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Life exists on Mars, something Won has been speculating about for a while.

But he didn't expect to find it so fast, so fast that it was amazing and unbelievable, so fast that picking up a piece of mud at the bottom of the Mariner Grand Canyon could find life.

This is something that the Korean Won has never considered at all.

In his view, even if there is life on Mars, it may take a long time to find it.

However, from a scientific point of view, the existence of life in that pinna-shaped terrain is indeed reasonable.

Why did life originate?
This is as much a question of religious theology as it is a question of science and philosophy.From the point of view of religious theology, it will be easy to draw conclusions.

We human beings, including all life on earth, and even our world are all created by God.

From nothing to being, from inanimate to living, there is a mysterious and great force outside the physical reality world that is exercising and manipulating all of these.By appealing to the illusory and omnipotent God, the problem will be solved quickly and easily.

But the problem is that it is difficult for us to prove the existence of God; of course, it is also difficult for us to prove that God does not exist.

However, from a scientific point of view, it is generally believed that life is from inorganic matter to organic matter, then to single-celled, multi-cellular, and finally forms a complete and advanced living body.

The flow and exchange of matter makes the particles in the matter gather. When the number of particles is more, the energy contained in the particle group is higher.

According to the laws of physics, when the energy is greater, it means that it is less stable, and its vitality and dynamics will increase.

And to maintain their own huge total swarm, these particle swarms must absorb energy and matter from the surrounding environment.

If this group of particles can stably obtain energy from the surrounding environment, whether it is active or passive, and if it can discharge excess energy, then from this moment, life will be born.

This is consistent with the interpretation of life in the second law of thermodynamics.

Because from the point of view of the second law of thermodynamics, there is only one essential difference between living and non-living groups of carbon atoms.

That is, organic life will be better than inanimate carbon atoms at capturing energy from the environment and dissipating it as heat.

This explanation can indeed explain the reasons for the formation of life, but there is still a problem.

That is, the second law of thermodynamics cannot accurately explain something like 'consciousness'.

What is the consciousness of life?No one knows.

It may be many times more complicated than the origin of life.

Maybe one day technology is enough to support us to go out of the mother universe, and we may find that the end of science is really theology.

Of course, exploring the origin of life is not Won's current goal. His goal now is to study the microbes found in the mud at the bottom of Mariner's Grand Canyon.

Compared with the earth, the environment on Mars is indeed not suitable for the survival of life, but it is not absolute.

Sunshine, tides, thermal energy, geological activities, volcanic eruptions. Any movement that can interact with matter must generate energy.

For example, at the bottom of the Mariner Grand Canyon, whether it is the temperature brought by the sun or the impact on the soil after the water ice melts, it can bring energy and enough abundant substances.

These things provide an adapted living environment for microorganisms and bacteria.

So it is not surprising to find microorganisms here, but this is enough to prove that the universe is not as desolate as humans imagined.

Even in a small solar system, life has been found on at least two planets. What about the Milky Way, which has 2000 billion solar systems?Expanding further, what about a universe with trillions of galaxies?

From the perspective of probability, the possibility of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life is extremely high.

Although a giant artificial celestial body eleven light-years away was discovered through the No. [-] outer space infrared telescope, after all, it is too far away to see the details to confirm that it is something built by advanced intelligent life.

For Won, even if the giant insects that appeared on the earth are not counted, the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life is a certainty.

The research on microorganisms on Mars will not be completed for a while, but the output of each experiment is enough to make Han Yuan excited for a long time.

The first is the body structure. Although it is a microorganism, microorganisms also have a body structure.

The life found in the mud at the bottom of Mariner's Grand Canyon has a structure that is different from most life on Earth.

It is somewhat like those organisms found in active volcanoes on the bottom of the earth, feeding on sulphide and harvesting energy to grow.

When testing the melted water ice, South Korea also found some sulfides in the water, including sodium sulfide, potassium sulfide, and some fine particles such as ferrous sulfide, copper sulfide, and sulfur contained in the soil.

These sulfides may have originated from several volcanoes on the Tarsis Plateau on the eastern side of Mariner's Grand Canyon.

After all, the formation of the Mariner Grand Canyon is theoretically caused by changes in geological activities, and the volcanoes on the Tarsis Plateau will stretch the distance between the canyons when they are formed, and most of the lava, volcanic ash, etc. ejected at the same time will flow into the depression. canyons, and then merge into the water and soil to provide nutrients for these microorganisms.

It's just that the volcano on the Tarsis Plateau has not erupted for many years, which has also caused the sulfide at the bottom of the Mariner Grand Canyon to not be replenished, and the number of these microorganisms cannot expand, and they have been in a semi-dormant state. .

Judging from the fact that the Martian core has begun to recover from a semi-dormant state, if it lasts for tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years, a large number of volcanic eruptions on Mars will bring these sulfide-eating microorganisms Lots of food.

If these microbes thrive, over time, the evolutionary journey of life on Mars will begin.

Just as the earth multiplied in large numbers in the ocean billions of years ago, and then evolved more complex life, but it took an extremely long time.

Microorganisms that feed on sulfide have aroused great interest in Won.

During experiments, he threw relatively large amounts of sulfur and other sulfides into petri dishes, and found that these little things reproduced quite quickly.

One cubic centimeter of vulcanization is enough for one cfu of microorganisms (one unit of microorganisms) to reproduce five times, and the time only takes one hour.

Such a speed can be said to be quite terrifying.

In addition, the Korean won also found a very interesting phenomenon.

These small things seem to be able to sense the amount of food outside and changes in the living environment.

