我们都感受得到笼罩未来的沉重压力 We all feel the weight of the shadows on our future.
但是在另一个和现在一样悲观的时代 But in another time, every bit as ominous as our own,
有人可以在黑暗中看见一条出路 there were those who could see a way through the darkness
找到一颗恒星 朝它前进 to find a star to steer by.
卡尔萨根写道 Carl Sagan wrote,
我成长在一个充满希望的时代 "I was a child in a time of hope...
我从一开始上学就想成为科学家 I wanted to be a scientist from my earliest school days.
梦想成形的那一刻 是我得知 The crystallizing moment came when I first caught on that
恒星都是巨大的太阳时 the stars are mighty suns...
当时我开始了解 When it first dawned on me
恒星一定离我们很遥远 how staggeringly far away they must be
看起来才会是空中的小光点 to appear as mere points of light in the sky...
我想我当时甚至不懂"科学"二字的意义 I'm not sure I even knew the meaning of the word "science" then,
但我就是想要埋首在那壮观的一切当中 but I wanted somehow to immerse myself in all that grandeur...
我深受宇宙的壮丽吸引 I was gripped by the splendor of the universe...
震慑于有望学会万物的运作方式 Transfixed by the prospect of understanding how things really work,
来帮忙解开最深奥的谜题 of helping to uncover deep mysteries...
探索新的星球 Of exploring new worlds...
也许还能真正踏上去 Maybe even literally.
我很幸运能实现 It has been my good fortune to have had that dream,
其中部分梦想 in part, fulfilled...
对我而言 科学的传奇 For me, the romance of science
依然和那天一样迷人而新奇 remains as appealing and new as it was on that day...
那天是我初次见到1939年纽约世界博览会的神奇 When I was shown the wonders of the 1939 New York World's Fair.
这里是体验未来的地方 This is where the future became a place."
可是1939年怎么会有希望 But, how could there be hope in 1939?
最愤怒的声音占领了世界舞台 The angriest voices had taken the world stage,
鼓吹着仇恨及种族隔离 preaching hatred and tribal division.
有史以来最惨烈的战争 The most cataclysmic war in history,
那场将会夺走6000万条人命的战争 which would take the lives of 60 million human beings,
才刚刚开始 was only just beginning.
然而即便黑暗降临 Yet, even as darkness descended,
令人振奋的未来展望 it was possible to awaken the young Carl Sagan and his
仍能启发幼小的卡尔萨根与同辈 contemporaries with a thrilling vision of the future.
那个展望的影响强大 One that was powerful enough
激发许多孩子付出必要的多年努力 to inspire many of them to do the years of hard work required
以成为科学家与工程师 to become scientists and engineers.
电视这个"奇迹" The "miracle" of television
在1939年世博会民众面前成真 became a reality to the public at the 1939 World's Fair.
我们学会操控电子 We had learned to manipulate electrons
发展出电视这股改变文明的力量 into what would become a civilization-altering force.
这台可运作的电视机原型是透明的 This working model of a TV set was transparent
以说服怀疑者 to convince the skeptics that
他们看到的不只是动态影像 what they were seeing was not just motion picture images.
电视荧幕上的影像 The images on the television screen
其实是穿越时间与空间的现场信号 were actually live signals from across time and space.
一个充满革命性高科技的潜在新世界 A possible world of revolutionary high technology
在这里首度亮相 was first glimpsed here.
卡尔萨根是第一个凭借想象力 Carl Sagan was the first to explore space and time
探索空间与时间的人 on the Ship of the Imagination.
但我和他还有另一个共同点 But we have something else in common.
我们在纽约法拉盛草原公园的同一个地方 We both had life-changing experiences in this same place
有了改变人生的经历 in Flushing Meadow, New York.
我跟当年的卡尔差不多大时 When I was about the same age as Carl,
家人带我去参观1964年世博会 my family took me to the 1964 World's Fair.
我是左边那个小男生 I'm the little guy on the left.
当时已经过了25年 我们的世界面临着不同的问题 It was 25 years later and our world faced a different set of problems.
超级强权在地球上部署了 The superpowers had rigged the planet with some tens of
数万件核武器 thousands of nuclear weapons.
世界关系紧张 武器随时可能引爆 They were on short fuses that could be lit at any moment.
为即将出现的末日预先准备 Preparing for the coming apocalypse was a frequent
对我这种学童而言是例行活动 ritual for schoolchildren like me.
虽然我们都知道自己可能随时会死 While we all knew that our lives could be terminated at any moment,
1964年的世博会 the 1964 World's Fair
却描绘出一个无限未来的展望 presented a vision of a boundless future,
那个未来没有危险 one freed of danger,
科学与技术重新把焦点聚集在 where science and technology had been refocused
人类的希望与梦想 on human hopes and dreams...
那次参观给我留下难忘的惊喜记忆 I have stunning, indelible memories of that visit.
