Research on devil worms is progressing quite slowly.
It’s not because these scientists are not good, but because every breakthrough discovery may bring countless possibilities, spreading the roots of exploration across the boundaries of science and advancing towards the unknown soil.
The scientists gathered here are like babies sucking breast milk, drawing unheard of knowledge from specimens from 3.7 billion years ago.
The problems in biology, genetics, chemistry and other disciplines that have been cracked will evolve into new research branches later.
In the words of a Chinese biologist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, it is probably that the existence of the devil worm itself has refreshed human understanding of biology.
A few days ago, the largest arthropod on the earth recognized as the world's largest arthropod was just a Japanese spider crab with legs of 12 feet long. However, the net length of this devil worm reached a terrifying 15 meters.
In addition, its terrifying rock formation drilling ability can even drill through metamorphic rock formations that cost several kilometers or even dozens of kilometers underground, which also gives people a new understanding of the limits that creatures can reach.
Especially the biting ability of its two pairs of incisors, it can theoretically even cut off a whole piece of rebar, and even the armor of the T-3 power armor is vulnerable to it.
Only armored units with a tonnage of nearly 100 tonnages such as Mars rovers and Mars-purpose sporting vehicles can survive their impacts and bites.
There is also the hardened horny armor that can protect it from swimming at high speed in the broken rock formation without being cut. Its defense is sufficient to be immune to direct shots of 127mm heavy machine gun bullets.
Fortunately, the Star Ring Marines used Gauss rifles, and the infantry fighting vehicles were equipped with large-caliber machine cannons and external rockets, otherwise it would not be so easy to break the defense.
When Jiang Chen received this devil insect killing analysis report, his first reaction was to die claws.
In its impression, only the creature Dead Claw can fight the power armor alone.
To be precise, it should be the sharp blade of the dead claw and the armor of the sludge crab.
If it's just a dead claw, there's no chance of winning against the devil worm head-on.
Among the creatures Jiang Chen has seen, I'm afraid only the Mother of Dead Claws can surpass it in individual combat power.
Later, because more and more discoveries were found in the devil worms, the research branch topics became more and more detailed, and the fields covered were more and more widespread, so there was a situation where there was insufficient manpower.
In order to solve this problem, more than a dozen scientists jointly asked Jiang Chen for instructions and invited several scientists who are well-known in the academic community but whose nationality is not among the four major member countries to participate in the research.
Because the problems encountered in the research of devil bugs may be used to the conclusions that these people have already obtained in their research on their respective fields.
After some consideration, Jiang Chen exchanged views with representatives of China, Russia and Germany, and ultimately relaxed the restrictions on nationality threshold.
Some candidates were selected from the list provided by the scientists who jointly petitioned. The Earth Defense League issued a total of 11 invitation letters to secondary member countries such as South Asia, Eastern Europe, and India, and granted them the permission to participate in some project research.
In addition, a scientist engaged in genetic engineering research in Finland, the Principality of Donetsk and Japan, which are actively promoting the participation of the Earth Defense League, has also been approved.
However, this also brings another problem, that is, the news that the devil insect has reached Star Ring City cannot be concealed...
Furdale Taylor, is there anything wrong?Sitting in the lounge next to the laboratory, Jiang Chen put down the newspaper in his hand and looked at Ferdale Taylor who walked into the lounge, and said in a gentle tone, "If it is a new joint petition, I'm afraid I'll meet your requirements."Now we can receive thousands of petitions from North Western European University in our mailbox every day, and too many people want to squeeze in here... it is difficult for us to handle it.
Hearing Jiang Chen's words, Ferdale Taylor touched his nose embarrassedly and said sorry.
The joint petition also has his name in it.
Jiang Chen's attitude towards scientific workers has always been very friendly, and the requests they made have been basically met as much as possible.
Later, Ferdale Taylor also learned from the representatives of his country how much trouble he had caused to the Star Ring Trade and Earth Defense Alliance, so he was still a little guilty about Jiang Chen.
It has nothing to do with the petition.Furdale Taylor coughed and said softly, "We have made new discoveries in our study of the devil worms."
oh?Jiang Chen looked at him with interest, what did he find?
You know, everything from the entire atmospheric environment made of carbon dioxide, from groundwater to rock formations, Mars is acidic.Furdale Taylor paused and continued, and according to the conclusions we have drawn from previous research, devil worms can survive in acidic environments, and even the blood is a strong acid environment, which is likely the result of natural selection over these more than three billion years of evolution.
But later, the newly invited scientists to the project team put forward different opinions.
oh?Jiang Chen was waiting for his next sentence.
In addition to the strongly acidic blood, we also found some special organic matter in its blood.As he said that, Furdale Taylor wrote a string of chemical formulas on the whiteboard that Jiang Chen could not understand at all, and this organic substance could only exist in a strong acid environment.
...My chemistry level is only undergraduate.Looking at the long list of chemical formulas on the whiteboard, Jiang Chen said.
