Homo sapiens.

Chapter 531 Difficulties

Wise Hernandez came to his experimental cabin.

This experimental cabin is buried under the lunar soil. For safety reasons, the cabins of the Copernicus base are rarely directly exposed to the ground, and are all buried under the lunar soil.

When preparing to build the Copernicus base, the Space Division organized a large number of professionals to study various plans.

In those sci-fi films, the seemingly tall base city was eliminated immediately.

The reason is very simple.

This is a real moon base, not a sci-fi movie, safety and practicality must be considered.

The kind of base that is directly exposed to the ground can only rely on its own shell to resist when encountering solar wind, high-energy neutrons, high-energy rays, and asteroids. This is obviously the most stupid plan.

After all, this is the moon, not empty low-Earth orbit and geosynchronous orbit.

Since it is the moon, it is necessary to adapt measures to local conditions, make full use of the raw materials of the moon, and reduce the proportion of the load of the spacecraft on the protective facilities, so as to maximize the benefits.

Therefore, the first batch of Pinder spacecraft launched into the Copernicus crater were all specially modified professional models.

For example: Tinder-Digger.

The entire body of the Digger can expand its mechanical legs, and it can walk like an arthropod like a centipede.

The reason why it is designed as a mechanical foot is mainly because the gravity of the moon is only one-sixth of that of the earth, and it does not have a thick atmosphere.

In this way, the mechanical foot can easily support its entire body, and it can also move quickly on various terrains.

However, this is not the core function of the digger. As the name suggests, the digger is an excavation device. This thing can easily dig out channels with a depth of 6 to 7 meters.

Then comes the Tinder-Carrier, a model designed specifically for handling other Tinder ships.

The transporters transported the landed fireship into the channel, and then the diggers refilled the channel with the sand dug out.

The thickness of the sand layer above each cabin is about 1 to 2 meters, which can ensure that high-energy neutrons, high-energy rays, and solar wind cannot disturb the cabin.

And the cabin does not need to be equipped with a magnetic shield system.

As for asteroids, the solution of the Copernicus base is to guide the fall, that is, through the monitoring system arranged on the moon, monitor the asteroids in the surrounding orbits that may fall near the Copernicus crater, and then launch some attitude control engines, attached to the On the asteroid, guide the asteroid to fall in other areas.

Although this solution is a bit troublesome, it is better than using hydrogen bombs to bomb hard.

As for the Copernicus base buried underground, due to the reduction of a lot of protective facilities, the ratio of its working equipment to living facilities has increased a lot.

At this time, Wise Hernandez passed the electric car and drove in the underground tunnel.

His electric car is actually a small electric car similar to Old Tou Le, and the tunnel also passes through a small tunnel dug by diggers.

The reason why the cabins are not connected together is also for safety reasons.

The cabins of the base are arranged in groups of 10, and each group is arranged in an area with a distance of about 500 meters between each group.

Through this small tunnel, Wise Hernandez came to the door of his experimental cabin, and first put the electric car in the underground garage beside him.

He entered the quick cleaning area to remove the dust from the space suit, and then entered the dressing area.

The heavy-duty space suit was released automatically, and Wise Hernandez was ejected from the space suit. He stood in the wearing machine of the experimental protective suit again, and a layer of jelly-like colloid flowed out of the equipment, and then quickly adhered to the On his bio-based armor, the two completed the connection and combination.

The whole person seems to be "fat" around. Although the bio-based armor has not weak protection, there are some unknown possibilities in the laboratory situation.

According to the laboratory safety management regulations, anyone who enters the laboratory must wear professional experimental protective clothing. This is a mandatory requirement. If you do not wear it, you cannot enter it.

Wise Hernandez walked into the experimental cabin and came directly to the lunar bacteria storage container collected a few hours ago.

He took another look at the situation of the professional fully enclosed microbial incubator, and the growth of lunar bacteria in the five incubators was not the same.

The lunar bacteria in the No. 3 incubator have already occupied a quarter of the culture medium, and are the fastest growing among the five incubators.

"Although they are all carbon-based organisms, this thing is a bit like Earth's submarine black smokestack bacteria, which has a soft spot for sulfur compounds."

While checking the conditions of each incubator, he recorded the data he found.

The average diameter of this lunar bacterium is very large, reaching 3200-3500 nanometers. As a single-celled organism, this diameter is already very large.

Wise-Hernandez speculates that this is because the moon's relatively low gravity allows bacteria to grow very large.

Moreover, the life form of lunar bacteria is relatively primitive, similar to the early archaea on Earth.

As for why lunar bacteria also have genes, they are still genes with the same helical structure.

The reason is very simple, because the life forms of carbon-based organisms are similar, especially the gene structure of the spirochete as the underlying logic is basically the same template.

This is determined by the basic physical rules of the universe, and there is no genetic structure of carbon spheres or carbon cubes.

If silicon-based organisms exist in a special environment, it may not be a chain-like gene.

But the carbon-based organism must be the gene of the chain helix structure.

Since both sides are carbon-based organisms, there are conditions for genetic recombination. Wise Hernandez is very aware of the current difficulties encountered by the Copernicus base.

That is, biosynthesis technology cannot synthesize parts with relatively high precision, which is not conducive to the self-sufficiency of the base.

The root cause of this situation is genetics.

The biosynthesis technology used by the company is based on the use of various earth biological genes to transform artificial organisms that can quickly synthesize various materials.

The problem is that the genes of the earth's organisms must have been mutated specifically for the earth's environment.

Taking these creatures to outer space and other planets will naturally cause acclimatization.

At present, on the Homo sapiens space station, the progress of space-based biosynthesis technology is also stumbling.

I have encountered many problems, especially some elements are easily out of control in the microgravity environment of outer space, resulting in very poor quality of the synthesized materials, and the synthesis speed has also dropped.

The same goes for the Moon side.

The reason why Homo sapiens attaches so much importance to biosynthesis technology lies in the advantages of biosynthesis technology. When exploring aliens, it can use the minimum manpower and material resources to maximize the benefits.

It is not too difficult for Homo sapiens to develop the moon now, after all, the moon is right at our doorstep.

But in the future, we will explore the satellites of Mars, Venus, and Jupiter. These planets are too far away from the earth.

The starting distance is hundreds of millions of kilometers, and the manned spacecraft cannot use nuclear explosions to propel it. Even if a mass projector is built on the moon, it will be difficult for the speed of the manned spacecraft to break through the limit of 50 kilometers per second in the future.

Therefore, it is the best solution to use biosynthesis technology to expand the scale of the development base by using local materials from aliens.

If everything is transported by the earth, the speed at which humans develop the solar system will drop hundreds of times.

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