家父在民权运动期间 My father was a key administrator for New York City
是纽约市的重要行政官员 during the civil rights movement,
一列单轨电车那天就以他的名字命名 and they named a monorail car after him for the day...
我们自豪的搭着"泰森彗星号"进场 We proudly rode the Tyson Comet into the fair.
我还记得那些实体大小的电动恐龙 I remember the life-like, animatronic dinosaurs and
并且惊叹于我们可以了解 being amazed that we could know about things that
那么久以前的事 happened so long ago.
我记得自己意识到 地球只是我们碰巧存在的地方 I remember the sense that Earth was just a place we happened to be.
就连博览会的主象征 大地球仪 Even the fair's main symbol, the Unisphere,
都是人类想象中宇宙这个大脉络下的地球样貌 was a vision of Earth in the larger context of the cosmos.
别忘了 当时还没有任何人 Remember, this was before anyone
从深太空看过地球的全貌 had ever seen the whole Earth from deep space...
那个时代 一切突飞猛进 It was a time when everything soared.
就连建筑物都看似准备起飞 Even the buildings seemed ready for take-off.
你可以造访一个更光明的未来 You could go on a trip to a brighter future,
那个地球没有贫民窟 an Earth where there were no slums,
也没有人挨饿 and no hunger...
那些展望还有部分尚未实现 Some of those promises remain unfulfilled,
有一部分则超越了 and others have been exceeded
当时最疯狂的梦想 beyond even the wildest dreams of that time...
帮我个忙 Do me a favor.
试着忘掉你此刻认为理所当然的一切 Try to forget everything you take for granted at this moment.
想象你从未见过笔记本电脑 平板电脑 Imagine you've never seen a laptop, or tablet,
智能手机 or smart phone,
从未在网络上搜索过 that you've never searched for anything online,
没有收过任何人的电子邮件或者是短信 or ever received an email or a text message from anyone.
在这个世界 如果你想知道 This was a world where if you wanted to know something about
关于生命史的事 或者某首歌的歌词 the history of life, or the lyrics to a song,
只能就近去图书馆查询 you had to go to the nearest library.
一如当时的许多人 Like many people at that time,
我在这里初次与电脑互动 it was here that I had my very first interaction with a computer.
我右边的机器是IBM光学文字阅读机 The machine on my right is the IBM Optical Character Reader.
这台机器能读取手写数字 It's a machine which reads handwritten numbers.
为了示范机器的运作 To illustrate its operation to you,
你们可以询问任意日期的新闻 you will be able to ask for the news of any date that you'd like.
只要在卡片上写日期 You simply write a date on a card and then
IBM光学文字阅读机会读取你写下的数字 the IBM Optical Character Reader reads your handwritten numbers.
电脑会回答当天的新闻事件 The computer replies with the news event.
想象一下我有多惊讶 Imagine my amazement
机器竟然读得懂我的出生日期 that a machine could read the date of my birth,
并且答出当天 and spit out the most important events
最重大的事件 that took place on that very day.
一台机器怎么可能会知道那些 How could a machine possibly know that?
即使在这个乐观的未来之梦里 Even in this optimistic dream of the future,
以下新闻事件在你写下的日期那天的纽约时报上报道过:
美苏两国双双进行核试
笼罩其上的大片黑影也无可避免 the long shadow cast on it was inescapable...
那些可望把我们带去其他世界的载具 The very same vehicles that promised to take us to other worlds
也可能摧毁这个世界 also threatened to destroy this one.
飞船能够运载探索者 They could carry explorers,
也能载运大规模杀伤性武器 or they could carry weapons of mass destruction.
这艘水星计划太空船 This Project Mercury spacecraft had recently taken
最近才把史考特卡本特送入地球轨道 Scott Carpenter into Earth orbit...
运载两个人的双子星号太空船 There was a two-man Gemini spacecraft that wouldn't be
还要一年才会升空 operational for another year...
还有最具野心的飞船 And the most ambitious of all:
阿波罗指挥舱与登月舱 The Apollo command module and lunar lander
都近得让我伸出手就触摸得到 were close enough for me to reach out and touch.
第一次真正的载人月球飞行还要再等4年 The first actual manned trip to the Moon was still four years away.
想想那个时代的大胆无畏 Think of the audacity of that time:
我们要把人类送去月球 We were going to send humans to the Moon
还要安全送回来 and bring them back safely,
一切通过当时的电脑进行 and do it all with computers
而它最强的功能是 whose best trick was to tell
说出你出生那天发生的事件 you what happened on the day you were born...
数十年后的现在 All these decades later,
我不敢相信我们真的做到了那些事 I can't believe we really did those things.
但是一如卡尔 But like Carl,
我在世博会找到的那份希望从未离开过我 the hope I discovered at the World's Fair has never left me.
当年我们居于劣势 The odds were against us,
然而过了50多年 我们依然在这里 but we're still here more than 50 years later.
依然梦想着未来可能带给我们的一切 And still dreaming of what the future might hold for us...
