Homo sapiens.

At the moment Du Feihu and Lin Yingwu opened the hatch, stepped out of the spaceship, and set foot on the moon, the host's cadenced and excited voice sounded in the screen.

"This is an important step for mankind to go to the universe..."

……

Qin Lang and Dewa also saw the live broadcast of the Earth Alliance.

"Not bad!" Deva said with a smile while eating the tomatoes grown in the moon base.

"I hope they dig a hole quickly! Otherwise..." A complex look flashed in Qin Lang's eyes.

Deva picked up another tomato and handed it to him: "Don't worry, the Ground Alliance and us are in a competitive relationship anyway, and they are responsible for what happens."

As professional astronauts, the two of them knew very well that the space capsules launched by the Federation were not strong enough to protect against cosmic rays. If they were unmanned space capsules, it would naturally not matter.

But the problem is that these space capsules are now used as bases for astronauts to stay for a long time, and problems have arisen.

This is not Earth's low-Earth orbit. Without the protection of the Earth's magnetic field, cosmic rays can drive straight in and directly cover these space capsules.

With the urine nature of the Ground Alliance and the four major forces, there is a high probability that the payload will not be wasted on the protective lead plate.

Therefore, at this stage, the best protection plan for the South Pole base on the moon is to dig a hole, bury the space capsule underground, and use the covering soil to resist harmful cosmic rays and high-energy neutrons.

This is also one of the initial plans that Homo sapiens usually adopts for large bases on the moon.

To get rid of the soil covering plan, it is necessary to be equipped with thick composite lead plates. Now the Lunar Branch is concentrating on mining several lead-zinc mines.

In addition, the anti-radiation gel that Li Qingye discovered on the mutant organisms in the Pangea world can also be used as an auxiliary method.

At present, many spacecraft exposed to cosmic rays for a long time will use anti-radiation gel to enhance their anti-radiation performance.

For example, a heavy-duty exoskeleton spacesuit will be sprayed with a radiation-resistant gel layer on the outside.

Qin Lang took a bite of the tomato: "Why does this taste a bit weird?"

"Really? It seems that you are going back to Earth for vacation." Deva reminded.

Qin Lang immediately realized that it wasn't that there was something wrong with the taste of tomatoes, but that his body began to change under the influence of the moon's gravity.

Taste and hearing are the two sensory systems that are most easily affected in a low-gravity environment.

This is also an experience summed up by the Space Business Department. Once there are changes in taste and hearing, it means that the astronauts' bodies have begun to be affected by the low-gravity environment.

"I have only been on duty for 37 days. Logically speaking, there should be no obvious changes until about 50 days..."

Deva patted him on the shoulder: "Everyone's body and genes are different, this is a very normal thing."

"Okay!" Qin Lang has no choice. After all, the company stipulates that astronauts must stop working if they have taste change and hearing impairment, and immediately apply to return to Earth to recuperate. This is a deadly rule.

The two tried some other vegetables, fruits and meals. Dewa had no obvious taste change, while Qin Lang had a more obvious taste change.

Faced with this reality, Qin Lang could only write a report to the headquarters and apply to return to Earth for vacation.

At this time, Deva is arranging cargo spacecraft to drop miniature space capsules one by one to the South Pole region of the moon.

Especially those craters and volcanic remains that have been trampled on are the focus of this mission.

Even if the Homo sapiens company does not lack resources, there is no reason to let it go. After all, no one will dislike having too many resources.

Let's circle the land first, maybe it will be used in the future.

Especially those water ice and dry ice, these things are rare resources on the moon.

One by one, the miniature space capsules were thrown on various craters and volcanic remains, and then became temporary outposts one by one.

And the three fireships launched from the earth some time ago have also successfully landed in a small crater in the south pole region of the moon.

This crater is less than 52 kilometers away from the Antarctic base of the Earth Federation Association.

The monitoring satellite of the Earth Alliance on the moon has obviously noticed the actions of Homo Sapiens, and they dare not speak out about it.

After all, the Lunar Convention has no binding force on Homo Sapiens. In addition, the force of the two parties is not equal. Faced with the pressure of Homo Sapiens, the Earth Alliance is very powerless and can only swallow this dumb loss silently.

The Homo sapiens company’s enclosure movement on the moon was carried out very fast and appeared to be unscrupulous.

