Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 203 Space Station Project

"I want to create an award like the Nobel Prize, but unlike the Nobel Prize, it will include more awards than the Nobel Prize, and it will be awarded every year, but only one award at a time."

Zhou Ming said to Li Mingzhi again.

Li Mingzhi was attracted by what Zhou Ming said, and he asked Zhou Ming very curiously: "Then how much do you plan to set as the prize money for this award?"

Previously, Zhou Ming disliked the fact that some awards had too little prize money, but Li Mingzhi wanted to know how much prize money he would set for this award since Zhou Ming planned to create one himself.

In Li Mingzhi's view, a person like Zhou Ming who is not short of money will have a bonus of 200 million.

"The initial annual bonus is 1000 million soft sister coins." Zhou Ming explained.

When Zhou Ming said this, his tone obviously far exceeded Li Zhizhi's tone. Li Zhizhi on the other end of the phone was very surprised and confirmed the specific amount to Zhou Ming.

"How many?"

If what Zhou Ming said is true, once this award is confirmed, its bonus amount can be said to be the highest among all science awards in the world.

Even if it is the Nobel Prize, its bonus amount soared from 1991 million Swedish kronor in 600 to 2001 million Swedish kronor in 1000. When its value was already equivalent to 144% of the initial bonus, there was no such amount as Zhou Ming said now. high.

In recent years, due to the poor investment returns of the Nobel Prize Fund, its bonus has shrunk to 2012 million Swedish kronor since 800, and this bonus has remained until this year.

However, due to the rise of biotechnology engineering in the future, many foreign biotechnology companies have experienced a sharp drop in revenue, and even some biotechnology companies are on the verge of bankruptcy, and the stocks of related technology companies have also experienced some large or small declines.

The countries where the Nobel Foundation invests are mainly concentrated in North America and Europe. Countries like Yingguo, the United States, and Australia are afraid that by next year, due to the decline in income, the amount of prize money will drop again.

"1000 million." Zhou Ming said the specific amount again.

"1000 million..." After Zhou Ming said the specific amount again, Li Mingzhi also repeated the amount, not knowing what he was thinking, but soon he said to Zhou Ming again, "Then your award is going to include those Award? What is its name going to be called?"

"There will definitely be the most basic physics prizes, chemistry prizes, biology prizes, mathematics prizes, etc. As for the others, I haven't figured it out yet. At that time, a group of scholars from various fields in the scientific community will be convened Discussed together, strive to include all scientific research in the award.

You see, does this mean that a group of top scholars in various fields have been summoned to China?And not just academics in the field of mathematics.

As for the name of this award, I haven't decided yet. If it is named after me, it would be too ostentatious, and it doesn't fit my personality.

But if it is named after the company, it seems that the commercial atmosphere is too strong and the academic atmosphere is not enough. "

Zhou Ming answered the questions Li Zhizhi just asked. As for the Peace Prize and Literature Prize in the Nobel Prize, Zhou Ming is not going to set it up. His main purpose of setting up this award is to promote the development of social science.

In Zhou Ming's view, the establishment of the Peace Prize is just a decoration, as you can see from the Nobel Peace Prize.

Therefore, Zhou Ming didn't say anything about these two awards.

"If you plan to award one award in a year for biology awards and mathematics awards, judging from the achievements in recent years, the awards in the past few years may have to be awarded to yourself.

Whether it is biology or mathematics, you are the most qualified to win.

And if you continue to come up with research results at this speed, I am afraid that you will be the winner of this award every year in the future.

But you were originally the organizer of this award, and then the award was only awarded to you. Although it was awarded based on the contribution of the research results to society, this is also very reasonable, but reasonable does not mean reasonable.

If you win other awards, no matter how many you win, no one will say anything.

But if you take this award yourself, I am afraid that many people will gossip.

From other people's point of view, the establishment or non-establishment of your award has nothing to do with other people. "

Li Mingzhi reminded Zhou Ming, because if Zhou Ming intends to establish this award to make it a top international award like the Nobel Prize, then the winner must be recognized by most scholars.

As for Zhou Ming's achievements in the fields of biology and mathematics in the past two years, there is absolutely no doubt that he won the award. If he didn't win, it would be a problem.

But here lies the problem. You established this award to encourage the most outstanding scholars in the world, and now you are encouraged alone. What is going on?

