I Have A Super USB Drive - Chapter 513
Under the clear blue sky, a gleaming star gleams in the day, bringing a significant change to this everlasting world.
However, I don’t know if it is an illusion. As time goes by, the star is gradually getting bigger, and it flashes with a unique rhythm.
It looks like a meteor, but it also looks like a signal.
Until more than an hour passed, finally, the star had become like a big bucket, the whole body was blue, and it was clearly visible even in the daytime.
And as time passed, the star was still getting bigger.
In the end, a spaceship with white flames shining at the bottom slowly landed from the sky, and finally landed on a relatively flat white ground.
Boom… There was a
low impact sound, and this behemoth landed successfully. At the same time, two nuclear-powered engines comparable to the spacecraft’s own volume automatically became the landing gear of the spacecraft, making the most intimate contact with the ground…
Then, it was There was silence.
“Aris successfully landed.”
However, at this moment, the electronically synthesized female voice came from the silent spacecraft again, “The first level alert is lifted, everyone, please leave the rescue capsule.”
With these words, the spacecraft is located. In the most central part, which is also the most sturdy room of the spacecraft, on the sixteen steel coffin-like devices, the red light quickly turned to green, and then it automatically slid away with a snort.
Everyone laughed and sat up one by one. They walked out of the coffin with a feeling of a toddler, and then walked and jumped in the same place, feeling strangely the familiar but coming from the ground. An unfamiliar sense of gravity.
“I haven’t felt gravity for a week. Now that I feel gravity again, I am still a little uncomfortable…”
someone suddenly said.
“You will get used to it soon.”
Another person answered, “However, the gravity of Mars is only two-fifths of that of the earth. It may be easy now, and you will feel better when you return to the earth in the future. You may have to adjust your breath for more than half a year before you can get out of bed . ” “
in fact, there are also the solution. “
third man replied,” that is to be Martian. ” “
ha ha ha ha! “
as the crowd tune laughter, relieved some people, some people are He quickly took off his spacesuit and walked towards the cafeteria with interest.
“Where are you going?”
“Of course it is to drink a glass of whiskey!”
After all, only a few people ran to drink. At this time, the Captain of the Ares, Zhou Xiong, sat up. He did not take off his space suit directly. It is walking directly in the direction of the bridge.
“Captain Zhou!”
A group of people immediately followed, and everyone knew their thoughts well.
Zhou Xiong waved his hand for Shao’an not to worry. He first came to the bridge and saw the scenery outside the window at first glance.
Outside the window is an endless world of ice and snow.
Everyone rushed to the window with some novelty, but saw that the scenery here is not much different from the north and south poles on the earth. They are all flat. Obviously, the ice cover firmly covers the ground underneath. A piece of pure white.
There is no snow fluttering, nor any strange rocks.
For all this, everyone did not have any surprises. The reason why they chose to land at the south pole of Mars was to build a base. At the same time, only the north and south poles of Mars had water.
However, they knew that only a small part of the ice and snow was real water ice, and most of it was dry ice made of carbon dioxide.
“Ji Zhe, how do you feel?”
A young female scientist in Zhongzhou District asked her companion next to her in the crowd.
“Uh, at least it looks the same as on Earth.”
Another young researcher with a cynical expression replied, “Actually, I would like to see where the Mars lander vehicles landed back then. That is the unique terrain. . ” “
Unfortunately, at least a few months to see it. “
next to a region of North America scientist replied,” wait until after the base is completed, we may have the opportunity to stroll around, but not now. “
a crowd smell Then, he began to discuss in a low voice.
“Okay, everyone is quiet.”
At this moment, Zhou Xiong suddenly spoke, and everyone’s voice was silent. Then he raised his head and looked at a rectangular parallelepiped camera above his head, “Moss, release the landing vehicle and the unmanned Computer, explore the surroundings for me, and send all the detected data over.”
“Understand.” The
female synthetic electronic sound came again, and a huge empty screen was opened again in front of everyone, and the screen was simultaneously displayed. There were four pictures, and those pictures were black at first, but then quickly opened in a burst of white snowflakes, and the pictures were black and white imaging for night vision.
The picture seemed to be a small “room”. At the same time, the four pictures were rotated slowly in 360 degrees, and then everyone only saw the room in front of the screen slowly opening a door, and the light was also leaking in.
Suddenly, the black and white images were automatically converted into color images. At the same time, the carriers of the two cameras moved slowly out of the “room”, while the other two cameras floated slowly and flew out together.
These four cameras are two landing vehicles and two drones.
Next, the landing vehicle and drones drove out of Ares one after another. The landing vehicle was a metal tracked vehicle with solar panels. Once it drove out, it immediately left a shallow trace on the ice sheet. .
The landing vehicle began to drive around the ice sheet with the spaceship as its center, striving not to miss any open space around the spacecraft.
The drones rose rapidly and flew in two directions at the same time. Their goal is to fly as far away as possible to map the nearby terrain.
“The outside atmospheric pressure is 7.5 mbar, and the air composition is 95% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen, 1.6% hydrogen, 0.2% oxygen, 0.1% water vapor, carbon monoxide, neon, krypton and xenon, etc.”
At this point, preliminary. The detection results have also come out. I only listened to the synthetic female voice saying, “The outside temperature is minus 85 degrees, and the wind is at level 5.”
“The landing vehicle samples the ground.”
Zhou Xiong ordered again.
“…… are sampling sampling is completed, start the analysis ……”
“Surface occupy 95.7% of dry ice, water ice accounted for 2.2%, while iron oxide, silica and other ingredients, not yet found traces of microbial activity.”
As for MOSS Words, everyone looked happy, although there was enough evidence to prove the existence of water on Mars in the previous few unmanned surveys, but now when they really witness it with their own eyes, everyone’s inner joy is beyond words.
