Super Copy of Great Power Technology

"Nannan, do you want to experience weightlessness? If you do, you can tell the captain to temporarily turn off the gravity generator." Qiao Ruida looked at Nannan and asked kindly.

"Uncle Qiao, is it really possible? I really want to know what it feels like to experience weightlessness as described in the textbook." Nannan opened her big, innocent eyes, her curiosity about the subject almost bursting out.

"After all, this is a public place, so we should ask for everyone's opinions. Don't make everyone unhappy just for our daughter." Liu Jiayu interrupted and suggested listening to the opinions of all passengers. After all, there were more than a hundred people sitting in the cabin.

Liu Jiayu is a veteran who joined Ruida Company in the early days of the company. He is now the general manager of Ruida Network, the only listed subsidiary of Ruida Group. He is a powerful person. The people sitting in the cabin are either colleagues of Ruida Group, or suppliers or sellers who have business dealings with Ruida Group. Now that Liu Jiayu's daughter wants to experience weightlessness, who would not give Liu Jiayu a face and stand up to oppose it?

"No problem, I agree with turning off the gravity generator."

"Yes, yes, yes. Not only our daughter, but even adults like us who are in space for the first time want to experience weightlessness."

"Yes, it's so hard to come to space. If I don't experience weightlessness, it's like I've missed out on a billion dollars."

"I agree. I'm also thinking of taking some photos in the weightless state and posting them on WeChat Moments."

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Passengers sitting nearby heard the conversation between the three and spoke out in support of shutting down the gravity generator. Passengers a little further away also became interested after hearing the discussion and clamored to shut down the gravity generator to experience weightlessness. Word spread from one person to ten, and within a few minutes, all the more than 100 passengers in the cabin agreed to shut down the gravity generator.

Qiao Ruida shrugged and said to Liu Jiayu: "Look, this is the public opinion. Let's just follow the good advice."

After that, Qiao Ruida waved his hand and called the crew member who was waiting to provide services to everyone. After communicating with him, the crew member quickly left the cabin, walked into the cockpit, and communicated with the captain. Not long after, the captain's voice sounded in the radio, "Dear passengers, please pay attention, the gravity generator of this aircraft will be turned off in five minutes, and the cabin will be in a state of weightlessness. Please secure your belongings and fasten your seat belts. If you need to go out in a state of weightlessness, please master the skills and pay attention to safety. If you encounter any problems, please contact our crew in time."

The prompt sound was played three times to ensure that everyone could hear it. Then, after a short while, gravity suddenly disappeared. The suitcases, bags, hats, cameras, etc. that everyone carried with them all floated up. Including everyone's body, it also left the seat and flew up lightly. If it weren't for the seat belt, it would have been like other objects, drifting with the flow.

"Mom, look, my braids are flying up. Is this what it's like to be weightless? It's so fun!" Nannan looked up and saw her smooth twin ponytails turning into two upturned braids. She was so surprised that she exclaimed repeatedly.

"Come here, daughter, look at the camera, I'll take a picture of you." Liu Jiayu raised the SLR camera in her hand, pointed it at her daughter, and took several pictures in a row with a click sound.

Some brave passengers beside him had already unbuckled their seat belts and let their bodies float around in the cabin. Qiao Ruida also unbuckled his seat belt, stood up, squatted, and exerted force with his feet, and catapulted towards the glass window. After reaching the window, he picked up his phone and took a lot of photos of the earth below. Not satisfied yet, he turned on the front camera, made a scissors hand gesture, took a few selfies, and posted them on WeChat Moments, which attracted the envy of his relatives and friends.

Seeing this, other passengers followed suit, unbuckled their seat belts, and used their feet to fly towards the window. However, only a few were able to achieve their goal, because they either did not have enough strength and stopped halfway through the flight, or flew in the wrong direction. In the end, they stopped in mid-air, neither going up nor down, using their hands and feet to wave back and forth, but they could not find a foothold, and their appearance was really funny. It was the crew members nearby who rushed over and taught them how to move freely in the cabin in a state of weightlessness with the help of the handles on the cabin wall or the top of the cabin.

