Chapter 400

A month passed quickly. Preliminary progress has been made in the scientific investigation of the Taipu civilization.

"Is this civilization still using fossil fuels? "Universal survey on fossil fuels", "survey on the possibility of global warming"... "

On this day, Zhang Yuan was sorting out the information in the captain's room, and there were all kinds of messy reports. He also heard the folk voice of tourism, including the topic of self bionics transformation was raised again.

If robot VR technology is used to replace tourism, the effect will be much worse. It will take at least five or ten years to use virtual world technology for re carving. How can it be so fast? It's impossible for a weak human body to adapt to three times the gravity. No matter how much exercise we can do, the only way to experience it is through bionics.

Of course, the voice of the people, no matter how, can not be realized immediately. If you want to reform yourself, you have to go through some legal procedures.

Li Cheng of the Secretariat replied: "part of it uses fossil fuels. This planet is rich in fossil resources. According to our geologist's estimation, at least 20 times more than the earth! Because of the large size of the planet And part of it is renewable biofuels. "

"Oh? Biofuels? " Zhang Yuan doubts a way.

"Yes, this civilization generally grows an annual herb called 'Ark', which can extract industrial alcohol and methane very simply and efficiently. Most of the empty boat engines are fueled by this plant. Only a small amount of military weapons and fuel with high calorific value can be used for petroleum. "

"It's a very nice plant indeed. It's a surprise

Many chemical raw materials in Kunlun Mountain are also provided by plants. Therefore, biologists in Kunlun Mountain are thinking that if this plant is really excellent, they can try to introduce it into the whole industrial system.

After pondering for a while, Zhang Yuan frowned and asked, "has Tapu civilization considered renewable energy so early? Are they so far sighted? When the oil crisis really happened, human beings made great efforts to develop controllable nuclear fusion. Most of the oil was simply burned. Is there a deeper reason, for example... "

"It's not. It's mainly economic." Dr. Li Cheng said with a smile: "for this civilization, although there is oil, it is too difficult to dig. Under high gravity environment, shallow oil is very rare, and it needs more pressure to be mined. Oil exploitation depends on the energy supplemented by oil well pumps, gas lift, etc., which is more difficult in high gravity environment. "

"High quality oil is on the deeper surface, resulting in high extraction costs."

It's also true that in a high gravity environment, the deeper the surface, the harder the rock is, and it's more difficult to extract oil.

Just like the earth's shale oil, the reserves are about 11-13 trillion tons, far more than the oil reserves, but the development is very difficult, and only a small part can be really utilized.

Dr. Li Cheng continued: "the planet is vast and sparsely populated. Its surface area is four or five times that of the earth. The birth rate of the population is not high, which is less than four billion. Therefore, these farmers choose to plant this kind of plants on a large scale in plain areas, which is economical and affordable. "

"I see." Hearing this, Zhang Yuan asked, "do you think this excellent energy plant was deliberately left behind by the enlightenment civilization? No matter how much oil there is, it will run out, but renewable energy is totally different and can last for a long time. "

Looking for the traces of enlightenment civilization has always been the key goal of this scientific examination. People have been looking for the so-called evidence. It's impossible to think that any disturbance or chance is left by the civilization of the enlightener. That's too funny.

Faced with Zhang Yuan's question, Li Cheng replied: "it depends on the time point of '150000 years ago', whether this plant named 'Aerke' has undergone large-scale gene mutation like the 'World Tree' of Riley civilization. If there is one, it can be concluded that it is the civilized behavior of the enlightener. "

“…… This civilization is analyzed from a congenital point of view. It is very difficult to enter space. If controllable nuclear fusion can not be achieved all the time, even if there is no energy crisis now, there will be one in the future. "

"With the emergence of this plant, the energy crisis will undoubtedly be greatly alleviated, which can provide more development time."

Zhang Yuan nodded his head and said: "however, it seems that this is not in line with the concept of enlightenment civilization. If this civilization gradually stops its progress in the next few thousand years and continues to use this plant to survive, wouldn't it be the same as Riley civilization? What's the point of being permanent? So I think, because of this reason, the probability of deliberately producing this plant is not big. "

"According to my personal opinion, if a civilization runs out of fossil fuels and leaves the planet without igniting the spark of nuclear fusion, it will die if it dies. There's nothing to regret."

Li Cheng replied, "I don't quite agree with you. I think we need to consider the technical difficulty of leaving the planet itself. If the gravity of a planet is ten times that of the earth, can the creatures of the planet leave the planet? It's impossible. Even our spaceship is hard to take off and land. So it's kind of benevolent to have a kind of energy to give these lives a chance to breathe. ""Our scientists are trying to figure out whether it is possible for us to leave the planet with three times of gravity and start the great interstellar age if we continue to develop step by step according to the level of science and technology at the end of the 20th century."

"The relevant mathematical modeling work is still in progress. Some scientists think it is possible, while others think that traditional rocket technology is difficult to help the taps leave the planet step by step."

"If we really can't, it shows that there are defects in the innate environment of this civilization and we need some help. Enlightened people with foresight may try to do something in this regard... "

"It makes a lot of sense." Zhang Yuan sees a picture on the screen. Anthropologists are visiting the museum.

This civilization also has its own archaeology, and is also studying its own origin. This may be the common point of scientific and technological thinking. Everything wants to trace its origin, rather than mistakenly attribute its existence to the gods.

So the current research direction is divided into two parts, one is archaeology, focusing on the history of 150000 years ago.

The other is to examine whether there are scientific and technological defects, environmental defects, and implicit help from enlighteners.

"I haven't found anything particularly good yet In 150000 years, we have been able to form a series of complex evolutions. If we do not rely on the power of the TAPP civilization itself, it will be too slow for us to make our own scientific research. "

"Our diplomatic team is considering whether we can directly put forward such a scientific research request to the other party. In other words, it would be better to read each other's archaeological documents directly After all, the information of the other party has not been fully disclosed to us. "

Zhang Yuan nodded and said, "that's no problem What we can trade is in this form, and the corresponding price is clearly marked. "