China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 50 The Martian Rescue
Science Fiction World Magazine, editorial department.

Editor Yang Feng turned his head and said to his colleagues: "Recently, Liu's mental state is a bit wrong."

"What's the matter?" Qin Li leaned her face closer and asked.

Yang Feng said: "It seems that Liu had vaguely had an idea before, and he told Li Mu about his idea at the Galaxy Awards last time, but Li Mu said with certainty that if he continued to dig deeper into this idea, he would definitely win the Hugo Award. Liu is serious, it seems that he is holding back his big move recently."

Qin Li said: "Da Liu is such a rational person, Li Mu can be bluffed by a few words?"

Yang Feng said with a smile: "It's not just to scare, it's simply admiration. Big Liu is clamoring to get Li Mu drunk someday."

"what happened?"

"It seems to be about the last Galaxy Awards dinner. Li Mu drank too much, and Da Liu pestered him to talk about ideas. Da Liu said that Li Mu often said a few words casually to make Da Liu——Da Liu is so similar to me. Described: It's as if I knew there were some good things on the ground, and I knew the general location of these good things, but I couldn't touch them because the light was too dark. As a result, when Li Mu opened his mouth, his mouth full of gold teeth was exposed, and the floor was immediately illuminated. Now, it turns out that thing is there!"

Qin Li was amused: "A mouth full of golden teeth is an appropriate description. In less than a year, 1000 million novels were sold in the United States. Isn't it shining like gold?"

Yang Feng said: "The only regret is that "The Hunger Games" has too little sci-fi taste, we are a science fiction world magazine after all."

"'Moon' has a strong sci-fi flavor, but it's not selling well." Qin Li said helplessly.

Yang Feng said: ""Moon" has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in China and the United States. It is also a bestseller in science fiction, but it can't be compared with "The Hunger Games."

While the two were chatting, the text messages on their respective mobile phones rang, and Qin Li inadvertently picked them up and took a look.

"Li Mu?"

"What Li Mu?"

"Li Mu sent a text message." Qin Li clicked on the text message and said, "Everyone, editors, the new book has been sent to the mailbox."

As soon as Li Mu's new book was sent, the two lost the mood to continue chatting, so they went back to their computers to download the work.

Looking at the Chinese and English documents called "The Martian" downloaded on the desktop, the two editors couldn't help but think of the day when the manuscript of "The Hunger Games" was sent.

At that time, the Chinese and English versions were sent together, and then a miracle was created.

"The Martian, this time it has a sci-fi flavor."

The two of them clicked on the document.

"Log: SOL6
I'm completely fucked up.

This is my conclusion after careful consideration.

It's over.

These six days, the beginning of what should have been the most glorious two months of my life, turned out to be the prelude to a nightmare.

I have no idea who's going to watch this stuff.I guess one day, someone will find it.Maybe 100 years from now.

Seriously, for the record...Sol6, I'm not dead.The other teammates must have thought I was dead, and of course they couldn't be blamed.Maybe there will be a state funeral soon, and my Wikipedia page will say: "Ma Yue is the only person who died on Mars so far."

Seeing that the two of them agreed here, they all paused slightly.

An astronaut of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was ordered to participate in the "Tianmeng" manned mission to land on Mars, and then the mission had an accident. The other astronauts thought that Ma Yue was dead and returned to the voyage. It turned out that Ma Yue was not dead, but he was not far from death. , because he was left alone on Mars?
Qin Li looked up at Yang Feng: "Log: SOL6, what do you mean?"

Yang Feng raised his head after entering the Baidu query: "Martian solar day, Martian solar day, the average interval between the rising and setting of the sun on Mars. It is equal to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35.244 seconds, which is very close to a day on Earth."

Qin Li nodded, and the two continued to look down.

The surface temperature of Mars is as low as minus 143 degrees Celsius and as high as 35 degrees Celsius.

Atmospheric pressure is about 1% of that of the earth, atmospheric composition: carbon dioxide >95%, nitrogen 3%, argon 1.6%, Ma Yue has to survive in this environment for a year without prior preparation, ideally , rescuers will arrive in a year, but is it possible?

To grow potatoes on Mars, use rocket fuel (hydrazine) to decompose into nitrogen and hydrogen under the catalysis of iridium, and burn hydrogen to obtain water.

Using the heat from the decay of highly toxic radioactive elements for thermoelectric power generation,

Use the Mars Pathfinder launched by the United States in 1996 to get in touch with the earth.

"Do you think that the methods described in Li Mu's new book can really be realized in reality?"

During lunch, Yang Feng asked editor Qin Li.

After pondering, Qin Li said: "I don't understand a lot of things, and I don't know whether Li Mu's writing is correct, but when I just understand the part in the book, I don't see any faults."

"Me too." Yang Feng nodded solemnly.

Qin Li said: "I will send the manuscript to my friends in the publishing house in the United States today. Let's see what they say first."

Editor Qin Li has been in charge of the magazine's foreign exchange work.

……

Five days later, Qin Li finally received a call from her friend in a foreign publishing house.

"I have good news and bad news here, which one do you want to hear first?"

"good news."

"The good news is that this kind of book can't meet the publishing requirements of the publishing house, but who told us that we are friends and the author of this book is Li Mu—by the way, it was really written by Li Mu?"

"It's absolutely true." Qin Li said.

"It's not the same as "The Hunger Games" at all. In short, in view of our friendship and the fact that this is Li Mu's new book, I specially invited friends who used to work in NASA to read this book together. His friends, and then his friends got friends of his friends, and many of these friends worked or are currently working at NASA, and then they started getting together to find fault with the novel, and you still Not to mention, after a few days, they really picked out several faults."

Qin Li asked: "Is this considered good news?"

The other end said: "Of course it's good news! A novel about Mars survival and rescue, a group of former NASA staff or current NASA staff, many people who are very likely to be responsible for the mission to land on Mars in the future, everyone wants to Don’t you think it’s outrageous to get together to discuss the possible loopholes in this novel, and after a few days of discussion, some loopholes were actually summed up?”

Qin Li said: "What do you mean, most of the survival methods written in the book are feasible?"

The other side said: "Yes, growing potatoes on Mars? It's doable! And it's the best choice; making water from rocket fuel? It's doable! Nuclear battery heating is very dangerous, but it's doable. The SNAP27 RTG that Apollo brought to the moon can do it; Use the Mars Pathfinder launched by the United States in 1996 to communicate with the earth? It is feasible! This probe does have a corresponding interface for connecting to a computer, and it can indeed be used to communicate with the earth after modification; hexadecimal communication to contact the earth? Feasible! Gravitational slingshot effect orbit change? Feasible-feasible, feasible, feasible, my friend said that all of these are feasible, and my friend from the space agency also joked that this could be used as a survival guide for Mars, but most people will never use it in their lifetime Just follow this guide."

Qin Li was silent for a while after hearing what her friend said, and then asked again: "What about the bad news?"

Her American friend said: "The bad news is that the books that my geek friend and his colleagues like rarely sell well."

After hearing this, Qin Li was speechless for a long time, and didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed, in short, her mood was very complicated.

At the same time, the movie "Assassin" was officially launched in the United States.

(End of this chapter)