NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).
This is an administrative scientific research institution responsible for formulating and implementing the United States' space program and conducting research on aeronautics and space science.
It has the most authoritative aerospace scientific research institution in the world and shares its research data with many domestic and international scientific research institutions.
And now in a room at NASA,
"Jerry, there is no need to continue calculating. The data department has already done enough calculations. This meteorite will not fall into the earth."
"It will soon be captured by the moon's gravity, and then the moon will continue to block meteorites for us."
A man in blue casual clothes walked into the room holding a cup of coffee.
Looking at Jerry who was still trying to make calculations based on various observation data, he couldn't help but speak.
This intern, Jerry, holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and physics from Princeton University. His academic achievements have reached the top among young people.
But he is good at everything, but he is too responsible.
Jerry, an intern, has a great passion for the aviation field and strives to be perfect in every task he undertakes after joining NASA as an intern.
In fact, the two of them who were assigned to this task could rest peacefully for a few days.
"Nothing can be absolutely certain until the final result comes out."
"Since the above has allocated three days for this mission, it cannot be wasted."
"Senior Tom, please let me calculate it twice before eating."
Jerry heard Tom's complaints and continued his work without looking back.
Hearing this, Tom shrugged helplessly.
Then he sat down at his seat with his coffee cup in hand.
While tasting the coffee in his hand and looking at Jerry who was busy, Tom always felt that he saw his former self in Jerry.
When he first joined NASA, he was also so arrogant. He was proud of his Ivy League background and believed that knowledge was everything in this world.
But then everything changed.
Too many people in the world have been deceived into thinking that the air in this country is sweet, and that there is no sophistication here that even Hawking would have to get up to drink.
In fact, the turbidity here is as bad as anywhere else.
Political donations, nepotism, power and sex trade... these things are everywhere.
Tom was infected not long after he entered NASA. When he was in the dye vat, many things were actually unavoidable.
For example, NASA is best at cheating on scientific research funds, and Tom has become very skilled at it.
Looking at the still innocent Jerry, Tom couldn't help but think about when to bring him into the new world and cheat his superiors for some funds.
Should we say that the country on the other side of the ocean has plagiarized their technology again and needs to increase financial allocations to take measures to maintain network security?
Or is it that the space station launched by the Europa consortium actually contains highly threatening space-based weapons, and financial allocations need to be increased to implement a series of countermeasures?
Tom thought carefully, and these plans needed to be considered more carefully.
After all, due to the sudden construction of an inexplicable organization recently, excessive financial expenditures have naturally caused NASA's funding to be significantly reduced. Fraudulent funding is no longer as easy as making a ppt like it used to be.
Thinking of this, Tom couldn't help but grit his teeth.
He didn't know much about that ridiculously high-level new department. He only knew that not only did they have no restrictions on funding, but they also provided whatever they asked for in terms of talent and equipment.
Even the military's power seemed to have been mobilized at will by that department, sending a unit to the San Cristo Mountains for several months.
The presence of such a department made him subconsciously hate it.
While he was taking a savage gulp of coffee, he suddenly heard Jerry beside him exclaim.
"Oh! god!"
The voice was full of surprise.
When Tom heard this, he subconsciously looked at Jerry, who was staring at the computer screen in front of him with wide eyes.
That look that made him want to put his head into the computer, and that look that was so wide that it seemed like his eyes were about to pop out, made Tom's heart skip a beat.
What was discovered? !
He quickly put down his coffee and ran to Jerry's side in a few steps.
Looking at the data on the computer, he frowned for a while, and then said to Jerry: "Is this the data of that meteorite?!"
Tom just glanced at the data and understood why Jerry was surprised.
Two minutes ago, the meteorite suddenly changed.
The meteorite that had been observed by NASA not only did not follow the trajectory calculated by the calculation department, it could even be said to be moving in a way that was completely beyond everyone's astronomical understanding.
According to the data, when it reached the range where it was about to be captured by the moon's gravity, it suddenly and strangely stopped in space.
It was as if an invisible hand was holding it down.
As we all know, if an object is not affected by external forces, it will remain stationary or move in a straight line at a uniform speed in space.
This meteorite, which was originally moving under the influence of the gravity of the earth and the moon, suddenly stopped as if it had no inertia. It was simply outrageous.
Then this pause did not last long. After three seconds, most of the data disappeared instantly, as if it had disappeared in place.
This made even experienced Tom frown.
Such a situation is unheard of.
What if the meteorite suddenly stopped traveling in space, and now it has even "disappeared"? What happened?
"How many optical observation instruments are there that can observe this area?"
Tom asked Jerry subconsciously.
This unheard of strange situation was not clear enough to detect only by electromagnetic radiation. He wanted to see with his own eyes what was going on.
"China's Queqiao 1 detection satellite and Europa's Mani detection satellite should be able to observe corresponding optical images."
"As for our country, the optical observation angle of the Artemis 2 lunar exploration satellite can definitely see the meteorite that was near the moon at that time."
After Jerry did a little search for equipment around the world and NASA, he compared and calculated whether the viewing angles of each equipment and the trajectory of the meteorite could overlap, and then said to Tom.
As he spoke, he applied to transfer the optical observation image records of the Artemis 2 lunar exploration satellite.
The next moment, the picture on the screen turned into an optical observation image record of the Artemis 2 lunar exploration satellite.
The empty, dark space and the gray and silent lunar land immediately come into view.
In the sky, dots of meteorite fragments were falling down like raindrops, which looked extremely spectacular.
Tom and Jerry watched this scene with their mouths open.
They didn't expect that the meteorite that suddenly disappeared from the observation data actually exploded for unknown reasons? !
After a moment of silence, Jerry immediately adjusted forward.
