In the following period, Chen Chen kept an eye on the inertial confinement reactor every day.
Fortunately, under the control of Little X, although there were a few minor flaws in the reactor's operation, they were quickly remedied and no damage was caused.
Half a month later, after the final improvement of the inertial confinement reactor had run for 168 consecutive hours without any abnormalities, Chen Chen officially let this reactor take over the power system of the Spire.
The next step was to find a way to miniaturize this reactor. After all, the most suitable way to use the inertial confinement reactor was to make the engine of a spacecraft. Through ferrofluid power generation technology, the plasma engine could be directly driven to achieve continuous propulsion.
However, to miniaturize it, Chen Chen at least needed his own laser component assembly line. The difficulty of this technology was no less than that of a lithography machine. Chen Chen still needed to think about it at length.
However, during this period, when Project Xingtian was announced to the public, it caused a violent reaction all over the world.
Xingtian was the brand name of the prosthetic limbs released by Chen Chen. Its purpose was to benefit the disabled in society through bionic prosthetics. The so-called "Project Xingtian" was more far-reaching. In Chen Chen's strategic system, this project was prepared for humans to accept head replacement surgery in the future.
Today's bionic prosthetics were just testing the waters.
First, the introduction of bionic prosthetics to benefit the disabled, followed by the gradual introduction of bionic internal organs and bionic electronic vertebrae, challenging the bottom line of social ethics bit by bit. It was better than directly introducing head replacement technology, turning humans into cyborgs with their entire body mechanical except for the brain. Directly introducing this technology would surely cause a tsunami of public opinion.
Therefore, boiling a frog in warm water was the best choice.
Although it was only a rudimentary bionic technology, when the disabled were implanted with bionic prosthetics, they also needed to implant Neuralink's lace electrode in the brain.
This was the latest invasive brain-computer interface technology released by Musk in 2019.
As everyone knew, there were hundreds of millions of neurons in the brain. The relationship between neurons formed a neural network. Signals were mainly transmitted on neurons through electrical impulses. In other words, these impulses reflected our "actions" and "thoughts". If these impulses could be analyzed, it was equivalent to analyzing a person's soul.
Thus, brain-computer interface technology was born.
The lace electrode developed by Neuralink was a multi-contact flexible electrode. It was an invasive interface to the brain, but it was thinner than a strand of hair, only 27.5 microns.
Thinner electrodes meant less brain damage. In order to implant these electrodes into the human brain, Neuralink had even specially developed a surgical robot. Like a sewing machine, electrodes were implanted into the human cerebral cortex. During the implantation process, they could avoid blood vessels and customize the electrode positions to minimize damage.
All the electrodes would be buried in the cortex. They would float along with the brain, so there was no need to worry about scratching the brain. It was as if there were hundreds or thousands of "hairs" buried in the brain. Finally, all the recorded signals would be transmitted through these "hairs" to the sensor.
The sensor used in the lace electrode technology was also special. This sensor chip would be nailed to the skull. This design had two advantages. One was to anchor the electrode to prevent accidental dislocation of the electrode. The second was to complete the digital-to-analog conversion at a relatively close position to reduce noise.
Finally, through a specific algorithm in the chip, the electrical signals in the implanted person's brain could be successfully converted into a program, so that the implanted person could smoothly use their "mind" to control their prosthetic limbs, thus making the prosthetic limbs as flexible as a real limb.
In order to purchase the rights to use the lace electrode technology developed by Neuralink, Blacklight Biotechnology paid a total of one billion U.S. dollars.
Of course, the money earned here could be earned back from another place. At present, Chen Chen's bionic prosthetics had not been recognized by various countries, so these prosthetics and brain-computer interface implantation surgeries could only be performed in Eco Science City. Even so, a large number of people came to Eco Science City. Other than the group of people who wanted to restore their youth, the rest had become disabled.
Most disabled people around the world were still waiting and watching.
After all, this was a new technology. If there was no country to promote it, these people could only wait in silence and see if the first to try it would cause any negative news.
After all, no matter how unreliable a technology was, there would always be the first batch of lab rats.
If this technology was reliable, it would only be a matter of time before word of mouth was built. It would not be too late to make a decision then.
On the other hand, ever since the M-1 drone design was completed, Mark Dawson's new task had not been completed.
No, it should be said that he was stuck at the prerequisites.
As Chen Chen hoped that he could produce the aircraft in Elysium, he specifically asked Mark Dawson if he could provide him with a sample of the aircraft, could he simplify and replicate the aircraft?
At that time, Mark Dawson's answer was: special wind tunnels must be used.
Therefore, Chen Chen made a promise that he would build a large special wind tunnel for Mark Dawson's research in the future.
However, during this period, the various materials needed for a special wind tunnel were still a headache for Chen Chen. Apart from that, Chen Chen had no experience in building a wind tunnel at all. He could only look around the world for engineers who could build a wind tunnel. However, it was difficult to recruit these national treasures. Until now, Chen Chen had not come up with any results.
Still, it did not matter. If he could not recruit the talent, the worst that could happen was that the wind tunnel would take a few years to complete. Chen Chen could afford to wait.
However, this period of thinking also gave Chen Chen a new enlightenment — other than using aircraft that surpassed the Earth Federation's technology to make up for his lack of mobility, he still had other options.
For example... Science fiction movies that could teleport people.
The Fly, Doom, Terminator, Gantz, and Star Trek.
These five movies instantly flashed through Chen Chen's mind.
In The Fly, the protagonist Brando Seth developed a space-time transmission machine that could allow items to be teleported between two places seamlessly.
However, when he was experimenting with it, an accident occurred. A fly flew into the experiment cabin, causing the protagonist Brando to fuse with the fly's genes. In the end, he became a giant fly the size of a human... This was a horror movie.
Doom, on the other hand, was based on a game but had a different plot. It told the story of humans colonizing Mars in the future but encountered a virus leak. Hence, a rescue team was teleported there using a teleportation device. This was also a horror movie.
Terminator and Gantz were similar, both belonging to the category of horror films.
Four out of the five movies were horror movies, there was really no one else...
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