"Senior...can I ask a few questions?" The original source looked very curious about the story just now.
"Don't be so formal. If you have any questions, just ask." Xiang Shan said, "Our journey is quite long anyway, so it's good to chat."
This is really a sad fact. Although humans can already fly at a few percent of the speed of light in space, there is no big breakthrough in speed under the water. At least it is difficult to move quietly.
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If driven by a nuclear reactor, the submarine can indeed get up quickly, but then there is no point in diving underwater specifically.
In this era, if you make too much noise, it will be easily noticed.
Because now, there are almost no animals in the entire sea.
Many years ago, Yawgmoth made a last-ditch effort to save some marine life. If those creatures are still there now, they should probably be limited to near the equator.
There are still many microorganisms in the sea water. When Xiangshan was on the shore, he also took samples from the shallow sea and observed them. Some of them looked primitive and natural, while others had heavy artificial traces. Maybe they were from the Scientific Research Knights.
The fruits of your labor.
Moreover, the Scientific Research Knights, who study planetary physics, will still put monitoring equipment into the sea. If the readings of the monitoring equipment are too abnormal, it may attract unnecessary attention.
Although the satellite network is now down, and most monitoring facilities cannot be connected to the Internet, the government can still have an alarm system that relies on ground waves to complete communications.
In order to ensure privacy, Xiangshan could only choose to walk slowly.
Yuan Wenren nodded and said: "Senior, I just think it's strange. According to your story, there should be Homo sapiens existing at that time..."
"Yeah. A few." Xiang Shan nodded, "That's true."
"According to this logic, shouldn't they be relatively trustworthy people?" the original source asked: "There are no backdoors implanted in their genes, nor can prosthetics be implanted, and they will not be controlled...
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"Well, this is a good starting point." Xiang Shan nodded: "But you have to consider one thing. The average age of the last batch of Homo sapiens is eighty years old. You know what eighty years old means for Homo sapiens
What are you wearing?"
"dying?"
"It's aging." Xiang Shan shook his head: "You really haven't thought about this problem at all... But at your age, you don't need to think about such things. It's really strange, the aging of baseline people should actually be longer.
right……"
Baseline Man is an artificially created species, and it is only a "springboard" for the next step of transformation in an industrial environment. In a purely natural state, this species has quite a few uncoordinated traits.
For example, aging.
Baseline humans do have a natural lifespan of about four hundred years, but relatively speaking, they have inherited the genes that control the life cycle of Homo sapiens.
One gene can determine or influence the formation of multiple traits. There is a theory that the same gene will show different traits at different ages - this is the secret of aging. In infants and young children, the gene for bone calcification
They play an important role in growth, but beyond childbearing age, these genes increase the risk of coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction. Similarly, in early life in humans, the sex androgens - androgens - can lead to the development of glands. But
The same hormone increases the risk of prostate cancer after childbearing age and increases the mortality rate of human males.
From an evolutionary perspective, this may be to allow individuals who have completed their vocation to pass on genes to die quickly to free up resources for the next generation, and also to quickly eliminate individuals who fail to pass on genes.
Yawgmoth implanted foreign genes into human genes and reset the enzyme system. Cells will synthesize enzymes that could not be synthesized before, lighting up more new reaction pathways. But most of the genetic data of the baseline human
, still used by Homo sapiens.
Genes that regulate aging are also included.
According to the papers related to the Scientific Research Knights that Xiangshan has downloaded in the past few years, baseline people will start to show an aging trend around the age of eighty. If no technical means are used to intervene, this trend will continue for one or two hundred years. The damage resistance of baseline people
Ability will greatly lengthen this process.
In fact, Xiangshan didn't care much about this issue at first. In his view, the benchmark human exists as a springboard and platform for "prosthetic transformation". Whether it is "cardiovascular disease" or "the incidence rate with age"
"Growing cancer" is not a problem for baseline prosthetic humans.
Nerve cells in the brain are the slowest aging part of human beings. Even in a natural state, without any drugs or gene therapy intervention, a baseline person will experience deterioration in thinking ability between the ages of 180 and 200.
If similar drugs were available, this process could be extended indefinitely.
Nerve cells themselves are cells that do not die easily.
The nervous system is very simple at the cellular level. Reversing its life cycle is a project that Yawgmoth completed in the 21st century.
In other words, so far, human civilization has not observed a benchmark human who truly died at the end of his life span.
For knowledgeable people, it is not difficult to obtain Huandan enzyme. In the discourse of Jianghu children, "old knight" represents "powerful" and "high moral prestige", and there is no such thing as "boxing is afraid of the young".
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The concept of "aging" seems to have been thrown into a small corner that is not taken seriously by human civilization.
If he hadn't witnessed an old man losing his ability to act due to aging a few years ago, Xiangshan might have forgotten this concept.
"No matter how healthy an eighty-year-old Homo sapiens is, his physical fitness and energy are not as good as before. At that time, human thinking will still be affected by heartbeat, breathing and hormones. The aging body cannot support the great ambitions." Xiang Shan said.
: "They began to gradually withdraw from the center of power at the end of the 1950s."
The original source didn’t understand this point: “Judging from the patrons I’ve seen... they should try hard to hold on to ‘power’ until the last moment, right?”
"They can't do this kind of thing." Xiang Shan lamented, "When the tide of human cyborgization was unstoppable, the old people jointly issued a prohibition order, prohibiting the baseline people from becoming the leaders of the country before 2055. But at the end of the 1950s, the baseline people
The total number of people has exceeded that of Homo sapiens. The baseline people feel that the baseline people can better reflect the voice of this group. The young people also control the power in the voice of the masses."
Of course, these young politicians all have prosthetic bodies, and many of them are sponsored by Superman companies.
In addition, because they cherish life more, they did not choose the first few surgeries. They wanted to wait until others had completed the surgeries to see the effect.