跟我来 看看2039年纽约世界博览会 Come with me to the New York World's Fair of 2039.
宇宙 未知世界 第1季 第13集
现在是2029年 在某处 有一个女孩 It's the year 2029 and there's a girl somewhere,
想象着未来的可能发展 imaging how the future might unfold.
地 球 如 何 变 好
2031年：热核聚变反应堆上线 一茶勺水供电给全巴黎市
2033年：第一次与蓝鲸接触 鸣声翻译：它们超愤怒
2035年：亚马逊雨林面积扩大2倍
2037年：自1966年以来濒危物种名单首度空白
2040年：第10座碳巨像在开普敦落成
2042年：最后一具内燃机捐献给博物馆
2045年：极地冰帽在扩大
2047年：早餐吃塑料的软体动物在清理海洋方面有重大进展
2050年：全球平均温度回到20世纪初的水平
2060年：恒河的水证实可饮用
2075年：臭氧层完全修复
2080年：地球自工业革命复原
梦想是地图 Dreams are maps...
没有梦想 我们哪儿也去不了 Without them, we go nowhere...
这座新的巨像是立于全球各大港口的 This new colossus, one of many erected in each of
诸多巨像之一 以碳酸钙打造而成 the Earth's greatest harbors, is made of calcium carbonate,
大自然就是用这种物质 the same material that nature used to build life's first
在海中那座失落的古城 打造出生命的第一个家 home in that ancient lost city beneath the sea.
二氧化碳这个造成气候变化的主因 Carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change,
被人从大气中提取出来 has been extracted from our atmosphere and converted into
并且转化成矿物 用来建造这棵巨大的生命树 the mineral used to construct this monumental Tree of Life.
这些新的世界奇观不仅象征 These new wonders of the world not only signify that our
我们人类找到了方法避开气候变化最坏的后果 species has found a way to avert the worst consequences
也宣示着我们追求的崇高理想 of climate change, but they also declare our ambition for
是与同在世上的万物 the kind of greatness that lives in harmony
和谐共存 with our fellow earthlings.
欢迎光临2039年纽约世界博览会 Welcome to the 2039 New York World's Fair.
跟我来 Come with me.
您好 请往那边走 Hi. Yes, it's right that way.
在这座"探索者馆" Here, in the Pavilion of the Searchers,
科学史上最伟大的英雄以虚拟方式重生 the greatest heroes in the history of science come to
亲自讲述他们如何 virtual life to recount, one-on-one,
解开大自然的秘密 how they deciphered nature's secrets.
他们不懈怠地回答你想知道的每个问题 They tirelessly answer every conceivable question you might have.
在这里 没有笨问题这种东西 And here, there is no such thing as a dumb question,
不会因为询问真正想明白的事而丢脸 no shame in asking anything you really want to know.
这些人不只是 And these aren't just robots
脑中存满信息记录的机器人 whose heads are filled with recorded messages.
我们已经找到方法复制他们脑中的神经网络 We have found a way to reproduce the neural networks
他们的观念 记忆与联想 in their brains, their ideas, memories and associations,
他们的(神经)连接组 their connectome.
想象有一个世界 大人会把尚在发展的宇宙故事 Imagine a world where the still unfolding story of the universe was told to every child
告诉每一个孩子 as naturally as we tell
就和我们教孩子童谣与童话一样自然 them our nursery rhymes and fairy tales.
他们能接待我们了吗 Oh, can they take us now?
我有两个问题 Two questions.
我们发现引力波时 你兴奋吗 Did it blow your mind when we discovered gravitational waves,
尽管你说过 我们找不到 even though you said we never would?
很兴奋 Ja.
第二个问题 Second question.
你提出的隐变量 也就是解决量子力学矛盾的方案 Your hidden variables, solution to the paradox of quantum mechanics
现在我们知道并不存在 now that we know they don't exist,
这透露了哪些与现实性质有关的事 what does that say about the nature of reality?
跟我来 Come with me.
这个场馆的主题是第四个维度: 时间 And this is the Pavilion of the 4th Dimension, time.
在这里 任何人都能自行设定时间与空间的坐标 It's a place where anyone can set their coordinates in space and time,
造访140亿年宇宙发展史中的任何时刻 and visit any moment in the 14 billion year history of cosmic evolution.
这是不是很惊人 我们四百年前才开始 Isn't it amazing that we only started doing science
系统化地研究科学 systematically four centuries ago?
却已经能够重现许多 And yet we've already been able to reconstruct so much of
在我们来到这世上之前数十亿年就发生过的事 what happened billions of years before we even got here.
这个宇宙历 This Cosmic Calendar,
将所有时间压缩在地球上的一年里 with all of time compressed into a single Earth year,
你可以尽情探索 is yours to explore.
你最想要目击 What event in the history of the universe would
宇宙历史的哪个事件 you most like to witness?
大爆炸就别提了 Not the Big Bang,
大家都想看 everybody wants to see that,
而且要年满14岁才能看 and besides, you have to be over 14.
