远古外星人（2009）

Ancient Aliens S14E09

Part 3 Jan. 19, 2022, 11:03 a.m.

这里还有两个冰虫
Over here, two more ice worms.
他们都在这里
They're all in here.
他显然在找什么东西
TSOUKALOS: He's clearly looking for something.
胡佛:是的他在守猎
HOOVER: Yeah, he's hunting.
我们在最荒凉的环境中发现了生命
We discovered life in the most inhospitable of environments.
令人惊讶的是胡佛博士发现了一些地球上最稀有的动物
NARRATOR: Amazingly, Dr. Hoover has found some of the rarest animals on Earth.
冰虫只存在于北美的少数几个地方
Ice worms only exist in a handful of locations in North America.
但是动物如何在冰冻的冰块中生存和繁衍呢?
But how can animals live and thrive in frozen blocks of ice?
那么这些冰虫是怎么来的呢?
So, how have these ice worms come about?
胡佛:这是一个不可思议的进化现象
HOOVER: This is an incredible evolutionary phenomenon.
它们显然已经进化到能够在冰川的冰雪中生活、生长、进食和繁殖
They have apparently evolved to be able to live and grow and feed and reproduce inside of glacial ice and snow.
它们以藻类、蓝藻和其他生活在冰里的细菌为食
They are feeding on algae, cyanobacteria and other bacteria that live in the ice,
它们可以在冰上挖洞
and they can make burrows through the ice,
就像蚯蚓在土里挖洞一样
just like an earthworm makes burrows through the soil.
我们可能会在火星的极地帽上看到类似的生物或者在月球的环形山上
And we may see similar kinds of organisms on the polar cap of Mars, or perhaps even in craters on the moon,
或者在我们太阳系的冰卫星上比如木卫二和土卫二看到类似生物
or perhaps the icy moons of our solar system, like Europa and Enceladus.
你知道这有点不可思议因为我们来到这里是希望找到有生命的微生物
You know, it's kind of incredible, because we came here in the hopes of finding microbial life,
这里我们看到的是冰虫
and here we are looking at ice worms,
它们是真正的动物
which are actual animals.
所以这比我们期望的更好
So this is more than what we'd hoped for.
它真不可思议
It-it's incredible.
当乔治和胡佛博士把他们的样本拿到实验室进行分♥析♥时
NARRATOR: As Giorgio and Dr. Hoover take their samples to a lab to be analyzed,
他们会在彭伯顿冰川中发现什么样的生命形式?
what kind of life-forms might they find within the Pemberton glacier?
它能支持彗星比我们想象得中更普遍存在生命的理论吗?
Could it support the theory that life on comets is more common than we ever thought possible?
如果是这样它只是一个充满各种生命形式的宇宙的随机副产品吗?
And if so, is it just the random byproduct of a universe that is teeming with various forms of life?
或者这是一个更有战略意义的计划的一部分?
Or is it part of a more strategic plan?
一个故意设计来改变人类进化的计划?
A plan deliberately designed to alter human evolution?
古代宇航员理论家乔治•索卡罗斯
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos
和美国宇航局退休科学家理查德•胡佛博士刚刚从加拿大惠斯勒的彭伯顿冰川收集了冰核样本
And retired NASA scientist Dr. Richard Hoover have just collected deep ice core samples from the Pemberton glacier in Whistler, Canada.
我们得到的第一个样本
First sample that we got.
现在回到实验室他们希望能观察到在冰川冰内保持休眠状态的微生物
NARRATOR: Now back in the lab, they are hoping to observe microorganisms that remain dormant within the glacial ice
它们数千年来第一次重获新生
and are just now returning to life for the first time in thousands of years.
- 看到什么? -哦好棒哦棒极了
- See anything? - Oh, yes. Oh, yes, yes.
我们得到了细菌
We've got bacteria.
我的意思是这很奇妙
This is fantastic. I mean,
看看这个旋转的细菌
look at this one spinning right here.
这个直接在屏幕上移♥动♥
This one just moved straight across the screen.
这一个正在翻滚
And this one is tumbling.
注意这里有一个细胞刚刚经历了细胞分♥裂♥
And notice there's a cell that has just undergone cell division.
这是另一个刚刚经历了细胞分♥裂♥ - 好的
Here's another one that's - just undergone cell division. - Okay.
对我来说对外星生命的探索
The quest for extraterrestrial life, to me,
已经是一辈子的事了就像它和你合体一样
has been a lifelong one, as it has been with you.
所以我环游世界爬金字塔
So I've traveled around the world, climbing pyramids.
我看过雕像去过几百家博物馆
I've looked at statues, I've been to hundreds of museums.
我读过无数的古籍
I've read countless ancient texts.
在这里我们看到的东西表明外星生命可能在数百万年前来到这里
And here, we are looking at something that shows extraterrestrial life that may have come here millions of years ago.
