Chapter 108 Self-Replication

"Received, now start the automatic lunar mining equipment!"

Lu Yongchang's calm voice came from the radio.

The next moment, under the gaze of countless people, a scene with a science fiction flavor appeared.

Several blue-rayed indicator lights first lit up on the surface of the nine silver-white cubes.

The next moment, as the indicator light continued to flash, the silver-white cube slowly unfolded along the cracks on the surface.

Due to technical limitations, which is slightly different from scenes in science fiction movies, the cube does not unfold very quickly.

But this scene is surprising enough!

The nine cubes slowly unfolded and then spliced ​​together, and a prototype of mining equipment slowly appeared in front of everyone.

"hiss……"

Captain Bai Yixuan was also shocked by the sci-fi scene in front of him.

"Damn it...Professor Lu and the others have created something..."

Hong Fan on the side stared intently at the automatic assembly process of the mining equipment in front of him and murmured to himself: "Let's just say, is there a possibility that Professor Lu is actually an alien?"

The three astronauts were so surprised, let alone the ordinary people who saw this through the camera!

In just a few minutes, countless viewers flooded into the live broadcast rooms of major platforms.

"Holy crap!"

"If it weren't for the total loss of image quality, I would have thought it was a clip from a science fiction movie..."

"What the hell?! Are you serious? I just squinted for a while. Could it be that I traveled through time?"

"You're awake, the operation was successful!"

"Such a scene can be shown to us, so the question is, how much does Xia Guo hide in his hands?"

"Rabbit: Not too much, not too much, just a few hundred million!"

"..."

Just as the discussion was getting heated, the live broadcast screen suddenly switched.

Host Bingbing's sweet smile appeared in front of the camera again.

"Dear viewers, this live broadcast of the Moon Palace Project ends here. See you next time."

Before he finished speaking, the live broadcast screen went black.

"???"

"Is it really going to be downloaded at the speed of light?"

"What's next? I want to read what's next!"

"I'm sorry, this viewer, the following is paid content, payment account:..."

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More than an hour later.

Seeing that the automatic mining equipment was operating normally, Lu Yongchang on the command platform breathed a sigh of relief.

"Is the regolith collection truck already in operation?"

Kong Xingbang's questioning voice came from the side.

Lu Yongchang nodded slightly: "Unlike mining equipment, the surface debris collection truck started operating a week ago."

"The current situation is good. Through the two heating methods of electric heating and solar reflector, a part of helium 3 has been collected."

"The second purpose of Xuannv-1 going up this time is to bring back these helium-3."

Kong Xingbang supported his crutches with both hands and struggled to stand up from the chair, with a touch of excitement in his eyes: "From now on, the Moon Palace Plan will really begin to be implemented!"

"It's just..." A trace of worry flashed in Kong Xingbang's eyes, "According to the current speed, the Moon Palace Project may still be a little slow."

Hearing Kong Xingbang's sigh, the smile on Lu Yongchang's face gradually disappeared.

He sighed slightly, nodded and agreed, "Yes."

"Not only the transportation capacity of Xuannv-1, but also the working efficiency of the mining equipment is a big problem."

"I have roughly estimated that at the current pace, it may take about five years for the Moon Palace Project to be fully implemented."

Kong Xingbang pondered for a moment and said softly: "The transportation capacity of Xuannv No. 1 is not a problem. If one is not enough, we can build ten. If it is not enough, we can build a hundred!"

"In my opinion, the most important issue right now is the efficiency of mining equipment."

"After all, the program is dead and it is on the distant moon. These factors have led to extremely low mining efficiency."

"If...we let Zero control those mining equipment, do you think it's feasible?"

Kong Xingbang has seen a fully automatic factory controlled by zero.

At the beginning, due to manpower and productivity reasons, Zero could only control more than a dozen robotic arms and various machine tools.

In just two months, the number of zero-control robotic arms and machine tools has increased hundreds to thousands of times.

Naturally, this was not achieved by relying on Xia Guo's original productivity.

After all, it was impossible for Xia Guo to stop other more important production tasks to manufacture a large number of precision robotic arms and processing equipment for Zero.

As a true artificial intelligence, Zero has a real special skill.

Self-replicating.

As long as there are sufficient raw materials and sufficient computing power, Zero can achieve exponential explosive growth through a few robotic arms and various production equipment!

That is the legendary "explosive soldier".

After witnessing the exponential growth of productivity, Kong Xingbang started thinking about this.

If Zero's ability is used on the moon...

Perhaps the entire Moon Palace project will only take a few months to complete!

Thinking of the scenes of countless robotic arms operating various production equipment to mine and smelt on the moon, a blazing flame was once again ignited in Kong Xingbang's old and withered heart!

But the next moment, the flame was mostly extinguished by Lu Yongchang's basin of ice water.

"Mr. Kong, at present, this may be difficult to achieve."

Kong Xingbang stared at Lv Yongchang, who was looking bitter, and his dry hands unconsciously grasped the cane in his hand.

"What's the reason?"

He asked in a slightly hoarse voice.

Lv Yongchang shook his head bitterly.

"Mr. Kong, I have also thought about the method you mentioned."

"Let alone the computing power problem, the delay between the earth and the moon alone is enough to make us drink a pot."

Kong Xingbang suddenly reacted.

That's right.

Perhaps because he was too excited, he actually overlooked the simplest problem.

Delay in communication between the earth and the moon.

Lv Yongchang's voice sounded again: "Mr. Kong, the current round-trip time of information from the earth to the moon is between 2.34 and 2.71 seconds."

"Even artificial intelligence, facing such a delay, may find it difficult to accurately operate the mining equipment on the moon."

"What's more... At present, Zero's idle computing power is not much. After controlling this factory, it also needs to be responsible for various computing tasks in the entire laboratory."

Kong Xingbang sighed deeply, his eyes full of disappointment: "In this case, we can only build a few more Xuannv No. 1 and use manpower to fill this gap."

Lv Yongchang's eyes moved slightly: "There is no need to be so pessimistic."

"As far as I know, Academician Cao Liangcai's drawings of Xuannv No. 2 have passed the initial verification. Perhaps it won't take much time for you to see Xuannv No. 2."