This is a real-time live broadcast of the optical observation image of the Artemis 2 lunar exploration satellite. The signal delay between it and the earth is only about three seconds.
They urgently want to know what happened when the meteorite data disappeared two minutes ago.
Soon, as the two adjusted, a new picture appeared in front of them.
In the corner of the optical image, a small meteorite occupies part of the screen and is traveling according to the path originally calculated by NASA.
Nothing seemed special.
Until a certain moment, the meteorite stopped suddenly and stopped its movement.
Three seconds later, half of the meteorite instantly exploded into a cloud of dust, and was then carried away towards the Earth by the force of the explosion.
The other half of the meteorites were exploded into countless larger fragments, which were captured by the moon's gravity and caused a meteorite rain on the moon.
Tom frowned and asked Jerry to adjust the picture again to before the explosion, and to pause at the moment when the meteorite stopped abruptly.
He then asked Jerry to zoom in on the meteorite as much as possible without affecting the clarity.
Various powerful functions built into NASA's professional equipment assist this move.
As the screen continued to zoom in, Tom and Jerry also swallowed their saliva and waited.
Finally, in the slightly blurry video, a scene appeared that made Tom and Jerry freeze in place.
Under the powerful camera of the lunar exploration satellite, a small figure was vaguely recorded.
Compared with the huge meteorite, this figure seems very insignificant.
But just before the meteorite's trajectory, the figure stretched out a hand.
Then, the meteorite stopped.
Obviously, the meteorite's pause was caused by the figure's extremely unscientific hand reaching out to hold it down.
Ignoring the huge mass and the pressure.
As if he were a superman with a biological stance, just by standing there and extending his hand, he easily stopped the meteorite on the spot.
It is simply unimaginable how much power and technology it contains.
The subsequent explosion was probably inseparable from that person.
Looking at this scene, Tom and Jerry looked at each other and swallowed subconsciously.
Extraterrestrial life? Supernatural power?
Various speculations kept running through their minds.
This picture is really outrageous.
The more knowledgeable they are, the better they can understand what this scene means.
"What should we do now?"
"Director Tom, this is my first time seeing this scene."
Jerry swallowed and looked at Tom at a loss.
He was just an intern, and he encountered this kind of thing when he first joined NASA, which really made him a little confused for a moment.
Looking at Jerry's eyes, Tom also twitched the corner of his mouth helplessly.
He said this as if he could see this kind of scene often.
What to do...
Naturally, he immediately reported it. He didn't know what to do about this kind of thing.
It's better to let the person above have a headache. He will just wait to sign the confidentiality agreement, and then "volunteer" to go to a remote area to perform a long-term confidential mission.
Of course, I just don’t know if the old officer who single-handedly promoted him, the NASA director who likes to take the lead in defrauding funds, will be speechless because of this news.
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"Alien hearings are all done."
"What a skill. We at NASA are known as the light of mankind, but we don't dare to cheat money so openly."
The NASA director looked at the live broadcast of today's alien hearing held in Congress and couldn't help but complain.
A few days ago, a former Air Force intelligence officer and a number of retired generals jointly raised a public inquiry to national officials. The content of the inquiry was roughly: The country needs to explain why it has concealed information about aliens for many years.
As soon as this incident came out, the whole country was in a panic.
After all, several former high-ranking officials have come forward to say that aliens really exist, which makes people unconsciously feel that they are definitely not joking.
Most of the nation is paying close attention to this matter, so today an unprecedented hearing on aliens was opened in the House of Representatives.
Such a magical reality made the NASA director couldn't help but marvel.
He doesn't know if there are aliens or not.
This is nothing more than a game between a bunch of groups for profit.
It is probably because the newly emerging department has too much power recently that many other interest groups have directed and staged such a drama, hoping to get back some of the benefits they could have received.
He wanted no part of it.
After all, he was of high enough rank to know some inside information and understood what the emerging department called the Anomaly Investigation Bureau meant.
It’s really too much to think about fighting for power with them.
After a moment of silence, the NASA director looked at the open computer on his desk.
Rather than watching the magical live broadcast of the alien hearing in the House of Representatives, it is better to continue to take a look at NASA’s recent research progress in various aspects.
"Huh? The most urgent level of information."
Looking at an encrypted document with a red warning, the director subconsciously frowned.
He opened the file with a serious look on his face.
Inside is a video of a meteorite exploding.
"This is a meteorite that has been observed before and will be captured by the moon's gravity."
"Did it explode directly? What happened? Didn't the computing department say it would be captured by the moon's gravity?"
The director murmured, not yet realizing the seriousness of the problem.
The next moment, until he saw an enlarged picture attached below the video, he finally realized why this was a red warning level message.
"?!?!?!!!"
At this moment, the director's expression froze.
What did he see?
A man stopped a meteorite with his hands and then blew it up?
Such a scene made the director open his mouth.
Is today April Fool's Day? The person below would actually send him such a message?
Or is this a new type of funding fraud project? Don't even want to think of a reasonable reason?
Looking at the sender named Tom, the director felt that maybe he was actually defrauding funds.
But the bright red warning level mark told the director that this information was not a joke or a scam for funds.
All kinds of complicated thoughts kept flowing in my heart.
Suddenly, the director remembered the abnormal countermeasures bureau established to deal with extraordinary powers.
Could it be said that the person who stopped and crushed the meteorite had the so-called extraordinary power? !
If you put it this way, what on earth is the anomaly countermeasures bureau established against the extraordinary fighting against? !
Do you usually play against monsters like this?
It's really lucky that the world is still safe and sound.
Thinking of this, the director swallowed subconsciously.
Then he decisively encrypted the document and sent it to Andrew from the Abnormal Countermeasures Bureau.
Let others have a headache with this kind of thing.
He didn't know anything about this superhuman fierce man, and he didn't want to know anything.
(End of chapter)
