这表明 至少在神话中
suggesting that, at least in mythology,
那里的行星上可能住着像我们这样的生物
there are planets there that could be inhabited by creatures like us.
虽然许多古代文明指出遥远的星系是他们的神的家园
NARRATOR: While many ancient cultures pointed to distant star systems as the homes of their gods,
古代宇航员理论家认为 最古老的人类文明之一苏美尔文明
ancient astronaut theorists suggest that one of the oldest human civilizations, the Sumerians,
他留下了来自另一个星球的 另一个世界的记录 就在我们的太阳系里
left records of otherworldly beings that came from a planet right in our own solar system.
一颗直到最近才被认为可能存在的行星
A planet that until very recently was thought not to exist.
纽约市
New York City.
1976年
1976.
作家撒迦利亚·西琴出版了他的标志性著作《第12颗行星》
Author Zecharia Sitchin publishes his landmark book "The 12th Planet."
这是十几本以西琴翻译的古代苏美尔文献为基础的 众多书籍中的第一本书
The first of over a dozen books based upon Sitchin's translations of ancient Sumerian texts,
《第12颗行星》最终改变了数百万人看待地球生命史的方式
"The 12th Planet" ultimately reshapes the way millions of people view the history of life on Earth.
在这篇文章中 西琴声称古代苏美尔人记录过一个外星种族曾造访过地球
In it, Sitchin claims that ancient Sumerians wrote about an extraterrestrial race that once visited Earth,
阿努纳奇人
the Anunnaki.
“阿努纳奇”这个词基本上可以与“外星生物”互换
The term "Anunnaki" is essentially interchangeable with "extraterrestrial,"
因为“阿努纳奇”这个词本身的意思是“那些从天堂来的人”
because the word "Anunnaki" itself means "those who from the heavens came."
玛特尔:基本上 这里有一个完整的阿努纳奇神殿
MARTELL: There's a whole pantheon of Anunnaki, basically.
阿奴是所有阿努纳奇人的国王
There was Anu, who is essentially the king of all the Anunnaki.
然后是他的两个儿子恩利尔和恩基
And then his two sons Enlil and Enki.
当我们看很多苏美尔人的石板时
When we look in a lot of the Sumerian tablets,
他们似乎来自一个更大的行星 一个红色的 发光的行星
they seemed to have come from a much larger planet, a reddish, glowing planet.
亨利:关于阿努纳奇人最重要的一个问题是:他们是从哪里来的?
HENRY: One of the great questions about the Anunnaki is: where did they come from?
西琴回顾了古代文献 开始建立一个理论
Well, Zecharia went back into the ancient texts and began to build a theory
阿努纳奇人来自太阳系中尚未被发现的第12颗行星 它称之为尼比鲁
that the Anunnaki came from an as‐yet undiscovered 12th planet in our solar system that he called Nibiru.
马泰尔:尼比鲁被描述为比地球大得多的行星
MARTELL: Nibiru is described as a much larger planet than Earth.
它的轨道是椭圆形的
And it has a very elliptical orbit.
更像是一个巨大的蛋形轨道
More like a large egg‐shaped orbit.
这里的问题是 它每3600年绕太阳一圈
The kicker here is that it goes once around the Sun every 3,600 years.
所以他们的太阳年是我们的3600年
So a solar year for them is 3,600 of our years.
奇尔德里斯:西琴认为 在这3600年的轨道运行中 有一段时间这颗行星实际上与地球相当接近
CHILDRESS: Sitchin believed that there was a time during this 3,600‐year orbit when this planet was actually relatively close to the Earth.
然后西琴推断阿努纳奇人会发射火箭 然后他们会来到地球
And Sitchin then theorized the Anunnaki would then fire their rockets and then they would come here to Earth.
这就是它们与人类互动的方式
And that this was how they were interacting with humans.
几十年来
NARRATOR: For decades,
天文学家声称在我们的太阳系中不可能存在这样的行星
astronomers claimed that no such planet could exist in our solar system.
但在2016年 加州理工学院的天文学家康斯坦丁•巴蒂金 和迈克•布朗有了一项发现 可以证明这个理论是错误的
But in 2016, Caltech astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown made a discovery that could prove this theory wrong.
