Chapter 3 Chapter 3 has a new character who needs no introduction because he will introduce himself

Citizens of the United States of America, my name is Robier, and I am worthy of it.Although I don't look like I'm thirty years old, I'm actually forty years old this year.My muscles and bones are like iron, my muscles are strong and strong, and my body can withstand any test.Also, I have an appetite that is second to none even in the ostrich world.My physical condition is roughly like this. Everyone stopped to listen to him.Facing this unexpected speech that came face to face, all the noisy people froze for a moment.Is this person insane, or is he trying to trick him?Whatever he does, his aggressive demeanor is convincing.The venue, which was still stormy just now, has become completely calm, and the monstrous waves have calmed down.

Moreover, it seems that Robier is exactly what he said: medium build, geometric shoulders, the upper body is in the shape of an isosceles ladder, and the longer bottom is the shoulder.Above the shoulders is a round head connected by a thick neck.If biomimicry makes sense, what kind of animal head does this head look like?Like a bull's head, a bull's head with a smart face.He also has a pair of eyes that would flare up at the slightest disappointment, a pair of persevering eyebrows that are always tightly furrowed, and hair that is as short as wire and slightly curly, shining with metallic luster, undulating like a blacksmith's bellows The broad chest and arms, hands, legs and feet in proportion to the body.

He had neither a mustache nor a beard, but an American-style sailor beard on his chin, which showed that his jaw had amazingly powerful chewing muscles.Has anyone calculated what else has not been calculated?The jaws of an ordinary crocodile can have a force of four hundred atmospheres, but a great hound has only a hundred atmospheres of force.People have even worked out these interesting figures: for every gram of a hound there are eight grams of bite force, and for every gram of crocodile there are twelve grams of bite force.It is estimated that this Robier can have a bite force of at least ten grams per gram, which is between hunting dogs and crocodiles.

Where did this extraordinary fellow come from?can not say it clearly.In any case, he spoke fluent English without the drawls of the New England Yankees. He continued: Dear citizens, let me talk about my spiritual side.I am an engineer, and my mind is as good as my body.I am not afraid of the sky, the earth, or people.I have never bowed down in front of anyone.If I set a goal, even if all America and the whole world unite, they will not stop me from realizing it.When I have an idea, I want everyone to agree, I can't stand dissent.I emphasize these details, my dear citizens, only to give you a more thorough understanding of me.You may think I talk too much about myself?But nothing!Now, please think about whether I should stop now, because what I am going to say next may not be to your taste.

In the front row of the conference hall, there was already the sound of surf crashing against rocks, which was a signal that the sea was about to roar. Speak, dear stranger.Uncle Pluden replied that he was also trying to restrain himself. Robier didn't pay more attention to what the audience would think, and continued speaking as before. Yes!I know!After a century of fruitless trials and trials, there are still some unsound minds who still stubbornly believe that balloons can be steered, and who still want to put electric motors or other engines in their balloons. Going up the skin bag, which is so great that it suffers so much resistance in the air, thinks that it can steer a balloon like a ship at sea.Does the fact that a few inventors have successfully flown on a clear or mostly clear day leaning against the wind or against a light breeze prove that it is practical to fly such a lighter-than-air craft?forget it!There are more than a hundred of you who think that such a dream will become a reality, but this is throwing tens of thousands of dollars, of course not into the water, but into the sky.This is really difficult!

It was strange that the members of the Weldon Society were listening to him without moving.Have they all become deaf and dumb and patient?Or are you restraining yourself to see what this daring opposition can do? Rober said again: What balloons!It takes one cubic meter of hydrogen to get one kilogram of buoyancy!Want a balloon to resist the force of the wind with the force of a machine?you know?The strong wind blowing on the sails to propel a ship forward has no less than 400 horsepower; during the Taiwan Bridge incident, the wind pressure has reached 440 kilograms per square meter!balloon!balloon!Whether it is a bird with wings, or some fish or mammals with fleshy membranes, nature has never created a flying animal with this structure.

mammal?A member called out. Yes!If I'm not mistaken, bats can fly!Doesn't the person who interrupted me know that this flying animal is a mammal?Has he ever seen scrambled bat eggs? So, that person had no choice but to temporarily put aside his ability to interrupt others.Robier went on eloquently: Does this mean that since human beings have such good conditions for using trains, they should give up conquering space and stop changing the customs and customs of the old world?Absolutely not!Human beings use ships to make themselves the masters of the ocean by means of oars, sails, gears or propellers, and humans can also use machines heavier than air to make themselves masters of atmospheric space.Because only when it is heavier than air can it not be at the mercy of air.

