We all feel the weight of the shadows on our future.
But in another time, every bit as ominous as our own,
there were those who could see a way through the darkness
to find a star to steer by.
Carl Sagan wrote,
"I was a child in a time of hope...
I wanted to be a scientist from my earliest school days.
The crystallizing moment came when I first caught on that
the stars are mighty suns...
When it first dawned on me how staggeringly far away they
must be to appear as mere points of light in the sky...
I'm not sure I even knew the meaning of the word "science" then,
but I wanted somehow to immerse myself in all that grandeur...
I was gripped by the splendor of the universe...
Transfixed by the prospect of understanding how things
really work, of helping to uncover deep mysteries...
Of exploring new worlds...
Maybe even literally.
It has been my good fortune to have had that dream,
in part, fulfilled...
For me, the romance of science remains as appealing and
new as it was on that day...
When I was shown the wonders of the 1939 New York World's Fair.
This is where the future became a place."
But, how could there be hope in 1939?
The angriest voices had taken the world stage,
preaching hatred and tribal division.
The most cataclysmic war in history,
which would take the lives of 60 million human beings,
was only just beginning.
Yet, even as darkness descended,
it was possible to awaken the young Carl Sagan and his
contemporaries with a thrilling vision of the future.
One that was powerful enough to inspire many of them
to do the years of hard work required to
become scientists and engineers.
♪ ♪
The "miracle" of television became a reality to the public
at the 1939 World's Fair.
We had learned to manipulate electrons into what would become a
civilization-altering force.
This working model of a TV set was transparent to convince
the skeptics that what they were seeing was not just
motion picture images.
The images on the television screen were actually live
signals from across time and space.
A possible world of revolutionary high technology
was first glimpsed here.
Carl Sagan was the first to explore space and time on the
Ship of the Imagination.
But we have something else in common.
We both had life-changing experiences in this same place
in Flushing Meadow, New York.
When I was about the same age as Carl,
my family took me to the 1964 World's Fair.
I'm the little guy on the left.
It was 25 years later and our world faced a different set of problems.
The superpowers had rigged the planet with some tens of
thousands of nuclear weapons.
They were on short fuses that could be lit at any moment.
Preparing for the coming apocalypse was a frequent
ritual for schoolchildren like me.
While we all knew that our lives could be terminated at
any moment, the 1964 World's Fair presented a vision of a
boundless future, one freed of danger,
where science and technology had been refocused on human
hopes and dreams...
I have stunning, indelible memories of that visit.
My father was a key administrator for New York City
during the civil rights movement,
and they named a monorail car after him for the day...
We proudly rode the Tyson Comet into the fair.
I remember the life-like, animatronic dinosaurs and
being amazed that we could know about things that
happened so long ago.
I remember the sense that Earth was just a place we happened to be.
Even the fair's main symbol, the Unisphere,
was a vision of Earth in the larger context of the cosmos.
Remember, this was before anyone had ever seen the whole
Earth from deep space...
It was a time when everything soared.
Even the buildings seemed ready for take-off.
You could go on a trip to a brighter future,
an Earth where there were no slums,
and no hunger...
Some of those promises remain unfulfilled,
and others have been exceeded beyond even the wildest dreams of that time...
Do me a favor.
Try to forget everything you take for granted at this moment.
Imagine you've never seen a laptop, or tablet,
or smart phone,
that you've never searched for anything online,
or ever received an email or a text message from anyone.
This was a world where if you wanted to know something about
the history of life, or the lyrics to a song,
you had to go to the nearest library.
Like many people at that time,
it was here that I had my very first interaction
with a computer.
The machine on my right is the IBM Optical Character Reader.
It's a machine which reads handwritten numbers.
To illustrate its operation to you,
you will be able to ask for the news of any date that you'd like.
You simply write a date on a card and then the IBM Optical
Character Reader reads your handwritten numbers.
The computer replies with the news event.
Imagine my amazement that a machine could read the date of my birth,
and spit out the most important events that took place on that very day.
How could a machine possibly know that?
Even in this optimistic dream of the future,
the long shadow cast on it was inescapable...
The very same vehicles that promised to take us to other
worlds also threatened to destroy this one.
They could carry explorers, or they could carry weapons of
mass destruction.
This Project Mercury spacecraft had recently taken
Scott Carpenter into Earth orbit...
There was a two-man Gemini spacecraft that wouldn't be
operational for another year...
And the most ambitious of all: The Apollo command module and
lunar lander were close enough for me to reach out and touch.
The first actual manned trip to the Moon was still four years away.
