Rebirth: I am Sai, but the animation Three Body

Chapter 78 Developers in the Space Age

The moment they reached the open-air roof of the building, everyone was immediately exposed to the sun and strong wind, and the blue sky above seemed to be much clearer than usual.

Because of the use of nano-materials, this building does not need to consider architectural issues, so it is a thousand meters high, standing on it is enough to overlook the entire Verne Island.

But soon they found that they were not the first wave of people, there was already a small group of people waiting on the roof, and Shui Wa was surprised to find that these people were all his spider man friends.

"Now, we invite everyone to experience the work of this gentleman."

After Say finished speaking, those spider-men put safety belts on the top executives of the three major fleets and space agencies, and let them stand on the hanging board used by the spider-men.

Then those people uttered terrified screams, because the hanging plate fell to five or six meters from the edge of the roof and stopped moving, but hovered in mid-air.

"You idiot, hurry up and pull us up!" The commander of the American Fleet pointed at the manager of the cleaning company and cursed in unproficient Chinese.

When the latter was about to instruct the Spider-Man to pull these big men up, Say stopped the manager, but raised his head and said to the people below: "Each of you must finish wiping a piece of glass before you can come up."

Of course, those people can't clean the glass. All they can do is hold on to the seat belt or the rope of the hanging board and dare not move. The lid of the tank.

In their daily work, they deal with equipment at an altitude of tens of thousands of kilometers on drawings or documents every day, but in this personal experience, the height of thousands of meters has already made them fly away.

Shuiwa also looked down, the only exception was the Chief of Staff of the Asian Fleet, only he was cleaning the glass calmly, what surprised him was the level of this person.

He was working with both hands, not holding on to anything to stabilize himself, but his hanging board was stuck against the wall, which was the level of a veteran among Spider-Man.

However, when Shuiwa recognized this person as an astronaut on the Shenzhou spacecraft before the Era of Crisis, she was not surprised by what she saw.

"Marshal, please tell me frankly, is there a big gap between the cleaning work in front of me and the zero-gravity environment cleaning work in space?" Say asked him.

"Only in terms of physical strength and skills, there is not much difference." The Chief of Staff of the Asian Fleet raised his head and said to Say: "Nowadays, the cost and physical fitness requirements for going to space are almost zero. Ordinary people can go to space to do a lot of work."

"For example, the cargo transportation work in the space elevator is just pushing the box in a weightless environment and advancing automatically with the superconducting belt, but we let commercial astronauts with doctoral degrees do this repetitive work."

(See the ninth episode of the animation for details on the part of pushing the box, which is as stupid as a space slide)

"Yes." Say took over the words and said: "The same is true for high-altitude cleaning. For example, space building cleaning and high-altitude cleaning are actually the same in terms of ergonomics and required psychological quality."

"Accidents encountered during the clearing of space structures can be caused by astronauts drifting by mistake, tools or materials lost, or life support systems malfunctioning."

"Accidents in clearing high-rise buildings could be broken glass, dropped tools or cleaners, or broken safety belts."

"This reminds me of a story in Huaguo. The oil seller poured oil into the oil pot through a square hole of a copper coin. The skill required is as high as that of a general shooting an arrow into the bull's-eye. The only difference lies in their identities. "The Chief of Staff of the Asian Fleet agreed.

What excites Say is that this person's logical rules are very clear, and he is one of the few people who basically does not respond.

It seems that even in the three-body universe that was defending, there are normal people.

So Say went on to say: "Yes, we all know that Columbus discovered America, and Colonel Cook discovered Oceania."

"But both America and Australia were developed by ordinary working people. These pioneers were at the bottom of society in Europe at the time."

"The same is true for space development. In my plan, the near-Earth space of the Earth and the Moon will become the center of the Earth-Moon economic circle, and those space cities will be the future London, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong."

"This also means that the era of exploration in the aerospace industry is over. It is no longer just a job done by a few scientists and engineers. Letting ordinary people enter space on a large scale is the first step in the industrialization of space development!"

"You're right, but can you get us up first?!" the people below wailed.

On the elevator going back, the manager of the cleaning company leaned into Say's ear and said, "Of course, in front of Shuiwa and my little brothers, it's hard for you to clarify the key points."

"What's the key?"

"Save money." The manager of the cleaning company said: "In commercial spaceflight, the annual salary of regular astronauts is more than one million, and my boys can save you tens of millions every year."

"It's like my company likes to hire Indians the most, because their annual salary is only 2 yuan. Is it the same reason why you hire ordinary people instead of astronauts?"

"Do you think tens of millions is a lot for me?" Say said with a mysterious smile to the cleaning company: "It's not about saving cleaning fees, this time I deliberately kept the cleaners' education standards to a minimum. "

"As long as this precedent is set, I can fill other positions in near-Earth space with ordinary undergraduate graduates. Speaking of this, do you know how many people are working in space now?"

"How much?" The manager of the cleaning company asked curiously.

"6 people, there are more than 3 people in the moon base and moon mine, and more than 2 people in space elevators and space docks, and counting the thousands of crew members of the cargo spacecraft, this is just one year's labor costs. That's 800 billion."

"If you use ordinary people to supplement it, the savings will not be tens of millions, but tens of billions. There is really no way. As you said, PDC really doesn't have much money left." Say shrugged road.

"To each other." The manager said to Say, "I remember how romantic space exploration was during the Soviet-American space race during the Cold War. I didn't expect it to be as vulgar as a company like mine now."

"Pure idealism is difficult to sustain, and vulgarity often means popularization, and only vulgar things can be popular among ordinary people." Say said.

"Yes, it is human instinct to pursue economic interests."

"But no matter what, sir, the salary I give them is several times that of yours!" Looking at the people walking away, Say turned back to the manager.

(End of this chapter)