dkrc Chapter 713 A Bold Plan!
Chapter 713 A Bold Plan!
"What work have you done from the moon?" Song He asked.
"Boss, I can't say." Lou Jinghui smiled apologetically.
Song He nodded to express understanding, and then asked, "You said before that you would come back with a new project, what was it?"
"The lunar ecosystem." Lou Jinghui said, "The superiors hope to build a small-scale ecosystem from the moon. A series of genetically modified organisms need to be sent up, with priority given to crops."
Song He was startled, is he planning to build a moon farm and a moon ranch?
"The initial plan is to find some craters, blast out a few caves, and breed organisms in the caves." Lou Jinghui explained in detail.
"The entrance of the hole can be sealed to form a relatively airtight underground space. At first, organisms such as lichens can be raised. Later, it is best to grow some vegetables to reduce the consumption of rockets to send vegetables to the moon."
"After all, there will be more and more people stationed on the moon in the future. The superiors hope that the food of the lunar city can be self-sufficient to a certain extent to avoid the annihilation of the entire army due to transportation problems on the earth."
Song He scratched his head and said, "It's not difficult to grow vegetables on the moon. Although there are no nutrients in the lunar soil, if you put some of your astronauts' urine and feces in it, and if you can't bring some fertilizer, you can still open a vegetable patch."
"There are vegetable plots, and I even eat the side dishes grown in our lunar laboratory." Lou Jinghui said, "But growing vegetables in the laboratory costs too much money, cannot be spread on a large scale, and is too delicate. The superiors We hope to cultivate a small ecosystem that does not require too much manpower, in other words, to produce crops that can grow wild."
Song He understands that everything in the world is inseparable from the word "cost". Most of the time, cost even determines everything.
Explosive diatoms have already formed a large scale on the moon. They continuously produce explosives and can continuously blast out burrows. With years of hard work, there will be more and more burrows on the moon. If vegetables can be grown in each burrow, a huge scale will be formed. Moon vegetable garden!
The power of time cannot be underestimated!
In addition to providing food for the moon people, another important factor is that the vegetable garden has obvious attributes of belonging. To put it more simply, I opened up this land to grow vegetables first, so this land is mine!
Using buildings to occupy land is too expensive, and using footprints to occupy land will be erased. However, vegetable garden land is cheap and stable, and it is the best choice for expanding territory!
A large number of vegetable gardens are like flags. Once the flag is waved, you can dominate the negotiating table among countries competing for lunar territory!
"Moon tourism will be launched within ten years, and lunar vegetables will be quite expensive. If we can cultivate a large number of lunar crops, it will definitely be a fortune in the future!" Lou Jinghui yearns for it.
"The money spent by tourists is only a fraction, the key is the advertising effect." Song He said, "The dishes eaten by the moon people are all made by us. This thing is a solid advertisement. It itself proves our strength, and the accompanying commercial impact will be countless." Billions!"
"So boss, lead us to do it!" Lou Jinghui was excited, "It's not really difficult, it's just a matter of burning money to gain scale!"
"I can't spare the time. I'm working on artificial blood." Song He shook his head, "You have been to the moon and are familiar with the situation. You will be responsible for the moon food project. I will allocate as much money as you need. Our company has been reformed. The money in it is very hot."
"Boss, do you really want to fight for artificial blood?" Lou Jinghui was worried. "This direction is notoriously difficult. Many scientific research teams have broken their knees on it. The difficulty is not that you are helpless, but that you clearly feel that you can do it." That’s right, but there are always problems with the actual verification, and we still can’t find the problem!”
"Hey, what you said is very expert. It seems to be right, but it is wrong when it is applied!" Song He nodded in praise, "But we have made significant progress and found a solution, and there is an unexpected surprise."
Song He opened the drawer, took out a bound piece of data, and handed it to Lou Jinghui, who was full of curiosity.
Lou Jinghui looked through it carefully, his face was horrified, and he never said anything to persuade him to quit.
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At the end of August, Frontier University of Science and Technology welcomed new students.
The number of students has doubled, and Song He has more classes. He can't help but have a headache. The scientific research project is progressing to a critical moment, and even dividing the time into eight parts is not enough. Teaching basic knowledge to undergraduates feels like a waste of time.
In order to save time, Song He tried his best to quickly throw out the four major bad skills!
The first skill is to hire someone to teach!
Xi Yanfan was the easiest to bully, and Song He caught her the most, but it was far less than last semester because her own courses had doubled and she really didn't have time.
Song He set his sights on Teacher Xiang. Teacher Xiang was surprisingly easy to talk to and helped with a lot of teaching tasks. Moreover, the students also liked the dean’s teaching. On the one hand, the dean was a top beauty, and on the other hand, the dean’s level was even higher. Higher than Professor Song.
The second skill, combined teaching!