有趣的是一个比外星生命的存在更不寻常的假设是
The fascinating thing is that a far more extraordinary hypothesis than the existence of extraterrestrial life
生命只存在于地球上而不存在于宇宙的其他地方
is the hypothesis that life exists on the planet Earth and nowhere else in the universe.
如果事实果真如此
If that were to turn out to be what really is the case,
那么我们就是独一无二的
then we would be completely unique,
我们和宇宙中任何地方都不一样
and we would be different from everywhere else in the universe.
这将是一个惊人的发现
And that would be an amazing discovery.
比现在发现细菌和冰虫在木卫二表面爬行更令人惊奇
Much more amazing than finding out that bacteria or ice worms are crawling around on the surface of Europa today.
这真是太神奇了
This is incredibly fascinating, you know.
听到一位真正的NASA科学家告诉我这些事情我也很振奋
And it's also refreshing to hear an actual NASA scientist telling me these things.
如果正如胡佛博士的研究表明
NARRATOR: If, as Dr. Hoover's research indicates,
冰冷的彗星是外星生命的理想孵化器
icy comets are ideal incubators for extraterrestrial life,
如果微生物在宇宙中非常普遍那么地球是否经常受到微小的外星生命的轰炸呢?
and if microorganisms are incredibly common in the universe, is the Earth being regularly bombarded by tiny alien life-forms?
这种生命形式不仅可以生长和变异
Life-forms that could not only grow and mutate,
也会对人类构成致命的威胁吗?
but could also pose a deadly threat to mankind?
英国苏塞克斯 1992年
Sussex, England, 1992.
为了防止世界上最可怕的新疾病“疯牛病”的传播
Cattle are slaughtered by the thousands as government officials try to prevent
成千上万的牛被政♥府♥官员宰杀
the spread of the most frightening new disease on Earth called "mad cow disease."
这是一种全新的疾病由一种叫做朊病毒的奇怪蛋白质引起
It is an entirely new kind of illness caused by bizarre proteins called prions.
费雪:所以疯牛病真的有点挑战我们的观念
FISHER: So, mad cow really sort of challenged our,
它不是传统意义上的疾病诱因既不是细菌也不是病毒
uh, traditional concepts of disease causation in the sense that it wasn't a bacterium, wasn't a virus.
它实际上有点像流氓蛋白质不能正确折叠
It's actually sort of like rogue proteins that don't fold correctly
然后它把这些信息传递给其他蛋白质
and sort of pass on that information to other proteins,
这导致其他蛋白质功能失调
and that sort of makes them dysfunctional as well.
在彗星残骸中发现的一些微生物含有与朊病毒非常相似的化学结构
NARRATOR: Some of the microbes found in cometary debris contain chemical structures very similar to prions.
胡佛:它们可能是从太空引入的
HOOVER: They could have been introduced from space
因为疯牛病似乎是突然出现的而且传播范围很广
because of the fact that mad cow disease seemed to have appeared rather abruptly and been transferred rather widely.
根据古代宇航员理论家的说法
NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists,
疯牛病的突然出现提出了一个有趣的问题
the sudden appearance of mad cow disease raises an intriguing question.
历史上最严重的流行病有可能来自太空吗?
Could many of history's worst epidemics have come from space?
如果是这样他们来这里纯粹是偶然的吗?
And if so, did they come here purely by chance,
还是他们是故意来的?
or were they sent here on purpose?
伯恩斯:如果肆虐地球的可怕瘟疫是不断轰炸地球的外星病毒造成的呢?
BIRNES: What if the terrible plagues that ravaged the Earth were the result of alien viruses that are constantly bombarding the planet?
1976年8月26日
NARRATOR: August 26, 1976.
扎伊尔的一个小村庄亚布库受到一种致命疾病的袭击受害者从每一个孔都渗出血液
The small village of Yambuku in Zaire is struck by a deadly disease that causes victims to ooze blood from every orifice.
疾病的名称是:埃博拉
The name of the disease: Ebola.
埃博拉病毒是一种能感染人类和其他灵长类动物的出血热病毒性
Ebola is a viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates,
它会导致大量内出血 50%以上的病例会死亡
so it causes, like, massive internal bleeding and often death in, like, over 50% of cases.
最初被认为是一种新的疾病
NARRATOR: Initially thought to be a new disease,
警觉的历史学家认识到埃博拉病毒的症状和以前一种流行病的症状是一样的
alert historians recognized the symptoms of Ebola as being identical to those of an epidemic
它在2000年前摧毁了罗马帝国
that ravaged the Roman Empire nearly 2,000 years ago.
公元250年塞浦路斯人的瘟疫袭击了北非的迦太基城
In 250 AD, the Plague of Cyprian struck the city of Carthage in North Africa.
