Chapter 150: Life Extension Technology
Chapter 150: Life Extension Technology
At the start of the second round of technology exchange, the Stuo Civilization actively proposed a very tempting technology exchange option.
The Stuo Civilization wished to exchange Life Extension Technology with the Human Civilization.
In the previous exchanges,
the Human Civilization had already known that individuals of the Stuo Civilization had a typical lifespan of over five hundred years, and long-lived ones could reach eight hundred years.
In the ongoing communication later, the HCC also learned the reason for the big gap between the typical lifespan and the lifespan of the long-lived individuals mentioned by the Stuo Civilization.
Because within the HCC of the Human Civilization at that time, they practiced lifespan equality.
Everyone used Life-Extending Serum, and although there were natural differences between individuals, those differences were small and not man-made.
But the Stuo Civilization, whose civilization direction and form were decided by the “Ultimate Decision-Maker”, followed the path of “maximizing benefit.”
The “Ultimate Decision-Maker” agreed that during the long migration, individuals of the Stuo Civilization needed longer lifespans, so it supported the Stuo Civilization in continuously researching this technology during the lengthy migration.
However, it did not agree that everyone should live to the maximum lifespan that lifespan technology could provide.
Within the Stuo Civilization, although the channels for rising in social rank were open,
the gap in social status was actually much crueler.
For individuals who couldn’t produce value or contribute to the civilization, the strategy used by the “Ultimate Decision-Maker” wasn’t to directly kill them.
Instead, it was to not provide Life Extension Technology or to provide it at different levels.
Like the leader of the Stuo Civilization delegation who previously met with the Human Civilization delegation, he could live to eight hundred years.
But an ordinary Researcher in the Stuo Civilization could only live to just over five hundred years.
As for those who willingly fell into decline, forget five hundred years, they could only live as long as the natural lifespan of a Stuo Civilization individual was.
This matter itself didn’t have much to do with the Human Civilization.
It only showed one thing—the current Life Extension Technology of the Stuo Civilization could allow individuals of the Stuo Civilization to live to eight hundred years.
Eight hundred years.
Looking back from the current history of the Human Civilization, eight hundred years ago,
the Human Civilization was still in a feudal dynasty.
Most people in the Human Civilization really couldn’t imagine
how someone who lived for eight hundred years would see the world.
This length of time was just too long for humans.
And the Human Civilization
was also a group civilization, so individuals naturally had strong wishes for their own long life.
Through all ages,
it was unknown how many people fell before “immortality.”
Survival itself was the most basic desire carved in human genes.
Qin Yu’s first life, “Professor Qin Yu,”
why, even now, could share fame with “Academician Qin Yu.”
The main reason was that “Professor Qin Yu” let humans touch immortality for the first time.
Therefore,
the technology exchange proposed by the Stuo Civilization was naturally very tempting.
Even within the Negentropy Research Institute,
which could probably be considered the smartest group in the whole Human Civilization,
when they got the message sent by the Stuo Civilization, their hearts uncontrollably beat faster for a few moments.
An eight-hundred-year lifespan, how many people could resist that kind of hoped-for immortality?
Some might even be able to sacrifice themselves but still couldn’t resist the temptation of immortality.
Of course,
even though the Life Extension Technology of the Stuo Civilization was so tempting,
it didn’t make this group of smart people in the Negentropy Research Institute all lose their minds.
For this technology exchange,
the Stuo Civilization didn’t ask to exchange their Life Extension Technology for a specific technology from the Human Civilization.
Instead, they kind of proposed they could take out their Life Extension Technology for exchange,
waiting for the Human Civilization to choose what to give, or more accurately, what technology to use to buy the Stuo Civilization’s Life Extension Technology.
For such a Life Extension Technology that was better than anything the Human Civilization had in that field,
how big a price were people willing to pay to get it?
It was again Qin Yu who directly made the decision on this matter.
“Academician Qin Yu” wasn’t an expert in this area.
