The rise of nanometers - Chapter 768 On Venus

The testing work of the Jianmu Ladder is proceeding in an orderly manner.

On the other side, in the atmosphere of Venus, the floating city of Yingzhou Island located within the Antarctic Circle of Venus has gradually expanded to an area of ​​300 square kilometers.

Below Yingzhou Island is the Shennong Basin and the Venus Agricultural Test Site built in the Shennong Basin.

After more than a year of testing, the Venus Agricultural Testing Ground has gradually completed testing of various crops and various farmed animals. Some agricultural products have been officially approved and qualified for mass production.

Another batch of new astronauts have come to Venus to change shifts. This time, the number of astronauts coming to change shifts has reached 284.

The Jinxing Agricultural Test Field is divided into two parts, one part is Jinxing Shennong Company, and the other part is Jinxing Agricultural Science Institute.

Among them, the Venus Agricultural Science Institute will naturally continue to conduct testing of crops and farmed animals.

The newly established Venus Agriculture Company is responsible for the production of agricultural products and food processing to supply food to the astronauts in the Venus area.

The current population of Venus is not too large. After successive expansions, the agricultural factories in the Shennong Basin currently have a total usable area of ​​8,300 acres, of which 3,000 acres belong to the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, and the rest belongs to Shennong Company.

With a population of more than 200 people, there are 5,300 acres of agricultural land, with an average of more than 20 acres per person. This amount does not seem to be much.

But this is indoor agriculture with extremely high production efficiency, rather than open-air farmland that depends on the weather. The production efficiency of the two may be several times different.

As the branch of Shennong Company in Jinxing, this branch currently has only three employees, and they are responsible for all production.

The automatic robot harvests all the newly mature sugar beets, then sends them to the sugar pressing workshop to extract white sugar, then separate the waste residue and liquid, and further process the waste residue into feed.

Feed is used to feed animals. Since the gravity of Venus is slightly lower than that of Blue Star, under the same oxygen level, animals and plants will be larger than Blue Star.

In a series of tests, the weight did not increase significantly, but the volume was about 8 to 16% higher than that of Blue Star.

Fortunately, this change will not affect the edible value of animals and plants.

In fact, the Shennong Basin is also a vacation area for local astronauts, and there is a dedicated resort area.

The purpose is to use the gravity field closest to the Blue Star to keep astronauts in the best condition.

In fact, in terms of gravity, Venus is the closest to the blue star among the planets in the solar system. If the long-term gravity effects are not considered, humans can live on Venus for a long time.

Living for a long time will cause the body to adapt to the Venusian environment and produce some irreversible changes.

As a result, astronauts need to be careful about the gravity pressure of Blue Star when they return to Blue Star.

In other words, if there is a star-killing disaster on Blue Star, Venus can be used as a backup planet for humans. The consequence is that after more than ten generations, humans will completely adapt to the gravity of Venus and will never be able to return to Blue Star normally in the future.

Of course, the possibility of Blue Star encountering a star-killing disaster is actually not too great. It’s just that the Federation has an emergency plan in this regard.

It’s better to prepare more plans than to improvise.

The production tasks of the Jinxing Branch of Shennong Company are not too many, but there are more types of products that need to be produced.

After all, in order to increase the happiness of astronauts, the menu arrangement must be rich, preferably three hundred and sixty-five days, with no repetition every day.

The gravity field of Venus also provides a benefit: astronauts do not experience taste degradation.

You know, whether in the Blue Star’s low-Earth orbit or the Moon’s Guanghan Palace City, astronauts’ sense of taste will degrade in a state of weightlessness, resulting in food that tastes tasteless.

This situation does not exist in Jinxing, which allows Shennong Company to directly use Blue Star’s processing formula, reducing the difficulty of product design.

Braised pork canning workshop.

The clean and divided rat meat, after a series of processing, becomes canned braised pork with excellent taste.

However, the production line did not run all the time. Production stopped after 1,000 cans were produced.

This is also the current norm. After all, the population is only over 200, and there is too much produced and too much to eat at once, so it cannot be hoarded in the warehouse.

The food reserves in the Venus area are now enough to last them for 20 months. Shennong Company’s daily production consists of replacing inventory and supplying astronauts with fresh food.

On the side of the Shennong Company’s agricultural factory is the Qinggu Resort, where a dozen astronauts on vacation are currently playing.

Although it is said to be a resort, it is actually very large, with a total area of ​​about 15,000 acres, divided into three floors.

The bottom level is an ecological park that simulates Blue Star’s ecology, with gardens, grasslands, forests, beaches, and snow. Except that there are not many animals, the natural environment here is basically the same as Blue Star’s.

As for the problem of ecological balance, it can actually be solved through artificial intervention.

The second floor is the living area.

The top floor is an area for eating, drinking and having fun. There are facilities such as gyms, game halls, restaurants, cinemas, and handicraft workshops.

Jia Yingjie, who was on vacation from Penglai Island, just came out of the cinema when he saw a man and a woman. He smiled and said hello: “Aqiang, Xinya.”

Gao Xinya is one of the few female astronauts in the Venus zone.

This minority is as few as three.

In fact, the Ministry of Aerospace is also very helpless. Even if the requirements have been lowered, the proportion of women in the aerospace field is still pitifully small.

According to the latest statistics, among currently registered professional astronauts, the ratio of men to women is 85.6:14.4.

This is a very dangerous signal. Although we cannot pursue so-called gender equality in special occupations, the gap in the ratio between the two is too large, which will lead to many problems.

For example, the astronauts on Venus are faced with such a disparity in the male-to-female ratio. The extra male astronauts always have physiological needs, and holding them back is not the solution.

It is necessary for the Federation to solve this problem. After all, human civilization will develop into outer space in the future, and there may even be people who spend their entire lives in outer space.

If you don’t think about this issue ahead of time, you’re bound to get into trouble sooner or later.

Now the federation has begun to pay attention to this aspect and is gradually adjusting the ratio of men to women in astronauts and the aerospace industry.

Especially in those space cities and alien cities outside of Blue Star, the ratio of men to women must be balanced as soon as possible.

In fact, this is also an invisible backup plan. If humans on the Blue Star suddenly become extinct, humans in various space cities and alien cities can continue human civilization.

Without a relatively balanced male-female ratio and sufficient genetic diversity, human genes may degenerate.

From the perspective of genetic science, the Federation must ensure that the number of “backups” in outer space is enough to allow human civilization to develop again.

Female astronauts on Venus are now like rare animals, and this situation will definitely improve gradually.

After the three of them said hello, they went to a Cantonese-themed restaurant and ordered some specially customized set meals.

This kind of set meal is specially customized to make it convenient for astronauts to order meals. It also takes into account nutritional balance. In this regard, the amount of food that astronauts eat at each meal is determined. There is no need to eat less or more. The problem.

A few people were eating and chatting.

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