Chapter 1009: Destroying Human Life on Mars?

Early August.

On the official website of Xinghai Research Institute and China National Space Administration, an article about the latest progress of Mars exploration attracted the attention of many fans and industry personnel who are always paying attention to the manned Mars landing project.

Life has been found on Mars, and there are microorganisms!

Once this article was published, it immediately attracted the attention and discussion of many people. Soon, this news attracted widespread attention from the international community almost overnight.

From all national governments, scientific research institutions in various countries, to ordinary people, almost all of them have cast their eyes on it.

Is there life on Mars?

Has mankind discovered the existence of extraterrestrial life for the first time?

A series of news and reports were almost violently stuffed into the eyes and brains of the public, making people surprised, astonished, excited, and excited. There are also concerns and doubts.

For a long time, people's impression of Mars is that it is a desolate, lonely, extremely cold and dry planet. There is no magnetic field to protect the planet, no water resources, and no atmosphere to protect life.

In addition to being unsuitable for life, Mars has an unimaginable storm every year, with wind speeds so high that it is indescribable. A quarter of the year is covered in flying sand.

Perhaps there may have been an ocean on Mars billions of years ago, but now it is just a barren land.

However, China's manned landing on Mars has discovered microorganisms on Mars, which undoubtedly subverts people's understanding of this planet.

Mars is not as desolate as imagined, and there is still life on it.

This undoubtedly aroused everyone's interest, and online discussions have already occupied the hot searches on almost all social platforms.

For example, on Twitter, Facebook and other platforms in the United States, as soon as this article was published on the official website of the Xinghai Research Institute and the China Space Administration, someone reposted it and translated it into English and put it under their own account, which caused a discussion and sensation like a magnitude 10 earthquake.

[Incredible! There is still life on Mars? ! 】

【If this is true, maybe Mars may have had life more advanced than microorganisms and bacteria a long time ago, such as plants and animals, or even highly intelligent life like humans! 】

【Maybe the life on Earth now originated from Mars in the past, this is not impossible. 】

【Maybe Martians really existed in ancient times. Didn’t we find huge pyramids and traces of human faces on Mars before? 】

【If there is life on Mars, it might be bad. . If life is so easy to be born, then why is the universe so dead? Perhaps these extraterrestrial civilizations quickly died or regressed after developing to the industrial age, or maybe it is the law of the dark forest? In short, no matter which aspect you speculate from, the discovery of life on Mars is not a good thing for humans. 】

【Is there a possibility that those Chinese people have faked it? They did not find real life on Mars, but only found traces of possible existence, or something like the fossils of microorganisms on the moon? Maybe that is not life, but something formed by nature by chance. 】

【If it was announced by other countries, or even other aerospace organizations in China, I would think that this might be fake data or a means of deliberately attracting attention. But the one who made this discovery public was the Xinghai Research Institute led by Professor Xu Chuan. Have you ever seen him have such a possibility in academia? 】

【I am very curious, what does life on Mars look like? Is it carbon-based life? Or silicon-based life? 】

Hot voices of discussion On social media such as Twitter and Facebook, many professional forums in the fields of astronomy, biology, and aerospace, as well as real scientific research institutions and universities, relevant discussions can be seen almost everywhere.

Even scholars who are not in professional fields, even experts, professors and students in disciplines such as mathematics and physics, have also turned their attention to it.

Combined with the fact that the scientific community has always believed that the ecological environment of Mars more than a billion years ago was superior to that of the Earth, and the reports about Mars exploration, Martians, and extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations that flooded the media in the early years.

Many people think that if there is still life on Mars now, then there may really be intelligent creatures like humans on Mars in ancient times.

It is even possible that today's earthlings may be Martians who came to Earth after discovering that Mars was gradually withering and decaying and could not be saved.

There are many people who hold this view. After all, many things left over from ancient times on Earth cannot be explained to this day.

For example, the fossils that resemble integrated circuit chips 250 million years ago discovered in the UK.

Or in the 19th century, former Red Soviet scientists discovered a very special stone in the Kaluga region of the East European Plain. There was a rusty screw in the middle of this stone.

The scale of this screw is micron-level, which is an ultra-fine screw that human industry could not prepare until the 19th century.

In addition, there is the 2 billion-year-old nuclear reactor-Oklo nuclear reactor, etc.

There are so many unsolved mysteries left over from these ancient times. Many times, not only ordinary people, but even professional scientists suspect that there has been a highly intelligent civilization on Earth more than once.

Now, the discovery of microbial life on Mars has undoubtedly given these speculations a shot in the arm and provided more possibilities for speculation.

The hotly debated discussion naturally attracted the attention of many media.

For media workers who chase hot spots to attract traffic and attract attention, there is no topic that can attract more attention than life on Mars.

For this reason, the New York Times media reporter quickly found the "Alien Life Detection Center" under NASA.

The agency has another famous name, called "Alien Hunter", which is an alien life search team established by NASA in the United States. Its members include scientists from 10 top universities in the United States. The person in charge is Professor Tory Heller, a chemist and biologist at the Ames Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States.

Although it is said that NASA today can no longer catch up with the Xinghai Research Institute in China in aerospace technology.

But it is undeniable that NASA is still the largest aerospace agency in the world.

Of course, what is being said here is the organizational structure and theoretical research.

