Hearing what Bao Qi was saying, several people smiled and nodded. The importance of population is well known, and in any era, the number of people is normally an advantage.

In the era of cold weapons, the number of people was the absolute advantage, and it was quite difficult to conquer a unified populous country, and it was still the same in the era of hot weapons.

Once the population exceeds a certain number, it can only be conquered through Huairou's policy, and it is basically impossible to destroy it directly.

To this day, the importance of population is still important. Right now, a large number of people are needed to participate in scientific research, and the development of the solar system requires a large number of people, and the development of the outer solar system in the future will also need a large number of people.

The most important thing is that as long as the human population is large enough and the scope scattered in the universe is large enough, human beings will not disappear into the long river of cosmic history.

Fan Xiaoming sighed: "Yes! Who would have thought that the speed of our development would be so fast, from the information age to the space age in just one year, and now we are waiting for the proton fusion device, as long as it is successful, we humans will be able to enter the interstellar age from the space age, to tell the truth, our development speed is too fast, and we have not yet adapted to the space age to adapt to the interstellar age. "A year ago, it was still the information age, and it can be said that it was in the late stage of the information age, and the main reason why it was not possible to enter the space age was the inefficiency of chemical rockets, which made it impossible for human beings to enter space on a large scale.

Then there is the limitation of resources and energy. At that time, the global situation was actually not developing well, the poor were dying, the rich were dying, and the country was still far from a rich life.

The biggest pitfall is that many technologies cannot be cooperated with the international community, and they are limited everywhere. What I didn't expect was that there would be such a change in the future, first breaking through the research of chips, and then related technologies had a chain reaction.

If you want to say that the effect is bigger, it is the SS-defense system, because the SS-defense system has successfully avoided the catastrophe of all mankind, and at the same time, it has obtained global technology and related research materials.

With such an opportunity, it would be abnormal without explosive development. With the blessing of global technology and related research materials, related technologies and research have been directly filled and come to the forefront of research.

After that, there was a breakthrough in the simplified version of the heavy photonic aerospace engine, and it can be said that with such an engine, everything after that has also undergone great changes, allowing mankind to enter the space age directly from the information age.

This also means that human beings can enter space at will and at a low cost. Because of this, the development of the moon, the construction of light pillars, and so on, began.

With these comes resources and energy. With resources and energy, the pace of development is accelerated.

It has only been more than half a year since the asteroid impact event, and the situation has changed dramatically.

Not to mention that basically everyone in the country has lived a prosperous life, almost all human beings in the world can also live a prosperous life.

And that's just life, human spacecraft have reached far more space, and the development of the moon is coming to an end, followed by the development of Mars and the development of the entire solar system.

When the proton fusion device is successfully researched, human beings will have the ability to achieve interstellar flight and develop space outside the solar system.

Of course, even if the proton fusion device is successfully developed, if it wants to fully enter the interstellar era and explore and develop the cosmic space outside the solar system, the current number of people is powerless.

With the current population, it is far from enough to develop the solar system, let alone the universe outside the solar system.

It's safe to say that this is not enough. In his opinion, the first wave of children is the most important period of development.

What can be done in the past ten years is the exploration of the cosmic space around the solar system and the comprehensive development of the solar system.

It would be very good to be able to do these things well, and then it will be different, and mankind will enter a period of rapid development again.

Because from the first wave of children to adulthood, there will be a steady stream of children coming of age, and the effective manpower will only increase, which means that more and more people will join the scientific research work, join the exploration and development of the solar system and the extrasolar universe.

As more exploration and development occurs, more resources and energy can be used, and correspondingly, the ceiling on what can be increased in population will be higher.

Zuo Dajun said with some excitement: "Actually, if you really want to talk about it, our past state is abnormal, everyone is doing repetitive work every day in order to survive, to be honest, these jobs are really meaningless for the whole human race in addition to being able to feed ourselves, in the past, a small number of people had time and energy to do scientific research work, and others did some things that had no practical significance, so like now, everyone doesn't have to worry about survival at all, everyone can live a rich life, As long as you are willing to be able to participate in scientific research work, think about it can also know that the former is to suppress the creation of the vast majority of people, people are creative, always do those repetitive work that is the stifling of people's creative and innovative ability, now well, everyone as long as they are willing to participate in scientific research work, more people participate in scientific research work, the speed of human science and technology development will naturally be faster. Bao Qizheng smiled and explained: "It can't be said that in the past, resources and energy were limited, and it was impossible to be like we are now, everyone doesn't have to worry about survival, coupled with the current high degree of automation and intelligence, people are also freed from repetitive work, and naturally more people will participate in scientific research work." Speaking of which, everyone understands the truth, but the actual situation does not allow it.

In the past, resources and energy were limited, so naturally there would be fierce competition, and everyone was competing for resources and energy.

In other words, resources and energy are limited, and these resources and energy can only support a few people to live a prosperous life, and only a few people can be supported to carry out scientific research.

More people are paying repetitive work to earn wages and live on this meager wage.

It can't be helped, resources and energy are limited, that's a fact. In this case, only better people will be able to access more resources and energy supplies.

To be honest, there is no way around it, but fortunately it has changed now. After entering the space age, human beings will be able to obtain more resources and energy outside the earth, and these resources and energy will allow human beings on the whole earth to live a prosperous life.

