Back to 1980: Please Love Me Again

Chapter 336 Human Footprints Will End Up Throughout the Galaxy

Beautiful country, Tucson.

The reason why this project is called Biosphere 2 is because Mother Earth is the biosphere 1 of human beings. Correspondingly, the research team named this miniature ecosphere "Biosphere 2".

It is hoped that it can achieve the purpose of maintaining the long-term survival of human beings like the mother earth.

Before the Biosphere 2 experiment, there were UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Program and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program of the International Council of Science Unions, all of which belonged to the study of the entire earth system.

These studies will continue for decades.

At least when Zhao Wenmu was alive in his previous life, they were still going on.

A lot of scientific research is like this, which lasts for several years, even decades, or hundreds of years, and there is no benefit or result in the short term.

But its final research results are likely to be enough to affect hundreds or even thousands of years.

These are great tests for the scientists who work on it.

Because in their lifetime, it is very likely that the research will not make any progress. They work hard all their lives, but in the end they can only get nothing and be unknown.

These people have been geniuses in the eyes of the world since they were young. What people call "other people's children" is envied and envied by countless people.

However, when they dedicate their lives to these researches, in the eyes of the world, they become Fang Zhongyong, who has exhausted his talents, and achieves nothing throughout his life.

But is their work, their life really worthless?

No!No one can do otherwise for their contribution!
It’s like those people who lived in incognito in the Northwest Gobi and dedicated their youth and life to Huaguo’s nuclear cause. Even after death, they can only be represented by a series of numbers, which cannot conceal their glory and greatness.

The motherland will always remember!

The people will always remember!

Success does not have to be with me, success must be with me!
Put out the power of "success" instead of seeking the reputation of "success".What is a great hero?This is the great hero, for the country and the people!

The same goes for science.

Every person on this avenue who wins the crown of honor stands on the shoulders of those who have gone before, stepping on the efforts of countless people and overcoming obstacles all the way.

The Biosphere 2 in front of him really caught Zhao Wenmu's eyes.

The Gobi Desert is desolate and empty, and it is a brown-red desert beyond the horizon, which makes people feel like they are on Mars.

Only scattered desert plants remind people that this is still the earth.

Located in this barren land, Biosphere 2 is like a human base built on an alien planet.

Its main body is like two pyramids, one high and one low, with a wide corridor in the middle. The environment is incompatible.

Two hemispherical atmospheric expansion chambers are inverted on the ground, much like the space domes in science fiction movies.

These two expansion chambers are the "lungs" of the entire biosphere, and their volumes can vary so that the internal pressure of Biosphere 2 is slightly higher than the external environment.

The entire Biosphere 1.2 took eight years to build, but it occupies an unexpectedly small area of ​​only [-] square meters.

The total cost is as high as 2 million US dollars!
This is definitely an astronomical figure.

It is also enough to see how expensive its unit construction cost is.

Its interior is mainly divided into intensive agricultural area, residential area, tropical rainforest area, ocean area, desert area, west lung and south lung.

This biosphere is materially closed loop, and people use engineering means to prohibit material exchange between it and the outside atmosphere and underground soil.

In terms of energy, it is open-loop, allowing sunlight to pass through the glass structure for photosynthesis of the plants inside, and the operation of the system relies on external power supply.

The information is also open-loop, and the staff inside can exchange data and information with the outside world through computer systems, telephones, cameras, and televisions.

To a certain extent, the desert where Biosphere 2 is located can be considered an alien planet.

Biosphere 2 is a small colony for humans.

There are more than 4000 species in the biosphere, simulating the ecosystem between the Earth's Tropic of Cancer.

In addition, there are eight experimenters, four men and four women, who have lived in it for 20 months so far, accumulating a wealth of scientific data and experimental experience.

These precious achievements have extremely precious reference significance for human beings' future settlement of extraterrestrial planets and manned space exploration.

Unless humans discover the means to fly faster than the speed of light, the future interstellar voyages of humans must be measured on a time scale of hundreds or thousands of years.

Even if traveling at 1% of the speed of light, it will take more than 40 years to reach the nearest star system to the solar system, the Proxima Neighbor Galaxy.

Considering the launch, deceleration and course adjustment of the spacecraft, this process may take 70 to [-] years.

As a reference, Voyager 17, which is far away from human beings, has a speed of 1 kilometers per second, which is equivalent to 17640/[-] of the speed of light.

At present, the man-made object with the highest speed is a manhole cover in the beautiful country, with a speed of 70 kilometers per second, which is 20 times faster than the fastest plane in the world!
Even then it is only 1/4200 of the speed of light.

So 1% speed of light is really scary!

But this speed is really just a drop in the bucket for interstellar voyages that often span tens or hundreds of light years.

For human beings, the universe is really too big.

The short lifespan of human beings of several decades is really not enough in the interstellar voyage of hundreds of years.

Because of this, some scientists pessimistically predicted that human beings may never leave the solar system.

With Zhao Wenmu's simple knowledge, he doesn't think that human beings can surpass the speed of light in the foreseeable future, nor does he think that the so-called human hibernation in science fiction movies can be easily realized.

Under such a background, is there any other way to realize interstellar voyage?
There is undoubtedly only one answer:
Super giant interstellar generation spaceship.

A spaceship that can accommodate tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people living on it for generations is, to put it bluntly, a super miniature version of the earth.

If one generation cannot reach the destination, then two generations, three generations, ten generations, and a hundred generations!
Even if I die, there will still be sons; sons will beget grandsons, and grandchildren will beget sons;
The Milky Way is here and it will never go away.

Then one day, human beings will travel all over the Milky Way.

The ancients once said that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles.

When human beings travel all over the Milky Way and span hundreds of millions of light years, how glorious will human beings be at that time!By that time, the so-called beyond the speed of light and the so-called immortality may already be within reach for human beings.

At that time, human beings will have long since broken away from mediocrity and become extraordinary civilizations in science fiction, and even god-level civilizations!
Zhao Wenmu will definitely not see that day, but as the saying goes, success does not have to be with me, success must be with me, he just needs to be good at the moment.

So, here he is.

We have come to Biosphere 2, a place of great significance to the spaceship of the interstellar generation.

His goal is not to have humans live in a miniature biosphere for 20 months.

He wants tens of thousands of people to live with dignity in the spaceship for several generations or dozens of generations!
It all starts today.

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