Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 382: Organic harvester?


   Just as these experts said, Li Zhendong, an informatics expert, stood up and expressed a different opinion.

  "Professor, don't get too excited. Why do I doubt, Enlightenment civilization, let's just name it...Is it really a civilization full of goodwill?"

   He spread his hands and questioned: "The Riley civilization is a very ancient religious civilization. A brilliant culture was born a million years ago, including writing and language. The development of it has been stagnant for a long, long time. It's in a stable state. If it continues like this, there will probably not be any progress. But what is the purpose of the Enlightenment Civilization planted the "World Tree", can it promote the development of the Riley Civilization?"

   "You know, this species can trigger a mass extinction!"

  "I even think that we have over-interpreted this event. The initiator just wants to use the world tree to turn all the carbon elements of this planet into this kind of organic matter similar to coal, and then harvest it all at once. "

  "We already have the relevant common sense of the universe that organic matter is more valuable than ordinary metals in the trading market! For more advanced civilizations, as long as the earth's nuclear resources can be mined, the metal elements are completely inexhaustible. Inexhaustible, including all kinds of rare earth elements, abound in the depths of the earth's core. But organic matter is different, only a thin layer on the surface of the planet, no one wants more!"

  "Using this kind of biotechnology to collect organic substances is more cost-effective and more effective!"

   He said with emotion: "It's really a big hand, a big hand to harvest one planet at a time! Maybe it's not just this one, but... countless planets! Including the earth once, but the plan on the earth It may not be successful."

   There will be silence for a while in the meeting room. Zhang Yuan even felt that his hairs were erected, from good to evil, as if it was just a moment of effort.

   Soon, this conjecture of Li Zhendong caused a huge wave!

  People thought together, if this civilization is really "evil", then...

   Did they do anything to humans and the earth?

   The meeting room will be quiet and terrible for a while.

   The biologist hesitated for a moment, and defended: "I still think that the Enlightenment Civilization is full of goodwill towards the Riley Civilization. Professor Li, if you want to implement this for millions of years, even thousands Wannian’s plan should choose a planet rich in carbon to conduct experiments, right?"

   Li Zhendong nodded, "It's true... the starting point is very important."

   The biologist continued: "However, the carbon content of Riley's star is not high, but slightly more than that of the earth. According to your statement, you should choose a star similar to Venus, with all carbon dioxide on the surface. In order to maximize the benefits. Why should the enlightenment choose the Riley Star? It's totally uneconomical!"

   Li Zhendong, with his neck red, said loudly: "They may also have arranged countless planets. There is no need to consider whether it is cost-effective. It's like we use a large planter to sow in the field. It doesn't matter whether the seed is in the end. Can you sprout, as long as you can grow plants. It doesn’t matter if the harvest is a little less, do you think about the harvest of a certain wheat?"

  "Why hasn't the earth been harvested? There are also Venus and Mars!"

  "Because this kind of plan cannot be 100% successful, are the alien species wiped out by the native species? Or the climate disaster wiped out the alien species! Oh, by the way, don’t you think life has evolved in Australia? Is the land strange? Maybe the alien did it?" Li Zhendong's brain was wide open.

  "Professor Li, Australian species, fossils existed millions of years ago, the time node is not right."

   Just as the two of them were arguing about this, Zhang Yuan suddenly said: "Listen to me first. First of all, if the civilization of the world tree is transformed, it is really the kind of enlightenment that Gliese civilization has encountered. People’s civilization', judging from what they do, they won’t be particularly malicious."

  "Because the Gliese civilization has clear written records, the enlighteners let them know about the existence of science and the existence of electricity."

  "Secondly, if you want to use biotechnology to fix carbon and use the most capable microorganisms, such as algae, the efficiency is much higher than that of the world tree, right?"

  "If this civilization is indeed strong enough, it should not be a problem to develop such microorganisms, instead of a tall plant like the World Tree. Although the final effect is the same, the efficiency is undoubtedly lower by more than a little bit."

   Li Zhendong was thoughtful and did not speak. This is a bit hard to explain. If it is forcibly determined that a more advanced civilization cannot develop such microorganisms, it will only make people laugh, even he himself does not believe it.

  Everyone gradually calmed down, and he was a little relieved.

  In an interstellar civilization, if you want to mine materials, there is no need to adapt to local conditions and modify the genes of local species.

  " If they have great malice, they can directly develop one or more super microbes, wipe out all the animals and plants, and then reproduce unlimitedly. There is no need for the Riley people to keep them alive, just produce them in vain. Variable."

   In this way, the efficiency is tens of thousands of times higher than the simple world tree. The species extinction plan that the World Tree can complete in tens of thousands of years, using super microbes, can be completed in hundreds of years...

   Zhang Yuan said again: "Actually, everyone, think about it carefully, I still think that the Enlightenment newspaper has a certain kind of goodwill. The world tree in this world is not necessarily for the Riley civilization. Okay."

  " First, the World Tree provides a lot of food and living space. At least in ancient times, there was a place to shelter from the wind and rain~IndoMTL.com~ The possibility of starvation and freezing is much less. There is no world. Trees, their population will be much smaller, and the development of civilization will be more difficult. Where can there be such a pleasant experience now."

  "Second, the World Tree provides very good building materials. The performance of this tree core is comparable to that of the steel bars of the 20th century, and it is not easy to rot and is not easy to be oxidized by the air. This biological material is placed in humans. It can still be used in the 20th or 21st century!"

   "How much convenience this will bring to development, everyone should not be difficult to understand, whether it is in infrastructure or building houses, even steel bars can be saved."

   Many people nodded. When civilization was underdeveloped, there is a high-performance material that can replace steel. What a huge advantage this is.

  Steel, the cornerstone of a civilized industrialization, almost all industrialized countries start with large-scale steel smelting. Without steel, there would be no other industrial products, no high-rise buildings, no guns, cars, and ships.

  If "steel" could grow in the ground in the early stage of civilization, its convenience would of course be self-evident.

  "Oh, yes, there is a third point. Because of the emergence of the world tree, more carbon elements are fixed, and more fossil resources appear in the whole world! If the Riley civilization truly develops modern technology, I will be grateful for these fossil resources. Who doesn’t want to have more fossil fuels in the early stages of civilization!"

  "This is a great gift from heaven. Earth civilization, if there is no fossil fuel, can modern civilization be developed? No! Even the first industrial revolution can't happen!"


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