Interstellar Industrial Age

After sending Ji Rong and Lao Wang away, Qin Yi also walked towards the Galaxy Science and Technology Research Institute.

A space factory is something Qin Yi has been planning for a long time. Building a factory in space costs a lot of money and has many technical requirements.

It may be easy to build a factory on the earth. It is nothing more than finding a piece of land, building a house, connecting water and electricity, etc., and then installing some machines, equipment, etc. into it.

Even the highest level of dust-free factories, fully automatic factories, etc., although the requirements are very high, it is just a matter of money to build.

But if you want to build a factory in space, it is not just as simple as spending money, it must have strong technical support.

In the microgravity, vacuum, and low temperature environment in space, building a space factory that can operate normally from scratch is as difficult as building a factory on the ground.

Even though there are now large anti-gravity spacecraft that can travel to and from space and the ground very easily, there are still many technical problems that this space factory needs to solve.

Qin Yi estimates that the investment of a space factory will require at least trillions of Chinese dollars, and it can be said that it needs to be piled up with gold.

The cost is huge and there are many technical difficulties.

It stands to reason that Qin Yi has no need to be obsessed with building a space factory in space. If Qin Yi said on the ground that he wanted to build a factory, a production base, etc., I don’t know how many people would ask grandpa to tell grandma. Qin Yi settled down in the past.

There is simply no need to go into space to build a space factory.

But Qin Yi is very clear that building a factory in space has advantages that it does not have on the ground.

The environment in space is very special, with microgravity, vacuum, cleanliness, and abundant solar energy, all of which are not available on the ground.

It can produce high-quality products that are difficult or expensive to manufacture on earth, such as high-purity large crystalline silicon materials and gallium arsenide materials for the electronics industry.

It can also produce special drugs to treat intractable diseases that cannot be produced on the ground, such as interferons.

At the end of the 20th century, interferon was passed by Uncle Sam. It was produced from biological cells using genetic engineering technology, but the purity was very low, because it was separated from the mixture of more than 100 other biological cells. Be careful, go very slowly, or the mixture in solution can easily rise or sink.

Due to the microgravity environment in space, this problem does not occur. Scientists believe that the purity of interferon produced in space is 100 to 400 times that of the one produced on Earth.

The role of interferon is very large, mainly used for the treatment of advanced hairy cell leukemia, renal cancer, melanoma, Kaposi sarcoma, chronic myeloid leukemia and low-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, others have been used for osteosarcoma, breast cancer Cancer, multiple myeloma, head and neck cancer and bladder cancer, etc., but also for acute and chronic viral hepatitis C, chronic active hepatitis B.

It can be said that interferon has a very good therapeutic effect on a variety of cancers.

In the special environment of space, many high-precision things will be easier to produce in such an environment, and the cost can be greatly reduced.

In the field of high-precision electronics industry, the field of medicine is of great significance.

In addition, Qin Yi studied in the science and technology tower, and it is also very clear that building factories in space is almost an inevitable trend in the development of civilization.

One of the most important reasons is the energy in space.

The earth's energy is limited. With the development of human science and technology, the energy demand will become more and more huge. In ancient times, it was enough for everyone to burn wood. Now if the energy needed in the world is to burn wood, all the trees in the world will be cut down. is far from enough.

With the popularization and promotion of private anti-gravity aircraft, the global energy crisis has begun to emerge, and the energy demand in the future will be even greater.

The energy in space is inexhaustible. As long as the sun does not go out, the energy in space will never be used up, and the solar energy in space is inexhaustible. In terms of the huge amount of energy released every moment, it is simply insignificant.

The development history of civilization is the development history of science and technology, the development history of transportation, the development history of power, and the development history of energy.

To go to interstellar space, human beings will inevitably move factories into space slowly and learn to use more solar energy. This is an inevitable trend and a trend of development.

What's more, if humans want to get out of the earth and go to interstellar space, these anti-gravity spaceships are far from enough.

To put it horribly, the current anti-gravity spacecraft can only be regarded as a small boat in a bamboo raft, a small river, or a small lake. You can still walk in a small river or a small pond.

