"First of all, we have to break the dormancy of the seeds. The general initial treatment is to soak them."
Mai Dong instructed, "So, Tang Yue, you should first take a certain amount of water, enough to soak ten tomato seeds."
Tang Yue took two hundred milliliters of water from a large beaker and then set it up on an iron stand. An electric heater was placed under the beaker and plugged in the power source.
Tang Yue and Old Cat sat at the table and watched the electric heater burning red little by little.
"I feel like I'm back in my college chemistry class."
Tang Yue held a thermometer in his hand and rested his chin on the table. He stared straight at the water in the beaker. "That was really the worst class I've ever taken in my life … I knocked over the alcohol lamp in the chemistry class and burned the hair of the female classmate sitting at the same table."
"And then?" Old Cat's chin was also on the table, and both of his ears were drooping.
"Then I strictly followed the safety regulations in the laboratory."
Tang Yue replied, "I rushed out of the classroom, picked up the sand basin on the ground, and threw the big box of sand on the girl's head."
Old Cat imagined the scene.
"… I understand why it was the worst class."
"And then?" Old Cat asked, "What did you do to remedy it?
Shouldn't you apologize to the girl at this time?
Ask her for her mobile phone number, QQ number, and WeChat number, treat her to a meal and a movie, and then take the opportunity to get closer to her and bury the hatchet. Maybe you can even solve a major life event. "
"Of course I remedied it."
Tang Yue rested his chin on one hand and gently stirred the water in the beaker with a glass rod. "I was worried that there was still some fire left, so I immediately took off my white coat and whipped her hard …"
Mai Dong snorted in the channel.
"Later on, my deeds spread throughout the academy."
Tang Yue said gloomily, "Everyone knows that there's a lunatic called Tang Yue who bullied girls in chemistry class. Not only did he pour alcohol on people's heads, he even hit people. The worst thing was that I failed that class … Girl, if you want to laugh, just laugh. Don't hold it in, I already heard it."
Mai Dong laughed out loud, and she couldn't stop laughing. She almost choked from laughing.
"Hahahaha, Tang Yue, you're so funny. Hahahaha, you're so funny …"
Mai Dong was hugging a tablet computer as she floated and rolled around in the Crystal cabin.
Tang Yue blushed. "Miss, you can smile, but don't keep smiling … I also want to save face, okay?"
"You said before that you're a lone wolf in the desert who doesn't need a mate. I don't believe you."
Old Cat looked up with admiration. "Now I believe you. You're not just a lone wolf in the desert, you're simply invincible."
Tang Yue put the thermometer into the beaker and watched the red liquid slowly rise.
"Tang Yue, don't you have a girlfriend?" Mai Dong asked.
"Does the girlfriend that I tricked with a lollipop in kindergarten count?" Tang Yue asked.
"Nope."
Tang Yue was silent for a few seconds. "Does it have to be the opposite sex?"
"Girlfriend, of course it has to be a woman."
"Then it has to be … the same species?"
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"The water temperature has to be about 50 degrees Celsius, and then add potassium permanganate to the water. The concentration of the solution should be about 0.3%."
Tang Yue and Old Cat rummaged through the cabinets for potassium permanganate. There weren't many chemicals left in Kunlun Station. Finally, Old Cat went to the Mars Wanderer's experiment cabin and found a bottle of analyzed solid. Tang Yue carefully added the potassium permanganate into the beaker. The dark purple powder quickly dissolved in the clear water like curling smoke.
"The purpose of adding potassium permanganate is to disinfect and prevent common diseases of tomatoes. Tomatoes may suffer from leaf mold or early blight. Although the possibility of this happening on Mars is very small, it's best to disinfect it just to be on the safe side."
Mai Dong said, "Next, you can soak the seeds in the water for 20 minutes."
Tang Yue turned off the electric heater and poured the prepared ten tomato seeds into the beaker.
He and Old Cat used a glass rod to press down the seeds floating on the surface of the water one by one and slowly stirred.
"Do you know what this is?" Tang Yue pointed to the tomato seeds in the beaker and asked Old Cat.
"What is it?"
"It's hope."
Tang Yue said, "When the world was first created, God Jehovah said, 'Let there be light,' so there was light in this universe. What we are doing now is the same as God, right?
We brought tomatoes to Mars, and this may be the beginning of a great civilization. When the mountains and plains of Mars are covered with tomatoes, a new race may be born — the Tomato Race. As the saying goes, when the tomato blossoms, she will laugh in it. "
"It's also possible for plants to evolve into civilizations, right?"
Tang Yue said, "We are spreading life. This is a great deed like the founding of the era. When a civilization ends, another civilization has just begun."
"Spreading life on Mars?"
Old Cat pursed its lips, took off its headphones, and pointed to the airlock behind it. "You can * * * the door and see if little Tang Yue can grow out of the mud in two days. If you have the ability to reproduce alone, then you can indeed create a race. If every sperm can develop and live, the life you spread in this life is enough to fill ten Mars."
"Or I can drive the Mars Wanderer, and you can stand in the car and * * * the door."
Old Cat continued, "Wherever I go, you will * * * the door and see if little Tang Yue will come out of the mud along the way."
Tang Yue thought about standing naked on the Mars Wanderer.
Could it be that God created the world like this?
That was too wretched.
"It is impossible to transform the Mars environment with just the two of us. Even if Earth is still around, this work is extremely costly and will take hundreds of years."
Old Cat shook its head. "With the current atmospheric environment of Mars, no plants or animals can survive. If humans want to live, they will have to build a fully enclosed underground or semi-underground base. This is under the premise that the artificial ecosystem technology has been conquered."
"To transform the Mars environment, how do we do it?"
Old Cat thought for a moment. "First of all, we have to burn coal. Burn coal like crazy."
"Burn coal?"
"Burn fossil fuels and produce carbon dioxide."
Old Cat explained, "We have to artificially produce a huge amount of carbon dioxide. You can't imagine how huge this amount is. Humans have to spread factories all over Mars, mine the methane resources on Mars, and produce carbon dioxide day and night. After all, you want to artificially transform the climate of a planet.
Enough carbon dioxide can produce a greenhouse effect and increase the temperature of the surface of Mars. When the temperature here is no longer as low as minus eighty degrees, other work can continue. "
Tang Yue really couldn't imagine that kind of scene. Covering the entire Mars with red-hot coal furnaces and turning Mars into a large mine. The grandeur of this kind of project was beyond the scope of the tolerance of a certain race or country. It could only be a pioneering work of the entire human civilization.
"It's hard to say whether it is a pioneering work or not."
Old Cat shook its head. "Obviously, the consequences of doing so are to turn Mars into a planet of foul air and slag. But the theory of China's characteristic socialist ecological civilization tells us that the idea of polluting first and then treating later is wrong!"