Chapter 157: The Martian Calendar
The Martian spirit Aru and his people saw the huge spherical spaceship of Hawk Island for the first time, and their eyes were full of horror.
It was even more terrifying than the first time they saw the huge "Deimos" after their "resurrection......
They looked at the spaceship, thumping their chests and feet, and roared in unison, and the sound was earth-shattering.
This is their way of expressing adoration and awe.
According to the tracking research of Hawk Island during this time, these Martian beings with the highest intelligence have already possessed primitive religious beliefs, and they have developed the consciousness of "gods......
For example, the tribes of Aru worship the sun and Phobos.
Of course, they don't know that the Sun and Deimos are completely different celestial bodies, and they don't know that Deimos, which looks like just ordinary stars, is actually good sisters with Deimos.
In their opinion, the sun is the eldest god, and Phobos is the second god......
They also worship imaginary creatures.
That's why they were so frightened when they saw Deimos, which was dozens of times larger than the sun.
Faith has collapsed.
Now they saw the super spherical spacecraft with a diameter of 30 meters, and they were once again greatly shocked.
And the astronauts who came out of the spacecraft also made them show the same expression as a "donkey"......
As the smartest man in the tribe, Aru was the first to realize that this could be the legendary "god"!
So they beat their chests and feet at the astronauts again, and roared in unison.
Martian roar creatures can make very loud sounds, and can emit ultrasound, which is also the origin of their name, although compared to the roar of relatives, the spirit people are still a little worse, but more than twenty spirit people roar together, the sound is still very terrifying.
Even through the spacesuit, astronaut Wang Donghong and others still felt very harsh......
These guys are a bit stupid, they don't know that this kind of behavior is dangerous......
However, imagine the reaction of the Indians when they saw the colonists of the Old World, it seems that there is no reason to say that people are stupid, the colonists still look similar to them, and the astronauts in spacesuits are completely alien in the eyes of the spirits.
Wang Donghong and other astronauts did not harm them, nor did they capture them.
Although one of their main tasks is to study intelligent life on Mars, they are also asked not to harm them as much as possible, after all, this is the first neighbor that humans have discovered in the universe......
For the time being, they try to avoid close contact with spirits as much as possible, so as not to cause harm to each other by bacteria or viruses.
So, they didn't go to the tribe of the Spirits.
This kind of "cold" behavior made the Aru tribe even more convinced that they were gods.
Since then, they have made a "pilgrimage" every 16 days or so.
After an in-depth analysis by scientists on Hawk Island, it was found that this time was not a coincidence, but because of the spirit man's own simple calendar.
Since the rotation period of Mars is 24 hours, 37 minutes and 22.7 seconds, and the orbital period of Phobos is 7 hours and 39 minutes, it is equivalent to Phobos orbiting Mars 3 times a day by about 90 degrees.
Since it is not divisible, every day when the sun rises, Phobos' position in the sky is different......
And every 99 hours, Mars rotates for 4 weeks, and Phobos orbits 90 degrees more every day, which is just enough for one revolution, for a total of 13 revolutions, so at sunrise on this day, the position of Phobos is about the same as that of Phobos four days ago.
According to this law, the spirit man formed his own timekeeping rules.
They took the time of 90 degrees of Phobos, which is a quarter of the 7 hours and 39 minutes of the cycle of Phobos.
So in their calendar, a Martian day (24 hours, 37 minutes, 22.7 seconds) has 13 "Martian hours".
And every 4 days, Phobos will reset, and they use this cycle for 1 "Martian Week......
Take 4 "Martian Prayers" as 1 "Mars Prayers", which is equivalent to 16 days......
In fact, this "Mars worship" is equivalent to the concept of "month" in the blue star calendar......
It's just that because Phobos orbits Mars too fast, the time of a month is less than 7 hours and 39 minutes, and the emergency effect is not very good, so it is calculated as a cycle......
In addition, based on climate changes, they also roughly calculated the orbital period of Mars, that is, the time of a Martian year.
The Martian year they calculated is 43 Martian weeks (16 days), or 688 days, which is very close to the real orbital period of Mars of 687 days......
They also divide the year into four seasons, with 11 Martian Prayers in spring, autumn and winter, and 10 Martian Fridays in summer.
