Interstellar exploration alliance Pacific base, Institute of Biochemistry.

In a laboratory with a mysterious atmosphere, there was a strong and lingering smell of chemicals everywhere.

It is indeed a laboratory, but it is actually more like a hospital morgue.

That's right, this is the laboratory of Dr. Mingqi, a famous life scientist in the Interstellar Exploration Alliance.

Many people have heard that there are many frozen corpses of rich people in the world in Dr. Mingqi's laboratory, and Dr. Mingqi is studying how to get these damn rich men to see the light of day again from hell.

Of course, the actual situation should not be as terrifying as rumored, but frozen human corpses do exist, but they are not necessarily all of the corpses of rich men, and most of them are scientific volunteers who donated their bodies.

Of course, they definitely hope to return to the world one day.

The lab is quite quiet, and the dim light highlights the creepy atmosphere here.

Suddenly, a sound of fragmented footsteps came from the depths of the laboratory.

A low voice rang out.

"You are very brave, and people from other research institutes generally don't come to my laboratory."

"The body is nothing, but why not make the laboratory brighter? Look at it's so dark."

The two people who walked out of the depths of the laboratory were Dr. Mingqi and Harashi Chen.

"There is naturally a reason. The low temperature and dim environment are the best storage conditions." Dr. Mingqi's voice still exuded a strange atmosphere.

"So that's it!" Although Yuan Shichen responded, he couldn't help but complain in his heart, "You are deliberately scary! It's indeed a perverted place. Fortunately, I was used to seeing corpses and blood during the Eastern Han Dynasty!"

"Go to the office and have some information for you to see!" Dr. Mingqi said with a mysterious smile again.

"good."

After saying that, the two left the gloomy laboratory and walked towards Mingqi's office.

Harashi Chen came to visit Dr. Mingqi today, and he definitely did not come to visit the frozen corpse. His purpose was to understand the hibernation technology of interstellar travel.

Space travel is a very long and boring process. To ensure the normal survival of astronauts, you must prepare enough food, water, oxygen, etc.

As time goes by, the waste it excreted will gradually increase, and the carrying capacity of spacecraft is limited. It is necessary to ensure sufficient power and sufficient necessities, which greatly limits the process of human exploration of outer space.

If the spacecraft enters a designated orbit, astronauts enter hibernation. In hibernation, their heartbeat, pulse, and metabolism are all reduced to a minimum. During this period, they only need very little food and oxygen and produce very little waste, which will greatly extend the time the astronauts travel in space.

In addition, astronauts are sleeping and don’t have to watch the boring scenery of outer space all day long. For them, this kind of long-distance trip will be much easier.

All mammals may have the potential to "hibernate", and even humans have this ability.

And all scientists have to do is turn on this potential switch.

If astronauts were allowed to hibernate during a long space voyage, then the manned spacecraft would likely land on distant planets.

“Hidding technology has two directions.”

Dr. Mingqi sat on the chair, his eyes were shining and his hands were gestured in front of Yuan Shichen. Yuan Shichen extremely suspected that this was a problem caused by Dr. Mingqi's long-term dissection of the corpse.

"First, although rapid freezing of the human body should work in principle and we have made limited successful attempts in animals, it is still technically difficult. The difficulty is mainly the destruction of cells, tissues and organs during the freezing and thawing."

"Just like the frozen rich guys we just watched?" Yuan Shichen's pupils shrank and he asked in a low voice.

"Yes, but we are only responsible for freezing now and cannot provide thawing services for the time being." Dr. Mingqi continued to introduce with a smirk.

"Second, traditional hibernation, similar to bears, keeps the body temperature at around 10 degrees Celsius, and the human body's metabolism slows down. This technology is more feasible. However, traditional hibernation still has a high metabolism compared to freezing, and it cannot meet the needs of ultra-long-distance interstellar navigation."

"How long can a traditional hibernation last?" Yuan Shichen asked curiously.

"If I follow my technique, it is the current limit for a year. If I hibernate for too long, I will fall into a coma, which is very dangerous." Mingqi seemed to be talking about something very scary.

"I heard that some people in the medical field have been in a coma for 37 years!" Yuan Shichen remembered this and mentioned it casually.

"Yes, he will continue to refresh the human coma record, because he may never wake up. ~"

The smile on Dr. Mingqi's face became even more weird.

"I'll go~" Yuan Shichen was very upset by the laughter.

"But hibernation and coma are two different things. There are two types of human sleep: REM sleep (rem) and non-rem sleep when we dream. The latter is very important. For example, when you stay up late to watch a movie and go to bed, what you want is non-rhythmic sleep. Non-rhythmic sleep can replenish our body. We cannot lack this type of sleep for a long time, and the same is true for most animals."

"oh."

"You can take a look at these two research materials first!" Dr. Mingqi suddenly became serious and handed the information to Yuan Shichen.

Yuan Shichen took the information and his eyes passed by quickly.

[Data 1: Researchers from the Polar Research Institute successfully recovered the slow-moving animal "water bearworm" that had been frozen for more than 50 years, which will improve people's understanding of the long-term survival mechanism and conditions of cryptobiotics.

Water Bears, also known as Water Bears, are commonly known as the phylum creatures of the Slow Astrology. There are about 900 species recorded, most of which are distributed worldwide. They are extremely small in size, with the smallest being only 50 microns, while the largest being 1.4 mm, which must be seen clearly with a microscope. They are the most vital creatures known to be on earth. They can survive in freezing, boiling, air-dried, and even survive in a vacuum or under radioactive rays. Once they are put back to normal environment, they can still return to normal state.

According to the physicist organization website, these temporal animals were discovered by science in bryophytes at Showa Station in Antarctica 50 years ago and were isolated and placed in a refrigerator at about minus 20 degrees Celsius. 50 years later, scientists were determined to thaw it to further understand its performance.

The research team placed these temporal animals (divided into sb-1 and sb-2) in a warm environment. On the first day of thawing, they all had signs of life activity, but sb-2 did not eventually survive. Sb-1 began to move and feed after one week and recovered after two weeks. It also laid 19 eggs, 14 of which were successfully hatched. The hatched newborn puppies were normal, without defects and abnormal conditions.

Research has found that these temporal animals can obviously withstand extremely harsh conditions such as being completely frozen for decades, and can put themselves in a "hidden state", that is, slow down or stop their metabolic activities for a long time.]

[Information 2: After a Norwegian skier who fell into ice water was rescued and found out, he could wake up from a state of no heartbeat, breathing and body temperature of only 13.8c.

A person who had been trapped in a car covered with heavy snow in Sweden for more than two months was found. After examination, the doctor found that he survived because his core body temperature dropped to about 31c and remained stable, which was like hibernation.

A terminally ill patient will die because there is no organ transplant. Every breath and every heartbeat of his heart will approach death. In hibernation, the breathing rate of lemurs can drop to once every 20 minutes, and the heart rate can drop from 200 times per minute in normal state to 4 times per minute. If the patient can enter such a hibernation state, there will be more time to wait for the organ transplant. Medical treatment is also trying to make some incurable patients hibernate and resusciate them when medicine can solve this problem in the future.
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