In addition to launching miniature space capsules, the next step is to expand the Copernicus base, the Caucasus base, the Jiuhai base, and the Doppler base on the far side of the moon.

With the mining of local mineral resources on the moon and the localization of various industries in these bases, the lunar branch will gradually get rid of the material dependence of the earth headquarters.

The proportion of materials sent to the moon this month, precision instruments and synchronous robots, has increased to a scale of 27%, and other things are also weapons and large-scale engineering equipment.

Many building materials and basic plates, as well as low-tech components, the Lunar Branch is gradually becoming self-sufficient.

This situation can accelerate the expansion of the Lunar Branch.

It is very difficult for Earth Alliance to compete with Sapiens on the moon, even bigger than the gap on Earth.

Chapter 566 General Production

Back of the Moon.

Doppler crater, Doppler base.

Due to its unique location, it has become the first choice for Homo sapiens to build a mass projector on the back of the moon.

This base is even bigger than those large bases on the front side of the moon, and the Space Business Department invests almost 80% of the resources of the Moon Branch here.

After more than a year of continuous construction, the Doppler Mass Projector project is 55 percent complete.

In particular, the construction of the ring-shaped acceleration orbit as the core has generally been completed.

The Doppler Mass Projector project is not the same as Earth's Dandelion project.

The Dandelion project requires the construction of ring-shaped pipelines, vacuuming, and large-scale floating hoses to ensure safety.

However, the Doppler mass projector does not need to be so troublesome. The reason is the environment of the moon. After all, the earth has a dense atmosphere, and the surface of the moon is almost a vacuum state.

Therefore, the circular orbit of the Doppler mass projector project does not need to build a sealed pipeline, but only needs to build a magnetic restraint system.

Considering the shape of the spaceship, it is preferably elongated, preferably similar to the shape of a train.

The professional team responsible for designing the Doppler mass projector refers to some schemes of overhead railways and stratospheric railways, and adopts ring-shaped superconducting coils, which are placed on the electromagnetic acceleration track. These superconducting coils can generate a series of strong magnetic fields , keeping the spaceship firmly in orbit.

Thousands of synchronous robots in charge of the construction project, together with a large number of engineering equipment, are rapidly perfecting the circular orbit of the Doppler mass projector.

The chief engineer is Su Changli, who was in charge of the Dandelion project, and Bai Sha, his deputy.

The two of them were in the industrial area of ​​the Doppler base at this time.

Of course, the two of them also came here using synchronous robots, and they are still on Earth.

"Baisha, your progress is a bit slow!"

Baisha is also very helpless: "There is no way, the self-production of building materials has only recently been realized, and it has been supported by materials from the Earth Headquarters before."

Su Changli asked: "Now the industrial zone can produce low-temperature superconductors by itself. The next thing is to install the superconducting coils on the track. When do you estimate it will be completed?"

"The industrial zone can only produce 300 coils per month, and the production capacity is still not enough!" Baisha said with uncertainty.

After all, each of these large superconducting coils weighs about 137 tons, and the production capacity of the industrial area of ​​the Doppler base is obviously not enough.

The length of the entire ring track is 300 kilometers, and an average of 40 coils are used per kilometer. 300 coils are needed for 1.2 kilometers. The industrial zone can only produce 300 coils per month, which takes 40 months.

"Can you increase production capacity?"

Marquez Fernando, the person in charge of the industrial zone, shook his head: "Sorry, the production capacity can only be increased by 50% at most. We can't blindly expand the production capacity. After all, this is a one-time investment project."

Fortunately, the biomaterial synthesis technology of Homo sapiens is different from the traditional industrial model, otherwise the Doppler base would not dare to expand such a huge production capacity.

The core reason why modern industry didn't explode its production capacity is that the expansion of production lines requires money.

If it is daily necessities and fast-moving consumer goods, it is okay, and the production capacity can be digested by stable demand.

However, for other non-fast moving consumer goods and daily necessities, blindly expanding production capacity will often only lead to very serious consequences.

For example, shipyards, why many shipyards prefer to queue orders for several years, or are unwilling to expand shipyards, is because they do not want to go bankrupt.

假设现在有100艘集装箱船的订单，你是造船厂老板，是愿意10年造100艘呢？还是1年造100艘？

It seems that the choice of building 1 ships a year is very good, and money can be made in a short period of time.

