Chapter 117: A Visitor from Heaven
With the wolf's eye flashlight in the old cat's hand, I saw that we were almost four or five meters away, and there were ball-shaped objects the size of footballs, the number of these ball-shaped objects was very large, one by one, densely arranged, and the ball-shaped objects were not only limited to our left side, if we continued to move forward, on our way forward, we would soon encounter this kind of ball-shaped objects.
I noticed that the texture of these spherical objects around me is very special, their surface is generally dark green, but on this dark green surface, there are dense wave lines, the appearance of this trace makes the spherical objects here more like watermelons. The spherical object has obvious light absorption and reflection under the irradiation of the wolf's eye flashlight, so it should not be stony here. It looks more like some kind of metal.
But the problem is that if the spherical objects here were metal, then according to the humidity here, these things would have been corroded a long time ago, but now, it seems that the spherical objects here are not affected by water vapor corrosion at all.
"Where is this playing? There are so many stone watermelons coming out. The bald head asked, looking at the spherical objects around him.
"Don't rob the tomb in the future with your eyes, these two or five eyes, if you have time to go to the eye hospital to beat your eyes, where is my classmate as the attending physician, let her give you a discount." The spherical object was obviously not made of stone, but should have been something like metal. I said jokingly.
Just when the bald head was about to talk to me again, Lin Xihui interrupted us from time to time, shook her head, and said to us that in her opinion, the spherical object here should be neither stone nor metal, but looks more like a meteorite!
Later, Lin Xihui said that when meteorites fly at high altitudes, the surface temperature can even reach thousands of degrees. At such high temperatures, the surface of the meteorite melts into liquid. Later, due to the dense atmosphere blocking the clouds in the lower layers, the speed of the meteorite became slower and slower, and the melted surface cooled down, forming a thin crust called "molten crust".
The molten shell is very thin, generally around 1 mm, and the color is black or brown. In the process of cooling the molten shell, the traces of air flowing on the surface of the meteorite are also retained, which are called "gas marks". The air mark looks a lot like a finger print pressed on the dough. So the "stripes" on those spheres are somewhat similar. The "stripes" on those spherical objects may be formed in this way.
There was water everywhere, but there was not a single sign of erosion on the balls, whether stone or metal, that had been eroded over thousands of years.
Then Lin Xihui changed his words, but the meteorite is different, the meteorite is composed of iron, nickel, silicon, acid and salt minerals, and contains minerals nickel grain, meteorite iron, chromite, graphite, etc. Therefore, the morphology of meteorites is not easily changed. This, in turn, coincides with the characteristics of the sphere here, and the shape has not changed for a long time.
It is also for this reason that Lin Xihui thinks that those spherical things may be meteorites, not ordinary stones or metals.
However, there are only about 40,000 meteorites known to have been discovered in the world, and if the globular objects here are really caused by meteorites, then we can be regarded as a group of "discoverers".
I listened very attentively to Lin Xihui's explanation, and at the same time, I was also paying attention to these spherical objects around me, if these spherical things were really meteorites as Lin Xihui said, then the meteorite could not be polished so finely in the case of artificial polishing.
When I was in college, Professor Jin Zhi, a leading professor in the field of archaeology, once came to Harbin Institute of Technology to give us a public lecture. I was very impressed by this class, because I have been interested in history since I was a child, so whenever there are scholars and lecturers from the school, I will definitely be there to listen.
According to Professor King, in 1938, a Nazi expeditionary force discovered a meteorite Buddha statue. It was found that this Buddha statue was carved from a rare nickel-iron meteorite. The cultural beliefs on display are believed to be between Buddhism and the Bon culture of the early Tibetan Buddhist period, and the Buddha depicted on the meteorite is the king of Bishaman, who is said to be called "Zangbala" in Tibet. Later, I learned that the Buddha statue that Professor Jin was talking about at that time was the only known humanoid statue carved from meteorite, and it was also the only object carved from meteorite. The value is immeasurable.
Thinking of this, I looked at the surrounding spheres that were suspected to be made of meteorites, and if the spheres here were really made of meteorites, then the value was simply immeasurable.
"If it's really a meteorite, will the things here be radioactive? So that there is a certain subtle impact on the human body? Team Zhang asked suddenly.
As soon as Team Zhang's words fell, I heard the old cat answer that the radioactive sources of meteorites can be divided into two categories, the first is cosmic rays, and the second is radioactive elements.
Cosmic rays, the concept is relatively simple, that is, the parent meteorite is directly exposed to cosmic rays, and there will be some accumulation inside the meteorite, and this accumulation produces the so-called cosmic rays. This accumulation and release is harmless to the human body. Cosmic rays are ubiquitous streams of charged particles in the universe that are very weak in radioactivity and decay very quickly. Even if a meteorite has just landed, the remaining cosmic rays will not cause harm to people.
Then there is the radioactive material contained in the meteorite itself. It is believed that radioactive elements are formed in the interior of stars in an extremely high temperature and high pressure environment, and are widely distributed in the universe along with the demise of stars. In other words, this kind of radiation is everywhere, but very little everywhere. Earth, as a large, solid-rock planet, has a large amount of liquid water and frequent and persistent geological activity, which leads to the enrichment of radioactive materials. However, asteroids, the moon, Mars and other sources of meteorites do not have similar enrichment conditions, and the content of radioactive materials in meteorites is much lower than that of earth rocks.
As long as the meteorites do not contain metallic substances such as uranium, thorium and radium, they will not produce harmful radiation to the human body.
The bald head interrupted the old cat's words at this time, and hurriedly asked, "Little brother, what's the difference between what you said and what you didn't say?" You're not an elemental detector, and you don't know if the elements here are poisonous. Do you think about why there are so many "weird balls" in this place? It must be to prevent people from passing through here, and the monster ball contains toxic elements, so it's a hundred. ”
Speaking of this, the bald voice frowned and said, "Fuck, why do I feel so uncomfortable!" ”