Free Web NovelChapter 1274: Chapter 612: Experiment Successful!_1
The television broadcast showed the view from a camera aboard a small space shuttle, with its hull visible at the edge of the lens and the space station clearly visible in the starry sky.
The small space shuttle rapidly approached the space station, making a conspicuously large turn, and the space station was quickly flung to the edge of the frame. freёwebnovel.com
The host continued to introduce the event in a slow voice, but he was obviously very excited, with a hint of bewilderment in his tone, "The experiment being conducted now is called ’space shuttle,’ and the main content of the experiment is to have an antigravity small space shuttle perform a space shuttle operation."
"The experiment is expected to reach the moon within ten seconds."
"The small space shuttle will not land on the moon, but will orbit around it, including a lunar orbiter, which will continuously take pictures of the moon and send them back to Earth."
The host’s subsequent introduction was no longer important; the term ’space shuttle experiment’ and the explanation of ’reaching the moon in ten seconds’ was enough to let everyone understand the content of the experiment.
All the viewers in front of the television felt very shocked, "Space shuttle? It can’t be the kind of space shuttle I’m thinking of, can it?"
"Traversing a wormhole, spanning space?"
"It shouldn’t be traveling through a wormhole; the experiment didn’t mention wormholes, but it’s definitely a shuttle, and the speed will be very, very fast."
"Ten seconds to reach the moon, that’s thirty thousand kilometers per second, one-tenth the speed of light."
"That’s impossible!"
"It goes against the laws of physics; an object with the mass of a space shuttle couldn’t possibly reach one-tenth the speed of light, the energy it would have is too terrifying!"
"Wouldn’t a space shuttle at that speed impacting the moon cause a violent collision event?"
"A man-made meteorite impact!"
"Didn’t you hear? The host said it wouldn’t land directly on the moon."
"Is that important? You’re missing the point, folks—the important thing is space shuttle! Space shuttle! Space shuttle!"
The public opinion was in an uproar.
Fortunately, it was not April Fools’ Day; otherwise, everyone would have thought it was a joke for April Fools’ Day.
Other television stations were also pondering the issue of April Fools’ Day; when they heard the phrase ’space shuttle,’ they initially thought they had misheard, then came the explanation of reaching the moon in ten seconds, they subconsciously thought it was an April Fools’ joke.
However, it was not April Fools’ Day, and besides, April Fools’ is a foreign holiday, and it seemed unlikely that the Aerospace Bureau would play such a huge joke.
Some television stations broadcasting the footage simply added subtitles for translation.
Some television stations had hosts, and they would provide commentary based on the live broadcast images and the content spoken by hosts from domestic television networks.
At this moment, they suddenly didn’t know what to say.
Those who reacted quickly paused and immediately said, "I’m sorry, folks, I just heard a very terrible word, ’space shuttle.’
"No, I shouldn’t say terrible, but rather magical. I don’t know whether to believe it or not, but they say the experiment is a space shuttle and they are certain that within ten seconds, the small space shuttle on the screen will reach the moon."
"This is true, but I don’t believe it."
"I bet this is false, it’s utterly impossible; if it is true, I decide I’ll sleep with the pigs tonight."
"No, I shall sleep with a frisky male pig for a continuous ten days because it’s too exciting. This means that humanity has begun the space age, that we have embarked on the journey to the universe!"
Domestic and international public opinion were both surging. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
Many people were not particularly interested in scientific experiments, and since it was a domestic experiment, it still fared relatively well domestically with very high viewership ratings.
The viewership abroad was relatively poorer compared to domestic.
But when the ’super experiment’ of space shuttle was exposed, domestic and international viewership ratings saw a dramatic and rapid surge, with some networks even experiencing a several-fold increase in viewership, and people who were at work tuned in to the broadcast upon hearing the news, with some companies straightforwardly using their public screens to stream the program.
Quickly,
Worldwide viewership reached its peak, with the real-time total audience surpassing six hundred million.
This was a staggeringly high number.
To put it in perspective, the highly-watched World Cup final in soccer typically peaks at around five hundred million viewers.
The last World Cup final reached 545 million viewers, setting the historical record for highest viewership.
Sporting events are among the highest-rated programs, with scientific programs typically having much lower viewership, even if it’s a live broadcast of a space experiment, named ’Super Experiment.’
Now the situation was different.
When the host confirmed it was a space shuttle experiment, it immediately attracted a large audience to watch the live broadcast.
Even those who were unable to watch the live television broadcast were very concerned about the experiment; they all wanted to know whether it was real or fake.
If the experiment was real and a success, they also wanted to know how the space shuttle was accomplished, what kind of technology was used?
All viewers in front of the television were glued to their screens, as if enacting the saying ’if looks could kill’, under the gaze of several hundred million viewers, the live broadcast was split into two camera views, one was the perspective of the space station, which was noticeably trembling.
The host introduced, "This is the perspective from the space station, from which we can see the small space shuttle moving rapidly away, but not in a straight line, as it seems to be still adjusting its direction."
