Chapter 14 Chapter 10: The Ship of Fools

During the first forty-eight hours of the voyage, Dr. Fo couldn't believe that the journey would be so comfortable and the space would be so spacious, especially the arrangement and design of the Cosmos, but the passengers on board took it for granted. People who left Earth thought all spaceships were this comfortable. Dr. Fo must review the history of aeronautics to enable him to look into the future more correctly.In his lifetime, he has witnessed (actually lived through) the transformations that have taken place in the space that now lies behind him.Fifty years had passed between the old, crude Leonov and the sophisticated Cosmos (emotionally, he couldn't believe this fact, but it was useless to argue with numbers.)

It also happens to be fifty years since the evolution of the aircraft built by the Wright Brothers to the maiden flight of the first jumbo jet.At the beginning of those fifty years, well-trained pilots were weather-beaten in the open cockpit, flying over countless places; until later, even old grandmothers could fly at a thousand kilometers per hour without caring about their deep sleep. speed across continents. So he probably shouldn't be surprised by the lavish décor of his current cabin, or even the fact that a flight attendant cleans it for him.The oversized windows were the most astonishing feature of his suite, and at first the thought of the cabin's tons of air pressure against the relentless and unrelenting vacuum of space made him uncomfortable.

The most surprising thing (although pre-departure education had prepared him mentally) was the existence of the phenomenon of gravity.Cosmos is the first cruising spacecraft capable of sustained acceleration (only short round trips in between).When the huge propellant tanks on a spaceship are filled with five thousand tons of water, there is a tenth of a G of gravity, not a lot, but enough to stabilize things from floating in the air, which is especially useful when eating .But despite this, passengers still have to spend a few days learning how to keep the soup from spilling out of the bowl.

Forty-eight hours after leaving the earth, the people on the Cosmos were clearly divided into four different classes: the first class included Captain Smith and other high-ranking officials; Finally, there are the helm and operators. The different class stereotypes that the five young space scientists used to describe themselves began as a joke and later became a pain in the ass.When Dr. Buddha saw their humble and crowded cabins compared with his own luxurious cabins, he understood their opinion, and he immediately conveyed their complaints to the captain. After all the factors had been carefully considered, they had nothing to complain about, since everything was kept to a minimum because of the rush to build the spaceship, so they didn't think too much about where they and their equipment would live.Now they finally have the hope of placing equipment around and on the comet during the crucial few days before the comet circles the sun once more and flies to the outer reaches of the solar system.The members of this scientific team will be able to build a reputation for this space trip, and they all know it.So it was only when they were exhausted or when the equipment went awry that they complained about the noisy ventilation, the cramped cabin, and the occasional strange smell.

Everyone agreed that the most impeccable food was the food, and Captain Smith assured them that "it is definitely better than what Darwin ate on the 'Hound Dog' in the past." Victor Willis immediately questioned this: "How could the captain know? What's more, Darwin was killed by the commander of the HMS Hound after returning to England." Such is Willis, who to his admirers is probably the most famous communicator of science on the planet and to his detractors a mere lay scientist (calling them enemies It's not fair, because everyone is envious of his talent, but occasionally someone is jealous.)His soft, mid-central accent and exaggerated expression on camera are often imitated, and he's credited (or blamed) for bringing the beard back into fashion. "A man with so much hair," a critic's favorite remark, "must hide a great deal."

Dr. Fo is definitely the most recognizable of the "Six Important People", although he no longer considers himself a celebrity. On the contrary, he always likes to ridicule the other five people as the "Big Five". Eva Merlin would occasionally leave her apartment and walk down Park Avenue without being recognized. Dmitri Mikhailovich's greatest chagrin is that he is about ten centimeters shorter than average, which may explain his penchant for a thousand wind instruments (both real and synthetic), but it still does nothing to strengthen his public image . Cliff Greenberg from Margaret Morbella is also the "well known but no one knows" kind of guy (although that's bound to change after they return to Earth).

Greenberg, the first man to land on Jupiter, is hard to remember because of his genial public face; besides, he was in the news thirty years ago. Like most writers who shy away from talk shows and self-promotion, Mobella has millions of readers, but few recognize her face.Her literary achievements caused a sensation in the 1940s.Books that explore the Greek pantheon broadly and deeply often struggle to become bestsellers, but Ms. Mobella made it a perennially captivating space-age legend.A name familiar only to astronomers and classicists a century ago is now familiar to all educated people.Almost every day there are news from Ganymede, Callisto, Io, Taidan, Aipeter, and even from lesser-known worlds such as Galmu, Persia, Hypalin, Helios....

Her book would not have been as successful if she hadn't focused on studying the complex family life of Zeus, the father of the gods.In addition, due to luck, a clever editor changed the title of the book from "Views from Olympus" to "A History of the Gods and Emotions", which made her book so popular.Envious scholars often call it "Olympic Desire," yet wish they could write the same. Not surprisingly, travelers quickly adopted nicknames for Mobella, and Mobella was the first to call the spaceship "Ship of Fools." Victor Willis eagerly embraced the term and quickly felt that their situation resonated with history almost a century before Catherine Anne Porter and a team of scientists and authors boarded the The Shanghai ocean liner went to watch the launch process of Apollo 17 and the completion of the first phase of the mission to the moon.

When Mobella was told about it, she said: "I'll think about it. Maybe it's time for a third edition, but of course I won't be sure until we get back to Earth..."