122 Leaving Marks That Won't Be Erased

'I wonder if it is possible to spin so fast in space that the centrifugal force would tear your hands off?' I thought as I flew to the moon. I was not going to test this theory.

I reduced my speed to acceptable with the jet pack. And now he flew "slowly" to meet the moon. Which, by the way, has already made a revolution around the earth and I saw it to my left. Even though I saw it, I still continued to fly into empty space, knowing that I would meet the moon there.

Flying in space was more boring than sailing across the ocean. There was literally nothing and nothing to interact with. All I could feel was the blinding light at the tip of my nose and the vibrations of the engine and my thoughts.

Thoughts were too loud in space. No person in the world can feel it. Only when a person gets out of the space suit, he will meet this silence. Although the person will die in a minute, so it doesn't count.

Spending so much time in this silence was a very interesting experience. Especially when you start making up all kinds of nonsense. One such nonsense was the time machine.

Remembering all the physics I had learned, I came up with two ways to travel through time. Theoretical methods, of course. And I am sure that there is a lot of talk about it on the Internet.

The first way was simply to look into the past. If humans ever find a way to teleport or travel faster than the speed of light, then they will be able to see the past. The further people teleport, the older the past they will see.

If a person looks through a telescope at the earth 1000 light years away, then they will see the earth as it was 1000 years ago. Because each photon of light carries information about the surface from which it reflected. This photon of light, traveling through space, will store this information until it hits something else.

Another way to travel will only allow you to travel into the future. This method is based on Einstein's theory of relativity. The faster you move, the slower time will pass for you. By reaching the speed of light, orbiting the earth, you can skip thousands of years in the blink of an eye.

This makes us think about the life of a photon of light. For photons moving at the speed of light, does time even exist? In fact, they all feel frozen in the moment, and the whole world around them is nothing, moving so fast that the photon simply has no idea it exists? Until the poor photon hits someone's bald head and "changes its color".

Apparently, the photon will not even notice what it hit. But fortunately, photons are not alive and cannot suffer the way I am currently suffering traveling through the void.

'Why doesn't this communicator have internet access?' Even when I got a TV in my house, I never watched the series of this world. The reason was shame. I was embarrassed to watch TV when there were so many people around me. People would start looking at me differently, so I would sometimes turn on the news, looking like a very intelligent being.

It would seem that I had flown into space and was now alone, but in fact my communicator was connected to the ground.

"I didn't really want to..." I calmed down my irritation.

The moon was approaching. You couldn't just land on it. It would hurt if I landed at 30,000 kilometers per hour. It was necessary to slowly reduce the speed to 0 while orbiting the moon. It was a tedious and long process.

Modern satellites can make up to ten revolutions to land smoothly without a crash. I had to do it too because I had a payload on my back. But first it was necessary to enter the orbit of the moon without falling on it.

I had to concentrate on the instructions from the communicator to get it right. It was necessary to clearly observe the speed and direction of movement. Of course, the margin of error was huge since I was the pilot, but it didn't matter. The main thing is not to crash.

PSSSSHHH

I could feel the jet pack releasing a strange gas into space. I didn't ask what he was doing, but he was doing something. Maybe it was all more complicated than I think, and people on earth are sweating solving complex tasks. But it was just a walk for me.

After 5 hours of slow work, I finally felt the pull of the moon towards me, and I increased the power of the jet pack to combat the feeling. Slowly my body began to change course and in another hour I was on the opposite side of the moon.

It was dark here. For the first time, the sunlight stopped annoying me, and I lifted my head to look into outer space. A beautiful view of the stars opened before me. Billions of billions of stars and galaxies shone so beautifully that I almost cried tears of joy. I really like stars. I have never seen such a beautiful sight at dawn.

A TV monitor will never be able to convey all this beauty. And what's even better is that I will fly in the shadow of the moon several more times. And each time I'll spend a few hours here before the sunlight blinds me again.

I could slow myself down without circling the moon, but I needed to burn fuel.

The connection with the earth was not actually broken as I thought. It turned out that there were satellites flying close to the moon, and they were relaying messages with a delay of two and a half seconds.

Flying around the moon, I enjoyed its shadow every time I was there. It was very cold there, but since I was warming myself from the inside, it was not a problem for me.

After making one last spin, I finally dropped enough speed to land. My speed was minimal and the moon was pulling me towards it.

