Chapter 51: The Longevity Conjecture
"There are a lot of things...... After completing the construction of the steelmaking blast furnace, Yu Yifeng finally let out a long breath.
The quality of these fast-smelted steels is crude steel, and the quality can only be said to be so-so, barely usable. But people don't care, as long as the yield comes up. These machines are mass-produced, and they don't pay attention to packaging, taste, or how many they break.
Besides, the oxygen content on Mars is very low, and there is no need to think about rust or anything, and the biggest drawback of crude steel has been avoided. After the robot is broken, it can also be disassembled and recycled, and the raw materials are not afraid of being lost......
In the next period of time, whether it is Noah or the major mining areas, it is a hot scene.
In the factory, the assembly line is being replicated and increased one by one, and the industrial capacity is constantly increasing.
The number of excavators and robots in the mining area is also increasing. Once their numbers came up, they had the ability to move mountains and seas, and mines were leveled and large pits appeared on the ground.
The supporting steelmaking blast furnace has increased to five! The entire spacecraft is already using significantly more electricity than planned. But it doesn't matter, people have more uranium mines, just build a few more nuclear power plants.
Yu Yifeng feels that the entire new human civilization has a "rampant" rough beauty.
The plan can't catch up with the changes, and many engineering projects exceed expectations and are completed ahead of schedule, what should I do? You can't just wait there, you have to make a plan and let them keep going.
Like super excavators and super trains, the production of these machines requires a large amount of steel, which could not have been predicted by the original plan, so it can only temporarily increase steel production.
In this way, after one temporary plan, the original forecast plan is useless. The entire industrial system is growing and complex day by day. However, on the whole, only the resources and electricity consumption are seriously exceeded, and the overall industrial production capacity is still relatively fine and orderly.
In Yi Feng's heart, there is no problem with excessive resource consumption, even if it is extravagant and wasteful, it is not a big deal, under the continuous supply of massive excavators, there are many resources, and they have been piled up into large mines......
In the spaceship, the area of the industrial area greatly exceeds the residential area, and the total area reaches two hundred and sixty square kilometers!
The interior is brightly lit, there are many machinery, and a large number of conveyor tracks are laid in it to transport different materials for each assembly line. Many staff members are busy coming and going.
At present, the main job of the workers is to be responsible for related monitoring, maintenance of automated machinery, and some bug fixing work. If you reach the later stage of factory construction, even the final maintenance will be taken care of by the robot itself.
While Yu Yifeng was satisfied, he also had a headache.
Now, with the completion of the first phases of the construction of the Kinov industrial plant, many laboratories are starting to free up their hands to study what they like. As a result, the technology line on the Noah was a little messy, and he had a feeling that he couldn't keep it busy.
A large number of science and technology are developing at the same time, and how he manages it alone can only be roughly understood, and the technology that is not black shellfish will not be taken care of, and let the scientists get it themselves.
In general, there are several general directions to follow: automatic industrialization, the research of perfection elements, the exploration of longevity viruses, the research of new space shuttles, and the manufacture of space war weapons.
For some reason, he always had some heart-pounding feelings. Although this feeling has been going on for a long time, it has been unusually noticeable in recent times.
The Kinov industrial plant has been able to produce automatically, the excavators have been successfully mined, the resources piled up on the Noah are increasing day by day, and the living conditions of the people have also improved...... What else is there to worry about?
Yu Yifeng frowned tightly, he really couldn't think of it.
"Could it be the biotechnology that human beings are studying? Could it be that humans have touched black shells? Yu Yifeng pondered, and opened a report casually, which was sent by Professor Constantine.
"The longevity virus, its complexity is far beyond our imagination, its nature is very strange, its vitality is low, and its reproductive ability is also very low, I don't know why it has survived to the present ......"
"After it invades the human body, it dies very quickly because it cannot adapt to the environment."
"It has a large number of strange sequences with unknown meanings in its genes, and there are many redundant fragments......"
This is the report written by Professor Constantine to Yu Yifeng, seeing this, Yu Yifeng's brows furrowed deeply.
What human beings don't like the most is this kind of thing that doesn't understand the principle.
"Ordinary Martian microorganisms are only slightly more complex than terrestrial viruses, and the existing science of mankind can still analyze them. But the longevity virus is extremely complex, and compared with ordinary Martian viruses, it is like the difference between a rich king and a poor beggar......"
"We are puzzled by this phenomenon, how can a group of ordinary microorganisms evolve into an extremely complex species?"
Seeing this, Yu Yifeng was deeply worried, could it be that what he was worried about was the longevity virus?
But the temptation it brings to human beings is so great that it is impossible to give up directly...... Many great scientists are in their fifties, and in a few years, the body will go downhill, and if there is a longevity virus, it will increase life by 50 years, how good it would be!
But this temptation, which may be accompanied by a fatal crisis, is really a dilemma.
Continuing further, Konstantin explained in the report: "We suspect that the long-lived virus is evolving in the direction of bacteria, which is why it is extremely complex...... Perhaps, it will become the first bacterium on Mars! ”
This explanation is quite reasonable, Yu Yifeng nodded in his heart.
"But...... The genius of our research group also proposed another possibility, which is due to an unknown reason, from the degradation of advanced organisms to the current stage...... We have never seen the degradation of life, perhaps this is just a bold conjecture!"
Degradation from high to low? If that's the case, then something terrible must have happened on Mars.
Apparently, Professor Konstantin was also full of doubts, and he wrote at the end, "We want to prune out the redundant genes and keep only the core to see if we can stimulate the activity of stem cells......"
Yu Yifeng was silent, pacing back and forth in the captain's room. He resisted the uneasiness in his heart, scientists are very cautious about longevity viruses, as long as they are strictly controlled, there should be no disasters such as Resident Evil.
He had made up his mind not to allow any human experimentation until the mechanism of action was thoroughly understood. For people who have been infected with the Martian virus, they also have to have a physical examination every three or five times, including himself, of course.