Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 283 Stagnant Technology
After some understanding, Zhou Ming, who was using a life simulator, realized that the Martian immigration mentioned here was not what he had previously understood. A group of ordinary people were immigrated from the earth, and then these people were over there. Live for a lifetime.

While the first Martian settlers here are somewhat similar, they are not the same.

Since there is no magnetic field on Mars now, it cannot protect the atmosphere from being blown away by the solar wind. In addition, the gravity on Mars is also weaker than that on Earth. Its surface gravity is only one-third of that on Earth, so the ability of Mars to attract the atmosphere is also weak. Some.

火星的大气层由95.32％的二氧化碳、2.7％的氮、1.6的％氩和以及0.13％氧合成，而且它的大气层厚度与地球相比，大约只有地球大气层气压的1％。

Therefore, start immigrating to Mars now. It is impossible for humans to survive normally on the surface of Mars without wearing life-sustaining equipment. If you want to survive on Mars without wearing life-sustaining equipment, you can only live in a base module on Mars.

However, after so many years of development, there are already a lot of base modules on Mars at this time, and these base modules are enough to accommodate millions of people.

Judging from the 95.32% carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere, and the research done by scientists on Earth and on Mars over the years, as long as water sources and suitable soil are found on Mars, plant seeds can be brought from Earth It is also possible to germinate and grow.

And the most important point is that when using the life simulator before, the Mars hydroponics module that has appeared in the simulated world several times, has now been researched in this simulated world.

With this Mars hydroponics module, it will be much easier for humans to grow plants on Mars than before.

Plants need carbon dioxide, and will generate oxygen after photosynthesis to increase the oxygen content of the Martian atmosphere. In this way, as long as the planting area is large enough and the time is long enough, humans may also be able to breathe the Martian atmosphere naked.

This first batch of immigrants to Mars this time also follows a voluntary principle. You can go alone or bring your whole family with you. After you get there, all you have to do is farm.

To be precise, it is planting plants, just like Huaguo mobilized millions of young people to open up wasteland in the Great Northern Wilderness nearly 100 years ago.

Now the time in the simulated world that the life simulator is simulating for Zhou Ming is exactly 93, [-] years ago was [-], and in that year the above made the "About Mobilizing Youth to Frontiers and Minority Areas to Participate in Decision on Socialist Construction".

In the five years from the central government's decision in 570 to [-], Hua Guo mobilized [-] million young people from the interior to participate in development and construction work in these areas.

This world seems to be a reincarnation. Nearly 100 years after millions of young people developed the Great Northern Wilderness, a more distant land reclamation operation began again.

However, what was opened up this time was not just a wasteland, it was also a planet.

In fact, compared with 100 years ago, Mars immigration in this 100 years will be much safer. After all, artificial intelligence technology and biotechnology have developed a lot compared to 30 years ago in [-].

Although the main work of those immigrants is planting, this planting is different from that of traditional farming societies.

Let’s not talk about Mars, just talk about agriculture on earth. Now it is all high-tech mechanized farming. One person can manage a large area of ​​arable land.

And on Mars, these people only need to stay in the control room of the base module, and all outside activities can be completed by artificial intelligence robots.

In addition, although there is a very obvious time difference between the communication on Mars and the earth due to the distance, it is still possible to communicate with the earth, but if you send a message, the time received there will be longer than that on the earth. Communication is much slower.

But if the person you are contacting is also on Mars, the delay is not that high.

And in order to enrich the daily life of workers and future immigrants on Mars, the Mars base module not only has various fitness and sports venues and equipment, but also many entertainment venues and facilities.

Some virtual reality-based games developed by Future Intelligent Technology Company based on Lingjing technology are also available in the Mars base module.

In addition, there are many learning materials in the Mars base cabin.

In short, apart from not being able to return to Earth anytime and anywhere, nor being able to leave the base module at will and go outside to absorb the atmosphere with a carbon dioxide content of 95.32%, there are many things that people living on Mars can do.

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[At the age of 65, the prerequisite technology "cryonics technology" necessary for interstellar navigation was successfully developed. 】

When the experience of life simulator simulating my future came to my 65th year, that is, in [-], another epoch-making technology came out.

Judging from the news obtained in the simulated world through the third-person view function, the "human cryogenic technology" mentioned by the life simulator this time is not the same human cryogenic technology as on the earth before.

The so-called freezing of the human body refers to freezing the body quickly in an appropriate way after death, so that there is hope for "resurrection" at some point in the future.

In the real world where Zhou Ming, who is using a life simulator for simulation, cryogenics is still a new science, which mainly studies the influence of body temperature on lifespan.

According to the good results achieved by some experiments on lowering body temperature that Zhou Ming knows, if the human body temperature is lowered to two degrees, a person can live 120 to 150 years longer.

According to this method, humans can live to 700 or even 800 years old.

In fact, as early as [-], American physicist James Bedford became the first person in the world to be artificially refrigerated.

To say that this concept was proposed, it was first mentioned in the science fiction novel "Strange Stories" published by science fiction novelist Neil Jones in [-].

However, from [-], when the world's first cryonics person was born, to [-], the real world where Zhou Ming, who is using a life simulator for simulation, is in, there are quite a few people who have performed cryonics. ,
But as of [-], there is no precedent for a frozen person being resurrected.

For these people, Zhou Ming knows that even if the future really researches the technology that can freeze people through some special means before they die naturally, and thaw them after a few years, and make them revive.

But until this technology is successfully developed, it will be impossible for those who have been frozen to be resurrected.

Because although those frozen people were said to have been frozen before natural death, they were actually already dead.

However, different from the real world, the human body freezing technology mentioned in the text simulation experience on the life simulator interface in front of Zhou Ming this time is a technology that can successfully thaw it after freezing.

