Homo sapiens.

America is doing one thing for three cents.

The current aerospace field is a typical example.

If America wants to achieve the same aerospace industry output as Homo sapiens, it needs to invest at least 5 trillion dollars in the aerospace field.

5 trillion US dollars, this is simply an astronomical figure.

Unless a Morgan family is sacrificed every year, this money will not be available at all.

Thomas can only helplessly look at the huge resources in North America, but it is difficult to mobilize these resources.

He even wanted to build a Morgan company similar to Homo sapiens, but the existence of other big families made it difficult for him to transform America into a Morgan company.

In fact, other big families have similar ideas.

It's just that they are pulling each other internally, and it is destined that the system of the City on the Hill Council will be difficult to change in a short period of time.

This bloated system can only be mended and continued to be used.

Now Thomas and the others are just restoring the historical version, using the model of the old version, and improving the overall internal efficiency.

However, the underlying logic of some systems is a congenital problem. Unless it is overthrown and restarted, it can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

The development of things always has two sides.

America's global hegemony is declining, and the external plunderable resources have been greatly reduced. They should have collapsed directly.

But because of the emergence of the Homo sapiens company, they were forced to join forces to deal with the threat of Homo sapiens.

It was precisely because of the overwhelming external pressure that America was not broken into pieces.

Chapter 364 I Want It All

Ape-eating Eagle-1 is separated from the booster and the core stage near the Karman line 100 kilometers above the ground.

Seeing the tracking signal and flying out of the atmosphere steadily, everyone present was slightly relieved.

The most dangerous stage has passed, and the next voyage is relatively safe.

However, Jose, Antonio and others did not take it lightly. The danger of the atmosphere comes from the natural environment of the earth, but in low-Earth orbit, there is another thing that threatens spacecraft-space junk.

For example, the large number of communication satellites launched by the Space Exploration Corporation not only occupy a large amount of orbital resources in low-Earth orbit, but also form a large amount of space junk.

When Antonio was designing the ape-eating eagle-class launch vehicle, he made a special design for the second-level core (spaceship), using high-strength composite materials to manufacture a shell with extremely high defensive performance.

This special shell can resist the impact of space junk.

At the same time, the hull layout of the spaceship has also been specially designed. The exposed detectors, communication signal receivers and the like will be installed in the area behind the spaceship, and the front of the spaceship will be covered with hard armor.

As for the solar panels that are most likely to be hit by space debris, in addition to increasing the strength of the surface coating, a micro-modular design is also carried out. A solar panel is composed of hundreds of miniature photoelectric modules, each of which has a Can generate electricity independently.

The other is to deploy a space junk monitoring system. The Ministry of Space has deployed 16 special monitoring satellites in low-Earth orbit to monitor artificial satellites, spacecraft, space stations, space junk, and natural stars in low-Earth orbit.

In addition, the spacecraft of Ape-eating Eagle 1 is also equipped with various monitoring equipment, which is more than enough to avoid some obvious space junk.

The automatic navigation system operates the spacecraft and flies towards the synchronous orbit.

Ape-eating Eagle-1 is actually for testing, but the previous test did not reach the synchronous orbit and the moon, so the core mission of this launch is to collect flight data to the synchronous orbit and the moon.

In this regard, Homo sapiens is indeed rich and powerful, and it used the launch vehicle costing more than 600 million gold dollars for testing without any distress.

For the aerospace departments of other forces, every launch mission is carefully calculated.

Even if it is NASA, the investment in the spacecraft is actually a lot of money. Many of the big projects they have invested a lot of money on the surface, but only a small part of the money is really spent on spacecraft and technology research and development. Less part.

After all, contractors and management also want to make money.

In the ground command center.

Antonio looked at the computer data, turned his head and said to Jose: "Just arrange a team to watch over it, let's report the situation first!"

"can."

The two came to the VIP room.

Sanzibarda Leyal pours tea for the two.

Jose, who had just sat down, immediately reported: "Mr. Chairman, Ape-eating Eagle-1 has entered low-earth orbit and is currently orbiting. The next step is to go to geosynchronous orbit and then to the moon."

Antonio added: "This kind of test is still necessary, after all, the company has too little data accumulation in the aerospace field."

