Of course, in Luo Yuan's eyes, the more important thing is that this new battleship can accommodate a larger population than imagined.
Not to mention five million, based on the current population density of the mother ship, even a billion people are not out of the question. High-rise buildings have always been a powerful tool for accommodating the population. Even an area the size of a town can accumulate a population close to that of China before the end of the world. The miracle of population.
However, with the growth rate of the human population, it is estimated that it will take hundreds of years to fill this spaceship.
Over the years, human cloning has not been shut down in the secret experimental factory of the Bo star mother ship, but the production quantity has been slightly reduced. In ten years, the human population has increased by about two million, and the total human population has reached eight million. .
It's not that more clones can't be made, or to avoid exposure, but that there is a serious shortage of caregivers and teachers.
The number of people without hibernation is extremely small, with a total of less than 500,000. Most of them are scientific researchers, and there are only more than 30,000 specialized caregivers. After all, human cloning is not a product, nor are it the powerful clones of Luo Yuan. Once the body is separated from the nutrient solution, it no longer needs to be taken care of.
Newborn cloned babies are quite fragile. They are not much different from ordinary people. At most, they are only slightly stronger. They need someone to take special care of them whether they are feeding or defecating.
It is not until half a year old that they begin to show abnormal behavior, walk independently, and learn to speak. By this time, they basically no longer need to be cared for carefully.
These cloned children cannot be seen in the virtual world. They all study and live in the mother ship welfare institution and do not move in the virtual world. Their cognitive and distinguishing abilities are far from mature. If they stay in the virtual world for a long time, they will be easily confused. The difference between reality and virtuality.
In fact, not to mention children, many adults have this trend. Every time they leave the virtual world, they will feel like they are in another world. For them, reality is just a place to satisfy physiological needs. Most of them Spend time in the virtual world, live there, work there, and play there.
What is reality? What is false? This definition has begun to become blurred as the virtual world becomes more and more real.
This is an inevitable phenomenon of staying in the virtual world for a long time, and it is also an unavoidable sequelae. However, Luo Yuan does not want to correct this. The greatest value of those scientific researchers is to contribute their wisdom. As for where to work, as long as it does not affect them, how can they do it? Either way.
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No matter how powerful and advanced this new battleship is, it will have no effect on today's human beings. Human beings can still only stay in this old Bosian mother ship and can only conduct technical verification in the virtual world.
There is no village in the front, no store in the back, the black area is empty, and there are no resources at all. Even if the goddess of luck finds an asteroid by chance, she will not be able to build a giant spaceship of tens of billions of tons.
This is a behemoth that can only be built using a planet as a mining area. It cannot be satisfied by one or two asteroids. The construction work can only be carried out by flying to the Barnard star system.
This will take more than ten years of flying.
However, more than ten years later, with the advancement of human science and technology, this kind of spaceship is probably not worth it anymore. This is a spaceship destined to remain on the drawing board. From now on, we can only admire its former glory in the virtual world.
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After visiting the spaceship, the group took the aircraft and rushed to the next location. The space here has become a testing ground for human military power. In addition to spaceships and factories, there are also many strange and weird space defense weapons floating around.
"This is one component of the armed satellite global defense system designed by Tiandun Weapon Research Institute. It weighs 300 million tons, has ten sets of giant nuclear fusion furnaces, a gamma ray cannon and twelve rapid-fire electromagnetic gun defense arrays , intelligent capture targets, if it is a set, it will have 18,000, covering the entire planet.”
Tiandun Weapons Design Institute is one of the largest research institutes specializing in the design of space defense weapons. Almost two-thirds of the space defense weapons here are designed by them. This time, it was not easy for Luo Yuan and a group of leaders to inspect Space defense, the dean of the design institute quickly introduced it in detail with great energy.
However, when Luo Yuan only heard this number, he couldn't help but frowned: "Three hundred million tons, more than 10,000 pieces, can this resource be consumed?"
"This..." The dean of the design institute suddenly looked embarrassed: "This was designed by some young people. We will correct it immediately."
"You can be bold when designing, but you must also integrate theory with practice. Reality is not a virtual world, and there are not so many resources to mine." Luo Yuan reprimanded in a deep voice.
"What the mayor said is good, and this is what I want to mention. Over the years, these mechanical and military design departments have become more and more bold in mechanical design. Bigger is beautiful, more is better. The machine that was installed not long ago The mecha, which is more than 300 meters high, really scares me. What's the use of being so tall? If a war breaks out, it's worse than a space fighter. I think this trend should be stopped." Bi Jianping, who was standing next to him, immediately agreed. road.
Being criticized by the two big guys one after another made the director of this institute sweat profusely with fear and did not dare to defend himself at all.
"This is pretty good. You would never have imagined the tonnage of the first design version of the warship that was about to be built before. It was 300 billion tons. What do you think these people think?" Tian Jinping smiled and said The deputy looks like a good guy, but in fact, he is stern outside. As a senior official in charge of the Ministry of Industry, he has a tough approach and a stern style. Most subordinates do not dare to take a breath in front of him.
Luo Yuan smiled and said: "Their virtual world authority is a bit too high. It seems that it needs to be adjusted. Although the unlimited resource supply speeds up scientific research efficiency, it can also easily lead to misunderstandings in scientific and technological development. Barnard's star system is poor in resources. , it is difficult to mine. If this continues, our development will be severely restricted. "
This is not a guess but a reality. According to the data detected by the spacecraft, there are only two rocky planets in this star system, and the others are gaseous planets.
Moreover, the star is already a red dwarf, and the light it emits is very weak, causing the surfaces of these planets to be covered with thick layers of ice. These ice layers are not the shallow ice layers of the Earth, which are thousands or even tens of thousands of meters thick. It's possible. Except for water resources, which are relatively easy to obtain, mining other resources is quite troublesome, time-consuming and labor-intensive.
What's more serious is that humans must also consider the possibility that these seemingly rocky planets are actually gaseous or watery. Once true, it will undoubtedly be bad news for humans.
In fact, this is not a low probability thing. The temperature of that galaxy is too low. If the mass of ordinary gaseous planets is not large enough to generate spontaneous heat, there is a possibility of freezing, because whether it is methane or hydrogen, it It cannot withstand temperatures close to absolute zero.