Ye Cong was in the Jiaolong.
If astronauts can go up to the moon for nine days, then submariners can go down to the five oceans to catch turtles.
Ye Cong, who is just 40 years old this year, has undoubtedly earned enough admiration at the Human Factors Engineering Forum, and his diving record is 7035 meters. What is even more valuable is that he is not only the pilot of the submersible, but also the designer of the Chinese Jiaolong.
Some aircraft designers have told this writer that it is very regrettable that the fighter they designed is single-seat, and they cannot personally experience the pilot's maneuvering feeling.
The next astronauts to enter the Chinese space station will no longer be pilots, including flight engineers or payload experts.
In the future, with the development of human-factor engineering, human-computer interaction and human-machine collaboration technology advancement, more and more dangerous positions for exploring the unknown will be handed over to machines, and more complex comprehensive decision-making will be performed by the strongest brains of human beings.
The profound proposition behind this is that human beings are self-optimizing and even evolving.
Whether you like it or not, whether you accept it or not, this is a fact: human-machine hybridization, cloning technology, extensive use of stem cells, genetic engineering, and nano, big data, 3D printing, etc. will irreversibly change us humans and transform our living conditions.
This was called the "transhuman revolution" by the Frenchman Luc Fisch.
Chinese pay attention to "the matter of death and life" and "put the place of death and then live later". The cooperation between humans and machines has gradually given us the ability of Wukong and Nezha. Whether in the "dead land" outside the atmosphere, the moon or the deep sea, human beings can survive, work, and conduct scientific experiments to explore more unknown worlds.
Ye Cong's story of the Jiaolong world makes people suddenly find that the International Space Station is more than 300 kilometers away from the ground, the moon is 380,000 kilometers away from us, and human beings have long arrived. But just 10 kilometers below sea level, there is still a fog. We have never confirmed the authenticity of the bizarre underwater world of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Captain Grant's Children.
We are so small, our cognition is too limited!
No wonder Putin traveled in a submersible to roam the depths of the Arctic Ocean and Lake Baikal. Unmanned submersible and cattle, is to touch the 11,000 meters of the ocean floor, but also can not replace people's intuitive feelings, can not surpass people's knowledge accumulation, as an individual, we value feelings, must "go to the scene, to the unfamiliar environment, this is irreplaceable."
Ye Cong did not have the serious restraint of a scientist, nor the high coldness and arrogance of a bully, the exuberant ability of a soldier, nor the toughness of an athlete. His eyes are round and bright, with childlike clarity, and his temperament is more like a poet, like a philosopher.
Because the deep sea, GPS signals, radio waves can not penetrate. Three submariners sit at the bottom of a narrow ball cabin, their eyes looking deep into the pitch-black ocean.
Ye Cong claims to pursue the immersion and calmness of the deep sea.
There is no flowery sea world depicted in "Underwater Column", and there is no romantic atmosphere. There was no light, only turbid microbes, and no grass.
Just floating, just so immersed, time seems to stop.
What kind of big data transmission, what kind of 3D image Dolby Cinema can not simulate this state of emptiness, this is human instinct.
- Obsessed with the unknown, the avenue to Jane. His antenna was turned on.
"Man has his rational, professional sixth sense." Ye Cong, like a poet, described to the author the details of the depths of the earth, where the plates grew, 7,000 meters below the sea were also affected by the tides. Those clues of change were keenly captured by him, the person's perceptual system.
"It's not what you see is what you get." Ye Cong was in the deep sea, feeling a kind of philosophical speculation, reverence for life and nature. Not to take on a challenge, but to clearly perceive the finiteness of humanity.
If human beings want to evolve and develop, they are constantly breaking certain shackles. These constraints come from themselves or from existing theorems. On the other hand, when we develop science and technology, do we want to create an AI life that greatly surpasses humans in terms of organisms and intelligence, or do we want to push human beings forward and become new humans through the combination of humans and intelligent machines?
Like Ye Cong, with the help of spacecraft and submersibles to enter the no-man's land, rub in the help of photoelectric facilities, use the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body granted by his parents to perceive the secret realm, let the self-cognition advance, improve the relationship between man, machine and ring, and perhaps make human ethics more acceptable.
In the future, the manned submersible Deep Sea Warrior will go further, with more screens and fewer buttons. Compared to the microgravity of space, the water pressure on the seabed is enormous. Therefore, the material of the submersible is the embodiment of a country's comprehensive national strength. The boundaries we explore are constantly expanding in the efforts of these intelligent and pragmatic scientific and technological workers.
The deep sea is the first incubated mother of life on Earth. Those single-celled animals hidden in the deep sea may be the origin of all things. Humans are the primates of all things, and our civilization has come from a small piece of tribal territory and is now a global village. Heaven and earth, all things, and people are homogeneous and identical, with the same voice and the same breath, and their big is no outside, and its small is no inside. The ship of the earth itself sails in the vast sea of the universe. Our exploration of outer space was originally to anchor her coordinates in the sea of the universe for our blue planet, so as to determine the future course.
Infinite exploration is infinite regression. Whether it is the deep sea or outer space, while expanding the living boundaries of human civilization, it is also pursuing the origin of life and paying tribute to our past.
This may be the intrinsic value of human factors engineering: it pushes people to break through boundaries, but also contains the light of human nature and philosophical aesthetics. Just like the Dragon, which seeks in the dark deep sea, the lone light is a little bright, but it is surviving to death and seeking light from the darkness.