However, Zhou Ming had already thought of a countermeasure for this point, and he said to Li Zhiming: "President Li, I have already thought about how to deal with this point, so don't worry."

"You can do whatever you want to do with it. I just want to remind you. When will your award be established?" Li Mingzhi asked Zhou Ming again.

"At the end of this year, I will send out invitations to scholars from various fields in the academic world to come and discuss. It should be established next year, and the first awards will be awarded next year or the year after next." Zhou Mingdao.

Afterwards, Li Zhizhi didn't say anything to Zhou Mingduo, and the two quickly hung up the phone.

And Zhou Ming also started to deal with his own affairs, but he hadn't dealt with his own affairs for a long time before he received another call.

"Come on, today either I called someone or someone else called me. I haven't arrived this morning. Why did you call again?"

Zhou Ming had just turned around from the laboratory of the artificial synthesis project, and when he was about to go to the laboratory of the space synthetic biology project to have a look, he heard his cell phone ringing again, and said this to himself.

Taking out his mobile phone, Zhou Ming found that it was Zhou Chunli whom he had called once before.

"It was arranged so quickly? Isn't this too fast?"

Seeing that it was Zhou Chunli calling, the first thing Zhou Ming thought of was the matter he had just called Zhou Chunli not long ago.

"Hello, Dean Zhou." Zhou Ming called kindly after answering the phone.

Zhou Chunli felt that Zhou Ming's voice seemed much more cordial than the one just now, and he didn't know if there was something wrong with his ears, but Zhou Chunli didn't pay too much attention to these, but said directly to Zhou Ming: "Professor Zhou Ming, you just now I have already talked to that person about what I said to me, and I will choose a good person for you soon and arrange someone to go there.

However, that one just told me something, that is, didn’t the space synthetic biology research project of your scientist’s studio produce two results recently?

One is mycelium, which could help build a base on Mars, and one is engineered bacteria that can improve recycling of confined space waste.

That person dragged me to ask you, can your modified bacteria be used now? If it can be used, we will first use it on the simulated space station on the ground. After a few years, Huaguo will board its own space station. These modifications of yours Bacteria can also be used for better purposes.

The space station on our side can also reduce some loads according to the role of your modified bacteria, and can also develop the direction of the modified bacteria to a more usable direction through actual use. "

After hearing what Zhou Chunli said on the other end of the phone, Zhou Ming realized that when Zhou Chunli called, he was not talking about the driver, but about modifying bacteria.

Astronauts need at least three things: food, oxygen and water if they want to survive in the space station for a long time.

Food is naturally brought up from the earth, and they don't have the ability to farm in the space station yet.

As for the oxygen in the space station, either oxygen cylinders are directly transported from the ground to the space station for astronauts to breathe, or pure water is transported from the ground to the space station and then made into oxygen.

And Zhou Ming's Space Synthetic Biology Research Project team has developed this modified bacterium that can use solar energy and available nutrient resources to reproduce and produce oxygen.

The original plan of Huaguo Space Station was to use oxygen cylinders to supply oxygen. If the bacteria Zhou Ming researched could really work, then they would not need to carry oxygen cylinders or pure water to make oxygen.

However, for the safety of the astronauts, it must be simulated on the ground to confirm that it can really replace the oxygen cylinder before it can be added to the system of the space station.

In terms of water use, Huaguo is planning to send about 1 ton of water resources into space in advance, which can also reduce the load.

In fact, as for the simulated space station on the ground mentioned by Zhou Chunli, this matter is also a last resort.

If you can go to the International Space Station, who doesn’t want to go to the International Space Station first, and after training a group of astronauts who have life experience on the space station, and then have their own space station, they can directly let these astronauts go directly to their own space station. The space station, or let them train the next batch of Huaguo's own space station astronauts.

However, the International Space Station is not fancy.

Zhou Ming remembered that there was another netizen on Baidu Zhizhi in 2009 who asked such a question, "When will it be the turn of the Chinese people to go to the International Space Station?"

At that time, a netizen replied that "Huaguo people can go to their own International Space Station if they want to go to it. It's not fun to go to other people's." Although Huaguo has been working hard for this goal, it has been seven years now. We still don't have our own space station.

If we look at before Zhou Ming didn't have much impact on the world, Huaguo will be able to board his own space station in about 5 years, that is, in 2021.