Li Qingye waved his hand at this: "It doesn't matter, isn't it just a carrier rocket, by the way, what is the manufacturing speed of the carrier rocket now?"

"It depends on the needs. If the supporting factories are operating at full capacity, they can produce 40 ape-eating eagle-class launch vehicles per month. Currently, they are about 2 to 4 per month." Jose immediately gave the answer.

Li Qingye thought for a while, and then ordered: "Jose, I discussed with Dr. Antonio in the morning that a space station will be built in low-earth orbit in the near future to test the operation of various biotechnologies in microgravity."

Jose nodded: "I heard what the doctor said."

"There are currently five launch sites in the Port Ramon Space City. You must arrange the progress of each task to avoid affecting the progress of the Guigong project."

"I will definitely arrange it."

As for why not use Hongshawadi branch or Ceylon branch's space city, the reason is that the positioning is different.

The Ramon Port Space City in Medan Island mainly takes the route of launch vehicles.

The Hugang Aerospace City of the Hongshawadi branch mainly focuses on small and medium-sized solid rockets, and is more inclined to military, emergency, and concealed directions. It also manages the Longerang cannon project in the south of Hongshawadi.

The Aerospace City of the Ceylon branch focuses on metal hydrogen fuel-based launch vehicles. At present, there has been no breakthrough in metal hydrogen passivation technology, so although several design plans for the launch vehicle have been proposed, they have not been officially put into operation.

The Suez branch’s Khalij Space City and the Mada Island Branch’s North Space City have not yet been completed, and the technical routes of these two space cities are also different from other space cities.

Among them, Mada Island Space City is working on a mass projector. It plans to build a ring-shaped sub-vacuum pipeline with a length of 300 kilometers, plus a launch building with a height of 500 meters. Using electromagnetic acceleration, the spacecraft will be projected into outer space.

The Khalij Space City of the Suez branch is working on a space shuttle route. At present, the supporting facilities have not been completed, and the space shuttle is also under design.

The five aerospace cities are engaged in five technical routes respectively.

It includes six technologies of cannon launch, liquid launch vehicle, solid launch vehicle, metal hydrogen launch vehicle, space shuttle, and mass projection.

Not even America would dare to play like that.

After all, a space shuttle project back then made America complain a lot.

But Homo sapiens doesn't care. For the company, even if such a big project fails, it will not shake the foundation of the company.

Since the foundation of the company will not be shaken, in order not to make mistakes in the technology tree, large-scale investment will be made in all possible technical directions.

At that time, even if several of the projects fail, as long as one of them succeeds, it means that Homo sapiens' aerospace strategy has succeeded.

Although the cost of trial and error is huge, Homo sapiens has this strength to support it.

When Li Qingye first approved these projects, he had already seen various professional evaluations, including the previously criticized space shuttle project.

After all, America is already on the path of the space shuttle, and has been touched by the latecomers.

But Li Qingye still approved the space shuttle project.

Because this moment is that moment.

America’s failure in the space shuttle project was actually due to material problems. During the repeated use of the space shuttle, parts were aging, which led to an increasing failure rate and rising maintenance costs.

However, the material problem is not a problem for Homo sapiens companies at this stage.

Even if Homo sapiens reproduces America's space shuttle according to the script, as long as it uses the company's unique materials, especially biomaterials that can self-repair, the failure rate and maintenance cost of the space shuttle will also drop by an order of magnitude.

What's more, Homo sapiens will carry out a comprehensive upgrade of the space shuttle.

As a result, the space shuttle route has a second spring.

Even Li Qingye is not sure about the future aerospace development route.

Other forces are limited by economy and resources, so they can only choose one, but Homo sapiens said: I want them all.

Li Qingye talked with Antonio, Jose and others for more than an hour, and after assigning some tasks, he secretly took the subway back to the temporary residence.

He is currently working on a very critical topic.

Chapter 365 2045: The concentration is zero

In an alpine villa on Panay Island.

Sanjibada Leyal was pressing his shoulders, while Li Qingye was sitting on the sofa, holding a tablet computer in his hand, frowning and flipping through the pages.

[The 22-year annual report of the Medical Division of Homo sapiens...]

Through the company's management, the current average life expectancy of employees in each branch has been raised to about 89 years old, and it is still increasing rapidly.