Even if he talks to one class, he still listens, and if he talks to two classes, he still listens. Song He decisively merged his students into one large classroom, and taught classes from different classes together.
Doing this saves time for Song He, but is quite torture for the new students.
The basic knowledge of the freshmen is not as good as that of the old students. The old students can easily understand the content. The new students have to copy notes desperately, go back and look through the materials and study hard by themselves in the early morning. Song He often had resentment in front of his eyes in the middle of the night, and when he looked closely, he saw that it was all the freshmen who were giving him rewards.
At first, Song He felt guilty and worried that the freshmen would not be able to keep up. However, after taking two classroom tests, he was surprised to find that the freshmen's scores were quite high, with a very small gap between them and the old students!
Is this possible? Am I an educator?
It seems that human potential is unlimited, and sometimes it really works to encourage students. Song He continued to teach in combination with a clear conscience, while the freshmen continued to work hard at night.
The third skill, enter the laboratory!
The freshmen were directly brought into the laboratory, where the old students taught them step by step and started practicing some simple projects.
This trick is quite popular. You must know that usually freshmen rarely enter the laboratory. Immature students are clumsy and will waste expensive experimental equipment. No school's money is blown by the strong wind, so it dare not allow this. kind of waste.
But Song He's money is about the same as what the strong wind brings. Being rich means being willful!
No matter how expensive the reagents were, he approved them without blinking an eye, and gave them to the freshmen in boxes to waste. At the end of the class, Song He would even come around to say it was a good thing to waste, and encouraged the students to come to experiments often when they had time. In room practice, sharpshooters are fed by bullets, so biologists should consume reagents like crazy!
The extravagant culture of Song He's class quickly spread and became a topic of conversation among peers.
First, it aroused the envy of other classes in the Brain Institute. Many students asked if they could transfer to Professor Song's class.
This then aroused the collective jealousy of the freshmen in the School of Bioengineering. We all study biology, so how come Song and his class in the School of Brain Engineering are so rich? Does Ning, the new student in the Brain Institute, have any kind of talent?
Someone posted the extravagant style of Song He's class on the Internet to show off, which quickly triggered the breach of defense by many biology colleges across the country!
Even the biology major of C9 University rarely feels that people are poor and have short ambitions!
A few days later, even the group chats of overseas universities were discussing this matter, but there was no result after repeated discussions. Poverty cannot be changed. The laboratory supplies thrown away by students in Song's class, students from other universities We still have to figure out how to reuse it.
The fourth skill, online classes!
Song He found that online classes are really a good thing. He recorded and saved them so that students can watch them again and again.
However, it is still necessary to protect privacy. After recording each online class, he uses AI to change his face into a cartoon head, and then processes his voice.
If the online course is announced, it is estimated that many students from biology colleges will follow it, and they can get a lot of knowledge rebates, and it can be circulated for many years, making it a real money tree.
But Song He didn't announce it. He rarely reserved anything when teaching. He would also talk about some exclusive experiences and unpublished results. If he told his own students, it would be a loss if he told students all over the world!
With all four major skills at his disposal, Song He successfully freed himself from the drudgery of attending classes every day. It was enough to only attend two or three classes a week, and devote all the remaining time to the laboratory.
Most of the team members are doing experiments on human blood, struggling to find enzymes that can produce universal blood. The search process is boring but full of hope. It is like buying lottery tickets. You keep buying one ticket after another, but no one wins. Awards, the cycle repeats.
Song He, however, is concentrating on studying mice.
The ultra-long lifespan of artificial red blood cells has greatly reduced the red blood cell turnover rate in mice. There is likely to be a lot of work to be done here.
What article?
Extend your life!
The idea of blood transfusion to extend life has been debated in academic circles for many years, and a lot of related experiments have been done. Some elderly wealthy people have even tried blood transfusions with their young sons, trying to use young people's blood to rejuvenate themselves.
The effect was not good, and no miracles occurred. Therefore, blood transfusion to prolong life has always been regarded as a ridiculous delusion, and even became a sky-high price scam by some mysterious institutions.
But Song He believes that the situation at hand is different. There are essential differences between artificial red blood cells and natural red blood cells, which may lead to some unpredictable changes. Although the chance of success is very small, since it has been encountered, it would be a pity not to try it in depth!
He ordered a large number of very old mice, about one year and eleven months old.
The life span of a mouse is usually two years. A mouse lives for one day, which is equivalent to a human's forty days. The batch of 60-year-old white mice ordered is very expensive, because usually laboratory mice do not live to retirement age and die at a young age. .
The ordered elderly mice were randomly divided into two large groups by Song He.
One group was regularly replaced with artificial red blood cells and the turnover rate of red blood cells was strictly controlled. The other group of mice were just kept, but they were also regularly placed on the instrument for gestures. The blood was taken out and immediately poured in, pretending to be a blood transfusion for the mice.