But the “Entropy” “Professor Qin Yu” was the real expert in this field.
Also, on the issue of Life Extension Technology, as an Absolute Immortal, Qin Yu was probably the one who could make the calmest decision in the Human Civilization.
“… Hello, friends of the Stuo Civilization. We are very interested in the Life Extension Technology exchange your civilization proposed.”
“We are willing to exchange this technology with the Stuo Civilization.”
“The exchange method, like the earlier Artificial Intelligence and Computing Power Technology exchanges, is that we are willing to provide the Human Civilization’s related Life Extension Technology to the Stuo Civilization. In the same field, both civilizations exchange what they have for what they don’t.”
This was the reply the Human Civilization gave to the Stuo Civilization.
It was also the price the Human Civilization and the Negentropy Research Institute were willing to pay for the Stuo Civilization’s Life Extension Technology.
They were only willing to swap technology in the same field, like in previous technology exchanges and theory sharing.
They weren’t willing to trade with more valuable technologies from other fields.
It seemed like the Human Civilization’s Life Extension Technology that could extend life to just a hundred and eighty years wasn’t equal to the Stuo Civilization’s that could extend life to eight hundred years.
But the real calculation wasn’t like that.
This wasn’t a deal between two sides inside the Human Civilization on Earth.
It was a trade between two different civilizations and intelligent species in the universe.
The Stuo Civilization’s Life Extension Technology that extended life to eight hundred years looked very tempting.
But actually, unlike the earlier Artificial Intelligence and Computing Power Technology exchange,
this was a technology exchange with little value.
In previous exchanges, the differences between the Human Civilization and the Stuo Civilization had huge value.
But for Life Extension Technology that acted on intelligent species themselves, the differences between the two intelligent species made this technology lose most of its value.
It was a simple fact: the Life Extension Technology the Stuo Civilization used on themselves couldn’t possibly work directly on the Human Civilization.
From the two body enhancement technologies the Human Civilization had gotten from the Stuo Civilization earlier,
it was clear that the basic body systems of both intelligent species had big differences.
What was inside the Stuo Civilization’s Life Extension Technology might not even be useful to the Human Civilization, and the eight hundred-year extension had nothing to do with the Human Civilization.
This kind of technology was mainly just a source of ideas for the Human Civilization.
On the other hand, for the Stuo Civilization as an intelligent species with bodies very different from humans, the Human Civilization’s Life Extension Technology had the same value.
It was only worth some reference and ideas.
Of course,
for the Human Civilization at that moment, there was one more important point.
Extending human life even more could be good or bad for the whole Human Civilization, but the results were unclear.
The harsh way of sharing lifespan used by the Stuo Civilization was something the Human Civilization couldn’t use.
A generally too long lifespan would slow down the development speed of the Human Civilization.
For the Human Civilization, which wasn’t that strong yet,
overall, too much life extension didn’t have many benefits.
The Stuo Civilization, by their own standards, was still at the Stellar Civilization stage.
But from the civilizational history told by the Stuo Civilization itself,
the development time of the Stuo Civilization was actually much longer than the Human Civilization’s. This slower speed might have been influenced by the generally longer lifespan.
In this technology exchange,
the Stuo Civilization actually played a small trick.
But it wasn’t too bad; at least they didn’t broadcast the Life Extension Technology exchange to more people across the whole HCC.
They didn’t let most people in the HCC force the Negentropy Research Institute to make an unwise decision.
These small, careful tests were something both civilizations used in their exchanges.
There wasn’t much to say about it.
If the Human Civilization itself really wished to trade with some more valuable technology for the Stuo Civilization’s Life Extension Technology,
the Stuo Civilization naturally had no reason to refuse.
On the other hand, it was the same for the Human Civilization.
After the Negentropy Research Institute and HCC sent the reply to the Stuo Civilization,
without any surprise, the Stuo Civilization didn’t discuss the value of Life Extension Technology much with the HCC and just agreed directly.