Chapter 471 Pangu Project
September 27th, the first year of Xinghe.
Li Qingye arrived at the loyal Oasis City of Atlon.
Su Chesi, who was in charge of the secret project, brought Li Qingye to the design studio and introduced him to the designers and engineers present.
Li Qingye also encouraged them.
"Chairman, this is the design drawing of the Pangu Project." Su Chexi said as he operated the holographic projection equipment to project the design model.
The average altitude in the northern part of the Darfur Plateau is around 600 to 700 meters.
This underground cavity area with a diameter of 100 kilometers requires an internal cavity height of 500 meters. Combined with various structural layers, protective layers, barrier layers, etc., the overall thickness should be around 600 meters.
"In order to ensure that there is more than 200 meters of strata covering the upper layer, we plan to dig downwards, probably to -150 meters above sea level, as the foundation of this base."
While listening, Li Qingye looked through the detailed information of each system designed by Su Cesi's team.
This project is called "Pangu Project".
As the name suggests, the reason why Li Qingye promoted this project was to create an independent ecosystem, and then invest various genetically modified organisms to conduct ecological simulation tests.
Why build such a huge base specifically for testing genetically modified organisms?
Can't an ordinary biological laboratory conduct the test?
The answer is no.
Due to space and safety limitations, ordinary biological laboratories cannot fully test the various conditions of genetically modified organisms in natural environments.
However, Li Qingye would not simply release genetically modified organisms into the natural environment.
The previous plastic fungus posed certain risks, and it was only because Li Qingye took special action and inserted various restriction genes that it did not really evolve into a devastating disaster.
Therefore, Li Qingye now urgently needs a large independent ecosystem laboratory to test various genetically recombinant organisms.
He wanted to use environmental pressure and a relatively complete ecosystem to see if the various organisms created by genetic recombination could break through genetic limitations and evolve into unique new life forms.
This is the origin of the Pangu Project.
Li Qingye is moving towards the realm of the Creator.
The current pace of human evolution is too slow, and the body has become the biggest limitation for humans to move towards the starry sky.
Some time ago, in the pseudo-gravity experiment of the Homo sapiens space station, although a pseudo-gravity equivalent to 1G was successfully created, the gradient force difference caused by the centrifugal force still made the astronauts uncomfortable.
In order to solve the centrifugal force gradient difference, the next step of the Homo sapiens Space Station is to plan to increase the radius of the space station from 200 meters to 500 meters or even 1,000 meters to test the impact of the centrifugal force gradient.
All this is because the human body is too poor.
Without finding ways to strengthen the human body, the idea of human civilization expanding into outer space to survive is just a beautiful but fragile soap bubble.
To step out of the comfort zone of their home planet and head towards the harsher starry sky, humans need a stronger and more comprehensive body.
What's more, the Pangu Project is not just to allow humans to adapt to outer space. Its deeper purpose actually includes Li Qingye's selfish motive - to further extend the length of life.
If possible, he also wants to see the vast starry sky outside the solar system.
The Pangu Project carries many of Li Qingye’s ideas and expectations.
Therefore, he had no hesitation in building such a large artificial ecosystem, but planned to go all out to promote it.
He looked through the content about the security system. Li Qingye attached great importance to the security system of this base. No matter whether it was external defense or internal defense, no carelessness was allowed.
Because in the future, the Pangu Project will invest a large number of genetically modified organisms into this artificial ecosystem, among which there will certainly be some extremely dangerous organisms.
If the safety system is not well established and the organisms leak out, it will be a huge ecological disaster.
This is also the reason why the Pango Project was built in the northern part of the Darfur Plateau.
Because the northern part of the Darfur Plateau is surrounded by desert and Gobi.
Only in such a place did Li Qingye dare to have people add a hydrogen bomb as a final self-destruct device. Once the entire base got out of control, the self-destruct device could completely purify the entire base.
To this end, Li Qingye also specially ordered the nuclear factory to produce a batch of 1,000-ton equivalent hydrogen bombs. These hydrogen bombs will be densely deployed on all sides of the Pangu Project to completely eliminate the possibility of internal leakage of biological experiments.
After all, he was doing this for scientific research, not for self-destruction.
Li Qingye raised his head and said, "The safety measures are not enough. For example, the pipelines connecting to Pangu Realm pose a huge safety hazard. It is best to keep only one channel for Pangu Realm to go out, and cancel the other channels first."
"Mr. Chairman, doing so will cause problems with the internal water circulation and heat circulation." Safety engineering designer Kraft looked a little embarrassed.
Li Qingye waved his hand: "Then add an internal water circulation auxiliary system so that the heat circulation can be non-contact."
As if sensing the firmness in Li Qingye's words, Kraft could only nod his head and say, "Okay! I will adjust the design as soon as possible."
"In addition, the only passage must also be specially designed to ensure it is foolproof."
After more than half an hour of communication, Li Qingye and a group of designers and engineers modified the details several times before they finalized a preliminary plan.
The preliminary draft of the internal plan of Pangu Realm, which had not been finalized before, was also completed.
The Pangu Realm will be divided into five regions, with Buzhou Mountain in the middle, the vast ocean in the east, Qingqiu in the west, rainforest in the south, and wasteland in the north.
These five areas represent five relatively independent small ecosystems, and at the same time they will influence each other.
In this area of nearly 10,000 square kilometers, a large number of genetically modified organisms will be introduced in the future, and these organisms will compete with the existing native organisms.
Survival of the fittest.
He was very much looking forward to the birth of some new creatures in the Pangu Realm.
This experiment, which seems like opening a blind box, actually has the infinite possibilities of life in its true meaning.
Human genetic technology can already precisely customize some organisms, but at this stage there is still no way to "make human genes evolve."
Whether it is genetic modification technology, gene editing technology, or gene recombination technology, they are all indeed utilizing genes that already exist in nature.
True evolution is not about piecing together genes, but about allowing genes to mutate naturally in response to environmental pressure.
However, natural mutation is too difficult, and during the mutation process, 90% of mutations are harmful.
This is the significance of the Pangu Project.
During this process, Li Qingye can force some genetically recombinant organisms to mutate wildly through various environmental pressures and other organisms in the ecosystem.
As long as the number of mutations is large enough, some valuable new genes will always mutate.
Perhaps humanity's hope of heading toward the starry sky or achieving immortality lies in those base pairs.
Li Qingye even planned to use the Jianmu factor, which had never been used, to create some more powerful genetically recombinant organisms and put them into the Pangu Realm.
He believes that life has infinite possibilities, and the key to human evolution is definitely not to achieve drastic changes through known genes.
Now he had to find the key.