“Captain Zhou, let me go down and investigate!”
At this moment , someone in the crowd couldn’t wait and spoke.
“I’ll go too!”
“Let me go too!”
“And me!”
a group of people shouted.
“Calm down everyone!”
Zhou Xiong hurriedly pressed his hands and pressed everyone down. “Don’t worry, if there is no problem with the environmental detection results, we will live here in the next few months to several years. All of you don’t have to rush for a while.”
“However, the initial manual inspection is also necessary. If this is the case, the four continents can each select a candidate to go to the outside for exploration. This is already the limit. After all, the external situation is unknown. I Also be responsible for everyone’s situation.”
Following Zhou Xiong’s words, everyone agreed, and selected people from their trio to go out for inspection.
Among the remaining four scientific researchers representing Blacklight Technology, Zhou Xiong, as the captain, needed to deal with a series of sudden changes, and naturally he could not be the first to go out for investigation, so he gave this opportunity to a blond young man.
This is a biology expert, and his name is Hannibal Caesar.
That’s right, he followed Chen Chen as early as the founding of Life Science City. He is now a top genius in biology, and is also a professor-level member of God’s Forbidden Zone, Hannibal who has extremely high authority in Black Light Technology.
This trip to Mars was voluntarily requested by Hannibal, because he had a dream of interstellar travel, and the operation was prepared for a long time, and the probability of failure was extremely small, so Chen Chen arranged him for this manned mission. In the spacecraft, became the first group of researchers to go to Mars.
At this time, he did not stay with others like that, but came to the spacecraft’s laboratory and took out a can of metal cans on a row of biological display racks.
This metal can contains the protoplasts of a special plant-“Water bear moss”.
“Water bear insect moss” belongs to a kind of genetically modified mosses of the order Moss.
Because the DNA structure of moss is easier to repair, and by replacing moss genes with genes that can produce desirable compounds, various compounds can be produced in large quantities. Therefore, at the request of Chen Chen, Hannibal cultivated this independent “Water bear moss” plant.
The general process is: Hannibal uses the water bear insect gene to transform the “little Physcomitrella”, after all, the water bear insect Hannibal can find the most powerful living animal in the earth’s biosphere.
They can withstand six times the pressure of the deepest seafloor, hundreds of times the human dose of radiation, and temperatures close to absolute zero. There have been many experiments exposing a batch of water bears to a vacuum close to absolute zero. It lasted for 10 days, and in the end there were still many animals that did not die.
The trick of the water bear is the so-called “hidden birth”, which slows down life metabolism to almost stop. When it enters a dormant state, its body water content can drop to less than 3%, which is truly “dehydration”. But once the water is added back, the water bear can “regenerate” like a phoenix.
Therefore, Hannibal used black water to strengthen the water bear insect. After a series of strengthening, a “monster” with the thickness of a human finger and covered with hard chitin appeared in reality.
This “mutated water bear insect” has a very strong adaptability. It can survive for three to five years without eating or drinking. It can survive even if placed in boiling water, and it can withstand low temperatures close to absolute zero, even in a vacuum. China has only entered a hidden state, as long as the temperature rises, it will recover.
In the hidden state, the mutant water bear can survive for more than a hundred years.
So after Hannibal cultivated a satisfactory mutant water bear, he used its gene to graft on the gene of “Little Physcomis”. Although this transgenic moss did not acquire the metamorphosis like the “mutated water bear” It has the same survivability, but it can thrive and grow even in the freezer of minus hundreds of degrees Celsius, and its life span is longer than all its earth companions.
According to experimental tests that simulate the environment of Mars, this kind of vegetation called water bear moss has a high probability of being able to withstand the severe cold weather of Mars and becoming a special kind of moss plant that can survive on Mars.
There is not much else in the Martian atmosphere. The most is carbon dioxide. After genetic debugging, this water bear moss can survive in the freezing cold of tens of degrees below zero, and it can be replicated continuously with only a small amount of water. Grow.
If this cultivation is successful, it means that the Martian environment may be modified.
At that time, as the moss releases more and more oxygen, the atmosphere of Mars will be able to make up for a thicker atmosphere. With this, the temperature will rise, causing a large amount of carbon dioxide buried below the surface of Mars to continue to evaporate, and then bring Higher greenhouse effect…
After the temperature of Mars reaches a certain level, there can even be more space for vegetation to survive, until animals start to survive on Mars, and then the entire Mars can enter a virtuous circle.
Of course, dreams are beautiful, there is still a long, long way to go to achieve this, and now is the beginning of everything.
After getting the moss petri dish, Hannibal followed a group to the spaceship’s isolation chamber. At this time, everyone had already selected the first group of personnel to go out for exploration. These people shouted excitedly, some Even bet to see who can be the first to rush out of the spacecraft and become the first person to step on Mars in history.
Everyone also took a bunch of various scientific research equipment, and no one noticed what Hannibal was holding.
At this time, only the voice of MOSS was heard again, “All prospectors, please note that in three minutes, Ares will open the door to the outside world. Everyone, please check their protective clothing and safety measures… The Ares here solemnly reminds you: There are thousands of roads, safety first, irregular exploration, and two tears of relatives.”
These words were naturally suppressed by the buzzing of excitement.
Standing in the crowd, Hannibal checked his protective clothing and the airtightness of his helmet. When he was sure that there was no problem, the warning light on the top of the isolation chamber also lit up.
With a harsh sirens, a thick armor plate slowly lifted up in front of everyone, followed by a whirr of wind!
A bright white light reflected in the isolation capsule, everyone looked down subconsciously, but saw a piece of white snow outside. This is the Antarctic ice cap of Mars…