Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 418 Biochemical Transformation Technology

6 month 25 day.

Zhong Cheng took the Star Reacher to Venus and Mercury at the Tiangong City Space Port, accompanied by Lin Hansheng, Liu Yuzhu, Yang Xi and other main persons in charge of the transformation project.

The four 305-type Luanniao aerospace planes including the Star Reacher have been replaced with new nuclear fusion engines, increasing the maximum navigation speed to 1000 kilometers per second to adapt to the current deep space navigation.

However, due to the limitations of the overall frame of the model, their load capacity has dropped significantly.

However, now that a large number of basalt spaceships have been put into use, the mission of the 305 Luanniao aerospace plane is mainly to transport a small number of personnel and materials, and the drop in load capacity is irrelevant.

The desert reconstruction project on the earth is coming to an end. Under Lin Hansheng's strong request, Zhong Cheng appointed him as the commander-in-chief of the water control project, while Yang Xi was the technical director of the water control project.

Since the beginning of the Xihai Project, Lin Hansheng has been "digging the earth" for more than 20 years, working in the Gobi desert most of the time, and has made great contributions to Red Star Company and mankind.

The control of deserts in Africa and West Asia, dominated by the Sahara Desert, has not only greatly improved the ecological environment of the earth, but also provided enough wood grains to meet the needs of more than 60% of the world's population for three meals a day.

In addition to the production of Martian wood grains in recent years, the goal that all human beings can eat wood grains has finally been realized.

The physical fitness of human beings has been greatly improved compared with 20 years ago.

Coupled with the effects of strengthening the body and prolonging life provided by Dream World for human beings in the past few years, the body strength index of ordinary adults has risen from an average of 20 points 20 years ago to an average of about 60 points.

Nearly 10% of adults even reached an average of around 120 points, which is already close to the level of ordinary genetically modified people.

The direct result is that the records of various competitive sports of human beings have been greatly refreshed, and even the rules of some competitive sports have to be changed.

The 100-meter sprint is a sport that best reflects human physical fitness. The latest world record is 5.06 seconds. Ordinary people can achieve a time of about 8 seconds with a little training. In the past, they were world champions.

In team competitive sports such as basketball and football, the athletic ability of the players has been greatly improved, so that the field has to be expanded, and the rules of the game have to be adjusted accordingly.

Of course, the two most popular professional leagues that have emerged in recent years have never existed before. One is the mecha battle league, and the other is the fighting league in the dream world.

The improvement of human physical fitness is also directly reflected in the substantial delay in the aging of human body functions, and the average life expectancy continues to rise, so that the total human population is also increasing rapidly.

In recent years, the three major federations have successively introduced policies to postpone retirement again. The retirement age for men and women has been extended to 80 years old, and for the first time, men and women have retired in the same year.

Lin Hansheng, Zheng Yilun, and Chen Peng are all over 65 years old this year. In their words, it is a good time to delay retirement, and they can still work hard for Red Star Company for more than ten years.

The nearest distance from Venus to Earth is only 3800 million kilometers, and the furthest distance is less than 3 million kilometers. At the current speed of Zhaixing, it will take up to three and a half days to reach Venus.

Nine hours after the Xingxing spacecraft set off from the earth, at a position 9 million kilometers away from the orbit of Venus, Zhong Chengcheng saw three asteroids two or three times the size of Phobos.

A planetary engine visible to the naked eye is installed on it, and humans are active on it.

Liu Yuzhu is the commander-in-chief of the alchemy project to transform Venus. He introduced that this is an icy asteroid captured by the Red Star Company from the asteroid belt, and it is used for the project of colliding with Venus and Mercury.

At present, more than 100 particles have been captured and placed in orbit around the sun at this distance, and the decomposition work is in progress.

In the end, more than 500 such asteroids will be captured. After Mercury and Venus rendezvous three years later, they will simultaneously impact Venus and Mercury to remove water from the two arid planets and accelerate the rotation of Venus to form a magnetic field. .

But Venus has a dense atmosphere 93 times that of Earth, 96% of which is carbon dioxide.

The plan of using a large-scale impact to disperse the atmosphere of Venus and allow Mercury to receive a part of the atmosphere is not ideal on the optical brain.

The best result is that 60% of Venus' atmosphere is dispelled, 10% of which is absorbed by Mercury, but the remaining atmosphere is still extremely dense, even Mercury will also be affected by the severe greenhouse effect.

Therefore, the Alchemy Engineering project team proposed a preliminary plan to use biochemical means to transform the atmosphere of Venus three years ago.

It is to use extreme biochemical means to degrade the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Venus before the asteroid hits Venus.

Because there are no autotrophic organisms on the earth that can survive in the high temperature and high pressure environment of 463 degrees Celsius and 92 times the earth's pressure on Venus, the most terrifying thing is that the atmospheric clouds of Venus contain a high concentration of sulfuric acid.

Therefore, Zhong Cheng commissioned Qin Wenyu to use genetic modification technology to artificially create a brand-new thermophilic microorganism-variant sulfur bacteria.

Sulfur bacteria can flourish abnormally under high temperature and high pressure. They reproduce in large numbers when they exceed [-] degrees Celsius, and they will die if they leave this environment, for example, when the temperature drops.

Sulfur bacteria, like cyanobacteria and photosynthetic bacteria, are also the oldest organisms on the earth. They can absorb a large amount of carbon dioxide to synthesize organic substances, and sulfur bacteria can also absorb and decompose sulfuric acid in the atmosphere.

The artificially created mutant sulfur bacteria have a hundred times stronger ability to divide and reproduce than the original sulfur bacteria, and are more adaptable to the environment.

In the Venusian environment simulated in the laboratory, they can thrive and thrive, and quickly develop into a huge population.

However, if it is not properly controlled, it will also cause extremely serious ecological disasters, and may even completely turn Venus into a world of mutated sulfur bacteria.

Moreover, the variable sulfur bacteria multiply very fast, and they divide once in about 10 minutes, which is one generation.

The possibility of mutation at such an iterative speed is extremely high, and who knows what will develop.

For this reason, Zhong Cheng was unwilling to use this extreme method for a while.

But Qin Wenyu explained that this mutant sulfur bacteria is anaerobic and is very sensitive to oxygen. When the oxygen concentration in the air reaches 5%, they will stop dividing and all will die within 3 days.

Moreover, the use of biochemical technology to modify the planet has more or less side effects, and the mutated sulfur bacteria are the most controllable.

After deduction on the optical brain, the alchemy engineering project team determined that when the asteroid hits Venus, because the scale is far larger than that of the Mars impact project, the surface of Venus will be turned over, and the water taken away will produce a lot of oxygen.

By the end of the impact, the mutant sulfur bacteria on Venus would have died out within a week, and none would remain.

Zhong Cheng thought over and over again that the only way to complete the transformation of Venus in a short period of time was to adopt this radical plan.

(End of this chapter)