Think of the audacity of that time:
We were going to send humans to the Moon
and bring them back safely,
and do it all with computers whose best trick was to tell
you what happened on the day you were born...
All these decades later,
I can't believe we really did those things.
But like Carl,
the hope I discovered at the World's Fair has never left me.
The odds were against us,
but we're still here more than 50 years later.
And still dreaming of what the future might hold for us...
Come with me to the New York World's Fair of 2039.
♪ ♪
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It's the year 2029 and there's a girl somewhere,
imaging how the future might unfold.
♪ ♪
Dreams are maps...
Without them, we go nowhere...
This new colossus, one of many erected in each of
the Earth's greatest harbors, is made of calcium carbonate,
the same material that nature used to build life's first
home in that ancient lost city beneath the sea.
Carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change,
has been extracted from our atmosphere and converted into
the mineral used to construct this monumental Tree of Life.
These new wonders of the world not only signify that our
species has found a way to avert the worst consequences
of climate change, but they also declare our ambition for
the kind of greatness that lives in harmony
with our fellow earthlings.
Welcome to the 2039 New York World's Fair.
Come with me.
♪ ♪
Hi.
Yes, it's right that way.
Here, in the Pavilion of the Searchers,
the greatest heroes in the history of science come to
virtual life to recount, one-on-one,
how they deciphered nature's secrets.
They tirelessly answer every conceivable question you might have.
And here, there is no such thing as a dumb question,
no shame in asking anything you really want to know.
And these aren't just robots whose heads are filled
with recorded messages.
We have found a way to reproduce the neural networks
in their brains, their ideas, memories and associations,
their connectome.
Imagine a world where the still unfolding story of the
universe was told to every child as naturally as we tell
them our nursery rhymes and fairy tales.
Oh, can they take us now?
Two questions: Did it blow your mind when we
discovered gravitational waves,
even though you said we never would?
Ja.
Second question.
Your hidden variables, solution to the paradox of
quantum mechanics, now that we know they don't exist,
what does that say about the nature of reality?
Come with me.
And this is the Pavilion of the 4th Dimension, time.
It's a place where anyone can set their coordinates in space and time,
and visit any moment in the 14 billion year history of cosmic evolution.
Isn't it amazing that we only started doing science
systematically four centuries ago?
And yet we've already been able to reconstruct so much of
what happened billions of years before we even got here.
♪ ♪
This Cosmic Calendar,
with all of time compressed into a single Earth year,
is yours to explore.
What event in the history of the universe would
you most like to witness?
Not the Big Bang,
everybody wants to see that, and besides,
you have to be over 14.
But, we could go to that nanosecond before time began...
Or that last perfect day of the dinosaurs.
Or to spend the afternoon with the mitochondrial Eve,
the mother of us all, the woman to whom all humans can
trace their lineage?
Or what about a day trip to Giza to see the pyramids when
they were new?
Just take your pick...
Life, the escape artist,
having found every niche on Earth,
even ventured to the Moon...
When we first stood amidst its sterile desolation,
its lifeless dust, a world painted only in shades of gray,
we began to appreciate how radically our planet
changed when it was touched by life's genius.
The eagle has landed.
What form will life's genius take hundreds of
millions of years in the future?
♪ ♪
Behold: This is the earliest known ancestor we
humans share with almost every animal who lives now
or ever lived on Earth.
The real Saccorrhytus coronarius was actually quite small,
just a black dot to our eyes,
but it looms large in our personal story.
"Sacco" flourished more than half a billion years ago.
It's a progenitor of the animal kingdom.
So how did life, the sculptor, carve us out of this?
Evolution, given world enough and time,
makes possible the emergence of those more complex and
completely unexpected qualities that can arise from
simpler things.
Life is a thread four billion years long.
It has survived at least five mass extinction events and
come back from each of them stronger than ever before.
Life demonstrates that we are more than the sum of our parts,
and even when we find ourselves with our backs to the wall,
life can find a way into the future...
Landmine.
A souvenir of our savagery left over from conflicts all over the planet.
We've infested our world with more than 100 million of them.
Every year they kill or maim thousands of civilians,
among them children at play with their friends.
Think of a global effort that would be required to find and
defuse more than 100 million explosive devices
buried in the earth.
Hopeless, right?
But botanists have devised an ingenious way to reveal
the presence of dangerous explosives beneath our feet.
They have bioengineered the thale cress plant whose roots
can detect the nitrogen dioxide gas that these
landmines and IEDs emit.
If the plant puts out red leaves, beware.
But if its leaves are green, then you can play there in
peace with your friends.
