Chapter 208, About Life
In the universe void of the solar system, there is a very tiny "ant" slowly crawling towards the outer periphery of the solar system. This "ant" is the Ocean Spaceship. Although it is the largest spaceship created by humans today, not to mention the vast universe and starry sky, even if it is placed in the entire solar system, it is already a sensation.
The universe is so vast that even the solar system of an asteroid, even the distance between flying from Earth to Mars, is only 0.52 astronomical units on average, and the number of kilometers is nearly 80 million kilometers.
In such a vast area, although the speed of the Ocean spacecraft has reached nearly 100 kilometers per second, it still takes nearly 10 days to fly from Earth orbit to Mars. If you consider acceleration and deceleration, it will take half a month to go to Mars alone.
So although the spacecraft was very fast at this time, it gave everyone on the spacecraft the feeling that the spacecraft seemed to be still in place, especially the scenery outside the spacecraft was almost unchanged, with stars in the dark void, and even the eight major planets in the solar system could not be seen at all.
Originally, I could still see the earth a few days after I left. Until now, the figure of the earth has long disappeared in the void. I had to use an astronomical telescope to see the earth. I still couldn't distinguish the earth with my naked eyes.
The rest area in the Ocean Spaceship is full of various green plants, which is the place that everyone likes to come. At this time, the same is true for Li Fu, Liu Shiying and Liu Yi. They are drinking tea and chatting. Of course, in space, because there is no gravity, drinking tea and chatting is different from the ground.
The three of them don’t have to sit at all, and of course they don’t need to sit because they are all light and fluttering. As for the tea, it is a special utensil, which is a bit similar to a drinking kettle. Just press the button on it and the water in the teapot can come out. One person holds such a teapot in his hand and gently sips it from time to time.
Next to the three of them, Li Quanjiang was serving him respectfully. When someone's teapot had no water, he immediately ran to help add water and change the tea.
"I used to think that space travel should be quite interesting, but now it seems very boring. This spacecraft relies on inertia to fly and there is no need to pay attention to anything. We are idle every day and have no way to do research. It's really boring."
Liu Yi looked at the unchanging scenery outside the window, drank a sip of tea, and said boredly.
"This is how traveling in the universe is, but we now know too little about the universe. How vast and vast the universe is really something that makes people yearn for. There are too many and too many unknowns waiting for us to discover."
Liu Shiying looked at the dark void outside with a fascination, as if she wanted to see the other side of the stars and explore the unknown worlds.
"The universe is too vast, and we humans have just stepped out of the earth now. There is still a long way to go in the future."
Li Fu also nodded. From the seeds of super civilization, Li Fu had already understood the vastness and boundlessness of the universe, and also knew that the vastness of the universe was full of infinite yearning. However, human technology is still too primitive and backward, and even in the solar system cannot move freely. How can he talk about the universe and the starry sky?
"Do you think there will be really alien civilizations?"
Liu Yi seemed to have thought of something and asked very seriously.
"The earth can give birth to life, why can't other planets give birth to life?"
Li Fu did not directly answer that Liu Yi followed this time, with the purpose of finding extraterrestrial life and pursuing a question that humans have always been controversial, whether there are any aliens.
Many people have always believed that there are no aliens, because the birth of life on Earth is a miracle. There are too many and too many factors that have nurtured the current earth and nurtured the cradle of life. Although there are endless stars and planets in the universe and the starry sky, the probability of life being born is too low.
Besides, humans have never encountered any alien life, even if they have conversations with each other, etc., so there are many people who insist that the earth is unique and humans are unique.
However, many people believe that the universe is too vast and boundless, the earth cannot be unique, and there will definitely be other alien life and alien civilizations. The reason why they have not yet been connected with any alien civilization is that the universe is too vast and it is too difficult to connect with each other.
It was as if in ancient times, there were no advanced means of transportation. Asians, Americans, Australians, Africans, Europeans, etc. on the earth were too far apart from each other. They all thought they were the center of the world, and they were not clear about other places, and even thought they were wild places.
