Chapter 370: Interstellar Cargo
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However, the implementation of this kind of restrictive policy based on political orientation is not only not conducive to the development of the new migrant planet, but also cannot hide the people of the bright-eyed and well-informed migrant planets, and it is a policy with considerable negative effects.
Even if the population of each immigrant star is patient and patient in the short term, if it continues for a long time, there is no doubt that there will be a lot of negative emotions breeding, and to be honest, this will be a great waste of human resources.
However, all these problems, with the birth of a new spaceship production line, a large number of various spaceships began to be put into production in large quantities, and all these problems are not a problem invisibly.
The restrictive policies for the industrial development of each immigrant planet have been abolished immediately since the spacecraft production line was rolled off the production line in 2365, and each immigrant planet has begun to develop by leaps and bounds in different industrial system directions according to their respective location advantages and the different division of labor in the entire earth's civilization industry chain.
Some relatively low-end and not too core industrial branches have been stripped out of the core industrial cycle of the solar system in large quantities and transferred to the major immigration stars, creating more jobs for the huge population resources of the immigration stars.
In the native solar system, although most of the physical production links of these relatively peripheral industrial branches have migrated to various immigrant stars, the core research departments of these production systems and so on are still mostly retained in the local area, so that the development of these industries can still be continuously grown with the help of the huge manpower and material resources of the local galaxy, as well as the most intense scientific development atmosphere here.
The industrial development of the interstellar era, relative to the planetary age, the trend of interdisciplinary development is more obvious, even if some of the earth's core local regarded as low-end industrial branches, its main core production equipment, most of them are very high-tech content, need many other industrial categories to work together to be able to produce, the scientific and technological content can be said to be quite high.
On the one hand, it is necessary to carry out the corresponding infrastructure construction of plants, equipment, etc., on the other hand, there are still a large number of people who need targeted education and training to meet the requirements of these new industrial occupations. At the same time, the various industrial production departments of the entire immigrant star have to independently carry out the processing and production of some production equipment within their capabilities, while waiting for some core equipment to be ready and in place, all these processes add up, and more than ten years have passed unconsciously.
In the past ten years, the major immigrant stars have rapidly achieved rapid development after undertaking the core production equipment transferred from the earth, and the production enterprises that have been transferred have quickly produced and operated.
For example, some planets mainly undertake the project of radar industry, and some planets mainly undertake the production project of faster-than-light spacecraft metal materials, and the finished products produced by each planet, in addition to the planet can independently digest and absorb a part, the vast majority of other production capacity must be docked in the solar system in order to join the entire industrial production cycle, in order to obtain the fullest industrial profits。
Fortunately, at this time, with the use of the spaceship production line, the first batch of as many as 50 faster-than-light spaceships have been successfully produced, and even the second batch of spacecraft has begun to take shape on the production line.
After all, it is a full fifty faster-than-light spaceships, which is on top of the production of spaceships in the previous half century, even if it is evenly distributed to ten immigrant stars, each planet can be divided into as many as five, and a large number of spaceships can also form batches of spaceships, and the itinerary is a fixed flight once a year or two, which is undoubtedly of great significance for the development of people's livelihood and trade between planets.
This batch of newly produced spaceships, except for a small number of warship types, is used for the defense of the earth's civilization. In addition to the small number of faster-than-light passenger ships used for the interstellar rapid transportation of high-end talents, most of the other spacecraft production is arranged for the production of professional super-large cargo spacecraft.
After all, in the history of spaceship production in the previous hundreds of years, the vast majority of the spaceship types produced by the earth civilization are immigration spaceships, in order to meet the huge population passenger transportation needs of the earth civilization, this relatively low-end, passenger spacecraft with a flight speed between 3-5 times the speed of light, the earth civilization has produced more than 100 ships in one breath, and it is just a few dozen ships to make up for 200 ships, the passenger capacity is even huge, and even the latest immigration spaceship, the number of passengers carried at a time has reached the scale of 100 million people.
In this way, up to now, the low-grade interstellar passenger transport needs of the earth civilization have been basically satisfied, and the annual average interstellar passenger transport scale of eight or nine billion passengers has almost met almost all the passenger transport needs of the 250 billion people of the entire earth civilization.
After all, as far as the current era is concerned, although it is already in the age of interstellar exploration, the interstellar activities between planets are still only once or twice in a lifetime for the vast majority of ordinary people.
And this one or two, for immigrants, is almost an immigration when they are young, and the fallen leaves after old age or even death return to their roots. This number is very insignificant compared to the total number of people on Earth, and even for the population of the inhabited planet, it is not a large percentage.
