Into Unscientific

Chapter 46 – A Crucial Step.

Chapter 46 is a crucial big step.

Cockroaches generally refer to insects belonging to the order “Blattata”, belonging to the phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, and order Blattata.

This creature has survived on the earth for more than 350 million years, even longer than dinosaurs.

But in the entire ecosystem, the significance of the existence of cockroaches is actually not great.

Of course, it’s not that it’s useless—it has the property of a decomposer in nature, which can speed up the degradation of organic matter into inorganic matter.

In addition, it also has certain value in medicine. For example, the active peptide toothpaste of Yunnan Baiyao contains cockroach extract, and you may kiss cockroaches every day.

But these contributions pale in comparison to the harm it brings.

Cockroaches themselves carry a variety of pathogens, such as Shigella, Salmonella paratyphoid A, Bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus, roundworms, hookworms, etc., and are a major disease vector, but they do not get sick.

At the same time, because the flat body of cockroaches makes them good at living in small gaps, they can survive in almost any place with water and food, so they will also get into computers, copiers, electronic scales, drinking fountains and various communication equipment and electronic instruments. .

Once they bite the circuit or components, causing a short circuit, it will lead to equipment failure, communication interruption and other unexpected accidents.

Behind almost every plague in history, you can see the dancing wings of creatures like cockroaches.

Therefore, it is not advisable to say that cockroaches are useless, but there is no doubt that its harm outweighs its contribution.

Besides, the decomposer attribute of cockroaches is not irreplaceable, at least in the city:

For example, mealworms can perfectly replace the role of cockroaches in corruption factories, and the cost is even lower.

As for cockroaches in nature.

Then it is not within the scope of Xu Yun’s elimination.

Xu Yun made it very clear before that what he intends to eliminate are the cockroaches in the “living area”, that is, German cockroaches, American cockroaches and oriental cockroaches, which are common pests in cities.

The reason why cockroaches cannot be eradicated is largely due to the fact that females only need to mate once in their lifetime to lay eggs for life.

After the male and female cockroaches mate, the female cockroach grows a pod-shaped thing called an egg sheath at the end of the female cockroach’s tail, and the eggs are laid in it.

A female can produce as few as 10 or as many as 90 egg cases. In one egg case, as few as 10 or as many as 50 small cockroaches can be hatched. This is why cockroaches One of the important reasons why it can’t be killed.

And if pheromone can synthesize a new type of poison with imidacloprid, it will undoubtedly be a huge boost to eradicating cockroaches.

“Targeted elimination of cockroaches.”

In the office, Tian Liangwei’s gaze was a bit deep. He touched his chin and asked Xu Yun:

“Don’t engage in generalized research, but focus on one species, Xiao Xu, are you planning to do business?”

Tian Liangwei’s tone was not a question, but it contained some opinions tactfully.

In the current era, it is not impossible for scientific researchers to start a company.

On the contrary, no matter at home or abroad, competent experts almost always start their own companies or cooperate with institutions.

Using knowledge to make money is like licking your own teacher, not shabby.

In China, the age of 65 is almost used as the dividing line. There will be fewer top scholars over the age of 65 who take care of the industry, and almost everyone under the age of 65 will be involved in some business territory.

For example, Tian Liangwei has a cooperative institution with the Medical Department of Jilin University, which specializes in the research of NK cells.

However, considering Xu Yun’s current age, Tian Liangwei is still not at ease that he will go into business at this time.

In his opinion, Xu Yun can train in the scientific research module of HKUST for a few years first.

Once you have a clearer understanding of your experience, abilities, and social connections, then consider the issue of starting a business overseas.

Anyway, as the top batch of institutions in China, HKUST is still very generous in terms of scientific research treatment. There are not a few people who are worth millions at the age of 30 relying on patents, and there is no such thing as a waste of youth.

Facing his teacher’s more tactful question, Xu Yun hesitated for a few seconds, and finally said:

“There is such a plan, but it must not be now—the fourth generation of imidacloprid has not been researched at the moment. How can we start a company without technology?

Besides, even if I want to start a business at that time, I will definitely ask our school for help, Master of Life and Death Science. “

Xu Yun’s last words are considered a compliment, but they are also part of his heart.

After all, backed by the big hill of HKUST, whether it is entrepreneurial support or their respective network resources, they are not comparable to their own efforts-don’t look at USTC ranking behind Qingbei Jiaofu. It is the Big Three in China.