You don't need to understand, you just need to recognize this symbol.Furdale Taylor shook his head and pointed to the letter O in the chemical formula, which represent oxygen atoms.
I still know this... Suddenly, Jiang Chen discovered something strange from this chemistry.
Almost every few letters, you can see a capital O.
This statement may be a bit amateur, but it reflects the problem very intuitively.
Even if this Martian creature can survive in an acidic environment, it will definitely not survive without oxygen.Ferdale Taylor said in a sure tone.
We have not named this organic substance yet, but it is this organic substance that can only exist in a strongly acidic environment that provides the devil worms with the ability to move in an oxygen-free environment!
Jiang Chen can understand Ferdale Taylor's words.
There is no oxygen on the surface of Mars, not only on the surface, but also in underground mines.
The devil worms that arch like earthworms between the bottom layer must have an organ that can hold your breath for a long time.
At first, Jiang Chen guessed that it was some kind of high-pressure airbag, but he didn't expect that the reason would appear on the blood...
Wait, if there is no oxygen on the surface and underground, where do they breathe?
There is also the Gaia civilization, which he never noticed. How did the civilization built on the underground solve the problem of oxygen?
It can't be said that they mastered air filtration technology during the Stone Age, right?
How do these Martian creatures survive underground?
Jiang Chen suddenly realized this problem.
And the next sentence of Furdale Taylor reveals the answer to this question.
The oxygen content in Mars' atmosphere is less than 1%, making it impossible to provide the oxygen needed for this large arthropod.Ferdale Taylor's tone was filled with excitement, so we can assert that there must be such a location underground in Mars, where there is abundant oxygen!We call it ‘oxygen supply layer’!
Oxygen supply layer?Jiang Chen frowned.
That's right!Ferdale Taylor nodded, the excitement between his eyebrows became stronger and stronger. I am sure that in this special underground space, some special anaerobic fungus must have grown.This fungus can adapt to the Martian environment, survive in an acidic environment, and consume carbon dioxide to produce oxygen.Its energy source may be geothermal heat or devil worm feces, while acting as producer and decomposing agent.It is precisely because of the existence of this fungus that the underground biosphere of Mars can be connected into a locked ring!
I was once invited by SpaceX to design anaerobic bacteria for their Martian atmospheric transformation project.
Do you know what this bacteria means to us?Furdale Taylor said with a fanatical look.
Although he had guessed something vaguely, Jiang Chen couldn't help swallowing and spitting.
What does it mean?
This means we will be able to transform the atmosphere of Mars!
It’s not because these scientists are not good, but because every breakthrough discovery may bring countless possibilities, spreading the roots of exploration across the boundaries of science and advancing towards the unknown soil.
The scientists gathered here are like babies sucking breast milk, drawing unheard of knowledge from specimens from 3.7 billion years ago.
The problems in biology, genetics, chemistry and other disciplines that have been cracked will evolve into new research branches later.
In the words of a Chinese biologist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, it is probably that the existence of the devil worm itself has refreshed human understanding of biology.
A few days ago, the largest arthropod on the earth recognized as the world's largest arthropod was just a Japanese spider crab with legs of 12 feet long. However, the net length of this devil worm reached a terrifying 15 meters.
In addition, its terrifying rock formation drilling ability can even drill through metamorphic rock formations that cost several kilometers or even dozens of kilometers underground, which also gives people a new understanding of the limits that creatures can reach.
Especially the biting ability of its two pairs of incisors, it can theoretically even cut off a whole piece of rebar, and even the armor of the T-3 power armor is vulnerable to it.
Only armored units with a tonnage of nearly 100 tonnages such as Mars rovers and Mars-purpose sporting vehicles can survive their impacts and bites.
There is also the hardened horny armor that can protect it from swimming at high speed in the broken rock formation without being cut. Its defense is sufficient to be immune to direct shots of 127mm heavy machine gun bullets.
Fortunately, the Star Ring Marines used Gauss rifles, and the infantry fighting vehicles were equipped with large-caliber machine cannons and external rockets, otherwise it would not be so easy to break the defense.
When Jiang Chen received this devil insect killing analysis report, his first reaction was to die claws.
In its impression, only the creature Dead Claw can fight the power armor alone.
To be precise, it should be the sharp blade of the dead claw and the armor of the sludge crab.
If it's just a dead claw, there's no chance of winning against the devil worm head-on.
Among the creatures Jiang Chen has seen, I'm afraid only the Mother of Dead Claws can surpass it in individual combat power.
Later, because more and more discoveries were found in the devil worms, the research branch topics became more and more detailed, and the fields covered were more and more widespread, so there was a situation where there was insufficient manpower.
In order to solve this problem, more than a dozen scientists jointly asked Jiang Chen for instructions and invited several scientists who are well-known in the academic community but whose nationality is not among the four major member countries to participate in the research.
Because the problems encountered in the research of devil bugs may be used to the conclusions that these people have already obtained in their research on their respective fields.
