Chapter 1396 Saint's Standard

To be precise, this article existed many years ago, but at this point in time it was dug up again.

At the door of the overweight environment training room, looking at Lu Zhou who was sitting on a small bench and swiping his phone, Professor Vernal, who had turned over the article and sent it to him, joked.

"It seems that it is not easy to engage in scientific research in Huaguo."

After closing the article, the expression on Lu Zhou's face did not change much, and he replied casually.

"After all, it only took us a hundred years from the feudal era to modernization. This is a leap in the history of civilization, and some things will inevitably be omitted. It seems that you don't ask scholars to be as pious as priests, but Many of us still habitually label scholars as saints."

"Actually, what I mean is that the academic environment at Oxford is a little more relaxed."

"What does that have to do with me?"

"...Okay." Looking at Lu Zhou who looked at him inexplicably, Professor Vernal shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, "Okay, I just said it casually, don't take it to heart."

At this moment, sitting opposite Lu Zhou is Professor Pansy Vernal from the Archeology and Art History Research Laboratory of Oxford University.

Although he was only thirty-five years old, judging from his thinning hair volume and the wrinkles on his forehead, one could not help but wonder whether he was cursed by the pharaoh during the archaeological work in Egypt.

As for the article he was talking about, it was a commentary written by a certain Chinese-American journalist Xu Jing that was widely circulated on Facebook.

Although this article was originally posted on Facebook, it quickly spread across the country, and quickly became a popular article in the circle of friends by taking advantage of people's inner confusion about the future.

The title of the article is very similar to the article "Please slow down and wait for your people" that was popular on major BBS many years ago, and even many fragments are quotations from the previous article, but the central idea is From a criticism of the lack of morality in the process of economic development, it has become a lament for "the rapid technological development has destroyed the idyllic life" and a criticism of the excessive speed of social development itself.

The article created—or fictionalized—three characters with different identities, a food delivery boy who was forced to leave Shenzhen City because of drone logistics technology, and a coal miner who lost his source of livelihood because of controllable fusion technology , and a doctor who was forced to separate from his family to go to the moon, and ended up with his wife and children.

The identities of these characters can be said to cover the portraits of the disadvantaged groups, the middle class and the elite class. The fate of people with different levels of education and social status in this wave of the times has been deeply analyzed and tragic. rendering.

But it was also seeing this that Lu Zhou was more sure of his thoughts.

This thing is really nonsense.

It's not that he has no sympathy, it's just that he really doesn't understand how the "forced separation" came about.

After all, the Ph.D program at the Lunar Science Research Station is notoriously difficult to pass, and the international students fought for the limited number of places. Without the support of a Nobel Prize winner-level recommendation letter and a Nobel Prize-level project, even There is no qualification to participate in the selection.

Forced to separate?

Wife separated?

This is no nonsense.

If it wasn't made up, he would have eaten the phone!

"Of course I won't take it to heart." Regarding Professor Vernal's comfort, Lu Zhou just shrugged, "I believe that Keyboard Man is not just our specialty, and I also believe that history will definitely give a correct evaluation. Or do you think this kind of fabricated article is very convincing? If so, I will at most worry about your professionalism."

Vernal laughed twice, hiding his embarrassment.

"How come... I'm just showing you? There's no other meaning."

"It's better not," Lu Zhou nodded, suddenly changed the subject, and said, "By the way, I forgot to inform you just now, and I was almost fooled by you. According to the coach's reaction, your recent few days The training performance is very bad. In order to avoid dragging everyone down in space, I hope you can stay in the overweight environment training room for a while. In the future, the end of your training time should be postponed from five o'clock to eight o'clock. "

When he heard that he would stay in that room that looked like a drum washing machine, Vernal's face suddenly became bitter, and he pleaded.

"Come on, friend, I was just joking..."

"Just now? It has nothing to do with just now," Lu Zhou said seriously in a joking tone, "This is for your own good."

As he said that, Lu Zhou gave him a look of "learn to be strong", then left him alone, and walked away without looking back...

...

Time passed day by day, and the day of departure was getting closer and closer.

Those staying at the space launch center could clearly feel that the atmosphere in the entire launch center gradually became tense as the end of May approached.

Perhaps it was because academician Lu himself was about to set foot on the flight to Mars, the safety issue that had been repeatedly emphasized had become the overriding top priority.

Not only did the three safety checks before takeoff add two out of thin air, from the ground crew to the cleaning aunt, they are doing safety training almost "every three days, one small meeting every two days", trying to eliminate failures with two digits after the decimal point. Probability, backed up by two decimal points.

On the other hand, it's not just the logistics staff who are busy.

For the scientific expedition personnel who are about to go to Mars, the training rhythm is gradually accelerating these days.

Now Lu Zhou has not only learned to drive the Mars rover and operate various equipment on the spacecraft, but also has basically adapted to operating professional equipment in low-gravity and super-gravity environments, and with the assistance of other members, to explore underground tunnels Work……

"... There will be a flight to Mars in mid-October, responsible for delivering supplies to our colonial outpost on Mars, and then you can take that flight back."

The office of the chief designer of the space launch center, Director Chang Hezhi, who is in charge of the next launch plan, reported to Lu Zhou the preparations for the launch, and continued to report the arrangements for the return trip.

After listening to his report, Lu Zhou nodded and said.

"I have no objection, is there anything else?"

Director Chang: "There is indeed one more thing."

Lu Zhou: "What's the matter?"

"The last press conference before the launch will be held soon, and many details about the launch plan will be made public at this press conference. If you don't mind, we agree that you will host it This press conference is most appropriate."

The so-called details here, including the engineering equipment and new colony units that will be sent to the surface of Mars for deployment, as well as the scientific research team going to Mars and the list of "diplomatic missions" in charge of contacting extraterrestrial civilizations, etc., are all subject to the attention of the world. Issues of concern to the people will be made public at this press conference.

At that time, mainstream media from all over the world will arrive in Jinling to broadcast the press conference live worldwide.

And there is almost no need to guess, this historic moment will definitely be recorded in the annals of world history!

Considering the importance of this matter, the professionalism of the general press spokesman and the degree of understanding of the manned fire plan are obviously not enough for this task.

On the other hand, as the chief designer of the manned landing office, no one is more suitable to be the spokesperson than Lu Zhou.

Faced with Director Chang's proposal, Lu Zhou thought about it for a while, but he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with it, so he readily agreed.

"Fine."

"It's okay to let me be the spokesperson."

"However, I will trouble you to prepare the speech and PPT."

Seeing that Lu Zhou agreed, Director Chang was overjoyed and said with a smile.

"Don't worry about this, these little things will definitely not trouble you."

"The press conference is three days later, so it's settled!"