cosmic hegemony

Chapter 166, Promising Space Agriculture
In the city of the sky in the outer space of the earth, Li Fu and Chen Bin sat on the moving chairs and followed Luo Xiaoyao to visit the entire city of the sky.

Because it is only affected by microgravity, there is no difference between up and down, front and back, etc. in the entire sky city. From time to time, there are other staff driving the moving chairs on the heads of everyone. see.

"The area we are currently in is the space port area, which has been fully completed and put into use. It has 8 space port terminals, each of which is more than 2000 meters long, and can park hundreds of "Hercules" aerospace planes at the same time. It’s a small aerospace plane, and the number that can be parked is even greater.”

Luo Xiaoyao explained in detail to Li Fu and Chen Bin while leading the way.

Li Fu is naturally very clear about the detailed data of the space port, and he can even recite it. However, he still feels very novel when he actually visits the space at this time. In space, people who ask this and that from time to time seem very curious.

"From this position, we can see our Huaxia Tiangong Space Station, but if you want to see it clearly, you still need a telescope."

Luo Xiaoyao handed a pair of binoculars to Li Fu and pointed to a window.

Li Fu used his binoculars to look in the direction, and a huge group of space buildings appeared in his field of vision. The "Tiangong" space station was already very large in size, and sections of space capsules formed a very large group. The scale of the overall volume is far beyond Li Fu's Sky City.

"Tiangong Space Station has tens of thousands of space capsules, of which the large-scale space capsules launched in the later period accounted for more than 90%. A space capsule is more than 50 meters in length and 5 meters in diameter. All of them are made of large aerospace aircraft. Only our Huaxia has such a huge amount of money."

Luo Xiaoyao said very proudly that although he is now working for Li Fu, he is a member of the army after all, and his patriotic feelings are still overflowing.

"It's really amazing, tsk tsk, I've seen dozens of space planes at the Tiangong Space Station alone. Basically every once in a while, space planes fly over the ground, and space planes fly to the moon or It's Earth, it's very busy!"

Li Fu nodded, and handed the telescope to Chen Bin. The "Tiangong" is now the largest man-made complex in the entire space. Li Fu's Sky City is not a star and a half behind it.

"Huge is very huge, but its construction method is still limited to the old-fashioned space capsule model, and the utilization of space is still very poor. Although our Sky City is far inferior to it as a whole, it should be better in terms of future development. Some."

Chen Bin also nodded after reading it, and after pondering for a while, expressed his opinion.

"Lao Luo, take us to another area."

Li Fu shook his head with a smile, and continued to inspect.

"This is our living area. The living area is mainly used for resting and exercising in space."

Soon, everyone came to the living area of ​​Sky City. In each room, some people were sleeping in the sleeping cabins, and some people were constantly doing some mechanical stretching exercises, and there were quite a number of them.

"Because there is no gravity in space or is only affected by microgravity, the bones of the human body will appear redundant in this situation. If you stay in space for a long time, the bones of the human body will be in a relaxed state for a long time. The calcium will be lost, and once it returns to the ground, it will be completely paralyzed at once."

"So in space, astronauts must keep exercising for at least 2 hours a day. The way of exercising is to use mechanical stretching. This can greatly slow down the loss of calcium in bones, so that they will not lose weight when they return to the ground. become disabled for life.”

Luo Xiaoyao explained the importance of exercising in space to a group of sweating astronauts and scientists. Human bones evolved because of the gravity of the earth, and bones are needed to support the body.

"Old Luo, the supervision work in this area must be done well, and we must persist in exercising until the prescribed time every day. In addition, the time spent by our company's people in space must be set within a reasonable range. It is best not to be too After a few days, they should be replaced and returned to the ground."

Li Fu nodded after listening, and then thought carefully about telling Luo Xiaoyao to come.

"I see."

Luo Xiaoyao nodded, and was very touched that the boss cared so much about the health of his employees.

Soon, everyone came to the agricultural area again. Just after entering the agricultural area, the eyes were full of green. Rows of shelves here, all kinds of crops are growing very well, and many of them have already blossomed and bore fruit. .

"This rice, it's unbelievable, it can produce several ears of rice, this should be genetic technology?"