This time the venue exploded again.It was like gunfire, and all mouths were directed at Robier.Isn't this an open challenge to the balloonists? Isn't there another war between the lighter-than-air faction and the heavier-than-air faction? Robier's brow did not even wrinkle.He folded his arms over his chest, and waited courageously for the meeting to calm down again. Uncle Prudang made a gesture and ordered a ceasefire. So Robbier went on to say: Yes, the future belongs to flying machines.Air is its reliable support.If the airflow is jetted upwards at a speed of forty-five meters per second, this airflow is enough to support a person, as long as the area of ​​the sole of his shoe is one-eighth of a square meter.If the speed of the airflow reaches nine thousand meters, he can walk on the airflow barefoot.The same effect is obtained when the blades of the propeller displace air at this speed.

Robier's remarks were all the former supporters of the aviation industry had said.It won't be that quick to implement, but the problem will be reliably solved eventually.Like Germany.Canopy.Mr. Damecourt, De.Mr. Lalandelle, Mr. Nadal, De.Mr. Lu Ji, De.Mr. Louvrier, Mr. Lier, Mr. Bellegic, Mr. Moreau, Brother Richard, Mr. Barbinet, Mr. Nobel, Di.Mr. Dampler, Mr. Salifer, Mr. Pano, De.Mr. Villeneuve, Mr. Gosau and Mr. Tatan, Michel.Mr. Lowe, Mr. Edison, Mr. Plana Vergne, and many others, deserve the credit for spreading such plain and simple views.This point of view, although it has been discarded several times and brought up again several times, it will eventually prevail one day.They did not hesitate to strike back at the enemies of the flying enterprise, those who believed that birds could stay aloft simply by heating the air in their body cavities, and proved that a five-kilogram hawk, only for To be able to stay in the air, it needs fifty cubic meters of hot air to support it.

In the midst of this uproar, it was these words that Robier proved with irrefutable logic, and these are the few words he threw at the Balloonists at the end of his speech: Just relying on your airship, you can't do anything, you can't do anything, and you dare not do anything!The most daring of you balloonists is John.Wise, even though he flew 1,200 miles on the American continent, he had to give up his plan to fly across the Atlantic!Since then, you have not taken a single step, even a small step, on this road! At this moment, sir, the chairman could not restrain himself, and said, you have forgotten what our immortal Franklin said when the first hot air balloon appeared, that is, when the modern balloon was about to be born: this is just a baby, but he will grow up adult.it has grown up now

