From black technology to super engineering

For a long time, Ye Ming's achievements in the field of natural science have concealed his other identity, that is...he is the director of the Brain-Computer Center.

For brain science, he is an authority.

In brain science, or in the biological field, human beings have a forbidden area that cannot be touched.

—Maintaining the integrity of humanity as a biological nature, also known as maintaining the integrity of the human species.

Since the end of the last century, the concept of the integrity of the human species has been widely used in ethical discussions on human reproductive cloning, stem cell research, human heritable gene editing, and technologies closely related to the future of human beings such as "human enhancement" and "brain-computer connection". Citation becomes a key concept in ethical arguments.

At the same time, in various international conventions and legal instruments related to biomedical research, "protecting the integrity of the human species" is also regarded as an important principle and has been generally recognized. (The last two paragraphs are copy)

Based on this principle, any behavior that violates the ethics will be strictly prohibited—in the current era of technological explosion, the scientific community can turn a blind eye to some behaviors that violate the rules, such as directly Skip certain steps and such. But for things like fetal gene editing, human cloning, etc., it is absolutely not allowed.

but……

well known.

When the benefits of a thing can be too great to be refused...then it is difficult to be stopped by morality and law.

Cloning is not an advanced technology.

If consciousness, that is, the information of human brain nerves can be fully read, then human beings may be able to achieve technical immortality-if you do not mix metaphysics, think that consciousness is generated by the activities of human brain nerves, then copy a brain It is theoretically feasible to move into the cloned brain.

It is even possible to construct a mechanical and electronic environment to match the brain electrical activity generated by human consciousness, thereby realizing the so-called "mechanical ascension".

Therefore, Ye Ming didn't dare to think about it at all.

But he had to think about it—not for human beings, but for other civilizations in the universe, or "opponents", or even "enemies".

In tens of thousands of years, who knows how far those civilizations will develop.

...

Ye Ming knew that Sheng Fei was a smart and courageous person. Therefore, after arranging a task for Sheng Fei, he thought for a while and added: "Just now I had a brief discussion with Mogu, and I think that the Canglan Star may have mastered a way to convert brain signals into electrical signals to achieve intelligent control. technology, so you see, is there such a thing as a life capsule."

Sheng Fei was stunned for a second, then yelled out of nowhere: "Fuck? So awesome?"

"What's the matter...haven't we already achieved simple brain-computer control?" Ye Ming calmly downgraded Canglanxing's biotechnology: "Of course, this is just our preliminary guess. Pay attention, and then consult with Peng Xiaofei or Li Dongsheng, they know the design ideas of smart factories.”

"That's fine." Sheng Fei has always been obedient to Ye Ming's words. After hearing Ye Ming's words, he nodded in agreement readily, and then looked at him with burning eyes: "By the way, what about the accelerator?"

"There is no result yet. Such a large investment must be in-depth evaluation."

"Tsk tsk... If you can really produce that kind of dense substance, wouldn't it be invincible?"

"Invincible bastard, the current energy intensity is still not enough. We must achieve higher power output in the weapon field before we dare to go out and mess around." Ye Ming picked up the teacup, tried the temperature just right, and took a big sip: "Hey, your tea Not bad, where is it?"

"...by the West Lake."

"Give me some." Ye Ming took another sip, put down his teacup, and stood up: "Let's go, let me know if there is any news."

"good."

...

After the direction and plan are determined, the exploration work becomes methodical and step-by-step-the methodical results generally slow down.

Of course, Ye Ming is not in a hurry.

He believes that with the advancement of exploration, sooner or later there will be a breaking point.

Time passed slowly like this.

A month later, Ye Ming's proposal to build a circular accelerator, a two-dimensional space film generator and a super gravitational wave field generator on the moon was officially approved.

On the same day, the country also issued another five trillion yuan in debt. On the day after the debt was issued, the central banks of more than a dozen countries directly announced the purchase of the debt.

But the approval of the proposal does not mean that it can be built immediately.

You must know that such a huge project requires a lot of resources.

Now that the main production activities of human beings can only be completed by the earth factory, in order to complete the project, in addition to securing the money, the entire industrial chain needs to be secured.

Therefore, it will adopt comprehensive bidding and invite qualified enterprises and institutions from all over the world to participate in the form of suppliers.

But the premise is that you must enter Aita's production management system.

Such conditions did not cause much backlash and discussion.

After all... the nation of mankind has actually moved toward another form of global cooperation, toward the road of the human community.

The ups and downs of the past few years... Now that human beings have crossed the galaxy and are about to travel 2.6 million light-years away, they have already disappeared.

Whether it's Twitter, Facebook, or domestic, except for some extremely stubborn anti-intellectual groups, the general discussion on this project is...

How far can human beings go in their lifetime?

But bidding is easier said than done...

Well, it's actually not that difficult.

Because of the existence of Aita, I don't know how many years of time have been saved in the design and decomposition of the project.

——Aita has decomposed the three main projects into nearly 20,000 sub-projects, and each project has made extremely detailed requirements and explanations.

After the task was given, Aita also made the best matching object according to the list in the production management system.

To put it bluntly, if it is not necessary to consider the autonomy of the enterprise, Aita can issue production orders.

And this is just the first step.

In addition to production equipment, there are intermediate transportation, lunar assembly, and energy distribution.

In order to meet the transportation needs, at least 30 current Xuntian ships are needed as supporting unmanned spaceships for transportation, and three helium trimerization substations with the power of the Shanghai stock market are needed for energy.

These, too, cost money.

Not even much less than the main body of the project...

And Ye Ming, as the proponent of the project, naturally has the responsibility to save every cent of people's fat and cream for the guarantee plan of the whole project.

So he set out to redesign a new unmanned low-Earth orbit space transport ship.

(The next chapter will be later)