
Yet it looks so real, even droplets appeared cascading down the glass, and there were sounds of rain tapping against the windows inside the room.
"Here is actually our open conference room. Many times, we connect with Earth’s launch base from here.
Of course, you can take more photos here. In fact, over the past half year, we weren’t just constructing the base.
Our hopping robots have already captured forty percent of the lunar landscape images. Especially several distinct lunar terrains—can also be simulated for you to take souvenir photos.
Mainly, drones capable of lunar ascent are under development. Since the Moon has no atmosphere, traditional rotor and fixed-wing drones can’t be used.
By the time of your next visit, our intelligent long-range lunar UAV should be operational, allowing real-time simulation of any lunar perspective."
Hmm, the intelligent long-range lunar UAV is also in development...
At this moment, although Richard still doesn’t quite understand from a physics perspective why drones on Earth can’t fly on the Moon.
But he feels the Moon ought to belong to Huaxia.
After all, there should be no other nation seriously researching lunar flight drones.
And no one appears to be planning moon landing projects either.
Perhaps his country has similar plans, but Richard suddenly thinks of a sad fact.
In this era when any spacecraft aiming to reach a certain altitude needs Huaxia’s approval, even if a rocket managed to reach the Moon, what would it matter?
Moreover, even bypassing satellite blockades to ascend, landing on the Moon would still be a troublesome issue.
There’s no atmosphere here for shielding, and laser weapons can have even greater effectiveness here.
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