At this time in the camp, Tas encountered difficulties in the disassembly work of the Kip. It could not pass the part that required manual verification. Therefore, Romilly stretched out his hand and tried to unlock the Kip.
After the fingerprint lock was lifted, Romilly was surprised to find that the data above was incorrect. The data recorded by Kip was completely different from the data sent by Mann. According to Kip's data, there was no way there was life here and it did not exist.
The possibility of transforming it into an environment suitable for human survival.
For his part, Cooper, after struggling to tell young Brand that Mann was lying, called out to Romilly as best he could.
Just when Romilly was putting on the headphones, Tas noticed the high-energy reaction in Kip's wreckage and reminded Romilly anxiously.
But no matter Cooper, Little Brand or Romilly, they all underestimated the despicability of human nature. Romilly did not react at all, and the high-energy military battery inside the Kip overheated and exploded.
The military battery is enough to support a robot for decades. Under the modification of Mann, a professional scientist, the power of the explosion is no less than that of a real bomb. Not only was Romilly destroyed by the shock wave and flames, but the entire cabin was also destroyed.
Most of it.
At this time, Mann happened to have arrived near the camp. Looking at the exploded cabin, he showed a triumphant smile and walked towards the Prowler parked at the other end of the camp.
"Dr. Brand, Cooper, there was an explosion just now!" Tas's voice came from the communication channel.
Cooper and Little Brand did not speak, and drove the spacecraft to the camp in silence. As a military robot, the outer shell of Tass is not simply stainless steel, but some kind of stronger material, which allowed Tass to escape.
Zed, who was not killed by the bombing, ran and closed the door of the spacecraft after Cooper drove the spacecraft close.
"Romilly didn't survive." Tas said after entering the spacecraft: "I couldn't save him."
Without saying any more nonsense, Cooper drove the spacecraft towards the Prowler and tried to call Mann, who did not respond.
"He doesn't know the docking procedure of the Ever Given," said Case next to Cooper.
"But the spacecraft's autopilot program knows how to dock." Cooper was not optimistic.
But Case brought good news: "Tas has closed the docking process."
"Well done." Cooper said, and then opened the communication channel to Mann: "Do not dock, automatic docking has been turned off, repeat..."
But in order to prevent the voice from interfering with his docking after approaching the Eternal, the arrogant Mann directly set the spacecraft to silent mode and headed towards the Eternal.
The Prowler enjoyed the Eternal. After several attempts and confirming that he did not have the authority to automatically dock the program, Mann climbed to the docking hatch and tried to dock manually.
Mann was indeed the most outstanding one among the original twelve people. The purely manual docking did not take much time to perfectly connect the hatches of the Prowler and the Eternal.
But he did not have docking authority, and the docking doors of the Prowler and the Eternal could not complete the engagement.
The warning sound of the spacecraft at this time was also telling Mann that the risk of rashly entering the Eternal was too great.
"The docking is not complete."
"The docking is not complete."
"You don't have permission."
…
The beeps constantly reminded Mann not to take risks, but Mann, who had cracked Cooper's helmet with a helmet of the same quality on the ice planet before, was feeling confident. He felt that he could win the bet this time.
Entering the Eternity's gamble in perfect condition, he felt that he would not lose.
In the distance, Cooper saw repeated reminders. Mann ignored the safety hazards and drove the spacecraft quickly to distance himself from the Eternal.
Little Brand also warned Mann about the dangers of his behavior through a broadcast connected to the computer of the Eternal.
But Mann had lost his mind and ignored Little Brand and the cabin's warnings.
Soon, as the airtight cabin lost pressure, both the Eternal and the Prowler fell into an imbalanced state. Mann was blown directly into space. As his spacesuit was penetrated by flying spacecraft debris, he was such a greedy person.
The dead arrogant man died in the alien space.
In the silent orbit of space, the Ever Given is spinning faster due to the space-time explosion of the Wanderer. Debris is floating in space. The space station, which symbolizes hope, is falling towards the ice planet.
Cooper ignored the sweat on his head and accelerated towards the spinning Eternal.
"Cooper, don't waste your fuel on chasing." Case reminded, like Tas, as an AI, they have written the lowest level programs for the benefit of mankind. In its view, the risk of doing so is too great.
.
But Cooper had a human judgment: "Analyze the rotation of the Ever Given for me."
"What are you doing?" Little Brand asked as he watched the spacecraft narrowly avoid large pieces of debris.
"Docking." Cooper replied calmly, ignoring Brand's frightened expression and focusing on preparing for the next docking.
"The rotation speed of the Eternal is 67...68 revolutions per minute." Keyes quickly calculated the rotation of the Eternal.
Cooper's plan is quite risky: "Be prepared to use reverse thrusters to rotate in sync with it."
"It can't be done," Case replied rationally.
"But I must do it." Cooper stared straight ahead. No matter as a person who bears the hope of mankind or as a father who wants to go home, he must do it!
When Cooper piloted the spacecraft to the bottom of the Ever Given, Case reminded him that the Ever Given had entered the stratosphere.
"Case, if I faint, you take over driving the spacecraft." Cooper looked at the Ever Given interface on the other side of the porthole above his head: "Tas, you are ready to dock!"
"Cooper, it's aligned." Tass's observation was more accurate, and the Ever Given was already aligned with the spacecraft.
"Start spinning!" Cooper piloted the spacecraft and began to stand relatively still with the Eternal.
A rotation speed exceeding one revolution per second is very uncomfortable given the size of the spacecraft. Cooper tried his best to maintain consciousness, but Little Brand had already passed out.
Under super overload, Cooper even encouraged Tasi.