After some consideration, Jiang Chen exchanged views with representatives of China, Russia and Germany, and ultimately relaxed the restrictions on nationality threshold.
Some candidates were selected from the list provided by the scientists who jointly petitioned. The Earth Defense League issued a total of 11 invitation letters to secondary member countries such as South Asia, Eastern Europe, and India, and granted them the permission to participate in some project research.
In addition, a scientist engaged in genetic engineering research in Finland, the Principality of Donetsk and Japan, which are actively promoting the participation of the Earth Defense League, has also been approved.
However, this also brings another problem, that is, the news that the devil insect has reached Star Ring City cannot be concealed...
Furdale Taylor, is there anything wrong?Sitting in the lounge next to the laboratory, Jiang Chen put down the newspaper in his hand and looked at Ferdale Taylor who walked into the lounge, and said in a gentle tone, "If it is a new joint petition, I'm afraid I'll meet your requirements."Now we can receive thousands of petitions from North Western European University in our mailbox every day, and too many people want to squeeze in here... it is difficult for us to handle it.
Hearing Jiang Chen's words, Ferdale Taylor touched his nose embarrassedly and said sorry.
The joint petition also has his name in it.
Jiang Chen's attitude towards scientific workers has always been very friendly, and the requests they made have been basically met as much as possible.
Later, Ferdale Taylor also learned from the representatives of his country how much trouble he had caused to the Star Ring Trade and Earth Defense Alliance, so he was still a little guilty about Jiang Chen.
It has nothing to do with the petition.Furdale Taylor coughed and said softly, "We have made new discoveries in our study of the devil worms."
oh?Jiang Chen looked at him with interest, what did he find?
You know, everything from the entire atmospheric environment made of carbon dioxide, from groundwater to rock formations, Mars is acidic.Furdale Taylor paused and continued, and according to the conclusions we have drawn from previous research, devil worms can survive in acidic environments, and even the blood is a strong acid environment, which is likely the result of natural selection over these more than three billion years of evolution.
But later, the newly invited scientists to the project team put forward different opinions.
oh?Jiang Chen was waiting for his next sentence.
In addition to the strongly acidic blood, we also found some special organic matter in its blood.As he said that, Furdale Taylor wrote a string of chemical formulas on the whiteboard that Jiang Chen could not understand at all, and this organic substance could only exist in a strong acid environment.
...My chemistry level is only undergraduate.Looking at the long list of chemical formulas on the whiteboard, Jiang Chen said.
You don't need to understand, you just need to recognize this symbol.Furdale Taylor shook his head and pointed to the letter O in the chemical formula, which represent oxygen atoms.
I still know this... Suddenly, Jiang Chen discovered something strange from this chemistry.
Almost every few letters, you can see a capital O.
This statement may be a bit amateur, but it reflects the problem very intuitively.
Even if this Martian creature can survive in an acidic environment, it will definitely not survive without oxygen.Ferdale Taylor said in a sure tone.
We have not named this organic substance yet, but it is this organic substance that can only exist in a strongly acidic environment that provides the devil worms with the ability to move in an oxygen-free environment!
Jiang Chen can understand Ferdale Taylor's words.
There is no oxygen on the surface of Mars, not only on the surface, but also in underground mines.
The devil worms that arch like earthworms between the bottom layer must have an organ that can hold your breath for a long time.
At first, Jiang Chen guessed that it was some kind of high-pressure airbag, but he didn't expect that the reason would appear on the blood...
Wait, if there is no oxygen on the surface and underground, where do they breathe?
There is also the Gaia civilization, which he never noticed. How did the civilization built on the underground solve the problem of oxygen?
It can't be said that they mastered air filtration technology during the Stone Age, right?
How do these Martian creatures survive underground?
Jiang Chen suddenly realized this problem.
And the next sentence of Furdale Taylor reveals the answer to this question.
The oxygen content in Mars' atmosphere is less than 1%, making it impossible to provide the oxygen needed for this large arthropod.Ferdale Taylor's tone was filled with excitement, so we can assert that there must be such a location underground in Mars, where there is abundant oxygen!We call it ‘oxygen supply layer’!
Oxygen supply layer?Jiang Chen frowned.
That's right!Ferdale Taylor nodded, the excitement between his eyebrows became stronger and stronger. I am sure that in this special underground space, some special anaerobic fungus must have grown.This fungus can adapt to the Martian environment, survive in an acidic environment, and consume carbon dioxide to produce oxygen.Its energy source may be geothermal heat or devil worm feces, while acting as producer and decomposing agent.It is precisely because of the existence of this fungus that the underground biosphere of Mars can be connected into a locked ring!
I was once invited by SpaceX to design anaerobic bacteria for their Martian atmospheric transformation project.
Do you know what this bacteria means to us?Furdale Taylor said with a fanatical look.
Although he had guessed something vaguely, Jiang Chen couldn't help swallowing and spitting.
What does it mean?
This means we will be able to transform the atmosphere of Mars!
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