Although Zhou Ming has acquired a lot of future knowledge through the life simulator and is already very knowledgeable, Zhou Ming's main research direction is biology, followed by mathematics and artificial intelligence.

Although Zhou Ming has some knowledge about aerospace, he certainly does not have the ability to serve as chief engineer of aerospace projects such as space station systems and lunar exploration.

Later, when Huaguo wanted to build a base on the moon, Zhou Ming could serve as the chief engineer of the lunar base design.

However, these are at least several years later.

Let’s talk about the space station. In fact, people from many countries have been on the International Space Station, even Malaysians and people from Tai.

The Galileo project is not a space station project, but a satellite navigation system project.

In the local wars in the 90s, after GPS positioning showed amazing military value and application value, European countries finally decided to make their own satellite navigation system in 2002 after three years of pulling each other, which is this Galileo program.

They plan a total investment of about 36 billion euros, and also invited Hua Guo to join.

However, after Huaguo and Oumeng signed the agreement and invested 2.3 million euros, they have been unable to enter the core technology layer. The space agency over there has also set up many obstacles, and the technology does not provide technology.

What they mean is that you have invested money to join us, this is fine.

However, if you want to engage with us, this is not allowed.

It's like you and some so-called friends put money into building a car, and in the end they let you build some car shells, tires, and parts that don't have much technical content.

In the end, the car was built, and it still belongs to them. If they are in a good mood, they will lend it to you to drive for a few days, and if they are in a bad mood, they will not let you drive it.

But you have invested all the money, so it is impossible to withdraw it again?Otherwise, your money will be in vain. After the car is built, people will not lend you the car if they are in a good mood. If you want to drive it, you will have to spend additional money.

However, if you don't withdraw, you still have to continue to invest in manpower.

In the end, the upper echelons of Huaguo really had courage and decisively withdrew from the Galileo project. The money was wasted as it was, and talents could no longer be wasted like this.

After withdrawing from the Galileo project, Huaguo stopped relying on others and began to devote himself to his own Beidou system.

After the Galileo project, they made a space station project.

However, because of the previous experience of suffering from the Galileo project, Hua Guo simply did not apply, and directly prepared to conduct research and launch the space station by himself.

This is why there are no Chinese people on the International Space Station. It is not that they turned us away, but that we have never applied at all.

"Of course it can be used. But..."

Zhou Ming didn't finish talking about this, he just paused, and Zhou Chunli couldn't wait to ask, "But what?"

"However, we will carry out a deeper transformation of this modified bacterium in the future. When our space station goes up, the modified bacterium should also update and iterate several versions.

Therefore, if you can, when designing the space station, when it comes to modifying bacteria, it is best to design it into a replaceable and iterative type.

Of course, if the core module has been designed and built, it can also be designed in the next space station. "

Zhou Ming reminded.

Zhou Chunli on the other end of the phone felt a little unbelievable when he heard Zhou Ming say these words. He said to Zhou Ming with some uncertainty: "Update? Iteration? Why do I feel that you are talking about computers, not biology?"

"Dean Zhou, you heard me right, what I'm talking about is biology, bacterial transformation, renewal and iteration." Zhou Ming said again.

"Professor Zhou Ming, I finally understand, you still have many plans.

It seems that our previous ideas were all wrong. We thought that your research results would be released in at least a year, and many of us thought it would be too soon.

In your plan, when will the next update of your modified bacteria be?What functions can be added?It's enough to give a rough idea, I'm not a researcher in this area, and I can't understand what you said in too much detail. "

When Zhou Chunli heard Zhou Ming's tone on the phone, he knew that Zhou Ming had a plan in mind.

"The next time will probably be at the beginning of next year or later, but it will definitely not exceed June. As for the specific function, it is hard to say, and it depends on the specific experimental results, but it will definitely increase its efficiency in producing oxygen, and we plan to let it It can have the function of producing water," Zhou Ming explained.

"It seems that I have to let you come here, at least let you join this project, and have a communication, otherwise the plan of the aerospace project will not be able to keep up with your research and development. .

In the afternoon, you should receive a call. I have to tell that person about you quickly, and I have to make another trip. I will talk about other things after we meet, so I hang up first. "

After Zhou Chunli finished speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for Zhou Ming to speak.

(End of this chapter)