The rise of nanometers

Moon, Guanghan Palace City.

In early April, Ballou and Phillips completed their quarantine and were then sent back to Blue Star.

But Jack and Neptune did not return to Blue Star. On the one hand, less than five months had passed since they went to the moon; on the other hand, they stayed voluntarily.

The scale of Guanghan Palace City is already very large at this time, and various supporting facilities are very complete. Eight more Yutu-class spacecraft have been produced.

This is not the maximum productivity of the Lunar Zone. As long as there are sufficient materials and spare parts, a Yutu-class spacecraft can be produced in about 24 days on average.

If an emergency occurs, the construction time can be reduced to 10 to 12 days for one ship.

It's just that now the lunar zone is facing an embarrassing problem, that is, there is a shortage of manpower. The spacecraft can produce dumplings, but there is no way to increase the number of astronauts on a large scale.

The total population of the lunar zone has now reached 4,372. As food is no longer self-sufficient, the greater the lunar population, the greater the logistical pressure.

At this time, in Area C21 of Guanghan Palace, Jack and Neptune were busy "farming".

Perhaps because of the psychological shadow caused by the fluorescent fungus, after the two arrived in Guanghan Palace City, they refused to continue the research on the fluorescent fungus and chose to join the Lunar Agricultural Science Institute.

Area C21 is the area of ​​the Lunar Agricultural Science Institute. Including Jack and Neptune, there are about 13 to 15 resident researchers.

Therefore, District B21 is also called the Agricultural Science District.

Cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, pumpkins, cabbage, pagoda cauliflower, rainbow beans, carrots and potatoes are grown in ecological planting rooms that simulate the Blue Star environment.

Due to the influence of low gravity, many vegetables have become particularly enlarged. This is not due to genetic mutations after being irradiated.

The planting area of ​​the Lunar Agricultural Science Institute is covered with two thick layers of lead plates, plus 1 meter of lunar soil, making it difficult for cosmic radiation to penetrate the protective layer.

Jack picked up a pair of scissors, wore a full protective suit, entered the tomato growing room, and cut off a red tomato that was slightly larger than his fist.

Various security regulations in federal research institutes are assisted by intelligent systems. If the regulations are not followed, the system will directly lock the researcher's permissions.

This is the most stringent management plan prepared after learning from various experiences and lessons.

If you just rely on the researcher's consciousness, there won't be many problems in a short period of time, but once time passes, people will always become inert.

In various biochemical experiments, why there is a possibility of leakage? On the one hand, the protection technology is not comprehensive, and on the other hand, the management is imperfect.

In a tomato growing room, the possibility of dangerous microorganisms being present is very small, but when Jack enters it, he still needs to take full precautions.

After picking some tomato fruit samples, he collected branches, leaves and soil samples.

After leaving the tomato growing room, he entered the comprehensive disinfection area, performed a comprehensive disinfection, and then appeared in the laboratory.

Dr. Li Bingwen, who is responsible for researching space cultivation, saw Jack returning and turned around and asked: "How is it? Are there any abnormalities in the vegetables in the experimental field?"

"Some vegetables are prone to hollowing out. This should be due to the effect of low gravity." Jack said as he cut open a large tomato, and there were indeed many hollows inside.

Putting the tomatoes on a digital scale, they didn't weigh much more than the big tomatoes grown by Blue Star.

Dr. Li Bingwen shook his head: "Vegetables and fruits are okay. If humans live on the moon for a long time for several generations, they will probably become giants, and their muscles and bones will degenerate."

"Indeed, but this doesn't seem to be an issue we should be concerned about." Jack continued to dissect the tomato carefully.

Li Bingwen did not refute this. They are the Lunar Agricultural Science Institute, not the Lunar Human Research Institute. The scientific research task they are responsible for is to study the safe implementation of lunar agriculture.

He cut some cucumbers into quantitative portions and fed them to mice in a cage for animal testing.

Now all the fruits and vegetables grown by Lunar Agricultural Sciences have been eaten by these mice, and no obvious abnormalities have been found yet.

Even mice are more adaptable than humans. After more than ten generations of mice, lunar mice have emerged that can adapt to the gravity of the moon.

The bodies of these moon mice are slightly larger than those of the blue star mice, and their bones and muscles have also changed. They have become mainly jumping, instead of crawling as before.

The way of movement changes due to gravity, and the way of movement promotes the body's skeletal muscles to differentiate in new directions.

For creatures like mice, which reproduce very quickly, they can indeed quickly adapt to changes in the environment.

The same cannot be said for humans, because their lifespan is too long and their development and growth period is equally long.

Compared with mice and even insects that can reproduce for more than ten generations a year, it is difficult for humans to compare with these creatures in terms of adaptive evolution.

This may be a gain and a loss!

In the long process of human evolution, humans have chosen a long life and wisdom, and naturally have to lose something.

Species selected by nature are often not perfect. This is the incomplete beauty of nature.

The perfection that humans pursue is something that goes against the laws of nature.

Of course, if human beings can really achieve perfection, nature does not actually care, and the operation of the world will not end or change because of this.

Because all of this is within the rules of the universe.

If so-called intelligent creatures gain immortality, it will destroy the balance of the universe. In fact, the universe does not care at all.

Just like human beings in the past, they arrogantly thought they could destroy Blue Star and dubbed the so-called environmental protection in the name of "protecting the world's ecology."

What a ridiculous idea.

Does Blue Star need humans to save it?

No need, because the Lord doesn’t care!

The only thing humans can save is ourselves, just like the Yellowstone volcano incident. If the Federation hadn't turned the tide, the ecosystems in most areas outside the Federation would have completely collapsed, and 99% of the humans in these areas would have been exterminated. .

As for Blue Star, in hundreds or thousands of years, the ecology will slowly recover.

Even if the ecology is completely destroyed, it doesn't matter to Blue Star.

Beyond the blue star is the solar system. Outside the solar system is the Milky Way with hundreds of billions of star systems, and then there is the universe as numerous as the sand in the Ganges.

Human beings are not qualified to save the world, because the world does not need saving, and human beings can only save themselves.

Jack, Li Bingwen and others were immersed in experiments and had long forgotten about the Blue Star matter. They even felt like they were happy to be there.

When I used to work at Outpost 2, I not only had to worry about this and that, but the living environment was also very cramped.

Compared with the current Guanghan Palace City, Qianshao 2 is like a small roadside hotel, while Guanghan Palace City is a five-star hotel.

The gap between the two gave Jack, who stepped into Guanghan Palace for the first time, a feeling of sincerity.

It was also the reason why the two decided to stay. After all, being able to work in this largest alien base in human history is also the dream of many people.

As for the various quarrels of Blue Star, in the eyes of Jack and others, it is meaningless at all, because the strength of the Federation is simply not something that other forces can contend with.

Rather than comparing blindly, it is better to work hard on the ground.

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