但我们可以去时间开始前的那一纳秒 But, we could go to that nanosecond before time began...
或者恐龙最后那个愉快的日子 Or that last perfect day of the dinosaurs.
也可以和线粒体夏娃共度午后时光 Or to spend the afternoon with the Mitochondrial Eve,
*线粒体基因是母系遗传 当前所有人类的线粒体基因都源自14万年前的一名非洲女性 也就是说所有人的妈妈的妈妈的...的妈妈追溯到底是同一个人 即线粒体夏娃，现代人类共同的母系始祖
她是我们共同的母亲 全人类的谱系都能 the mother of us all, the woman to whom all humans can
追溯到她身上 trace their lineage?
吉萨一日游如何 Or what about a day trip to Giza
去参观刚建成的金字塔 to see the pyramids when they were new?
行程任君挑选 Just take your pick...
生命这个逃脱大师 Life, the escape artist,
找到了地球上的每个区位 having found every niche on Earth,
甚至勇闯月球 even ventured to the Moon...
我们初次站在月球的凄凉荒芜中 When we first stood amidst its sterile desolation,
那片尘埃毫无生气 那个世界只有深浅不一的灰色 its lifeless dust, a world painted only in shades of gray,
此时我们开始感谢 地球被生命的创造力触碰之后 we began to appreciate how radically our planet
产生的彻底改变 changed when it was touched by life's genius.
老鹰号已经着陆 The eagle has landed.
生命的创造力会以什么样的形态... What form will life's genius take hundreds of
存在于数亿年后的未来? millions of years in the future?
你看 这是人类与现在或曾经活在地球上的 Behold: This is the earliest known ancestor we
几乎每一种动物已知的 humans share with almost every animal who lives now
最早的共同祖先 or ever lived on Earth.
真正的冠状皱囊虫其实很小 The real Saccorrhytus coronarius was actually quite small,
用肉眼看只是个黑点 just a black dot to our eyes,
但在我们物种的故事中却格外重要 but it looms large in our personal story.
冠状皱囊虫活跃于5亿多年前 "Sacco" flourished more than half a billion years ago.
是动物界的一个始祖 It's a progenitor of the animal kingdom.
生命这个雕刻家如何用它雕刻出我们 So how did life, the sculptor, carve us out of this?
"进化" 只要有足够的空间与时间 Evolution, given world enough and time,
就会令复杂且完全意想不到的特质 makes possible the emergence of those more complex and
能够从简单的生物中形成 completely unexpected qualities that can arise from simpler things.
生命贯穿40亿年 Life is a thread four billion years long.
经历过至少5次大灭绝事件 It has survived at least five mass extinction events and
每次复原都变得比以往更坚强 come back from each of them stronger than ever before.
生命证明了 我们不仅是我们身体细胞的总和 Life demonstrates that we are more than the sum of our parts,
即便我们发现自己身处绝境 and even when we find ourselves with our backs to the wall,
生命也能找到走进未来的路 life can find a way into the future...
地雷 Landmine.
这些人类野蛮行径的纪念品 是地球各处的冲突遗留下来的 A souvenir of our savagery left over from conflicts all over the planet.
我们在这世上埋下的地雷超过1亿枚 We've infested our world with more than 100 million of them.
每年造成好几千平民死亡或伤残 Every year they kill or maim thousands of civilians,
其中包括与朋友玩耍的孩童 among them children at play with their friends.
想象一下全球要做出什么努力 Think of a global effort that would be required to find and
才找的出并拆除1亿多个 defuse more than 100 million explosive devices
埋在地下的爆破装置 buried in the earth.
毫无希望 对吧 Hopeless, right?
但是植物学家想出了一个巧妙办法 But botanists have devised an ingenious way to reveal
来显示我们脚下存在着危险爆炸物 the presence of dangerous explosives beneath our feet.
他们以生物工程改良阿拉伯芥 They have bioengineered the thale cress plant whose roots
其根部能察觉这些地雷与土制炸弹 can detect the nitrogen dioxide gas that these
排放出来的二氧化氮气体 landmines and IEDs emit.
如果阿拉伯芥长出红叶 要当心 If the plant puts out red leaves, beware.
但如果叶子是绿色 But if its leaves are green
你就可以和朋友在那里安心玩耍 then you can play there in peace with your friends.
我们能利用对大自然的了解 We can use our understanding of nature to spring the traps
绕过我们为自己设下的陷阱 that we've set for ourselves.
我们搭地铁去纽泽西吧 Let's take the subway to New Jersey.
我们搭乘菌丝组织线 这个地下网络连接了全世界 We're riding the mycelium, that underground network that
九成以上的树木与植物 connects 90% of the world's trees and plants.
这个古老的共同产物由四大类生物组成 It's an ancient coproduction of four kingdoms of life,
植物 细菌 真菌 动物 plants, bacteria, fungi and animals.
