Chapter 772 No One Can Stop Me From Researching Something

With the roar piercing the clear sky, Xiaguang landed vertically on the tarmac against the backdrop of four azure blue plumes.

Surrounded by the ground crew, the two astronauts walked off the spacecraft with the help of the gangway, waved to the reporters in the distance, and then got on the commuter car and went to the infirmary for a simple examination.

The 72-hour flight mission ended successfully!

The test flight was a textbook success.

Facts have proved that Lu Zhou's conclusion is correct.

Although there is still a certain deviation from the theoretical data, the loss of working fluid has been significantly reduced during the voyage of Xiaguang from low-earth orbit to the atmosphere.

Especially in the dense section of the atmosphere.

Not only that, because the speed of the spacecraft in outer space dropped to a lower level, the heat production of the spacecraft during the return segment also dropped a lot, which indirectly reduced the maintenance cost of Xiaguang.

With the success of this flight test mission, Xiaguang will officially serve at the Jinling Space Launch Center, and jointly undertake the launch mission of the Earth-Moon transfer orbit with Xiangrui.

At the same time, on the second day after Xiaguang completed its 72-hour cruise and returned to the surface, the Xiangrui, which was performing missions in lunar orbit, also landed on the runway of the Jinling Launch Center.

When Nie Yun and the others left the lunar orbit, the core module of the Moon Palace had already been in service for two weeks. During the two-week observation period, the operating condition of the core module was very good, and there were no situations that were considered possible in the emergency plan.

Seeing the two astronauts Nie Yun and Nie Han stepping down from the Xiangrui, Academician Yuan Huanmin, who was standing in the control tower, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

For the past three days, he and several of his students, as well as engineers and technicians from the Aviation Science and Technology Group, have stayed in the Jinling Space Launch Center almost for board and lodging.

Now that the Moon Palace is finally on the right track, they can relax a little bit.

At the same time, the unique scenery is not only on the side of Huaguo, the United States on the other side of the Pacific Ocean is also in a sea of ​​joy.

Space-X's BFS spacecraft successfully left the Earth-Moon system, carrying three astronauts to Mars tens of millions of kilometers away.

This is the first time that humans have left the Earth-Moon system.

It was also the pioneer of humanity's first colonization of planets other than Earth.

Although Hua Guo took away the first time of the lunar orbiting space station, NASA has re-established its advantages in the technology of voyages to distant planetary systems. At the same time, NASA stated in an interview with the media that the Ares project will not crowd out the funds for the "Deep Space Gate" project.

Not only that, but they will also advance the "Deep Space Gate" space station, which was originally scheduled to start in 2022, to the second half of 2021. Space-X's Dragon spacecraft is responsible for the launch mission, sending the core module of the "Deep Space Gate" designed by Atlanta Aviation to the lunar orbit.

If you can do what your opponent can't, and you can do what they can, that's the best proof of victory.

America seems to be the light of humanity again?

At least in the eyes of Chinese xenophiles and North American conservatives...

Both the Moon Palace Project and the Ares Project have entered the deep water area, and the scientists and related practitioners of the two countries are walking on thin ice every step of the way.

Under this general environment, it seems that some good-sounding news can be born every day, and it seems that new technologies are born every day.

The contest between the two superpowers in the aerospace field makes people feel like they are in the future.

In fact, this is not entirely an illusion.

Stimulated by the space race, a large amount of funds have flowed into the research field, major colleges and universities have opened related majors in outer space exploration and resource development, and related research topics have entered the green light lane for rapid approval... These changes are all visible See you.

The dividends brought about by technological progress in the aerospace field, along with other technical fields other than aerospace, are also growing at an unimaginable speed.

The most obvious of these is probably the medical industry.

In the second week after the BFR rocket took the BFE Golden Heart spacecraft to Mars, the "Washington Post" released another breaking news.

The hibernation chamber technology jointly developed by Johnson & Johnson and Blue Origin has made significant progress, successfully thawing and waking up a monkey that had been dormant for 67 days!

As soon as the news came out, it immediately aroused huge repercussions in the international community.

Although the various tissues of the monkey's body were damaged to varying degrees, and it showed some dementia after waking up, this "resurrection ceremony" still triggered an eight-magnitude earthquake in the entire clinical medical and biological circles!

The project was led by Professor Glaunster of Harvard University. When "Nature" highlighted its article, it even used an exaggerated description like "controllable nuclear fusion in the biological world!" to describe this project. Breakthrough research.

In fact, although biological cryo-hibernation sounds sci-fi, it is not impossible to find realistic examples in nature.

Take the Siberian salamander as an example. The salamanders living in Yakutia will actively crawl into the cracks in the permafrost after entering the harsh winter and can stay there for a long time.

