Li Qingye was immersed in scientific research in the Pangu Realm, but he was still very clear about the situation on the earth at this time.

In the annual work report some time ago, he gave a directive to the scientific division to prepare a new plan.

At this time, Jiang Mingxuan, the head of the Science Division, took more than a dozen ecological and environmental researchers to select suitable areas around the world to implement Li Qingye's instructions.

This program is called the "Specimen Project".

As the name suggests, it is to collect all the current living things on the earth and make specimens.

This specimen can be alive, genetically formal, or a seed.

Therefore, Jiang Mingxuan plans to decompose the specimen plan into three parts, the first is the earth biological gene database; the second is the frozen seed and propagating cell bank; The third is the small ecosystem.

At present, Jiang Mingxuan has inspected three regions, namely the Central Pacific Sea, the Amazon rainforest, and the Sahara Desert.

Originally, there was no economic benefit in these areas, except for tourism and mining, and there were basically no other industries.

Therefore, Jiang Mingxuan directly circled many areas for the construction of artificial ecosystems, including five small islands in the South Pacific, 5,000 square kilometers of Amazon rainforest, and 5,000 square kilometers of the Sahara Desert.

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In addition, he also asked local branches to establish artificial biospheres and seed banks according to the ecology and topography of the region.

He wasn't too worried about the ecology of the tropics.

After all, at the peak of the ice age, the ice sheet did not reach the tropics, which are the safest areas of the ice age.

What really makes Jiang Mingxuan pay great attention is actually the subtropical, temperate and subarctic zones, as well as the alpine plateau region.

He was flying over the Arctic Ocean on a passenger airship.

In January, the Arctic Ocean has no color other than white, and the ice reflects most of the sun's rays, and the heat of the solar radiation does not remain much, which makes the ice very cold.

The short day soon faded away, and the long polar night fell.

Last year was an active sunspot period, and this year's solar activity is also relatively active.

This can be seen from the colorful aurora outside the window.

"Minister, arrive at White Bear Station in 20 minutes."

"Got it."

Twenty minutes later, the passenger airship slowly landed on the ice in the fierce cold wind.

Located in the northwestern part of the Barents Sea and southeast of Svalbard, the White Bear station is not itself on an island, but on a continental shelf, with a design similar to that of an offshore drilling platform.

Of course, the scale of the offshore scientific research platform built by the wealthy Homo sapiens company must be very large.

The entire Baixiong station has a radius of 2.1 kilometers and a sea height of 320 meters, which does not look like a scientific research station, but rather like a fortress.

Of course, there is no problem in saying that it is a fortress, after all, the White Bear Station is equipped with a lot of self-defense weapons, including death cannons and intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The 17 scientific research stations of Homo sapiens in the Arctic Ocean are all bases of this fortress type.

The passenger airship was parked right on the dome platform of White Bear Station.

The passenger cabin of the airship is just above the special lift, and the elevator is lifted as a whole and connected to the bottom of the passenger cabin, and personnel can directly take the elevator down to the interior of the White Bear Station.

The management of this kind of research station is dualistic, the scientific research business belongs to the scientific division, and the security business belongs to the external security division.

Dr. Lang Ning, the captain of the scientific expedition team of the White Bear Station, happened to be in the base today, and Jiang Mingxuan went directly to his office.

The birds and flowers in the base simulate the autumn weather in the northern temperate zone.

There are many scientific researchers and supporting service personnel, as well as security personnel, with a total of 13,000 people.

Inside Dr. Ronning's office.

"What is Mr. Minister doing here at the North Pole?" Ronning asked curiously as he poured hot coffee.

Jiang Mingxuan took the hot coffee and didn't be dumbfounded: "The chairman has arranged a new task for our science department, called the specimen plan. ”

"Specimen plan? Is it to collect creatures from the Arctic Ocean? Inside, there were more than 20 polar bears. ”

Jiang Mingxuan shook his head: "If it's just to collect specimens, I don't need to come here in person, the chairman wants us to build some artificial ecosystems in various regions based on the climate types around the world, and then preserve the local species as much as possible." ”

Dr. Ronning put down the hot coffee with a surprised expression on his face: "Artificial biosphere? That's a big project! ”

After all, the interior of the White Bear Station is composed of more than a dozen small ecosystems.

But this kind of ecosystem is obviously not enough.

The scale needs to be expanded at least 100 times to barely maintain a relatively stable ecosystem, which requires frequent manual intervention to ensure stable operation.

Jiang Mingxuan did not feel that this project was difficult, with the productivity of Homo sapiens at this time, to build a batch of artificial ecosystems with a radius of about 30 kilometers, as long as the plan was arranged, there was still not much pressure.

"In fact, we don't need to be too anxious, after all, most of the genetic samples of animals and plants have been collected by the company, and now we are just doing one more insurance."

Dr. Ronning asked, "Then the minister's idea is to build a man-made biosphere at White Bear Station?" ”

"It depends! The mission and I have not yet made a final decision. ”

"What does that require me to do?"

"The doctor only needs to cooperate with us in geological and environmental surveys."

"No problem."

Jiang Mingxuan and his entourage had dinner at Baixiong Station and started to get busy the next day.

They need detailed local hydrological data, stratigraphic information and, most importantly, species information.

The Science Division is very serious about building such a super-large man-made ecosystem, because this thing is not only for natural creatures, but can also be transformed into a refuge for new humans when necessary.

Therefore, all kinds of protection and facilities must be sufficient.

Jiang Mingxuan can't guarantee the future.

Even if the free world does not harm the earth, it does not mean that there are no natural disasters.

For example, the sudden eruption of the Yellowstone volcano, the eruption of the African mantle plume, and the impact of a large asteroid on the Earth.

Or a supernova explosion in a surrounding galaxy, shooting a Gamma ray burst towards Earth.

Or this time the ice age breaks through the norm and the Earth goes into snowball mode.

In short, all kinds of dangers can arise.

Some people may think that this is unfounded.

However, many people are not aware of one situation, that is, Homo sapiens is approaching a first-level civilization at this time.

In this case, the problem that Homo sapiens needs to consider is no longer the change of the earth's weather, but a natural disaster of a higher level.

In the face of disasters such as global climate abrupt changes, supervolcanic eruptions, Gamma-ray bursts, and asteroid impacts, natural human forces are powerless, but Homo sapiens has the power to resist.

If there is the power to resist, why sit idly by?

Therefore, Homo sapiens is now engaged in space exploration, building alien bases, building super-large artificial ecosystems and other behaviors, which is to prepare for a rainy day.

This is not to worry about the sky, but to do as much as you have the confidence.

The so-called end of the world, that's a relative concept.

If this ice age had occurred in ancient times, humans in the middle and high latitudes would have received boxed lunches long ago.

But now the major forces can still hold on, which is the confidence brought by strength and technology.