Chapter 942: Asteroid Sighted

William James was surprised.

He never thought that he just took a 20-second video, uploaded it to YouTube, and then transferred it to his Twitter, which caused an uproar on the Internet.

He is not an internet celebrity, and there are no more than a hundred people who follow him on Twitter, most of them are his real-life friends, and some are mostly random netizens. He never expected that within two hours after uploading, his video spread like a virus to all major social platforms. And the number of hits on the original video has easily exceeded 100,000, and is advancing by leaps and bounds towards the 500,000 mark.

Happiness came too suddenly and too inexplicably.

Before William realized what was going on, he watched the number of followers on his Twitter gradually increase.

Two hours earlier, he had spotted a meteor outside the window of the space elevator.

That's right, it's a shooting star!

As we all know, meteors are formed by the friction of meteorites in the atmosphere. There is no air in the universe, so naturally there is no way to form a gorgeous tail flame. He was sure that he was not mistaken, that bright spot was dragging a trail of flames! In a dark universe, it is so conspicuous!

Unlike most civil aviation airliners, when the altitude exceeds 100 kilometers, the space elevator can access the network through the Quantum Communication Satellite of the Starlink Trade, and the network speed is quite fast.

After clicking on the video he uploaded, he opened the comment page. After watching the 20-second video, netizens left their amazing speeches.

"God! What did I see? There are meteors in outer space? Isn't this a sight that can only be seen in the atmosphere?"

"Everyone, stop watching. My profession is a yellow appraiser. I have to watch tens of thousands of videos a day. I can say responsibly that this video has been processed by PS! There are so many unreasonable things that I I don't know where to start complaining."

"Upstairs, you are not a real yellow appraiser at all! I am doing video appraisal for the court. From a professional point of view, there is no place for this video to be synthesized. In addition, PS is an image processing software, please Read more books and speak online."

"A Great God Appears Upstairs!"

William stared blankly at the lines of comments on the phone.

He never expected that the video he uploaded would cause such heated discussions.

"The twitter name of the person who uploaded the video is William James,

I went to the official website of Xinghuan Trading, and this person's name is on the list of foreign guests participating in the first train opening! This video should be true, but why is the Internet still available on the space elevator? "

"Are you a pig? The quantum communication satellites of the Star Ring Trade have Internet access everywhere, and all places in Xinguo can connect to free WiFi. You actually ask why you can access the Internet."

Such a result really made him dumbfounded. Just as he was about to post something on his Twitter account, the voice of the elevator attendant rang in his ears.

"The Ch-001 train is about to arrive at the station. During the deceleration phase of the train, the carriage will experience upward gravity. To avoid accidents, passengers are requested to return to the cockpit and fasten their seat belts. The current speed is 2.1 kilometers per second, and the deceleration time for……"

The angular velocity is constant, and as the height rises, the linear velocity of the elevator itself will naturally increase. The macroscopic performance is that the farther away from the earth, the more obvious the feeling of weightlessness in the elevator. And when the elevator travels to the synchronous track, the linear speed of the passengers and the elevator will also reach the orbiting speed of the synchronous track, and at this moment, it will be completely weightless.

In the final deceleration link, the passenger moves upward according to the inertia, the G value of the gravity parameter in the compartment will become a negative number, and the ceiling and floor may appear upside down. Therefore, the flight attendants warmly reminded the passengers to return to their seats and fasten their seat belts before entering the deceleration link.

William looked at the unedited tweets on the phone, sighed helplessly, put the phone back in his pocket, and sat back in his seat. He made up his mind to wait until he arrived at the terminal space station - Star Ring City, before replying to those comments that exploded with curiosity.

...

The video was also seen by Jiang Chen, although it was a week after the video was uploaded. The popularity of this video even has the tendency to challenge the large-scale documentary "Journey to Space Elevator" launched by BBC, the cooperation media of Xinghuan Trade!

It has to be said that human beings are gossip creatures.

Some people speculated that it was a spaceship of aliens, others speculated that it was a burning asteroid, and even funny Huaguo netizens commented that it was a fellow Taoist who was going through a catastrophe.

However, Jiang Chen, who was lying on the bed and playing with his mobile phone, saw through the true identity of the "UFO" at a glance. Where is that thing? What kind of spaceship is that? Isn't that the Benu asteroid captured by the star ring trade! ?

A technical team led by Kerwin had towed it into the Earth-Moon system a few days ago, and is now making the final tweaks to bring it as close to Earth as possible.

The closer to the earth moon, the lower the mining cost. It's just that what Jiang Chen didn't expect was that the rocket hanging in front of the asteroid could be seen so clearly from the synchronous orbit? !

Jiang Chen lost all sleepiness immediately, sat up from the bed, and leaned on the pillow in a comfortable position.

Swiping his finger across the holographic screen, typing in keywords by voice, Jiang Chen focused on browsing the relevant news on the Internet.

Within two minutes, he had found what he was looking for.

As early as the second day after the video was uploaded, the White House received a petition to investigate the "outer meteor". In just five days, the petition had over 100,000 signatures. According to regulations, the White House must respond when the number of signatures reaches 100,000.

The White House's approach was also very straightforward. It found Bolden, who had just returned from Canberra, and handed over the investigation task to NASA. And NASA lived up to expectations. After two days of investigation, NASA Director Bolden clarified the matter through the official website of the White House.

It has nothing to do with extraterrestrial civilizations or Martians, it is an asteroid. And the background of this asteroid is not small, its name is Bennu, and the prediction of the scientific community is that it will collide with the earth at the end of the 22nd century.

A "net" of special material is hung on the asteroid, and eight rocket engines are connected in front of the net. The mystery was revealed. The elongated light was not the "tail" of an asteroid at all, but the flickering tail flame of a rocket flying in front of the asteroid.

The mystery was revealed, and the Bennu asteroid was pulled into the Earth-Moon system from its original orbit. And all of this turned out to be artificial, which really broke the glasses of the old NASA experts, and also sweated for Mother Earth.

According to the data observed by NASA, Bennu orbits the sun at an average speed of 63,000 miles per hour, which is not inferior to the earth's revolution speed. A collision with the earth will be equivalent to detonating 3 billion tons of explosives!

It is incomparable with the asteroid that exterminated the dinosaurs, but it must be enough for all human beings to drink a pot!

Jiang Chen logged on to the White House official website and glanced at the time when NASA published the report. It happened to be five o'clock this afternoon. At that time, he had just signed the contract with the president of Hilton Hotel, and then the two went to a hotel owned by Hilton to have a meal together.

"No wonder I haven't received any news, this timing is really a coincidence," Jiang Chen muttered to himself, pinching his chin and lost in thought.

He did not report the plan to capture the asteroid to the United Nations, because in his opinion, it was completely unnecessary. If he really filed the record, he would be asking for trouble. Apart from causing unnecessary panic, there would be no benefit at all.

Now this asteroid has attracted the attention of the United States, or the idea of ​​the whole world. Although there is no direct evidence to prove that the eight rocket engines are the masterpiece of Star Ring Trade, but I want to know with my ass, which company's aerospace technology in the world can do this.

SpaceX is trying its best to send a probe to the asteroid to take rock samples!

Either the aliens are playing a joke on the earth, or the star ring trade is playing a joke on all human beings.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chen couldn't help but frowned with a headache.

What should I do?

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