Chapter 593 Great Discovery
The submarine slowly anchored in this basin.
The synchronized robots inside the submarine carry out their tasks step by step.
"Fujita, start drilling." Foucault said as he operated the detection system to conduct a comprehensive detection of the surroundings.
"Received." Fujita operated the drilling system at the bottom of the submarine to drill into the rock below.
The drill bit, made of super-hard alloy, drills downwards quickly as if it were piercing into tofu.
The rock fragments cut off by the drill bit are divided into portions and temporarily stored in a special cabin of the submarine.
This is the first time that the Yungong Base has obtained samples from the Venusian strata. In the previous hundreds of explorations, although many probes were launched and a large number of samples were collected, those samples were all collected on the surface.
The Yungong Base is still very curious about the samples in the strata, which are data that the magnetic field detector cannot obtain.
Although magnetic field detectors are very powerful, their accuracy in long-distance detection is often above the centimeter level. This kind of data is helpful for studying the structure of the strata, but it is still not enough for studying geological composition and geological history.
The drilling of the first 100 meters went very smoothly. These rock layers seemed to be loose igneous rocks with generally low hardness.
But as the drilling depth increased, the drill bit began to encounter resistance.
"This hardness feedback? Has it reached the granite layer?" Fujita Takashi thought while recording the data.
Then he looked at the heat of the drill bit. The temperature of the drill bit, which was working continuously at high intensity, had risen to 773 degrees Celsius.
Fujita had to stop the drill and start the drill cooling system.
Fifteen minutes later, the drill bit had cooled down and he started the motor again, and the drill bit continued to cut into the rock.
Huang Wei, together with two other colleagues, conducted preliminary research on the drilled rock fragments.
"From the surface to 12 meters underground , there is a weathered sedimentary layer, which has been accumulated over the years through the intense atmospheric circulation of Venus and the topography of this basin. At a depth of 13 to 28 meters, the typical magmatic rock composition is very rich in iron, with an elemental iron grade of 25 to 28%."
Another colleague looked through the remaining stratigraphic debris mass spectrometry data: "They are all elemental metals and sulfides. It seems that there has been no oxygen here for a long time!"
As time passed, the drill bit drilled deeper and deeper, and had already penetrated the rock layer 1,000 meters underground.
At this moment, the drill suddenly started to idle.
"What happened? Encountered a hole?" Fujita Takashi was a little surprised.
And Foucault's robot also saw this problem.
As for the formation data, part of it has been detected through magnetic field before, but magnetic field detection is not omnipotent. Especially as the depth goes deeper into the formation, the accuracy of magnetic field detectors is gradually decreasing.
"Fujita, shut down the drilling rig temporarily."
"receive."
Foucault placed the magnetic field detector into the borehole and began to analyze the underground bit by bit.
Fujita also activated the micro camera and searchlight hidden in the middle of the drill. As the searchlight lit up, the camera also saw part of the hollow area.
He looked at the data captured by the camera and thought to himself: "Strange, why does this hole look weird?"
The reason why Fujita felt strange about this hole was that it was too smooth.
However, he put this doubt aside for the time being, adjusted the camera and searchlight little by little, and continued to observe other areas of the cave area.
However, Foucault, who was lowering the magnetic field detector, saw a vague void area. As the detector got closer and closer to a depth of 1,083 meters, the outline of this void area became more and more obvious.
"This is..." Foucault was very surprised.
"What's wrong?" Fujita turned his head and looked at the holographic projection of the ground.
Then Fujita Takashi was also attracted by the projected stratum in front of him.
Because the strata in front of us are densely covered with a large number of "pipes". These pipes are distributed in an area about 1,000 to 1,500 meters underground, and the track diameter is about 0.3 to 0.5 meters.
Suddenly Fujita Takashi exclaimed: "Something is moving!?"
Others were also attracted by Fujita Takashi's voice. They gathered around the holographic projection of the stratum, watching the stratum with constantly updated accuracy. They had already seen that there was indeed something moving quickly in the underground pipes.
Huang Wei zoomed in on the screen and set the motion lock: "Creature?"
"They are approaching the drill location," Foucault reminded Fujita.
As if waking up from a dream, Fujita Akagi quickly switched the camera to infrared mode and turned off the searchlight to prevent the light from deterring underground creatures from approaching.
At this time, the magnetic field detector also stopped at a position 20 meters above the drill bit. At this position, the accuracy of magnetic field detection is very high, basically reaching the centimeter level.
In the high-precision data from the magnetic field detector, the underground pipes in the entire stratum are very clear.
After about 17 minutes, the infrared camera finally captured an image of a strange creature.
The sneaky underground creature seems to be sensing the condition of the drill using the hair on its head.
This creature is not too big, about the size of a football, and its shape is a bit like a pangolin, but this Venus pangolin is more round, and its body is like a sphere.
The Venus pangolin circled around the drill bit and seemed not to notice anything unusual, so it left the vicinity of the drill bit.
Inside the submarine cockpit, Foucault and others stopped drilling and quickly reported the discovery.
After all, this discovery is too special.
Fujita said with emotion: "As expected, human-centered and geocentric theories are extremely arrogant theories."
"This is indeed a great discovery. Many people have always believed that the Earth is the cradle of life and the only planet in the solar system that gave birth to life and intelligent creatures. Now it seems that this argument is debatable." Huang Wei also seemed thoughtful.
The relatively primitive forms of creatures in the atmosphere of Venus, underground creatures on the moon, and underground creatures on Mars are definitely two levels of life compared to the Venus pangolin in front of us.
After all, the surface of Venus is too harsh, and the shallow surface environment is also harsh.
But even in such a harsh environment, advanced forms of multicellular life were born. This is definitely a major discovery that shocked cosmic biology.
The reason why it is called a great discovery is that even though the environment on Venus is so harsh, it can give birth to such advanced life forms. So the probability of life giving birth in other planetary systems in the universe is very high.
In this way, human civilization is most likely not an isolated intelligent race in the Milky Way.
As for why there are intelligent life and civilizations in other galaxies but we have not discovered them, the reason is very simple.
Speed of light!
That’s right, the speed of light.
Even a united Homo sapiens company with billions of talented people is still helpless in the face of the speed of light bottleneck.
As long as human beings cannot travel faster than the speed of light, it will be almost impossible to contact the civilizations of other galaxies.
The bottleneck of the speed of light locks the coverage range of a civilization, which can only be within its own planetary system at most.
In other words, many civilizations, like human civilization, have been trying to find other civilizations, but because of the bottleneck of the speed of light, they can only be locked in their own parent planetary system.
