Chapter 665 Difficult Evolution
Li Qingye’s Mars exploration work is not over yet.
After inspecting the Binary Neutron Manufacturing Plant in the Martian ring system, he came to the Utopia City in the northern hemisphere of Mars, accompanied by Dr. Yuri.
Utopia City is located in the southern part of Utopia Plain. It is one of the landmark cities on Mars and the largest city on Mars.
However, this city is an uninhabited city. Apart from synchronous robots and industrial robots, there are no real humans here.
This is also the norm for cities built by Homo Sapiens on other planets, natural satellites, and asteroids.
Among humanity’s current planetary colonies, only Venus has a permanent population exceeding 5.33 million, while the permanent populations of other planetary colonies are generally around tens of thousands.
However, Sapiens has found two other planets suitable for permanent human habitation.
That's Saturn and Neptune.
Why these two planets?
The reason is, of course, very simple—gravity.
Saturn's gravity is 12.5G and Neptune's gravity is 11.4G, which is very close to the Earth's 9.8G.
The gravity of a planet has a very peculiar characteristic: the gravity on the surface of the planet is often the greatest, and it decreases towards the core or outside the atmosphere.
In this way, as long as we find a 9.8G gravity layer outside the atmosphere of Saturn and Neptune, Sapiens can build a suitable artificial ecosystem in this gravity layer.
You know, the surface areas of Saturn and Neptune are very vast.
Even if only a small part of it is developed, it will be enough to accommodate tens of billions of people.
What the Sapiens company is lacking now is not resources, but a suitable living space.
Although the new humans in the future will definitely have to transform their genes and become new humans in the universe.
But Li Qingye also knew very well that food must be eaten bite by bite, otherwise one might choke to death.
Even according to the most optimistic schedule of the current Science Division, it will take at least 150 years for the new humans to complete genetic modification and comprehensive evolution.
This can only be achieved on the premise that the Homo sapiens Company has absorbed a large amount of technology from the intelligent mechanical civilization.
If we don't have access to the technological database of the intelligent civilization, this time may increase several times.
In fact, the development speed of the Homo sapiens company is already very fast among all the first-level civilizations.
Taking the six-clawed civilization as an example, the other party has developed for hundreds of thousands of years, and its overall technological level is still much worse than that of Homo sapiens. Even if it has not obtained the relevant technologies of the six-clawed civilization and the intelligent mechanical civilization, the overall level of Homo sapiens is still slightly higher than that of the six-clawed civilization.
The current shortcoming of the Sapiens company is that it cannot survive outside the standard gravity zone for a long time.
Even the extremely smart Li Qingye could not solve this difficult problem in a short period of time.
This is mainly because it involves genetic issues, which cannot be treated casually or carelessly.
If the transformation route goes wrong, it will be a huge setback for both the Sapiens company and the new humans.
Therefore, Li Qingye would rather take it slow, spending one or two hundred years slowly debugging and experimenting, finding out all possible problems, and finally getting it done.
The disadvantage of doing this is that the new humans will have a serious shortage of living space.
You know, with the skyrocketing life expectancy of the new humans and the constant encouragement of childbirth by Sapiens, the current annual natural population growth rate of Sapiens has reached a very exaggerated 8.3%.
Starting from the 13th year of Xinghe, the scale of natural persons flowing into the Homo sapiens company from Earth has dropped to only about a few hundred thousand per year.
However, the total population of Homo sapiens has exceeded 5.6 billion in 20 years.
It is estimated that within the next 200 years, the total population of Homo sapiens will exceed one trillion.
Obviously, the earth cannot accommodate a trillion new humans. Even if the remaining territory of the free world is swallowed up, it will be of no avail.
Under extreme conditions, the earth's ecological environment can only accommodate 500 billion humans, even according to the technological level and productivity of Homo sapiens.
But this is obviously not the result that Sapiens wants to see.
After all, 500 billion people are crowded on the earth, and the picture is terrifying to think about.
Therefore, it is necessary to find other planets suitable for human survival as soon as possible. Venus is the first habitable planet transformed by Sapiens and is expected to accommodate 5 billion new humans.
But this is far from enough.
The new humans also need a wider living space.
After a series of research, and with the Sapiens Corporation acquiring a large amount of technology from the intelligent civilization, the company's level of planetary transformation has skyrocketed.
Now Sapiens has the confidence to transform Saturn and Neptune.
The transformation principle is similar to that of Venus. It also uses vacuum carbon balls to build floating land, and then builds a layer of honeycomb structure on the surface of the planet. Finally, based on the honeycomb structure layer, it extends outward to the 9.8G gravity layer and builds a habitable area in the 9.8G gravity layer.
The honeycomb structure layer can also be used to mine bases on Saturn and Neptune.
As long as the transformation of Saturn and Neptune is completed, the 9.8G gravity layer of these two planets will be enough to accommodate trillions of new humans permanently.
If that's not enough, then Sapiens will have to transform Jupiter.
As for Uranus, the gravity of this planet is slightly lower than that of Venus and is not suitable as a habitable planet.
Li Qingye and the management of the Intelligent Company had a very simple idea: as long as they could solve the problem of the population's living space for the next 200 years, there would be no major problems afterwards.
Because after 200 years, the new humans will most likely have completed their evolution, from new humans on Earth to new humans in the universe.
The characteristic of the new humans in the universe is that they can survive for a long time in an environment of microgravity or tens of G gravity and are not affected by gravity.
As long as you become a new human being in the universe, you won’t need to consider the specific gravity. The entire universe will be a habitable area for new humans.
Li Qingye is also at a loss as to the evolutionary path of the new humans. Now he can only rely on time to slowly improve himself.
This kind of thing cannot be rushed.
If you are too eager for quick success, it is likely to backfire.
The reason why he recently visited various colonized planets for inspection was actually to arrange various engineering and scientific research projects to prevent someone from being too eager for quick success.
In fact, Li Qingye knew that many researchers were anxious. It was not because they were doing it for fame and fortune, but because they also wanted to complete their evolution and become new humans who could survive freely in the universe.
But sometimes, scientific research requires slow and careful work.
He constantly inspected various scientific research and engineering projects, discovered many problems, and severely criticized those behaviors that were eager for quick success and instant benefits.
Now the Homo Sapiens Company does not need to be too anxious, but instead needs to concentrate on absorbing the technology of the six-clawed civilization and the intelligent mechanical civilization and consolidating the company's foundation. This is the current top priority.
As for completing evolution, that is a century-long mission for the Homo sapiens company. There is basically no need to think about it without one or two hundred years.
