Chapter 36, Extraterrestrial Life
Underwater robots have been constantly roaming the subglacial world, testing different areas and searching for possible extraterrestrial life. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"According to the analysis and comparison of data from different water areas, we can find that Ceres is really a dead star, and even the water inside it does not have any flow, and the salinity and pH index of water in different regions are quite different, which is a good indication that the water flow here is very slow!"
Ying Bainian carefully observed the data of the Ceres Ocean that had been formed on the computer, and then came to his own opinion.
"And so far no signs of life have been found, and it is still necessary to analyze the seawater to find out if there is life here!"
"Get some seawater! It's best to be at the bottom, because where the temperature is higher, the primitive creatures need more minerals, etc.! ”
Above Ceres' hard, heavy ice, cold and lonely, the originally smooth ice surface has been covered by hundreds of millions of years of interstellar dust and materials, otherwise the brightness of Ceres should have been very high, it should have been very easy to observe a long time ago.
Where the laser melted out of the hole, a large crane drove over, first found a suitable fulcrum around the hole, and then set up the support.
"This time I brought 10,000 meters of wire rope, I don't believe that I can't reach the end!"
There was a heavy iron ball tied to the head, and the long rope continued to extend downward, and soon sank heavily into the water, and then continued to go down, directly to the bottom, a water-absorbing device continued to suck the bottom of the seawater inside, and after pumping enough water, the inside began to pull up to the top.
In this way, we continue to slowly draw water samples from the bottom to the top floors, and take samples every 100 meters!
In this environment of a bare star and a death star, the sea water that has just been collected has frozen in the process of rising, and it is so cold here, more than minus 100 degrees, you can instantly freeze into ice if you sprinkle a cup of hot water.
The collected water was immediately transported by the space shuttle to the laboratory on the "Zheng He", and the impatient Ying Bainian, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly struck the iron with a microscope to observe, and at the same time, other scientists also analyzed the various components in the water.
Ying Bainian stared at the huge display screen, the display screen is connected to a high-powered microscope, everything has been magnified tens of thousands of times, and no cellular organism can escape its observation.
"How could it not be? It's impossible, obviously there is water, and the temperature is not low, it stands to reason that it can be completely suitable for the survival of those simple cell organisms, how can it not be! Ying Bainian frowned, the picture was full of minerals, and there were no biological signs at all.
"Is it because the sampling area is too small? Will there be any other areas? Or is there no life at all? ”
Win a hundred years of unbelieving people to observe one sample after another, but still did not find any signs of life!
While Ying Bainian was constantly analyzing and observing the samples, on the other hand, he controlled the underwater machine, and drove the underwater machine to constantly wander in the underground seawater, looking for valuable things.
"It's exactly the same everywhere, there's nothing worth paying attention to!"
"These icicles are so beautiful, it feels like you've entered a forest, and the huge tornadoes are coming one after another, and it's a spectacular sight!"
"I've traveled hundreds of kilometers and still haven't found anything of value!"
Bai Fengling controlled the robot and muttered to himself, I would feel bored when I looked at the bottom of the sea for a long time, especially this kind of lifeless seabed, and many people would have deep-sea phobia, dark phobia, etc., not everyone can observe it like this.
Just when Bai Fengling was boring driving the underwater robot away, the picture suddenly bumped a few times!
"Why is it so good that it suddenly bumps?" Bai Fengling became interested all of a sudden, and hurriedly said loudly, and other colleagues hurriedly surrounded him after hearing it.
"What's new?" Jiang Zhipeng, who was attracted to it, hurriedly asked.
"Just now, this picture suddenly bumped, I thought it was unusual, so I quickly called everyone over!" Bai Fengling said as he fired flashbangs around.
"Sudden bumps? Did you run into something? Let's play the screen back! Jiang Zhipeng thought for a while.
"No, there weren't any icicles in the area you just passed by, so it's impossible to touch anything!"
Everyone carefully looked at the replayed picture, and by slowing down the picture, it could be clearly seen that the picture was suddenly shifted upward.
"Judging from the picture, there should be a force from the bottom that caused the bump of the machine, which caused the bump of the picture!" Immediately, some scientists analyzed that the bump in the picture just now should be caused by the force under the machine.