Since it is not divisible, this timing rule has a large error, and the longer the time, the greater the error.
But for the spirits who came out of the primitive period, it was enough.
The calendar of the Blue Star has also been revised many times, adding various leap months and leap years to become more accurate, but that is after the formation of civilization.
The discovery of the Martian calendar also gave the Blue Star people a new understanding of the intelligence of spirit people.
They seem to be a little smarter than they were before......
It is also believed that the memory of the spirit people is far better than that of the Blue Star people, and the ability to share memories is the reason why they were able to create the calendar so early.
According to the current research on Hawk Island, compared with the Blue Star people, the spirit people are smaller and weaker in strength, but they have strong manufacturing ability and weak imagination, but their memory ability is very special......
Many people believe that Lingren's unique memory ability, especially the ability to share memories, will make him "leap forward" in the future development of science and technology......
What a terrifying ability it is for their newborns to be able to directly acquire adult knowledge and skills without going through education at all......
Of course, this is just a conjecture, and it depends on the follow-up research to see to what extent their memory sharing ability has reached, and whether they can really achieve efficient sharing of knowledge and skills......
Now every 16 days, the Aru tribe makes a pilgrimage to the ship, which is good news.
They can be better observed and studied up close......
In addition, it is also necessary to make full use of the ready-made labor on Mars, after all, the cost of Mars travel is still too high, and the cost of the ecosystem is too high, and it is not possible to migrate on a large scale at present.
If you want to develop quickly on Mars, the best way is to use these Martian "natives".
Since the other party regards himself as a god, it is better to plan and act as a god.
After getting the approval of Blue Star Hawk Island, astronaut Ye Shou put on Hawk Island's newly developed Walker IV exoskeleton armor, which is smaller than the Adventurer series mecha and is more suitable for some special operations.
It is also a high-tech spacesuit that provides oxygen and maintains temperature.
The current temperature of Mars is very close to that of Blue Star, so there is basically no need to worry, mainly because oxygen is provided......
The closed exoskeleton has undergone strict sterilization and sterilization, so there is no need to worry about infection.
The main purpose of Ye Shou's action this time is to play the god and guide the development of the Aru tribe!
There are currently only 19 people in the Aru tribe, who live in a nearby cave.
After long-term observation, they are only equivalent to the level of early Neolithic human civilization, but their stone and bone tools are quite exquisite, and they are a little more powerful than the early Neolithic human civilization......
They even made primitive wheelbarrows out of wheelbeasts......
Although the wheels are ready-made, the body of the unicycle is made by polishing materials such as wood and bone, which also proves that the specialized second crest does give them super hands-on ability.
Their spinal vertebrae are completely different from those of the Blue Star people, they are cross-shaped, and they are differentiated in the neck, branching out into a transverse ridge that directly connects to their forelimbs or hands......
Spirit people can use fire, sew animal skins, and weave hemp rope that is as thin as silk threads, but they cannot plant, let alone breed, and their main food source is still gathering and hunting.
Because the body of the spirit people is relatively rookie, even if they have primitive bows and arrows and various stone tools, their hunting ability is relatively weak, and they can basically only bully some animals smaller than their own size, and they often need to rely on beatings.
The "wheeled donkey" that appeared before looked stupid and stupid, and the Aru tribe didn't dare to provoke it when they met it, but the donkey was very arrogant, obviously a herbivore, but rushed over to bite these spirits......
In other words, this Martian donkey seems to be the same as the Aru tribe, treating astronauts and spacecraft as gods or something, and will come to see them every once in a while.
It is the most primitive sense of "seeing", and each look is an hour or two.
Unlike the Aru tribe's sincere fear, its expression seemed to be curious all the time......
Maybe it doesn't think it's a god at all, but a trick.
Due to the wide variation of the visual system, the Blue Star people have absolutely no idea what they look like in the eyes of Martian animals.
It's more like the overlord here than a spirit man.
It can be seen that the status of spirit people in the current ecological niche of Mars is quite low.
Their lives are indeed not good, and their staple food is basically vegetarian, and they rarely get enough protein.
Based on the advice of the Hawk Island expert group, Ye Shou first taught them fishing and trapping.