But the problem is that building 1 ships a year means that the shipyard must have the docks, facilities, and workers to build 100 ships at the same time.

If the economy is not good next year, perhaps the demand for shipping is saturated, the docks and equipment invested in the previous period will be idled, and a large part of the workers will have to be dismissed.

Therefore, the best choice is actually to build 10 ships in 100 years, so as to reduce the one-time investment risk.

This is an embarrassing problem that modern industry must face.

Why do automobiles, shipbuilding, computer mobile phones and household appliances engage in planned obsolescence?

It is because the production capacity of the factory production line is forced to expand disorderly in the market competition, but the market demand is not unlimited. Once the market is saturated, it means that the factory will have problems.

Although a giant company like Homo sapiens can plan a quota when building a product line according to demand, it is less prone to overcapacity.

But what fundamentally solves this problem is the large-scale application of biomaterial synthesis technology.

Why biomaterial synthesis technology can solve this problem?

The reason is very simple, because the parts cultivation cabin and parts cultivation pool derived from biomaterial synthesis technology are very versatile to a certain extent.

In other words, this production line can be used for the production tasks of TV sets today, and it can be seamlessly connected to the production tasks of mobile phones tomorrow.

At the same time, the production cost of this production line is very low, and the cost of production line transformation is not high, as long as the special parts and materials are replaced to synthesize microorganisms.

This kind of universal production line means that Homo sapiens' factory can mass-produce a certain product in a short period of time.

If the internal demand for this is saturated, it will be transformed into a production line for other products.

In this way, factories will not shut down due to market saturation, and the time-space imbalance between production capacity and demand will be greatly improved.

This is the case with the superconducting coil production line at the Doppler base.

According to the traditional industrial model, after 40 months of production, the production line will have to stop due to the exhaustion of demand.

No matter how strong a company is, it cannot afford to scrap a large production line in three or four years.

Marquez Fernando thought for a while: "I can try to apply to the headquarters to see if I can increase the size of the breeding pool."

Su Changli nodded: "You can figure it out!"

Baisha thought for a while: "By the way, a large number of solar panels will be built next, and you can apply for this reason."

"Thank you for the reminder." Marquez Fernando also thought of this reason.

Although the core power supply system of the Doppler mass projector is a nuclear power plant, solar panels are still essential.

The reason for laying solar panels is not to generate electricity, but to insulate heat.

That's right, it's for heat insulation.

The raw material of the superconducting coil of the Doppler mass projector is not a relatively expensive silver-based superconductor, but an iron-aluminum-copper alloy. This material can maintain superconductivity below minus 143 degrees Celsius. It can be obtained locally on the moon, and the production cost is very low. Low.

The temperature difference between day and night on the moon is very large. The surface temperature at night is below minus 100 degrees Celsius, but it can reach more than [-] degrees Celsius during the day.

Therefore, in order to maintain the normal operation of the superconducting coil, it is necessary to block the sunlight.

After much deliberation, the design team decided to cover the tracks and coils below by laying large-scale solar panels.

In doing so, you can kill two birds with one stone.

It can ensure that the bottom of the solar panel is not irradiated by sunlight and maintain an ultra-low temperature of minus [-] degrees Celsius.

Solar power can also be used to supply part of the energy to industrial areas and bases.

Chapter 567 Roaming ([-])

Moon, back.

Doppler base.

A tourist spaceship transformed from a Tinder spaceship is slowly docking in the middle of the crater, and the Doppler base is in the center of the crater.

The hundreds of tourists who came from the earth are still in the cabin, and under the guidance of the flight attendants, they are slowly adapting to the gravity of the moon.

As the New Granada region, where a wholly-owned branch was established relatively early, the local economy is not much different from that of Southeast Asia.

Although traveling to the moon for half a month requires 1500 gold dollars per person, this is nothing for some employees whose monthly income is higher than 3000 gold dollars.

For example, Luna, who went to work in the Antarctic branch before, took advantage of her vacation to travel to the moon with two colleagues.

After experiencing one-sixth of the gravity of the earth, she is like a fat penguin, with some funny and uncoordinated movements.

"I don't know when I can go down..." Colleague Jin Xiaoying also walked staggeringly.