Chapter 685 of the text Moon Farming

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Of course, the other three astronauts are busy installing helium-3 mining equipment, and this kind of thing is not yet enough to be made public, and it will definitely not appear in the live broadcast.

However, it is not appropriate for them not to appear in the camera for a long time, and soon they returned to the camera to start another important work, "The audience friends saw that the three astronauts are building a closed-loop life support system, which is the core technology for human beings to achieve long-term survival in outer space. Water and food are regenerated within the system through biotechnology, allowing astronauts to work and live on the station for a long time, making long-term manned space flight and planetary exploration possible. ”

The designer of the system, Professor Liu from the School of Biological and Medical Engineering of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, came to introduce the system to us!"For this live broadcast, the imperial court station contacted many experts, and now this Professor Liu has also appeared in the studio, responsible for introducing this advanced system to the national audience.

At the end of the 19th century, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the father of cosmonautics and a scientist of the Red Empire, proposed the idea of establishing an environment suitable for human existence on the space station with the help of biological cycles, that is, based on the principle of ecosystem, biotechnology and engineering control technology are organically combined to build an artificial ecosystem composed of plants, animals and microorganisms. Water and food, which are essential for human life, can be recycled within the system and provide occupants with an ecological environment similar to the Earth's biosphere. When people enter this artificial ecosystem, they become the consumer chain of the ecosystem, and at the same time control the functions of the people, constituting a closed artificial ecosystem. ”

"This idea has been put into practice by the United States and the Red Empire, and two biological regeneration life support systems have been built successively, and the biosphere project that we are more familiar with can be regarded as a large-scale application of this system!" Professor Liu first described the origin of this system, and then showed a few pictures, "China has become the third country in the world to establish this system in space, and has come to the forefront of the world! We have conducted a long-term test in the Moon Palace space station!"

"You can see the panorama of the system in this picture, which consists of two plant pods and a comprehensive warehouse!" "The sci-fi-like building is densely packed with several layers of dwarf wheat, peanuts and other grains, as well as vegetables and fruits such as carrots, green beans, and strawberries." These plant seeds are high-yielding crops that we have carefully selected in collaboration with the agricultural sector to provide the astronauts with all the nutrients they need to survive, and we have grown mealworm insects in the integrated cabin to provide the astronauts with protein. ”

As soon as these photos came out, netizens were immediately powerless to complain! How much do Chinese people love farming! In the courtyards of various overseas companies and the gardens of embassies, Chinese people have opened up land to grow their favorite vegetables, and now they have brought this spirit to the universe.

"There are really carrots, are they going to use them to attract jade rabbits? and strawberries, I'm curious if the strawberries grown on the moon will be sweeter than those grown on the earth!"

"Protest, why don't you plant rice on the moon!

"This is because rice has an anaerobic phase, and methane gas is produced at this stage, which is not conducive to the circulation of the system!" a botanical scholar came out to explain.

On the TV screen, Professor Liu continued to introduce the situation of the system, "In the early stage of the real system, our real personnel survived in this system for 1o4 days, which is enough time for these astronauts to complete their initial tasks! They can use the life support system to obtain their daily needs for food, oxygen and water!"

"After the system is built, there will be no need to prepare a large amount of water and food for them in the subsequent lunar launches, which can greatly save space for loading other items!" Professor Liu still has nothing to say, they also used the latest guide materials to power this system, so that this system can be realized, "In addition, we are still conducting a new generation of system research! We hope that one day in the future, the cost of space planting will be reduced to a level that ordinary people can afford!" Greatly alleviate the food crisis caused by the reduction of arable land and environmental pollution. ”

Well, that sounds like a very good idea! Think about it, since we Chinese people can farm all over the world, then of course we can also farm all over the universe!

"When the time comes, we will spread out a large area of planting sheds on the moon, and plant carrots in one fell swoop, which can be named Yutu brand carrots, and ensure that they will sell well! Hundreds of millions of acres of land on Mars, all planted with potatoes, and when the time comes, ask Matt Damon to advertise this kind of potatoes! Grow rice on Mercury" Someone started a special crop plantation on a planetary scale, planting a crop on a planet, and it makes me feel good when I think about it!

"Hey, Mercury has a water in its name, but there's no water on it! How do you grow rice? And the cultivation of a single plant can easily cause irresistible diseases, okay?"

The audience in other countries who saw this scene was stunned, and China really deserves to be called an agricultural civilization with a history of 5,000 years! Even though they have now entered the industrial society and have landed on the moon, they still never forget their old profession of farming!

We're not just farmers, we're more of a laborer to mine! If the four astronauts were to hear that, they would probably answer that?

In the first phase of the lunar landing project, they set up a preliminary closed-loop life support system, completed the combination of lunar soil excavators, and installed preliminary helium-3 refining equipment in the base! When they return to Earth after completing the first phase of work, they will bring back helium-3 raw materials that are enough to meet the power supply of the entire country for half a year.

In the next few years, with the continuous improvement of the permanent lunar base of the Guanghan Palace, the output of helium-3 will continue to increase; by that time, I am afraid that no country will be able to break China's monopoly on this key energy source for a long time! )8