Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

59 years.

After the industrial facilities on the moon completed the complete manufacturing of wafers used in the Suigu Project, the basic computing unit

The Suigu plan implemented on the lunar surface is also beginning to accelerate.

The changes on the lunar surface are manifold and changing with each passing day.

This year, the scale of the lunar base was further expanded.

Because of the construction of the Suigu plan and the need to support the lunar industrial construction of the Suigu plan.

The number of permanent personnel at the lunar base exceeded 10,000 for the first time.

In the lunar base crawling on the lunar surface, in the fully enclosed cabin space that is getting larger and larger,

It was as if a human settlement was gradually being built.

The scale of the lunar base has actually exceeded that before Mo Dao came back in the previous life.

at the same time,

The scale of industrial facilities on the lunar surface is also expanding.

With the realization of computing wafer manufacturing, Qiusuo Research Institute further penetrates into the lunar industrial industry chain,

At the same time, it is also expanding the output of the complete production chain of computing wafers.

Among the newly added lunar artifacts this year,

A considerable amount of them are highly intelligent factories transported from the ground.

also,

Also due to the needs of the lunar surface,

This year, Qiusuo Research Institute’s mining scale of some resources on the three solid planets has also increased.

Although in the short term, transporting resources extracted from Mars and other places back to the moon for processing and use is far less expensive than transporting them directly from the earth, a close home planet.

However, regardless of the initial investment, after the scale of mining increases, the value of resources mined from Mars and other places has gradually moved closer to the flat cost direction in terms of mining and transportation itself.

On the three planets Venus, Mars and Mercury,

The permanent bases of Venus and Mercury each have more than one hundred permanent personnel.

Mars is even more so, with the number of permanent residents exceeding 200.

Compared to personnel, of course.

The spacecraft heading to these three planets mostly carry some intelligent equipment adapted to the environment of these planets and used for resource extraction.

It’s just that even though most industrial production in this era is relatively highly intelligent,

But every smart factory still requires some personnel to intervene and participate.

Considering the communication situation, the communication delay can last for several minutes or even more than ten minutes in actual situations.

There is basically no possibility of remote interference with these intelligent devices directly from the earth.

This is also the reason why the number of residents on these three planets has increased rapidly this year.

at last,

This year, the most obvious and direct change,

Naturally, it is still based on the Suigu plan.

While the lunar base is expanding, the basic computing units of the Suigu Project also seem to be spreading along the lunar surface.

The basic calculation unit in this Suigu plan,

Due to the different environment, the appearance is somewhat different from the previous life.

Dense computing chips and supporting equipment constitute a basic computing unit like a high-rise building.

There is also a 'shell' on the outside that is similar to a lunar base cabin.

At the same time, due to various reasons, the basic computing unit of this life was designed and its volume was smaller than that of the previous life.

However, due to the use of new superconducting materials, the computing power of the basic computing unit is still stronger than in the previous generation.

And when the basic calculations are erected one by one, it still does not affect the spectacular scene composed of these basic calculation units.

Especially, while it was still on the moon.

After being invited, a reporter from China News Agency went to the moon to take a photo of the Suigu Project, which was still under construction.

In the report, he used this photo and wrote,

"There is no doubt that this is a miracle in the history of human science and technology."

"When you are on the moon, facing the neatly divided lunar surface, which is like a jungle, like a metal high-rise building, dense basic computing units, it is difficult for you to imagine that this piece of lunar surface was once Desolate. It’s more like coming to a foreign land that is much more distant than the moon.”

This photo has become the most impressive image for many people this year.

was engraved into history.

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60, 61 years.

This is a period of rapid progress in extraterrestrial construction.

In 1961, a research team made inferences.

The lunar surface base, when separated from the ground for replenishment,

We have been able to achieve self-sufficiency in the most basic survival materials.

The most fundamental energy is provided by the helium 3 reactor.

Water resources can be obtained from solid water on the moon and Mars and other places, through its own processing on the moon.

The air needed in the lunar base can also be produced through industry if there is sufficient energy.

The most basic food needed for survival,

In these years, a small three-dimensional intelligent farm has also been built at the lunar base.

Planting is carried out in an assembly line state through hydroponics and nutrient soil synthesized from resources on the moon, Mars, Venus and other places.

At present, the various crops produced by this small three-dimensional intelligent farm have completely exceeded the needs of the permanent personnel of the lunar base.

In addition, even through industrial facilities on the moon, the lunar base has been able to independently complete the repair work of the lunar base in most cases.

The combination of these factors allows the current lunar surface base to continue to exist stably for a long time even if it does not need to obtain material supplies from the earth.

Of course, due to cost considerations, some supplies during the operation of the lunar base are still supplied by the earth.

But this still has two completely different meanings from before.

Material self-sufficiency gives the lunar base the foundation for continued growth.

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In the same year, something very historic happened on the lunar base.

In the middle of the year, the first baby born on a lunar base was born.

A little baby girl whose parents are both researchers at Qiusuo Research Institute,

Born with the attention and blessings of all researchers at the entire lunar base.

Previously, Qiusuo Research Institute had always had stricter requirements in this regard.

They didn't refuse, and the couple entered the lunar base together.

But once a researcher is found to be pregnant, the parents are basically required to evacuate from the lunar base and return to the ground for a vacation until the child is born normally.

It was only at this moment that Qiusuo Research Institute gradually relaxed this restriction.

And this is also the first child born on the moon after the Qiusuo Research Institute relaxed restrictions.

Through the communication screen transmitted back from the moon,

Mo Dao also saw the child after he was born.

Thanks to the careful care and attention of a group of professionals at the Qiusuo Research Institute, the newborn baby is quite healthy.

"Chief Master Mo, why don't you give this child a name."

"No, it's up to you, the parents, to decide on this name."

It will not be easy to relax the restrictions on extraterrestrial births.

Before this child was born,

A heated discussion broke out within Qiusuo Research Institute and even in the entire society.

Although most people are quite open-minded about such issues,

But when the time comes, there are also a considerable number of people who have social and ethical concerns about babies who were born completely outside their place of birth.

However, this is after all an inevitable step that needs to be taken in the process of interstellar exploration and interstellar colonization.

61 years,

After the first child born here on the moon,

One after another, many more lunar babies were born.

Some people say,

"This should be the first generation of indigenous people on the moon."

Some people also have objections to such statements.

"I think it doesn't make any difference. Wherever they are born, they are still humans on Earth. It is impossible to say that if we expand outward, we will become something else."

Of course, these arguments are just sideshows.

Apart from some small talk after tea and dinner, it basically didn't affect anything.

Then,

Time just continued to pass.