Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, has the scientific name "ALS". After suffering from this disease, there is still hope for treatment in the early stage, but once it reaches the advanced stage, the probability of recovery through clinical treatment is almost zero. Faced with Hawking's situation, all modern medicine can do is to control the patient's condition.
However, with 22nd century technology, treating this disease is not a big problem.
Medical technology in the apocalyptic timeline was quite advanced, and by the time before the war, almost 90% of incurable diseases had been cured. Lou Gehrig's disease is one of the diseases that has been solved.
The easiest way to treat Lou Gehrig's disease is to use the smart medical cabin that Jiang Chen brought to the world last time to cure Ayesha. No matter how severe the symptoms of muscle tissue necrosis, atrophy, etc. are, as long as enough time and culture fluid are spent, they can be effectively treated. As for the accumulated neurotoxic substances and glutamate accumulated between nerve cells, it can be cured by injecting special drugs.
There are medical experts in the apocalypse, and it is not difficult to prepare these medicines.
With mixed emotions, the British Prime Minister left the new country at the end of a three-day diplomatic visit.
Before receiving treatment, Hawking asked Jiang Chen an interesting question.
"Before I go into treatment, may I take the liberty of asking a question?"
"If you are going to ask me whether the surgery will be painful, my answer is no." Jiang Chen replied in a funny tone.
"It has nothing to do with me. What I want to ask is about the homework you assigned to your students half a month ago."
"What? The master of cosmology is also interested?" Jiang Chen looked at the old man in surprise and asked.
"I'm just curious, did you find anything?"
Those cloudy eyes seemed to have the penetrating power to understand the universe, staring directly into Jiang Chen's eyes.
"Why do you think so?" Jiang Chen asked with a smile.
"Because the number of rockets you have launched in the past few years is equivalent to the total launches of NASA in the past ten years." Hawking tapped the keyboard with trembling fingers. "With such frequent space activities, you will definitely find something."
"Has NASA discovered anything in the past few decades?" Jiang Chen asked in turn.
Hawking was silent for a long time and typed out a sentence intermittently with his fingers.
"They've never answered that question directly, but I'm sure they found something. You can look at Area 51, it's not just a federal military base."
Hawking did not elaborate on the details of Area 51. Obviously, as a scholar, he cannot know too much information.
At the end of the meeting, Jiang Chen asked a bit abruptly.
"If there is an extraterrestrial civilization and they know we are here, do you think they will be hostile?"
Hawking answered as he tapped on the keyboard on the armrest.
"If you've seen my lectures, you should know very well that I have never doubted this."
Jiang Chen smiled and stretched out his hand.
"It's an honor that we are on the same page."
"...Sorry, I can't shake your hand right now."
In mid-October, at the Colo City Hospital owned by Future Biotechnology, Hawking, accompanied by three children who came from the UK, entered the operating room and lay down in the medical cabin with the help of medical staff.
Considering that the muscles throughout his body have atrophied to a very serious extent, this recovery time may be quite long. The international community has also paid extensive attention to the medical problem of overcoming Lou Gehrig's disease in the future.
Any terminal disease that is overcome will be an immeasurable progress for the field of medical research.
Even though the prevalence of Lou Gehrig's disease is not high, international medical organizations still have strong interest.
However, like the previous times, Future Human Biotechnology did not disclose how to treat this terminal disease, but only very generally summarized the treatment process as two steps: "muscle tissue repair and neuron repair." International medical organizations have nothing to do with Future Human's "stinginess". After all, Future Human Group is a company, not a scholar. Even if it discovers something, it is impossible to write a paper and publish it in SCI.
In fact, it wasn't that Jiang Chen was being stingy this time, but that he couldn't explain it clearly.
The culture medium used in the medical cabin can accelerate the repair of necrotic cells under the influence of special electromagnetic forces. If the medical experts from the Doomsday side were asked to explain, they might be able to explain it clearly, but for a layman like Jiang Chen, he could only use this general explanation to get past it.
Anyway, the treatment process is quite silly. Two nurses will come and put the person in. Just remember to change the culture medium regularly. To put it bluntly, it operates almost like a washing machine.
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Not long after the news spread that Hawking became a citizen of a new country, various countries also made subtle adjustments in their policies towards the moon.
First of all, the United States, as the first and only country to send a living person to the moon, was preempted by the Halo Trade to establish a colony on the moon, which obviously made them feel unhappy.
After many rounds of discussions, NASA finally convinced Congress and received a budget of tens of billions of dollars. The White House announced the restart of the Apollo program, and NASA will join forces with companies to resume exploration of the moon. It is reported that many high-tech companies, including Google, will also participate and share in this national project with a budget of tens of billions of dollars.
The European Space Agency is not lagging behind, announcing that it will hold a meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, to discuss developing a moon landing plan as soon as possible. However, there is no agreement among countries on who will pay for it. Although ESA is not linked to the EU, the UK after Brexit is obviously quite indifferent to this project. Without the rich brother Britain, it will be difficult to squeeze out tens of billions of euros to invest in aerospace projects relying solely on the finances of France and Germany.
The director of the European Space Agency has called on private companies to invest in the project, but with the commercial prospects unclear, it is still unknown whether anyone will invest.
Then there is China. The success of the Chang'e series of rockets has also made it quite confident in the field of moon landing. Shortly after the ESA meeting, the mysterious relevant departments released a new aerospace white paper, incorporating the manned lunar landing plan into the national space strategy, and expected to launch the first manned lunar landing spacecraft in 2030.
Russia, on the other hand, has not made any statement for the time being due to insufficient funds and other reasons. However, the Kremlin stated that if conditions permit, it will change the existing space plan and include moon landing as part of Russia's space activities.
Jiang Chen did not feel threatened by the countries that were stimulated.
Even with the technology of Star Ring Trading, he still spent a lot of money to get to where he is now. Perhaps the United States is the most promising country to colonize the moon, but by the time that day comes, the moon will already be covered with colonies and mines for the Star Ring trade.
Even if they wanted to colonize, would there be any land for them to settle down? (.)