As the center of the entire colony, the boxy colonial cabin is like an upside-down building, which is the main place for the colonists to live, work, socialize, and play, with all kinds of facilities. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Around the colony module, there are also four graphene-shaped spherical buildings, connected to the colony module by a one-person thick pipeline. Don't underestimate these four spherical buildings, which are the lifeblood of the entire colony.

As we all know, Mars is a planet covered in desert and volcanic ash, giving the intuitive impression that it is an extremely arid planet.

However, on the contrary, NASA concluded several years ago based on the data sent back by the "Curiosity" Mars rover that Mars not only does not lack water, but also has quite abundant water resources! However, most of this water is brine, and most of it is buried in the ground or seeps into the sandy layer, so it cannot be directly drunk.

But that's not a problem for the Warp trade, as long as there is water, there must be a way to turn it into drinkable water. The four spherical buildings are nothing else, and their meaning is the equivalent of a colony's water pump, or the kind with its own filtration capacity.

The colony was originally located on a lake bed where paleosedimentary facies could be observed, and there was certainly no shortage of water under the feet. The four spherical pumps first pump the brine from the ground into the spherical storage tank, then filtered it, and finally piped it to the colony tank.

Water is the source of life, and whether or not it can achieve self-sufficiency in drinking water is the key to realizing the self-sufficiency of the Martian colony.

After water, there is oxygen.

The oxygen levels on Mars are so low that billions of years of oxygen have either run away or merged with the iron that fills the ground. Fortunately, there is an atmosphere here, there is no oxygen but there is carbon dioxide, and it is much easier to solve the oxygen problem than the moon, and there is no need to waste electricity by electrolyzing water, after all, there is no helium 3 to mine on Mars, and energy is still quite expensive.

The problem of oxygen can be solved along with food.

The main component of the Martian atmosphere is carbon dioxide, followed by nitrogen, oxygen, and water vapor that are almost negligible. It's hell for animals, but it's paradise for plants!

Of course, this does not mean that plants can be planted directly on Mars, and not to mention how cold the surface of Mars is, prolonged exposure to pure carbon dioxide will also lead to "photosynthetic adaptation" of plants, which will hinder crop growth.

But as long as the CO2 concentration in the plantation is controlled with nitrogen, it is easy to keep the crops in the plantation below the optimal CO2 concentration, and with the right amount of water supply and ultraviolet light, the crops will not grow too fast!

The only drawback is that the initial investment is a little higher, just for the rations of these 20 people, the cost of the entire set of equipment has to be hundreds of millions. If it were placed on the earth, S$100 million would be enough to reclaim hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land.

In the future, Jiang Chen still plans to position the Martian colony as an industrial base, and wait for the shipbuilding technology of the future heavy industry to go up, and Transwarp Trade will get a few more "Seagulls" to expand the transportation capacity, and the grain or something can be transported directly from the earth. If such a large granary is not developed, it is simply uncomfortable to go to the desert to farm.

Not to mention anything else, Guanghan City at least has the advantage of low electricity costs, and it is understandable to grow some food to relieve the supply pressure. There is no helium-3 and no pure water on this Mars, and you will lose as much food as you produce.

Of course, Jiang Chen hadn't thought about transforming Mars into a terrestrial planet before. Or it's not just him, someone has long proposed a plan to transform Mars.

The most famous of these is Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, who has always been obsessed with Mars. I have to say that this thing is a genius, and he came up with the shocking method of constantly dropping nuclear bombs at the poles of Mars. Nuclear explosions melt dry ice, thicken the atmosphere, causing the greenhouse effect, melting more dry ice and continuing to thicken the atmosphere...... The central idea of the whole method is to use nuclear bombs to leverage the greenhouse effect, and although it sounds a bit demonic, it makes sense in theory, and it is simple and crude.

However, Jiang Chen just thought about it, and then gave up this idea.

For no other reason, it's too slow to play like this, and it's easy to pry this "lever", but don't even think about it if you don't have thousands of years. The most important thing is that the uncertainties in this plan are too great, and Mars is the most important part of the plan of Ring Trade to form an "invincible armada" in the future.

Of course, although he gave up his plan to change the landform of Mars in the short term, this did not mean that Jiang Chen completely gave up his plan to transform Mars into an Earth-like planet.

Directly north of the Colony Cabin is the Plantation, which is the largest building in the entire colony except for the Colonial Module, and is connected to the Water Storage Tank and the Colonial Cabin by pipelines.

On the plantation, which covers an area of about two acres, there is also a small biological laboratory. Among the twenty colonists accompanying him were two biologists, and the research topics given to them by Jiang Chen included a difficult and great task.

That is to develop a bacterium that can survive in the Martian environment.

The bacteria must be anaerobic, must adapt to low gravity, be able to withstand temperatures of -100 degrees, preferably generate heat, and withstand constant UV exposure...... This superbug seems to be fantastical, but Jiang Chen, who has witnessed the "family history" of harmonious civilization, is quite optimistic about the prospects of biotechnology.

It's just that on the day when the grasslands on Mars were overgrown, he probably couldn't see it, and no matter how optimistic he was, this was a thousand-year project. At most, he got off to a good start, and when he implemented it, he could only leave it to his children and grandchildren to complete.

Before recreating the clear water and blue sky of Mars 4.3 billion years ago, he had to build factories on this desert and use steel and blood to kill a piece of the sky for future generations.

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After leaving the command center, Jiang Chen received a phone call from the presidential palace, and just half an hour ago, the White House called the presidential office of the new country, expressing its willingness to start a second round of negotiations. However, they put forward a plausible proviso.

Since it is a negotiation about the fate of the earth, it should not be discussed by a few countries behind closed doors, but should be put on the table for everyone to participate in the discussion, and all countries will discuss and formulate strategies to confront extraterrestrial civilizations.

In short, we have also been convened to discuss the issue at the United Nations.

As soon as the White House phone call ended, Britain and France also called, expressing the same meaning, and also attached a sentence that this is a prerequisite for the start of the next round of negotiations. The implication is that if this matter is not discussed at the United Nations, then we will not talk about it!

After hearing the news, the corners of Jiang Chen's mouth hooked up with a sneer.

He knew very well what these people were having.

If we want to talk about influence in the United Nations, I am afraid that there is no country in the world that can compare with the US imperialism.

Not to mention anything else, Britain in the P5 wears the same pants as the United States, and although France opposes the United States from time to time, the two sides still reach a consensus on key issues, otherwise Europe would have long ago become independent in defense, and where is there anything about NATO.

Discussing at the United Nations seems to be fair, but in fact it is a big hole.

There is no need to think about it, once this issue is put on the table of the United Nations, it is absolutely impossible to negotiate any results. First of all, the new country does not have the right to speak on an equal footing with its strength, and then Transwarp Trade is a business, and it is not even qualified to appear in the seat of the United Nations.

The main owner is not there, and a large group of small countries that don't even understand what aerospace is are holding a meeting, what results can you discuss? Does the United States think that Jiang Chen will pinch his nose and admit whatever decision the United Nations makes?

The United Nations is really so hanging, and the DPRK has given up nuclear weapons too soon!

Why did I build the space elevator, I built the lunar colony, I brought the entire space industry with a value of 100 billion yuan in Star Ring City, and even asteroid mining was brought by me to take you on the road, and now I have to go to your house to discuss how to use my own things? Let you be the boss?

Are you really your NASA or the NASA of the Nixon era?

Thinking of this, Jiang Chen almost didn't hesitate for a moment, and immediately made a decision. (To be continued.) )