"There's definitely a problem here, let's take a closer look! Use a laser to open another hole in this location and take some samples! Jiang Zhipeng didn't believe in evil, and while giving the order, he carefully searched for it.
More than an hour later, the samples were sent to the laboratory, and the scientists immediately analyzed them.
"There's definitely extraterrestrial life here! Look, the closer amino acids are to the deep layer, the more they are, which means that amino acids come from within, not from the outside, and there is only one source of amino acids inside the planet, and that is microorganisms! ”
"The survival ability of microorganisms is extremely tenacious, and the most powerful water bears can survive for several days at minus 200 degrees, and can survive for a long time in high temperatures of more than 100 degrees, and can also survive well in a radiation environment of more than 5,000 Gray, knowing that 10-20 Gray strength radiation can easily kill humans and most animals on the earth!"
Ying Bainian was excitedly analyzing the sample, and at the same time, because the whole person was excited, his voice was a little inaccurate when he spoke, and the whole person was unusually excited, which was originally analyzed slowly according to the sampling depth, and he directly enlarged the sample at the bottom under the microscope!
"Oh my God! There are really living things, and there are so many of them, these microorganisms already have a cell structure, but this structure is a bit strange! ”
"A large number of microbiota were discovered, this is a complete microbial tribe, the largest is already 0.1 mm in size multicellular complex organisms!"
"A discovery that shocked the world! Most of these organisms are fungi, a small number of bacteria, a very small number of multicellular life, this is a world that is slowly evolving! ”
This news instantly caused a sensation in the entire "Zheng He" and the control center far away on the earth, the discovery of Ceres, which means that the universe is full of life, human beings and the earth are not alone, and where there is water in the universe, it is very likely that life will be born!
Liu Qingquan, who received the news, ordered to block the news as soon as possible, this discovery is too important, once it is announced, it is necessary to consider whether it will cause panic in the society!
Extraterrestrial life, even if it is just microorganisms, the presence and absence are two completely different concepts! Especially since this location is still in the solar system, it can already be said that it has left the recognized habitable zone location, and traditionally all people believe that this is a cold, lifeless planet.
"I see! Why are there microbes here and not elsewhere! Bai Fengling's whole person suddenly spoke out loudly, and was woken up by everyone who was still in shock.
"Everyone, please look here, don't you feel familiar with this place? Similar to the structure of the Earth's Martian mouth, just now I saw a few bubbles popping out of here, Ceres is not a complete death star, there are still a few places in its interior that are active, and it is not completely extinguished! ”
"These microorganisms rely on these volcanoes that are not completely extinguished to get heat and get the materials they need to survive!"
Bai Fengling adjusted the picture to where the bubble he had just observed, and the whole person said excitedly.
"I said, no microorganisms have been found in other places, but they have been found in this place, and I understand now that the water above Ceres is very poor, so it's no wonder that they can't be found elsewhere!"
Ying Bainian, who received the news, nodded, and finally figured out the rationality of the existence of these microorganisms.
First of all, there is liquid water, but there are volcanoes that have not been completely extinguished to provide some heat, and at the same time provide minerals so that these microorganisms can thrive properly.
In addition, after exploration, it has been found that in fact, the entire microbial world is still very stable, and it has not been hit by major impacts for billions of years, which is safer than the earth, which is really lucky in a place like the asteroid belt.
"We're really lucky, I guess there aren't a few places in the entire Ceres that haven't been completely extinguished, and we actually found it!"
"Haha, it's luck indeed! It's so lucky that this place hasn't suffered a major impact for billions of years! ”
"I didn't expect there to be life here, it seems that the number of lives in the universe is really the same as what the boss said, endless, we earthlings must speed up the development, otherwise it will be miserable to encounter powerful aliens, the law of the jungle is not the slightest luck!"
A high-level person like Jiang Zhipeng knew from Liu Qingquan very early on that human beings and the earth are not alone in this universe, life exists in the universe ordinarily, and advanced life like humans in the universe is also very common, and a sense of urgency arises spontaneously!
It is really lucky that the earthlings can develop smoothly until now without encountering aliens, but it does not mean that this luck will accompany human beings, we must speed up our own development, improve our scientific and technological level as soon as possible, and improve our own strength, so as to be able to win our place in the harsh cosmic competition in the future!
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