I really just want to be a scholar

Visiting other facilities in "SEED CITY" is just an addition to the trip. The real highlight is to undergo a space flight simulation in the "Space Hyperspeed Flight Simulator".

When they arrived outside the simulation cabin experimental center, Ning Yongxi and Qin Junyao were immediately shocked by the huge building in front of them.

"Wow, so big!"

On the way here, the two children heard their father Qin Ke talk about the entire simulation process, and thought that the simulation cabin was only about the same size as a large passenger plane. They did not expect that the "Ultra-High-Speed ​​Space Flight Simulation Cabin" in front of them was actually a huge cabin similar to a rugby ball, the size of an entire football field!

Academician Lai Mingguang said with a smile: "It is indeed quite large. Our 'Ultra-High-Speed ​​Space Flight Simulator' is a 1:1 replica of the flight and sleeping cabin in a real spacecraft."

Ning Yongxi blinked her eyes and asked curiously and puzzledly: "With such a large volume, the weight after carrying people must be even more exaggerated, right? Then wouldn't the real spacecraft be even bigger? How can such a huge spacecraft break through the second cosmic speed of 11.2 kilometers per second and fly into outer space?"

Academician Lai Mingguang smiled in surprise and said, "The kid actually thought of this in the first place? It's amazing." He praised him and said to Qin Ke with a smile, "Academician Qin, it seems that you and Academician Ning will have successors in the future."

"Don't praise this little girl. You can praise her younger brother more. He won't be proud. But this little girl is different. Once she is praised, her tail will be up to the sky." Qin Ke laughed and thought to himself that Dean Lai really knew how to deal with people. However, he still couldn't help reaching out and rubbing Ning Yongxi's hair lovingly.

Qin Ke has been accompanying his two children as they grow up, and he feels more and more deeply that his children are the continuation of his life. Every achievement made by his children brings him genuine joy, which is even greater than all the honors he has won himself.

This is probably how most fathers feel.

Lai Mingguang saw the little girl pouting in dissatisfaction after hearing what he said, and couldn't help but smile and said, "If Yongxi wants to know the answer, it's better to ask your father. He is the chief designer and chief engineer of the entire plan. In fact, I have always been curious about how a huge spacecraft that can carry thousands of people can take off and escape gravity and break through the atmosphere."

The research base here does not involve areas such as power systems and spacecraft development, and Lai Mingguang himself is not good at these areas, so his words are not modesty.

You should know that the more famous spacecraft before was the Orion spacecraft developed by the United States, which could only carry 6 astronauts. This time, the ultra-long-distance manned spacecraft "Future Star Pioneer" that Qin Ke secretly led in the "Towards Mars" plan has been completed and has a theoretical passenger capacity of up to people.

The "Future Star Pioneer II" currently under development is designed to carry an even more exaggerated number of people, reaching 10,000.

Not only that, the "Future Star Pioneer" is said to be equipped with certain outer space weapons, including high-energy beam cannons, linear railguns, and even large missile launch tubes, which can even smash some small meteorites if encountered.

With such a terrifying number of people on board, plus an astonishing amount of supplies used to establish the first survival base on Mars, the estimated total weight of this "Future Star Pioneer" when it was launched was over 1800 million tons!

Lai Mingguang really couldn't imagine what kind of power system could push a spacecraft of this size and weight to the first cosmic velocity or even the second cosmic velocity!

Qin Ke just smiled and said simply, "It uses the latest developed nuclear fusion main engine," without any detailed explanation. The new next-generation "X108A" power system, which is 108 years ahead of the world, is a top research secret. Even if the "Future Star Pioneer" is successfully launched and made public in the near future, the "XA" power system will not be made public.

Lai Mingguang saw this and tactfully brought the topic back to the "Ultra-High-Speed ​​Space Flight Simulator". He continued to introduce:
"Academician Qin, we have used supercomputers to calculate this 'Ultra-High-Speed ​​Space Flight Simulator', and it can basically achieve 99.99% of the real flight simulation degree. We have to thank Academician Qin and Academician Ning for teaching a group of outstanding students who are good at mathematical functional analysis and modeling."

Qin Kelue recalled: "I remember that the three who applied to come here were Sha Liangcai, Zhong Chongyue and Yin Zhanfeng, right?"

"Yes, the level of these three people is very high. If they hadn't joined our team, it would have been difficult for us to achieve such a high degree of simulation. So they have only been in our team for two years, but they have all become the backbone. Sha Liangcai has even become the deputy director of the entire mathematics team, responsible for all mathematical affairs except daily management."

Although the number of students taught by Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun is still no more than a hundred, each of them can be regarded as an excellent mathematician and all-rounder. Functional analysis and mathematical modeling are their compulsory subjects. Almost all the doctoral students in mathematics who can receive their diplomas from the two are not good at these two sub-fields.

Although one third of these mathematics PhDs stayed at Qingmu University and continued to do research with Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun, one third were snatched up by major universities, and some foreign students returned to their homeland, there were still more than a dozen people who chose to serve the country and joined certain secret research institutions, becoming "unsung heroes" on the national scientific research front.

The names of Sha Liangcai, Zhong Chongyue and Yin Zhanfeng are all on the list of more than ten people. Their names are destined not to be famous in the world in the next twenty or thirty years, but their contributions to the Xia Kingdom will surely be remembered in history, and when the information can be decrypted in the future, they will officially become heroes of the country admired by countless people.

