This world is too crazy. The dirt-eating cockroaches are listed in the auction house. Three of them are worth 400,000 yuan. Rich people want to collect dirt-eating cockroaches.
After listening to the limerick at the beginning, don’t think it is a joke. An American auction house did put three cockroaches on the market. When the hammer came down, the transaction price was as high as 400,000 US dollars. Because NASA stopped it, the auction was ultimately rejected. Why are they so expensive? Are Americans stupid and rich?
Moon solo plan
In fact, these three cockroaches have a lot of background. They are meritorious cockroaches of NASA Animal Laboratory. They are the first creatures on earth that dare to eat soil, and what they eat is brought back by Apollo 11 Moon soil.
In 1969, Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon. Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon. When Apollo 11 returned, it successfully brought back 21.6 kilograms of lunar samples. These lunar samples included 50 rocks and the lunar surface. Of weathered soil, 2 tubes of core samples were collected from 13 cm below the lunar surface.
After the lunar soil returned to Earth, it underwent strict control and isolation. In order to find out whether there were toxic and harmful substances in the lunar soil, the person in charge waved his hand, and 18 kilograms of lunar soil were allocated to the NASA Animal Laboratory for special feeding. More than 10 different animals eat soil, eat soil months . In 1978, Chinese scientists came into contact with a lunar sample for the first time. The sample was donated by the United States and only weighed 1 gram.
After eating 18 kilograms of lunar soil, these animals showed no abnormality. Instead, their health became better and better. They eventually dedicated their lives to science. After detailed studies on animals, scientists found that lunar soil is harmless to animals and does not have any lesions.
More than 50 years have passed, and these warrior cockroaches that once ate soil have once again shown their value and were put on the auction stage. The rich bidders rushed to bid, and they were probably also curious about what the lunar soil tasted like.
Looking up at the moon
NASA Animal Laboratory let cockroaches eat a full 18 kilograms of lunar soil. In 1978, Chinese scientists first came into contact with lunar samples. The sample was gifted by the United States and only weighed 1 gram.
In fact, in addition to Apollo 11, the subsequent astronauts who landed on the moon on the 12th and 13th brought back a total of 381 kilograms of lunar soil. However, our country only received 1 gram of lunar soil as a gift.
Chinese scientists broke this 1 gram of lunar soil in half. They only used 0.5 grams to discover the properties, structure, origin, etc. of the lunar soil stones, and published 14 papers internationally.
It is this kind of frustration at being controlled by others. China Aerospace continues to exert its efforts. Chang'e 5 successfully arrived at the moon. We brought back 1,731 grams of lunar soil from the moon ourselves!
During the study of the lunar soil brought back independently by our country, scientists found that the lunar soil we collected was very different from the 1 gram of lunar soil previously received as a gift from the United States.
In fact, people have long questioned the US Apollo moon landing program and whether the United States really set foot on the moon. Regardless of whether it actually landed, the implementation of the Apollo program played a great role in promoting the development of our country's aerospace industry and the smooth landing of Chang'e 5 on the moon, allowing us to continue moving towards the sea of stars.
During the study of the lunar soil brought back by Chang'e 5, scientists found that the lunar soil contains a large amount of rare substances on earth, and even these elemental substances are worth as much as 19 billion yuan.
What exactly are the trace substances in the moon? Why have we never detected it in previous lunar soil studies?
The lunar soil brought back by Chang'e-5
The lunar soil sampled independently by my country is far different from the lunar soil donated by the United States. Many of the conclusions that my country has drawn from the 1 gram of lunar soil donated by the United States have been overturned one by one. . Why is the difference so big? Why does the material our country discovered from the lunar soil have such a high strategic status?
Previously, Chinese scientists analyzed the lunar soil donated by the United States and analyzed that the internal volcanic activity of the moon was no longer active 2.9 billion years ago. However, the lunar samples brought back by our country found that the moon was still erupting volcanoes 1.96 billion years ago. This global understanding has once again refreshed our view of the universe.
Moreover, compared with the lunar soil donated by the United States and the Soviet Union, the lunar soil brought back by my country independently is closer to the Soviet lunar soil in terms of composition and color, but is very different from the lunar soil donated by the United States.
More importantly, in the lunar soil brought back by our country, scientists discovered rare substances worth 19 billion yuan per ton. What is this substance? Why can it be called a strategic position?
Helium-3 is extremely valuable for nuclear bomb research. Its addition can greatly reduce the nuclear radiation of when fuses , making energy fusion more complete. Why is there so little of such precious material on the earth, but abundant on the moon?
Helium-3 mainly comes from solar wind produced by solar activity. Because the earth is protected by the atmosphere, the solar wind cannot reach the earth. The moon has no atmosphere, so it accumulates a large amount of helium-3.
It is precisely because "helium-3" has such great application prospects
that all countries have put the development of "helium-3" on their agenda, and they even want to go to the moon to mine "helium-3" and transport it back to the earth.
I wonder if our country can seize the opportunity in such a fiercely competitive "Moon Development Zone"!
