Due to the existence of Blacklight Biotechnology, the world was changing with each passing day.
According to some experts, the growth rate of human lifespan in the past two decades was more than a hundred times that of the post-industrial revolution period. However, today, on the official website of the Earth Federation, a shocking news was suddenly announced —
At 9: 31 am on July 23, 2040, the global population officially exceeded ten billion, ten years faster than expected thirty years ago.
Thirty years ago, before the great company known as Blacklight Biotechnology was born, the Earth Federation had roughly estimated the number of years of population growth based on population growth data:
In 1830, after the emergence of the Industrial Revolution, the world's productivity increased significantly and the world's population reached one billion for the first time.
Then, the rate of human growth began to skyrocket. Just a century later, in 1930, the world's population officially exceeded the two billion mark.
After that, the population continued to rise. In 1960, the population reached three billion, four billion in 1975, five billion in 1987, and six billion in 1999!
When this table was compiled, that was in 2011, the population had just reached an astonishing seven billion.
While this table expressed the rapid growth of the population, it also warned of the future population explosion and the long-term concern of resource constraints. It was estimated that the world's population would increase by more than one billion in the next 15 years and reach eight billion by 2026.
Although this table also pointed out that ideas such as DINK, non-marriage, and late marriage and late childbirth were bound to rise one after another in the future, after all, the population would continue to grow. Around 2050, the world's population would officially exceed the ten billion mark.
However, although this table predicted the evolution of human cultural forms, it did not predict the rise of Blacklight Biotechnology.
Nevertheless, the Earth Federation did not become pessimistic because they had reached the population explosion data in advance. On the contrary, the Earth Federation said that humanity had never been so hopeful as it was now.
The establishment of the permanent extraterrestrial colony, the Ares Science City on Mars, by Blacklight Biotechnology, marked an astonishing step forward for human civilization. Since then, mankind had been promoted from planet aborigines to an interplanetary species, entering the era of extraterrestrial colonization.
Although the current Ares Science City could only accommodate hundreds of thousands of residents, the four major continents had also sent spacecraft to Mars. Four larger permanent Mars colonies were under construction. In the next ten years, at least tens of millions of people would officially migrate to Mars.
This scene made many people faintly aware of the secret competition between the four major continents and Blacklight Biotechnology, but at least on the surface, both sides still maintained goodwill and harmony.
Not only that, with the implementation of the Mankind Anti-aging Project, the average lifespan of humans had exceeded 100 years. The lifespan that was being increased was not for the elderly, but for the young and middle-aged.
These two periods had been greatly extended, which meant that the problem of aging society was gradually alleviated. With the help of anti-aging reversal treatment programs, countless elderly people had turned into middle-aged people. Based on this pattern, the middle-aged population set by the Earth Federation had also been raised from 40 to 60 years old to 40 to 80 years old.
Under such circumstances, many countries began to change their policies to extend the retirement date. Although there were some voices of opposition, under such circumstances, unless one did not use the "Age-reversal Treatment" to extend one's lifespan, one could only abide by the rules that had been changed under such circumstances.
"Due to the prospect and development of extraterrestrial colonization technology, no country or continent in the world has issued a population restriction order."
At this time, Chen Chen was sitting in his office, silently watching the population announcement issued by the Earth Federation. At the same time, Little X said, "Obviously, all countries and worlds are very optimistic about human migration to outer space."
"Of course."
Chen Chen nodded and chuckled. "After all, our Blacklight Biotechnology has paved the way for them in advance. Of course, they're not willing to limit their own population. If they know that we've even prepared the space warp engine technology that we'll need in the future, won't they be even more excited? "
"However, although we've obtained the blueprints and information for the space warp engine technology, we're still in the process of figuring it out."
Little X continued Chen Chen's words. "It's estimated that in another two or three months, the first space warp engine can be manufactured. At that time, we'll need to produce the supporting spaceship."
Chen Chen nodded thoughtfully when he heard this. "It's time to build a spaceport that belongs to our Blacklight Biotechnology. After all, the main footprint of human activities will be shifted to space in the future. It's also time for us to build our own interstellar fleet."
"But how should we do it?"
Little X tilted her head and asked curiously, "A spaceport that can manufacture spaceships will probably cost a lot. Although today's nuclear-powered engines can greatly reduce the cost of transporting materials to space, if we want to build a huge space station before the space warp engine is completed, I'm afraid it won't be easy. At least a thousand rockets will be needed."
"Stupid."
However, Chen Chen gently flicked Little X's forehead and sneered. "Is it necessary for us to send the spaceport into space bit by bit? Isn't it enough to just launch the Gantz black sphere into space? "
Little X covered her forehead. She had subconsciously shrunk her head, but after hearing Chen Chen's words, her eyes suddenly lit up. "This is a good idea! The black sphere only needs power and the Gantz satellite signal to be easily transmitted between two points. As long as we send a black sphere into space, we can continuously send materials up! "
Thus, they got to work. Soon, a nuclear-powered rocket was arranged in the space base. At the same time, the engineers here also received a secret engineering drawing. They secretly spent a few days according to the requirements of the engineering drawing to build a crude mechanical platform.
This platform had hundreds of mechanical arms, the longest of which used a folding and embedded mechanical arm structure. The maximum operating distance could reach hundreds of meters and at the same time, it could bear a weight of thousands of kilograms. Even the smallest mechanical arm was two or three meters long and could bear a weight of hundreds of kilograms.
