Chapter 552 Specimen
Li Qingye was immersed in scientific research in the Pangu Realm, but he was still very clear about the situation on Earth at that time.
In his annual work report some time ago, he gave an instruction to the Science Division, asking them to prepare a new plan.
At this time, Jiang Mingxuan, the head of the scientific division, brought a dozen ecological and environmental researchers to select suitable areas around the world to carry out Li Qingye's instructions.
The project is called the Specimen Project.
As the name suggests, it is to collect all the current living things on the earth and make specimens.
The specimen can be living, in genetic form, or in the form of a seed.
Therefore, Jiang Mingxuan plans to break down the specimen plan into three parts: the first is the Earth's biological gene database; the second is the frozen seed and breeding cell bank; and the third is a small ecosystem.
Jiang Mingxuan has currently visited three areas, namely the central Pacific Ocean, the Amazon rainforest and the Sahara Desert.
These areas have no economic benefits in the first place. Apart from tourism and mining, there are basically no other industries.
Therefore, Jiang Mingxuan directly marked out many areas for the construction of artificial ecosystems, including five small archipelagos in the South Pacific, 5,000 square kilometers of the Amazon rainforest, and 5,000 square kilometers of the Sahara Desert.
In addition, he also asked branches in various places to build artificial ecosystems and seed banks based on the ecology and terrain of their regions.
In fact, he is not too worried about the ecology of tropical regions.
After all, during the peak of the ice age, the ice sheet did not reach the tropics, which were the safest region during the ice age.
What really caught Jiang Mingxuan's attention were the subtropical, temperate and subarctic zones, as well as the mountainous and plateau regions.
He was currently on a passenger airship, flying over the Arctic Ocean.
The Arctic Ocean in January has no other color except white. The ice surface reflects most of the sunlight, and not much heat from the sun's radiation remains, making the ice area very cold.
The short daylight slips away quickly and the long polar night comes.
Last year was a period of active sunspots, and this year's solar activity is also relatively active.
This can be seen from the colorful aurora outside the window.
"Minister, we will arrive at White Bear Station in 20 minutes."
"knew."
Twenty minutes later, the passenger airship slowly landed on the ice in the fierce cold wind.
The White Bear Station is located in the northwest of the Barents Sea, southeast of the Svalbard Islands. It is not on an island itself, but on the continental shelf, and adopts a design similar to that of an offshore drilling platform.
Of course, the offshore scientific research platform built by the wealthy Homo Sapiens company must be very large in scale.
The entire White Bear Station has a radius of 2.1 kilometers and a sea level of 320 meters. It does not look like a scientific research station but rather like a fortress.
Of course, it is not a problem to call it a fortress. After all, White Bear Station is equipped with a large number of self-defense weapons, including death ray cannons and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The 17 scientific research stations deployed by Sapiens in the Arctic Ocean are all fortress-type bases.
The passenger airship happened to be parked on the dome platform of White Bear Station.
The passenger cabin of the airship just stopped above a special elevator. The elevator was lifted as a whole and connected to the bottom of the passenger cabin. People could take the elevator directly down to the interior of White Bear Station.
The management of this type of scientific research station is dualistic, with scientific research business belonging to the science department and security business belonging to the external security department.
Dr. Lang Ning, the captain of the White Bear Station scientific expedition team, happened to be in the base today, so Jiang Mingxuan went directly to his office.
The base is filled with birdsong and flowers, simulating the autumn weather in the northern temperate zone.
There are many scientific researchers, supporting service personnel, and security personnel living here, with a total number of 13,000 people.
Inside Dr. Ronning's office.
" What are you doing in the North Pole, Mr. Minister?" Browning asked curiously as he poured hot coffee.
Jiang Mingxuan took the hot coffee and said, "The chairman has assigned a new task to our science department, called the specimen project."
"Specimen project? Are we going to collect creatures from the Arctic Ocean? We have more than 20 polar bears in our station."
Jiang Mingxuan shook his head. "If it's just to collect specimens, there's no need for me to come here in person. The chairman wants us to build some artificial ecosystems in various regions based on the climate types around the world, and then preserve the local species as much as possible."
Dr. Ronning put down his hot coffee, a look of surprise appeared on his face: "Artificial ecosystem? This is a huge project!"
After all, the White Bear Station is composed of more than a dozen small ecosystems.
But this kind of ecosystem is obviously not enough.
The scale must be expanded by at least 100 times to barely maintain a relatively stable ecosystem, and this still requires frequent human intervention to ensure stable operation.
Jiang Mingxuan did not think that this project was difficult. With the current productivity of the Homo Sapiens Company, building a number of artificial ecosystems with a radius of about 30 kilometers would not be too stressful as long as he arranged the plan well.
"In fact, we don't need to be too anxious. After all , the company has already collected genetic samples of most animals and plants. Now we are just taking an extra insurance policy."
Dr. Ronning inquired, "Then the Minister's idea is to build an artificial ecosphere at White Bear Station?"
"It depends on the situation! The evaluation team and I haven't made a final decision yet."
"So what do you need me to do?"
"Doc just needs to cooperate with us in the geological and environmental surveys."
"no problem."
Jiang Mingxuan and his group had dinner at White Bear Station and started to get busy the next day.
They need detailed local hydrological data, stratigraphic data, and most importantly, species data.
The Science Division is very serious about building this super-large artificial ecosystem, because it is not only for natural creatures to use, but can also be transformed into a refuge for new humans when necessary.
Therefore, various protections and facilities must be sufficient and complete.
Jiang Mingxuan couldn't guarantee anything about the future.
Even if the free world does not harm the earth, it does not mean that there will be no natural disasters.
For example, the sudden eruption of the Yellowstone volcano, the eruption of the African mantle plume, and the impact of a large asteroid on the earth.
Or a supernova explodes in a surrounding galaxy, sending a gamma-ray burst toward the Earth.
Or maybe this time the ice age breaks the normal state and the Earth enters snowball mode.
In short, all kinds of dangers may occur.
Some people may think that this is unnecessary worry.
However, many people have not noticed one thing, that is, the Homo Sapiens company is now approaching the first-level civilization.
In this case, the problem that Sapiens needs to consider is no longer the weather changes on Earth, but a higher level of natural disasters.
Faced with disasters such as sudden global climate change, super volcanic eruptions, gamma-ray bursts, and asteroid impacts, natural human forces are powerless, but the Sapiens company has the power to resist.
Since you have the power to resist, why just sit there and wait for death?
Therefore, Sapiens is now engaging in space exploration, building alien bases, and constructing super-large artificial ecosystems, all of which are preparations for a rainy day.
This is not groundless worry, but the bigger the confidence , the bigger the things we should do.
The so-called end of the world is a relative concept.
If this ice age occurred in ancient times, humans in middle and high latitudes would have died long ago.
But now all major forces can still persevere tenaciously, and this is the confidence brought by strength and technology.