纽泽西曾经是全美国 New Jersey was once a state with the highest number of
危险级污染区域最多的一个州 dangerously polluted areas in the country,
科技快速发展造成了可耻的人为后果 shameful artifacts of our technological adolescence.
但是后来我们与树木及植物联手 But then, we partnered with the trees and the plants...
杨木会自然转换三氯乙烯 Poplars naturally transform trichloroethylenes,
即会致癌的常见工业副产品TCE known as TCEs, carcinogenic solvents that are common
让他成为无害的氯离子 by-products of industry, into harmless chloride ions.
单纯的盐 Simple salts.
微生物学家发现他们能用 Microbiologists discovered that they could crossbreed two
两种不同的杨木杂交育种 different species of poplar trees
以增强中和TCE的能力 to enhance their power to neutralize TCEs.
广植这些树不仅除掉 The extensive planting of these trees not only rid this
这个区域中对人类与其他生物的毒物威胁 area of its poisonous threats to human and other life,
也增加了树木的数量 可以将最普遍的温室气体 but also added to the number of trees that turn the most
二氧化碳 转化成为氧气 prevalent greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, into oxygen.
由于我们的战争与生活方式 With our wars and our lifestyle,
我们在这个世界上丢了大量废物 we dumped a lot garbage on this world.
不只有地雷与土制炸弹 Not just landmines and IEDs,
还有化石燃料产生的毒物 but the toxins from our fossil fuels,
与消费者文明 核电厂及核武制造的废弃物 the waste from our consumer civilization, nuclear power plants and weapons.
以及我们以惊人速度丢弃的电子垃圾 And the electronic toys that we discarded at an alarming
其中充满致命的重金属 rate laden with lethal heavy metals, lead,
有铅 镉 铍 与其他电子废料 cadmium, beryllium and other e-wastes.
我尝试了解这个问题的严重程度时 I have moments of despair when I try to wrap
总会感到绝望 my mind around the enormity of the problem...
但是生命居然仍有办法走出这个梦魇 But life even provides a way out of this nightmare.
这个方法称为生物修复 It's called bioremediation...
看到交汇处的节点了吗 See that node at the intersection?
那是酵母 That's yeast.
没有酵母就没有面包 也没有啤酒 Without it, no bread, no beer.
然而在这个未来 But in this future, we have used it to clean up
我们用它清理了全世界 the whole world.
酵母是一种工具 It was a means to neutralize
用来中和我们产出的最危险的废物 the most dangerous garbage we produced.
酵母能捕捉这些毒物 Yeast captures these poisons and prevents them from
防止毒物污染供水系统与整个环境 contaminating the water supply and the rest of the environment.
想想吧 Think of it.
大自然给了我们第二次机会 Nature offered us a second chance,
让我们弥补自己造成的伤害 a shot at undoing the damage done...
但我们如何避免再度破坏？ But how do we keep from doing it again?
人类在地球上构思了什么 用以保护遥远的未来？ What on Earth is designed by humans to protect the distant future?
我们没有任何一个机构认识到 We don't have a single institution that even
我们对自己造成的长远威胁 acknowledges the long-term danger we pose to ourselves,
更遑论专门为此拟定计划 let alone one designed to plan for it.
我们的投资期限就在3个月后 Our time horizon looms three months from now,
或者4年后 即企业提出资产负债表 or four years, the corporate balance sheet,
或下次选举时 the next election.
然而科学告诉我们生命的时间尺度是以 But science is telling us that life's time scale measures in
10亿年为单位 the billions of years.
我们要如何保持对过往生命 How do we maintain awareness of the continuity
连贯性的认知 of life's past,
和我们连接过去与未来生命的角色 and our personal role in being a link to its future,
好让生命发挥作用？ so that it has operational consequences?
从现在起 科学无法带给我们智慧与远见 Science, as of now, has no means of making us wise and far-sighted.
我们要靠自己 That's up to us.
有多少人已经输掉我们在打的这场仗？ How many have lost the battle that we fight now?
有几个世界埋藏在这个世界的表象下？ How many worlds lie buried beneath the surface of this one?
也许我们永远不会知道 Maybe we'll never know.
然而在这个博览会中有一个场馆让死去已久的文明 But here at this fair, there's a pavilion where long-dead
生气蓬勃地复苏 civilizations come roaring back to life...
我听说过有个失落的世界 I know of one lost world that flourished for
曾经繁荣数千年 thousands of years.
他们有许多成就 Their accomplishments were many.
他们留下一种书写语言 They left behind a written language that no one has ever
一直无人能破解 been able to decipher.
我们尚未找到线索来解释 We have yet to discover a clue that could explain
他们为何消失 why they vanished.
他们只是"失落世界馆"的谜团之一 They are just one of the mysteries of the Pavilion of Lost Worlds...
在公元前5世纪的希腊 In 5th century B.C.E. Greece,
历史之父希罗多德 Herodotus, the father of history,
写下了伊比利半岛上塔特西人的奢侈生活 wrote of the opulent lifestyle of the Tartessians on the Iberian Peninsula.