Finally, at TAS's "Docking Completed" prompt, Cooper immediately started the reverse jet, and the rotation speed of the spacecraft and Ever Given began to decrease. With the exciting background music, Cooper calmly slowed down the rotation speed.
to zero, and started the main engine of the spacecraft, pushing the Eternal out of the planet's gravity range.
Little Brand woke up and was dazed for a while. Only then did she realize that she had just escaped from life and was wandering in front of death.
"Okay, please look forward to the next performance item!" Listening to Little Brand's laughter after the disaster, Cooper wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Although there have been successful cases of rotational docking as early as the Soviet period... I really didn't expect that I could do it for the first time in space...
"It's best not to mess up the show." Tas's voice came from the communication channel: "We are entering Gargantua's gravitational range."
The smiles between the two disappeared instantly. Cooper unbuckled his seat belt, left the control of the spacecraft to Case, and climbed towards the Eternal.
[In an underground tavern in the interstellar world, Old Brand, who was being transferred in a black suit, looked at the story on the screen and sighed.
As he expected, Mann betrayed his beliefs. After reviewing the video, he will be nailed to the pillar of shame for mankind.
At this time, Cooper had already driven home. As soon as he turned on the handbrake and without even turning off the engine, he got out of the car and hugged his daughter who rushed over.
"I didn't abandon you, my baby!" Cooper hugged Murphy tightly. No matter what, he definitely didn't want to miss the lives of his children like himself in the video.
"Hi, Dad." It was only a few days, but Tom felt like he had been separated from his father for a lifetime.
Stepping forward and hugging Tom, Cooper cried: "Good boy, good boy... Have you tried to contact Louise?"
Tom smiled: "The inventory isn't over yet, and you haven't bought me a mobile phone yet."
"Wow, are you so looking forward to meeting your future wife?" Cooper wiped the tears from his eyes.
"You don't even know how happy he was when he knew who his future wife was. He was jumping up and down like a monkey in the mountains." Murphy rolled his eyes.
"Shut up, you woman who won't go home!" Tom said mercilessly.
After letting the two go back to Murphy's room to study what happened to the ghost, Cooper looked at Donald beside him.
"But environmental problems will be very serious in the future. You also know that about my future great-grandson, Tom's eldest son... Cooper, if they still need you, what will you do?" Donald asked.
"I will give them all help other than participating in aerospace." Cooper said calmly: "Although NASA was in decline before it was disbanded, I was not the only one. If I mobilize my strength to look for it, they can always find the right one."]
"The inventory is over and the Easter eggs begin!"
In the video, the Ever Given is sailing on the side of the black hole's accretion disk.
As the countdown ended, the remaining engines of the Eternal were ignited. Attracted by the black hole, the Eternal had exceeded the ultimate speed of the design range and once again climbed higher.
[Three Body World, Zhang Beihai's expression is very concerned. The Eternity carries the seeds of human civilization in another world, just like the Natural Selection he piloted in the original timeline carries the seeds of mankind.
It's just that in his world, the seed can be the Natural Selection number, the Blue Space number, the Enterprise number, or the Ultimate Law number.
He knew that according to the original timeline, there would inevitably be battles between seed spaceships, because most spaceships did not have enough resources and fuel.
But he doesn't care, it's all the same.
But it's different in the video, they only have the Eternal number.
This is the only seed.
The seed is in very bad condition. It is too close to the black hole. The hull structure is not safe enough under the strong gravity, because the design of the spacecraft obviously cannot reach this speed. The current speed of the spacecraft, according to Sophon's analysis,
, has exceeded 15% of the speed of light that can be achieved by forward four...
Wait, with the help of the black hole's gravitational slingshot, such a spacecraft can reach 25% of the speed of light?
Then... what if it is a professional combat spacecraft? Can it challenge a higher speed?
Zhang Beihai was thinking, recalling whether among the cutting-edge projects he knew about, there were any projects related to artificial supergravity sources.]
In the video, Little Brand's spacecraft and Cooper's spacecraft were ignited separately. Under stronger overload, the two used their wills to fight against their bodies that wanted to pass out.
A piece of debris was torn off by the black hole, but it was the loss of mass that caused the Eternal's speed to increase by another step.
"With just such a small operation, we lost another fifty-one years!" Cooper said goodbye to Little Brand in a relaxed tone.
"You don't sound like someone who is almost 120 years old!" Little Brand's physical condition is not as good as Cooper's. It is already very difficult to survive such an overload without passing out.
At this time, Eternity was already flying away from the black hole visibly to the naked eye. The feeling of overload weakened, and Little Brand breathed a sigh of relief.
With the fuel depletion prompt on the display, Cooper ordered the landing module 1 to separate.
In the No. 1 landing module, only Tass was here. The robot, which was all for humanity, obeyed the orders without hesitation, controlled the separation of the landing module, and reduced the mass of the Eternal so that it could smoothly escape the influence of the black hole.
"Bye, Tas." Little Brand said goodbye to this intelligent robot.
"Bye, Dr. Brand." Tas responded: "See you there, Cooper."
"See you there, kid!" Cooper smiled.
Little Brand: "?"
Before little Brand could figure it out, Cooper was already in the process of separating the Ranger 2 spacecraft he was on.
"What? No! No! Cooper, what are you doing?!" Little Brand finally understood what Tass and Cooper meant by "see you over there". Cooper was also going to separate and fall into the black hole!
"Newton's third law tells me that something must be left behind in order for you to get out..." Cooper said while looking at Little Brand on the other Prowler from the porthole above his head.
When the separation began, Cooper's Ranger 2 fell toward the black hole like a fallen leaf. The Ever Given further reduced its burden and flew beyond the bounds of gravity.
The sun has been shining these past two days...the quality is a bit poor...I'm sorry...