Chapter 81: The Beginning of the Great Era

There was no information on controlled fusion, which meant that only human beings could study it by themselves, and this was where Oliver felt rather sorry.

Of course, there are also some scientists will hope on the Oliver brought back the metal sphere above. That small ball in the end is a what, humans are still unclear, and decryption has not been very smooth.

The cryptographers on board the Noah are like artisans of the Qing Dynasty, facing a modern solid-state drive, there is a feeling of being unable to start ... because their theoretical knowledge is too little, do not know the model, do not know the specific parameters, only able to slowly figure out.

But Oliver temporarily do not worry about energy problems, according to the current energy consumption of twenty to thirty million watts, human reserves of uranium-235, enough to use two hundred years. And now that several small uranium mines have been discovered, the uranium reserves will increase.

The two men sat face to face, ordered two more drinks for dessert, and then began to talk about some other technological advances.

Oliver found that, leaving aside the uneventful work, the technology of the new human civilization was progressing on almost all fronts ...

Weapons, in addition to the human-made nuclear bombs, but also installed outside the Noah some of the things removed from the flying saucer, like laser weapons, particle beam weapons and so on. Although the power of ten does not exist, but also considered to have a means of ultra-long-range attack.

They once tried to fire an ion cannon, the power required is very high, because there is no super battery relationship, need all the human nuclear power plant in full operation, can barely light up.

But the super-power also in exchange for great power, the power of this ion cannon is at least as powerful as a medium-sized atomic bomb. The most important thing is that its speed is close to the speed of light, a real space weapon.

Facing a real interstellar civilization, humans are always stronger grasshoppers, at least they can hurt each other, out of the category of no fighting back.

After all, ordinary nuclear bombs, although powerful, but the flight is too slow, in interstellar warfare requires weeks or even months of flight distance ... this weapon is not too useful except for a short fight.

Oliver himself is still very fond of these new weapons research, his bones are still a warm-blooded soldier, there is always a huge ship cannon sentiment.

Yuriko ignored his expression and continued, "Well, that's about it in terms of weapons, six months can't develop a lot of things ... but in biology, there is a new breakthrough in the research of longevity virus."

Oliver looked up, he had read the relevant reports a few days ago, but at the moment he was still willing to listen to Yuriko explain a little.

"About the longevity virus, it is almost certain to be something brought out of the flying saucer, after all, its dna characteristics are too different from ordinary Martian viruses. Many biologists believe that its predecessor, may be certain cells stripped out of that meatball."

"After these cells were shed from the mother, they gradually degenerated in order to adapt to the Martian environment, until they reached the present appearance ..."

If we go by this argument, the longevity virus becomes a creation of an alien civilization! Such an explanation actually makes sense, after all, that meatball has lived for so long, certain cells in the body must have longevity features ...

For alien creations, Oliver's heart is still very wary, "What about the research on the longevity virus?"

"If these cells are not degraded, the effect of the secreted longevity factor will be better, but humans instead dare not use it. Now the virus activity under degradation is very low, but it is a lot safer ... can be said to be the luck of mankind."

"Scientists also pruned a large number of redundant genes to produce a pharmaceutical agent, the effect of life expectancy growth at about 30%-40%."

"Is it safe?" This was Oliver's first concern, the thought that the longevity virus might be part of that meatball felt strange in his mind, perhaps it was his psychological factor at work.

"Theoretically, it is safe enough, the scientists have pruned out all the genes they can't read, leaving only the parts we understand. The main component of the genetic reagent used is an enzyme consisting of catalytic proteins as well as Rna templates, and contains no other genetic material."

Oliver nodded, which meant that after using this agent, the average human life expectancy would be about 110 years.

The most crucial thing is that it can bring a great deal of inspiration in biology, allowing humans to understand themselves further. Perhaps a better agent will appear in the future ...

There are two sides to any one thing, and it is impossible for him to stop a science that is good for mankind because of his personal preference. The first phase of human experiments on longevity reagents had begun with the scientists' sworn assurance.

He was a little worried that after using these agents, humans would become different creatures, after all, human life science was still too weak, and theoretical safety was not really safe. Especially since that meatball has the ability to control the mind, who knows?

"You can rest assured that ... security is not a problem. I know your concern, some test subjects after injecting the relevant stem cells, still the original thought fluctuations ... belong to the human thought fluctuations!"

"Moreover, their genetic chain did not appear to be altered."

Yuriko said somewhat squirmingly, "I didn't pry into their minds, I just vaguely perceived it. You should not misunderstand ..."

"So!" Oliver smiled and suddenly put his mind at ease, "That's good, thank you!"

It turns out that the lily pads also have this kind of function, this is a good point, at least, alien spies definitely can not mix in ...

In addition to weapons and life sciences, the greatest progress of mankind is material science!

Inspired by a large number of alien creations, new materials began to appear in batches to fill the gap in the history of materials: graphene, aerogel, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, amorphous alloys, foam metals, etc., all from the laboratory to the production line mass production!

Oliver was deeply elated, and the thought of the progress of the new human civilization made all their adventures worthwhile!

"A generation of materials is a generation of devices, a generation of devices is a generation of technology. In the past, the development of materials science was too slow, and most of the scientific research results could only be used to publish papers, to now there is finally a sudden and rapid progress!"

Yuriko finished the last sip of her drink and said lightly: "Because of the invention of these new materials, with tens of times the performance of the old materials in the past, we finally have the possibility of building large spaceships!"

"Yeah." Oliver also nodded in agreement, "but large spaceships to nothing necessary, our Noah is enough for the time being, small space shuttle research has been opened in advance!"

Oliver has a feeling that all of this, is just the beginning, the beginning of a big era!