难以置信的传染性导致受感染的受害者从每一个孔都渗出血液
Incredibly contagious, it caused infected victims to ooze blood from every orifice,
就像埃博拉病毒一样
just like Ebola virus,
杀死了一半的人口
and killed off half the population.
但就像它出现的速度一样快
But just as quickly as it appeared,
瘟疫似乎从地球上完全消失了
the plague seemed to disappear completely from the planet.
如果三世纪地球上存在埃博拉病毒
If Ebola is present on Earth in the third century,
然后在19世界70年代前都消失了
then disappears all the way through to the 1970s,
如果它不是藏在地球上的某个地方
if it isn't somewhere hiding on Earth,
那它有可能是在太空中吗?
is it possible that it was out in space itself?
也许是在彗星上?
Perhaps on a comet?
这就是为什么它会在彗星上回归降临到地球上给人类带来更多的苦难?
And that this is the reason why it returned on a comet itself to rain down more misery on humanity?
我们所知道的埃博拉病毒真的休眠了近20个世纪吗?
NARRATOR: Was the virus that we know as Ebola really dormant for nearly 20 centuries?
或者它被不止一次而是两次被故意送到地球的?
Or was it deliberately sent to Earth not once but twice?
就古代宇航员理论家而言
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
答案是显而易见的
the answer is obvious.
作为证据他们提到了历史上另一场最严重的瘟疫:
And as proof, they point to accounts concerning another of history's worst plagues:
黑死病
The Black Death.
索卡罗斯:这些记录的有趣之处在于它们似乎是在天空中出现奇怪的东西后产生的
TSOUKALOS: What's interesting about these accounts is that they seem to have originated after something strange was seen up in the sky.
例如他们看到一个黑色的盾穿过也有描述说有一阵黑色的灰尘来自一个特定的物体
For example, they saw this black shield travel across, and then it is also described that this black dust came off that particular object.
伊姆布罗格尼:在麦田里
IMBROGNO: Also, in the wheat fields,
他们报告说这些奇怪的人拿着某种装置比如镰刀
they reported these strange figures holding some type of device, like a sickle.
今天有些人认为这些报告指的是某些类型的外星人引起的疾病
Some people feel today these reports were some types of extraterrestrials causing the disease.
具有讽刺意味的是
NARRATOR: Ironically,
随着一半人口的离去
with half the population gone,
那些在瘟疫中幸存下来的人所享有的财富和自然资源是上一代人的两倍
those who survived the plague enjoyed twice the wealth and natural resources of the previous generation.
他们也有更强的免疫系统
They also had much stronger immune systems.
那么这可能是某种深思熟虑的外星计划的一部分吗?
So, could this have been part of some deliberate extraterrestrial plan?
古代宇航员理论家认为这种大胆的想法是可能的
Ancient astronaut theorists believe that such an audacious notion is possible.
如果你是一个异族文化你会看到地球人口过剩到无法维持人口的地步
If you're an alien culture and you're seeing Earth overpopulating to the point where the planet can't sustain the population,
-我们是如何处理野生动物的?
- what do we do with animals in the wild? - (gunshot)
我们捕杀他们
We cull them.
如果这些瘟疫是外来文化在屠♥杀♥我们呢?
What if these plagues were alien cultures culling us?
巴拉:这些病毒实际上可能是设计出来的
BARA: Well, these could actually be designer viruses,
设计过的细菌被送到这里来杀死有特定基因缺陷的人并使基因库的其余部分变得更加强大
designer bacteria that are sent here to kill people with specific genetic weaknesses and make the rest of the gene pool that much stronger.
如果外星人试图通过引入微生物来减少我们的人口或加强我们的基因构成这是为什么呢?
NARRATOR: But if extraterrestrials are trying to cull our population or strengthen our genetic makeup through the introduction of microbes, why?
一些古代宇航员理论家怀疑最终的目标是让我们更像他们
Some ancient astronaut theorists suspect that the ultimate objective is to make us more like them.
法国巴黎
2013年7月
July 2013.
科学家宣布发现了一种全新的被称为潘多拉病毒的巨型微生物
Scientists announce the discovery of an entirely new class of extremely large microbes called Pandoraviruses.
高达94%的潘多拉病毒基因组与地球上任何生命形式都没有共同之处
Up to 94% of the Pandoravirus genome has nothing in common with any other life-form on Earth.
费雪:这些非常大的病毒潘多拉病毒
FISHER: These very large viruses, the Pandoraviruses,
它们有一个非常高的基因频率基本上与我们所知的其他生物体中的任何基因都不对应
they have a very high frequency of genes that basically don't correspond to any other genes in-in other organisms that we know of.
虽然看起来像外星来的
NARRATOR: While seemingly alien,
但潘多拉病毒和地球上所有的生命都有一个共同点:DNA