This is due to Homo sapiens' advantages in biotechnology. As the size of the new human employees expands, the average life expectancy will naturally rise in a straight line.

Li Qingye was not surprised by this at all. If the average life expectancy of employees cannot be improved under the powerful biotechnology of Homo sapiens, that would be a problem.

The reason for his frowning is not because of the average life expectancy, but another statistic mentioned in this report.

According to the data of the Medical Division, they counted the physical conditions of all employees within the company during the period from 2019 to 2022, and found a very scary phenomenon.

洪沙瓦底分公司和吕宋分公司，青壮年男性员工的精子平均浓度，分别是19年每毫升5371万、20年每毫升4952万、21年每毫升4511万、22年每毫升4283万。

The Siam branch, Malacca branch, Java branch, and Borneo branch are similar.

On the most serious side of the Sing Tao branch, some employees have dropped to 1428 million per milliliter.

On the contrary, the decrease in the Mada Island branch is relatively small, and the current average is still 8671 million per milliliter.

Why is this happening.

At the beginning, the medical business department also suspected that hostile forces had poisoned the company, but as the investigation deepened, they discovered that the internal situation of Homo sapiens was not a special case, but a common situation all over the world.

The more developed the region, the lower the concentration of male sperm.

Among them, Europe, North America, Oceania, Japan and South Korea have the lowest concentrations, with only 2000 million per milliliter remaining.

Then there are relatively developed regions, such as the Far East and West Asia, where there are only 3000 to [-] million per milliliter.

The third batch of regions is Southeast Asia and Latin America, with a level of about 5000 million per milliliter.

Finally, there is the southern region of Africa with the highest concentration, which can reach a level of 5000 million to 2 million per milliliter.

According to this trend, around 2045, the sperm concentration of men in Europe, America and some more developed regions will drop to almost zero.

Other underdeveloped areas, it is estimated that there is nowhere to go.

The Medical Division has organized professional biological researchers and medical researchers to carry out a comprehensive study on this situation.

After analyzing the comprehensive medical examination reports of 8 million employees, combined with their jobs, permanent residence, daily diet, and living habits, the research group came to a shocking conclusion.

Genetic damage is the cause of decreased sperm concentration and quality.

So why doesn't the same thing happen to women?

The reason is that there are differences in the germ cells of the two.

Once the male germ cells are genetically damaged, there is no way to repair themselves, but they can survive for a while.

After the gene loss of female germ cells, it will repair itself. If the repair is successful, the egg can develop and grow; if the repair is unsuccessful, the egg will die.

It is precisely because of this characteristic that men pass on their own genetic damage to the next generation.

This leads to a very dire problem, which is that the male's germ cells will become worse and worse, and the number is rapidly declining.

You know, in the 70s, the statistics of developed countries still had an average level of 0.5 million to 3 million per milliliter.

So what is the reason that causes large-scale genetic damage in humans?

The answer is already obvious.

There are two main reasons that can cause gene damage, one is ionizing radiation and the other is chemical substances.

Inversely deduced from the historical development of developed regions, the key substance for chemical damage to genes is nicotine.

The key to the damage of ionizing radiation to genes lies in the large-scale nuclear tests in the 60s and [-]s of the last century, and the radioactive dust has passed through the atmospheric circulation and dispersed to all parts of the world.

This can actually be seen from the region.

In southern Africa and Latin America, there have been basically no large-scale nuclear explosion experiments, while other regions have more or less conducted nuclear explosion experiments.

Among them, in the Oceania region, Great Britain has conducted nuclear explosion experiments in the desert within its borders, and France has also conducted nuclear explosion experiments in the South Pacific.

Not to mention Southeast Asia. On the Pacific Ocean in the east, there are many relics of nuclear tests in America; in Tianzhu and Xiba in the west, although nuclear tests were carried out in their own deserts, the atmospheric circulation happens to destroy the nuclear tests there. airborne particulate matter to Southeast Asia.

West Asia and North Africa, Judah and France have also conducted many nuclear tests there.

The timing of the two is also very consistent. After the large-scale nuclear tests in the 60s and 1970s of the last century, since [-], the reproductive cells of human males began to have problems.