Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 400: Congenital environmental defects

　　 One month passed quickly. The scientific investigation of the Taipu civilization has made preliminary progress.

　　"Is this civilization still using fossil fuels? "A survey on the popularity of fossil fuels", "A survey on the possibility of global warming"..."

　　 On this day, Zhang Yuan was sorting out this information in the captain's room, and there were all kinds of messy reports. He also heard the calls from the people for tourism, including the topic of reforming his own bionics, and was brought up again.

　　If you use robot VR technology to replace tourism, the effect will be much worse. Using virtual world technology to reproduce, it will take at least five or ten years. Where can it be so fast? It is impossible for a human being's weak body to adapt to three times the gravity, no matter how hard it is to exercise, the only way to experience it for yourself is through bionic transformation.

　　 Of course, the voice of the people cannot be realized right away. If you want to reform yourself, you have to go through some legal procedures.

Li Cheng of the 　　 Secretariat replied: “Part of the fossil fuels are used. The planet’s fossil resources are very rich. According to our geologists’ estimates, it is at least 20 times the size of the earth! Because of the size of the planet. Well... some of them are renewable biofuels."

　　 "Oh? Biofuel?" Zhang Yuan asked in confusion.

　　"Yes, this civilization generally grows an annual herb called'arke', which can extract industrial alcohol and methane very simply and efficiently. Most of the fuel for airboat engines is provided by this plant. Only a few military weapons that require high-calorific fuel can use petroleum."

　　"It is indeed a very good plant. This is a surprise."

　　Many of the chemical raw materials in Kunlun Mountain are also provided by plants. Therefore, biologists in Kunlun Mountain are thinking that if this plant is really excellent, they can try to introduce it into the entire industrial system.

　　Zhang Yuan pondered for a while, frowning and asked: "Has the Taipu civilization considered renewable energy so early? They are so far-sighted? Only when the oil crisis really happened did humans vigorously research and develop controllable energy. Nuclear fusion, most of the oil is simply burned. Is there a deeper reason, such as..."

　　"It’s not true. The main reason is economic." Dr. Li Cheng said with a smile: "Because for this civilization, although there is oil, it is too difficult to dig. Under high gravity, there is very little oil in the shallow layer. , And it needs more pressure to be able to be extracted. Oil extraction depends on artificially supplemented energy such as pumps, gas lift, etc., which is more difficult under high gravity environments."

　　"The high-quality oil is on the deeper surface, resulting in high mining costs."

　　 This is also true. In a high-gravity environment, the deeper the surface, the rock is harder, and it is more difficult to extract the oil.

　　 is like the earth’s shale oil, with reserves of about 11 trillion to 13 trillion tons, far exceeding oil reserves, but it is extremely difficult to develop, and only a small part of it can be truly utilized.

　　 Dr. Li Cheng continued: "The planet is vast and sparsely populated. Its surface area is four or five times that of the earth. The birth rate of the population is not high, only less than four billion. So these farmers choose to large-scale in the plains. It is economical and affordable to grow this kind of plants in the land."

　　 "That's the case." Zhang Yuan heard this and asked: "So do you think that this kind of excellent energy plant was left behind by the Enlightenment civilization deliberately? Petroleum, no matter how large the quantity is It is used up, but renewable energy is completely different and can last for a long time."

　　The search for traces of the civilization of the Enlightener has always been the key goal of this scientific expedition. People have been looking for the so-called evidence. It is impossible for any turbulence or coincidence to think that it was left by the civilization of the enlightened. That would be too funny.

　　 Facing Zhang Yuan’s question, Li Cheng replied: “It depends on the time point of '150,000 years ago', whether this plant named'Ark' is compatible with the'world tree' of Riley civilization Similarly, a large-scale genetic mutation has occurred. If there is, it can basically be concluded that it is the civilized behavior of the enlightened."

　　"...This civilization analyzes from an innate point of view. It is indeed very difficult to step into space. If controllable nuclear fusion can't be achieved, even if there is no energy crisis now, there will be in the future."

　　"Now that this kind of plant appears, the energy crisis will undoubtedly be greatly alleviated, and it can provide more development time."

　　 Zhang Yuan nodded and said: "However, this does not seem to be in line with the idea of ​​the Enlightenment's civilization. If this civilization gradually stops progressing in the next few thousand years and continues to use this plant to survive, wouldn't it be the same as the Riley civilization? What's the point of perpetuating forever? So I think, for this reason, the probability of deliberately creating this kind of plant is unlikely."

　　"According to my personal thoughts: If a civilization runs out of fossil fuels, but does not ignite the spark of nuclear fusion, and leaves the planet, then it will die if you die. There is nothing to regret."

　　 Li Cheng replied: "I don’t agree with your idea very much. I think it needs to be considered from the technical difficulty of leaving the planet itself. If the gravity of a planet is ten times that of the earth, then the creatures of this planet Can we leave the planet? Impossible, even our spacecraft is difficult to take off and land. Then the emergence of a kind of energy to give these lives a respite is a kind of mercy."

　　"Our scientists are deducing, in accordance with the technological level of mankind at the end of the 20th century, and in such a gradual development, is it possible to leave the planet with three times the gravity and open the great interstellar era."

　　"The related mathematical modeling work is still in progress~IndoMTL.com~Some scientists think it is possible, while others think that traditional rocket technology is difficult to help the Taipu people to leave the planet step by step."

　　"If it really can't, it means that the innate environment of this civilization is flawed and needs some help. A visionary enlightenment civilization may try to do something in this regard..."

　　 "This idea makes sense." Zhang Yuan saw a picture on the screen, and the human science researcher was visiting the museum.

　　This civilization also has its own archaeology and is also studying its own origin. This may be the common ground of scientific and technological thinking. Everything wants to go back to the source, rather than sillyly attribute its own existence to the gods.

　　 So the current research direction is divided into two parts, one is archaeology, focusing on the history 150,000 years ago.

　　The other part is to examine whether the Taipu civilization has technological defects, environmental defects, whether there is hidden help from the enlightenment, and so on.

　　"There are no particularly good discoveries yet... 150,000 years, a series of complex evolutions have been formed. If we don’t use the power of the Taipu civilization itself, it would be too slow for us to conduct scientific research ourselves. Too slow."

　　"Our diplomatic team is considering whether we can directly submit such scientific research requests to the other party. In other words, it would be better if we can directly read the other party’s archaeological documents... After all, the other party’s information is not fully disclosed to us. ."

　　 Zhang Yuan nodded and said, "That’s okay...The content we can trade is in this form, and the corresponding prices are clearly marked."