After the supply of sulfur is stopped, even if there is still a small amount of sulfur in the petri dish, these microorganisms will not reproduce in large numbers, but will enter a dormant state, and will not consume a large amount of sulfur to reproduce. It will consume very little sulfur to maintain its own life.

Although Won still doesn't know how they judge the amount of sulfide in the outside world.

But that should be the main reason these little things survived at the bottom of Mariner's Grand Canyon.

And what makes Won a little puzzled is that judging whether the food from the outside world is enough to support the reproduction of the population is a very complicated matter in theory, and it requires sufficient wisdom and judgment to support it.

Even the vast majority of animals and plants on the earth do not have this ability. If it is on the earth, most of the animals will only eat the food around them, and then starve to death and be eliminated. Some food 'winter' behavior.

Only some animals that hibernate can have this behavior, such as rats that hoard food, and humans with extremely high intelligence.

For life, this is an inconceivable and wonderful ability.

"Master, during the dormancy process of Martian microbes, an 'active dormancy hormone' was detected."

In the second cabin, Xiao Qi's voice sounded in the bright laboratory.

Hearing the sound, Han Yuan, who was wearing a virtual helmet to control the X-1 industrial robot to observe the microorganisms on Mars, suddenly raised his head.

"What did you say? 'Active dormancy hormone' was detected during dormancy?" Han Yuan asked in surprise.

"Yes, before these microorganisms start to enter a dormant state, they will release a compound, although it is quite weak and the amount is very small, but after testing, it can be confirmed that it is an 'active dormancy hormone'."

Xiao Qi's affirmative voice came over again, Han Yuan was taken aback for a moment, took off his helmet hastily, and said, "What about the data, send me the test data."

Soon, Xiao Qi passed on the test data, and after Han Yuan looked it over carefully, he confirmed that the substance released by this microorganism during dormancy was indeed the 'active dormancy hormone', and he couldn't help but lament the wonder of nature.

'Active dormant hormone' is a new term in biology, which he coined.

Viewers who have watched the live broadcast of the Eye of the Sahara site will not forget that there is a large biological laboratory in that magical underground site.

There are glass life-support cabins of various shapes inside, sealing various creatures, ranging from ancient creatures hundreds of millions of years ago to modern animals and plants.

For these things, Han Yuan will naturally study it. At first, he thought that the body activity of the specimens in the glass jar maintained was achieved by energy stones, but later when he analyzed the liquid in the life support cabin, he found that this In the light brown translucent liquid, besides ordinary nutrients, there is also a special substance.

This special substance can maintain the stability of the biological body for a long time. Even if it has been cut off from the living body, it can still be made to enter a dormant state and remain active.

Therefore, this special substance was named 'active dormant hormone' by Won.

It means the hormone that can keep the living body active and dormant without destroying the living body.

It can not only act on specimens of living bodies, but also act on living bodies.

Hibernate life with 'active dormancy hormone', somewhat similar to hibernation pods in science fiction movies.

It can keep the human body in a dormant state all the time, even if it takes decades or even hundreds of years, there will be no problems, and you can stand up and move freely after opening the hatch.

The value of this peculiar substance is naturally quite high. It's not that Won has never thought about copying it, but he has never been able to do it.

For a long time, he thought that this "active dormant hormone" was developed by the owner of the Eye of the Sahara base site, and his technology was not natural enough to reproduce it. He did not expect the source of this thing to be here, actually on Mars .

Nature is so amazing that even this kind of life can evolve.

"It seems that the source of the 'active dormant hormone' is here, and the solar system seems to be artificially created."

In the No. [-] spacecraft, Won couldn't help sighing after reading all the test data.

One of the biggest uses of this 'active dormant hormone' is naturally used for long interstellar travel.

After all, even if superluminal flight technology is developed, it still takes a long time to travel to distant galaxies tens of thousands of light-years away.

And this "active dormancy hormone" can allow the human body to enter a dormant state to maintain life, so that it can still be active after decades, which is one of the necessary conditions for interstellar navigation.

As for lamenting that the solar system seems to be artificially created, it is because there are too many coincidences.

Life is born on the earth, multiplies and develops, and when it reaches a certain extreme, it will naturally expand to outer space. On this basis, the moon can serve as the first stepping stone for human beings.

The moon at a short distance is the satellite of the earth, otherwise the intelligent life born on the earth will lose interest in outer space.

After all, the difficulty of going to the moon and going to Mars is completely different.

The former has been achieved in the last century, while the latter, until today he has stepped on it in a down-to-earth manner.

If the earth does not have a moon as a satellite, I am afraid that the development of aerospace technology will be greatly restricted.

It is too difficult to land on Mars, which is hundreds of millions of kilometers away, for the first space exploration.

After completing the exploration and landing on the moon, aerospace technology will naturally be further improved, and the eyes will naturally fall on Mars, which is farther away.

The microorganisms that exist on Mars provide the conditions for the intelligent life born on the earth to leave the solar system.

All in all, the coincidence makes people wonder whether the solar system is artificially created.

The departing rover returned to the spacecraft with enough specimens and samples. After unloading the materials used to build the base at the bottom of the Mariner Grand Canyon, Han Yuan drove the spacecraft to take off again and began to explore other areas of Mars.

The previously erupted Mount Esquerels and the surrounding Tarsis Plateau are key exploration areas, because an important source of sulfur and sulfide is volcanic eruptions.

Volcanic eruptions will bring a lot of sulfur, that's for sure. The sulfur and sulfides that exist at the bottom of the Mariner Grand Canyon are left by the volcanoes on the Tarsis Plateau.

And there, there may be more Martian microorganisms, or even life after the evolution of these microorganisms.