Song He conducted such a grouping experiment in ten groups at one go, with 300 mice in each group, a total of 3,000 elderly mice!
In order to raise these mice, he temporarily occupied a large number of laboratories in the brain hospital, almost becoming a nursing home for mice.
Other teachers in the courtyard complained quite a bit, and some of their experimental classes were delayed. However, due to Song He's fame and status, as well as the principal's preference for Song He, the other teachers could only hold back their dissatisfaction.
Song He feels more and more like a scholar.
In order to avoid being stigmatized at such a young age, he donated a large amount of scientific research funds to other teachers at the Brain Institute, and his reputation improved immediately.
After a month of long waiting, the results of the elderly mice in the control group came out!
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Weekends, lab.
Xiang Xiaotong was wearing a white coat, gloves, mask and goggles, and was fully armed to inspect the work.
Song He accompanied the explanation and explained the current experimental progress in detail.
"Ten groups of white mice, 3,000 elderly mice, each wearing a digital anklet, monitored 24 hours a day, and the time of death of each one is accurate to the second!"
Song He dug out the death record book, filled with numbers and dates.
"Where are the final statistics?" Xiang Xiaotong flipped through the notebook and asked curiously.
"The final data looks fake, but it's absolutely true!" Song He pulled out the data paper, "Ten groups of mice, the results of each group are very close!"
"The death time of the mice in the exchange transfusion group was delayed by 7 days compared to the normal group!"
"According to general calculations, one day in a mouse is equivalent to 40 days in a human. In other words, it is equivalent to extending a human's life by 280 days, which is more than half a year!"
"However, the proportions of developmental growth and aging markers in mice at different ages are different from those in humans. One day in an old mouse is equivalent to 176 days in the old age stage of humans. If based on this precise calculation, it means that the life span is extended by 1,232 days. , three years and three months!”
Song He's eyes were excited, "How are you, teacher? Are you awesome? You have developed a technology that can extend your life by three years!"
"Awesome." Xiang Xiaotong nodded, "But don't rush to open the champagne. Firstly, you don't know the specific reasons now, and secondly, there is no human experiment. Whether it can work is another matter."
"I have a plan." Song He was full of confidence.
"Catch 3,000 dying old men as a control group? 1,500 will be transfused with human blood, and 1,500 will be left alone? Then count the funerals of the old men?" Xiang Xiaotong joked.
"Capturing the old man is too villainous, so I plan to do it in three steps." Song He smiled, "Actually, these three steps can also be done simultaneously."
Xiang Xiaotong stared at him seriously, with curious eyes.
“The first step is to do a podiatry experiment!”
"The red blood cells of mice are updated in 22 days, chickens in 30 days, pigeons in 40 days, ducks in 42 days, rabbits in 55 days, rats in 58 days, cats in 73 days, dogs in 100 days..." Song He listed them all.
"I specially mobilized some reliable people from Chenghuang to make artificial blood for these animals, and then spent money to conduct massive animal experiments to see if the results are the same as those of mice!"
"If all animals can extend their lives due to artificial blood, then it means that there is some commonality in animal blood, and it is basically certain that humans can also extend their lives!"
Xiang Xiaotong nodded, "It's very expensive, but if you have money, you can afford it."
"The second step is very simple. Research on artificial blood will continue. As the research progresses on white blood cells, platelets, and plasma microcomponents, we will have a deeper understanding of blood. Maybe we can understand the principle of blood transfusion to extend life. .”
"The principle is very important." Xiang Xiaotong affirmed.
"The third step." Song He smiled evilly and said, "Recruit wealthy volunteers."
"Why a rich man?" Xiang Xiaotong was startled.
"There are often some longevity lunatics among the rich. They will do anything to live for two more years. They dare to do anything and use all kinds of evil methods." Song He said, "I plan to spend a high price to sell artificial red blood cells for blood transfusions." On the one hand, it will return some funds to this project, and on the other hand, it will allow the wealthy to set an example."
"But if you recruit wealthy volunteers, you can only rely on physical examinations to collect data, and there is no way to compare it." Xiang Xiaotong said, "Even if the wealthy people really live longer after blood transfusions, everyone will think that it is due to the wealthy people's medical conditions and high-end diet." It works for similar reasons.”
"It's simple!" Song He laughed, "Let's make a bundled volunteer volunteer rule. If the rich person wants to be a volunteer, he must pay for the food, clothing and daily life of another ordinary volunteer. Try to make sure that the food and clothing expenses of the two people are about the same. But only the rich change their blood.”
Xiang Xiaotong's eyes widened, "How dare you think about it! Do you think this is feasible? The rich are not unjust. After spending so much effort on an uncertain thing, will anyone really sign up?"
"I don't know." Song He said with a smile, "Just give it a try. If you catch one, you will catch one."