Viruses and bacteria are not necessarily harmful, and quite a few are beneficial.
For example: endogenous retrovirus is beneficial to the human body, and it is an important basis for immune cells to produce antibodies.
There are many retroviruses that can be used as vectors for DNA recombination.
There is also vaccinia virus, a virus that can cause mild cowpox lesions in cattle. People used vaccinia virus to eliminate smallpox.
In addition to these beneficial viruses, there are even more beneficial bacteria, such as bifidobacteria, lactobacilli, yeasts, etc., which are beneficial to human life and health and indirectly affect human life span.
Therefore, a normal person is a mixture of human cells, viruses, and bacteria, which are in a symbiotic state with the entire human body.
So, this "longevity virus" may really make people live longer, at least in theory...
What people are worried about is whether the reckless introduction of this virus will cause genetic collapse, chromosomal aberrations and other diseases. After all, it is something on Mars!
This is a "human genetic modification project", and the possibility of black shells is very high! Yu Yifeng and other experts are very aware of the risks involved. Isn't this how the Biohazard virus in the movie was created?
So, like taking chestnuts from the fire, this is something where risks and opportunities coexist...
Although many big scientists, especially biologists, were excited, they were also extremely calm. They were a little worried and carefully inquired about the research results, various data, and various experimental conclusions of the research team.
The discussion lasted for more than an hour, and the report was read over and over several times.
Only then did these big scientists say that there was basically no problem with the accuracy of the report, but there were still more data that had not been fully verified.
They believe that the basic principles of longevity viruses have not yet been understood, and the genetic sequence has not yet been tested. There is still a lot of experiments to be done, because the genetic sequence of this virus is extremely complex, and it is impossible to produce any results at least in the short term.
Seeing this, Yu Yifeng felt relieved. Of course, he hoped that scientists would be more cautious. In fact, even if the scientists said nothing, he would not rashly conduct human experiments.
Who knows how long the incubation period of this virus is? What if people get sick collectively after a few years? We must at least understand how the virus works and conduct some animal experiments before we can consider it.
Such caution is still necessary!
So in the following time, while focusing on industry, he also paid attention to biological science. Whether it is perfect hormones or longevity viruses, they are all very important and cannot be careless...
The machines roared, the motors roared, and the fully automated Kinov Industrial Factory was completed, finally demonstrating its daunting industrial capabilities!
Many scientists and engineers cheered tremblingly, shocked and moved by the miracles they had created!
Ivanovich burst into tears, this is the super industry he longs for!
Each mass-produced super excavator adopts driverless means. After digging a carriage of ore, it will automatically transport it to a place, dump the ore on the conveyor belt, and then transport it to the super train by the conveyor belt.
inside.
Finally, the super train transports the ore directly to the Noah. This series of processes does not require manpower and is automatically completed by the program.
Driverless driving is very convenient. One person can sit in an office and monitor a hundred machines. These machines usually make no mistakes. Once there are mistakes, there will be a lot of feedback prompts, so that people can deal with them in time.
The excavators are more than three hundred meters apart. If they get too close to each other due to system bugs or other reasons, the alarm in the main control room will sound, and supervisors will be asked to operate manually.
This kind of operation was a bit frequent at first, but then it only happened in two or three days and became less and less.
Because researchers will analyze the specific causes based on these errors and make improvements. With each update, there will be fewer and fewer self-driving vulnerabilities...
People are still researching automatic maintenance machines, so that maintenance can be completed automatically by the machines.
A big problem lies in front of Yifeng, that is, the production of steel seems to be unable to keep up... The worries of those smelting workers have come true!
At the beginning, people were studying procedures and building factories, and the consumption of resources was not large. The steel production on the Noah was more than enough.
But now, the program has been studied and the factory has started production. Excavators, trains, cutting machines, etc. all require a large amount of metal materials. As a result, the steel production on the Noah is not enough.
These super machines are too big and have too many consumables. The current large material gap is completely supported by inventory.
"There are only 1.3 million tons of steel in stock now, which is only enough for one and a half months of consumption. Isn't this too exaggerated?"
Yu Yifeng frowned and approved the construction of a steelmaking blast furnace.
This steel-making blast furnace is huge, seventy meters high! It used more than six thousand tons of steel. Of course, it was built inside the Noah.
In order to build this blast furnace, engineers specially opened an unmanned room in the spacecraft. They took the lead in laying various pipes in it, such as raw material inlet, slag outlet, ventilation outlet, etc.
Then, people used various machines to piece the blast furnace together piece by piece, falcon jointing, seamless welding, etc. It took about another month.
If it is officially put into operation, the production of this blast furnace will be fully automated, and various transmission tracks and robots have already been installed inside.
If it were in outer space, this blast furnace would definitely not be usable. The main problem is heat dissipation. Its heat dissipation is too great. Using ice will only lower the temperature in the room, but cannot cool it down inside.
If the huge heat cannot be dissipated, the pressure in the blast furnace will become higher and higher, and it may explode!
But aren’t we on Mars now? The temperature on Mars is minus 60 degrees Celsius, and the atmosphere is relatively thin, but the atmosphere is enough! More than a dozen exhaust fans continuously draw cold air in to dissipate heat, and then discharge the hot air out.
With such an air cooling system, this blast furnace can barely be used.
Of course, there are no fossil fuels such as coal and oil on Mars, but some combustible ice such as methane has been found, mainly in the lower layers of several glacial lakes.
But people do not expect to use the carbon reduction method to make steel at all. They still use the electrolysis method. According to this process, the refining methods of iron and aluminum are similar. The minerals are first melted to a liquid state and then electrolyzed.
The smelted iron contains little carbon, and after going through another set of procedures, it becomes crude steel with good texture.
Such a blast furnace consumes a lot of electricity. For this reason, people have also built a nuclear power plant to supply electricity to the blast furnace. The huge electricity consumption also contributes to extremely high output. It can produce 2,000 tons of steel a day and 60 tons a month.
Ten thousand tons! In other words, almost two steelmaking blast furnaces can make up for the material gap.