I! Pretending to Be Reborn, Director of Doomsday Hoax

Wang Bo, a doctor of astronomy and an observer at the Longguo Astronomical Observatory, gave a different opinion after an hour.

"In fact, there may really be intelligent creatures in Europa's subglacial ocean, and they can develop technology!!"

"First of all, one of the characteristics of the human brain is high energy consumption. Only high energy consumption can support the thinking consumption of intelligent creatures!

Of course, the high energy mentioned here refers to the relatively low total energy consumption of human beings. The energy consumption of the human brain accounts for a very high proportion.

Even so, the human brain is not an electric stove!

When a person continues to exercise, the power of the whole body is about [-] watts, the average power of the human brain is about [-] watts, and the peak power is only [-] watts.

It is not worth considering the energy consumption of 'how to maintain'. The energy released by one kilogram of fat in the metabolic process is enough to support the human brain for more than two months.Therefore, there is no need to worry about the high energy consumption of the brain.

As for the development of technology, it is even easier!

Europa's ice contains a lot of oxygen and peroxide, and the dissolved oxygen level of its seawater itself should be higher than that of Blue Star seawater.

In addition, there are many cracks and lakes in the huge ice shell of Europa. According to the experience of Lake Vostok under the Antarctic ice, the water in this subglacial lake can be a supersaturated solution of oxygen.

Drilling has shown that the oxygen content per unit volume of Lake Vostok is fifty times that of common freshwater lakes on the surface!

In addition, Europa's amalgam can also be used for processing!

For example, digging channels in the ice along cracks, digging rooms and aerating and draining them,

Operations such as chemical experiments can be performed there.

The same thing can be done in the rocks of the ocean floor, where the interaction of volcanic activity and ecosystems can create complex tunnels and chambers.

Our scientists even simply assume that there are creatures in that biosphere that can use their bodies as reactors.

In this regard, we can refer to the giant tube worms in the Blue Star submarine volcanic hot spring ecosystem. After they ingest chemosynthetic symbiotic bacteria, they degenerate the entrance and exit of the digestive tract, and the remaining part expands into a chamber to accommodate the symbiotic bacteria and reactants. The blood circulation fills the chambers with reactants, removes waste products, and survives on organic matter produced by chemical reactions by symbiotic bacteria.

And biometallurgy and biofuels with high energy storage density are things performed by Blue Star Bio,

This would allow intelligent beings to directly process metals with the functions of their own biological bodies.

For example, termites can use formic acid to react with metal minerals and absorb metal ions to strengthen their heads, and some ancient ant fossils in amber have also shown this ability.

We set the intelligent creatures in this ecosystem to mineralize and even crystallize part of the appendages, which can be regenerated after the part is removed

Then, it is entirely possible for the creatures under Europa to develop a body far superior to that of a human, and... at least in its infancy technology! "

Wang Bo's words made everyone suddenly not so much looking forward to the recovery of ancient creatures.

If the resurrection is intelligent life, then, will the status of human beings be threatened? .

Chapter 110: The Undead Creature on Blue Star, Polar Ice Worm!

Many netizens even found reports on the recovery of paleontology from various countries in the world.

Netizen [Wang Xiluo] found a paper in Nature Communications.

This is the discovery of the Sakura Country research team. They awakened an ancient microorganism. It is said that this microorganism has been sleeping underground in the South Pacific for more than [-] million years, and it came from the Cretaceous period when dinosaurs existed.People even dug out the news at that time.

[Agence France-Presse]: "A research team led by the Sakura Country Marine Research Institute found this kind of aerobic microorganisms in the seabed strata of the South Pacific. stone.

After three weeks of cultivation by the research team, they began to grow and reproduce normally.

Yuki Morano, one of the leaders of the study, said that when he first discovered this result, he thought it was a mistake in the study, because it broke through the existing scientific concept and showed that this microorganism has no "life limit".

Over the past [-] million years, life on land has continued to evolve, but this microbe has barely evolved in order to survive..."

All of a sudden, people became very interested in the topic of paleontology recovery.

And some sensitive people even noticed the information in it.

Today, the country is in the era of doomsday construction, and people from all over the world are working hard in all walks of life for the Little Ice Age in a month's time.

At this time, a piece of news related to the recovery of paleontology suddenly appeared.

On the national side, there is no intention to stop it, but to let netizens discuss it.

In fact, this is enough to explain the above meaning.

Many biologists and paleontologists are already eager to try, ready to recruit their group next.

The country is undercurrents surging at the moment, and the related industries are waiting nervously.

Guliya Glacier in Kunlun Mountains.

Also known as the Guliya Ice Cap.

The glacier is famous for its collection of ice cores. Scientists from Longguo once drilled a 800-meter-long bottom-through ice core on the glacier.

And using 36CI dating, it is determined that the bottom of the ice core was formed 760ka ago.

Longguo has also restored the climate and environment change records on various time scales since the last interglacial in detail through the study of the ice core "80", making the dating of the glacial and interglacial periods and climate and environmental changes greatly accurate. The earliest dates back to the Glacial periods, interglacial periods and environmental changes since the Shishapangma Glacial Age in the Early Pleistocene.

Today, researchers from the Academy of Sciences of the Longguo Qingzang Plateau Research Institute are conducting comprehensive scientific research activities on the Guliya Glacier.

Sha Weizhao, a well-known expert in the study of the North and South Arctic ice sheet ecosystems in Longguo, an expert in deciphering the world's climate codes, and a professor who once discovered the oldest ice core, is currently wearing cold-proof equipment and leading the team to carry out the ice field.