We can use our understanding of nature to spring the traps
that we've set for ourselves.
Let's take the subway to New Jersey.
We're riding the mycelium, that underground network that
connects 90% of the world's trees and plants.
It's an ancient coproduction of four kingdoms of life,
plants, bacteria, fungi and animals.
New Jersey was once a state with the highest number of
dangerously polluted areas in the country,
shameful artifacts of our technological adolescence.
But then, we partnered with the trees and the plants...
Poplars naturally transform trichloroethylenes,
known as TCEs, carcinogenic solvents that are common
by-products of industry, into harmless chloride ions.
Simple salts.
Microbiologists discovered that they could crossbreed two
different species of poplar trees to enhance their power
to neutralize TCEs.
The extensive planting of these trees not only rid this
area of its poisonous threats to human and other life,
but also added to the number of trees that turn the most
prevalent greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, into oxygen.
With our wars and our lifestyle,
we dumped a lot garbage on this world.
Not just landmines and IEDs,
but the toxins from our fossil fuels,
the waste from our consumer civilization,
nuclear power plants and weapons.
And the electronic toys that we discarded at an alarming
rate laden with lethal heavy metals, lead,
cadmium, beryllium and other e-wastes.
I have moments of despair when I try to wrap
my mind around the enormity of the problem...
But life even provides a way out of this nightmare.
It's called bioremediation...
See that node at the intersection?
That's yeast.
Without it, no bread, no beer.
But in this future, we have used it to clean up
the whole world.
It was a means to neutralize the most dangerous
garbage we produced.
Yeast captures these poisons and prevents them from
contaminating the water supply and the rest of the environment.
Think of it.
Nature offered us a second chance,
a shot at undoing the damage done...
But how do we keep from doing it again?
What on Earth is designed by humans to protect the distant future?
We don't have a single institution that even
acknowledges the long-term danger we pose to ourselves,
let alone one designed to plan for it.
Our time horizon looms three months from now,
or four years, the corporate balance sheet,
the next election.
But science is telling us that life's time scale measures in
the billions of years.
How do we maintain awareness of the continuity
of life's past,
and our personal role in being a link to its future,
so that it has operational consequences?
Science, as of now, has no means of making us wise and far-sighted.
That's up to us.
How many have lost the battle that we fight now?
How many worlds lie buried beneath the surface of this one?
Maybe we'll never know.
But here at this fair, there's a pavilion where long-dead
civilizations come roaring back to life...
I know of one lost world that flourished for
thousands of years.
Their accomplishments were many.
They left behind a written language that no one has ever
been able to decipher.
We have yet to discover a clue that could explain
why they vanished.
They are just one of the mysteries of the
Pavilion of Lost Worlds...
In 5th century B.C.E. Greece,
Herodotus, the father of history,
wrote of the opulent lifestyle of the Tartessians on the Iberian Peninsula.
Their wealth came from the silver and gold they extracted from the earth.
They had their own language, culture, dances,
music, and yet very little survives of them
besides a handful of trinkets of marvelous design.
Theirs is one of the lost worlds of planet Earth...
As are the nameless people, who lived in what is now
Nigeria, in a place called "Nok."
For 1,500 years, their engineers were on the cutting
edge of technology, forging new ways to work with iron.
Just as with the Tartessians,
they had their own unique civilization.
All that remains of them are some ceramic statues in a
style unlike any other and an inscription on this wall.
Everything else about them has been devoured by time...
But inside this pavilion, these lost civilizations live,
they breathe, they dance again...
Of them all, which one to bring back to life tonight?
I know...
the Indus Valley civilization
at its high point in 2,500 B.C.E.,
when it was a vast network of cities with a population of five million.
Come with me to their most famous city,
Mohenjo Daro...
We don't know how this pool called the "great bath" was used,
but we do know that this city was planned and laid out,
while the Greeks wandered in small tribes,
just a band of itinerant merchants...
Wait...
Do you hear that?
Listen...
Yes, the Indus Valley people of nearly 5,000 years ago
installed modern plumbing in their homes!
Something most people didn't have until the late 20th century.
And, they mastered other forms of hydro-engineering,
underground pipes, sewage management,
kitchens with running water.
They had dentistry, and standardized measures for the
tiniest quantities.
They were great sculptors who introduced natural reality
into the three dimensional depiction of the human form.
They had writing, and hung signs on buildings,
but we have yet to understand their meaning.
They used dice to play games of chance and wiled away their
evenings with board games.
And there's something curious about them.
They left no depictions of war in their art,
nor large caches of weapons.
