Chapter 135: Lifelike!
The second United Nations Mars Conference in Abu Dhabi lasted five days and quarreled for five days, but no agreement was reached, and there were major differences in the interests of all parties, and it was impossible to talk about it at all.
The only consensus is that all parties should control themselves and try not to engage in armed conflict on Mars and other celestial bodies......
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At the same time, He Xiao of Hawk Island received an urgent report from the Hawk Island Academy of Sciences.
He took the report, opened it, and the result surprised him and made him extremely happy!
One of the five Duke 8 Mars rovers found a "microorganism" suspected of having similar life characteristics in the ocean near the North Pole of Mars!
According to the information transmitted, this may be a "microorganism" that is completely different from the blue star creature, with extremely strong vitality, it has obvious life-like characteristics, not that it can move, or that it has a cellular structure similar to that of the blue star creature.
Rather, it is able to produce material communication with the external environment!
Yes, it turns dissolved carbon dioxide from the Martian ocean into oxygen!
Carbon, absorbed by it!
In the same way, it also absorbs moisture.
It's like photosynthesis, but it doesn't seem to be photosynthesis......
Because experiments have shown that it is able to carry out this reaction even in places where there is no sunlight, but the effect is much weaker......
And according to the photos taken by the microscope of the Duke 8 Mars rover, it is proved that it does not resemble the cells of the Blue Star creature, and the structure of the virus is completely different, but is composed of many striped particles!
These strip particles, which are only about one-tenth the size of a cell, are generally 3 microns long and no more than 0.5 microns thick......
The most amazing thing is that when the temperature exceeds 55 degrees or is below -50 degrees.
These striped particles will actively shed all water and become "dry corpses", no longer have any life characteristics, like sand or wood chips, but if the temperature returns to -50 to 55 degrees Celsius, and there is enough moisture around, it will absorb water and "resurrect" again!
When He Xiao saw this description, he was extremely excited, because it had been determined that this was indeed a new life, a life completely different from life on earth!
Human beings have been looking for extraterrestrial life, on the one hand, because the blue star life is too lonely, in the universe of Hanhai, it seems that only the blue star planet has given birth to life, on the other hand, human beings' own research on biology, long-term stagnation, unable to achieve a substantial breakthrough, if you can find extraterrestrial life, analyze their origin and evolution process, perhaps on the biological development of human beings, there will be an unexpected stimulating effect.
As far as He Xiao himself is concerned, his previous research on superpowers has been limited to a state of stagnation for a long time, and there is no way to make new progress......
If the discovery of new life on Mars this time can give him inspiration and a real direction to develop, maybe he can make new breakthroughs, especially in terms of longevity.
Although he has a system of entries, and with enough time, he can completely change the world, and even the entire universe, but longevity is always an issue.
He had also tried some things before, such as [Longevity Fruit] and [Longevity Gene Elixir], but because he had no foundation and did not complete the pre-technology, the difficulty was particularly high, so high that it was impossible to complete it at all.
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He Xiao thought of another question, did this kind of life exist on Mars originally, or did it arise because he used the entry to transform Mars?
After thinking about it for a while, he felt that it should be the former, because if it was the latter, then the system would have to extrapolate the process of the birth of this life-like lifeform, and the difficulty would definitely not be only tens of millions......
There is no need for the system to do anything else.
In other words, this kind of life-like form originally existed on Mars, but because it was too small and too special, although humans have explored Mars many times, they have never found it!
But the question arises again, how can there always be life in such a harsh environment on Mars......
And He Xiao had used entries to test life on Mars before, and the number of readers was very demanding, and at that time he judged that Mars should be as humans have always recognized, with a high probability of no life, so he has not had much expectation for this.
But what has been found now seems to prove that this is not the case......
That's right!
Perhaps it is precisely because of the automatic dehydration of this life-like form under extreme conditions that it has survived on Mars to this day!
When the temperature is too high or too low, it will automatically dehydrate to prevent its own tissues from being scalded or frozen!
In this case, it is completely devoid of life characteristics, and whether it counts as life is a question......
There is also a possibility that human cognition and definition of life may not be accurate, or that there are contradictions in human definition of life......
If you want to test whether there is life on Mars, you must have an accurate understanding and definition of life, and there is only one kind of life that humans currently know, and the definition cannot be accurate, so it is not surprising that the test results are biased.
Human language does not give a 100% accurate description of anything in this world, especially if you know enough about it.
"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"
For example, an ancient man who didn't even know what air was, how could he accurately describe oxygen or nitrogen......
He Xiao is the same, when he tests whether there is life on Mars, maybe the life he understands is not the same concept at all as the life he describes, and the life that the system understands......
Therefore, the test is not a panacea, and some of the truths of the universe need to be understood enough to get accurate test results.
For example, in the harsh environment of Mars, this kind of life-like form is likely to be in a state of dehydration most of the time, and there is no metabolism and stress response, which are typical characteristics of blue star life, so the system may not judge it as blue star cognitive "life" at all......
"Don't dwell on this, the key now is to use this discovery to take the technology of Hawk Island to the next level, and it is best to let yourself get the technological ...... to prolong your life and keep your youth forever."
He Xiao was wondering if he should announce this discovery to the world.
If there is no entry system, this discovery must be able to hide for as long as it is, and the key is to seize the opportunity, if you let other countries take the lead, you may be very passive in the future.
However, his entry system requires the number of readers, which means that if you want to make full use of the entry system, you must let the relevant information be known to people all over the world.
Then you have to tell the world!
Of course, he can't tell them the full truth, in that case, he won't have room to play......