Homo sapiens

Antarctica, penguin station.

It is about 17.6 kilometers away from Enderby Base in the Antarctic Region, and the two sides are connected by a subway.

The reason why the penguin station is not built directly above the base is mainly for safety.

After all, human beings' cruelty sometimes has no bottom line. Once they really get jealous, it is really difficult to determine whether the other party will throw a nuclear bomb at the scientific research station.

Wu Yongxing took the subway and arrived at Penguin Station.

Go up to the main building of the scientific research station via the elevator.

He came here to inspect the scientific research station, and also to express condolences to the employees on duty here.

The webmaster of the Penguin website is a bald man. He does not look like a scientific researcher at all, but looks like a gang boss. His expression is a bit sinister when he is serious in speech.

"Andre, are you adaptable to life here?"

The bald man Andre waved his hand: "No problem, my hometown is in Chita, and the winter there is similar to Antarctica."

"I heard that people from Showa Station ran over some time ago?" Wu Yongxing stood in front of the one-way floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the vast white ice cap in the distance.

Andre sneered: "It's just a mission from the master. America is behind them. They are obviously worried about us causing trouble in Antarctica and deliberately arranged for those Japanese people to come and test us."

"By the way, in about nine days, the nuclear-powered icebreaker sent from the company headquarters will transport a batch of supplies. You will be ready to receive it."

"No problem." Andre wrote it down.

Although the Enderby base can be self-sufficient, Penguin Station still needs to maintain a certain amount of external material input to reduce outside attention to the place.

Andre and others are not Xibei scientific examiners, but genuine ones, and they are indeed carrying out various scientific expedition tasks.

This includes launching small airships to monitor the repair of the ozone hole over Antarctica; drilling ice samples from surrounding ice sheets; and investigating marine life in surrounding sea areas.

Since it is a scientific research station, it must look like a scientific research station.

Previously, the Japanese scientific expedition team came over for "academic exchanges", and Andre and others were able to cope with it easily and did not show any flaws in their academic abilities.

Wu Yongxing asked curiously: "Have you researched anything?"

"The ozone layer over Antarctica has been repaired. As long as Freon-like chemicals are not continued to be used, there should be no major problems with the ozone layer."

Then Andre continued: "We also found traces of king crabs at the junction of the nearby trench and the continental shelf."

"King crab? Alaskan king crab?" Wu Yongxing was stunned for a moment.

"According to genetic testing, the king crabs in Antarctica and the king crabs in Alaska are the same species. These king crabs should have arrived in the Southern Ocean through ocean currents."

Wu Yongxing touched his chin and then asked: "What impact will the king crab have if it appears here?"

"It will destroy the undersea ecology of the Southern Ocean. King crabs have no natural enemies here, and humans rarely fish in the Southern Ocean. The population of king crabs here is growing very fast, almost out of control."

Wu Yongxing thought for a while: "It seems that I need to propose to the head office that the nuclear-powered icebreakers that come to supply the Penguin Station and Blue Whale Station in the future can fish part-time for king crabs."

Hearing Wu Yongxing's idea, Andre also laughed: "This is a method. Anyway, the supply ship will be empty when it returns. If you catch some king crabs, you can get some economic benefits."

"You clean up the king crab habitat in the Southern Ocean, and when I write a report, I will send it back together."

"no problem."

The king crabs who are running rampant in the Southern Ocean do not know that a terrorist force is targeting them.

The two chatted for a while, and Andre took him to visit the vegetable growing cabin of the scientific research station.

There are a total of 16 vegetable growing cabins at the scientific research station, arranged in four rows and buried in the ice. They can produce various vegetables, as well as watermelons, cantaloupes and strawberries.

Andre cut into a jade cantaloupe: "This kind of planting cabin is really good. As long as there is enough energy, you can grow vegetables and fruits."

Wu Yongxing took a bite: "The sugar content of 18.6 is quite high, but it's a little soft."

"It's a characteristic of the breed."

"I still like something crisper." Although he didn't like this variety of cantaloupe, Wu Yongxing still ate up that piece: "Is the nuclear power cabin of the scientific research station enough power?"

"It's enough. We only have 150 people and the equipment doesn't use much electricity."

The Penguin Research Station is equipped with two nuclear power chambers.

This small nuclear power equipment is larger than an ordinary container and has a power generation of 2 megawatts. It is also a thorium-based molten salt power generation system and is specially designed for small bases.

Moreover, the waste heat from this nuclear power cabin can be used to provide heating for scientific research stations.

For extremely cold and uninhabited areas like Antarctica, nuclear power is more convenient than other energy sources and has lower operating costs.

If a fuel generator or natural gas generator is used, transportation back and forth will cause the operating cost of the power generation system to soar.

As for the fact that international conventions do not allow the construction of nuclear facilities in Antarctica, Homo sapiens does not care, because Homo sapiens has not signed it.

After eating the melon, the two went to the sample room of the scientific research station.

There are many frozen ice samples displayed inside, and more than a dozen researchers are studying the ice samples.

Wu Yongxing did not disturb them, but silently browsed the experimental reports one after another.

Until he picked up one of them and it was marked: [Research Report on Enderby Land No. 375 Drill Core Sample]

Opening the report, it listed the researchers' analysis of drill cores to obtain ice deposits from various periods of the earth.

Then, through these ice deposits, we can study what happened to the earth in various periods.

"The special nature of the Younger Dryas incident..."

Andre glanced at the report and explained in a low voice: "This was a geological event 10,000 years ago, mainly manifested by a sudden global cooling."

"Sudden widespread temperature drop?"

"Well, this kind of sudden cooling will cause very serious damage, especially to living things. Even today's humans. Except for the company, other forces will definitely suffer heavy casualties once they encounter such a sudden large-scale cooling. "

Wu Yongxing narrowed his eyes slightly: "What was the cause of the Younger Dryas incident? It can't happen for no reason, right?"

Andre replied helplessly: "Currently, there is no accurate answer in the academic world. There are several hypotheses. I personally agree with the hypothesis of abnormal movement of the North Atlantic warm current."

"Is it the North Atlantic current that passes through North America and brings warmth to Western Europe?"

Andre said with some worry: "Exactly, in fact, in the past ten years, the intensity of the North Atlantic warm current has been declining and becoming more and more irregular."

Wu Yongxing fell into deep thought, although the Homo sapiens company's ability to resist natural disasters is an order of magnitude higher than other forces on the earth.

But that doesn’t mean you can be unscrupulous.

Human beings are still fragile and insignificant ants in front of nature.

He thought for a while and then asked: "If the North Atlantic warm current stops flowing, will the world enter an ice age?"

Andre shook his head: "Probably not. After all, a large amount of carbon dioxide has been emitted during human industrialization. Greenhouse gases can reduce the impact of the interruption of the North Atlantic Warm Current, but the global temperature will definitely drop by one or two degrees."

After weighing the pros and cons, Wu Yongxing ordered: "Andre, you are going to write a professional assessment report on the topic of the interruption of the North Atlantic Warm Current, and then submit it to the Science Division."

"Okay." Andre nodded.

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