Chapter 12 Science and Technology
In fact, the Zerg War has brought not only disasters to mankind, but also certain opportunities from another point of view. Although the past three years have always been accompanied by the war with the Zerg, under the surface of the brutal war, mankind has also gained a lot.
In the past three years, the material information left by the mother tree and the Zerg in various ways has become the object of study by geoscientists, and humanity knows that the first step to defeat the enemy is to understand the enemy.
After a long enough period of in-depth research on super organisms, although it is only an extremely small part of the characteristics of super organisms, the derivative disciplines such as new biology and new materials science have undoubtedly brought a new breakthrough to the earth science community, greatly broadened the horizons of earth people, and made the knowledge of geobiology and related disciplines have exploded one after another.
In the past, geoscientists who had never seen such a type of creature as a mother tree and a brood could not have imagined that such a form of creature would evolve in the universe, and many characteristics and biological forms of super creatures have opened the eyes of earthlings. After really seeing such creatures, the evolution of human beings themselves has also benefited a lot, countless new species, new science emerge in an endless stream, and production technology has also been updated, so that many scientists believe that human beings have entered an era of new science and technology from this node.
The super biological civilization has fundamentally given the earthlings a new perspective to look at the universe and the objective physical environment around them. In this way, mankind has been freed from the narrow and self-centered cosmology of the past. In fact, this is a fundamentally seismic change.
After adopting a new perspective to look at the surroundings, mankind realized that the world was completely different, and as a result, a vigorous reflection movement began, and mankind could almost fundamentally reconstruct the modern scientific system that had been developed in the past hundreds of years. In just over three years, mankind has once again completed the path of scientific development that used to take a hundred years to complete, and countless new scientific and technological categories have been produced, and as a result, countless by-products of new inventions and new patents have been born.
The global network and social informatization process vigorously promoted by the New Earth Federal Government in the society have greatly promoted the industrial application of new technology in human production and life, and all of this has yielded fruitful results at hand.
For example, in terms of new materials, a series of research institutions represented by the Maosheng Academy of Biological Sciences have studied hundreds of thousands of new biological species and invented thousands of new organic biological materials based on the body materials of mother trees and zergs, and their performance far exceeds the material products of the previous human world, so that graphene, the top upstart material in pre-war human science, has become very ordinary in comparison. These new materials have shown unprecedented advantages in performance and market performance, ranging from space warships to home applications, and have begun the process of replacing the technology products of the old era.
For example, in food production, the new biology has brought about revolutionary breakthroughs in plant planting, cultivation, and gene-level growth control, biosynthesis and growth technology, which is of great significance to the future of mankind, which makes human beings finally see the prospect of getting rid of the restrictions of agricultural planting environment and completely losing their dependence on the natural environment.
Under the new technical conditions, cultivation is no longer planting, but should be more accurately described as synthetic. Whether it is an animal or a plant, under the new cultivation technology, its growth speed is comparable to that of industrial manufacturing processes.
The cracking process of super growth genes obtained from the mother tree and the body of the Zerg, combined with the existing biological gene technology on the earth, has enabled humans to directly use physical elements and water to quickly produce edible biological species in the laboratory, including several new synthetic vegetables, as well as several small edible animals with good taste, which are enough to meet the food needs of humans. That is, from now on, human beings can or even no longer depend on sunlight and land, and can achieve self-sufficiency anywhere as long as there are enough basic elements and energy.
The emergence of this technology is undoubtedly a historic breakthrough in the history of human evolution. It is of great significance to human society, it means that human beings can finally no longer rely on the natural environment, and finally end the history of really relying on the sky to eat, and human food has since achieved complete industrial production, so even if there is any catastrophe in the future, as long as the human social mechanism itself does not collapse, then there is no need to worry about famine. From then on, mankind will completely get rid of the history of food scarcity, and at any time, as long as it is needed by human beings, it will be possible to produce synthetic food in unlimited quantities.
Although this technology has until now relied on the mother tree itself and the body tissues of the Zerg to provide the most basic growth genes, it is believed that similar alternatives can be found in the foreseeable future, thus achieving complete localization of this technology.
You can imagine how important this breakthrough is to humanity. Other fields with similar values include nanotechnology, information and communication technology, manufacturing, energy technology, and the pharmaceutical industry, all of which have benefited greatly from the mother tree and the Zerg.
What's even more gratifying is that the new scientific explosion that people on earth have taken advantage of this historic opportunity to form is only just beginning, and it is far from over. Even according to the most conservative estimates, this wave of rapid knowledge growth of human beings will take at least a hundred years, after all, whether it is a mother tree or a mother nest, they are already creatures with an unknown number of thousands of years of evolution, and the value of their things to the human beings on the earth is far more than that.
It can be expected that once the earthlings digest the fruits of these scientific and technological growth, the earth's civilization will develop extremely strong, and at that time, even if human beings really face this kind of super creature of the same level again, they will definitely not be helpless like this time, and they will have to rely on the help of the mother tree to avoid the fate of extinction. Humans can even fight the enemy head-on alone with a more powerful face, or even defeat the enemy.
As long as there is a suitable environment for development, the scientific and technological civilization of mankind can copy the development path of almost any kind of civilization, absorb nutrients from it, and can achieve leapfrog development at a speed of several times and dozens of times that of the original civilization.