Chapter 173: The Martian Shepherds
[When you see this video, hundreds of millions or billions of years have passed, and we Muba people have also died out for hundreds of millions or billions of years"
The Martian shepherd on the screen ignored the horror of Lu Yi and the others, and was still talking to himself.
Lu Yi couldn't understand the language spoken, but it seemed that the Muba people had already anticipated the problem of language, and there would be Martian subtitles under every sentence spoken.
Through Martian subtitles, Lu Yi, who has already deciphered the Martian dictionary, can translate simultaneously.
[Our Muba people were born in the early days of this galaxy, and the evolutionary history can be traced back to 500 million years after the birth of the Martian parent star......]
As the Martian narrates, the background of the video is also changing, changing to the scene of the early days of the formation of the solar system, with pieces of initial meteorites and asteroids shuttling through space, hitting the sun or hitting the planet from time to time.
The sun, which was born hundreds of millions of years ago, was also much more violent than it is now, and every now and then a violent solar wind or ray storm would sweep across the entire galaxy.
At the same time, the eight major planets of the solar system have just formed for hundreds of millions of years, and they have not even cleared the material in the orbit of the planet.
The miracle of life also began to be conceived at this time, perhaps it was a miracle brought by meteorites outside the sky, or it was a miracle of natural birth, in the 500 million year of the birth of Mars, the planet has been basically stable, although there are still frequent volcanic eruptions or earthquakes, but the ground is no longer full of magma......
At the North Pole of Mars, the geological activity here is relatively weak, and the lack of light has not raised the temperature too high due to the violent energy release of the primordial planet.
Temperatures hover between 20 and 30 degrees Celsius, and water vapor can condense into liquids, dropping below freezing during the polar nights......
Wisps of moss grow and multiply in the wind, under the gray sun of the sky, in this mossy wilderness, strange saplings grow like chickens, when there is sunlight, they draw water from the air and underground to wake up and grow, sleep in the polar night, occasionally encounter scarce water in their habitat or other reasons, and can slowly pull out the roots of trees to move like animals.
But perhaps the sun was obscured by the gray volcanic ash, and the saplings all seemed to be a little malnourished, all of them only a few dozen centimeters tall.
"Stop!"
Seeing this, Lu Yi waved his hand to signal the video to pause, and turned his head to look at Professor Su and Professor Hill: "Is it possible for the Muba people to simulate the situation at the beginning of their birth?" ”
"Possibly."
Professor Su, who has some research on the origin of life, said: "The decay of various elements and the fission of heavy elements in the early days of the planet are strong, and the chemical reactions will be very violent, so there is a great chance that the seeds of life will be born naturally.
In addition, the solar radiation in the early stage of the galaxy is very violent, and these solar radiations may be maintained at a subtle level after being weakened and blocked by the Martian atmosphere, which can stimulate the accelerated mutation of life genes, and at the same time will not cause life to die due to excessive radiation.
The difficulty of the birth of life does not lie in the emergence of life seeds, the violent chemical reaction and the collision of organic matter can have a high probability of forming the original life seeds, it is rare that after the emergence of life seeds, a relatively stable environment is needed for the seeds to continue, and then we can talk about evolution.
If the North Pole of Mars could have been stable for millions of years without large-scale volcanic eruptions and overturning for millions of years after the birth of the seeds of life, then life could have evolved so quickly in the stellar radiation environment at the beginning of the galaxy. ”
"It's amazing that plants can photosynthesize and move." After listening to Professor Su's words, Lu Yi shook his head with some sighs.
"It is not impossible to evolve this kind of life that can move slowly and photosynthesize, we can synthesize similar genes in the laboratory, and even the origin of our earth's animals and plants is similar life, and nature is a natural testing ground."
Professor Su shook his head and said, "It's just that this kind of life that is both an animal and a plant does not occupy an advantage in evolution, and there is no real tree whose roots are so developed to draw more nutrients from the soil, and it grows very tall, and it cannot reproduce like mosses or other lower vegetation, and at the same time, it does not move as fast as animals, and there is no means of defending against predation."
In the evolution of nature, mediocrity equals perdition.
Even if this kind of life that seems to be powerful, but in fact has no skills to stand out, even if it is born, it will eventually be eliminated in natural evolution, or differentiated into animals and plants.
So I'm curious about how the Muba people have retained this form of both animals and plants, and have been evolving, awakening wisdom, and developing civilization. ”
[According to research, our ancestors lived in the Arctic for nearly 10 million years, and occasionally there were genetic mutations that enhanced photosynthesis and strengthened the growth of roots and whiskers, and evolved into plant offspring, which grew more luxuriantly, but our ancestors could move and would choose to avoid the sun from being blocked.
Occasionally, offspring with genetic mutations that weaken or even abandon photosynthesis will also be killed because there is no other energy intake in the environment, and at the same time, the air is filled with various toxic sulfides and other gases, which will also kill them who have weakened photosynthesis and are not enough to meet the energy needs of the body.
However, because of the polar night, because of the intensity of the Arctic sun, although our ancestors are reproducing and not extinct, they have always been very weak, and even survived.
But fortunately, nature has not evolved other natural enemies at that time, so our evolution continues......]
[As a photosynthetic life, we have a strong need for sunlight, and the intensity of sunlight determines our growth before exceeding the tolerance limit, but the environment of the Arctic and the volcanic ash brought by the frequent eruptions of Mars at that time obscured most of the sunlight. 】
[If this situation does not change, after the natural evolution of other natural enemies, what awaits our Muba ancestors will be extinction]
[At that time, the ancestors who had not yet evolved wisdom and did not understand the laws of natural evolution were not aware of the potential natural crisis, and they were still multiplying, until an unexpected situation appeared......]
[The exact circumstances of this accident are impossible to determine, but we must have had this accident in the evolution of the Muba people.]
It is precisely because of this unexpected appearance that the ancestors of the Muba people have more sunlight and open their thinking, so as to gradually evolve wisdom, and finally become the overlord of the planet with the help of wisdom, creating a brilliant civilization ......]