"Generals, as you can see, the Mars Colony is changing by leaps and bounds every day. This will be the second home humanity has always dreamed of, supporting the Earth Civilization's continued development for decades, even a century!
"Besides, it's peaceful and quiet here. We see no safety hazards or violent conflicts whatsoever, so there's absolutely no need to strengthen security or defenses. That would only consume our limited construction resources and slow down our work..."
Dressed in an engineer's uniform, the project manager pointed at the busy Spaceport outside the viewport and spoke at length to the delegation of military officers inspecting the site.
"Then... what's that?" Yuri suddenly interrupted, pointing out the window.
Everyone followed his gaze and saw a figure in a spacesuit dangling from a safety tether, drifting back and forth in space. Another person stood at the edge of the Spaceport, gesturing heatedly. He looked furious and seemed to be pointing at the other person while unleashing a torrent of abuse.
"Uh..." Having just assured them there were no safety hazards or violent conflicts, the project manager was immediately proven wrong. His expression turned awkward.
"Ahem! Gentlemen, the world is constantly changing and developing. Perhaps the only constant is the everyday stupidity of Earthlings. I'm sure you understand." All he could do was shrug helplessly.
"Hahaha! Hehe..."
The inspecting officers all gave understanding chuckles. The manager's humor neatly defused the awkwardness.
This was only a minor incident. With current personal protective technology and safety measures, falling out of the Spaceport's gravity field was hardly a problem.
A few years earlier, people had even deliberately gone space bungee jumping, saying they wanted to try it out...
There had been so many cases that security engineers could not help lamenting that even artificial intelligence could never guard