The pipeline does not run all the way, passing through a small space station hundreds of meters long and wide every few tens of kilometers. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 As the info "elevator" approaches these space stations, gravity changes a bit.

The base carrier has now descended to a synchronous orbit more than 3,000 kilometers from the surface of the Scarlet Star, and this downward pipeline has not yet penetrated to the surface, but is actually less than 1,000 kilometers.

It took nearly two hours for the elevator to descend to the lowest space station, Xia Ming was also ravaged by Fen and Su Dang's large pillows for a long time, seeing them curiously looking at the projection on the wall, the horizon, the ocean, and the clouds of the scarlet star had already revealed a corner, and he moved his mind and instructed the metamaterial texture of the floor to project the scenery below, and the floor was suddenly as transparent as glass.

Not to mention Fen and Su, even many engineers exclaimed, constantly looking for a place to fix their bodies. Of course, Xia Ming suffered by himself and became their pillow again.

The crimson star at his feet, a small pillar sticking out of the clouds, was still thousands of kilometers away from the space station.

Fen and Su suppressed their fear of heights, looked at the pillar, and their hearts were agitated.

The space elevator, which is directly connected to the base carrier in space from the surface of the scarlet star, once completed, no longer needs to rely on shuttles or warships to lift off, and personnel and materials can be directly transported to space through the elevator.

For the Scarlet People, this is an unimaginable project. Although they relied on tear crystal furnaces to easily enter space, warships that could enter space required well-trained crews and special designs, but now they are much more convenient and faster.

"You should be proud, even the Blue Star people haven't used such a technology yet," Xia Ming said with emotion.

With anti-gravity technology, building an aerospace elevator is a matter of course, but it has been busy with the decisive battle of Luoxing, and after the decisive battle, it has to make various post-war preparations, until GEI pointed out through data statistics that the volume of aerospace transportation has become a bottleneck for further mobilization, and Starlink urgently asked the Engineering Institute to conduct the test of the aerospace elevator.

Starlink has not been working on the aerospace elevator for a long time, also because the project has been controversial. In the eyes of some people, since the anti-gravity technology has been mastered, the movement of people and materials from the surface to space can be solved directly by relying on anti-gravity spacecraft, so why build an aerospace elevator.

However, the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of spacecraft transportation are far lower than that of aerospace elevators, which can send goods continuously, but the delivery volume and cycle of a spacecraft are fixed, which will also bring heavy pressure to aerospace control. In the end, Starlink decided to promote the air-space transportation system with the aerospace elevator as the core, and the spacecraft was only used as a flexible supplement.

On the basis of anti-gravity technology, the construction of aerospace elevators is only an engineering application rather than a scientific research project. Arrange a permanent small space station with anti-gravity engines every few tens of kilometers, let the elevator run through these space stations, share the weight of the elevator, keep the elevator pipeline stable, and then rely on high-strength metamaterials to ensure the stability of the pipeline, and this is it.

There are several difficulties, first of all, from the starting station on the ground to the base carrier in space, and dozens of space stations in the middle, must form a stable whole, if each node has abnormal movement, even if it is only a few tens of millimeters, it will make the upper and lower segmented pipes deviate or even twist, which puts forward extremely high requirements for the attitude and motion control of each node.

For Starlink, this kind of thing related to system control is already pediatric. The GEI built by the super optical brain, together with each node space station and even the pipeline itself, forms a distributed intelligent network, which can adjust the small deviations at any time.

Considering the amount of more secure redundancy, the Academy of Engineering proposed that it hoped that the second-class superintelligence would be responsible for the overall control, after all, this kind of computing and instruction traffic, relying solely on the optical brain, is still not very reassuring.

The technology used in star rings for second-class superintelligence is already very mature, and if it is to be changed to a new use, it will have to be researched accordingly, which is not something that can be solved immediately. However, it can also be seen from this point that Starlink has more ideas and needs for the application of second-class superintelligence.

Another difficulty is also the origin of Xia Ming's use as a pillow by Fen and Su, each space station connected to the elevator pipeline is a gravity source, which causes the elevator to experience a gravity change every time the elevator passes through a space station. This is not a good thing for people and some special materials. And according to the design requirements, the speed of the elevator is not as slow as it is now.

This difficulty is caused by technical principles and cannot be completely solved, so the Engineering Academy put forward the concept of zonal transportation.

The elevator that Xia Ming is in now is not the final plan, but only an experimental nature. After confirming that the overall system is okay, the internal part of the pipeline will be subdivided. The existing space will be divided into two areas, one of which will be used for transporting goods in the center, and this part will be high-speed. The outer ring will be divided into several arc-shaped carrying compartments, which serve as a transportation channel for people and special cargo, which is slow, and divides up and down.

Once the test is successful, Scarlet will build three Sky Elevators, one for the military use of the base carrier, one for industrial use, and one for civilian and commercial use, with the latter two being larger.