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"I hope this time, some valuable specimens can be taken."

Sha Weizhao's voice was full of vicissitudes, and he shivered when he was blown by the bitter cold.

The place where they are now is a typical ice tongue of the Guliya Glacier, located in the West Kunlun Mountains at the junction of the Tibetan area and the border.

The bottom ice layer at the end of the ice tongue can be as old as 4 years. This set of data is quite different from the previous survey data of the Guliya ice core. Therefore, Professor Sha Weizhao is leading the team to carry out Further research.

Young researchers in their 30s are leading technicians to drill deeper into the ice layer.

Glaciers are ice bodies formed by accumulation and compaction of ancient snowfalls that cannot melt after falling on the ground.

The transformation from fluffy snow to ice also freezes some air, falling dust and various substances on the surface.

As the glacier thickens, it becomes a "time capsule" that preserves ancient atmosphere and surface material.

No one knows what kind of time capsule will be opened when the last drill pipe is taken out of the ice. No one knows whether it is a gift to mankind or a Pandora's box.

Scientists are happy to melt the ice body under the premise of avoiding external pollution, just to open the window to understand the past...

In the last survey of the Guliya Glacier, 80.00% of the ice cores excavated were individual populations that did not constitute virus clusters, but [-]% constituted the affinity of virus clusters.

In addition, 12.00% are varieties of NCBI virus gene bank.

Although, the unknown ancient is scary, but honestly, this kind of thing is not too much to worry about.

In the eyes of most people, glaciers often mean severe cold, harsh living environment, and lack of vitality...

Except for sublime, they seem to be some bad words.

The world of glaciers lacks macro plants, and the scattered silt and stones cannot feed animals.

Even in the north and south poles, animals such as penguins and polar bears actually rely on the ocean to survive, and the vast ice sheets are only places for them to settle and rest.

In mountain glaciers, this sense of desolation is set off even more strongly, even if animals pass by occasionally, they come and go in a hurry.

Even the Hailuogou Glacier in Gongga Mountain, Sichuan Province, whose tip has dropped below the tree line, is equally lifeless on the ice surface.

But in fact, out of sight, glaciers are indeed one of the most species-rich places in the world...  

On the surface of glaciers, there are a large number of microorganisms, including algae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, actinomycetes and viruses.

They have super tolerance to low temperature environment and strong ultraviolet rays, and write their own legends in the world of ice and snow.

For example, Sha Weizhao previously discovered in glaciers that a kind of microorganism called snow algae is growing vigorously on the Antarctic ice sheet. They gather into sheets and dye the ice and snow the color of blood.

This is a single-cell green algae plant, widely distributed in the north and south polar ice caps and other alpine ice and snow areas, in the mountains of Alaska, on the glaciers of the Alps, in the hinterland of the Qingzang Plateau, and even in snow-covered areas all year round There are distributions on the top of Fushi Mountain.

Whenever summer comes, the snow algae will show a clear red or pink color, and it will turn into a light green in late autumn to early spring.

It is the vascular plants similar to snow algae that provide material protection for a huge ice sheet ecosystem, and photosynthesis maintains a very active microbial world.

The biological prosperity inside it is far beyond human imagination.

In addition, the biting cold wind also helps maintain this ecosystem, not only bringing dust and organic matter to the ice surface, adding trace elements and unexpected food to microbes, but also helping these microbes to ride the wind and cross the barriers of mountains, Take root everywhere.

Throughout the ages, there have been countless microbes that have rejoined meltwater after being frozen for a long or short period of time.

Flowing among the moraines at the end of the glacier,

Into distant rivers and lakes,

Become a never-ending part of Bluestar Ecology.

And their descendants are always evolving on the surface of the glacier, adding meltwater at any time, and living with people.

Those living at the foot of the glacier have gradually adapted to these microorganisms in the long course of history.

If there were a highly virulent pathogen, people would have been unable to approach these glaciers long ago.

The situation is slightly different for the polar ice sheets.

Although the ice sheet also has a slow flow from the center to the surroundings and from high to low, the ice sheet also maintains the "metabolism" of new and old ice layers to a certain extent,

However, due to the huge thickness and age of the ice sheet, in the process of its growth from small to large, from thin to thick,

Smaller ancient ice sheets are completely covered and become "time capsules" buried thousands of meters deep under the ice.

However, ice sheets thousands of meters thick will not melt overnight, this process will continue for hundreds of thousands of years.

As these ice sheets slowly melt from the outside in, like peeling an onion, nature and humans still have a long time to adapt.

From another perspective, viruses are the most numerous and diverse organisms in the world, and the number and types of viruses in nature are estimated to exceed one million.

The ocean is the largest virus reservoir on earth, with more than 20 species expected.

Most of them hunt various bacteria and fungi.

In contrast, as of the year before last, in the ninth edition of "Virus Classification" published by ICTV, humans have only identified more than [-] viruses.

Moreover, only more than 200 of them have been sequenced and analyzed, and only [-] of them can infect the human body.

It's true that the oceans are full of viruses, bacteria, and other microbes that we know little about, but that doesn't stop people from exploring them at all.

Thousands of years of practice have told people that the biggest risk of swimming in the sea is drowning and encountering dangerous marine animals, rather than being infected by strange microorganisms.

We live in an "ocean" of viruses and don't know much about them.

They fight with other cellular organisms day and night, and the land, rivers, oceans, ice and snow, and our bodies are all battlefields.