As soon as Chen Bin, who was born in the countryside, saw a piece of golden rice in the agricultural area, he hurried over and looked carefully, and then he immediately exclaimed.

He has seen a lot of rice since he was a child, and he worked in the farmland with his parents when he was a child. There is only one ear of rice. This has been a thing since ancient times, but now the rice he sees in space is like corn. It is unbelievable that there are several ears of rice in one rice plant.

"No, all the crops here are purely original and definitely not genetically modified crops. This is the same for rice. It is also a very ordinary seed, and it is not even a hybrid rice."

Hearing Chen Bin's words, a person next to him who was carefully studying the crops and wearing a white coat came over and answered with a smile.

"Are you Gu Feng?"

When Li Fu saw him, he recalled it carefully in his mind, and immediately knew his detailed information. He is a top student in biomedicine from Imperial University and a scientist in the Institute of Biological Sciences of Fuyun Technology Research Institute. The most important thing now is to research biogenetic technology.

"Brother Fu."

Gu Feng was slightly moved in his heart, he didn't expect Li Fu to know himself.

"Gu Feng, since it is an original ecological crop, why does the rice undergo such a huge change after it enters the space? It is absolutely impossible for each node to produce an ear of rice. It is absolutely impossible on the earth. "

Chen Bin pulled out a rice plant, observed carefully, and carefully counted the number of rice on each ear of rice, and rubbed the rice in his hands to test the fullness of the rice.

He was surprised to find that the number of millet on these rice ears had reached more than 150. Generally, there are at least three rice ears on a rice plant. In this way, this rice plant has 450 millet. The yield of the hybrid rice with the highest yield is more than 2 times higher.

In addition to the greatly increased yield, Chen Bin also found that the rice grains are very full, and almost every grain is very even, and there is no doubt that they are the best rice.

"We haven't fully figured out this phenomenon yet. In fact, not only rice, but also wheat, corn, sweet potatoes, etc., have very high yields in space. Generally, they are several times higher than those planted on the ground. , and some like some vine crops, the yield is even more frighteningly high."

"Everyone, please look at this bean, its output is more than ten times that of the earth; this is watermelon, its output is more than ten times higher than that of the earth, and there are pumpkins, wax gourds, cucumbers, etc. The yield has generally increased by more than ten times, and the quality is very good, the taste is good, the nutritional value is extremely high, and it is definitely the top agricultural product."

Gu Feng nodded, and began to explain in detail for everyone. Everyone followed his explanation and saw that a plant of green beans has many branches, and each branch is full of green beans, and the vines of watermelon are spreading. A large piece of huge watermelon is quietly suspended, even people who don't understand agriculture at all can tell that the yield is very high.

"Should it be related to the absence of gravity in space?"

Li Fu rubbed his chin. Li Fu was used to seeing these crops since he was a child. He also helped his parents with farm work when he was a child. Of course, he knew that the yield of these crops on the earth was absolutely not so terrible.

"Well, at present, it can only be attributed to changes in space that are not affected by gravity or in a microgravity environment. Of course, there is also a very important reason that we all carry out precise cultivation according to the needs of various crops. Cultivation, how much water, how much nutrients, the composition of nutrients, etc. are needed.”

"Of course, another reason is that here is space, and the sunlight is very sufficient, even 24 hours of light can be realized; there are no diseases and insect pests in space at all, and there is no need to apply pesticides, etc. wait."

"The combination of many factors makes the yield of crops so high, and the quality is very good, the taste of the crops is very good, and the nutritional value is high."

Gu Feng nodded, pointing out the advantages of high-yield, high-quality, and pollution-free crops in space.

"In this way, space agriculture is really promising. Even if the cost of transporting water resources is not cheap, but once the output is increased, it is a high-quality crop. In fact, there is still a lot of profit margins. .”

Luo Xiaoyao, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help but nodded at this moment, and calculated carefully with his fingers.

"Of course there is a lot to do. In space, the space is infinite, and the sunlight is infinite. As long as you make good use of the space, arrange the time and location, the output value of the crops will be very high."

Gu Feng nodded, and said in a natural tone, obviously very optimistic about space agriculture.

(End of this chapter)