Starlink first built the sky elevator in Scarlet Star because the tear crystal furnace is a relatively mature anti-gravity engine, which can be set up first, so as to obtain overall construction and operation and maintenance experience. Aerospace elevators built in other galaxies will be replaced with humans' own RCS anti-gravity engines for safety reasons. Starlink still doesn't want to use the technical systems developed by the Qimu people, such as tear crystals, strange stones, floating stones, and gray chalcedony, on human beings, which are big rear, and there can be no mistakes.

Although Starlink is out of overall interests, it can even be said that it is more from the perspective of human interests, and builds an aerospace elevator for Scarlet, but objectively it also benefits Scarlet Star.

As Xia Ming said, the Scarlet Star people have an air elevator before humans, which means that they can enter space faster and more conveniently, and the progress of the Scarlet Star Civilization has also accelerated a lot.

Fen and Su looked at the pipe that had emerged from the clouds, feeling like a young seedling that had just sprouted from the ground, and their hearts were full of joy.

But Su's face gradually turned heavy, and she turned her head and asked Xia Ming, "Will the war continue?" ”

Fen said angrily: "It's not whether we want to fight or not, it's the Qi Empire, the Flame Demon, and the chaos behind the Flame Demon, whether they will give up or not!" ”

Su lowered his eyes and said, "I know, but if we keep fighting like this, how many people will we die?" ”

A layer of mist also rose in Fen's eyes, Luo Xing fought a decisive battle, 2.2 million scarlet people died, plus Basensbeka, and the previous battle of Luo Xing, there were already close to 3 million scarlet people who had died. If you count the casualties of the Ma Youwei family's receiving team and the alternating era of the old and the new, the Scarlet Stars lost nearly 10 million people a few years ago, and the total number of Scarlet Stars is only a little more than 200 million.

"I'm more worried that by that time, will we also be divided into the original Qimu people and the newborn Qiling just like the Qimu people?"

Sue's question left Fen speechless, the Scarlet People had indeed split into two groups. One is the same as Fen, the "new scarlet people" who can stimulate the activity of consciousness and enter the spirit net, and the other is the same as Su, because of the tear crystal radiation, their consciousness is connected into the tear crystal tree network, and there is a back door in the Qimu people.

"Don't worry about this", Xia Ming had to say comfort: "The Qimu people will eventually become Qiling, and their Archaeoptera Tree has set such an evolutionary path for them. The same goes for you Scarlets, the difference is temporary and we're looking for new solutions to free you from the tree web. ”

Xia Ming didn't draw cakes, but created an evolutionary brood in the Komei galaxy to let the Qimu people evolve into strange spirits, which also gave Star Alliance a great inspiration. Since the Qimu people have such a built-in evolution program, then the Scarlet People should have a similar setting. Finding the influence exerted by the Qimu people from this "evolutionary process" should be able to clear the backdoor left in their consciousness.

The problem now is that the Qimu people are the evolutionary program set by the Archaeopterans, but the Scarlet people have both the natural evolution part and the transformed part of the Qimu people, and the "evolution program" is not so clear and searchable. And even if there are traces of the transformation of the Qimu people, it seems to be a bit wishful thinking to eliminate the influence of the tree network and retain the achievements of the Qimu people in advancing the scarlet people to higher intelligent creatures.

Of course, this is something that Xiaotang and Liluo need to have a headache for, and Xia Ming only needs to look at the direction.

Fen and Su would not ask about these details, Xia Ming had a guarantee, and they were much more at ease.

Instead, Fen asked again: "Leader, you Blue Star people, why is there no such division?" ”

Xia Ming smiled: "Why not? We Blue Star people also have ......"

Speaking of this, Xia Ming was stunned, human beings seem to be divided into new humans and old humans, but this distinction is not clear. No matter who it is, in principle, it is possible to become a new human, as long as the consciousness activity is raised to a sufficient strength.

From this point, Xia Ming thought of the "evolutionary program", does human beings also have such a setting?

Thoughts rolled back, more than 20 years ago, when I got along with 100 billion, the information obtained from her was surging like a tide.

After the disintegration of high-dimensional space-time, the remnants of high-dimensional rationality, that is, the 100 billion implementation of the backup plan, transmitted life information into the Oort universe and guided this low-dimensional universe to evolve life, which gave rise to human beings.

Judging from the whole process, human beings seem to have evolved naturally, but considering the initial background, as well as the anchoring of hundreds of billions of R3AI and Lin Qianyan, if they want to give birth to a high-dimensional consciousness again through a way like mutant Borg or Super Matt Whip, then it is impossible to let go of the life evolution process of the Oort universe, and there will be some control. This kind of control should be embodied in settings such as "evolutionary programs".

From the point of view that he and 100 billion can simulate high-dimensional consciousness, Xia Ming has to make this judgment: human beings should also have an "evolutionary program", but there is no longer a controller like the Ancestral Mother Tree, and now the control is in the hands of humans themselves. It's just a pity that humanity hasn't found its own evolutionary program yet.

Thinking along this line of thought, Xia Ming not only felt Harappa's confusion, but also sensed Sue's worries more clearly.

