Homo sapiens.

Chapter 518 Gradually Expand
Inside the Dimondiville station.

The scientific expedition team, which received a lot of packages, is sorting out these things. After all, this is food for the next few months.

After opening the incubator of vegetables and fruits, a team member looked at the signs of other incubators: "Purser, why are there so few fruits and vegetables? This amount of vegetables and fruits, with so many of us, is not enough for a week, right?"

Marvin immersed himself in sorting out the incubator of carrots: "The seal station will send vegetables and fruits over once a week, don't worry."

"I see, that's really great." The team member picked up a cucumber and wiped it, then gnawed it.

It is very difficult to eat fresh vegetables and fruits in Antarctica. In the past, they could only eat fresh vegetables and fruits when the supply ship came over. After that, they could only eat canned fruits, freeze-dried vegetables, and vitamin tablets.

"Purser, can the supplies at the seal station be maintained for a long time?" Some team members are more concerned about the future.

"It should be possible!" Marvin didn't dare to guarantee it. After all, it is hard to predict whether Homo sapiens will fight the Europa Consortium in the future.

"May the world be peaceful!"

"Homo sapiens is really rich, and they even send fresh fruits and vegetables to the seal station every week."

"It doesn't have to be sent from outside, or it may be planted by the Seal Station itself."

Everyone chatted in a hurry. Although many people did not have a good impression of Homo sapiens, they did not fall into a daze.

Dr. Vichy, who was not involved in the arrangement of materials, was currently recording the 12-hour snowfall by the snow collector on the roof.

The assistant took a flashlight and carefully observed the six snow collectors on the roof.

"Doctor, 12 millimeters of snow in 3.2 hours."

Dr. Vichy wrote down the data in his notebook, and then he looked at the total accumulated snowfall this year has reached 266.9 millimeters.

According to the records of previous decades, the average annual snowfall on the edge of Antarctica’s shelf is about 500 millimeters, and the months with more snowfall are the winter months from April to November.

Apparently the snowfall has increased this year.

This is the third consecutive year that Antarctica has experienced positive snowfall growth.

Regarding this situation, Dr. Vichy is somewhat worried, especially when he is connected with the abnormal and extreme weather around the world this year, which makes him even more uneasy.

Increased snowfall means that the thickness of the Antarctic ice sheet will continue to increase.

The expansion of the ice cover will expand the reflection area of ​​the ice surface, which in turn will lead to an increase in the scale of the earth's reflection of solar radiation, which will cause a further drop in polar temperatures.

A further drop in polar temperatures will lead to a reduction in the evaporation of water from the ice.

The ice sheets at the north and south poles will become thicker and larger.

When a large amount of fresh water is fixed on the ice sheets with a thickness of several thousand meters in the north and south poles, it will inevitably lead to a gradual drop in sea level, and large-scale sea retreat is not an idea, but is about to become a reality.

Dr. Vichy was a little helpless, turned his head and looked at the seal station not far away.

Among the aurora.

The Seal Station is like a huge city.

No, this is a city in the first place.

Unlike the Dimondiville Station, which relies solely on icebreaker supplies, the core supply method of the Seal Station is the sky elevator.

The 16 cables form 4 groups, relying on the airship platform at an altitude of [-] meters to pull these cables so that they are firmly taut and will not be disturbed by the polar wind.

4 sets of cables are exactly 4 elevators, which can run 4 elevator cabins.

In addition, Dr. Vichy also knew that the underground part of the seal station must have penetrated into the underground rock formation, otherwise it would not be so stable.

Many Antarctic scientific research stations, especially those on the edge of the continental shelf ice sheet, will face a life-and-death problem.

That's the ice breaking off, causing the glacier to move.

Back then, the Antarctic scientific research station in Great Britain did not pay attention to this problem, causing the entire scientific research station and the fault zone glacier to become an iceberg floating freely in the sea.

Therefore, in order to cope with this situation, if the scientific research station is to be built on the ice sheet at the edge of the continental shelf, a fast-moving scientific research station (similar to a caravan) must be used.

But the seal station is obviously not like this, it is set up here directly.

According to Dr. Vichy's experience, he is very sure that the seal station must have penetrated the 2200-meter ice layer and laid the foundation in the underground rock formation.

Only in this way can the displacement caused by ice breakage be effectively resisted.

Of course, without the technology of Homo Sapiens, it would be difficult to manufacture such an ultra-deep foundation.

Dr. Vichy, who was standing on the top of the building, looked at the brightly lit seal station, feeling somewhat complicated and powerless.

At this time, the seal station was inside.

Maung Dan, who escorted the daily necessities to the Dimondiville Station just now, is in the base chief's office, reporting the situation to the base chief Cindy West.

"...I got them to accept the power transmission plan on the pretext that there was no fuel at the base."

Cindy West was very satisfied: "You did a good job. You have controlled their energy and living supplies, and they will not be left to them in the future."

It can only be seen from the holographic map on one side that there are currently several scientific research stations of the four major forces in the entire Wilkes Land.

Without exception, these scientific research stations are "closely protected" by the scientific research stations of the Homo sapiens company.

In order to completely occupy the entire Wilkes Land, Homo sapiens made a lot of small moves. In addition to closely protecting the scientific research stations of the four major forces, it established a large number of new scientific research stations.

These scientific research stations are set up every 50 kilometers. Through this method of staking the land, Homo sapiens has now completely controlled the entire Wilkes Land.

And deep underground in these scientific research stations is the most important gold producing area of ​​Homo Sapiens, which produces about 200 tons of gold every month.

It's a secret that deserves so much attention from Homo sapiens.

Now Wilkes' underground mining area is continuing to expand production, and it is expected to increase the gold production capacity to about 400 tons per month by the end of this year.

Cindy West looked at the climate analysis report in his hand: "Maung Dan, you have recently strengthened the monitoring of the Dimondiville station, and you must also pay more attention to weather changes."

"Changing weather? Is it snowing?"

"It's not just snowfall, it's glacier activity."

"Glacier activity?" Maung Dan immediately understood.

As an investigator of the Seal Research Station, I naturally know the situation in Antarctica.

Since Antarctica is different from the Arctic Ocean, the underground here is rocky. If the snowfall continues to increase, it will inevitably lead to an increase in the weight of the Antarctic ice sheet.

The increased weight of the ice sheet can cause glaciers to slide and even trigger earthquakes.

Maung Dan left Sindy West's office and went back to prepare to use magnetic field detectors to strengthen the monitoring of geological changes throughout Antarctica.

And Cindy West is thinking about the list of materials that need to be applied to the head office next.

Especially in terms of strengthening various scientific research stations and underground bases, the head office needs to provide a batch of exclusive equipment and parts.

After all, as time goes by, the Antarctic ice sheet may expand and thicken in the future, and it may also cause various geological disasters.

Reinforcement work is urgent.

In fact, Homo sapiens' other bases in Antarctica are also gradually improving the structural strength of the bases, especially the secret base of the Ice Hell Project.

On the other side of the Arctic Ocean, the situation is similar to Antarctica, with increasing snowfall and thickening and expanding ice sheets.

This May and June is destined to be a noisy season.

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