There's no evidence that their meticulously planned cities
were ever burned to the ground by enemy invaders.
In the study of their contemporaries,
and human history generally, this is most unusual.
This figurine is one of the only surviving remnants of their civilization.
And yet, they were as real as we are.
Their moment as real as ours...
♪ ♪
Just beyond the Pavilion of Lost Worlds,
there's another one...
The pavilion of worlds still to come...
We've launched five ships to the stars.
They are backward and primitive craft, moving,
compared to the immense interstellar distances,
with the slowness of a race in a dream.
But in the future we will do better.
We've located and begun to study thousands of worlds that
orbit other suns, all this from our remote confinement in
the suburbs of the galaxy, all this in just 400 years since
Galileo's first look through a telescope.
The Milky Way has hundreds of billions of stars,
and likely even more worlds.
Somewhere in the vastness,
there may be an Encyclopedia Galactica,
a reference work that includes all the worlds of all the stars.
♪ ♪
Our vague perceptions and inferences of thousands of
exoplanets have given way to a more intimate degree of
knowledge of some half a million worlds.
Imagine a huge galactic database,
a Library of Alexandria for the whole universe...
a means for our small world to attain some measure of cosmic citizenship...
Imagine an Encyclopedia Galactica
that is constantly evolving and growing,
an open source where the knowledge of
the worlds of the universe would be available to all.
These guys, who call themselves "We Who Survived,"
are only a little more advanced than we are.
If we could only communicate with them,
maybe they could tell us how they got through their stormy adolescence.
And these guys, too...
"We Who Flower in Darkness."
What about a civilization far more advanced than ours?
There may be worlds with engineering on a scale that
dwarfs our proudest achievements.
There may be cultures that disassemble other planets in
their system and reassemble them around their world to
make a ring, buying them more room and more resources.
Well, their future looks bright.
But the poor beings of these worlds have only a 1 in 3 chance
of making it through.
What is that?
Could this be their attempt to solve a solar system-wide energy crisis?
They depend on solar power,
but their star is only a feeble red dwarf,
incapable of providing direct energy
for their multi-planetary civilization.
Maybe, they've used up all their fuel.
So, they're building a shell to surround their star
and harvest every photon of sunlight.
How would we frame our own entry in the
Cosmic Encyclopedia of Possible Worlds?
Perhaps, even now, someone has written it for us,
a planetary dossier garnered from our television broadcasts
or from some discreet survey mission.
They might summon up the index of blue worlds in our province
of the Milky Way, until they came to the listing for Earth.
What would they think of us?
We have long watched the stars and mused about whether there
are other beings who think and wonder about us.
In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human
understanding, we're a little lonely.
50%, huh? That's all?
I know a way we can up those odds...
It's about taking what science is telling us to heart.
This is the dream of Cosmos.
And this is the story that science is telling us...
Our universe began, some 14 billion years ago,
when matter, energy, time and space burst forth...
And the darkness was cold, and the light was hot and the
union of these extremes gave shape to matter and
there was structure...
There were great stars, hundreds of times the mass of
our Sun and these stars exploded,
sending oxygen and carbon to the worlds to come and
adorning them with gold and silver...
And in their deaths, the stars became darkness and the weight
of their darkness vanquished the light...
And new stars were born from their death shrouds and they
began to dance with each other.
And now there were galaxies...
Galaxies make stars...
Stars make worlds...
And a world made life...
And there came a time when heat shot out from the molten
heart of this world, and it warmed the waters and the
matter that had rained down from the stars came
alive and that star stuff became aware...
And that life was sculpted by the Earth,
and its struggles with the other living things...
And a great tree grew up, one with many branches,
and six times it was almost felled...
But still, it grows and we are but one small branch...
One that cannot live without its tree.
And slowly, we learned to read the book of nature...
To learn her laws... To nurture the tree...
To become a way for the cosmos to know itself
and to return to the stars.
我们都能感受到未来阴影的重量。
但在另一个时刻，和我们的时刻一样，
有些人能在黑暗中看到出路
找到一颗星星来指引方向。
卡尔·萨根写道,
“我是一个生活在希望时代的孩子……
我从孩提时代就想成为一名科学家。
当我第一次意识到这一点的时候，我的内心就有了结晶
星星是强大的太阳……
当我第一次意识到他们离我有多远时
只能出现在天空中，仅仅是一些光点…
我甚至都不知道“科学”这个词是什么意思，
但不知怎么的，我想让自己沉浸在所有的宏伟…
我被宇宙的光辉迷住了……
被理解事物的前景惊呆了
真正的工作，帮助揭开深层的秘密…
探索新世界…
也许是真的。
我很幸运做了这个梦，
在一定程度上满足……
对我来说，科学的浪漫仍然很有吸引力
虽然那天是新的……
当我在1939年纽约世界博览会上看到各种奇观时。
未来就在这里。”
但是，在1939年怎么可能有希望呢?