As for how long this time is, according to literature records, the longest record is 90 years.

Theoretically, organisms can survive the harsh environment through freezing and dormancy, and realize the time jump from the past to the future. Many insects in extreme environments have more or less similar abilities.

The problem, however, is how to get warm-blooded mammals to do the same!

When researchers were studying this technology, they found that when freezing and resuscitating animal cells, there is an obvious dangerous temperature zone, that is, the range of 0 to -60°C.

A slight invincibility during this period will lead to the permanent death of the organism.

How to survive the dangerous temperature zone and safely reach -120°C is the core difficulty of the entire technology.

Professor Glaunster, who serves Johnson & Johnson, uses a frozen slow-release agent. After the organism is anesthetized, it is soaked in a special slow-release agent, and then the freezing procedure is started.

At present, this technology has been sponsored by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, especially many millionaires with assets of tens of billions and the royal families of the Arab world have shown a strong interest in this technology!

Most of the sponsors have expressed in interviews that they hope that the technology can send them to the distant future.

According to their views, in that distant era, perhaps human society had developed enough to eliminate most diseases, and achieved immortality in a complete sense, entering a Utopia in a complete sense.

At the same time, a member of the royal family from the desert said that he would consider dividing his wealth into seven parts and handing them over to four different fund companies and three banks for management before going into dormancy.

If the situation is optimistic, when he wakes up, he can still continue to be a rich man in that era of technological explosion.

Even, after several centuries of accumulation, he will become one of the richest people in the world...

If inflation is not particularly exaggerated.

Of course, while plutocrats and transhumanists are generally optimistic about this technology, it has many libertarians and sociologists worried.

In particular, Professor Angus Deaton, a well-known Nobel laureate in economics, said in an interview with the media that this technology is not as good as imagined, and frequent use of this technology is likely to aggravate the solidification of class.

Everyone wants to live a better life, but if everyone dreams of going to the future, no one will build the present.

Especially when these three percent of people who dream of going to the future control ninety-seven percent of the social resources and wealth in the world, the resulting problems will not only be as simple as class solidification, It may even push the global economy into the lane of reverse growth, and finally bring the global society to a dystopian ending...

Professor Angus Deaton won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2015 for his "research contributions to consumption, poverty and welfare". He is a master who is good at using mathematical tools to establish economic models. He is currently studying at Princeton University. The Department of Economics serves as a chair professor and is an outstanding microeconomics scientist.

His remarks may sound alarmist, but due to the reputation of Professor Angus Deaton in the academic field, it has attracted the attention of many insightful people.

The Human Liberation Organization in North America even arranged a parade in front of the White House, calling for legislation to ban this research, just like banning human cloning...

Of course, for the ordinary North American people who regard demonstrations as eating and drinking to earn extra money, the so-called protests may not have any real meaning.

Especially when the entire high society is coveting this technology...

At the same time, Lu Zhou, who was far away at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, also saw the highlighted article by Professor Gronster in the latest issue of "Nature".

When he read the article to the end, he couldn't help sighing softly.

"The last time I saw relevant reports in the newspapers, Johnson & Johnson said that the relevant technology was still in the stage of technical demonstration. I didn't expect that they had even finished clinical trials in just a few months."

Sitting on the sofa in the office drinking tea, Yang Xu looked up at Lu Zhou and said with a smile.

"It seems that they are quite strict."

"Yes, but now it seems that it is really necessary for them to do this, at least it will save a lot of trouble," Lu Zhou put down the "Nature" in his hand, thought for a while, and looked at the man who was sitting on the sofa drinking tea. Yang Xu asked, "What's the answer from Hengrui Pharmaceutical?"

Yang Xu: "They are very interested in our proposal, and agree that cryonics technology will be promising in the near future... However, they also expressed considerable doubts about the risks of the project."

Lu Zhou smiled and asked, "Are they worried that they won't be able to do it?"

Yang Xu shook his head, "That's not true, their worries come from the policy side."

Lu Zhou frowned and asked, "Policy?"

"Yes." Putting down the teacup in his hand, Yang Xu looked at Lu Zhou and continued, "At present, the international research attitude on human cryopreservation is still very ambiguous. Not only the academic circles are constantly arguing, but civil organizations are also joining in the fun. It is estimated that there is still trouble. Hengrui Pharmaceutical is worried that our country will prohibit the research of this type of technology due to diplomatic factors and international image considerations."

After hearing Yang Xu's words, Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head.

"Is this considered a risk?"

Yang Xu made a helpless expression and said: "You may not know if you haven't done this job, after all... this kind of thing is not without precedent."

"Then tell them for me that their worries are completely unnecessary." After a pause, Lu Zhou smiled lightly and continued, "As long as my eyes are still open, no one can stop me from researching anything."