BOOM

When my feet stepped on the moon, I heard a thud, which was strange because the moon has no atmosphere, but then I remembered that it was just me hearing a sound traveling through my body.

I landed at a distance of several tens of kilometers from the desired destination. It would have been a disaster if it had been a piloted robot from the ground. But it was nothing to me. I just walked to my destination.

I had to get to one of the craters, and I was going there confidently and quickly. My weight allowed me to walk here almost as well as on land. In fact, I became even faster.

On the way to my destination, I bent down and filled a handful with moon dust. It was a powder, resembling sand or gray wood ash. With a wave of my hand, I threw this ash away from me, and it turned into a cloud of dust that began to fly very far away from me. In fact, this cloud of dust was moving so fast that I was surprised.

This dust flew as if I had thrown a hard rock instead of dust. But gravity slowly pulled the dust to the bottom, and after tens of kilometers it fell.

'It would be just an incredible game for children. Instead of snow, children will be able to throw this powder and it would fly very quickly and accurately. It would be an epic battle between the camps. Snow rests compared to this.' I thought.

After walking even further, a huge crater opened in front of me. This crater was so big that I could not see its end. More precisely, everything here seems the same from afar and it is difficult to tell what is far and what is close.

I stood on the precipice. My mission was to make a base here, so I jumped down.

My feet kicked up a lot of dust as I descended to the bottom of the crater. And after a few seconds I was at the bottom. I took off the jetpack along with the space station and put them on the rock.

The main danger for the creation of a permanent lunar station was meteorites. The moon attracted meteorites to itself, and even one small pebble could destroy hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars.

But luckily for people, I could solve this problem. Approaching the edge of the crater, I began to work. I dug very fast with my huge hands. There was a lot of dust from my work, but it didn't bother me.

I created a cave deep enough for me to climb into. That was enough. Returning to the jet pack, I unhooked the box and carried it to the center of the crater. Putting the box on the ground, it opened by itself.

The box opened, its walls turned into a flat platform covered with solar panels and various devices such as antennas and batteries. In the center of this platform was a magnificent dome-shaped object, which I picked up and carried into the cave.

This dome-shaped object was the lunar station itself, and cables ran from it to the solar panel platform. Carefully carrying the station, I made sure that the wire did not break.

Fortunately, it was long enough and I placed the station on the ground in the cave. Next, I went back to the jet pack and detached a long tube from it, which I could make three times longer thanks to its mechanism. This tube was very strong, as was the body of the lunar station.

Carefully I attached one end of the pipe to the station door. It was the entrance corridor. After that I started to bury the cave.

The original idea was that I would strengthen the cave with fire, but people were afraid of a collapse. So they decided to just bury everything. When I finished, I was faced with a normal lunar crater wall with a cylindrical pipe protruding from it. I also buried the wire that ran to the solar panel platform.

After some time, the door of the pipe opened, and the robot left. He was quite big, but so slow that I was bored watching him. This robot started kicking around in the dust and I just looked at him like it was a fool.

My work was not finished. This crater is hard to get into and even harder to get out of, so I had to make a way out of there.

I had to make a road on the opposite side of the crater. It meant leveling the mountain. I smiled to myself. Finally, I didn't have to work carefully. I could have fun here.

BOOOM

The crater wall exploded as I crashed into it at full speed.

BOOOM

I stepped back for acceleration and ran towards the wall once more to hit it. Dust and stones fell to the ground.

RAAAHHH

I also released fire to melt the moon dust. It quickly melted and solidified, turning to stone, just like the lava on the ground.

After several hours of work, I made a flat road out of the crater that climbed to the top at a 15-degree incline. It was a work of engineering art made of solid stone. After the dust solidified, it became solid.

Nodding my head in satisfaction, I left the first engineering structure alone for the month and went to retrieve the jet pack.

In the future, people will fly here, and they will be able to live here and do their research. Honestly, I thought people should have waited with this project. When people have better technology, they will be able to fly to the moon without problems. But when will it be?

Wearing my jetpack, I exited the crater the way I had made it. Yes, this road was strong enough to support my weight. I made it ten times better than what was asked of me, simply because I can.

Having come to the surface of the moon, I went in a direction unknown to me. I needed to prepare for my next step, which I was a little afraid of.

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