Chapter 470: Sounding the Sky

This fruitless negotiation lasted until nightfall, when Anne came in to remind them. "Your Highness, it's time for dinner. Can I bring it to you?"

Usually Yannick eats in the office, but today is different. "No, we have guests today. Let's eat in the restaurant. Go and bring the two little princesses over."

Queen Elizabeth spoke. "I don't have much appetite, Your Highness Yannick, I'm going back to rest first."

Yannick raised an eyebrow. "This is not good. It is not the etiquette of a landlord to make guests hungry. If this spreads out, outsiders will not think that we are mistreating our guests. And I heard that Britain is in short supply. The royal family takes the lead in saving money. They eat potatoes and roasted salt for every meal. Fish. To be honest, British food is really hard to praise. "When you think of British food, bread, fish and chips may pop into your mind. What else can you think of?" Maybe it’s the “dark British cuisine” that makes people fearful.

The first to bear the brunt is the famous "star-gazing group", as well as the eel jelly that is expressed in words, and the haggis that makes everyone vomit and dogs jump over the wall...

Of course, German food is not much better. To put it simply, German food is a plate with meat, potatoes, salad and sauerkraut, which feels a bit too "rough".

Seeing Yannick's persistence, Queen Elizabeth's face flashed with helplessness and she had no choice but to respond. "Then I'll go change clothes."

The etiquette of the British royal family is quite complicated. They change at least three sets of clothes a day just for meals. You have to dress up before eating breakfast, and when it comes to occasions such as luncheons and formal dinners, you need to put more thought into your outfit. After the royal family members have breakfast, they must change their clothes before going out to hunt or visit the park. When I come back in the afternoon, I have to take a shower and change my clothes before going to have afternoon tea. Before dinner, the royal family members also have to change into clothes specifically for the dinner.

Of course, the etiquette of the German royal family is also very complicated, but Yannick found it troublesome and removed all the complicated red tape, and instead gained a reputation as an approachable person.

Yannick came to the restaurant first. After a while, Queen Elizabeth, mother and daughter, who had changed their clothes, came to the restaurant under the guidance of their secretary.

Margaret ran over happily. "Brother Yannick, there are many beautiful fairy tale books in the library."

Yannick patted her little head gently. "You can take it if you like."

"Really?" Margaret said with great joy. "Thank you, brother Yannick!"

asked little Elizabeth. "Brother Yannick, what did you mean by going to find the hometown of the 'Little Prince'? Are you going to write a sequel?"

Yannick showed a mysterious smile. "It's not a fairy tale. My brother will really send people to find it."

"Ah?" Little Elizabeth opened her mouth in surprise, and even Queen Elizabeth couldn't help but glance at him.

Little Elizabeth asked curiously. "How to get there?"

Yannick asked the attendant to find a small blackboard. "It's actually very simple. Have you ever read the Eastern story of 'Chang'e flying to the moon'?"

"Have seen it!" Margaret shouted.

At this time, the attendant pushed over a small blackboard, and Yannick casually drew a few circles on it. "This is our solar system. Margaret, do you know what a solar system is?"

Margaret shook her head in frustration. "have no idea."

Yannick smiled. "It doesn't matter. It's normal for you to be ignorant at your age. Little Elizabeth, you know?"

Little Elizabeth nodded. "I know. The one in the middle is the sun, followed in order by Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto."

"That's right. This is our earth and this is the moon. Let's build a big and fast plane and fly from the earth to the moon, just like 'Chang'e flies to the moon'."

Speaking of this, Yannick couldn't help but think of an interesting saying from later generations. That is to say, Hou Yi and Chang'e were aliens, and they escaped to the earth together. Nine alien spacecraft came to catch them, which looked like nine suns in the sky to people on earth. Hou Yi shot down all nine spaceships, and his own spaceship was also damaged in the battle.

Hou Yi found materials on Kunlun Mountain and repaired the spaceship. Unfortunately, the spacecraft could only accommodate one person (there may be a problem with the power system or life support system). Chang'e secretly drove the spacecraft away, leaving Hou Yi alone on the earth (maybe it drove to the moon and turned around, or maybe it hit the moon out of control). Hou Yi, who could not leave, became the king of mankind. Because he was in a bad mood, he often drank and hunted, and was later killed by humans.

"This kind of large aircraft will fly for several days and nights, and then land on the moon. After that, more aircraft and engineers will be sent to the moon to build houses and open up wasteland for farming. The moon will become an outpost of mankind, and mankind will use this This is a springboard to continue landing on Mars..." As he spoke, Yannick couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

After World War II in the original time and space, the United States and the Soviet Union became the most powerful countries in the world. In order to compete for the position of the world's most powerful country, they launched a "space race" centered on exploring the universe.

At the beginning, the former Soviet Union was far ahead because they successfully launched the first artificial satellite in human history in 1957. Later, in 1961, astronauts from the former Soviet Union also successfully entered space. But the United States, unwilling to lag behind, was also working secretly to catch up with the former Soviet Union, so the Apollo program came into being. In 1969, American astronauts successfully set out from the earth and landed on the moon for the first time. This was also the first time that humans set foot on other planets other than the earth, and the human space dream was officially ignited.

Since the late 1980s, humans have been preparing to land on Mars and want to turn Mars into a second home for humans. At the beginning, when scientists were looking for a second home, their target was Venus, which is the closest to the Earth and is called the "sister planet" of the Earth. However, through exploration, it was found that Venus was so terrifying that humans had no way to get close to it, so they could only settle for Mars as the second best option.

According to data, the closest distance between Mars and the Earth is 55 million kilometers, which occurs about once every 16 years; the farthest distance is 420 million kilometers. The distance between the moon and the Earth is 380,000 kilometers. By comparing them, you can see how far Mars is.

In the long space journey, many issues such as energy supply and safety must also be considered. Obviously, Mars is not as easy as landing on the moon.

For example, it only takes about 30 days to travel from Earth to Mars based on the closest distance of 55 million kilometers and the maximum flight speed of the space probe (about 2 kilometers per second).

But in fact, it is not the case. Due to various reasons (speed, probe change of trajectory, acceleration and deceleration process, flight using gravitational arc, etc.), it takes about 6-7 months to get from Earth to Mars.

At the same time, after arriving on Mars, astronauts need to survive on Mars for a long time to collect data and other tasks. After that, after a long time, they return to Earth. In a round trip, a few years will pass quickly. In addition, there are many unpredictable situations in space. It is very unwise to let astronauts take risks before there is a definite plan and 100% certainty. Therefore, it is still impossible to land on Mars even after decades of landing on the moon.