"There are so many things..." After completing the construction of the steelmaking blast furnace, Yu Yifeng finally let out a long breath.
The quality of these rapidly smelted steels is all crude steel, and the quality can only be said to be so-so, barely usable. But people don't care, as long as the output increases. These machines are mass-produced, and they don't pay attention to packaging, taste, or bad quality.
It doesn't matter if you drop a few.
Besides, the oxygen content on Mars is very low, so there is no need to worry about rust. The biggest shortcomings of crude steel have been avoided. After the robot is broken, it can be dismantled and recycled, and the raw materials are not afraid of being lost...
In the following period, both the Noah and major mining areas were in full swing.
In factories, assembly lines are duplicated and increased one by one, and industrial capacity continues to increase.
In the mining area, the number of excavators and robots is also increasing. Once their number increases, they have the ability to move mountains and seas. Mines are mined one after another, and large pits appear on the ground.
The number of supporting steel-making blast furnaces has increased to five! The power consumption of the entire spacecraft has greatly exceeded the plan. But it doesn't matter, people have plenty of uranium ore, and just build a few more nuclear power plants.
Yu Yifeng feels that the entire new human civilization has a "runaway" rough aesthetic.
Plans cannot keep up with changes, and many engineering projects exceed expectations and are completed ahead of schedule. What should we do? We can't just wait around. We can only make a temporary plan to let them continue working.
The production of these machines, such as super excavators and super trains, requires a large amount of steel, and it was impossible to predict it in the original plan, so steel production could only be temporarily increased.
In this way, after temporary plans are made one by one, the original forecast plan is useless. The entire industrial system is becoming larger and more complex day by day. But in general, only resources and electricity consumption seriously exceed the standard, and the overall industrial production capacity is still relatively precise.
in order.
In Yu Yifeng's mind, it is absolutely okay to exceed the standard of resource consumption. Even if it is a little extravagant and wasteful, it is not a big deal. With the continuous supply of massive excavators, there are so many resources, and they have been piled up into large mines...
In the spaceship, the industrial area greatly exceeds the residential area, with a total area of 260 square kilometers!
It is brightly lit and lined with machinery, and a large number of conveyor tracks are laid inside to transport different materials for various assembly lines. Many workers are shuttled back and forth, busy.
Now, the workers' main job is to be responsible for related monitoring, maintenance of automated machinery, and some bug correction work. If it reaches the later stage of factory construction, even the final maintenance will be taken care of by the robots themselves.
While Yu Yifeng was satisfied, he also had a headache.
From now on, with the completion of the first few phases of the Kinov Industrial Factory, many laboratories have begun to free up their hands to study things they like. As a result, the scientific and technological lines on the Noah are a bit messy, leaving him
There is a feeling of being overwhelmed.
A large number of technologies are developing simultaneously. How can he manage them all by himself? He can only have a rough understanding of them. He will not take care of technologies that are not black shells and let the scientists handle them themselves.
I won’t go into details about other small technologies. Generally speaking, there are several general directions to take: automatic industrialization, research on perfect hormones, exploration of long-lived viruses, research on new space shuttles, and manufacturing of space war weapons.
For some reason, he always feels a little frightened. Although this feeling has lasted for a long time, it has become extremely obvious in recent times.
The Genov Industrial Factory has been able to produce automatically, and excavators have successfully gone to the ground to mine. The resources accumulated on the Noah are increasing day by day, and people's living environment has also improved... Is there anything else to worry about?
Yu Yifeng frowned tightly, he really couldn't think of it.
"Is it those biotechnologies that humans have studied? Could it be that humans have touched black shells?" Yu Yifeng pondered and opened a report, which was sent by Professor Constantine.
"The complexity of the longevity virus far exceeds our imagination. Its properties are very weird, with low vitality and low reproductive capacity. I don't know why it can survive until now..."
"After it invades the human body, it will die soon because it cannot adapt to the environment."
"Its gene contains a large number of strange sequences of unknown meaning, and there are many redundant fragments..."
This is the report written by Professor Constantine to Yu Yifeng. Seeing this, Yu Yifeng frowned deeply again.
What humans dislike the most is things like this that don’t understand the principles.
"Ordinary Martian microorganisms are only slightly more complex than Earth viruses, and can still be analyzed by existing human science. But longevity viruses are extremely complex. Compared with ordinary Martian viruses, the gap is like the difference between a rich king and a poor beggar..."
"We are puzzled by this phenomenon. How could an extremely complex species evolve among a group of ordinary microorganisms?"
Seeing this, Yu Yifeng was deeply worried. Could it be that he was worried about the longevity virus?
But the temptation it brings to mankind is so great that it is impossible to give up directly... Many great scientists are in their fifties. In a few years, their health will decline. If there is a longevity virus, life will be reduced.
How great would it be to grow for 50 years?
But this temptation may be accompanied by a fatal crisis, which really puts people in a dilemma.
Continuing to read, Constantine explained in the report: "We suspect that the long-lived virus is evolving in the direction of bacteria, which makes it extremely complex... Perhaps, it will become the first bacteria on Mars!"
This explanation makes some sense, and Yu Yifeng nodded in his heart.
"But... the genius of our research team also proposed another possibility. It is due to an unknown reason that advanced organisms degenerated to the current stage... We have never seen the degeneration of life. Maybe this is just a bold move.
Guess!"
Degrading from a high level to a low level? If this is really the case, then something extraordinary must have happened on Mars.
Obviously, Professor Constantine was also full of doubts. He wrote at the end, "We want to prune out the redundant genes and keep only the core parts to see if we can still stimulate the activity of stem cells..."
Yu Yifeng was silent, pacing back and forth in the captain's room. He suppressed the uneasiness in his heart. Scientists are very cautious about longevity viruses. As long as they are strictly controlled, there should be no disasters like biochemical crises.
He has made up his mind not to allow any human experiments until the mechanism of action is completely understood. People who have been infected with the Martian virus must also undergo physical examinations every three to five days, including himself, of course.