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Is this our final century? Martin Rees 2007-01-17 /talks/martin_rees_is_this_our_final_century Pollykann - A powerful video player (App) for learning languages provided technical support for the subtitles. 本字幕由【小鹦看看】- 用了会后悔，不用更后悔的外语学习App，提供技术支持。 If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: 如果你随机挑选出10000个人，其中的9999个人会有如下共性： their interests in business lie on or near the Earths surface. 他们对商业的兴趣显而易见 The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed. 余下的那位怪人是天文学家，而我就是这个奇特物种中的一员。 (Laughter) （笑声） My talk will be in two parts. Ill talk first as an astronomer, 我的发言将分为两部分。首先作为一个天文学家发言 and then as a worried member of the human race. 之后作为人类社会中忧心忡忡的一员 But lets start off by remembering that Darwin showed 让我们首先回顾达尔文所指出的： how were the outcome of four billion years of evolution. 我们人类只是40亿年进化的产物。 And what we try to do in astronomy and cosmology 我们进行天文学和宇宙学研究要做的 is to go back before Darwins simple beginning, 就是回溯到达尔文的理论原点 to set our Earth in a cosmic context. 将我们的地球置于宇宙的背景中。 And let me just run through a few slides. 请允许我展示几张图片。 This was the impact that happened last week on a comet. 这是发生在上周的一次撞击彗星实验。 If theyd sent a nuke, it would have been rather more spectacular 倘若他们发射的是颗核弹的话，其景象将会更加壮观。 than what actually happened last Monday. 图片显示的是上周一的实景。 So thats another project for NASA. 那是NASA（美国国家航空航天局）的又一个项目。 Thats Mars from the European Mars Express, and at New Year. 这张是在新年时由欧洲“火星快车号”探测器拍到的火星。 This artists impression turned into reality 艺术家的创想变成了现实， when a parachute landed on Titan, Saturns giant moon. 当一个着陆装置降落在土星的巨大的卫星泰坦（土卫六）上。 It landed on the surface. This is pictures taken on the way down. 它降落在土卫六的表面。这张图片拍摄于着陆途中。 That looks like a coastline. 那些看起来像是海岸线。 It is indeed, but the ocean is liquid methane -- 它们确实是，但“海洋”是液态的甲烷 - the temperature minus 170 degrees centigrade. 温度是零下170摄氏度。 If we go beyond our solar system, 如果我们放眼到太阳系之外， weve learned that the stars arent twinkly points of light. 我