Beneath Deep Space

Yu Yifeng himself is really too busy.

Seeing the boxes of finished products being transported up by the elevator, and the data in the table getting bigger and bigger, he felt a wonderful miser-like pleasure.

Not just him, but every citizen of the Noah. Everyone can see the endless flow of robots transporting loads of goods.

These things are broadcast every day on TV or in newspapers.

Although the Noah was fully loaded when it set off from the planet Nix, it was only limited to conventional and easily available materials, such as iron, copper, aluminum and the like.

Resources like gold, silver, platinum, etc. are always limited and can be met by industry, but it is basically impossible to meet private demand.

Nowadays, a large number of precious resources are dumped on the ground like garbage. How can humans not be ecstatic? !

One day, a large number of diamonds were suddenly discovered in the D3 area of ​​the planet. They were in very good condition and were even as big as peanuts!

These shiny things directly arouse the strong interest of women! Many researchers are enthusiastically studying diamond cutting machines, digging out information from the Earth period, and want to process these high-quality diamonds.

As a result, more and more diamonds are being mined, and each person can get hundreds of diamonds. Women simply ignore them...

A few days later, a large amount of gold was discovered in a certain area!

This gold was made into hundreds of tons of gold bricks by factories, piled in rows in front of the Government Square, and distributed liberally.

As a result, no one went to collect it at all...only a few first-generation old people looked at it with interest, touched the gold a few times, and then expressed a few emotions in their hearts.

Times...are changing too fast!

The affluence of the interstellar age and the low-level civilization are simply unimaginable. Gold is no longer popular these days.

The following generations, born into extremely wealthy circumstances, did not experience the Earth Period. Although some people have studied traditional economics, they only scratch the surface. They simply have no way of understanding the earth's desire for gold...

The new discipline of "industrial economics" has long replaced the previous financial system.

Therefore, in the eyes of subsequent generations, gold is just a relatively rare industrial raw material, and many factories and laboratories are still very happy to stockpile these things.

Gold has high stability that cannot be replaced by other metals and is widely used in electronic products. Due to its high temperature resistance and corrosion resistance, gold is also widely used in the aerospace field. There is even a "gold" component in a superalloy.

At least gold is more useful than diamonds...

On this day, Yu Yifeng was personally visiting the resource reserve warehouse in the Noah.

Such warehouses are located in every corner of the Noah, and have different security management levels depending on the reserves.

Ordinary civilians can visit conventional iron and aluminum warehouses through glass and can freely apply for material shares. Some toxic substance warehouses require certain permissions.

Boxes of nanocarbon, full of adsorbed helium-3, trucks of rare metals... Seeing the wealth of material resources in the warehouse, Yu Yifeng felt a burst of satisfaction and security.

This is...the affluence of new human civilization!

Although there was no expression on the surface, he was already smiling in his heart.

The last thing he inspected was the "radioactive element storage warehouse" with the highest security level, which was even guarded by soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition!

A large number of robots are coming and going, transporting a new batch of uranium resources that have just arrived to the warehouse.

This is in the higher gravity zone of Noah. For safety reasons, the air inside has been specially drained, making it almost a vacuum. The entry and exit of humans or robots requires strict safety inspections.

Everyone was wearing power armor, and a few young assistants were on the side, constantly speaking out various data...

"We found a large concentration of uranium ore in the A11 region of this planet! The quality is very, very good... and there is also a large concentration of heavy metals."

"Area A11 is the best mining area on the entire planet. A total of seventeen important industrial elements have been discovered. It's incredible that these veins appear in batches!"

The young assistant was making some exaggerated gestures. He was in a state of extreme excitement after seeing so much. They can't be like Yu Yifeng, who can't express their joy and anger.

Almost everyone is as deeply intoxicated by the opulence of civilization as if they themselves were billions of billions.

These young people have lived in an extremely wealthy environment since childhood and have no concept of money. But they have studied industrial economics. From the difficulty of smelting and mining, they still know that some resources are rare and those are cheap.

Therefore, they still have economic concepts.

After all, money does not equal economics.

This staff member’s name is Xiao Yu. He is just 30 years old this year, but he has already graduated with a doctorate ahead of schedule and became one of Yu Yifeng’s think tanks.

As the social level of Noah has improved, the education level of the new human civilization has also become higher and higher. Universities are already universal education, and master's and doctoral degrees are higher education projects.

A PhD is very difficult. For many people, even if they install a brain chip, it is still difficult to improve their intelligence.

After all, reading still requires a certain amount of talent...

In Noah, due to the influence of the cultural atmosphere, almost everyone lives to learn, and the "Doctor" degree has become an honorific.

Graduating a PhD at the age of 30 is an amazing achievement...

Of course, there are some old acquaintances in this think tank, such as Dr. Rimbaud, Wang Yufan from the Propaganda Department, etc., all of whom are geniuses.

Xiao Yu is the youngest member of the think tank. The addition of new blood shows that the new human civilization is vigorously developing and has not declined. This is a good thing!

"=We guess...these minerals may be due to the violent collision of two planets in super ancient times that exposed the core of the earth..." Xiao Yu said excitedly while imagining the scene of the planet collision.

Hearing Xiao Yu's words, Yu Yifeng nodded.

So far, humans have not been able to destroy real planets!

It's too difficult to destroy a planet... Even if you use massive nuclear bombs, you can only blow up a little bit of it.

However, billions of years ago, two planets with a mass of 10 trillion tons collided here. In an instant, a massive amount of energy was released that humans could not fathom!

This energy tore apart the entire planet, exposing its core and richest parts.

Then, under the action of billions of years of rotation, the broken core returned to its spherical shape, but the original core remained exposed on the surface. Then...these minerals benefit mankind in vain.

Of course, it cannot be said that it is free, but a "gift" to mankind.

Yu Yifeng imagined the scene of planetary collision and sighed in his heart, it would be great if humans had such an energy level.

This radioactive element warehouse is filled with shelves, which are already loaded with more than half of the supplies.

He walked a few steps further and saw a piece of silver-white metal among the vast amounts of uranium hexafluoride, which was the metal "plutonium". It's packaged in a plastic bottle and displayed on its own, with a lovely metallic sheen.

This metal contains some toxicity!

In the Earth Age, when Japan's nuclear power plant leaked, there were news reports like this: A piece of plutonium the size of a pill is enough to poison 200 million people, 5 grams of plutonium is enough to poison all humans, and plutonium is 486 million more toxic than arsenic. times.

Of course, this is just a rumor...

As long as you don't eat it directly, it won't poison people to death. Even if you touch it, it won't be a big deal. Instead, it will give you a warm feeling.

Plutonium, like uranium, is a good nuclear fission material that can be used to generate electricity and can also be used to make high-power decay batteries.

Before small-scale nuclear fusion technology was developed, many human machines still needed fission energy, so the excavation of uranium ore was essential.

"We have collected and purified one million tons of uranium-235...and sporadic associated plutonium elements." Xiao Yu looked at the plutonium block in his hand and explained with a smile.

The energy density of uranium is 2.5 million times that of coal. In other words, just this half of the warehouse is equivalent to storing the energy of 250 billion tons of coal! (China’s annual consumption is no more than 4 billion tons)

This is just a warehouse for humans...