Nowadays, after years of development, the number of immigrants on each immigrant planet is only a fraction of the number of newborns on the immigrant planet. For the native citizens born on the immigrant planet, compared to their parents, they do not have the kind of emotion that they want to return to their roots even after death, so even the number of people who want to carry out a second interstellar flight in their lives is quite rare.
You know, it is often the barrier of twenty or thirty light years of interstellar space-time, for ordinary people, the price of wanting to cross the past is always too huge, if it is not for the interstellar migration activities organized by the civilization government of the earth and does not require citizens to bear the cost of the spaceship, I am afraid that ordinary people can't even afford a spaceship ticket even if they save money for decades.
Even if you can afford to buy a ticket, the flight that can take several years or more is too extravagant for most people, and not many people are willing to pay such a huge price for an interstellar trip that can be said to go.
Therefore, in this era of earth civilization, the purpose of the vast majority of population exchanges between planets is still to carry out population migration activities, and in the short term, there is still no sign of the day when large-scale population flows are only for interstellar tourism.
In this case, the Earth civilization maintains the current size of the immigration spaceship fleet, which is almost enough, because the current mainstream migration route is still the population export from the Earth to other immigrant planets, and with the increase in the number of immigrants exported from the Earth to the outside, the pressure on the Earth's native life is decreasing, and even the demand for Earth's native migration has gradually begun to decrease.
In this case, it can be said that in the future, the number of immigrant fleets that the earth's civilization needs to maintain will no longer need to be expanded, and even with the further reduction of the demand for immigrant population in the future, some spaceships will even have to think about whether to change to the direction of freight.
And this trend of decreasing immigrant populations is probably not going to change until the number of people on the planets of migration breaks through the carrying limits and seeks further migration to the outside world. This means that even in the next hundred years, the Earth civilization will not need to carry out large-scale expansion of immigration spaceships.
In the future, the faster growth rate of the earth may be the rapid passenger transportation of high-quality talents, and this only needs to add a small number of faster-than-light passenger spacecraft, and its demand is relatively small.
After all, in this era of faster-than-light information transmission, compared with the difficulty of population movement, cross-planetary information exchange is quite convenient, even if there is a huge demand for information exchange between planets, the vast majority of them only need network communication, and only a small part of the problem can be solved by inter-planetary flow of high-quality talents.
Relatively speaking, in the future period of time, the growth of freight demand between planets is completely exponential, which does not even need to be foreseeable, as can be seen from past statistics, the various trade needs between planets are simply too much to burst.
With the continuous expansion of the earth's civilization, ten new planets have been added, and as the number of new colonized planets continues to grow, the demand for various trade exchanges between planets has gradually shown an extremely obvious growth trend.
For the earth's own soil, the earth's civilization has added ten new planets, each of which has a completely different set of ecosystems, and therefore, ten different sets of species systems have been added, which is equivalent to about ten times more predation range for the earth's foodies. There are as many as 180 billion people on the planet, and at the most conservative estimate, there are 100 billion people who have a deep and strong need to try something new.
Although the level of science and technology on the earth is high, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and there are no new materials and new ingredients on the immigrant planet, and it is impossible to make a new delicacy that can only be tasted by the people on the immigrant planet.
To be honest, the people of the earth have long been full of expectations for all kinds of exotic ingredients, delicious meats, fruits, etc., which the immigrants on the colony planet are talking about, and they can't wait to taste one or two immediately and be able to feast on them every day.
However, although there are quite a lot of various materials transported from the immigrant planet every year, it is often billions of tons of things, but the number of ingredients in this is quite scarce.
Although the various species, edible animals, plants and other biological categories on the immigrant planets have reached a considerable scale after years of development after years of domestication and cultivation on the earth, these localized cultivated ingredients are completely unable to replace the ingredients exported on the immigrant planets.
Because the gourmets who have tasted the original authentic ingredients in person, after some comparison, they all made it clear that the immigrant star species cultivated by the earth are far inferior to the taste of the original ingredients, and the taste is much worse.
This is also easy to understand, after all, on the immigrant planet, there is its unique ecological environment, native animals and plants, in the environment to which it adapts, it is naturally easy to grow the most flavorful ingredients, and the earth cultivated, compared to the original things, the gap in all aspects is naturally innumerable, and it is normal for the taste to be huge.
It is not only the native region that has a demand for the products on the immigrant star, compared to the local need for various raw materials on the immigrant star, the people on the immigrant star, they need more things, and the scientific and technological products that are difficult to produce on the immigrant star, from raw materials to consumer goods, from consumables to industrial core components, can be said to be innumerable, and the demand for trade between planets has reached an immeasurable level.
Although the cost of interstellar transportation is high, and the cost of many things will increase to an unacceptable level after interstellar transportation, there are still quite a few things, even after interstellar transportation, it is still profitable. (To be continued.) )