The television broadcast showed the view from a cara 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 fra.
The host continued to introduce the event in a slow voice, but he was obviously very excited, with a hint of bewildernt in his tone, "The experint being conducted now is called ’space shuttle,’ and the main content of the experint is to have an antigravity small space shuttle perform a space shuttle operation."
"The experint 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 experint’ and the explanation of ’reaching the moon in ten seconds’ was enough to let everyone understand the content of the experint.
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 experint didn’t ntion 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 kiloters 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 teorite 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 ca 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 seed unlikely that the Aerospace Bureau would play such a huge joke.
So television stations broadcasting the footage simply added subtitles for translation.
So television stations had hosts, and they would provide comntary based on the live broadcast images and the content spoken by hosts from dostic television networks.
At this mont, they suddenly didn’t know what to say.
Those who reacted quickly paused and imdiately 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 experint 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 ans that humanity has begun the space age, that we have embarked on the journey to the universe!"
Dostic and international public opinion were both surging.
Many people were not particularly interested in scientific experints, and since it was a dostic experint, it still fared relatively well dostically with very high viewership ratings.
The viewership abroad was relatively poorer compared to dostic.
But when the ’super experint’ of space shuttle was exposed, dostic and international viewership ratings saw a dramatic and rapid surge, with so 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 so companies straightforwardly using their public screens to stream the program.
Quickly,
Worldwide viewership reached its peak, with the real-ti 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 experint, nad ’Super Experint.’
Now the situation was different.
When the host confird it was a space shuttle experint, it imdiately 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 experint; they all wanted to know whether it was real or fake.
If the experint 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 cara 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."
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