At this time, it is normal for more people to participate in scientific research. Xu Zhengping nodded and said: "Compared with the past, the speed of our development is fast, but compared with the present, or compared with the speed of development we expect, the speed of our development is still slow, the solar system is waiting for us to explore and develop, and the universe outside the solar system is also waiting for us to explore and develop, seeing that we have the ability to explore and develop, but our number of people cannot support us to explore and develop on a large scale, anxious!" "With the development of science and technology, whether it is the research of science and technology or the exploration and development of space, it requires a lot of manpower.

Because of the rapid development, it is clear that there is the technology and ability to explore and develop, but because of the lack of people, it has not been able to achieve the goal.

That's why we're so in a hurry to launch a population increase plan.

"Yes! It takes 18 years for a person to be born to adulthood, and even if he can participate in scientific research at the age of 16, it will take 16 years, and this process is still a little slower for us now. Bauchi said seriously,

"But there's no way, it's a necessary process." The five of them said as they followed behind a robot.

The robot is constantly checking the white rabbits that are placed in the incubator, and the rabbits that have been examined and have their blood drawn are removed from the incubator.

Naturally, the number of rabbits in the incubator in front of the robot is increasing, and these rabbits are still with their eyes closed.

Fan Xiaoming nodded and said, "Yes!" These ten years have been a bit difficult, just think about it, we only have this population, the development of the entire solar system is not enough, seeing that the proton fusion device will be successful, once successful, we will have the ability to explore and develop the outer solar system of the universe, but the result is that our population is too small, not enough at all, we can only watch, it is like a mountain of gold in front of us, but just a few of us, want to move home, but we are completely insufficient. "In the face of the boundless starry sky, when you don't have the ability to explore and develop, you can also look at it, because when you don't have the ability, you can only think about it, and you can't do anything else.

But the current situation is that there is obviously the ability and technology, but no one has to explore and develop, and this situation is the most uncomfortable.

"It will take more than ten years for large-scale exploration and development, which is indeed a bit urgent." Zuo Dajun thought for a while and said,

"That, do we have a way to speed up the growth of human beings, or directly cultivate adults, so that we don't have to cultivate little by little, and we can increase the human population in a very short period of time, by the way, I remember that there are institutions that are studying synthetic life, that is, directly synthesizing adults through synthetic methods." As far as he knew, there were all kinds of strange scientific research projects now.

He said that this is directly synthesized life. Before, they said that they used data to synthesize directly, and those synthesies still refer to the cell level, and then develop and grow into individuals through cells.

As far as he knows, he is even more daring, directly synthesizing life at the atomic level, or synthesizing human beings at the atomic level.

You know, this is not a joke, and it is not one or two scientific research teams working on similar projects, but many scientific research teams.

The ultimate goal of these research teams is to work together at the atomic level to replicate everything that exists, whether it's non-living or living, and so on.

Fan Xiaoming smiled and said: "Shout, army, you all know this, there are indeed scientific research teams studying the possibility of accelerating the rapid growth and development of people, or all life, and there are also many teams studying the synthesis of everything at the atomic level, but this is only limited to the scope of research, research can, under normal circumstances, it will not be used in real society, let alone make people accelerate growth and synthesize people, even if we master such technology, We will not use such technology or means when we are no longer living and dying. "He is well aware of the consequences of using such tactics.

Xu Zhengping nodded and said: "Don't say that I don't think I have mastered such technology now, even if we master such technology, we won't do it, you know, why did we come up with such a troublesome population increase plan, stipulating that only legal couples can reproduce through artificial uterine technology, and also advocating that these are still growing up under the care of their parents, to be honest, if we are completely reckless, we can reproduce human beings like breeding these cattle, sheep, rabbits, and mice, and we don't have to divide them into batches, In the first wave, we will be able to get 10 trillion people...... For the future of humanity. We can't do that. "The reason why the population increase plan is so troublesome is, in the final analysis, for the inheritance of human culture, or the inheritance of human civilization.

The consequences of a reckless and large-scale increase in population in a hurry would be quite serious.

When these parents grow up, they will ask them where they come from, and besides, the number of people who have increased at once is too much, and many aspects cannot be taken care of, and in the end, it will inevitably lead to a gap between the newborn and the previous generation, that is, cultural alienation.

If this happens, the consequences will be very serious, and may even bring a devastating blow to humanity.

Su Zhe smiled and said: "Actually, we don't need to worry about the past ten years and twenty years, when the first wave of children reach adulthood, the increase in the effective population will usher in explosive development, besides, we can prepare for the explosive development in the future in the past ten years, for example, it is best to explore the universe around the solar system, build the solar system into a human base camp, etc., we should not be too eager for quick success, we also have to precipitate well, seriously, This period of time is likely to determine the future of our humanity, and our next generation is responsible for exploring and developing the universe, and the results of their education have a direct impact on the future of humanity. Xu Zhengping nodded and said: "In the next ten years, or in a longer period of time, we must not only take care of the development of science and technology and the development of the solar system, but also pay more attention to the education of our next generation. "We can't be careless about the education of the next generation, after all, the future of mankind is at stake.