[comprehensive] Why do I need to wear red overalls for the desert tour?

Many times he explored in an extremely harsh natural environment. He knew the danger of being alone and going out alone. In particular, as the head of the scientific expedition team, he clearly announced that he had to discipline: “When you are on an expedition, you must go out more than two people.” Why did he violate his scientific discipline? His disappearance, his sacrifice, and his mistakes lie in leaving alone.

In addition, he also stressed that in the strange, easy to lose sight of the place to visit, should be inserted along the road signs. This time, he went east to find the well. He took a strange road but did not insert signs.

His decision made on a temporary basis led to a lack of water for the inspection team and the subsequent tragedy

In order to save state funds, Peng Jiamu went out alone to find a well, and thus disappeared in the desert. His spirit of publicity and selflessness will always be worthy of later generations learning, and will always be worthy of admiration from generation to generation.

However, the disappearance of Peng Jiamu should also cause people's reflection.

No one is perfect. In my interview, I also heard many friends mourn for him: He has explored many times in extremely harsh natural environments. He knows the danger of being alone and going out alone. In particular, as the head of the scientific expedition team, he clearly announced that he had to discipline: “When you are on an expedition, you must go out more than two people.” Why did he violate his scientific discipline? His disappearance, his sacrifice, and his mistakes lie in leaving alone. In addition, he also stressed that in the strange, easy to lose sight of the place to visit, should be inserted along the road signs. This time, he went east to find the well. He took a strange road but did not insert signs. In addition, during the interview, some people told me that the day the expedition team departed from Urumqi, Peng Jiamu was designated as May 3, 1980. In Peng Jiamu's view, on this day, the preparations for the inspection have been completed. It should be the starting point. Working hard on time is the first priority.

However, May 3 is Saturday. Many of the expedition team members’ homes are in Urumqi and hope to leave on Monday, May 5, so that they can spend Sundays with their families in Urumqi. Especially on this trip, it will take a month or two to go. Many people expect to arrange things at home on Sundays. Peng Jiamu's home is not in Urumqi. He did not consider the reasonable demands of the players, or insisted on starting in the morning of May 3. He is the captain and vice president of the Xinjiang branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The team members also obeyed his decision.

Also, after completing the journey through Lop Nur and arriving in Malan, Pengamu proposed to go eastward. This was not what the original scientific expedition planned. The starting point of Pengamu is of course very good. You can use it to explore the Lop Nur East Line. However, the expedition team left Urumqi on May 3 and went through Lop Nur on June 7th. It has been living in the wild for more than a month. The team members are very tired and are eager to return to Urumqi. Moreover, there was no plan to study on the east side. Many of the team members did not fight with their home and some of them had already arranged for other work. The team members once again considered that Peng Jiamu was the captain and vice president of the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he obeyed his decision.

It is precisely because the Eastern Jinjin was a temporary decision made by Peng Jiamu in Malan. Therefore, the preparation work was very rushed, and the difficulty on the eastbound route was not enough. Therefore, the shortage of water and oil would not occur until the arrival of Kumu Kuduak. The occurrence of Peng Jiamu’s tragedy to go east to find the well to solve the water shortage problem.

Peng Jiamu's mistake is excessive confidence

For another example, the drivers told me that the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences had a very unreasonable rule at that time. The fuel consumption of the car, as well as the loss of tires and machinery, was calculated based on the number of kilometers traveled. However, in the rough 100 km of Lop Nur, how can you treat 100 km on a straight asphalt road? The fuel consumption of a car, as well as tire and mechanical losses, are obviously completely different. In particular, there are many crystal blocks of salt at the bottom of Lop Nur, which are hard, sharp, and sharp, making the loss of automobile tires very high. Drivers once reported to Peng Jiamu, but Peng Jiamu did not solve it because his vice president did not supervise administrative work.

Also, the researchers who worked with Peng Jiamu on the expedition team thought that Peng Jiamu’s knowledge is very broad. This is his advantage. But after all, he is mainly studying plant viruses. He does not discuss all aspects of Lop Nur’s comprehensive scientific investigation. Everything is in line. As the leader of this scientific expedition, he should listen to the opinions of researchers from all aspects and Peng Jiamu did not do enough.