Before long, Liu Jiayu and Nannan, hand in hand, flew to the porthole together, and looked at the beautiful earth below through the glass.

"Mom, when viewed from space, the earth is not that big. It's hard to imagine that billions of human beings live on such a small earth." Nannan gestured the size of the earth with her fingers and said innocently.

"Yes, our earth is not big, and it is too heavy to carry a population of seven or eight billion. That's why we are working hard to develop the aerospace industry. I believe that one day, human beings will be able to cross billions of galaxies and migrate to other habitable planets to help reduce the burden on Mother Earth." Liu Jiayu hugged her daughter in her arms and casually described the beautiful scene of human beings roaming in space and migrating to other planets.

Of course, people have different physiques. Not all of the more than 100 passengers on the scene could adapt to weightlessness. There were about a dozen people who felt their blood boiling, dizziness, or nausea and vomiting, and felt uncomfortable all over. The crew reacted quickly and rushed to the passengers who were feeling unwell, helped them out of the main cabin, and went to the medical cabin next door. The gravity generator there was not turned off, and these passengers who had difficulty adapting to weightlessness were able to recover quickly when they returned to a normal gravity environment.

An hour later, the broadcasting voice sounded again, "The space shuttle is about to arrive at the Reda space dock. Passengers, please return to your seats and fasten your seat belts. In five minutes, the cabin gravity environment will be restored. Please prepare in advance. I repeat, the cabin gravity environment will be restored in five minutes. Passengers, please return to your seats and prepare in advance." Hearing the broadcasting reminder, the passengers withdrew their gazes and playful hearts, and returned to their seats under the guidance and help of the staff. A few minutes later, the gravity generator restarted, and the cabin returned to a double gravity environment. Some passengers were still a little uncomfortable with the sudden switch from weightlessness to standard gravity. They felt that their movements were particularly heavy, and even breathing was a little difficult. However, they have been living in a standard gravity environment for the past few decades. It only took a few minutes of adjustment to adapt to it, and everything was back to normal.

Ten minutes later, the spaceplane gradually approached the Reda space dock, performed engine reverse thrust braking, and adjusted its flight attitude in preparation for entering the dock. It was this flight attitude adjustment that caused the spaceplane to flip at an angle, and the huge space dock suddenly appeared outside the glass porthole.

In the silent deep space orbit, a giant complex of steel and light was suspended in the darkness - it was the space outpost of human civilization, the cradle and harbor of interstellar ships. It was the space dock, the crystallization of human wisdom and technology.

The main body of the dock is made up of several huge ring structures nested together, like a gear forged by a giant mechanical god. The external skeleton is covered with a honeycomb-shaped high-strength coated protective plate, which glows light blue under the light of the stars. This protective plate can effectively block ultraviolet rays, solar wind and various cosmic rays, protecting the safety of human workers. Dozens of retractable bridges extend outward from the central docking area, which is prepared for the berthing of large space ships.

In the zero-gravity operation area, engineering robots flew around the hull frame like migrating silver fish. Welding sparks bloomed silently in the vacuum, instantly illuminating the huge anti-gravity engine being assembled: its toroidal coil glowed with cold silver light, and the unactivated energy core was like a sleeping crystal. Further away, the fuel delivery pipes coiled around the supply station like giant pythons, and the occasional spray of low-temperature helium condensed into fleeting ice crystal mist in the vacuum.

The command tower on top of the dock looks like a silhouette cut out of a science fiction illustration. The holographic projection of the aircraft and the navigation route map floats in front of the observation window, dyeing the nearby glass curtain wall into a fluorescent green spider web. When an aerospace plane slowly enters the channel, passes through the protective layer, and enters the dock, its anti-gravity thrusters draw two blue tails in the dark, like a meteor falling backwards towards the stars. There is no dust on the earth, no whimpering of the wind, only the vibration of the metal conveys the pulse of mankind's march into the universe through the structural beams.