Qin Ke was very pleased after listening to the evaluation of Academician Lai Mingguang. How could he not be happy as a teacher when his disciples could shine on the path they loved and achieve excellent results and recognition?
"Academician Qin, let's go in."

"it is good."

The staff quickly stepped forward and used fingerprints and retinas to open the door of the simulation cabin, and everyone filed in. At this time, more than 20 researchers had already been waiting in the office in the simulation cabin. When they saw Qin Ke, three of them could not hide their excitement on their faces, and they bowed respectfully and said, "Teacher!"

They are Sha Liangcai, Zhong Chongyue and Yin Zhanfeng mentioned just now.

The three of them looked to be over 28 years old, and among them, Sha Liangcai had white hair on his temples, making him look even older. But in fact, they were only 29 or years old this year, which was the prime of their life.

Qin Ke thought of the high spirits of these three students when they received their graduation certificates and doctoral degree certificates from him, which formed a sharp contrast with their thin and haggard appearance now.

Scientific research is indeed a very hard job, especially here where you have to carry out high-intensity research work without seeing the sun and there are no so-called weekends or holidays at all.

Qin Ke's eyes were slightly warm, and he stepped forward and shook hands with them one by one: "You have worked hard in the past two years, but you have all performed very well. I am proud of you."

After shaking hands with Sha Liangcai, Qin Ke patted him on the shoulder gently and said, "Your grandfather would definitely be proud of you!"

Qin Ke was most impressed by Sha Liangcai.

Because Sha Liangcai is the grandson of the late academician Sha Hongquan. In the "Planetary Shield Project", in order to ensure the infrastructure construction of the launch tower on the southern island of Xia State, Academician Sha went to the site in person, worked under the scorching sun for more than 100 days, and eventually died of overwork. Qin Ke always regretted it.

Sha Liangcai was also very competitive and passed Qin Ke's postgraduate written examination with his own strength. Although he was born with a severe stutter and had some defects in language expression, he was indeed gifted in mathematics and was the first in that written examination. After Qin Ke confirmed his mathematical strength and talent during the interview, he decided to accept him as his disciple.

It was not until the final admission list was announced, at the first formal meeting between teacher and student, that Sha Liangcai told Qin Ke that he was the grandson of Academician Sha.

It was precisely because of his extraordinary talent in mathematics and the upright character inherited from Academician Sha that Qin Ke valued him and gave him careful guidance, making Sha Liangcai the well-deserved first among his classmates. During his postgraduate and doctoral studies, he published SCI papers in top mathematics journals three times, and his reputation rose rapidly. When he was about to graduate with a doctorate, even Cambridge University, MIT, Princeton and other famous universities offered him olive branches with extremely generous conditions, but Sha Liangcai resolutely chose to follow his grandfather's last wish and devote himself to the country's secret scientific research front...

After meeting Teacher Qin Ke again after a long separation, Sha Liangcai also had tears in his eyes. He stammered, "It's good that I didn't... disappoint... the teacher... and... grandpa..."

Qin Ke patted his shoulder hard again without saying anything caring.

In fact, he didn't need to say that the identity of "Qin Ke's disciple" alone was the best amulet for the three of them. What's more, their mathematical level was quite high, and they were top-notch even in such a research institute full of masters. Academician Lai Mingguang would never treat them unfairly.

Sure enough, I heard Academician Lai Mingguang smile and said, "Don't worry, Academician Qin, we have a lot of female staff here, and they have all found their satisfactory partners here. At the end of last year, they even held a group wedding here, but they were afraid of disturbing your work, so they didn't dare to send you an invitation."

These three students are typical tech geeks with ordinary looks, especially Shasha Liangcai, who has a severe stutter that cannot be cured by medical means. He has never had a girlfriend since he was a child, but he unexpectedly got married here.

Qin Ke saw that they all looked shy and their uniforms were clean and ironed, which showed that they were obviously having a good married life, so he was happy for them.

After some greetings, Qin Ke brought his two children, accompanied by everyone, to personally experience the "highlight" of the day - the space flight simulation in the "Space Ultra-High-Speed ​​Navigation Simulator".

After putting on the space suit, the "spacecraft" finally entered a stable navigation state from the initial heavy feeling to the weightlessness for more than ten minutes. The virtual gravity device was activated, and people could live, work and walk normally in the simulation cabin, while the view of the vast universe could be seen outside the window.

Little Ning Yongxi shouted excitedly, Qin Junyao also asked various questions with great interest, and there were people accompanying them and answering them. Qin Ke, mainly accompanied by Academician Lai Mingguang and three students, experienced the riding feeling under various navigation conditions.

The trip was a complete success. It was past ten o'clock in the evening when Qin Ke returned to his home in the garden villa area of ​​Qingmu University with his daughter and son from "SEED CITY".

Ning Qingjun was still waiting for them. Ning Yongxi and Qin Junyao surrounded their mother, happily talking about what they had seen and heard today.

The robot assistant controlled by the artificial intelligence light sent a report - "Feasibility Analysis Report on Mass Production and Deployment of Robot Teachers in Mountain Villages". (End of this chapter)