Therefore, Peng Jiamu's mistakes lie in excessive self-confidence and listening to other people's opinions. He often underestimates difficulties. If an advanced figure is out of the masses, it is like the locomotive is out of the long train. In Peng Gamu’s disappearance, technically speaking, the mistake was that he did not wear the special color work clothes that he had to wear in the field work.

Five years after Pengamu’s disappearance, there was an incident in which the first warrior of the Yangtze River, Ruan Maoshu, was wrecked on the Yangtze River rafting expedition. I flew from Shanghai to Sichuan for an interview. Later, in my article "The Little Red in the Evergreen Conundrum," I compared the death of Pang Maoshu and Peng Jiamu and compared them:

In the summer of 1980, when the news of Peng Jiamu’s disappearance in Lop Nur in Xinjiang came, I immediately rushed there to participate in the search. When I was sitting on a helicopter and flying over Kumu Kuduuk, where the accident happened, I saw that the yellow sand was long and boundless. Even the solitary smoke in the desert was never seen in my eyes. in.

According to the provisions of the desert investigation should wear red overalls

Searching again and again was nothing. The Air Force dispatched more than 30 aircraft and the flight time was more than 100 hours. There was no trace of Pengamu. I remember that on the plane, an Air Force soldier said to me with a lament: “Panga Wood wears a blue-washed workcloth that is not easy to find in the desert. According to the regulations, when you enter the desert, you should wear red. Workwear.

If he wears red overalls, the plane will not need to search again and again..." His words left a deep impression on me.

On July 24, 1985, Yong Mao, a warrior who sailed on the Yangtze River, was sacrificed on the Tongtian River. I went to Sichuan for an interview. According to the public security department's notice, on July 24th at 2pm, Tibetan herders in Yushu and Batang Townships in Qinghai Province saw the "Dragon's Handicap" rubber boat and the body of Yan Maoshu. When the sun was going down on the day, two Tibetans in Benda Township, Luosu District, Shiqu County, Sichuan Province, also saw the bodies of Yan Maoshu who drifted along the river. On the 25th and 26th, it was witnessed by the same people... In just a few days, so many Tibetans along the river have accidentally discovered Yu Mao’s book because it was wearing a special “BJ-1 type”. Insulation rescue suits, can float on the water, and the color is bright red. "A little red in the green cluster" can easily attract people's attention.

Although "red" is "a little", why is it particularly striking in the "million greens"?

This is because red, green, and blue are the three primary colors of light, and the primary colors give the most vivid impression to the human eye - nature is colorful, and all three primary colors are formed in different proportions. The ability of the human eye to distinguish colors is due to the presence of three color cells, red, green, and blue. Different colors give different degrees of stimuli to these three color-sensitive units, so the human eye can distinguish between full-color and bright colors. The three primary colors are only stimulating one kind of color-sensitive unit in the human eye, and this kind of stimulation is particularly strong, so the resulting visual sense is the most vivid.

It is not enough just to have its own color. It is hard to find a little red when it falls into the "red ocean." You must increase the "color contrast" with the background color. Luke, an American, is an advertising expert. He has done a series of "color contrast" experiments in order to highlight the main images and words in advertisements. He found that in terms of red, the color contrast of red on white is the strongest, followed by red on the yellow bottom, red on the green bottom, and red on the blue bottom.

Oh, because of this, climbing the Everest and Antarctic expeditions, people dressed in red. The white ambulance was painted with a red cross - red on white.

It is precisely because of this, deserts, rivers and expeditions, wear red clothes - red on the yellow bottom and red on the green.

As for the recycling bin of China’s artificial earth satellite painted orange, it is also intended to be easily identified in the ocean – blue and red.

If Pengamu calls a team member to go east to find a well, if Peng Jiamu wears red overalls when he goes out, the tragedy will not happen. Even if you lose one moment, it is easy to find, and you don't have to spend so much manpower and resources to search again and again.

Of course, the tragedy of Peng Jiamu has already solidified into history and cannot be changed. Peng Jiamu’s tragedy reminds people that when it comes to scientific expeditions, they must not go out alone; in scientific investigation, they must wear prescribed work clothes.