最愤怒的声音登上了世界舞台，
宣扬仇恨和部落分裂。
历史上最具灾难性的战争
会夺去6000万人的生命
只是刚刚开始。
然而，即使夜幕降临，
唤醒年轻的卡尔·萨根和他的孩子是可能的
对未来有着激动人心的幻想的同时代人。
这种力量足以激励他们中的许多人
去做需要多年的艰苦工作
成为科学家和工程师。
♪♪
电视的“奇迹”在公众面前变成了现实
1939年世界博览会上。
我们已经学会了如何操纵电子变成
civilization-altering力量。
这个电视机的工作模型是透明的，令人信服
怀疑者认为他们看到的不仅仅是
电影图像。
电视屏幕上的画面实际上是现场直播的
来自时空的信号。
一个可能的高科技革命的世界
是在这里第一次看到的。
卡尔·萨根是第一位探索太空和时间的科学家
想象之船。
但我们还有其他共同点。
在同一个地方，我们都有过改变人生的经历
在纽约的法拉盛草地。
当我和卡尔差不多大的时候，
我的家人带我去了1964年的世界博览会。
我是左边的那个小家伙。
25年后，我们的世界面临着一系列不同的问题。
超级大国在这个星球上安装了几十个
成千上万的核武器。
他们的保险丝很短，随时都可能点燃。
为即将到来的天启做准备是常有的事
像我这样的小学生的仪式。
虽然我们都知道，我们的生命可能在
任何时候，1964年的世博会都呈现出一幅壮观的景象
无限的未来，一个没有危险的未来，
在哪里科学技术重新聚焦于人类
希望和梦想……
那次访问给我留下了难忘的回忆。
我父亲是纽约市的一个重要管理者
在民权运动期间，
他们以他的名字命名了一辆单轨电车…
我们骄傲地骑着泰森彗星进入博览会。
我记得栩栩如生的电子恐龙和
惊讶于我们能知道的事情
那是很久以前的事了。
我记得那种感觉，地球只是我们碰巧在的一个地方。
甚至博览会的主要标志，Unisphere，
是宇宙大背景下的地球景象。
请记住，这是在任何人看到整体之前
来自外太空的地球…
那是一个一切都在腾飞的时代。
就连大楼似乎也准备起飞了。
你可以去一个更光明的未来，
一个没有贫民窟的地球
没有饥饿……
其中一些承诺仍未兑现，
而其他的则超越了当时甚至最狂野的梦想…
帮我个忙。
试着忘记此刻你认为理所当然的一切。
想象你从未见过笔记本电脑或平板电脑，
或智能手机,
你从未在网上搜索过任何东西
或者曾经收到过任何人的电子邮件或短信。
这是一个如果你想知道些什么的世界
生命的历史，或是一首歌的歌词，
你得去最近的图书馆。
和当时很多人一样，
就是在这里，我有了我的第一次互动
用一台电脑。
我右边的机器是IBM光学字符阅读器。
这是一台读取手写数字的机器。
为了说明它的运作，
你可以询问任何你想要的日期的消息。
你只需要在卡片上写一个日期，然后IBM眼镜就可以了
字符阅读器读取你手写的数字。
计算机用新闻事件进行回复。
想象一下，当一台机器能读懂我的生日时，
说出当天发生的最重要的事件。
机器怎么可能知道呢?
