1251. Trilobites (please ask
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Farewell to Director Cameron, Qin Shiou was about to get on the helicopter and return to the fishing ground. As a result, as soon as the Osprey was started, a row of red lights suddenly lit up on the helicopter's bridge, and a harsh beep sound.
Qin Shiou encountered this situation for the first time. He was sitting in the passenger seat and was about to close his eyes and rest. The stimulation made him so scared that his heart was beating around. He quickly asked, "What's going on, man?"
The Osprey signaled him to relax. After turning off the engine, he went to check and returned and said, "The interface of a cooling tube in the engine is rusted. I have to find some engine oil to clean it. It's not a big deal. It will fly later."
Qin Shiou thought it would be better to be cautious, and he said, "Forget it, Osprey, let's throw this thing here and let the people from Aviation City deal with it. Let's not take this risk, but take the train back to St. Johns."
There is no airport in the Basque Port, and the nearest airport is St. Anthony in the north. Since this is the case, it is better to take a train back.
The Osprey looked relaxed and said, "That's not a big problem. Boss, I can handle it. In the past, when I was in the army, I dared to drive the engine cooling tube when it exploded."
"But I dare not die." Qin Shiou said in real terms. He is the God of the Sea, not the God of the Sky, and the Sky is not his territory. What problems did Wanzhi's pickup in the air are really not worth the cost.
Osprey shrugged, took out her cell phone and bought four train tickets from Basque Harbor to St. Johns.
Transportation in Canada is similar to that of the United States. Airports are built everywhere, and aviation has become the simplest and most effective tool for travel, with low prices, high safety and fast speed. Train transportation has become a medium-to-high-end travel tool.
This is a huge difference in transportation between developed and developing countries. Take Canada as an example. The coverage rate of expressways in the country exceeds 80%. Except for places close to the Arctic in the north, expressways have been built in other areas. Almost all of them are free of charge.
In this way, people traveling remotely will choose to fly, and short-range means driving by themselves, so the train will naturally lose the market.
Train transport companies such as Pacific Railway are traditional large Canadian companies. After they noticed this crisis, they made timely changes in the industry, turning train travel into an enjoyable activity.
The train coverage rate in Newfoundland is relatively low. After all, this is a large island living alone overseas, with sea transportation being the highlight. Then there are aviation and highways, and the share of railways is very small.
But even so, Newfoundland's railway transportation is still quite developed. The railway station in Basque Harbor is built like a castle, with a tall and spacious waiting room, and the overall warm yellow wind is in the wind, so that you can feel a little warmth even if you stay inside in winter.
When he arrived at the train station, Qin Shiou looked at the time. It was more than an hour before departure. He didn't want to sit at the train station, so he bought a map at the newsstand at the entrance of the station. He found that there was a commentary center not far away, called the Golden Nail Commentary Center.
The Newfoundland's commentary center can also be said to be a museum, memorial hall, art gallery, etc. Anyway, the place where people explain is called an commentary center. Strictly speaking, this commentary center belongs to a geological museum.
Qin Shiou, Osprey, Nelson, and Sanders walked over to the Interpretation Center. This place mainly commemorates the Cambrian outbreak, with many sponges, coelenterology, gill animals, leaf pods, brachiopods, mollusks, arthropods, echinoderms, and chords.
People who engage in biological activities are familiar with the Cambrian explosion. Now, the history of the world's natural biology is recognized as the evolution of the earth's biological evolution according to Darwin's "Theory of Evolution", but what the "Theory of Evolution" cannot explain is the period when the Cambrian explosion occurred.
At this time, Sanders could show his effect. After entering the commentary center, he talked and introduced a variety of creatures to the three of them. No matter what appeared, he could do it at will. He quoted a lot, and the lectures were much more exciting than the tour guide.
When he reached the middle position, Qin Shiou suddenly saw a large area of strange arthropods. These animals carried round carapaces, which were inlaid with layers of carapaces, surrounded by organs that looked like arthropods, and had mouths on his abdomen, which made him look so familiar - isn't the black-covered giant insect similar to this?
Qin Shiou walked closer and looked at it. These animals are very famous. They are one of the famous trilobites and lived 500 million years ago. The arthropod-like organs around them are not the feet of the black-covered giant insect, but are called rib joints, which can be regarded as stretched ribs.
If you look closely, this trilobite and the black-covered giant insect are actually very different, but at a rough look, they look so similar, especially since they both have feeding organs on their abdomen, Qin Shiou had to associate them.
Seeing that he was paying attention to these trilobites, Sanders came over and explained: "Are you interested in these bugs? They are giant-shell trilobites, with a relatively rare number, and the extinction time has not been clarified yet."
Qin Shiou asked: "Will they not become extinct yet?"
Sanders laughed and said firmly: "No, it is impossible. The marine environment 500 million years ago is completely different from that now. The cellular structure of trilobites is too simple and does not have variable evolutionary capabilities, so they cannot adapt to such environmental changes."
Qin Shiou nodded and said nothing, but just wrote down the name of the giant-shelled trilobite in his heart, and planned to go back and study it carefully.
When we arrived at the back, there were more than a dozen tourists following the four people. These people thought Sanders was the tour guide. Someone asked: "Sir, how long have you been working here? Your knowledge is so rich."
Sanders blinked and said hesitantly: "I'm not working here. I used to be in Toronto, and now I'm in St. Johns..."
After such a small misunderstanding, there was not much time left before the train was driven. Qin Shiou decided to return early and not delay the train.
His worries were correct. On the way back to the train station, while they were waiting for a red light at an intersection, a group of angry people suddenly came to the opposite side. This scared Qin Shiou and thought he had encountered a revenge operation in the community.
Sanders was knowledgeable and looked at it and said with a firm look: "It's okay, boss, this is a protest recognized by local paper mills. I guess their salary will be delayed or there will be no bonuses."
On the back of the Basque Harbor is a large area of fine woods. It is the largest concentration of paper mills in Newfoundland. The two factories in Canada's paper industry ranked fourth and fifth.
However, at the beginning of this year, the fifth-ranked Hannibal Paper Mill declared bankruptcy, leaving thousands of unemployed workers and tens of millions of commercial debts to the local area. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!