Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

Whether it is the construction of the lunar base or the implementation of the Suigu Plan.

The farther to the back, the faster the speed.

When there are no huge obstacles to the technology itself,

For Qiusuo Research Institute, all it takes is time.

It only takes time to convert the huge investment into transportation capacity on the Earth-Moon, Earth-Fire and other routes.

Transformed into productivity of industrial facilities such as the ground and the moon.

The thrust of a single electric propulsion engine in the electric propulsion system has indeed not been further improved for the time being.

But in terms of previous technological breakthroughs,

Yuanhang 8A, Yuanhang 8c,

Even for spaceships of the Diyue level, Qiusuo Research Institute has never stopped manufacturing new ones.

In this era, more than 6% of the annual productivity is directly invested in the construction of the lunar base.

The extent to which it can be done is obviously an exaggeration.

A spacecraft launch site like the Changlu Launch Site,

There had been more than one expansion in the early years.

And in the period from 1954 to 1962, it doubled again on the original basis.

Even in 1962, under the increasingly busy demand for spacecraft launches, the number of launch sites was still expanding.

And in just one month of 62 years,

On the ground, more than twenty Yuanhang 8A ships have been produced that can carry eighty dense materials to the near-Earth space platform.

This does not include Yuanhang 8c and other models of landing spacecraft.

Other large interstellar carrier spacecraft, such as the Earth Moon and the Yinghuo, equipped with helium-3 reactors are under construction at the same time.

As we move towards the back, as the scale of supporting industries becomes larger and larger, the construction speed becomes faster and faster.

This is a rapidly expanding cycle.

62 years,

The routes between the Earth and the Moon, the Moon and Mars, Venus, Mercury and other directions are also becoming increasingly busy.

During the approximately fifteen-day voyage to Mercury,

It has been possible to appear, and there are several Boya-level and Gonggong-level spacecraft on the way at the same time.

Astronauts at the permanent base on Mercury have been able to see at least one passing spacecraft arriving in Mercury's orbit every day.

The route between the earth and the moon is even more exaggerated.

A large number of Earth-Moon-level spacecraft, as well as some smaller electric-propulsion spacecraft, came and went.

It has already forced the Qiusuo Research Institute to accurately arrange daily spacecraft flights and departure times.

certainly,

The most exaggerated one is definitely the ground to near-Earth space platform.

After all, the difference in load capacity means that the cargo carried by dozens of Yuanhang 8A can fill a Diyue-2 class spacecraft.

The earth and the moon are already so busy, and the ground launch site is even busier.

What was once a long-distance launch site has become a de facto busy port leading to the outside world.

A reporter from the main station once stood outside the Changlu launch site.

Guarding the busy Long Road launch site, I took a one-day time-lapse photography.

The one-day launch mission at the Changlu launch site is condensed into a time-lapse photography of less than one minute.

The spaceships that take off from fixed positions on the ground and lead to the outside world,

The outlines drawn in the air are really like a ladder to heaven.

From early morning to evening, until late at night, this ‘ladder to heaven’ always exists.

…

62 years.

The number of permanent residents at the lunar base has increased by 10,000 in more than a year.

And the number of people traveling between the earth and the moon in a year even exceeds this number.

In the same year, in Qiusuo Research Institute,

A research team has proposed a method based on the existing lunar base cabin assembly.

Further lunar base construction plan.

Generally speaking, it is a single cabin with a larger space and a richer urban functional design.

In the process of expansion, it gradually transformed from a 'lunar base' to a 'lunar city'.

63 years.

because,

To meet the needs of the Suigu Project, this year, Qiusuo Research Institute added two more helium-3 reactors to the lunar base.

Power the already built cluster of basic computing units.

During this year here, the number of permanent residents at the lunar base reached more than 30,000.

Then, time entered 64 years.

…

"Would you like something to eat?"

On this day, Mo Dao did not go to the laboratory, but was just thinking about something in the study.

Qin Huaishi, who is the same age as Mo Dao, has left the research work in the laboratory this year and retired.

At this moment, he was sitting next to Mo Dao, looking through some recent cutting-edge papers in the field of biology.

After Mo Dao put down some papers in his hand and turned around,

Qin Huaishi also put down the journal in his hand and asked Mo Dao Wen Sheng.

"Um."

Mo Dao responded, smiled at his Qin Huaishi, and then stood up.

The two of them went to the living room and simply ate some lunch sent by the Life Assistant from the restaurant inside the Research Institute.

During the dinner, the two of them simply talked about trivial things and did not mention anything serious.

"Are you going to the lab this afternoon?"

"I'm not going, let's rest for a long time."

Mo Dao shook his head,

In the past few years, in addition to presiding over the current main work of the Qiushu Research Institute, which is the lunar construction and the Suigu Project,

Mo Dao's remaining research work is basically in the field of materials.

Occasionally, there are some valuable results, but for Mo Dao, they are not considered a breakthrough.

Mo Dao was relatively calm about this.

After dinner, Mo Dao and his partner did not return to the study room, but sat on the sofa in the living room.

They did not have to talk, but just leaned on each other and enjoyed the peace of the moment.

Miss Qin Huaishi raised her head, looked at Mo Dao, and then raised her hand to rub Mo Dao's eyebrows, but did not say anything, nor did she ask Mo Dao if he was tired today.

Mo Dao looked at his Miss Qin Huaishi,

and did not say anything.

This year,

Mo Dao is already seventy years old.

In the previous year, among the first batch of core researchers at the beginning of the establishment of the Qiusuo Research Institute,

the last core researcher has passed away.

Mo Dao also took time out to attend the funeral of that core researcher.

At this moment,

although Mo Dao did not choose to retire from the research work in this life like in the previous life,

but with the increase of age, his energy is inevitably declining.

At this moment, if there is another similar room temperature superconductivity research that requires him to start from scratch,

it is basically impossible for him to complete it at this time. It has nothing to do with thinking ability, it is purely because of lack of energy.

Turning his head, Mo Dao looked at the sky outside the house again, and was absent-minded for a rare time.

...

In the same year,

after the construction of the Suigu Project on the moon began in 52,

after twelve years, the Suigu Project has gradually achieved some results.

In this life,

completing the Suigu Project on the moon has made the completion of the Suigu Project much more difficult,

but at the same time, due to the higher productivity in this life during the same period.

The two are even.

In the Qiusuo Research Institute, each research team gave an expected time for the completion of the Suigu Project,

still around 20 years.

At the end of 64,

in the progress of the Suigu Project announced by the Qiusuo Research Institute,

the construction of the Suigu Project has been more than half completed.

Of course,

the most important thing is,

the strong artificial intelligence of the ‘Suigu’ that the Suigu Project wants to create.

It will not pop up all at once when the Suigu Project is completed.

But at this moment, it has gradually taken shape.

And with the increase in computing power, the intelligence of Suigu is gradually increasing.

At the same time, due to the birth of Suigu, the huge computing power created by the centralization of basic computing units in the Suigu plan has also begun to be used more efficiently.

Most of the work done by the Qiusuo Research Institute in these years will usher in a new qualitative change.