Strictly speaking, this mechanical platform was simply a fully automatic workshop of unknown use!
After this mechanical platform was folded, it could fold itself into a giant cylinder with a diameter of twenty-five meters and a length of more than fifty meters. Then, this cylinder was loaded into the nuclear-powered rocket that had been prepared for a long time.
After that, there was no need to apply to the Earth Federation. Today, Blacklight Biotechnology did indeed have the qualifications to launch satellites independently. Blacklight Biotechnology only informed the Earth Federation of the geosynchronous orbit data and told them to occupy this position. After that, the rocket was quietly launched.
Half a day later, the mechanical platform in the rocket entered the geosynchronous orbit alone.
With the successful entry into orbit, the fairing on the rocket was completely abandoned. Five brackets attached to the inside of the rocket also opened at a forty-five-degree angle at the tail of the rocket. From a distance, it looked like a raised throne and the entire mechanical platform was filled with colorful signal lights.
At this time, if anyone saw this, they would be shocked to discover — this was not a satellite, this was completely the prototype of a huge space station!
This huge mechanical platform gradually stretched its body in orbit. As the mechanical arms slowly unfolded, it looked more and more cold and ferocious. There was no need for solar panels at all. The nuclear fusion reactor on the platform could support the energy supply of the satellite for hundreds of years.
At this moment, most of the components on the mechanical platform began to slowly detach from the rocket and fall toward Earth. The platform was suspended in orbit, far away from the ground. At the center of the platform, a black sphere the size of half a person was embedded in it, gradually blooming with a cold blue light.
As everyone knew, it was very difficult to build a space station in outer space. Even if the technology was up to par, the transportation of materials was also a huge problem. It needed to be launched from Earth by rocket.
Although the emergence of nuclear fusion thrusters had greatly reduced the cost of launching rockets, the cost of time had not been reduced. It still required multiple launches to transport materials, which took more than a few years to build a qualified space station in the empty and boundless outer space.
However, the emergence of the black sphere, Gantz, solved this problem perfectly. Although the black sphere still consumed a lot of electricity to teleport, it was indescribably affordable compared to the cost of launching.
At this time, as the black sphere activated the teleportation, pieces of long-prepared parts were teleported to the mechanical platform. The hundreds of mechanical arms immediately began to work, like building blocks, and began to build the prototype of the space station bit by bit.
Chen Chen had ambitions. The first space station he wanted to build was not a small space station that could only accommodate a dozen or so people in the Earth Federation and could not even reach the size of a villa. What he wanted to build was a giant space dock.
In the future, this space station would not only be able to dock hundreds of warships and resource transport ships, but it would also be a space transport port. The resources mined from the solar system did not have to be directly transported back to Earth. Instead, the resources would be piled up here and then transported back by a dedicated spacecraft.
In other words, this space station would be a large space port unprecedented for mankind. Through this port, Blacklight Biotechnology would naturally gain more say and more benefits...
The sudden appearance of a space station naturally quickly attracted the attention of the Earth Federation. In particular, they noticed that this space station suspended in the synchronous orbit above Namibia was rapidly growing larger as the days passed, which shocked the upper echelons of the Earth Federation.
They could not understand how Chen Chen did it, so they tried to get information from Blacklight Biotechnology, but this plan was only known to Chen Chen and Little X. After all their efforts, it was all in vain.
Just like that, in less than three months, when autumn arrived, the space station had already reached the size of a small mountain.
At this time, after three months of fully automatic construction, the space station had begun to take shape. From the outside, it looked like a raised bow, and at the same time, at the position of the bowstring, five docking racks were placed horizontally.
Four of the docking racks were empty. Only on the docking rack in the first row, a thirty-meter-long, cigar-shaped spacecraft was quietly parked, and each docking rack represented a parking space.
The current spaceport was only in the preliminary stage, so it could only dock small spaceships, and even there were only five parking spaces. If the spaceport designed by Little X was completely completed, it could dock large spaceships that were a hundred times larger than the Ares.
At this time, as the last part was sent to the spaceport, a black sphere with a diameter of one meter and surrounded by three metal rings appeared in the teleportation cabin of the spaceport.
At the same time, there were also five Black Knights in spacesuits.
With the remote control of Little X, this group of Black Knights transported the strangely shaped metal sphere into the spaceship parked in the port, and then there was a complicated installation process. When the metal sphere was completely installed inside the spaceship, a spaceship equipped with a space warp engine was finally completed.
That was right, that strangely shaped black sphere was the first space warp engine that Chen Chen had tried to build based on the space warp engine technology obtained from the dimension of Event Horizon.
The next step could not be simpler.
In the southern part of the Eco Science City, in addition to the space base, a huge space observatory had been built as early as a few years ago.
Here, rows of radio telescopes with an area of more than thousands of square meters had been set up, each with a size of more than ten thousand square meters. They formed a super array, uniformly looking toward the sky.
Moreover, as time passed, these radio telescopes were like huge sunflowers, slowly rotating.
These radio telescopes alone may not be as huge as the power and area of FAST (Central Continent's Sky Eye), but here, hundreds of radio telescopes gathered together, in terms of scale, had exceeded FAST, reaching a level unprecedented in history.
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