1251. Trilobite (Ask for a Referral Vote)
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Bidding farewell to Director Cameron, Qin Shiou was about to get on the helicopter and return to the fishing ground, but as soon as the osprey started, a row of red lights suddenly lit up on the helicopter bridge, and a piercing buzz sounded.
The first time Qin Shiou encountered this situation, he was sitting in the co-pilot and was about to close his eyes to recuperate, such a stimulus scared his little heart to beat wildly, and quickly asked, "What's the matter, man?" ”
The osprey motioned for him to relax, and after turning off the engine, he went to check it, and came back and said: "The interface of one of the cooling pipes of the engine is rusty, I have to find some oil to clean it, it's not a big deal, and I can fly later." ”
Qin Shiou felt that it was better to be cautious, and he said: "Forget it, Osprey, let's throw this thing here and let the people in the aviation city deal with it." Let's not take this risk, let's take the train back to St. John's. ”
There is no airport in the port of the Basque Country, the nearest airport is in St. Anthony to the north, so it is better to take the train back.
Osprey had a relaxed expression and said: "That's not a big problem, BOSS, I can handle it, I used to go on a mission when I was in the army, and I dared to open the engine cooling pipe when it burst out." ”
"But I don't dare die." Qin Shiou said truthfully, he is the god of the sea, not the god of the sky, the sky is not his territory, in case something goes wrong with the helicopter in the air, he really loses more than he gains.
Osprey shrugged and pulled out his phone to buy four train tickets from the port of the Basque Country to St. John's.
Canada's transportation is similar to that of the United States, and airports are built everywhere, and aviation has become the easiest and most effective tool for travel. Cheap, safe, and fast, train transport has become a medium-to-high-end means of travel.
This is a huge difference in transportation between developed and developing countries. In Canada, for example, more than 80 percent of the country's highways are covered. With the exception of the north, which is close to the North Pole, highways have been built in all areas, and almost all of them are free to use.
In this way, people will choose airplanes for long-distance travel, and short-distance is to drive themselves, so the train will naturally have no market.
Train carriers such as Pacific Railroad, which is traditionally large Canadian corporations, have sensed the crisis and made a timely shift in their industry to turn train travel into an enjoyable activity.
Newfoundland has relatively low train coverage, after all, it is a large island living alone. Sea transport is the main thing, then there are air and road, and rail occupies a small share.
But even so, Newfoundland's rail transport is still quite developed, and the railway station in the Basque Country is built like a castle, and the waiting rooms are tall and spacious, and the whole is warm yellow, so that you can feel a little warm even if you stay in winter.
When he arrived at the train station, Qin Shiou looked at the time. There was still more than an hour before the train departed, and he didn't want to sit at the train station, so he bought a map at the newsstand at the entrance of the station and found that there was an interpretive center not far away. It's called the Golden Nail Interpretation Center.
Newfoundland's interpretive center can also be said to be a museum, a memorial, an art gallery, etc., anyway, a place where someone interprets is called an interpretive center, and this interpretive center is strictly a geological museum.
Qin Shiou, Osprey, Nelson, and Sanders wandered over to enter the commentary center. It is mainly a commemoration of the Cambrian explosion, and there are many fossils of sponges, coelenterates, gill drags, leaf pods, brachiopods, molluscs, arthropods, echinoderms, and chordates.
For the Cambrian explosion. People who are engaged in biology are familiar with it, and now the history of natural biology in the world recognizes that the evolution of life on earth is based on Darwin's "Theory of Evolution". But what Evolution doesn't explain is the period when the Cambrian explosion took place.
At this time, Sanders was able to show his effect, and after entering the interpretation center, he talked eloquently, introducing a variety of creatures to the three of them, no matter what appeared in it, he was at his fingertips, and the talk was much more exciting than that of the tour guide.
When he walked to the middle position, Qin Shiou suddenly saw a large number of strange-looking arthropods, these animals were carrying round carapaces, of which the carapaces were inlaid layer by layer, surrounded by organs that seemed to be arthropods, and there was a mouth on the abdomen, which was too familiar to him - didn't the black-capped giant insect look like this?
Qin Shiou took a closer look, these animals are very famous, they belong to one of the famous trilobites, and they lived 500 million years ago. The arthropod-like organs around it are not the feet of the black cap, but are called the costal joints, which can be seen as the extended ribs.
If you look closely, this trilobite is actually very different from the black cover giant worm, but at a cursory glance, the appearance is too similar, especially since they both have feeding organs in the abdomen, Qin Shiou can't help but associate them.
When Sanders saw that he was paying attention to the trilobites, he came over and explained, "Are you interested in these bugs?" They are giant shell trilobites, which are relatively rare in number, and the time of extinction is not yet known. ”
Qin Shiou asked, "Could they not be extinct by now?" ”
Sanders laughed and said firmly: "No, it is impossible, the marine environment 500 million years ago is very different from now, the cell structure of trilobites is too simple, and they do not have the ability to evolve changeably, so they can't adapt to such environmental changes." ”
Qin Shiou nodded and didn't say anything more, but wrote down the name of the giant shell trilobite in his heart, and planned to go back and study it carefully.
When they got to the back, there were more than a dozen tourists behind the four of them, and these people thought that Sanders was the tour guide, and someone asked, "Sir, how long have you been working here?" Your knowledge is so overwhelming. ”
Sanders blinked and said hesitantly, "I'm not working here, I used to be in Toronto, and now I'm in St. John's ......."
After such a small misunderstanding, there was not much time left before the train started, so Qin Shiou decided to return early and not delay the train.
His worries were correct, on the way back to the train station, when they were waiting for a red light at an intersection, a group of angry people suddenly came on the opposite side, which frightened Qin Shiou, and he thought that he had suffered a revenge action from the community.
Sanders was well-informed, and after a glance, he said, "It's okay, BOSS, this is a recognized protest at the local paper mills, and it is estimated that their salaries have been delayed or bonuses have not been paid." ”
On the back of the Basque Country, there is a large forest of fine woods, which is home to Newfoundland's largest concentration of paper mills, home to two of Canada's fourth- and fifth-ranked mills in the paper industry.
However, at the beginning of the year, the fifth-ranked Hannibal paper mill declared bankruptcy, leaving thousands of unemployed workers and tens of millions of business arrears to the local area. (To be continued......)