巴蒂金和布朗使用了一种有趣的方法来寻找太阳系中的其他行星
Batygin and Brown were using an interesting method of looking for other planets in the solar system.
也就是说 他们在观察矮行星和遥远的柯伊伯带天体 看它们是如何运动的
Namely, they were looking at dwarf planets and distant Kuiper belt objects to see how they move.
如果他们表现出任何奇怪的行为
If they exhibit any strange behavior,
天文学家可以利用这一点来建立新行星的理论
astronomers can use that to theorize new planets.
他们发现理论上存在一个行星质量大小的物体 在一个巨大的椭圆形轨道上围绕太阳运行
And what they found was a theoretical planet‐sized mass, orbiting in a hugely elliptical orbit around the Sun.
奇尔德里斯:天文学家经常怀疑 由于某些重力异常和其他原因
CHILDRESS: Astronomers have often suspected, because of certain gravitational anomalies and things,
在遥远的太阳系里还有其他星球
that there is still some other planet far out in our solar system,
嗯 除了冥王星
uh, beyond Pluto.
天文学家称这颗行星为行星X
Astronomers called this other planet Planet X.
它可能是一个非常大的行星
And it could be a very large planet.
而天文学家看不到它
Astronomers cannot see it,
但我怀疑天文学家最终会发现它 并证明它的存在
but I would suspect that astronomers will eventually discover it and‐and prove that it exists.
巴蒂金和布朗估计 行星X的轨道高度呈椭圆形 绕太阳一周需要几千年的时间
NARRATOR: Batygin and Brown estimate that Planet X has a highly elliptical orbit and takes it thousands of years to make a single trip around our sun.
这与撒迦利亚·西琴在古苏美尔石板中发现的翻译内容完全一致
This matches exactly what Zecharia Sitchin found in his translation of the ancient Sumerian tablets,
关于我们太阳系存在着另一颗行星
concerning an extra planet in our solar system.
亨利:问题是 如果我们发现了行星X
HENRY: The thing about it is, is that if we discover Planet X,
然后我们还会发现阿努纳奇人
then we will also discover the Anunnaki.
所以它们是完全缠绕在一起的
So they're absolutely entwined.
阿努纳奇人的想法和行星X的发现将相互证明
The idea of the Anunnaki and the discovery of Planet X will prove one another.
外星人可能是从我们太阳系的某个行星来到地球的吗?
NARRATOR: Could extraterrestrials have come to Earth from a planet within our own solar system?
如果地球实际上接待了来自多个世界的外星人 那是什么把他们带到这里的呢?
And if Earth has, in fact, played host to alien visitors from multiple worlds, what brought them here?
根据古老的苏美尔石板
According to the ancient Sumerian tablets,
阿努纳奇人把一件事看得比什么都重要……黄金
the Anunnaki valued one thing above all else... gold.
加利福尼亚 洛杉矶 2019年6月
跨宇宙航行公♥司♥宣布与美国国家航♥空♥航♥天♥局合作 开♥发♥太空小行星采矿的新项目
The Trans Astronautic Corporation announces a partnership with NASA to develop a new venture in space‐‐ asteroid mining.
我们在2015年合并了TransAstra公♥司♥ 当时我们看到了SpaceX、埃隆•马斯克、蓝色起源和杰夫•贝佐斯
We incorporated TransAstra in 2015 when we saw that SpaceX and Elon Musk and Blue Origin and Jeff Bezos
和其他企业家正在开♥发♥低成本
and other entrepreneurs were developing low‐cost,
非常有效的进入轨道的方法
really effective ways to get in orbit.
一旦我们有了可以廉价进入轨道的火箭
Once we have rockets that can get into orbit inexpensively,
那么 我们在太空建立真正的工业就有意义了
then it makes sense to start building real industries in space.
第一批产业之一是小行星采矿
And one of the first industries is asteroid mining.
我们在地球上真正重视的贵金属 比如黄金和铂金 它们被称为贵金属 因为它们并不常见
Precious metals that we really value on the Earth‐‐ things like gold and platinum‐‐ they're called precious metals 'cause they're not around much.
