Chapter 258: Biological Signaling
After flying for half an hour, the helicopter finally arrived at its destination, and when the plane landed, the feeling of turbulence made everyone stop communicating, and when the plane came to a standstill, everyone immediately got off the plane.
"We've reached our destination, it's very close to the tribe of the Omati Kaya, I'm going to stop here for a while, don't go too far!" After turning off the plane's engine, Judy made a point of advice.
"Hey, Judy, in fact, you don't need to remind us, we won't go too far, you should have heard the truth that opposites attract, with a big beauty like you staying on the plane, who in our team would want to run far except Grace? Of course, if you suspect that Jack or Norman is not sexually normal, or that you are not confident enough in your own beauty, I can only comfort you by saying that you are overly concerned. If you're timid and a little scared to be alone, come here, Julia, I can protect you! β
Sun Xiucheng likes to tease women who are beautiful or have a lot of character, and Judy, as a retired female pilot, retains some capable style, which Sun Xiucheng admires very much.
"If you don't want me to leave in a bad mood and throw you into this wilderness, you'd better not talk nonsense, I'm not one of those naΓ―ve little girls, and your rhetoric is ineffective for me!"
Judy obviously didn't buy Sun Xiucheng's words at all, and after threatening without deterrence, she began to carefully observe the surrounding situation. Helicopters are the only means of transportation for all. In order to protect the helicopter from damage, Judy must always be vigilant.
After seeing Judy's attention, she shifted to her surroundings. Sun Xiucheng also moved his gaze to the others. Jack and Norman came to the wild for the first time, and they were very excited to see the green nature, and Norman was so happy that he even forgot to bring his backpack, unless Grace reminded him. Norma was going to run around empty-handed.
Grace has been studying the plants of Pandora for a long time, and the common plants have lost their appeal to her. In order to find new plants, Grace led everyone to go deeper, relying on Avatar's abundant physical strength and high speed of action, it was only about a quarter of an hour. The crowd walked a kilometer away.
Suddenly, in front of a bush, Grace stopped, took out a small instrument from her backpack, and after inserting a metal probe into the exposed roots of the plant, Grace began to scan the roots for electrical pulses.
"Oh, it's incredible, how can the current signal of the plant be transmitted so quickly. It's amazing! Norman looked at the image displayed on the instrument screen, his face full of surprise.
Seeing Norman's exaggerated expression, Grace smiled slightly. Laughed:
"It's a cross-sectional view of the biological signaling, from this root to the root next to it, and we should take a sample so that we can go back and save it to the gene bank."
As she spoke, Grace began to work with Norman to collect some samples. Sun Xiucheng stared at the cross-cut chart on his watch, and suddenly said to everyone:
"Plants on Earth. The biological signal is not as strong as this, nor is it transmitted as fast as this, and from the image, this is more similar to the biological signaling of animals. Grace, Norman, have you ever wondered what the mental aggregate of these creatures would look like on such a large plant scale on Pandora? β
After listening to Sun Xiucheng's words, Grace and Norman couldn't help but be stunned, Norman was young in the end, he didn't think much about it, and after shaking his head, Norman replied with a smile:
"Doctor, if all plants can be connected by biological signals, as you say, then Pandora will be more complex than the human brain, and the collective of minds will definitely be beyond our imagination, but this is impossible. In a single individual organism, biological signals can communicate freely, but between different individuals, it is impossible to communicate through biological signals, and our common ones are all communicated through chemicals, such as smells, etc., so your guess is not valid at all! β
Different individuals can communicate through biological signals, which doesn't sound very reliable, which is not in line with ordinary people's perception of the natural world, and Sun Xiucheng is not surprised that Norman refuted Sun Xiucheng's words so unthinkingly.
"Norman, if you want to be a scientist who surpasses your predecessors, you can only take the theories of your predecessors as their inductive summation, not as the truth itself. Among the extinct organisms on the earth, there is a deep-sea creature, the individual individuals are very small, but they gather together, it looks like a rope that is several meters long, they eat together, and live together. There is also a very amazing jellyfish, which is different from other ordinary creatures, this jellyfish is composed of four completely different creatures living together, some responsible for digestion, some responsible for predation, and some responsible for producing toxin defense. According to common sense, the possibility of communication between different individuals through biological signals is almost zero, but it is not non-existent, and the image just now fully proves my argument, and perhaps we should consider this possibility. β
Sun Xiucheng knew that the biological thinking of Pandora was the mother of the earth in Na'vi's mouth, Eva, and Sun Xiucheng did not have much in-depth research on plants, so Sun Xiucheng needed Grace to use her expertise to prove to the earthlings that Ava really existed, not just a legend.
"Doctor, I admit that what you say makes a lot of sense, but that's just an example, I can't imagine that the whole planet of Pandora can be connected, it sounds ridiculous!"
Norman looked at the information that Sun Xiucheng sent him, the two special creatures of the earth, and at the same time expressed his opinion to Sun Xiucheng.
"The origin of life, I believe you all know, all life on the earth evolved from the first organic matter, the original primitive single-celled organisms, and all the life on the earth can be distinguished from the creatures of Pandora through DNA. If the original life of Pandora had the ability to exchange biological information between different individuals, then my guess is very likely to be true. The essence of scientific research is the process of proposing hypotheses and then confirming or falsifying them, and whether you believe what I say or not, I hope that you will all work hard to come up with research results and use facts to confirm whether my guesses are right or wrong. β
Sun Xiucheng inadvertently handed over the tedious and arduous task of studying plants to Grace and Norman. (To be continued)