Deep Space Planet Leader

Zhang Yuan still feels a little sad. After hibernation this time, most likely, he will never see his teacher again.

He couldn't help asking: "teacher...don't you choose hibernation? Perhaps, you can wake up after reaching the future home planet through hibernation."

Academician Ding Bai I waved my hand: "No, according to the doctor’s advice, I may not be able to wake up again after I sleep in my current physical condition. Various techniques to extend lifespan, for people like me who are already seriously aging, The effect will not be very good either..."

"I am getting older, and sometimes I want to take a break, and live a life like a normal person should live with a few old friends."

"However, before that, there are still a few things I want to talk to you."

Zhang Yuan was shocked, and business came.

The first thing their school wants to promote is the "social public support system". Without this social public support, all the subsequent plans are just for nothing.

If nothing changes, and they develop steadily as they are now, after a thousand years, they will still be the mediocre human civilization...

Would like to see.

Seeing Zhang Yuan and Zhao Qingfeng’s serious faces, Academician Ding smiled lightly: “You don’t need to be so pessimistic. The number of people who choose to become a life partner has risen by 422%, and only 38% of the population is still single. Even Zhang Yuan has found a life partner. It is gratifying."

Zhang Yuan can’t help but wrinkle. I wrinkled my nose, what does it mean that even I have found a life partner?

With a little joke, Academician Ding continued: "In other words, we have about 150,000 couples!"

"And for two thousand years, babies born It is the new population, which is only more than 1,000 people, even under the policy of poor living conditions and discouraging childbirth..."

"Do you know what this extremely low fertility rate means? "

Zhang Yuan was stunned. The poor quality of life has led to a significant reduction in people's willingness to give birth. This is inevitable.

The population in the spaceship is basically a highly educated population, not farmers in the mountains. If they can't provide a good living environment for the next generation, and they can't have eugenics, they would rather not give birth. This kind of cultural phenomenon has actually appeared in the Earth era. A child is not a toy, and the purpose of being born is not purely for the elderly, it can be said to be a responsibility and a burden.

Academician Ding continued: "According to the current statistics, the environment is not good and the material conditions are poor, so the fertility rate is not high. This is easy to understand."

"To reach the goal After acquiring a large amount of resources, the first thing we will overcome in the future is to solve the problem of survival and improve our living environment. The first important thing for people is to survive. If you don’t even have enough food, the material needs are not satisfied. , Other things can't be done at all, let alone ideal morality."

Zhang Yuan nodded, this is natural.

"But the development is also sequential. Some technologies can significantly improve the quality of life and increase the fertility rate, some technologies can achieve spiritual enjoyment and happiness, and some can improve medical services... I think, the most important What is going to be is to reproduce the biotechnology on Earth, and greatly improve the average lifespan of the expert! Not other bells and whistles..."

Zhang Yuan opened his mouth: "Why?"

" Labor force, to extend lifespan is to increase labor force!"

"For you youngsters, the life extension effect of various technologies will be much better, that is...everyone can live two hundred years or even Over 300 years old."

"Anyway, these technologies were invented by the Earth people. We don't need to pay royalties or raise prices to make profits. It is considered a national welfare!"

"Moreover, the people will definitely not have objections. If you live a long life of 300 years, or a higher quality of life, you can only live 150 years, choose one of the two. I believe that most people will choose to live longer."

Zhang Yuan nodded.

Academician Ding said in a low voice: "More importantly, in this way, the willingness to'birth children and provide for the elderly' can be reduced..."

"The natural growth rate of the population will be affected. Continue to suppress it drastically!"

"You think, work pressure is very high, lifespan is growing again, society is booming, and no elders force these youngsters to give birth to children. Naturally, everyone will think about it later. Rebirth, let your children enjoy a brighter tomorrow. According to the historical experience on Earth, there are many people who give birth to children at the age of 100... Delaying several decades does not seem to be the worst."

Zhang Yuan pondered for a moment and wondered: "But, don't we need a large population... There are only 500,000 people now, which is far from industrialization."

Academician Ding laughed, this smile gradually turned into Steel-like edge.

He said word by word: "We need a population, but we don't need a natural-born population!"

"The natural-born population is absolutely huge for the social public support system. Obstacle! Moreover, the birth rate of the natural population is too slow...too slow and too slow."

"Time is not on our side. The equipment carried on our spaceship is limited, and so is the population. Limited, once these devices are fully activated, they will quickly age and depreciate. They can only last for several decades at most."

"...The high-quality population is basically concentrated on our this generation. We are an elite selected from a population of 10 billion, and are high-tech talents in various systems. The next few generations, in terms of intelligence or other basic abilities, are impossible to compare with us..."

"So, what will happen in the future? Even if our group of people let go of birth, the birth rate in one year will never exceed 2%! There is no way to double in 30 years. Our group of people are not farmers."

"Without a sufficient population, there is no way to achieve industrialization!"

"When all of our generation dies, and when the failure rate of spaceship is getting higher and higher, if we still Without establishing a complete industrial system, our offspring will be extinct in this outer planet!"

Zhang Yuan took a deep breath and tried to think about the future probability.

Yes, it will happen! It will happen with a high probability!

The outer planet is not Earth. The ecological environment is extremely bad, and there is no strong industry. Spaceship is slowly aging again, and various flaws emerge in an endless stream. After the spaceship is scrapped, everyone will wait to die!

"...In this situation where there is no other choice, we must grow the population quickly! In the case of very low natural childbirth willingness, the use of artificial uterus technology to grow babies in large quantities becomes the only choice! "

When Earth Era set off from Earth, it brought its own human gene bank, including sperm and eggs provided by excellent genes.

"So a large number of artificial babies appeared. They had no fathers and no mothers. They grew up in artificial wombs and were raised by robots. Their ideology is different from those of us natural people... Call them new humans."

"This process takes about 20 to 30 years. When the time comes, they were raised by robots. Several millions of new humans, the number of which greatly exceeds natural humans, They have embarked on society and exerted their influence."

"They are the natural supporters of the social public support system."