Epoch of Twilight

Of course, in Luo Yuan's eyes, the more important thing is that this new warship can accommodate more people, which is beyond imagination.

Don't say five million, based on the current population density of the mother ship, even a population of one billion is no problem. High-rise buildings have always been a sharp weapon for accommodating the population. Even if it is only an area the size of a town, it can pile up a population close to that of the former Chinese president before the end of the world. The miracle of population.

However, at the growth rate of the number of humans, it is estimated that it will take hundreds of years to fill this spaceship.

Over the years, in the secret experimental factory of the Boxing mothership, human cloning has not been shut down, but the production quantity has been slightly reduced. In ten years, the human population has increased by about two million, and the total human population has reached eight million. .

It's not that you can't clone more, nor is it to avoid exposure, but the number of babysitters and teachers is seriously lacking.

The number of people without dormancy is very small, less than 500,000 in total, most of them are scientific researchers, and there are only more than 30,000 specialized babysitters. After all, cloning is not a product, nor is it the powerful clones of Luo Yuan body, after leaving the nutrient solution, there is no need to manage it.

Newborn cloned babies are quite fragile, not much different from ordinary people, at most they are a little stronger, and they need someone to take care of them whether they are feeding or urinating.

It wasn't until they were half a year old that they began to show abnormal behavior, walking independently and learning to speak. At this time, they basically didn't need to be taken care of carefully.

These cloned children cannot be seen in the virtual world. They all study and live in the welfare home on the mother ship, and do not engage in activities in the virtual world. Their cognitive and discrimination abilities are far from mature. After staying in the virtual world for a long time, it is easy to confuse them. difference between reality and virtuality.

In fact, not to mention children, many adults already have this tendency. Every time they leave the virtual world, they feel as if they have passed away. For them, reality is only a place to satisfy their physical needs. I spend all my time in the virtual world, live there, work there, and play there.

What is reality? What is false again? This definition has begun to become blurred now that the virtual world is becoming more and more real.

This is an inevitable phenomenon of staying in the virtual world for a long time, and it is also an unavoidable sequelae. However, Luo Yuan does not want to correct this. The greatest value of those scientific researchers is to contribute their wisdom. As for where to work, as long as it does not affect them, how do they do it? all will do.

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No matter how powerful and advanced this new battleship is, it has no effect on today's human beings. Humans can only stay in this old Boxing mothership, and can only conduct technical verification in the virtual world.

There is no village in the front, no shop in the back, the black area is empty, and there is no resource at all. Even if the goddess of luck discovers an asteroid by chance, it is impossible to build a giant spaceship of tens of billions of tons.

This is a giant that can only be built with a planet as a mining area. It cannot be satisfied by one or two asteroids at all. The construction work can only be carried out by flying to Barnard's star system.

It will take more than ten years to fly.

However, after more than ten years, with the advancement of human science and technology, this kind of spaceship may not be appreciated anymore. This is a spaceship that is destined to remain in the blueprint. In the future, it can only be admired in the virtual world.

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After visiting the spacecraft, a group of people took the aircraft and rushed to the next location. The space here has become a testing ground for human military power. In addition to the spacecraft and factories, there are also many strange space defense weapons floating around.

"This is one of the components of the armed satellite global defense system designed by Tiandun Weapons Research Institute. It weighs 300 million tons, has ten sets of giant nuclear fusion furnaces, and has a gamma ray cannon and twelve rapid-fire electromagnetic gun defense arrays. , intelligently capture targets, if complete, it will have 18,000 pieces, covering the entire planet."

Tiandun Weapons Design Institute is one of the largest research institutes specializing in the design of space defense weapons. Almost two-thirds of the space defense weapons here are designed by them. This time, Luo Yuan and a group of leaders finally came to inspect Space defense, the dean of the design institute hastily put in a lot of energy and introduced it carefully.

However, only hearing this figure, Luo Yuan couldn't help but frown: "300 million tons, more than 10,000 pieces, can this resource be consumed?"

"This..." The dean of the design institute suddenly looked embarrassed: "This was designed by some young people, we will correct it immediately."

"You can be bold when designing, but you also need to integrate theory with practice. The reality is not a virtual world, and there are not so many resources to mine." Luo Yuan reprimanded in a deep voice.

"The mayor is right. This is what I want to mention. Over the years, these mechanical and military design departments have become more and more bold in mechanical design. They emphasize that big is beautiful, and more is better. Not long ago, the The 300-meter-high mecha really scared me. What’s the use of being so tall and so big? In the case of a war, it’s not as good as a space fighter. I think this kind of atmosphere should be stopped.” Bi Jianping, who was next to him, immediately echoed road.

Being criticized one by one by two big bosses, the director of the research institute was so frightened that he was sweating profusely, and he didn't dare to defend himself at all.

"That's not bad. You would never have imagined the tonnage of the first design version of the warship that will be built before, 300 billion tons. What do you think these people think?" Tian Jinping smiled. He looks like a good guy, but in fact, he is serious outside. As a senior official in charge of the Ministry of Industry, he has a tough wrist and a stern style. Generally, his subordinates dare not take a breath in front of him.

Luo Yuan smiled and said: "Their virtual world authority is a bit too high, it seems that they need to adjust it, although the unlimited resource supply speeds up the efficiency of scientific research, but it is also easy to make the development of science and technology go into misunderstandings, Barnard's star system is poor in resources , Mining is difficult, if this continues, our development will be severely restricted by then."

This is not a guess but a reality. According to the data detected by the spacecraft, there are only two rocky planets in this star system, while the rest are gaseous planets.

Moreover, that star is already a red dwarf star, and the light it emits is very dim, causing the surfaces of these planets to be covered with thick ice layers. These ice layers are not the shallow ice layers of the earth, which are thousands of meters or even tens of thousands of meters thick. It's all possible, except that water resources are relatively easy to obtain, mining other resources is quite troublesome and time-consuming.

What's more serious is that human beings must also consider the possibility that these seemingly rocky planets are actually gaseous or watery. Once this is true, it will undoubtedly be bad news for human beings.

In fact, this is not a low-probability thing. The temperature of that galaxy is too low. If the mass of ordinary gaseous planets is not large enough to generate heat, there is a possibility of freezing, because whether it is methane or hydrogen, both It cannot withstand the low temperature close to absolute zero.