他们的财富 来自从地里开采的白银与黄金 Their wealth came from the silver and gold they extracted from the earth.
他们有自己的语言 文化 舞蹈 音乐 They had their own language, culture, dances, music
但他们的遗迹很少 and yet very little survives of them
只有少量设计精美的装饰品 besides a handful of trinkets of marvelous design.
他们的文明是地球的失落世界之一 Theirs is one of the lost worlds of planet Earth...
有一只无名的民族也是 他们生活在现今的纳吉尼亚 As are the nameless people, who lived in what is now Nigeria,
那个地方名叫诺克 in a place called "Nok."
有1500年的时间 他们的工程师走在科技最前端 For 1,500 years, their engineers were on the cutting edge of technology,
发展运用铁的新方式 forging new ways to work with iron.
一如塔特西人 Just as with the Tartessians,
他们拥有自己的独特文明 they had their own unique civilization.
他们全部的遗物只有一些风格与众不同的陶制雕像 All that remains of them are some ceramic statues in a
与这面墙上刻的一排字 style unlike any other and an inscription on this wall.
其他与他们有关的一切都被时间吞噬了 Everything else about them has been devoured by time...
然而在这座场馆中 这些失落的文明都还在 But inside this pavilion, these lost civilizations live,
那些人会呼吸 并再度起舞 they breathe, they dance again...
今晚要让哪个文明重生？ Of them all, which one to bring back to life tonight?
我知道了 I know...
印度河流域文明 the Indus Valley civilization
公元前2500年的巅峰时期 at its high point in 2,500 B.C.E.,
当时那是广大的城市网络 拥有500万人口 when it was a vast network of cities with a population of five million.
跟我一起去他们最著名的城市 Come with me to their most famous city,
摩亨佐-达罗 Mohenjo Daro...
摩亨佐-达罗，又称死亡之丘，是印度河流域文明的重要城市，位于现今巴基斯坦
在高峰期预计居住有4万人，但却在短时间内衰落，城内仅在上世纪发掘出44具散布的尸体
由于当局禁止了该地的再发掘，其衰亡原因成迷。
加载世界中...
转换世界中...
生成地形中...
我们不知道这个称为"大浴池"的水池要如何使用 We don't know how this pool called the "great bath" was used,
但我们知道这座城市规划建设时 but we do know that this city was planned and laid out,
希腊人还是许多流浪的小部落 while the Greeks wandered in small tribes,
一群流动商人而已 just a band of itinerant merchants...
等等 Wait...
听见了吗？ Do you hear that?
你听 Listen...
没错 将近五千年前的印度河流域人民 Yes, the Indus Valley people of nearly 5,000 years ago
在家里安装了现代抽水马桶 installed modern plumbing in their homes!
多数人要到20世纪后期才有这种东西 Something most people didn't have until the late 20th century.
此外他们也精通其他形式的水利工程 And, they mastered other forms of hydro-engineering,
地下管路 污水处理 underground pipes, sewage management,
有自来水的厨房 kitchens with running water.
他们有牙科 也有统一的度量单位 They had dentistry, and standardized measures for the
可以显示最小的量 tiniest quantities.
他们是优秀的雕塑家 把自然现实引入了 They were great sculptors who introduced natural reality
这种人类形态的三维描绘手法中 into the three dimensional depiction of the human form.
他们会书写 也会在建筑物上挂招牌 They had writing, and hung signs on buildings,
但我们还不知道其中的含义 but we have yet to understand their meaning.
他们用骰子玩博弈游戏 They used dice to play games of chance and wiled away their
也借由下棋消磨晚间时光 evenings with board games.
他们有个地方很奇特 And there's something curious about them.
他们并未在作品中留下战争描绘 They left no depictions of war in their art,
也没有存储大量武器 nor large caches of weapons.
没有证据显示他们精心规划的城市 There's no evidence that their meticulously planned cities
曾被入侵的敌人烧毁 were ever burned to the ground by enemy invaders.
在对他们同时期的文明 In the study of their contemporaries,
与人类史整体的研究中 这件事极不寻常 and human history generally, this is most unusual.
这个小人偶是他们文明留有的极少数遗物之一 This figurine is one of the only surviving remnants of their civilization.
但那些人就和我们一样真实 And yet, they were as real as we are.
他们存在的片刻也和我们一样真实 Their moment as real as ours...
就在失落世界馆的后方 Just beyond the Pavilion of Lost Worlds,
还有另一座 there's another one...
"未来世界馆" The pavilion of worlds still to come...
我们对恒星发射了5艘太空船 We've launched five ships to the stars.
那些太空船的技术落后且粗糙 They are backward and primitive craft, moving,
飞行速度跟星际距离比起来 compared to the immense interstellar distances,
简直是梦中比赛才会有的慢动作 with the slowness of a race in a dream.
但是在未来 我们会进步 But in the future we will do better.