即使在这个乐观的未来梦想中，
它身上投下的长长的阴影是不可避免的……
那些承诺要把我们带到其他地方的交通工具
世界也威胁要毁灭这一个。
他们可以携带探险者，或者携带武器
大规模杀伤性武器。
这艘水星飞船是最近完成的
斯科特·卡彭特进入地球轨道…
有一艘双人双子座飞船就不会
再运行一年…
其中最具雄心的是阿波罗指令舱和
月球着陆器离我很近，我可以伸手触摸到它。
第一次载人登月之旅仍需四年时间。
想想当时的大胆:
我们要把人类送上月球
把他们安全地带回来，
所有这些都是用电脑完成的，而电脑最擅长的就是分辨
你出生那天发生了什么…
几十年后，
我真不敢相信我们真的做了那些事。
但就像卡尔,
我在世博会上发现的希望从未离开过我。
机会对我们不利，
但50多年后，我们仍然在这里。
还在幻想着我们的未来……
跟我一起去2039年的纽约世界博览会吧。
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这是2029年，在某个地方有个女孩，
想象一下未来可能会如何展开。
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梦是地图……
没有它们，我们将无处可去……
这个新的巨像，是在每个城市竖立的众多巨像之一
地球上最大的港口是由碳酸钙构成的
也就是大自然用来建造生命第一的材料
在海底那个失落的古老城市的家。
二氧化碳，气候变化的主要驱动力，
从我们的大气中提取并转化成
用来建造生命之树的矿物
这些新的世界奇迹不仅意味着我们的
物种已经找到了避免最坏后果的方法
但它们也宣示了我们对气候变化的雄心
和谐生活的伟大
和我们的地球同胞一起。
欢迎来到2039年纽约世界博览会。
跟我来。
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嗨。
是的，就在那边。
这里，在搜索者的亭子里，
科学史上最伟大的英雄都出现了
虚拟生活来叙述，一对一，
他们是如何破译大自然的秘密的。
他们不知疲倦地回答你可能想到的每一个问题。
在这里，没有愚蠢的问题，
问任何你真正想知道的事都不感到羞耻。
这些不仅仅是脑袋装满了东西的机器人
与记录信息。
我们找到了一种复制神经网络的方法
在他们的大脑中，在他们的想法，记忆和联想中，
他们的连接体。
想象一个世界，那里的故事仍在展开
宇宙像我们一样自然地告诉了每个孩子
它们是我们的童谣和童话。
哦，他们现在能把我们带走吗?
两个问题，当我们
发现了重力波,
即使你说我们永远不会?
农协。
第二个问题。
你的隐藏变量，解决的悖论
量子力学，既然我们知道它们不存在，
这说明了现实的本质是什么?
跟我来。
这是第四维度的展馆，时间。
在这里，任何人都可以设定自己的时空坐标，
访问140亿年宇宙进化史中的任何时刻。
我们才开始研究科学，这不是很神奇吗
系统地四百年前?
但我们已经能够重建很多
我们到这里之前几十亿年发生了什么。
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这个宇宙的日历,
所有的时间都被压缩成一个地球年，
是你去探索的。
宇宙历史上会发生什么事情呢
你最喜欢见证吗?
不是宇宙大爆炸，
每个人都想看，而且，
你必须超过14岁。
但是，我们可以在时间开始前到达那纳秒……
或者恐龙的最后一天。
或者和线粒体夏娃一起度过一个下午，
她是我们所有人的母亲，是所有人都能亲近的女人
跟踪他们的血统吗?
或者什么时候去吉萨看金字塔一日游怎么样
他们是新的吗?
随便挑吧……
生活，逃离艺术家，
找到了地球上的每一个角落
甚至冒险去月球…
当我们第一次站在荒芜的土地上
它那没有生命的尘土，一个只被涂上灰色阴影的世界，
我们开始意识到我们的星球是多么的彻底
当它被生命的天才所触动时，它改变了。
老鹰降落了。</i
生活的天才会以什么样的形式出现呢
几百万年以后?
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看哪，这是我们所知最早的始祖
人类几乎和现在生活的每一种动物都一样
或者曾经在地球上生活过。
真正的冠状海狮实际上非常小，
只是我们眼中的一个黑点，
但这在我们的个人经历中显得尤为重要。
“烟草”在5亿年前就已经兴盛起来了。
它是动物王国的祖先。
那么，作为雕刻家的生命，是如何将我们塑造出来的呢?
进化，给世界足够的时间，
使得这些问题的出现更加复杂
可以产生完全意想不到的品质
简单的事情。
生命是一根40亿年长的线。
它至少在五次大灭绝事件中幸存下来
从每一个挫折中走出来，变得比以前更强大。
生活告诉我们，我们不仅仅是各部分的总和，
即使当我们发现自己已经陷入绝境，
生活总有通向未来的路……
地雷。
这是我们在世界各地冲突后留下的野蛮的纪念品。
我们的世界已经有超过1亿只蚊子了。
它们每年杀死或致残成千上万的平民，
其中有孩子们在和他们的朋友们玩耍。
试想一下需要全球努力来找到和
拆除1亿多枚爆炸装置
埋在地下。
绝望的,对吧?