Once humanity finds its own "evolutionary program", what kind of changes will it have?

Cornworth has been able to transform himself into a strange wood man in appearance, just like the seventy-two changes of Sun Monkey, what Cornworth can do, Xia Ming can naturally do it more easily.

The change in appearance was only superficial, Xia Ming thought about it carefully, and felt that there was no insurmountable obstacle to changing his body into a Qimu person, a scarlet star, or even a Ma Guling or Luo Xing person from the inside out. As for changing gender, that's even more pediatric.

If a completely new life structure can be discovered, or even created, that is, species, including pure gaseous, liquid, crystalline, and plasma life that is still science fiction, as long as it is a life species that can remain stable, Xia Ming believes that with the improvement of consciousness activity, any transformation at the material level is possible.

By that time, will humanity still be human? What kind of relationship will human beings have with each other?

The current human race, at least in the Star Alliance, the family has begun to disappear. He and Xiaotang Xiaohuan, as well as two daughters, plus Qianyan, reluctantly formed a family that seemed decent, but the actual relationship was extremely chaotic. But other people, such as Li Diluo, Lin Cheng, and He Xinghui, have formed a solid relationship with a super-intelligent partner, and they are just lovers or even *** with normal women. And they are also ready to live like this, their superintelligence is immortal anyway.

There is also a general trend in Starlink, that is, the higher the consciousness activity, the less you want offspring.

One reason is that they live long enough, starting at least 200 years old, to maintain their youth for at least 160 years. And in a few tens or hundreds of years, such a lifespan limit can still be broken. In this way, one of the ultimate missions of the human individual: reproduction, is no longer so urgent and necessary.

Another reason is that there is no longer an emotional need for offspring, for human beings, raising children, on the one hand, is the continuation of the bloodline, and on the other hand, the need for emotion. But for the new humans, who are highly conscious and have a clear sense of self-control, such emotional needs are becoming more and more indifferent.

Superintelligence has also reduced this demand to a certain extent, because the super-intelligent mind cloud is "tuned" by humans bit by bit, and the relationship with the partner is not as simple as the partner.

To be honest, the existence of superintelligence has actually allowed the best of humanity to break through the lower ethical boundary, and for the "colts", they themselves play the role of "ghost-father".

The last reason is also very simple, even if there is a real need to have offspring, there is no hurry. The artificial womb technology has long been done by the Institute of Biology, but it is afraid of affecting the social structure, so it does not dare to be applied on a large scale for a while. In the future, children will be needed, and sperm and eggs will be used to create them directly, and parents will not have to lift a finger during the whole process.

A report recently submitted by the Starlink Social Institute has been pressed into the depths of Xia Ming's consciousness. According to the report, of the existing 900,000 official members of Starlink, only more than 300 will marry according to social traditions in the first half of 2043. From the time of the Vault to the present, there are less than 1,000 children born to members of the Star Alliance, and there are two daughters contributed by Xia Ming.

Although this situation also has the impact of the tense situation and busy affairs, it is obvious that the original human social structure of Starlink as a separate group has actually collapsed.

The evolutionary faction led by Liluo has proposed more than once at the core decision-making meeting that the policy of organizing the cultivation of the descendants of the Star Alliance should be implemented. Through technologies such as artificial wombs, all men and women of appropriate age can have offspring. These offspring were organized and raised by the Star Alliance and became the new living force of the Star Alliance.

This request of Lilo and her sisters is more out of selfishness to study the hereditary nature of consciousness, and the deprivation of a person's right to free reproduction and the right to raise offspring is undoubtedly extremely reactionary to people whose ideas are still in the era of alternating between the old and the new. If humanity is already in danger, there is nothing wrong with doing so, but the problem is that the Star Federation is now victorious.

Therefore, once such a proposal appeared, he was shot once, but Xia Ming felt that Starlink would eventually embark on this path. If you don't accept this, then clones and replicants will become popular, making the already chaotic social form even more chaotic.

Just the progress of longevity, superintelligence, and fertility technology has gradually collapsed the original social structure, ethics, and morality of human beings. When the "evolutionary process" is mastered, and all human beings can be as free as monkeys and even gods, can human beings still be called human beings?

It's not just confusion or worry, the more Xia Ming thinks about it, the more frightened he becomes.

Sure enough, although human beings yearn for freedom, they are extremely afraid of real, complete freedom.

Xia Ming sighed: "We, like you, are all facing drastic changes, and we don't know what we will become in the future. ”

Su and Fen were silent for a while, and Su suddenly said, "Then why don't you let us merge and change together?" ”

Finn also said: "Didn't you say that in a closed system, the process of change is drastic, but in an open, pluralistic system, the change will be much smoother. ”

Xia Ming was stunned and said with a wry smile: "You guys, you really know how to go around in circles." ”

He said with emotion: "However, from a scientific point of view, you are not wrong, I just say that science ......."

Before they could finish speaking, Fen and Su cheered and hugged him firmly as a pillow again. (To be continued.) )