Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 158: The next 1000 years

Zhang Yuan still feels a little sad. After this hibernation, there is a high probability that he will never see his teacher again.

He couldn't help asking: "Teacher... don't you choose hibernation? Maybe you can wake up after reaching the future home planet through hibernation."

Academician Ding waved his hand: "No, according to the doctor’s advice, I may not be able to wake up after sleeping in my current physical condition. Various life-prolonging techniques are already serious for me. For aging people, the effect will not be very good..."

"I am getting older, and sometimes I would like to take a break, and live a life like a normal person should live with a few old friends."

"However, before that, there are a few things I want to talk to you about."

Zhang Yuan's spirits were shocked, and business came.

The first thing their school wants to promote is the "social public support system." Without this social public support, all subsequent plans are just for nothing.

If nothing changes, and they develop steadily as they are now, after a thousand years, they will still be that mediocre human civilization...

This is something no one wants to see.

Seeing the serious faces of Zhang Yuan and Zhao Qingfeng, Academician Ding smiled faintly: “You don’t need to be so pessimistic. The number of life partners has risen by 422%, and only 38% of the population is still single. Even Zhang Yuan, you have found a life partner. Congratulations."

Zhang Yuan couldn't help wrinkling his nose. What does it mean that even I have found a life partner?

A little joke, Academician Ding continued: "In other words, we have about 150,000 couples!"

"In the past two thousand years, the number of babies born, that is, the newly added population, is only over 1,000, even under the policy of poor living conditions that discourage childbirth..."

"Do you know what this extremely low fertility rate means?"

Zhang Yuan was stunned. The poor quality of life has led to a significant reduction in people's willingness to give birth. This is inevitable.

The population in the spacecraft is basically a highly educated population, not farmers in the mountains. If they can't provide a good living environment for the next generation, they can't give birth to eugenics, they would rather not give birth. This kind of cultural phenomenon has actually appeared in the earth age. Children are not toys, and the purpose of being born is not purely to provide for the elderly. It can be said that they are a kind of responsibility and a burden.

Academician Ding continued: "According to the current statistics, the environment is not good and the material conditions are poor, so the fertility rate is not high. This is easy to understand."

"After arriving at the destination and acquiring a large amount of resources, the first thing we will overcome in the future is to solve the survival problem and improve our living environment. The first important thing for people is to survive. If you can’t even eat Full, material needs are not met, and other things can’t be done at all, let alone ideals and morals."

Zhang Yuan nodded, this is natural.

"But development is also sequential. Some technologies can significantly improve the quality of life and increase fertility, some technologies can gain spiritual enjoyment, get appointments, and some can improve medical services... I think the most important thing is to reproduce Biotechnology on the earth has greatly increased the life expectancy of a person! Not other bells and whistles..."

Zhang Yuan opened his mouth: "Why?"

"Labor, to extend life is to increase labor!"

"For you young people, the life extension effect of various technologies will be much better, that is...everyone can live two hundred or even over three hundred years old."

"Anyway, these technologies are invented by the people of the earth. We don't need to pay patent fees or raise prices to make profits. It is regarded as a national welfare!"

"Moreover, the people will certainly not have objections. If you live a long life of 300 years, or a higher quality of life, but you can only live 150 years old, choose one of the two, I believe, Most people choose to live long."

Zhang Yuan nodded.

Academician Ding whispered: "More importantly, in this way, the willingness to'birth children for the elderly' can be reduced..."

"The natural growth rate of the population will continue to be drastically suppressed!"

"You think, work pressure is very high, life expectancy is increasing, society is booming, and no elders are forcing these young people to have children. Everyone will naturally think about rebirth later, so that their children can enjoy more Bright tomorrow. According to the historical experience on the earth, there are many people who give birth to children at the age of 100... It seems that it is not a big deal to delay for decades."

Zhang Yuan pondered for a moment and wondered: "But, don't we need a large population... There are only half a million people now, which is far from industrialization."

Academician Ding smiled, and this smile gradually turned into a sharp edge of steel.

He said word by word: "We need population, but we don't need a naturally born population!"

"The natural population is definitely a huge obstacle to the social public support system! Moreover, the birth rate of the natural population is too slow...too slow and too slow."

"Time is not on our side. The equipment we carry on the spacecraft is limited, and the population is also limited. Once the equipment is fully activated, it will quickly age and depreciate. They can only last for a few dozen. Year."

"...The high-quality population is basically concentrated in our generation. We are an elite selected from a population of 10 billion ~ IndoMTL.com~ are high-tech talents in various systems. The following generations, In terms of intelligence or other basic abilities, it is impossible to compare with ours..."

"So, what will happen in the future? Even if our group of people let go, the birth rate in one year will never exceed 2%! There is no way to double in 30 years. Our group of people are not farmers. ."

"Without a sufficient population, there is no way to achieve industrialization!"

"Waiting for all of our generation to die of aging, and when the failure rate of the spacecraft is getting higher and higher, if a complete industrial system has not been established, our offspring will be extinct on this alien planet!"

Zhang Yuan took a deep breath, thinking hard about the possibility of this future.

Yes, it will happen! It will happen with a high probability!

The alien planet is not the earth, the ecological environment is extremely bad, and there is no strong industry, the spacecraft is slowly aging again, and all kinds of errors are endless. When the spacecraft is scrapped, everyone will wait to die!

"...In this situation with no other choice, we must grow the population quickly! Under the condition of very low natural childbirth willingness, the use of artificial uterus technology to grow babies in large quantities is the only choice!"

When the Earth Times set off from the earth, it brought its own human gene bank, including sperm and eggs provided by excellent geneticists.

"So a large number of artificial babies appeared. They had no fathers and no mothers. They grew up in artificial wombs and were raised by robots. Their ideology is different from those of us natural people... I call them New humans."

"This process will take about twenty to thirty years. At that time, they will be raised by robots. Millions of new humans, the number of which has greatly exceeded natural humans, have already embarked on society and exerted their influence ."

"They are the natural supporters of the social public support system."