LRAB Chapter 748
Chapter 748
Chapter 748: Chapter 5 Abandoned Earth_3 Chapter 748: Chapter 5 Abandoned Earth_3 “Along with immigration, the transfer of Hibernation Pods also launched.
They could pack the Hibernation Pods into spacecraft and transport them to Mars Base to continue hibernation.
It sounds somewhat funny, but at that time, there were more Hibernation Pods going to Mars than living people...
Many people still preferred to live on Earth and were not willing to leave Earth.”
“Then the super natural disaster of 2400 occurred.
After the turmoil, human development on Mars went well, and they were willing to accept refugees from Earth.
Spacecrafts traveled back and forth multiple times to take the remaining humans from Earth...
The last immigration plan stopped in 2450.”
“After that, Earth and Mars were completely isolated.
...
Other than the biennial Earth-Mars shuttle...
there was no communication between the two planets.”
...
Lin Xian listened to Wei Shengjin narrating this history of the Solar System.
While he was listening, he recalled the world’s richest man who had just separated from reality less than 24 hours ago.
“The person you mentioned who persistently worked on Mars immigration...”
Lin Xian looked at Uncle Wei Shengjin:
“Could it be Elon Jask?”
“Exactly, exactly, exactly.”
When Uncle Wei Shengjin heard this name, his eyes filled with admiration:
“You see, you remember now, right?
He is the savior of human civilization...
If it weren’t for his Mars immigration plan, that preserved the seeds of civilization during the disaster of 2400, it’s hard to imagine what the world would have become after the disaster.
Whether it would continue to propagate and recreate the history of human development or fall into ruin once again?
Nobody knew, but now, Mars is developing well.
Though technology has reached a bottleneck, and energy resource issues still need solutions...
“Nowadays, there are only two types of people living on Mars.
One is the Martians born and raised on Mars; the other, like you and I, are from the old era of Earth people who came from the Hibernation Pods centuries ago.”
“But...
when we woke up from hibernation, we had forgotten all our previous memories.
Our minds were blank, so how could we feel anything for Earth?
Apart from knowing we were once born here, we really have no actual sense of belonging.”
“Take me, for example, I woke up from a Hibernation Pod on Mars, received my [historical education] and have been living on Mars ever since.
My wife is a Martian born and raised, and my children and grandchildren live on Mars.”
“So many years have passed...
This is actually my first time returning to Earth...
but even saying return feels strange to me because I have no memories of living on Earth, no familiarity, no real sense of connection, it’s all very alien to me.”
“Even if you say the air here is good, the natural environment is wonderful...
but in my consciousness, this is not my home.
I will still take the Earth-Mars shuttle returning to Mars after two years.
Speaking of which...
you must have also awakened from hibernation on Mars and then taken the Earth-Mars shuttle to Earth, right?
That’s weird, I didn’t see you on the shuttle at all.
Could it be you came on the shuttle two years ago?”
...
Lin Xian did not answer Uncle Wei Shengjin’s question.
He was thinking.
He understood why the Earth-Mars shuttle only runs every two years.
Because Earth and Mars orbit the sun at different speeds, although both planets revolve around the sun, their relative positions continually change.
When Earth is farthest from Mars, they are 400 million kilometers apart; at their nearest, they are just 5500 kilometers apart, a difference of eight times.
This closest point between Earth and Mars, occurring only once every two years, is the reason why the “Earth-Mars shuttle” runs only every two years.