但是植物学家发明了一种巧妙的方法来揭示
我们脚下有危险的炸药
他们对十字花科植物的根进行了生物工程
能探测到这些二氧化氮气体吗
地雷和简易爆炸装置会释放。
如果植物长出红叶，当心。
但是如果它的叶子是绿色的，那么你就可以在里面玩
与朋友和睦相处。
我们可以利用对自然的了解来设置陷阱
这是我们自己设定的。
我们乘地铁去新泽西吧。
我们骑在菌丝体上，这个地下网络
连接了世界上90%的树木和植物。
这是古老的《四个生命王国》的共同产物，
植物，细菌，真菌和动物。
新泽西曾经是拥有最高数量的州
这个国家污染严重的地区
可耻的人工制品，我们的技术青春期。
但后来，我们与树木和植物合作……
杨树能自然转化三氯乙烯，
即TCEs，常见的致癌溶剂
工业副产品，变成无害的氯离子。
简单的盐。
微生物学家发现他们可以杂交两种
不同树种的杨树增强其实力
中和tc。
大量种植这些树不仅消除了这种疾病
对人类和其他生命构成威胁的地区，
同时也增加了树木的数量
主要的温室气体二氧化碳转化为氧气。
我们的战争和生活方式，
我们向这个世界倾倒了很多垃圾。
不仅仅是地雷和简易爆炸装置
但是化石燃料中的毒素，
来自我们消费文明的废物，
核电站和武器。
还有我们丢弃在警戒线的电子玩具
含有致命重金属，铅，
镉、铍和其他电子垃圾。
我试着打包的时候也有绝望的时候
我担心这个问题的严重性。
但生活甚至提供了一种摆脱这种噩梦的方法。
它被称为生物修复……
看到交叉点的那个节点了吗?
这是酵母。
没有它，没有面包，没有啤酒。
但在这个未来，我们已经用它来清理
整个世界。
这是一种压制最危险分子的手段
我们产生的垃圾。
酵母会捕获这些毒素并阻止它们
污染水源和其他环境。
把它。
大自然给了我们第二次机会
试图消除已经造成的伤害……
但是我们怎样才能避免重蹈覆辙呢?
人类究竟设计了什么来保护遥远的未来?
我们没有一个机构甚至
认识到我们对自己构成的长期危险，
更不用说为之设计的计划了。
三个月后，我们的时间地平线隐约可见，
或者四年，公司资产负债表，
下一次选举。
但是科学告诉我们生命的时间尺度是以
几十亿年。
我们如何保持对连续性的意识
生活的过去,
而我们个人的角色是连接它的未来，
所以它有操作上的结果?
到目前为止，科学还不能使我们变得明智和有远见。
这取决于我们。
有多少人在我们现在的战斗中失败了?
在这个星球的表面下埋藏着多少个世界?
也许我们永远也不会知道。
但在这个博览会上，有一个早已死去的亭子
文明重现生机…
我知道一个失落的世界曾经繁荣过
数千年。
他们的成就很多。
他们留下了一种从未有过的书写语言
能够破译。
我们还没有发现可以解释的线索
他们为什么消失了。
它们只是宇宙之谜之一
失落世界的亭子……
公元前5世纪的希腊，
历史之父希罗多德，
描写了伊比利亚半岛鞑靼人的奢华生活。
他们的财富来自他们从地里挖出的金银。
他们有自己的语言，文化，舞蹈，
音乐，但很少能保存下来
除了一些设计精美的小饰品。
他们的世界是地球上一个失落的世界…
生活在现在的无名之人也是如此
尼日利亚，一个叫Nok的地方。
1500年来，他们的工程师一直处于巅峰状态
尖端技术，锻造出与铁打交道的新方法。
就像鞑靼人一样，
他们有自己独特的文明。
他们剩下的只有一些陶瓷雕像
风格不同于任何其他的和铭文在这面墙。
关于他们的一切都被时间吞噬了……
但在这个亭子里，这些失落的文明生活着，
他们呼吸，他们再次跳舞…
今晚该让哪一个复活呢?
我知道…
印度河流域文明
在它的鼎盛时期是公元前2500年，
当时它是一个拥有五百万人口的庞大城市网络。
和我一起去他们最著名的城市，
Mohenjo Daro……
我们不知道这个被称为“大浴池”的池子是如何使用的，
但我们知道这座城市是经过规划和规划的，
当希腊人在小部落里游荡时，
只是一群游荡的商人…
等待……
你听到了吗?
听……
是的，大约5000年前的印度河流域人
在家里安装了现代化的管道!
