Chapter 525: New ideas

The failure of the ecological environment experiment did frustrate a lot of researchers and Chen Xin, but it was only a dozen experiments that failed, and it did not make people lose their morale.
Moreover, just joining animals in this link will always cause the entire ecosystem to collapse. If it is just plants, it can keep the entire ecosystem in a relatively stable state for at least five hundred years.
This also proves that the construction of an artificial ecosystem is feasible, but compared to the relatively stable and controllable situation of plants, animals are relatively more likely to produce changes, which will lead to an imbalance of the ecosystem and ultimately lead to ecological collapse.
Chen Xin's initial idea was to add animals to this relatively stable ecosystem consisting only of plants, but previous experiments proved that this was not feasible.
The first few experiments failed, largely due to the mismatch between plants and animals, which prevented the two from coexisting.
In several subsequent experiments, they tried to put animals and plants together in the experiment, but the difference in reproduction speed between different species still easily caused the collapse of the entire ecosystem.
This is why after the 17th experiment failed, someone proposed to change their minds.
Because according to the original thinking, they tried all the solutions they could try, and the facts proved that they must jump out of their original thinking.
So after finishing the seventeenth experiment, Chen Xin gave everyone a holiday, letting everyone rest for a day, change their minds, and see if they can generate some new ideas and ideas.
And he himself tried to adjust his thinking, thinking about the problem.
An ecosystem generally consists of four parts: non-biological environment, producers, consumers, and decomposers. In order to maintain the operation of an ecosystem, these four parts are indispensable.
In the experiments currently carried out by Chen Xin, the non-biological environment is the best guarantee, and it is also the most stable part of the current four parts.
As for the producers, they usually refer to the green plant part. Although this part is not as stable as the non-biological environment, they don't need to worry too much. They can already build a stable plant ecosystem.
But the consumer part of the whole system really stumped Chen Xin and the researchers.
Although by definition, animals are considered consumers in the ecosystem from below and above, in fact, every link in the entire food chain can be regarded as a producer and consumer.
What they consume is the next level, and they themselves will be consumed by the upper level of the food chain. Eventually, the existence at the top of the food chain will be decomposed by the decomposer after death, forming a closed loop of the entire material cycle and energy flow.
Therefore, the supply and demand relationship between each species and other species is the key to maintaining the balance of the entire ecosystem.
This is like a production line, where raw materials are imported from the source, and the processing workshop processes the raw materials into parts, and then assembles them in the assembly workshop. How much work is done in each link is calculated in advance, no more and no less.
If one of the links is too much or too little, it will cause problems in the entire production line.
Too much will lead to more and more things in a certain link, but less will reduce the final product of the production line.
It's just that the production line in the factory can be adjusted directly, but the ecological environment is obviously not so well controlled and adjusted.
Although human beings can indeed play a regulatory role in the ecological environment of the dome city, so that the entire ecological environment can last longer, but if the ecological system itself is problematic, even if there is external interference, it will only operate for a longer period of time. It will eventually collapse.
Moreover, there are problems in some areas, even if external forces interfere, it is difficult to save the entire ecosystem.
This can be clearly seen in the previous sixteenth and seventeenth experiments. Insects proliferate in large numbers and set off a terrible scene like a locust plague. Even if human intervention, the end result is that the entire ecosystem must be rebuilt.
Of course, it will lead to such a result, but also because there is no external interference, the entire ecosystem has been completely out of balance.
If there is a monitoring system that can monitor the entire ecological environment at all times, and deal with problems and variables in a timely manner, to a certain extent, it can indeed maintain the operation of the entire ecosystem.
As long as the problem that causes the entire ecosystem to collapse does not occur in an instant, this can actually keep the entire ecosystem running smoothly for a long time.
But the Dome City can do this, but if you want to restore the entire Blue Star ecology later, it will undoubtedly be impossible.
After all, human beings currently do not have such a powerful force to monitor the entire Blue Star's ecology and make timely adjustments to possible problems.
Therefore, Chen Xin must find a possibility for the entire ecosystem to function smoothly without external interference.
But how easy is this to say?
Giving up thinking about this problem, Chen Xin decided to rest his mind and change his mind to see if he could have new inspiration.
So he left the research center and returned to his home.
Back at home, Chen Xin noticed that Qin Lan was sitting on the sofa tidying up something, so he walked over curiously and asked her, "What are you looking at?"
"Some photos, among the things Qing Yan brought back, there are many previous photos, so I will sort them out." Qin Lan answered Chen Xin's question, and at the same time looked up at him: "Why did you come back so early today? ?"
"I encountered a little obstacle at work. The UU reading www.uukanshu.com experiment failed again, so I just put everyone on a day off, let everyone rest and change their minds." Chen Xin said this, and sat down beside Qin Lan. , Picked up the album she had organized and turned it over.
Most of the photos above are photos of them having fun in Mo Qingyan's bar before, and some of them were taken when everyone went outdoors together.
Chen Xinfan looked at these photos, recalling those happy times in the past, and couldn't help feeling a moment of relaxation.
But when Chen Xin was flipping through these photos, he suddenly noticed that one of the photos was a bit different.
The photo was taken of Qin Lan, but she was completely different from Chen Xin's impression of always wearing training uniforms at that time. Instead, she wore a plain white long skirt, which appeared to be very quiet and sitting on a piece of clothing. In front of the table, and in front of her there was a glass ball covered with stones, small fish and algae like a fish tank.
It was this glass ball that really attracted Chen Xin’s attention. He curiously asked Qin Lan,
Alan, when did you take this photo? And what is this ball? Without opening, there will be no shortage of fish inside. Is the oxygen suffocated?"