Chapter 17 Chapter Thirteen Nobody Tells Us to Bring Swimming Suits

Captain Smith did not surprise everyone until a few hours before turning on the fifth day, and as he had expected, everyone listened dumbfounded to his statement. Victor Willis was the first to come to his senses. "A swimming pool! On a spaceship! You must be kidding!" The captain leaned back in his chair and braced himself to enjoy himself.He snickered at Dr. Buddha, because Dr. Buddha already knew about it. "Very well, I think Columbus knows about the underground and will be surprised by some of the equipment on the modern ship." "Is there a diving board there?" Cliff Greenberg asked wistfully. "I was a diving champion in college."

"Actually... there is. It's only five meters high, but it will let you fall freely for three seconds (in terms of our standard decimal arithmetic), if you need more time, I believe the chief engineer Ke Tees will be happy to reduce the thrust." "Really?" the chief engineer said clearly, "do you want to mess up all my orbit calculations? Not to mention the risk of the water level overflowing the pool. This is the relationship between surface tension, you should know..." "Didn't there used to be a space station with a spherical swimming pool?" someone asked.

Dr. Fo replied: "Before construction started, they wanted to build a spherical swimming pool at the Pasteur Medical Center, but that is not practical. In zero gravity, the swimming pool must be completely sealed, and if you panic, It's easy to be wiped out in a big water balloon." "It's a way to set a world record, to be the first person to die in space." "Nobody told us to bring our bathing suits," Mobella complained. "People who have to wear bathing suits probably should," Mikhailovich said privately to Dr. Fo. Captain Smith tapped on the table to keep order.

"This is a more important matter, please understand. You all know that at midnight we reach maximum speed and have to start braking, so the engines will stop at twenty-three o'clock, and the spacecraft will reverse. Turn around. There will be two hours of weight-free time before we start again at one o'clock. "As you can imagine, the crew will be very busy, and we will be using this time for engine checks and cabin inspections, which cannot be done while under power. I strongly recommend that you take naps during this time, and Moderately secure yourself to the bed with an anchor. The flight attendant will be careful to check for any loose objects that might cause trouble when gravity is restored. Any questions, folks?"

At this time, it was completely calm, as if the passengers still could not accept these pioneering efforts, but were thinking about what to do next. "I thought you would ask me how much such a luxury equipment (swimming pool) cost, but you didn't bring it up, but I still have to tell you that this is not a luxury at all, it doesn't have to cost a dime, but We hope it will be an extremely valuable asset on future voyages. "You see, we have to carry five thousand tons of water as a reaction force, so we have to make good use of it. The first water tank is now three-quarters empty, and we will continue to maintain this water level until the end of the journey. So , we will meet on the beach after breakfast tomorrow."

Thinking about the hasty birth of the Cosmos, it is really surprising that there is such a completely non-basic equipment on it. The so-called "beach" is actually a metal step, about five meters wide, which surrounds the edge of a third of a large tank; although the length of the swimming pool is only twenty meters away, the deft use of the projected image method Make it seem infinitely far away.Waves are also created in the middle of the flume, keeping surfers struggling towards shores they never seem to reach.Behind them was a beautiful clipper recognizable to all travel agents, it was the Taiping of Zongshi Sea and Air Company, and it was sailing at full speed on the sea level.

In order to make everything feel like you are there, there is sand under your feet (that is some magnetic sand, so that they don't run too far from the designated location), this very short beach stops at the edge of the small palm grove , these palm trees look just like the real thing without close inspection.There is a tropical sun overhead, making everything seem as if it were on the beach of the earth.It's hard to believe that behind these landscaped walls is the real sun shining there, whose light is now twice as strong as the sun on any Earth beach. The designer has indeed done a perfect job in the limited space.It seems unfair when Greenberg complains that "it's a pity there are no real waves."