"Oh, is this the Reda Space Dock? Looking from this angle, it's so grand and magnificent!"

"This is a space structure that is 10,000 meters long. It's the only one of its kind in the world. How can it not be spectacular?"

"I heard that this huge space dock was built in less than three months. It is simply an unprecedented miracle of space engineering!"

"Hehe, that's why we Chinese are crazy about infrastructure. It took three and a half months to build the Dongfang Space Dock, and it took less than three months to build the Reda Space Dock of the same size. If there is another space dock under construction, it will probably only take two months to be completed."

"I see the keel has been laid on the slipway over there and welding has begun. Has the production of spaceships begun?"

"Yes, most of the shipbuilding employees we recruited by Ruida Aerospace are novices. They have no experience in producing aircraft or shipbuilding. Let's try to build a small space mining ship first to practice."

Time passed slowly amid the conversations of the passengers. Guided by the signal lights, the aerospace plane flew into a circular passage and entered the interior of the space dock. After flying forward for a few minutes, it finally landed at a small airport. When people got off the plane, they could see that there were more than a dozen cargo-type aerospace planes and three passenger-type aerospace planes parked in the entire airport, as well as some personnel, forklifts, trucks, and shuttle buses, moving around in the small airport, making it particularly lively.

Two shuttle buses drove over, carrying Qiao Ruida and others, leaving the airport and heading straight to the depths of the space dock. There were staff on the bus, holding a loudspeaker, explaining the subsequent arrangements to them.

"Mr. Qiao, Mr. Liu, and all the leaders and guests, good morning, welcome to the Reda Space Dock! The shuttle will take you to the guest room area, and then the service staff will arrange rooms for you and distribute room cards. You can go to your rooms first, put down your luggage, and rest for a while. We will gather again at 11 o'clock in the morning and go to the top platform of the dock to hold the inauguration ceremony of the space dock."

The shuttle bus drove for more than ten minutes before it took everyone to their destination. Fortunately, there was artificial gravity along the way, and the air composition and air pressure were normal. If it weren't for the dark space outside the transparent sky, everyone would have mistakenly thought they were back on Earth. Two waitresses came out to receive them, and then they registered their information, assigned rooms, and received room cards. As the boss of the company, Qiao Ruida didn't need to be assigned a room, he had his own room here. It was a two-bedroom, one-living room suite with a construction area of ​​at least more than 60 square meters, which was considered very luxurious in the space dock where every inch of land was valuable.

At noon, a group of senior executives of the Ruida Group, including Qiao Ruida, hundreds of guests, and thousands of space dock staff gathered on the flag-raising platform on the top floor of the space dock to hold a brief dock inauguration ceremony. There was no loud gongs and drums, firecrackers, or any form of live broadcast, and there was not even a microphone for speeches. There was only a simple ribbon-cutting ceremony and thunderous applause from the scene.

The completion and commissioning of the Ruida Space Dock marks that China has officially entered the era of dual space docks. The speed of space ship production has doubled, which means that the pace of expeditions to other galaxies, exploration of interstellar channels and Proxima b is gradually accelerating. The completion of the Ruida Space Dock also marks that the Ruida Group has officially entered the field of space development, which means that the space industry will become one of the pillar industries of the Ruida Group, and there will be no restrictions on the investment of manpower and material resources.

After the completion ceremony of the dock, Qiao Ruida, as the host, came forward and invited everyone to have lunch in the staff cafeteria. The lunch was relatively simple, with four standard dishes and one soup, but the chef's skills were very strong, and he used a few simple ingredients to create a taste of a state banquet. The reason for this was not that Ruida Group was reluctant to spend money to prepare a big meal to entertain guests, but that the space dock was located in the geosynchronous orbit 30,000 meters above the ground, and transportation was too troublesome. In order not to waste too much transportation capacity on the transportation of ingredients, the company formulated a rule for all employees working in the space dock: "Be frugal and don't waste a grain of food!" With the rules in place, Qiao Ruida, Liu Jiayu and other company executives could not go back on their words and eat and drink in public. (End of this chapter)