这是大多数人直到20世纪末才拥有的。
他们还掌握了其他形式的水利工程，
地下管道，污水管理，
有自来水的厨房。
他们有牙医，标准化的措施
最小的数量。
他们是引入自然现实的伟大雕塑家
变成人体形态的三维描绘。
他们有文字，在建筑物上悬挂标志，
但是我们还没有理解他们的意思。
他们用骰子玩碰运气的游戏，骗走了他们的钱
晚上玩棋盘游戏。
它们有一些奇怪的地方。
他们在艺术中没有留下任何对战争的描写，
也没有大量的武器储备。
没有证据表明他们精心规划的城市
被敌军侵略者烧为平地。
在他们同时代人的研究中，
在人类历史上，这是最不寻常的。
这个小雕像是他们文明中唯一幸存下来的遗迹之一。
然而，他们和我们一样真实。
他们的时刻和我们的一样真实……
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就在失落世界的展馆外，
有另一个……
即将到来的世界馆……
我们已经发射了五艘飞船。
它们是落后而原始的工艺，移动着，
与浩瀚的星际距离相比，
像梦中的赛跑一样缓慢。
但是将来我们会做得更好。
我们已经定位并开始研究数以千计的世界
绕着其他太阳转，这一切都是从我们遥远的禁闭中来的
银河系的郊区，这一切都发生在400年前
伽利略第一次用望远镜观察。
银河系有数千亿颗恒星
可能还有更多的世界。
在这辽阔的土地上，
可能有百科全书卡拉狄加，
一个参考作品，包括所有星球的所有世界。
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我们模糊的感知和推断成千上万
系外行星已经让位于更亲密的
大约有50万个世界的知识。
想象一个巨大的银河数据库，
整个宇宙的亚历山大图书馆……
这是我们这个小小世界获得某种程度的宇宙公民身份的一种手段……
想象一个百科全书卡拉狄加> /i>
它在不断进化和成长，
一个开源的地方的知识
宇宙的世界将对所有人开放。
这些人，他们自称“我们幸存者”，
只比我们先进一点点。
如果我们能和他们交流，
也许他们可以告诉我们他们是如何度过暴风骤雨般的青春期的。
还有这些家伙…
“我们在黑暗中开花。”
一个远比我们先进的文明呢?
也许世界上的工程在某种程度上
使我们最自豪的成就相形见绌。
可能会有文化把其他星球拆散
他们的系统和重新组装他们的世界
做一个戒指，给他们更多的空间和更多的资源。
他们的未来看起来很光明。
但是这些世界上可怜的人只有三分之一的机会
挺过来的机会。
那是什么?
这是他们解决太阳能系统能源危机的尝试吗?
他们依靠太阳能，
但他们的恒星只是一颗微弱的红矮星，
不能提供直接能源
为他们的多行星文明。
也许，他们已经用完了所有的燃料。
所以，它们在恒星周围形成一个壳层
收集每一个阳光的光子
我们如何构造我们自己的条目
宇宙可能世界百科全书? > /i>
也许，即使是现在，也有人为我们写了它，
我们的电视广播收集了一个行星档案
或者是一些谨慎的调查任务。
他们也许能找到我们省的蓝色世界索引
直到他们来到地球的名单。
他们会怎么看我们?
长久以来，我们一直在观察星星，思考是否存在
是其他对我们思考和好奇的生物。
在一个超越普通人的浩瀚而古老的宇宙环境中
明白吗，我们有点孤单。
50%,是吧?这是所有吗?
我知道一个提高几率的方法…
而是把科学告诉我们的放在心里。
这就是《宇宙》的梦想
这就是科学告诉我们的故事……
我们的宇宙开始于140亿年前，
当物质、能量、时间和空间爆发时……
黑暗冷，光明热，灯光暗
这两种极端的结合形成了物质和形体
有结构……
有大恒星，质量是。的数百倍
我们的太阳和这些恒星爆炸了
将氧气和碳送到即将到来的世界
用金银装饰它们……
在他们的死亡中，星星变成了黑暗和重量
他们的黑暗征服了光明……
新的恒星从死亡的阴影中诞生
开始互相跳舞。
现在有了星系……
星系使恒星…
明星使世界……
一个世界创造了生命…
有一段时间，热从熔液中喷出来
它温暖了海水和海水
从天上落下的物质来了
活着，恒星的物质开始意识到…
生命是由地球塑造的，
它和其他生物斗争着……
一棵大树长了起来，长着许多树枝，
有六次它几乎被击倒……
但是，它仍然在生长，而我们只是一根小树枝……
没有树就活不下去的树。
慢慢地，我们学会了阅读自然之书……
学习她的法律…养育这棵树……
成为宇宙认识自身的一种方式
回到星空。