我们找出并开始研究 We've located and begun to study thousands of worlds
数千颗绕着其他太阳运行的星球 that orbit other suns,
全部在我们位于银河系外围的远端基地进行 all this from our remote confinement in the suburbs of the galaxy,
这些仅在伽利略首次从望远镜看到其他星星后 all this in just 400 years since
过四百年就全部办到了 Galileo's first look through a telescope.
银河系有数千亿颗恒星 The Milky Way has hundreds of billions of stars,
很可能还有许多宜居星球 and likely even more worlds.
在这片广袤的某处 Somewhere in the vastness,
也许有一部星际百科全书 there may be an Encyclopedia Galactica,
这部参考书记录了所有恒星系统的所有星球 a reference work that includes all the worlds of all the stars.
我们对数千颗系外行星的 Our vague perceptions and inferences of thousands of
模糊认知与推论变成 exoplanets have given way to a more intimate degree of
对大约50万个星球的深入了解 knowledge of some half a million worlds.
想象有一个巨大的星系资料库 Imagine a huge galactic database,
一座全宇宙的亚历山大图书馆 a Library of Alexandria for the whole universe...
这个工具能让我们小星球 获得某种程度的宇宙公民资格 a means for our small world to attain some measure of cosmic citizenship...
想象有一部不断发展扩充的 Imagine an Encyclopedia Galactica that is constantly
星系百科全书 evolving and growing,
这项开放资源 an open source where the knowledge of
会让所有人皆可取得宇宙中各星球的相关知识 the worlds of the universe would be available to all.
"幸存者" 文明类型：1.8L 社会编码：2A11
星球年龄：1.14×10^17秒 首次本地发起联系：9.46×10^9秒前 生命元素：碳、氮、氧、硫，硒，氯 溴，水，硫单质，多环芳香族磺酰卤化物
这些自称"幸存者"的人 These guys, who call themselves "We Who Survived,"
只比我们稍微先进一点儿 are only a little more advanced than we are.
弱还原气氛下的移动式光自养生物 多趋向性，单色，不进行基因工程 科技水平：指数型发展，接近极限
要是我们能与他们沟通 If we could only communicate with them,
也许对方能告诉我们他们如何熬过他们激烈的发展期 maybe they could tell us how they got through their stormy adolescence.
存活几率（每100年）：80%
"我们于黑暗之中绽放" 文明类型：1.1R 社会编码：2Y6
这些生命也一样 And these guys, too...
多元文化融合体 生命元素：碳、氮、氧、铁、锗、硅 夜光光合自养生物
"我们于黑暗之中绽放" "We Who Flower in Darkness."
存活几率（每1000年）：72.1%
"融为一体" 文明类型：2.3R 社会编码：1H1
星际文明，多轨社群 文明存续时间：6.09×10^15秒 首次本地联系：5.67×10^15秒前 来源：量子纠缠数据包 由1504个超巨星，O型、B型、 A型主序星，恒星和脉冲星构成
远比我们先进的文明又是怎样？ What about a civilization far more advanced than ours?
也许有些星球的工程规模 There may be worlds with engineering on a scale that
会把我们最自豪的成就完全比下去 dwarfs our proudest achievements.
也许有文化会分解同一个星系中的其他行星 There may be cultures that disassemble other planets in
多元文化融合体 生命元素：碳、氢、氧、铍、铁、锗 氦、有机金属螯合物、种类多样 有中子密集封装和模块化的 星形连接低温超导电涡流器 年龄约5×10^16秒
再绕着自己的星球重组 their system and reassemble them around their world to
形成一个环 为他们取得更多空间与资源 make a ring, buying them more room and more resources.
他们的未来似乎很光明 Well, their future looks bright.
存活可能性（每百万年）：99%
"饮光者" 文明类型：6.2W 社会编码：3LQ
但是这些星球上的可怜生物 But the poor beings of these worlds have only a 1 in 3 chance
存活率却只有三分之一 of making it through.
那是什么？ What is that?
这会是他们为了解决全太阳系能源危机而做的尝试吗？ Could this be their attempt to solve a solar system-wide energy crisis?
他们仰赖太阳能生存 They depend on solar power,
但他们的恒星只是一颗衰弱的红矮星 but their star is only a feeble red dwarf,
星际文明，迅速分化的亲属群体， 正在重建统治秩序 文明存续时间：9.5×10^11秒 首次接收银河嵌套码：7.9×10^11秒前 来源：定向激光脉冲
无法提供足够的直接能量 incapable of providing direct energy
给他们的多行星文明 for their multi-planetary civilization.
也许他们已经用尽所有燃料 Maybe, they've used up all their fuel.
所以正在建造一个外壳包围他们的恒星 So, they're building a shell to surround their star
*戴森球
并收取阳光的每一粒光子 and harvest every photon of sunlight.
我们会如何建构我们在这本 How would we frame our own entry in the
"人类" 恒星：黄矮星 文明类型：1.0J 社会编码：4G4
宇宙潜在星球百科全书里的资料? Cosmic Encyclopedia of Possible Worlds?