Spirit people lack imagination, so they can do a familiar thing very well, but create a new thing, and with their manual ability, it would have been very easy to catch fish with nets and make traps.
But so far, they don't have that concept at all, and they don't use even a single kind of fishing net or trap.
On this day, astronaut Ye Shou, who was wearing the fourth-generation exoskeleton of the Silver Walker, walked in front of the Aru tribe.
His height of 2.2 meters looks unusually tall in front of the 1.2-meter spirit man.
Aru and the other spirits showed fearful and awe-inspiring eyes, but instead of running away, they beat their chests and feet and roared in unison to express their admiration.
They seemed to have completely thought that the "gods" in front of them might hurt them.
"Gollum." An ethereal voice rang out and said to the Aru tribe.
Hawk Island has long deciphered the language of the spirits, and although the pronunciation is strange, due to their very small vocabulary, it is easy to simulate with a computer, and now it has an automatic translation function.
Ye Shou's original words in this sentence were Dong Chinese "follow me"......
Aru and the others, who heard the electronic sound, were even more convinced that astronaut Ye Shou was a real "god......
"Gollum, Gollum!"
"Gollum!"
Everyone talked about it, and then the leader Aru gave an order and led the clansmen to follow Ye Shou.
After walking for an hour on Mars, they came to the shore of the sparkling abyss.
Ye Shou, who was wearing an exoskeleton, found a big black stone, and did not speak, but just signaled with his "eyes......
Aru and the others seemed to understand, and a few people lifted the stone and were about to transport it in the direction of the spaceship......
"It's not! We're here for you to use it! ”
Ye Shou pretended to be 13 and failed, and hurriedly stopped them, but the language of the Lingren was too simple, and there were no many words, and the translation of the past could not express his meaning well.
He didn't know how to pronounce the word "meteorite......
The previous collision on Mars brought a lot of meteorites and other metals to Mars, which were originally the "impurities" of the space rock, and during the impact, these metals with high melting points did not melt completely due to the absorption of a lot of heat by water vapor.
Previously, Mars rovers on Hawk Island and other countries have discovered meteorite iron many times, and even a small amount of precious metals such as gold and platinum.
Although they are completely incomparable to the metal reserves on Eimos, they are now directly on Mars.
Spirits can use it directly.
But until now, the spirits had no idea of the value of the meteorite, and except for a few guys who used it as decorations, the others had no idea of using it.
This is not surprising, it took many years for the Blue Star Humans to understand the superiority of metal tools, and there was also an era when natural metal was used as decorations, which is not surprising at all.
With the intellect and imagination of the spirit people, I am afraid it will take a long time to realize the ...... Unless you're lucky enough to pick up a natural metal tool that you can pick up, and then the rest starts to mimic......
It took Ye Shou a lot of brains to finally make Aru and the others understand that he wanted them to move this black stone back to the cave.
The gravitational pull of Mars is very small, and this piece of meteorite has a mass of about 60 kilograms.
Even the skinny spirit people didn't have a hard time moving.
"Huhu!
!
”
Suddenly, a strange cry sounded in the air!
The spirit people were instantly frightened, scattered and fled, looking for a hidden place to hide!
The beasts in the surrounding kilometers were all frightened, whether they were four-legged or three-wheeled, and they all ran away in a puff of smoke!
Ye Shou looked up and saw that it was a shocking giant "bird" with a wingspan of more than 20 meters!
It has a stout body and a large mouth of blood.
It is much larger than the largest flying animal in the history of the Blue Star, the Aeolian Pterodactyl! It's just an airplane!
Ye Shou knew that this was not a bird, it was the overlord of the sky on Mars, Linlong!
In terms of species characteristics, it is closer to the pterosaur on the blue star!
But since the gravitational pull of Mars is only about 37% of that of the blue star, their flight ability is much stronger than that of large pterosaurs such as the Aeolian Pterodactyl!
They are the real overlords on Mars!
The low gravity of Mars gives flying creatures an unbeatable advantage!
Spirit people, a small animal weighing only thirty or forty kilograms, are worthless prey in front of them!
There were 24 people in the Aru tribe before, and 3 of them were preyed upon by this super flying lizard!