Chapter 758: Chapter 756: The Return of the Gleize Civilization
“So biologists have thought very carefully about certain issues,” “These selected species will need a series of modifications to at least be able to adapt to the human microbiological environnt.”
Cloned from a sterile environnt, extraterrestrial species would carry no pathogens from their native planets and be harmless to humans. However, among these species, so thrive in oxygen while others would be poisoned to death by it. So might fall ill and even die from just a slight exposure to human bacteria.
Living on the sa planet, with frequent coming and going, getting sick all the ti would be too troubleso.
Even with the strictest control over microbes, there are bound to be occasional oversights. Humanity and the Half-sphere people have cooperated for many years, and in the last biochemical test, human bacteria and viruses had already appeared in the living areas of the Half-sphere people.
Microbes like Water Bear Worms can survive in extre environnts. As long as there is a semblance of a suitable habitat, they can reproduce massively.
Of course, the Half-sphere Civilization actually doesn’t care. They are covered in bionics and don’t need to breathe or eat, so it doesn’t matter to them if Water Bear Worms invade their habitat or not.
But other aliens do have problems.
Zhang Yuan nodded in agreent, “The issue of oxygen adaptation might be challenging to resolve, as it would require modification of the entire circulatory system… But we must find a way to deal with the microbes. Otherwise, what if we painstakingly raise an alien scientist and he suddenly dies from a cold? That would be a huge loss.”
One of the biologists pondered for a while and explained, “Solving this aspect isn’t too difficult. Since different species have different cell structures, only a very few types of bacteria and viruses can infect aliens, and we can simulate these microbes with computers.”
“What we need to guard against the most are allergic reactions, as severe allergies can be fatal… fortunately, we’ve studied this field for a while and should be able to develop corresponding pharmaceuticals.”
“Developing dicines is the simplest solution.”
Besides developing pharmaceuticals, there are also two other thods: genetic modification and bionic improvent.
Genetic modification is extrely difficult. For an organism like the Gliese Pangolin, which naturally sleeps a lot and is awake for short periods and doesn’t favour oxygen, transforming it into a species that can adapt to Earth’s environnt is like recreating life.
Largely modifying genes might also affect intelligence. If we were to modify these pangolins to be even more foolish, that too would result in a loss without gain.
“It’s difficult to make them smarter, but making them more foolish is quite simple, almost a probable outco… Otherwise, why wouldn’t we humans just make ourselves a bit smarter and call it a day?”
Bionic modification, on the other hand, is sowhat easier. Now that people have fully grasped the Half-sphere Civilization’s bionic technology, there are no technical issues…
Additionally, the last part of the discussion focused on the details of mory restoration, intelligence restoration, and related issues.
The experts from the Unreal Laboratory that Zhang Yuan represented provided very detailed recomndations. Since these issues could be solved from a technological standpoint, there would be no problem.
Thus, after all the key points were discussed and clarified, people decided to capture so Glizerians to appear in the real world as the first batch of affiliate species.
Their main research direction would be… Mathematics!
…
It’s a strange world, where the sun never sets, with eternal twilight and no night; the soil is fertile, and vegetation thrives. The only drawback is the low oxygen content in the atmosphere, which ans there is no combustion.
Without combustion, it’s difficult to develop technology.
With nothing to do, the Glizerians, besides eating, reproducing, sleeping, and entertaining themselves, maintain a low birth rate. Due to their higher level of intelligence, they would voluntarily control their population to avoid the Malthusian trap.
Moreover, being omnivores with hearty appetites, they could survive just by consuming a bit of wild grass, which, coupled with multiple factors, made their days pass by peacefully and with ease.
Of course, as intelligent beings, the pangolins needed so forms of ntal enjoynt; they inherited the excellent culture of Gliese Star, and besides ceramics, music, and painting, they regarded Mathematics as the highest form of art.
And Mathematics, recognized by various interstellar civilizations in the Milky Way and indeed the entire universe, as a subli art form, shared profound consensus with the culture of the new humans.
It must be said that these pangolins had quite an exquisite taste.
At the equatorial location in the Twilight Zone stood a Holy Mountain, where a multitude of fervent mathematics enthusiasts congregated. These pangolins spent their days and nights delving into all sorts of bizarre problems, their obsession rivaled only by the new humans’ generals’ love for silver-white robots.
Under human inspiration, they had long since abandoned elentary mathematics, which they initially studied fanatically. They now preferred advanced mathematics, such as the Seven Bridges Problem, the Four-Color Problem, Euler’s characteristic formula for surfaces, continuity theorems in analysis, the Brouwer Fixed-Point Theorem, and plane geotric problems…
For humans, these subjects were largely resolved long ago, but for these pangolins, a civilization still in the primitive stages, they were like enigmas, each advancent requiring considerable effort.
Yet, these pangolins never tired of their pursuit. Since they were idle anyway, they might as well study mathematics; instead of mating, they chose to step into the world of mathematics.
It must be admitted, the developnt of other academic fields did play a role in promoting mathematics—it expanded the civilization’s horizons and provided additional boosts.
Take neuroscience, for instance, which enhanced intelligence, making everyone smarter and undoubtedly benefiting the developnt of mathematics. Computing technology provided computational power; the Four-Color Problem could be proved forcibly with computers, chanical proofs could solve the majority of plane geotry problems, and pi could be calculated ad infinitum.
Physics intersected with mathematics in many areas; for example, String Theory. So astute mathematicians could find inspiration from physics and give birth to novel mathematical ideas.
Lacking advanced technology, these pangolins struggled with many challenges due to the absence of these disciplines.
Calculating pi to a hundred digits was already legendary in difficulty… And as for the zeros of the Riemann Hypothesis, they could only calculate about a dozen.
“…I’ve already told you, do not disturb ! Do not disturb !”
A pangolin with bloodshot eyes roared loudly as it haphazardly scribbled sothing on a stone slate, seemingly in the midst of proving a crucial point.
In front of it lay a book titled “The Beauty of Mathematics,” filled with various formulas, and most importantly, written in human language!
Having had his research interrupted, he seed quite impatient and brandished his claws as if he was about to pounce and fight.
“What is it, what’s the matter?”
This pangolin wore an odd garland on its head and even sported shoes on its feet, which were certainly prizes from humans.
“…It’s an envoy, the envoy has arrived, Cardofo, you need to co out quickly! If you miss this chance, you’ll definitely regret it!”
“An envoy?” The pangolin stiffened all over, imdiately dropped what was in its hands, and walked out of the cave.
“If you’re lying to , I’ll smash your mouth to pieces!”
“How could I possibly lie, there are lots and lots of envoys this ti!”
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