Chapter 45 Creating Space Life, Gene Bank Plan
After class, Yan Xia entered the research room of Yanhuang College.
The entire Yanhuang University covers an area of more than 10 square kilometers, which is very large compared to the 20,000 students.
In particular, the research institute of Yanhuang College is 500 meters underground in the entire university. Its safety level reaches P5, which can not only prevent the leakage of research objects such as viruses, but also block the entry and overflow of cosmic rays and high-energy particles.
This is a research institute with biological experiments as its theme.
Yan Xia is currently studying physics, but before that, Yan Xia had completed his doctoral studies in genetics, biopharmaceuticals, bioinformatics, molecular biology, and neuroscience.
It can be said that Yan Xia is already a scholar of some size at this time.
Although he cannot become the top scholar due to talent problems and cognitive limitations, this knowledge is enough for him to apply and observe top science.
At the same time, under Ella's research, Yan Xia had already started research on the topic of "creating cosmic species" before his last sleep.
Why create cosmic species?
Because for organisms, a planet is still too narrow, and the organisms born naturally on the planet also have limitations.
This limitation limits one thing, that is, the expansion of the ecology.
Compared with intelligent civilization, the expansion of the ecology is more disordered and barbaric, and the evolution of organisms is more diverse.
Yan Xia wants to create a "primitive species" and spread these primitive organisms in the universe, allowing them to expand and evolve on their own.
After mutation and evolution, the individuals may have a gene form that is difficult to produce artificially.
Yan Xia's research can be regarded as "sowing".
Just like a field, people sow beans, and the bean seeds with high yields will be retained, and then reproduced from generation to generation.
"As long as the sowing plan is successful, we can use these organisms to create genes and create a biological gene bank."
Yan Xia felt a little crazy.
He didn't know whether he was close to or touched the forbidden area, but the benefits it would bring in the future would be infinitely expanded.
These genes may allow organisms to have a lifespan of 100,000 or 1 million years, the ability to resist cosmic rays, an infinite field of vision, and even genes that generate light energy in the body similar to electric eels...
These are not fantasy, but science, and can really exist.
The role of the biological gene bank is to facilitate biological transformation.
If Yan Xia needs it, he can use these genes to transform his body at any time to get a stronger and longer-lived body.
He looked at the canned culture vessel in his laboratory, and the embryos of three organisms have been cultivated.
Leviathan, vacuum jellyfish and blue fireflies.
"It's hard to imagine that if the embryos that look like kittens are released now, they will grow into a behemoth."
Nature is amazing, but creation is equally amazing.
In Yan Xia's genetic setting of these three species, Leviathan is a whale with tentacles all over its body like a broom.
Those tentacles are actually trachea. It is a giant beast up to 300 meters long, but its weight is only 150 mils. Most of its body is cavity, which is used to store hydrogen. Leviathan relies on this hydrogen to breathe and survive.
It can survive on the surface of gas giant planets and can withstand high temperatures of 500 degrees Celsius. The cavity has the ability to automatically balance the pressure and can survive under 170~4320 atmospheres.
Its main food is not gas, but vacuum jellyfish.
As the name suggests, vacuum jellyfish can survive in a vacuum.
It is larger than Leviathan, and the whole body with tentacles can reach 1,000 meters long, but its weight is a bit scary, only 20 mils.
The cortex of vacuum jellyfish is less than 2 meters thick, and it is a honeycomb structure, not solid, without oral arms and mouthparts, and there are no nematocysts at the tip of the tentacles. Its structure is extremely simple, that is, cortex, stomach sac, tentacles and genitals.
Because it is simple, it can survive in a high temperature of -200 degrees Celsius to 150 degrees Celsius and 0 to 70,000 atmospheres.
This also enables it to adapt to the vacuum environment within the star system and survive in the universe. At the same time, due to its large size and light weight, vacuum jellyfish can also survive in the clouds of rocky planets with gas.
They move by ejecting air through some small holes in the cortex. Their speed inside the planet is extremely slow, only equivalent to the speed of human walking. Through continuous acceleration in space, the speed can be increased to 2km/s.
The food of vacuum jellyfish is the blue fireflies that parasitize in their bodies.
These worms live in the stomach sac of vacuum jellyfish. They are extremely small and can be regarded as microorganisms.
Their life is also extremely short, only 10 hours.
These worms are called blue fireflies because they emit blue fluorescence.
After death, the bodies of blue fireflies will become food for vacuum jellyfish.
What do blue fireflies eat?
They survive by decomposing minerals, so the vacuum jellyfish uses its tentacles, which are hundreds of meters long, to collect stones and soil to feed these insects.
This is a perfect ultra-small ecosystem.
"These creatures have one thing in common, which is the speed of reproduction."
"The life span of Leviathan is only 20 years, and the life span of vacuum jellyfish is only 15 years. The number of their litters is like that of fish, ranging from millions to hundreds of thousands."
"It will only take 100 years for these creatures to be everywhere."
"But evolution takes too long. Although they seem simple, they are a genetic fusion, which will accelerate their screening of genes. At most 1,000 years, they will complete their first genetic evolution."
Yan Xia looked at these three creatures and felt that they were like treasures.
Now they are not perfect, but it will not be long. In two years, the first batch of "seedlings" will be released.
By then.
He will build a space biosphere.
Of course, this is just the first step taken by Yan Xia.
This crazy plan will transfer the technology to the Civilization Federation after the first batch of investment, allowing tens of thousands of scientists and companies to manufacture this kind of creatures.
By then, the entire Proxima galaxy will be extremely prosperous.
They will get inexhaustible genes.
While Yan Xia was studying biology, Ella was also studying another technology.
——Portable combat exoskeleton armor
Also called "mech".
Biological organisms cannot adapt to multiple environments. For example, what if humans arrive at the Hundred Eyes Star without air?
When the Kate civilization entered the human environment, a large amount of oxygen and nitrogen was like poison to them.
Mecha became something that had to be manufactured.
It will be supplied in large quantities to the explorers in the Explorers Association to increase their chances of survival.
It is also worth mentioning that in the decades since the establishment of the Interstellar Explorers Association, a large number of interstellar pirates have appeared in the starry sky near Proxima Centauri, and they make a living by robbing explorers.
It is really a diversity of life.
"The first generation of mecha has been manufactured, Yan Xia, do you want to take a look?" Ella asked.
Yan Xia was very interested.
"Why didn't you say it earlier?"
Ella curled her lips.
The attitude is really bad. If I had known it earlier, I would have better not said it, and let you worry.
But I was not annoyed, because saying these words meant that Yan Xia was increasingly not treating it as a machine AI.