In these aspects, China does have some gaps that need time to build.

After getting permission, the New York Times reporter directed the photographer beside her to point the camera at Professor Tori Heller, and then asked a question.

"Hello, Professor Heller, have you heard about the latest discoveries of China's manned space program? As a top biologist, how did you see that there is life on Mars?"

Faced with the reporter's question, Professor Tori Heller pondered for a while and then spoke.

"If this is true, it will be a great discovery that will go down in history."

"For the first time, humans have discovered living life outside the Earth. This is extremely significant from both a scientific and philosophical perspective. It shows us that the universe is not desolate, and the Earth is not the only planet with life. There is a great possibility that there are human companions in the vast universe."

"This will greatly promote our exploration of the universe and the study of extraterrestrial life."

"Moreover, it will greatly refresh our understanding of the existence of life. After all, the microorganisms on Mars and the forms of life will definitely be very different from those on Earth."

As soon as the voice fell, the reporter from the New York Times quickly asked: "What if? Do you think there may be problems with China's discovery?"

"For example, there are still many people on the Internet discussing that the microorganisms on Mars may be fake to attract attention."

Tori Heller shrugged and said, "I didn't say that. Although there is indeed such a possibility, from China's perspective, they don't need to do such a thing."

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"Especially since this manned Mars landing project was organized by Professor Xu, with his academic reputation, it is even more impossible for him to do such a fake thing to attract attention."

"Obviously, I prefer to believe that those Chinese people really discovered something on Mars, but the specific situation still needs to wait for them to release more detailed data."

After a slight pause, he looked at the camera with some concern and continued:

"Moreover, in my opinion, rather than worrying about whether the discovery of life on Mars is fake, it is better to worry about the damage and harm that life on Mars may cause to the Earth's ecosystem and humans."

The New York Times reporter quickly asked, keenly capturing the key information revealed in Professor Tori Heller's words.

"You mean, the microorganisms on Mars may pose a great danger to humans and the Earth? Even death or infectious diseases?"

Professor Tori Heller pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said with some concern: "Although I don't want to spoil the fun, it is not impossible in theory."

"After all, this is life from outside the Earth. We know nothing about its life form, cell structure, activity mode, and whether it is harmful to the Earth."

"Of course, there is another possibility that these microorganisms on Mars are not harmful to the Earth or humans."

"But in any case, I suggest that China treat these lives from Mars more cautiously. At least before figuring out whether they are harmful to humans and the Earth, it is best not to bring them back to Earth."

After the interview, the relevant content was quickly reported by the New York Times.

For the media that need traffic, there is no doubt that the focus of the entire interview was on the fact that life on Mars may cause great harm to the Earth's ecological environment and humans.

Even the title is set like this: "Beware! Microorganisms from Mars may destroy the Earth's ecosystem or humans! 》

When this interview was released and forwarded to the Internet social platform by followers, it quickly attracted widespread attention and discussion from netizens.

It has to be said that although the New York Times exaggerated Professor Tori Heller's concerns about Martian microorganisms and reported the relevant interview in an eye-catching way.

But Professor Heller's views or concerns are not unreasonable.

After he publicly expressed his concerns about the harm that Martian microorganisms may bring to the Earth's ecosystem and humans, many biologists, astronomers and other professional scholars in various fields stood up and said that more attention should be paid to and more cautious treatment of Martian life.

The discussion and heated debate triggered by this were directly targeted by some people with ulterior motives.

Soon, whether in the United States, the European Union, or some other "free" Western countries, the microorganisms on Mars were shaped by "public opinion" into a "virus" that was about to destroy the earth and mankind.

Parades and protests directly occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, and also occupied the intersection of First Avenue and East 42nd Street on the east side of Manhattan, New York City.

Many ignorant or people who were led by the rhythm and had ulterior motives kept protesting, demanding an immediate halt to manned landings on Mars, stopping research on Martian microorganisms, and even stopping the development of aerospace technology to avoid extinction and crisis for the earth and mankind.

Of course, in addition to these calls, there are also some calls that seem relatively more "rational".

For example, international environmental organizations have come out to make public statements, demanding that China must fully disclose the situation of Martian microorganisms, and allow other countries to participate in and supervise related progress, etc.

Just when everyone focused their attention on the microorganisms on Mars and quarreled over it, another earth-shaking news in the aerospace field shocked the world.

In the United States, the then president signed the new Aerospace Act of 2025, announcing the abolition of a series of aerospace clauses signed more than a decade ago, such as the Wolf Clause and the New Competition Act.

At the same time, Capitol Hill announced that it would fully liberalize the export of aerospace controls and cooperation in defense, space and other fields.

In the following period, NASA also quickly followed the footsteps of the White House and announced that they had reached a number of cooperation agreements with the China Space Administration and the Xiashu Space Base to jointly develop space resources such as the moon and Mars.

And will subsequently invest at least 5 billion US dollars in scientific research funds and related aerospace technology to cooperate with the China Space Administration to study space development technologies related to alien immigration.

When these news were made public, the whole world was shocked.

No one expected that the United States, which has always advocated competition in the aerospace field, would choose to surrender to its opponent?

And also invested a huge amount of funds and aerospace technology to help opponents develop alien immigration and space development technology?

How is this possible!