It’s okay to have land-connected Asia, Europe and Africa, but they have more or less connections with each other and can know the existence of each other. However, before the great voyage and discovery of the great voyage, these locations were even blank on the world map, and there was no idea that there were vast continents and prosperous civilized worlds here.
So although the earth is very special, there must be countless civilizations and countless prosperous worlds waiting for humans to explore and discover in the vast universe and starry sky.
The two views have always been arguing endlessly, and they both insist on their own views. Of course, they believe that the earth is unique in the entire universe and that humans are the only civilization in the universe. This view is relatively a bit like a frog in the well and arrogance.
Because although human history has been long and human civilization has had thousands of history, the real development of technology has only been less than a few hundred years. Human beings' understanding of the universe is still very shallow and superficial, and the universe they are watching is very, very small.
Isn't it just like a frog sitting in the well looking at the sky, thinking that the universe is like this, only so big, and looking at the sky in a well, the ones who know it are just inferior to the fur.
Such a view may be more likely to be out of worry and concern for the future, and to take a more pessimistic attitude, because the earth's civilization is really primitive now. If there are really countless civilizations in the universe, will they be stronger than the earthlings, and how will they treat the earthlings, etc., there are too many things worth thinking about.
“The universe is too vast, and we know too little, too little.”
Liu Shiying also nodded. The more he knew about the universe, the more he became, the more he became awe of the universe. Once anything was taken into the universe, it seemed very small and ridiculous compared to the vast universe.
"Maybe, I hope this time I can discover something. If extraterrestrial life can be discovered on other planets in the solar system, even if it is very simple, primitive life, I think it will be enough to become one of the most important discoveries of this century."
Liu Yi nodded undeniably. As a top scientist in the field of biological sciences, Liu Yi really wanted to know some information about the origin of life and extraterrestrial life, so this time he followed the Ocean Spacecraft to conduct scientific investigations in the solar system.
"It's not that life on Earth is actually brought from alien meteorites to Earth from outside the sky. I think there will definitely be some discoveries."
Liu Shiying didn't know much about biotechnology, so he also said it casually.
"There have always been two views on the origin of life. One is the idealist view, which believes that life and everything are created by the so-called God; the other is the materialist view, which emerges with the continuous development of modern technology, which believes that life on Earth is caused by accidental meteorites outside the sky or the chemical reactions on Earth itself."
"I won't talk about the idealistic view. The microscopic view is deduced based on existing biological science and technology, especially Darwin's theory of evolution, coupled with the emergence of genetic technology, almost all living things can be traced to the original and simplest life if they pursue and explore the source."
"So now scientists basically believe that life is a comprehensive reaction of chemistry, physics, etc., and different molecules influence each other and mix each other. DNA has two characteristics: first, it can make amino acids, and second, it can replicate on its own. These two characteristics of DNA are also the basic characteristics of organic organisms of bacteria, and bacteria are the simplest living organisms in the life world, and they are also the oldest fossils we can find at present."
Speaking of the origin of life, Liu Yi suddenly became spiritual. As a top scientist in biology, he has been thinking hard about the very serious issue of the origin of life.
However, the history of the earth has been billions of years, and the history of life is very long. What happened in the long years calculated over the past billions of years can only be studied and inferred through some fossils, but it is very difficult to trace the root cause.
Although life is also composed of various molecules, and all kinds of things in the life body are taken out separately and they are dead, but when combined together, it is life, which is very magical!
You can imagine that these substances in the human body are very common in nature, but after the combination, human beings are born, this magical life.
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The Ocean spacecraft flew quietly in the void, getting closer and closer to its first stop, Mars. In his vision, Mars slowly showed its mysterious face to the world.
PS: It is said that on February 14, 1178, today, more than 900 years ago, Wu Dalang was poisoned by Pan Jinlian with poison. Haha, I wish you all a happy Valentine's Day!
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