If you really want to rely on it to go to the waves in the sea of ​​stars, it is nothing but a fool's dream.

It’s like in the age of great voyages, without mastering the advanced shipbuilding technology, going to the sea, there is no return at all, and you don’t know how to die.

The same is true of the current anti-gravity spacecraft. It may be used between the earth and the moon, and it may even be used to explore the entire solar system. However, if you want to use it to leave the solar system, or even use it for interstellar colonization and immigration, that is fundamental impossible.

For interstellar colonization, interstellar immigration, etc., human beings need larger and stronger spacecraft, and this kind of spacecraft is obviously impossible to build on the earth, it must be built in space.

In any respect, the space factory is also a project that must be launched.

Sitting in the car, Qin Yi looked at the scenery outside and kept thinking.

Money is of course not a problem. Now Qin Yi seems to have only money left. All the subsidiaries of the company are very profitable. In addition, Qin Yi has also stopped tossing in the past two years. Qin Yi's pockets are also bulging up quickly. Aspects are not a problem at all.

The key now is the technical aspect. For this matter, Qin Yi has been preparing for it very early. Someone from the Galaxy Science and Technology Research Institute has taken the lead in the research for a long time.

The Spaceship Building of the Galaxy Science and Technology Group Headquarters Building is very close to the Galaxy Science and Technology Research Institute. They are both in the core area of ​​Huangjing Town. Within a few minutes, Qin Yi came to the Space Science and Technology Research Institute under the Galaxy Science and Technology Research Institute.

The person in charge of the Space Science and Technology Research Institute is Wang Songling, one of the five people that Qin Yi had kidnapped back.

Among the Institute of Space Science and Technology, Wang Songling is very busy. Recently, Qin Yi has come here too frequently. He knows that the boss is going to launch a project in the space factory, so he is even more busy.

In a huge hall, Wang Songling in a white coat led a group of people in the same white coat to stare at the huge display, watching intently.

On this display, the most powerful quantum computer is being used to simulate the operation of the space factory they designed, through the data obtained from various aspects of the experiment, and then using the powerful computer to conduct simulation tests, which has almost become a trend in scientific research now.

The advantage of computer simulation is obvious. In the case of sufficient data, experiments and various simulation tests can be carried out with minimal cost.

The cost of simulation testing in the computer is almost zero. It is nothing more than inputting the data and letting the computer do some calculations, and it can also continuously modify the data and conduct repeated experiments.

And if the experiment is really carried out, it will not only consume a lot of resources and workers, etc., some experiments are even very dangerous, and an accident will cause a major accident.

Of course, scientific experiments are scientific experiments after all, not a substitute for computer simulations. Many things must be tested to get accurate data and results.

The basis of computer simulation experiments is to build on the basis of huge basic experiments. Without these huge basic experiments, everything is empty talk and has no meaning.

Above the huge display, a slightly odd-shaped factory is constantly running. This factory looks completely different from the square factory above the ground.

It is a three-dimensional factory, and the overall appearance looks a bit like a spiky sea urchin.

Of course, this is a giant oversized 'sea urchin'.

Each 'spike' above is actually a long space dock, which can be used to park spacecraft, and of course it is also a dock used to manufacture spacecraft.

Obviously, this designed space factory should be a factory for manufacturing spacecraft, and it is also a space factory for manufacturing super-large spacecraft.

There are a total of eight long docks, each aligned in one direction, allowing construction of eight super-large spaceships to begin at the same time.

The picture on the monitor is constantly being enlarged, and when viewed as a whole, it is absolutely small, but only after the picture is enlarged does one realize how huge this space factory is in the running of the computer simulation.

One of its docks is more than 10 kilometers long. Now the largest anti-gravity spaceships were parked in the past, and they looked very small, as if they were small, and any huge mechanical arm on it could easily grab it and fix it firmly on the in this long dock.

Huge and sturdy mechanical arms are constantly running in the sky, transporting super-large parts one by one, and assembling a super-large spaceship 10 kilometers long in this huge dock.

Because of the computer simulation, the speed has also accelerated a lot. In just a few minutes, a huge spaceship was built from this huge dock and began to slowly fly to the bright starry sky.

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