Chapter 321: The First Biosphere
I don't know how others play Meng Yang, but his toys are about to come to life. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
After a period of stockpiling, there is an underground space where the organic matter is almost complete.
Named G4 in Mong Duong, this underground space is located in Gui Province, which is in excellent condition, it has water sources, and has geothermal resources.
Now that you're ready, it's time to try to build your first ecosystem and experiment with it.
G4 has geothermal energy, so the ideal way is to build a heat-bonded plant-based ecosystem.
Photosynthetic plants need wide leaves to absorb sunlight to complete photosynthesis, so the heat compound plant needs a wide root system that is easy to absorb heat, and it also needs to have enough leaves to absorb carbon dioxide and transport carbon dioxide to the roots for heat synthesis reaction, and at the same time release oxygen.
This need has led to the strange structure of the heat-bonded plant, which draws water from the soil, not mainly to send it to the leaves, but to use it directly in situ at the roots.
The leaves and stems are hollow, allowing for the transport of carbon dioxide to the roots underground, while the oxygen produced by the roots is released directly into the soil.
With this as the leading idea, Meng Yang took the existing plants on the earth as a blueprint and began to transform them into heat-hopping plants one by one.
The first thing to do is to remove the chlorophyll gene, change the gene of the root morphology, make the root system more developed, change the stem and leaf genes, so that the leaf veins and stem veins have the ability to transport gas, and add heat synthesis reaction genes to the root system.
Only these points need to be changed, and the rest of the place is not moved at all, or the main genes of the earth's plants are still used, so the speed of change is quite fast.
G4 has an underground area of almost 8 square kilometers, and the height of the space is more than 100 meters on average, according to this area, if the entire space is planted with grass, G4 can theoretically produce 60,000 cattle per day.
Assuming that all the grass in the space is grown and all is used to raise cattle, then the organic matter production may be enough to feed 60,000 cattle, but the oxygen production may not be enough.
Cattle eat to excrete, urine and feces need to be decomposed and fermented, re-enter the ecological cycle, this process requires a large number of bacteria to participate, bacteria need to consume a lot of oxygen when decomposing manure, this must be counted.
When bacteria decompose, they produce not only oxygen, but also methane, which also needs to be taken into account.
When cattle digest pasture, they will also produce exhaust gases, not only carbon dioxide, but also hydrogen sulfide, as well as various phosphates, various chlorides and the like, if it is an open earth biosphere, the volume is large enough, the fluctuation of this substance is negligible, but in a small biosphere of only eight square kilometers, each cow farts a day, which can make the atmosphere pollute and smoke the cow.
If only that's a bit more complicated, don't forget that the number of microorganisms in a cow is about the same as the number of its own cells. There are thousands of bacteria, viruses, parasites and the like in cows, and if you are in the big biosphere of the earth, it doesn't matter if you fluctuate at this point, but in the small biosphere, maybe the incremental variables caused by an extra flea can collapse the entire biosphere.
You can bathe the cow and disinfect the body surface, but how do you disinfect the hair follicles, how to disinfect under the skin, and how to disinfect the body?
Even if you are super advanced and can completely disinfect the cow and destroy all the microorganisms on the cow, except for the autologous cells, don't forget that many microorganisms are symbiotic with the cow, and if the microorganisms die out, the cow will not survive.
It's just microorganisms, there are a large number of symbiotic viruses in the body cells of the cow, they coexist peacefully with the cells of the cow, and develop harmoniously.
If you don't kill anyone, if any virus escapes, it may be the culprit of the destruction of the small life.
Well, it's just a matter of the cows.
If the cow dies and becomes a beef problem, will the carcass of the cow rot naturally, or will it be eaten by other cows?
If other cows eat it, it may be mad cow disease, and if it rots naturally, in such a small biosphere, it may not be a few days before the entire biosphere becomes a mode of undead natural disaster.
Since it is a fully enclosed biosphere, all the material on a cow's body must be able to return to the biosphere to be recycled from birth to death.
Beef can rot, how do you get horns? What about cow bones? What about cow hair?
If too much of these substances that cannot decay in a year or two accumulate, will it delay the material cycle of the entire biosphere and lead to the collapse of the biosphere?
All of these issues need to be fully considered, and if any small factor is not taken into account, it may become an anthill that causes the entire levee to collapse.
The lessons of Biosphere 2 are vividly remembered, and Meng Yang did not dare to take anything lightly, he decided to make a super simple biosphere first.
It's still cattle breeding, but this time the method has changed a little......
“G4!” This is the name of the G4 base tree.
"In! Boss, G4 is at your disposal. ”
"The inner wall of the cyst gives rise to thermozygotic alfalfa."
"Yes! Boss! ”
With a sufficient supply of organic matter reserves, alfalfa was quickly spawned, and almost only ten minutes later, the originally lifeless G4 space suddenly became a sea of alfalfa, only these hot alfalfa were not green, but strangely gray-white.
"Light up!"
The top of the high sac suddenly lit up with a cold glow, which was all a biological light source. Although the G4 does not need sunlight, but the cattle always need light, and it is not possible to provide a perfect simulation of sunlight for the time being, so let's use a biological light source to light the cows first.
"Produce five thousand cows first." Meng Yang made enough margins, theoretically able to raise 60,000 head of cattle, directly reduce it by an order of magnitude, and then pinch the head and tail.
With an order, 5,000 vesicles suddenly protruded on the inner wall of the G4 cyst, each of which contained a cow, and sufficient nutrients were quickly injected into these vesicles, and one cow after another was quickly born.
Just over an hour later......
Moo! Moo! Moo!
One by one, the cows broke out of their eggs, and the newborn cows were adult cows, and they shook their heads strangely, not understanding how they were here, and when they looked down, the vesicle that was born by themselves was rapidly shrinking and quickly disappearing into the ground.
Each cow behaves differently, and there is a thinker cow with his head tilted up, looking at the strange sun hanging from the zenith, perhaps thinking about philosophical questions in his head; There are explorers who are bulls who scatter joy everywhere, one will dig the ground, want to dig through the earth, and the other will wander around, and when they encounter the world crystal wall, they will use their horns to top it to see if they can break the void; Some dick silk cows are poor and happy, in line with the world is ours, but after all, it is their thoughts, if there is a bite to eat, take a bite first, bow their heads and start to nibble on the food with strange colors, but it can be swallowed......
"G4, monitor changes in air composition and species at any time!"
"Yes, boss!"
The first biosphere designed by Meng Yang had only two species, the thermozygotic alfalfa and the bovine!