Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 837 Replacement
"Senior... can I ask a few questions?" Yuan Wenren seemed curious about the story just now.

"Don't be so cautious, just ask any questions." Xiang Shan said: "Anyway, our journey is quite long, so it's good to chat."

This is really a sad fact.Although human beings have been able to fly a few percent of the speed of light in space, there has not been a big breakthrough in the speed under the water surface.At least it is difficult to move quietly.

If it is driven by a nuclear reactor, the submarine can indeed get up faster, but then there is no point in diving into the water.

But in this era, if there is too much movement, it is easy to be noticed.

Because now, there are hardly many animals in the entire sea.

Years ago, Yawgmoth made one last effort to save some of the sea life.If those creatures are still there, they should be limited to the vicinity of the equator.

There are many microorganisms in seawater.When Xiang Shan was on the shore, he also took samples from the shallow sea for observation.Some of them look very primitive and natural, while others are heavily artificial.Perhaps this is the result of the labor of the Knights of Scientific Research.

Moreover, the scientific research knights who study planetary physics will still drop monitoring facilities into the sea.If the readings of the monitoring equipment are too abnormal, it may attract unnecessary attention.

Although the satellite network has been shut down now, and most of the monitoring facilities cannot be connected to the Internet, the Baobuqi government can still have an alarm system that relies on ground waves to complete communication.

In order to ensure the privacy, Xiang Shan could only choose to walk slowly.

The original hearer nodded and said, "Senior, I just find it very strange. According to your story, Homo sapiens should have existed back then..."

"Yeah. A few." Xiang Shan nodded, "That's true."

"Then according to this logic, shouldn't they be relatively trustworthy people?" The source asked: "There is no back door implanted in their genes, and they cannot be implanted with prosthetic bodies, and they will not be controlled... ..."

"Well, this is a good entry point." Xiang Shan nodded: "But you have to consider one thing. The average age of the last batch of Homo sapiens is 80 years old. You know what 80 years old of Homo sapiens means ?"

"dying?"

"It's aging." Xiang Shan shook his head: "You really haven't thought about this issue at all... But yes, you don't need to think about this kind of thing at your age. It's really strange, the aging of benchmark people should actually be longer. right……"

Benchmark Man is a man-made species, and it is only a "springboard" for further transformation in an industrial environment. In a purely natural state, this species has quite a lot of incongruous traits.

For example, aging.

The benchmark humans do have a natural lifespan of about 400 years, but relatively speaking, they have inherited the genes that control the life cycle of Homo sapiens.

A gene can determine or affect the formation of multiple traits.There is a theory that the same gene will show different traits at different ages—this is the secret of aging.Genes for bone calcification are important for growth in infants and young children, but after reproductive age, these genes increase the risk of coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction.Also, in humans in early life, the sex androgens - androgens - cause the development of glands.But the same hormone increases the risk of prostate cancer and mortality in human males after reproductive age.

From an evolutionary point of view, this may be to let the individuals who have completed the vocation of gene transmission die quickly, to free up resources for the next generation, and it is also to quickly eliminate individuals who fail to pass on the genes.

Yawgmoth implanted foreign genes into human genes and reset the enzyme system.Cells synthesize enzymes they could not synthesize before, lighting up even more new reaction pathways.However, most of the genetic data of benchmark humans are still inherited from Homo sapiens.

Genes that regulate aging are also included.

According to the relevant papers of the Knights of Science that Xiang Shan has downloaded in recent years, the benchmark person will start to show an aging trend around the age of 80.This trend will continue for one to two hundred years without the intervention of technical means.The basic human's ability to resist damage will greatly lengthen this process.

In fact, Xiang Shan didn't pay much attention to this issue at first.In his view, the benchmark exists as a springboard and platform for "prosthetic transformation".Whether it is "cardiovascular disease" or "cancer with increasing incidence with age", it is not a problem for the prosthetic benchmark.

The nerve cells of the brain are the slowest part of human aging.Even in the natural state, without the intervention of any drugs or gene therapy, the baseline human will experience degeneration of thinking ability between the ages of 180 and [-].With a similar drug, this process could be extended indefinitely.

Nerve cells themselves are also cells that do not die easily.

The nervous system is very simple at the cellular level.Reversing its life cycle is a project Yawgmoth completed in the 21st century.

In other words, so far, human civilization has not observed a benchmark man who really died at the end of his life.

For knowledgeable people, it is not difficult to obtain Huandan enzyme.In the words of the sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes, "old knights" represent "powerful" and "high morality", and there is no such thing as "fisting is afraid of the young".

The concept of "aging" seems to have been thrown into a small corner that is not taken seriously by human civilization.

If he hadn't witnessed the elderly who lost their ability due to aging a few years ago, Xiang Shan might have forgotten this concept.

"Homo sapiens at the age of 80, no matter how healthy they are, their physical and energy are not as good as before. At that time, human thinking will still be affected by heartbeat, breathing and hormones. The old body cannot support great ambitions." Xiang Shan said: "They began to gradually withdraw from the center of power in the late 50s."

The original source didn't understand this point: "As far as the asylum seekers I've seen...they should try their best to hold on to 'power' until the last moment, and they won't let it go, right?"

"They can't let this kind of thing be left to them." Xiang Shan sighed, "When the tide of prostheticization of human beings was overwhelming, those old people jointly issued a prohibition order, prohibiting the benchmark people from becoming the leaders of the country before 2055. But in the late 50s, the benchmark people The total number has surpassed that of Homo sapiens. The benchmark people think that the benchmark people can better reflect the voice of this group. The people of the young faction also hold power in the voice of the crowd."

Of course, all of these young politicians have prosthetic bodies, and many of them are sponsored by Superman Corporation.

In addition, because they cherish life more, none of them chose the first few batches of operations.They want to wait until someone else has the surgery to see the results.

(End of this chapter)