Homo sapiens

Unknowingly.

Time has come to Galaxy Year 4, January 5th.

Although there have been varying degrees of chaos around the world due to the spread of super monkeypox.

But the Homo sapiens company remains as stable and safe as ever.

After a full year of intensive construction, the Stratospheric Railway, which connects Southeast Asia to Africa and runs through the entire east and west sides of the Ceylon Ocean, has been officially completed.

The Ceylon Ocean Section of the Stratospheric Railway, with a total length of 4,725 kilometers, is one of the three ocean sections of the Circum-Equatorial Stratospheric Railway and is also the shortest part among the three oceans.

Li Qingye happened to be free recently, so he used a synchronous robot to come to the south of Meroe, which happens to be located in the equatorial region.

On the north side of Lake Victoria.

You can see an Optimus Prime, which is the local Lake Victoria Skytrain Station.

After passing the Skytrain to here, above the Victoria Lake Skytrain Station, there are dozens of carbon nanotube composite cables. The cable city is tens of meters away, reaching a height of 20,000 meters in the stratosphere.

And in the stratosphere at 20,000 meters, there is a large "white cloud".

If you look carefully, you can find this "white cloud" with various patterns and mechanical parts on it, which is the Stratosphere Station of Lake Victoria.

At this time, Li Qingye's synchronized robot was taking the elevator with several security personnel and quickly headed towards the high-altitude stratosphere station.

Through the lift window, you can overlook the entire Lake Victoria and the surrounding tropical rainforest.

As Homo sapiens Company comprehensively promotes agricultural industrialization and indoor agriculture, the scale of Homo sapiens farms around the world is decreasing.

Especially in tropical rainforest areas, many farms in tropical rainforests have stopped developing and only temporarily retain previously developed farmland.

After all, the indoor agriculture of Homo sapiens Company has now produced 1.86 billion tons of food a year. Including some of the retained open-air farms and artificial food, a total of 3.27 billion tons of food was produced last year.

Li Qingye has ordered to continue to increase the proportion of indoor farming and synthetic food, and gradually phase out some open-air farming that does not have much value.

At this time, the equatorial tropical rainforests in Africa are within the scope of converting farmland into forests.

After all, the soil in tropical rainforests is barren, and deforestation to clear land can only be used for planting for three or four years. After that, unless organic fertilizers and chemical fertilizers are regularly replenished, soil nutrients will be depleted, causing crops to fail to grow normally.

Therefore, the Homo sapiens company has decided to withdraw most of its farmland in the tropical rainforest.

On the one hand, this is to protect wildlife, and on the other hand, it is to reduce production costs.

Although the one-time investment cost of indoor agriculture is relatively high, as long as the construction of facilities is completed and various genetically recombinant crops are added, its land utilization rate will increase dozens of times. The production efficiency per unit planting area is almost 4 times that of open-air agriculture. ~6 times.

Take wheat as an example. In mid- and high-latitude areas, wheat can often only be grown for one season, and in warmer mid-latitude areas, it can only be grown for two seasons at most.

However, indoor agriculture can achieve the production intensity of planting four seasons a year.

In addition, indoor agriculture has another advantage, that is, it can reduce genetic contamination. Although the crops of Homo Sapiens Company all use genetic recombination technology instead of old-fashioned genetically modified technology, there is still the possibility of genetic contamination.

Especially food crops with vast planting areas are usually surrounded by wild varieties of the same family and genus.

This can easily cause genetic drift.

This situation is not unfounded by the Homo sapiens company, but has actually happened many times.

The reason why Li Qingye is very cautious about genetically modified organisms entering the natural world is because he is worried that the genes of genetically modified organisms will contaminate the genes of wild species.

Indoor agriculture does not have this hidden danger.

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Putting back his distant thoughts, he had arrived at the Stratosphere Station.

Standing in the waiting hall of the station, he looked at the endless stratospheric railway, which looked like a blue dragon high in the sky.

Due to the near-vacuum environment, the train did not generate strong shock waves and noise while traveling at high speed.

Twenty minutes later.

A maglev train stopped in the waiting lane of the station.

"Dear passengers, train number 34002 from Africa to Southeast Asia is about to set sail. Please board the train as soon as possible under the guidance of the flight attendant..."

Li Qingye walked onto the train without saying a word.

Many passengers traveling with him suddenly looked at Li Qingye with great curiosity when they saw Li Qingye in robot form.

Of course, these passengers are all company employees, and they naturally know that the company has recently launched a device called a synchronized robot, which can be used for field trips.

At present, this kind of equipment is mostly used in management inspection work.

As soon as they saw the synchronized robot, many people guessed which department's management it was. Although they were very curious, no one rushed over to say hello.

Fifteen minutes later, the train started slowly.

When the magnetic levitation and magnetic field propulsion systems are activated together, the train begins to move at a uniform acceleration.

This maglev ultra-high-speed train, carrying 1,500 passengers, increased its speed to a top speed of 2,400 kilometers per hour in 20 minutes.

Looking at the endless blue sky outside the window, everyone did not feel any discomfort, nor did they notice the terrifying speed of the train at this time.

After all, the car window is too monotonous and there is no reference at all.

The 4,735-kilometer east-west width of the Ceylon Ocean was crossed by train in only about two hours.

This speed is amazing.

If you take a plane, it will take at least three times longer.

Passenger transportation is not the core business of the Stratospheric Railway. The core business of the Stratospheric Railway is actually freight and the future elevator to and from low-Earth orbit.

Although the Ladder project may take several years to be launched, the relevant design team of Homo Sapiens Company is already doing various technical verifications.

Li Qingye learned part of the progress through internal briefings.

The difficulty of the current ladder project lies in how to build the structure close to the limit of the Kármán line.

If it were Venus, this project would not be too difficult. After all, the concentration of Venus' atmosphere is hundreds of times that of Earth's, which means that its buoyancy is also hundreds of times that of Earth's atmosphere.

But the buoyancy of the Earth's atmosphere is not enough to support such a huge structure.

The design teams of those research institutes also provided relevant solutions.

For example, the rigid arch bridge structure is a plan that combines the floating platforms of the Circum-Equatorial Stratosphere Railway with hard materials to form an integrated ring.

In fact, it is similar to a donut, except that the donut needs to be hard, the higher the strength, the better.

Li Qingye knew the difficulty very well.

In its implementation stage, the Homo sapiens company's demand for extraterrestrial resources is not as high as expected.

For example, the Homo sapiens company is not too enthusiastic about mining helium 3 on the moon. The reason is that the earth's resources can still support the company's development for decades.

Therefore, the Tianlai project is not a rush project, but a long-term project.

Maybe in the future, the Cloud Palace project on Venus will be completed, but it is also very possible that the Earth's Ladder project will not be completed yet.

While he was wandering in the sky, the train slowly stopped in the eastern part of Sumatra Island. This station was not far from Star Island and was specially set up for Star Island.

He has not been back to Southeast Asia for more than a year. This time Li Qingye plans to use synchronous robots to carefully inspect the situation of various branches in Southeast Asia.

Thank you for your support (ω｀). I was really tired from sweeping tombs and climbing mountains yesterday, and my whole body ached. I have adjusted my update from noon to evening.