Chapter 33: A Sense of Crisis
"The latest news, the first generation of nuclear-powered excavators has been designed, by Tesla Research and the Super Intelligence Lab. At present, the first generation of testing machines is being commissioned......
According to experts, if the nuclear-powered excavator is successfully studied, its power system and excavation capacity will be more than ten times that of the old excavator!"
"The latest news, the first uranium resource from Mars has been processed, and its output is fully sufficient to supply the current consumption of nuclear power plants...... New mineral centrifuges are being designed. ”
"According to professionals, more than half of the first phase of the construction of the Kinov industrial plant has been completed, which is located in the medium and low gravity zone of the spacecraft and will be fully automated...... At that time, people will only be responsible for the final monitoring and maintenance. ”
"Since the formation of the New Humanity Government, our first newborn has finally been born. His parents named him 'Weiss', or Wise, in the hope that he would become a wise man......"
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This is the first issue of the "News Weekly" just published by the New Human Government, each priced at S$0.5, printed by the Propaganda Department, once a week, which will record the big events and big news that happened this week.
The price is actually not particularly expensive, and there are 32 pages of newspaper pages, which is ample in portions. The monthly expenditure is only about two Singapore dollars, and basically everyone can afford it, and people are willing to buy one.
The new government created this kind of newspaper on the one hand to recycle people's new currency. On the other hand, it is to improve the transparency of information and increase people's participation.
Now, everyone on board the Noah has the feeling that the entire civilization is slowly advancing. As a member of the new human race, they naturally have a strong sense of accomplishment and belonging to civilization. Because it is their hard work that makes the roller of civilization slowly push.
This is also an atmosphere deliberately created by the new government.
There is still too little entertainment on the Noah, and there are very few movies, TV series, novels and the like. After a long day at work, everyone was tired and in no mood to create this content, which led to a lack of entertainment on the entire Noah.
For a normal person, only letting him work, but not letting him not be entertained, is likely to produce a series of negative emotions such as boredom with work, or low mood.
Although people are like being beaten now, Yu Yifeng still has to care about people's mental health...... It's also a rainy day.
Therefore, this newspaper not only has news content, but also carries a certain amount of entertainment function. In the back pages of the newspaper, you can see some science fiction stories, serialized stories, love stories, or some jokes, and some scientific knowledge in the universe.
These things...... Of course, it was copied from an old database, and anyway, the earth is gone, and no one cares about copyright and anything like that.
Not only that, Yu Yifeng is also considering piloting the work system of "doing six days off and one day off", which can take one day off for every six days of work, which is equivalent to one day off a week.
Although it seems that people's working hours have become shorter, the work efficiency will increase, after all, people are not machines, and they still need to rest...... Seeing that the scientists' eyes were red and they looked overworked, Yu Yifeng felt that he still needed more rest.
In the future, Internet cafes, gymnasiums, parks and other entertainment venues will be developed to provide people with entertainment facilities......
Yu Yifeng recorded these problems in his notebook one by one, and prepared to find ways to improve them in the future......
Suddenly, a report hit his mailbox.
"What, isn't there still enough manpower?" He looked at the reports written by several of the principals, which mentioned the problem of manpower.
Scientists are working hard to develop new excavators, super trains, and more that will greatly increase the ability of humans to mine.
However, the mining capacity has increased, but the ability to smelt metals has not kept up at all.
At present, the smelting machines are running almost 24 hours a day, and the workers are divided into three shifts, but they are still too busy.
They watched as more and more minerals piled up, what iron ore, aluminum ore, copper ore...... Heaped there like mountains, the anxiety in their hearts can be imagined. If people who don't know about it, they think that their smelting workers are slacking off on their work!
This is still the result of the old excavator working at full strength, and when the new excavator comes out, the output can be expanded tenfold!
These metal smelting workers are really going to cry, what the, digging so many mines, they can't be smelted at all, it's impossible to finish.
Yu Yifeng understood that this was a complaint to him, and the people were secondary, they really tried their best, and they really couldn't finish it all......
But don't worry about this, Yu Yifeng is in control of the overall situation, and he still knows what to expect.
Mining can be simple and crude, but smelting is a technical job, and the yield may not necessarily go up. Even if we want to increase production significantly, there is not enough electricity.
However, the mine still has to be dug vigorously, with the huge size of the Noah, no matter how much ore can be loaded, and the mass of the spacecraft is constant, it will not increase the difficulty of taking off.
"I already understand your problem, you don't have to worry about ......" Yu Yifeng wrote in the email: "Under the current circumstances, the reserves of minerals must be as large as possible, and what is transported to the Noah is what we really have!" ”
Now on the Noah, it is not a free market-oriented economy, and there is no need to worry about the balance of supply and demand.
If an oil-producing country, such as Saudi Arabia, had suddenly increased its oil production tenfold, the price of oil would collapse in an instant.
If Australia suddenly increases the production of iron ore and copper ore tenfold, the price of these metals will inevitably collapse. So many energy giants are fully capable of mining vigorously, but they have to take it slowly, because they have to consider supply and demand, and want to make more money!
But now, the new human civilization is a planned economy, and the resources dug up are all state-owned, so you don't need to think about it so much, just keep digging.
“…… We can't spare more manpower for the time being, and improving the smelting capacity can be considered later. The excavated ore can be piled up in the warehouse...... I am also very grateful for your dedication and hard work......"
After Yu Yifeng finished writing the email, he hurriedly sent it over to appease the staff who were smelting metal. This kind of soothing work must still be done.
He cupped his chin in thought. Of course, there is a reason for such crazy mining, because in Yi Feng's heart, there is always a feeling of hairiness, a sense of danger.
From time to time, the sensation came and went, sometimes it creeped him, and sometimes it was so subtle that it was barely felt.
But he always felt that Mars was not a good place, and it was good to leave Mars early. He believed in his sixth sense, which had saved him many times.
So, where does this sense of danger come from? Yu Yifeng searched for a long time, but he really didn't know, and sent someone to secretly ask Calvin in prison, but he didn't know either.
Calvin is always like this, when it comes to the critical moment, there is no use for fart!
Yu Yifeng felt that there might be something very dangerous on Mars, and once it broke out, the entire human race would have to finish playing......
Perhaps, Mars will explode like Earth? Or is it some other danger?
I don't know! This kind of not knowing is what bothers him the most.
In fact, there is a sense of unease in the hearts of many ordinary people, including a large number of scientists. The ability of the sixth sense is not only possessed by Yu Yifeng, a superhuman, but also by many other ordinary people, but it is not so strong.
They subconsciously believed that this uneasiness was caused by the Martian virus, and did not think much about it, deliberately ignoring it.
However, this sense of unease indirectly influences people's behavior. Otherwise, humans could have been able to develop steadily on Mars for a while, instead of frantically finishing mining and then preparing to run away......
Many people have this thought in their hearts: Mars, don't stay for long! Therefore, many technological breakthroughs of mankind are inclined to mining.
"What is this danger of not being there?" Yu Yifeng couldn't help but think, and shook his head again, he didn't have the ability to predict, he really didn't know......
Calvin's magic stick is really unreliable, and he just knows that there is danger.
But no matter what, the mine still has to be dug, and the development of human beings is inseparable from these things. If you don't mine, where will the resources and energy come from? He still has a bit of luck, Mars has existed for so long, almost 4.6 billion years, and it shouldn't be too much of a problem to dig a few years of mining......
Even if the crisis breaks out, it should ...... Nor will it explode in a year or two.