行星外殖民地：建设中 星球年龄：1.45×10^17秒 首次本地联系：3.07×10^9秒前 首次接收银河嵌套码：努力中
或许现在就已经有生命为我们写好了 Perhaps, even now, someone has written it for us,
一份行星档案 资料收集于我们的电视节目 a planetary dossier garnered from our television broadcasts
生命元素：碳、氮、氧、硫、 水、磷酸根、脱氧核糖核酸 可进行低级基因工程 移动异养生物与光合自养生物共生 星球表面居民具有多样性 需要呼吸氧气 循环体液中含铁螯合四吡咯化合物
或者某种隐秘的勘察任务 or from some discreet survey mission.
其他文明可能会调出银河中我们这一区的蓝色星球索引 They might summon up the index of blue worlds in our province of the Milky Way
有性繁殖哺乳动物 质量约7×10^4克，年龄约2.8×10^9秒 科技：指数型增长/化石能源/核武器/有组织的战争 环境污染/忽视气候变化/全球生物修复起步中
直到翻阅到地球的条目 until they came to the listing for Earth.
他们会怎么想象我们？ What would they think of us?
我们长久以来都在观星并思考是否有其他生命 We have long watched the stars and mused about whether there
也会思忖我们 are other beings who think and wonder about us.
在这个大小与历史都超乎凡人认知的宇宙中 In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding,
文化：约200个国家 约6个世界强国 文化和科技的均衡发展起步中 偶有残存的统治阶级
我们有些寂寞 we're a little lonely.
存活几率（每100年）：50%
50%吗？就这么点？ 50%, huh? That's all?
我知道一个方法可以提高生存机率 I know a way we can up those odds...
就是要认真看待科学告诉我们的事 It's about taking what science is telling us to heart.
这是宇宙之梦 This is the dream of Cosmos.
也是科学在告诉我们的故事 And this is the story that science is telling us...
我们的宇宙诞生于大约140亿年前 Our universe began, some 14 billion years ago,
物质 能量 时间与空间向外炸开的时候 when matter, energy, time and space burst forth...
黑暗很寒冷 光明很炙热 And the darkness was cold, and the light was hot and the
这两个极端的结合让物质有了形体 union of these extremes gave shape to matter and
还产生结构 there was structure...
宇宙中有巨大的恒星 质量是我们这个太阳的数百倍 There were great stars, hundreds of times the mass of our Sun
这些恒星爆炸后 and these stars exploded,
发出氧与碳给即将形成的星球 sending oxygen and carbon to the worlds to come and
并以金和银加以修饰 adorning them with gold and silver...
恒星死去时化为黑暗 And in their deaths, the stars became darkness
这些黑暗的质量完全击败了光 and the weight of their darkness vanquished the light...
新恒星从死去恒星的云雾中诞生 And new stars were born from their death shrouds and they
然后双方开始共舞 began to dance with each other.
现在形成了诸多星系 And now there were galaxies...
星系创造了恒星 Galaxies make stars...
恒星创造了星球 Stars make worlds...
有一个星球诞生了生命 And a world made life...
到了后来的某个时刻 热能从这个星球的熔岩核心放射出来 And there came a time when heat shot out from the molten heart of this world
暖化了海洋 and it warmed the waters
以前从恒星降下的物质有了生命 and the matter that had rained down from the stars came alive
然后这些星尘又产生了知觉 and that star stuff became aware...
那个生命由地球 And that life was sculpted by the Earth,
以及与其他生物的竞争塑造成型 and its struggles with the other living things...
一棵大树成长茁壮 拥有许多分支 And a great tree grew up, one with many branches,
这棵树曾6次几乎被砍倒 and six times it was almost felled...
却仍不断生长 我们人类只是其中一根小分支 But still, it grows and we are but one small branch...
没有这颗大树就无法生存 One that cannot live without its tree.
慢慢地 我们学会阅读自然之书 And slowly, we learned to read the book of nature...
以学习自然法则 以培育这棵树 To learn her laws... To nurture the tree...
以成为宇宙了解自身的一种方式 To become a way for the cosmos to know itself
以回归最初的母星 and to return to the stars.
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一年前，当我看完宇宙时空之旅第一季的时候，我被震撼到流泪。 这并不是传统的宇宙纪录片，它描绘的不仅是星空之美，更是科学之美。 对先人追求真理的历史了解的越多，越能感受到人类的渺小与伟大。 六年过去，世界变得越来越疯狂，反智与伪科学甚嚣尘上， 追寻赛先生的道路任重而道远。 或许我们普通人并不能为人类科学发展揭开全新一页， 但我们仍能坚守宝贵的科学精神： 质疑权威、独立思考、自我质疑、实践验证、遵循证据、谨记人性； 像瓦维洛夫等人捍卫种子那样，捍卫人类生存与发展的根基：科学， 成为这颗暗淡蓝点上的理性之光。 ———贝壳字幕组
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