Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Some time has passed since the construction of the lunar science station, and the population who often live on the moon has almost doubled in one year and has grown to over fifty.

However, this population growth is not unlimited.

Starting this year, the Moon Orbit Construction Committee announced that it would limit the increase in the number of permanent lunar inhabitants in the short term and requested the management unit to keep the number of permanent lunar research stations below sixty, to the extent possible, while maintaining the current scientific research programme with no change in the Moon Resource Development Plan.

Such an arrangement is not entirely costly to maintain an astronaut living in space as one might imagine, but is simply not allowed under realistic conditions.

As with the health problems faced by many mega-cities, the size of the lunar science station, while far from reaching the urban level, is difficult to solve because there is no ecosystem that can degrade naturally, but it is exponentially scaled up as the population grows.

According to the normal living needs of an adult, about 1 kg of domestic waste is generated a day, of which metabolic waste accounts for more than 50 per cent, for which lunar examination stations have little way of completely disposing of it.

Even though lunar planting units can drain some of the feces and urine, allowing organic matter to re-enter the circulation, this circulation efficiency is not very high.

Together with some bacterial and microbial contamination, health safety has become an issue that cannot be ignored at lunar examination stations. The mere purpose of transporting those household wastes back to Earth has taken up the transportation resources of an entire transport vessel.

If the population continues to expand, I'm afraid the Moon Orbit Construction Committee will have to plan a dedicated route for the transport of fecal urine.

However, the emergence of DR-111 active microorganisms has brought about a turnaround for everything.

No one knows where it came from, and this project was suddenly assigned to research one day, as if it had suddenly appeared in a database.

Although some wonder who the bull is and from where such a powerful microbial sample was collected, this is not known due to the lack of literature.

Drinking coffee, looking at the data on the screen that came back from the Lunar Examination Station, the face of the ark showed such a look.

As he guessed, this DR-111 microorganism is not that simple.

In an aerobic environment, it breaks down metabolites by respiratory action, while also accumulating a ketone substance, which, in fact, is harmful to other organisms, but to itself.

Prolonged exposure to the aerobic environment can cause the entire microbiota to reproduce slowly and eventually self-extinguish.

Conversely, in high nitrogen, carbon dioxide concentrations, and lighting environments, these microbes can erupt with incredible fertility and feeding capacity.

It generates oxygen through photosynthesis while phagocyzing and decomposing metabolites, and fixes solar energy to a special chain of amino acid molecules.

While the taste of direct consumption may be less desirable, this particular chain of amino acid molecules can be digested by the vast majority of organisms, meaning that it can go directly into the ecosystem cycle.

Not only that, this organism has an extraordinary tolerability to low-gravity environments and, even under direct exposure to cosmic rays, maintains the stability of its overall traits by breaking down and phagocytosis of its own cancer cells.

This thing is a fantastic waste purifier!

Its use on Earth was simply a curse, and the space station and the space colonies were where it really belonged.

I saw the experimental report from the beginning, and the expression on the face of the ark grew more and more satisfying. And then just then, a glimmer of light suddenly flashed through his head —— or his brain hole.

“Could this be some kind of man-made atmospheric modification? ”

A civilization that entered the interplanetary age made it and then sowed it on a chaotic planet that had just formed the atmosphere, opening up colonies for its own civilization.

This interesting micro-organism breeds wildly in atmospheric environments with high carbon dioxide concentrations, exponentially growing, even covering the entire planet's surface.

Ultimately, in countless star years, it plays both producer and decomposer, absorbing excess carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen, accelerating the evolution of the atmosphere, while allowing more carbon elements to be immobilized into the biosphere through photosynthesis into organic matter that can be directly exploited by organisms.

And at the final stage, as oxygen continues to rise, photosynthesis gradually becomes respiratory, and the resulting ketones begin to kill this microbiota and render it unproductive until it disappears completely from the entire ecosystem.

And after doing all that, a chaotic planet covered in carbon dioxide, perhaps in dozens of star years, will be able to complete the evolution of the atmosphere, which took hundreds of millions of years to complete.

The more this hole opens, the more the ark thinks it's possible.

After all, there are too few atmospheric planets in the universe that are suitable for the survival of carbon-based organisms, and the oxidative response is the way for the vast majority of organisms to access energy.

Under conditions of natural evolution, it may take hundreds of millions of years to transform a chaotic planet full of carbon dioxide and nitrogen into a relatively livable world with flourishing species.

If a civilization develops to the level of interstellar civilization and can extend its boundaries within hundreds of light-years by hyperbolic means, mastering planetary modification techniques is not impossible.

Even so, it is almost inevitable.

After all, the nature of civilization is the transformation of nature.

Only beasts choose obedience.

“I didn't expect to find something so awesome...”

I was shocked by my thoughts, and the pupils of the ark gradually stained with excitement.

If what he thinks is true, the microbes that he holds in his hands at this moment will not only be as simple as a "space waste purifier”, but will come from a living fossil of some higher civilization!

This will be worth studying not only the microorganism itself, but also the biotransformation and genetic modification technologies it may contain.

It is somewhat unclear how much can be reversed, but even a tiny harvest would be enormous for human civilization, which is still in the early space age.

In addition to this, the Ark also thought of Mars, close by.

Direct modification of Mars' atmosphere is unrealistic. After all, Mars has too little gravity and no magnetic field protection. Even if it creates an atmosphere similar to Earth's, most of it will eventually be lost.

However, the feasibility of establishing a relatively confined large biosphere in a limited area is considerable.

Creating such a confined biosphere on Mars may not be a real problem with the ability to transform the environment with such microbes, provided that the methods and modification schemes used are appropriate.

Thinking about it, somehow, the ark suddenly remembered what the observer and himself had said, and somehow raised a slight thought of terror in his heart.

Everything is best arranged unlikely.

But maybe...

This solar system could really be “designed” well...

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