No, sir, it's not grown up yet!It's just getting fat it's not the same thing! This was a direct attack on the plans of the Weldon Society: the Society had indeed decided to support and finance the creation of a gigantic balloon.Immediately, some disturbing suggestions sounded in the venue: Knock down the uninvited guests! Throw him off the podium! So good to prove to him that he is heavier than air! And some other words like that. Everyone is still just talking and not putting it into action, so Robier can still calmly shout: Balloonist citizens, progress does not belong to airships, but to flying machines.Birds do not fly like balloons at all, but by flapping their wings mechanically! Yes, it can fly, but it is a flight that violates all principles of mechanics!Fiery Bart.cried Fern. real?said Robier, shrugging his shoulders contemptuously. Then he said: Ever since the study of flying creatures, big and small, the simple idea has prevailed, that just imitate nature, because nature is never good.From an albatross that beats less than ten times a minute to a pelican that beats seventy times a minute Seventy-one blows!said a mocking voice. to a bee that beats its wings a hundred and ninety-two times per second One hundred and ninety-three blows!Someone mocked the authenticity. common fly to three hundred and thirty Three hundred thirty.Five! to millions of mosquitoes wrong!It's billions! Despite repeated interruptions, Robier did not interrupt his argument. Amidst these differences he went on. There is a great man!A voice continued. The possibility exists to find practical solutions.Dang De.When Mr. Lucy discovered that staghorn stag beetle, a flying insect weighing only 2 grams, could actually lift an object weighing 400 grams, that is, an object 200 times heavier than itself, it meant that the problem of flight had been solved.Furthermore, it has been shown that the greater the size and weight of an animal, the relatively smaller its wing area.Since then, more than sixty flying machines have been conceived or built Not a single one flew!Society Secretary Phil.cried Evans. Flying, or about to fly, Robier replied calmly. Some people call this kind of machine an aircraft, some call it a propeller machine, some call it a wing machine, and some call it after the ship. It's a spaceship, but it's still the same machine.Its invention allows humans to become masters of the sky. oh!Another propeller!Phil.Evans retorted, as far as I know, birds don't have propellers! have!Mr. Pano, replied Robier, had proved that the bird is in fact a propeller, and that its flight is spiral.Therefore, future thrusters should be propeller-type Such a crooked door, St. Alice (Note: Saint︱Hence, Hence is the propeller. Here is deliberately adding a holy word in front, making it like a saint's name to express mockery.) Ah, please don't let us come across ! It so happened that someone in the room remembered this line from Harold's "Zambe" and sang it. All the people sang in unison, in such a tone that the French composer's celestial soul trembled. Those last few syllables were completely drowned out in a terrible din of uproar and jeers.Then Uncle Pruden seized a moment of silence and said to Robbier: Strange citizen, until now we have not interrupted your speech To the president of the Weldon Society, it seemed that the backlash, the yelling, the inappropriate interruptions were not interruptions, but merely exchanges of ideas. He went on: "I remind you, however, that the theory of flight is bankrupt, spurned by most engineers, both American and foreign.Although Icarus (Note: Icare, a character in Greek mythology, the son of the architect Daedalus. He escaped from Crete with wings made of feathers and wax on his body, because he forgot his father's command to fly close to the sun, the wax Wings melted in the heat, fell into the sea and died.) His death is a legend in mythology, but the sins caused by this mythological theory have already been counted by Sararan.Volan's death at Constantinople, Voador's death at Lisbon, Letier's death in 1852 and Grove's in 1864, not counting those whose names I do not remember victim This theory is not necessarily more to blame than the other, Robier retorted, and the list of martyrs for the other is not necessarily short, including Pilates de Calais.De.Rozier, Mrs. Blanchard in Paris, Donaldson and Grimwood who fell into Lake Michigan, and Siwelle, Crosser.Spinelli, Elufan, and many others you will never forget! This is really tit for tat! Besides, said Robier, your balloon, however perfect it may be, will not be able to reach the speed of practical use.It would take you ten years to travel around the world, but eight days for flying machines! The protests and shouts caused by this sentence made Phil.Evans waited a full three minutes before he was able to speak. Mr. Aviator, he said, you have been boasting about the benefits of flying just now, have you ever flown yourself? fly over! Have you conquered the air? Maybe so, sir! Long live Robier the Conqueror!cried a mocking voice. OK!Robier the Conqueror, I accept this name, I shall bear it hereafter, I have the right! We also have the right to doubt!Jim.cried Ship. Gentlemen, Robier's brows are wrinkled. When I come to discuss a serious matter seriously, I can't accept that the answer given to me is to categorically deny my point of view. I want to ask for advice before I interrupted. the person's last name my name is jem.chypre vegan Jim.Citizen Siep, replied Robill, I know that vegetarians generally have longer intestines than others, at least a foot longer.There are enough Muslims please don't make me pull your ears and end up stretching your intestines longer Get out! Get out into the street! Cut him to pieces! execute him! Twist him into a propeller! The balloonists were so enraged that they stood up and surrounded the podium.Robier disappeared among the raised arms, which shook together as if blown by a violent wind.Even the sound of the siren will not help the entire venue!Perhaps the inhabitants of Philadelphia really believed that night that a whole block of the city was on fire, and that the pouring water of the Shoekill River could hardly be put out. Suddenly, the rowdy crowd retreated, and Robier took his hand out of his pocket, and struck at the maddened crowd in the front rows. His hands wear American-style iron hand buttons, which can also be used as pistols, and the pocket repeating pistol can be fired with a flick of the finger. Thus, the attacker is not only retreating, but also quieting down.He took the opportunity to say: That's right, the person who discovered the New World was not Americ.Vespis (Note), but Sebastian.Cabot (Note: Sebastien Cabot, 1476︱1557, Italian navigator. In addition to discovering Newfoundland with his father, he also surveyed several major rivers in South America.), so the balloon Citizens, you should not be called Amerika (Note: that is, Americans.), but should be called Cabot (Note: Cabe (Cabe) is the French Cabotin After the pronunciation, here is a pun.) (Note) Amerika.American Vespuce, 1454︱1512, an Italian navigator who made four expeditions to the New World discovered by Columbus.The German geographer Wald Simriere (1470︱1518), in his book "Cosmography", mistakenly attributed the discovery of the New World to America.Vespis, since then America has been named America. At this time, four or five gunshots rang out.The gun was fired into the air and no one was hurt.The engineer disappeared in the smoke, and when the smoke dissipated, there was no trace of him.Robier the Conqueror flew away, very much as though he had been taken into the sky by some sort of flying machine.