“All right, I respect your opinion.”

Seeing that Xu Yun’s words revealed some attitude, Tian Liangwei no longer persisted, and turned the topic back to the present:

“Tell me, Xiao Xu, what are you going to do now?”

Xu Yun took out another piece of neatly folded paper from his body, and handed it to Tian Liangwei:

“Teacher, I want to apply for a medicinal chemistry laboratory, here is the list of equipment.”

Tian Liangwei took the paper, looked at it and muttered to himself:

“Conductivity meter. Gradient liquid chromatography. Drug dissolution meter, automatic refractometer, eh? Electric pulse remelting and resolidification device and ICP-MS700?”

Tian Liangwei put down the list, and gently tapped his index finger on the table:

“Xiao Xu, other instruments are fine, but the last two things are a bit troublesome.”

Electric pulse remelting and resolidification device, ICP-MS700, this is the equipment in the national major scientific research instrument development project.

The price of the latter is low, more than 7 million yuan, but the price of the former is close to 15 million yuan.

If the applicant for this kind of equipment is a doctoral supervisor and an academician, then there is no problem, but Xu Yun is only a doctoral student, and he is applying for an independent laboratory. To be honest, this is a bit over the line.

“No way, teacher.”

Xu Yun also had a bit of bitterness on his face, and shook his head lightly:

“The short-term precision of ICP-MS700 is much higher than that of ICP-OES and GFAAS, and it involves the matrix acid interference of methyl groups. The advantages of ICP-MS are really far ahead. Why not compare to these two devices.”

Tian Liangwei glared at him angrily:

“Yes, yes, the equipment is easy to use, but why don’t you say that the cost of starting the ICP-MS700 once is four times that of the latter two? Don’t talk about the price and compare the quality with Bentley and BYD, right?”

Then he sighed faintly, took out a separate application form from the drawer, and pushed it in front of Xu Yun:

“Fill it in.”

Xu Yun took the form and was about to start writing when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the bottom right of the application form:

“Hey, teacher, it’s not right.”

“What’s wrong?”

“Why is your personal seal stamped on this form?”

Tian Liangwei took a sip of wolfberry tea, and at the same time rolled his eyes at Xu Yun:

“How fresh, you are not qualified to apply for this level of equipment, I have evenly given you the sub-items of this year’s Hundred Talents Plan, don’t worry, the procedures are in compliance with the regulations.

In addition, let me tell you, be careful when you use the instrument, if you break it, you sell yourself to pay back the money, that’s all right, stop talking nonsense, don’t worry about it, fill it in quickly, and get out of here! “

Looking at Tian Liangwei who seemed impatient, Xu Yun was silent for a moment, took a deep breath, bent down and wrote the application form.

After more than 20 minutes, the application form was completed.

Tian Liangwei took the form, glanced up and down, and smacked his mouth:

“Well, it’s quite decent, but you can apply for the equipment according to the specifications of the doctoral supervisor, so you don’t have to think about the same level of funding. In addition, you have to gather together the R&D team for independent experiments. At most, I will report you a food fee plus The last one or two team building expenses or something.”

“The R&D team is fine, I already have someone selected.”

Xu Yun replied calmly, and then asked:

“Teacher, if the funds cannot be at the same level, how much will it be reduced?”

Tian Liangwei thought for a while and said:

”The research and development funds for biotoxins are generally distributed in stages. The first period of Ph.D.

As for you, I will try my best to get you 500,000 yuan for equipment, about 300,000 yuan for materials, 50,000 yuan for miscellaneous items, and another 50,000 yuan for you from the department, a total of 900,000 yuan, including 400,000 yuan in cash flow. That’s about it. . “

Xu Yun nodded lightly, feeling agitated in his heart.

900,000 funding, this figure is not too big for Xu Yun—not to mention 900,000 in his previous life, he has participated in national projects of 90 million or even 900 million.

But the 900,000 this time is different from the past. It may leverage a huge blank field and help Xu Yun and countless others to fulfill a lifelong obsession

Kill cockroaches!

Next, I plan to catch up with the chapters on the shelves all night, so today I will only update one day, and go to the hospital for physical therapy to adjust my body before the weekend

My grandma fell down yesterday. I was an old man in her 90s. I wanted to go down and help, but my mother drove me back and said that I should concentrate on coding.

(end of this chapter)