The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 210 Bio Rocket
Biological rocket, a word that sounds almost unbelievable, has finally become a reality for Lin Yi.

From the appearance, the shape of this biological rocket is conical, similar to the corner stone shell of the year - in fact, Lin Yi is also planning to name it - "Corner Stone".

This name commemorates the shock he felt when he first discovered the corpse of Cornerstone 400 million years ago, which allowed him to start the journey from the late Ordovician to the present, from the first few giant feathers with spatial synaptic structures. Winged horseshoe crabs are now individuals of various levels, uniting the sea and land, and looking forward to the journey into space.

At the same time, it is also a commemoration of the tense and cruel arms race with the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group, or in other words, a commemoration of the early Paleozoic era when the demons were dancing wildly.

At this time, the huge "Corner Stone", a silver-white shell with red stripes just like the Corner Stone, stood on a launch pad improved from the terrestrial nest structure, facing the sky straight.

The launcher is composed of a tall fixed crane with three specialized appendage structures, and underneath the launcher is a large number of exoskeleton structures without living cell tissue.

The mineral ions and special organic synthetic materials contained within these exoskeleton structures have amazing heat resistance, but it is not enough for the high temperatures of rocket launches. Therefore, the bottom is a huge pool filled with water. When the rocket is launched, the tail flame will evaporate the water in the pool and absorb a lot of heat.

Similarly, the nozzle part of the "Corner Stone" that needs to withstand the most heat has also undergone similar treatment.

The surface of the exoskeleton is covered with multiple layers of scale structures similar to shark shield scales. These scale structures are composed of minerals with low melting and boiling points. Once the tail flame starts to eject, it will directly sublimate into a gaseous state, taking away the heat.

In the same way, the rocket shell that will experience severe friction with the atmosphere and withstand heat also adopts a similar multi-layer shield scale design to reduce the heat that the material needs to withstand as much as possible.

Of course, the shell structure of the inner layer itself can still withstand a considerable degree of high temperature - since this is the first official launch, Lin Yi has reserved a large redundancy for most indicators to increase the fault tolerance rate in case of just in case.

In terms of rocket fuel, Lin Yi chose liquid hydrogen, which is relatively easy to obtain, as the fuel, and liquid oxygen as the oxidant, which is stored in two chambers similar to propellant structures. The fuel and oxidant mercury are introduced into the reaction chamber using high-pressure gas and muscle structures. within.

There is no cell tissue in the reaction chamber, and it is entirely composed of a heat-resistant exoskeleton structure to withstand the high temperatures of combustion.

The extraction of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen uses biological current to directly electrolyze water, decompose it into hydrogen and oxygen, and then continue to compress it into a liquid state and store it in a low-temperature and high-pressure environment.

This kind of structure is not the only one on the entire "Corner Stone" - Lin Yi referred to the concept of later multi-stage launch vehicles and designed a circle of detachable booster structures on the side of the "Corner Stone".

This makes the "Corner Stone", like the launch vehicles of later generations, connected to a circle of "small rockets" outside the main body.

Each of them has a unique set of spatial synaptic nerve structures in their bodies. After rising to a certain height, these small rocket-like detachable booster structures will detach from the main body, fall towards the earth, and then dissolve themselves. For such a huge series of structures, what they carry is also the top priority - however, compared with later launch vehicles, it does not need to consider complex life support systems, because the things it transports have this function itself. .

The top of the huge shell of the "Corner Stone" houses a cluster of huge improved carpet tumor structures, which will serve as the pioneer of the nest group to explore outer space.

The genetic sequence of this carpet tumor has been heavily modified by Lin Yi. It is not only a complete autotrophic system such as photosynthesis, but also integrates all autotrophic systems that have ever appeared on the earth!
Needless to say, there is no need to say much about photosynthesis. The second type is chemoautotrophy, which is similar to that of nitrifying bacteria in later generations, that is, it uses the process of oxidation of substances to obtain energy.

This structure is combined with the photosynthesis structure, allowing it to utilize the metabolic waste and oxygen produced by photosynthesis to achieve chemoautotrophy, and further absorb the metabolic waste by the photosynthesis system to achieve recycling of materials.

The third type is the radiation synthesis of fungi - yes, in fact, it is not a specific type of fungi, but all fungi can use melanin to absorb the energy generated by radiation and convert it into nutrients for their own use.

Such a structure is used by Bao in the lower shell of space creatures to absorb and transform deadly cosmic radiation. Now, Lin Yi has also integrated and used its gene fragments to further allow special carpet tumors to survive in the cosmic environment.

Its interior contains a large amount of adipose tissue, which supplies its initial proliferation. Once the proliferation reaches a certain scale, these strains will continue to proliferate and develop in the universe under the complete cycle supply of these three sets of autotrophic systems, and eventually proliferate the biological satellite structure belonging to the nest group, which will serve as the first step for the nest group to conquer the universe. Step, a new beginning.

Even the next step, a space brood capable of assembling large biological spaceships, will also be put on Lin Yi's agenda - although its actual realization may be later than imagined.

Unlike the human aerospace industry, there is actually no need to worry about failure in this test launch. The cost issue is not a big problem for Lin Yi, but the cost of personnel training, which is the most precious thing in future generations, does not exist at all, and personnel safety issues do not need to be considered at all.

But Lin Yi still went through extremely careful inspections and a lot of simulations to ensure that everything was as foolproof as possible - because, in addition to the special carpet tumors, there is another special thing that will fly with the "Corner Stone" In the vast space.

That is, the remains of a three-eyed Hed shrimp that was the last remaining member of the Anomalocaris nest and was sealed into an amber-like substance. While finding the mother nest of the anomaly shrimp nest, Lin Yi also discovered this relic from hundreds of millions of years ago.

The strange shrimp nests once yearned for the starry sky. This time, Lin Yi will bring their compound eyes to witness together, the nest group's first step into the sky among the stars.

Because he had a lot of experience for later generations to refer to, and after a lot of simulation calculations, Lin Yi was quite sure of the success rate of this launch. Therefore, he brought the last relics of the Anomalocaris nest with him. In a certain sense On the other hand, it also motivates oneself not to fail.

While thinking, the "Cornerstone" had completed most of the inspection work and was only waiting for the end. Lin Yi gave an order in his mind and flew to the long-awaited nine heavens with the hope of the nest.

(End of this chapter)