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[At the age of 79, you clearly feel that starting from this year, the development of global science and technology seems to have stalled, as if it has encountered a bottleneck.However, at this time, you have already turned all the future technologies in your mind into reality. 】

"Has it finally started?"

When he saw his simulated text experience when he was 79 years old appearing on the life simulator panel in front of him, Zhou Ming, who was using the life simulator, thought in his mind as if he had expected it.

In fact, long before he saw the technology in the simulated world develop to the highest point among all the simulated worlds he has experienced, Zhou Ming knew that the rapid development of technology before would soon slow down.

After that, the development speed of global technology has indeed slowed down a lot compared to before.

But slowing down does not mean stagnation, it is still advancing slowly, and this slowness is also compared to when Zhou Ming pressed the super accelerator before.

If compared to before Zhou Ming pressed the super accelerator button, when the technological level in the simulated world developed to the peak of those simulated worlds that Zhou Ming experienced, the speed of slowing down was actually not too slow.

But now, in the row of simulated text experiences that appeared on the life simulator panel in front of Zhou Ming, what was being said was stagnation, not slowness.

The so-called stagnation means that things cannot continue to develop and move forward in their original conditions due to certain obstacles.

Then, what kind of hindrances did the development of science and technology in the simulated world get in the original state and could not continue to develop?
Although Zhou Ming, who was using the life simulator, already had the answer in his heart, he still waited for the changes in the surrounding environment with luck.

"Aging is indeed one of the two dark clouds over the head of life sciences. It has been several years without any movement.

In addition to aging, the research on neurobiology of consciousness is now stuck in a bottleneck, and even a breakthrough cannot be found..."

After the scene changed, Zhou Ming, who was using the life simulator for simulation, heard a voice. The person who spoke was Zhou Ming, who was 79 years old in the simulated world.

Although Zhou Ming in the simulated world is already 79 years old at this time, he has reached the end of his seventies and will start to enter the octogenarian stage next year.

But from the outside, Zhou Ming in the simulation world seems to be in his 50s. Not only does he have no white hair on his head, but he also has fewer wrinkles on his forehead than an average 79-year-old man.

Zhou Ming, who is using the life simulator, is not surprised that the 79-year-old himself looks so young in the simulated world, because in a simulation experience a few years ago, he already knew that the world's technology has developed a A drug that slows down skin aging.

However, this technology only targets the aging of part of the skin and does not have much effect on other organs of the human body.

Although after the advent of this technology, many scientists have also used it to develop drugs that can slow down the aging of human organs, but so far there has been no progress.

From his own words in the simulated world, Zhou Ming, who was using a life simulator to simulate, also confirmed the results that had emerged in his mind before.

The reason why the development of science and technology in this simulated world will fall into a bottleneck this time is because the previous science and technology have developed too fast, while the development speed of the theoretical basis is too slow compared to technology.

Now, the level of science and technology in this simulated world has reached the top of some scientific theories, and if they want to continue to develop in the future, they can only increase the development of scientific theories.

This is also something Zhou Ming has been worried about a long time ago, because his method uses a life simulator to simulate, and after obtaining advanced knowledge about the future from the simulated world, he uses this advanced knowledge to accelerate the development of the real world, and then uses it to Based on the accelerated development world, we once again used the life simulator to simulate, and obtained more advanced future technology.

If it can continue to develop like this, and go on and on like this, no matter whether it is mechanical ascension or genetic ascension in the future, it will not be a problem.

But there are two problems with such a cycle. One is that after many cycles, the simulation world continues to accelerate until Zhou Ming passes away. It is difficult to produce higher-tech technologies before Zhou Ming passes away.

The second problem is that Zhou Ming, who is using the life simulator, is now encountering a bottleneck in the development of technology in the simulated world, and it is also difficult to produce new technology, so the method of continuous circulation and acceleration will be interrupted up.

"Hey."

Finally, with Zhou Ming's sigh, the surrounding environment began to change, and this year's simulation experience ended.

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[91 years old, although you are almost a hundred years old this year, in this era, being over 90 years old is not considered senile.Although the development of science and technology at this time can no longer be regarded as stagnant, it is still slow. You began to travel around the world with Shen Qingqiu. 】

Unknowingly, the time in the simulation world came to when Zhou Ming was 91 years old. This year was already 21, at the end of the 22st century and about to enter the [-]nd century.

Long before the technological level of the simulated world reached the pinnacle of all the simulated worlds Zhou Ming had experienced before, when Zhou Ming in the simulated world could no longer lead the technological development of this world as before, Zhou Ming in the simulated world was also very He quickly took a back seat. In addition to studying issues related to aging, he spent more time learning other knowledge and spending time with his family.

From this year on, he began to take Shen Qingqiu to travel around the world together.

The scene shown to Zhou Ming by the life simulator this time was not a single scene, but many scenes appeared and disappeared continuously.

Through these ever-changing scenes, Zhou Ming, who was using a life simulator to simulate, also saw the scenery.

There are not only the Great Wall with a history of more than 2000 years, but also the Stonehenge built in southern England about 5000 years ago, and the pyramids that have been built since the ancient Egyptian kingdom...

It can be said that Zhou Ming, who has always been staying at home or in the laboratory, has traveled to almost all places on the earth through this simulation, not only the earth, but also Mars.

Zhou Ming and Shen Qingqiu in the simulated world also went to Olympus Mons, the highest mountain on Mars, which is 21171 meters above the Mars base level.

But the height difference from the foot of Olympus to the top is 21.9 kilometers, which is equivalent to more than twice the height difference from the foot of Mauna Kea on Earth to the top.

(End of this chapter)