Homo sapiens

Wise Hernandez came to his experimental cabin.

This experimental cabin is buried under the lunar soil. For safety reasons, the cabins at the Copernicus Base are rarely directly exposed to the ground and are all buried under the lunar soil.

When preparing to build the Copernicus base, the Space Division organized a large number of professionals to study various options.

In those science fiction movies, the seemingly tall base city was immediately eliminated.

The reason is very simple.

This is a real lunar base, not a science fiction movie. Safety and practicality must be considered.

A base that is directly exposed to the ground can only rely on its own shell to resist solar wind, high-energy neutrons, high-energy rays and asteroids. This is obviously the stupidest plan.

After all, this is the moon, not the empty low-Earth orbit or synchronous orbit.

Since it is the moon, we must adapt to local conditions, make full use of the moon's raw materials, and reduce the load proportion of the spacecraft on protective facilities, so as to maximize benefits.

Therefore, the first batch of fire spacecraft launched to Copernicus Crater were all specially modified professional models.

For example: Fire-digger.

The entire body of the Digger can unfold its mechanical legs and walk like an arthropod like a centipede.

The reason why it is designed as a mechanical foot is mainly because the moon's gravity is only one-sixth that of the earth, and it does not have a thick atmosphere.

In this way, the mechanical feet can easily support its entire body and can move quickly on various terrains.

However, this is not the core function of the digger. As the name suggests, the digger is an excavation equipment. This thing can easily dig channels with a depth of 6 to 7 meters.

Then it was the turn of the Fire-Transporter. This model was specially designed for transporting other Fire ships.

The carriers carried the landed Fire Spaceship into the channel, and then the diggers filled the channel back with the excavated sand.

The thickness of the sand layer above each cabin is about 1 to 2 meters, which ensures that high-energy neutrons, high-energy rays, and solar wind cannot disturb the cabin.

The cabin does not need to be equipped with a magnetic field shield system.

As for asteroids, the Copernicus base’s solution is to guide the fall. That is, through a monitoring system deployed on the moon, it monitors asteroids in surrounding orbits that may fall near the Copernicus crater, and then launches some attitude control engines to attach to the asteroids. On the asteroid, guide the asteroid to fall into other areas.

Although this solution is a little more troublesome, it is still better than using a hydrogen bomb to explode.

As for the Copernicus Base buried underground, due to the reduction of many protective facilities, the ratio of working equipment to living facilities has been greatly increased.

At this time, Wise Hernandez passed the electric car and drove in the underground tunnel.

His electric car is actually a small electric car similar to Laotou Le, and the tunnel is also a small tunnel dug by diggers.

The reason why the cabins are not connected together is also for safety reasons.

The cabins in the base are arranged in groups of 10, and each group is arranged in one area, with a distance of about 500 meters between each group.

Through this small tunnel, Wise Hernandez came to the door of his experimental cabin and first placed the electric car in the underground garage aside.

He entered the quick cleaning area to remove the dust from the spacesuit, and then entered the dressing area.

The heavy-duty spacesuit automatically released, ejecting Wise Hernandez from the spacesuit. He stood in the experimental protective suit fitting machine again. Suddenly, a layer of jelly-like colloid flowed out of the equipment and quickly adhered to the equipment. On his biological base armor, the two completed the connection and combination.

The whole person seems to be "fat". Although the bio-based armor has a strong protective power, there are some unknown possibilities in the laboratory situation.

According to laboratory safety management regulations, anyone entering the laboratory must wear professional experimental protective clothing. This is a mandatory requirement. If not wearing it, they cannot enter.

Wise Hernandez walked into the experimental cabin and went directly to the lunar bacteria storage container collected a few hours ago.

He looked at the professional fully enclosed microbial incubators and found that the growth conditions of the lunar bacteria in the five incubators were different.

The lunar bacteria in incubator No. 3 have occupied a quarter of the culture medium and are the fastest growing among the five incubators.

"Although they are all carbon-based organisms, this thing is a bit like the earth's seafloor black smokestack bacteria, which has a special liking for sulfur compounds."

While checking the conditions of each incubator, he recorded the data he found.

The average diameter of this lunar bacterium is very large, reaching 3200 to 3500 nanometers. As a single-cell organism, this diameter is already very large.

Wise-Hernandez speculates that this is because the moon's lower gravity allows bacteria to grow very large.

Moreover, the life forms of lunar bacteria are relatively primitive, similar to the early archaea on Earth.

As for why lunar bacteria also have genes, they are also genes with a spiral structure.

The reason is very simple, because the life forms of carbon-based organisms are all similar, especially the spirochet gene structure as the underlying logic, which is basically the same template.

This is determined by the basic physical rules of the universe. There is no genetic structure of carbon balls or carbon cubes.

If silicon-based organisms exist under special circumstances, it may not be a chain-structured gene.

But carbon-based organisms must be genes with a chain-like spiral structure.

Since both sides are carbon-based organisms, there are conditions for genetic recombination. Wise Hernandez is very aware of the difficulties currently encountered by the Copernicus Base.

That is, biosynthesis technology cannot synthesize parts with relatively high precision, which is not conducive to the self-sufficiency of the base.

The root cause of this situation lies in genes.

The biosynthesis technology used by the company is basically to use the genes of various earth organisms to transform artificial organisms that can quickly synthesize various materials.

The problem is that the genes of Earth's organisms must have been specifically mutated for the Earth's environment.

If these creatures are taken to outer space and other planets, they will naturally become acclimatized.

At present, on the Homo sapiens space station, the progress of biosynthetic technology in space is still stumbling.

We encountered a lot of problems, especially some elements that could easily go out of control in the microgravity environment of outer space, resulting in very poor quality of synthesized materials. In addition, the synthesis speed also dropped.

It's the same thing here on the moon.

The reason why the Homo sapiens company attaches so much importance to biosynthesis technology is because of the advantages of biosynthesis technology. When exploring aliens, it can use the minimum manpower and material resources to maximize profits.

It is not too difficult for Homo sapiens companies to develop the moon now. After all, the moon is right at home.

But in the future, we need to develop satellites of Mars, Venus, and Jupiter. These planets are too far away from the earth.

The starting distance is often hundreds of millions of kilometers, and the manned spacecraft cannot use nuclear explosions to propel it. Even if a mass projector is built on the moon, the speed of the manned spacecraft in the future will be difficult to exceed the limit of 50 kilometers per second.

Therefore, using biosynthetic technology to expand the scale of the development base using local materials from extraterrestrial beings is the optimal solution.

If everything is transported by the earth, the speed at which humans develop the solar system will drop hundreds of times.

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