Chapter 251
Zhang Yuan's breathing gradually became heavier after reviewing the information. He found that the so-called "automatic universal factory" was actually a super large 3D printer!
This 3D printer is extremely powerful. It combines multiple key technologies such as biology, information, and machinery, and can print tens of millions of parts!
Tens of millions!
Moreover, the precision and output of these printed parts are extremely high, and Zhang Yuan was stunned by the marked parameters.
It is incredible that there are such powerful machines on the world!
It can even be said that the power of a machine is worth the cutting-edge productivity of all human beings at present, and it even exceeds a lot!
Seems to see his doubts, the leader of Gliese explained: "Please don't doubt, this is the scientific and technological product of Level 2 Civilization Peak of the universe, and even Level 3 Civilization!"
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Zhang Yuan's heart beats hard. The leader of the Gliese civilization may have deliberately revealed to mankind a small amount of common sense of cosmic sociology.
The game between the two sides has begun!
But he must not be so stupid to ask these common sense outright, otherwise the other party will think that this cosmic information is worth trading, maybe it is lion's big mouth...
He pretended to be very calm and said: "For the description of these materials, this factory is indeed very powerful, and even uses some biological methods."
"But according to the current text description, it is not detailed enough. This transaction is of great importance. I hope I can visit this universal factory in person. I don’t know if it’s convenient?"
The other party hesitated for a while, and then nodded replied: "This is no problem, if you don’t feel If you are tired..."
This deal negotiation lasted for a short while, so that Zhang Yuan couldn't even sleep, so he visited the so-called "fully automatic universal factory" with great interest!
This huge monster is bigger than an aircraft carrier. It is about 300 meters long and 120 meters wide. It has a mass of 160,000 tons. It is placed in the underground core of GoerTek. There are a lot of The robots and staff are busy here.
There are also a large number of supporting factories, nuclear power plants and so on in the surrounding area.
In other words, basically all the living supplies in Goer City are produced in this industrial zone.
"It looks like it's not...fake."
Zhang Yuan exhaled heavily.
The key point is that this machine is not entirely a metal device. Instead, it uses a lot of biotechnology, using some organic matter and protein as its component parts. The advantage of this is that the sensor system is very powerful and has a certain self-repairing ability, which can work for a long time and stably.
"This is a science and technology tree that humans have never had before." He was half surprised and doubtful. Originally, he only wanted to negotiate peacefully. He never thought about signing such a large order...
Furthermore, it is strange that the other party wants to sell this powerful machine.
"Oh, Lord Gan Yaduo...forgive me to speak bluntly, is this the subject of your transaction with the second interstellar civilization?"
"Yes, indeed."
"Then I want to know, how do you maintain such a complicated system?"
Zhang Yuan means that such a huge machine is impossible to maintain for 50,000 years, right? .
And how can the technology of Gliese civilization maintain this stuff?
Gan Yaduo said: "You don't need to worry about this problem. The core of the universal factory is a biological computer, which has a certain degree of self-repairing ability. If it is not destroyed by violence, it hardly needs maintenance, fifty thousand years, one hundred thousand years No more replacement."
"As for the remaining mechanical parts, all we have to do is to follow the instructions of its artificial intelligence and replace them regularly."
"Artificial intelligence?"
"It's just a weak artificial intelligence, it can automatically detect the location that needs maintenance."
Zhang Yuan estimated it, and hesitated: "But, just rely on this. A factory may not be enough...even if it adopts another main line of science and technology."
This matter is really important, and you can't be too careful.
And he is still assessing whether this transaction contains a trap...
For example, after occupying most of human productivity, the other party suddenly came over; another example is human After working hard to build a spaceship, the other party regretted it. What can I do when the time comes?
After some consideration, Zhang Yuan said: "It's not that this factory is not good, but your spaceship requires a population of 2 million to 2.5 million people...it takes us a long, long time. Moreover, a spaceship itself contains huge technological content, which can parse many technologies..."
"You are wrong." Gan Yaduo defended: "The universal factory not only represents huge productivity, There is still a large amount of scientific and technological reserves in its database. This is the scientific and technological reserves of the Peak Level 2 civilization. I think this information alone is enough to exchange for a Stellar Rank spaceship."
" It depends on what these technological reserves are..."
Zhang Yuan was not simply confused, and replied: "If the technologies in the database are what we already have, then the value of these technologies It will be greatly reduced. And as you know, for many technologies, there is no way to be compatible with each other... Even the different standards of screws will cause huge differences. At most, they can only be used for reference, not directly used. ."
"The industrial standard of our human civilization has basically taken shape, and it is impossible to change easily because of a universal factory...So the value of the scientific and technological data in it is still to be discussed."
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Of course, Zhang Yuan is just talking nonsense. He really wants to know the so-called Level 2 Civilization Peak, what level it is, and what kind of technology it has. As for many industrial standards, there is indeed no way to be compatible, but some scientific and technological ideas are of great significance even if they are only used for reference.
In the next meeting, Zhang Yuan will examine the capabilities of the so-called "universal factory" while sending relevant information to Earth Era for reporting.
After some investigation, he believes that the probability of a trap is very low. The other party has exposed his core technology, and there may indeed be some problems that he wants to ask humans for.
This universal factory is too powerful and convenient. As long as you import some raw materials, you can produce a large number of parts. This unimaginable automated process made Zhang Yuan very jealous.
To give a simple example, if 6000 centrifuges are produced by a new civilization, it may take half a year. Corresponding production lines need to be set up, and various manpower and material resources need to be invested; and to use this universal factory , Simply do not need a new production line, as long as the specific program is set in the computer, and then the raw materials are put in, the production of various parts may only take three months!
Although there is a corresponding 3D printing technology on Earth, there is no way to compare it in terms of productivity and accuracy.
He even wanted to close the deal a little bit.
"The value of a universal factory is difficult to compare with a Stellar Rank spaceship, so why not study it and assemble another universal factory?"
Even ten, one hundred, one thousand?
Even though the entire reverse engineering may be very difficult, Zhang Yuan still has certain confidence in his own engineers.
Moreover, it also includes biological machinery that is rarely involved by humans.
Of course, the difficulty must be quite large. All kinds of messy biotechnology are not so easy to crack, otherwise these Pangolin impossible would not think of this.
"That is, the so-called core, is the production of biomachines more difficult? In other words, there is simply no universal factory generation method in the database."
"Or, this Group Pangolin is lazy, too lazy to crack?"