问题是:他们在哪里?
Question is: where are they?
答案是在小行星上
And the answer is asteroids.
金属 比如金 铜
NARRATOR: Metals like gold, copper,
锌在地球上已经开采了几千年 对人类文明至关重要
and zinc have been mined on Earth for thousands of years and are vital to civilization.
但它们的供应是有限的
But their supply is finite,
部分原因是它们不是这个星球的本土金属
in part because they are not native to this planet.
当地球最初形成时 它是灼热的
When the Earth was originally being formed, it was molten,
许多贵重金属被吸引到地球的中心
and a lot of the precious metals were drawn towards the center of the Earth.
通过这个熔化的过程
And through this molten process,
所有的重元素都进入了地核 我们无法接触到它们
all the heavy elements went down to the core of the Earth where we can't get access to them.
然后地球开始变冷 形成了一个冷的地壳
Then the Earth started to cool and form a cool crust,
它是由较轻的材料形成的
which was made of lighter materials.
人们普遍认为 如果没有金属 就不可能有技术和文明
NARRATOR: It is widely accepted that without access to metals, both technology and civilization would not have been possible.
但人类很幸运
But luckily for mankind,
大约38亿年前
some 3.8 billion years ago,
据估计 有数万亿颗小行星撞击地球 并在地球坚硬的外壳上沉积了一层重金属
it is estimated that trillions of asteroids crashed into the Earth and deposited a layer of heavy metals into the planet's now‐hardened crust.
这些元素最初并不是来自地球
These elements weren't actually from Earth originally.
所有这些元素都是通过彗星和小行星带到地球的
All of these elements came to Earth via comets and asteroids
它们在很久以前和很早以前就影响了我们的星球
that impacted our planet long ago and early in its history.
塞尔赛尔:所以我们在地球上开采的所有贵金属实际上都来自小行星
SERCEL: So all the precious metals that we mine on the Earth actually came from the asteroids.
小行星的撞击在地壳上播下了足够多的金属 使青铜时代、铁器时代成为可能
NARRATOR: The bombardment of asteroids seeded Earth's crust with enough metals to make possible the Bronze Age, the Iron Age,
以及使今天的科技文明成为可能
and today's technological civilization.
但许多金属 包括高科技所需的稀土元素 供应日益紧张
But many metals, including rare earth elements needed for high technology, are in increasingly short supply.
正因为如此 许多专家相信小行星带可能会再次前来救援
Because of this, many experts believe the asteroid belt may once again come to the rescue.
萨莫斯:你会找到一个典型的小行星
SUMMERS: You get a typical asteroid,
直径只有几百米
a few hundred meters in diameter,
它拥有的稀土元素 将超过人类在地球上开采的所有稀土元素总量
it will have more of those rare earth elements than have been mined on Earth in all of human history.
在NASA的数据库中有6000多颗小行星
NARRATOR: Of the more than 6,000 asteroids in NASA's database,
据估计 即使是最容易到达和开采的10颗小行星 也会产生惊人的1.5万亿美元的资源
it is estimated that even just the ten easiest to reach and mine would yield an astonishing $1.5 trillion dollars in resources.
萨莫斯:小行星带可以满足我们文明的许多世纪的需求
SUMMERS: The asteroid belt could provide for the needs of our civilization for many centuries.
也许是未来几千年的需求
Maybe thousands of years into their future.
塞尔赛尔:建造宇宙飞船是很自然的事情
SERCEL: The natural thing to do is to build spacecraft,
然后到小行星上去
go out to the asteroids,
开采它们
mine them,
从小行星上造出商品
make goods out of the asteroids.
我们假设其他智能生物
And we presume that other intelligences,
如果有其他的智能生物
if there are other intelligence,
他们会有我们一样的想法
would think the same way we would.
所以任何对我们有意义的事情 对别人也有意义
And so anything that seems to make sense to us could make sense to others.
如果其他有智慧的生命形式存在于附近的系外行星上
NARRATOR: If other intelligent life‐forms exist on nearby exoplanets,
他们是否也意识到存在于小行星带和地球上的巨大资源?
might they too be aware of the vast resources that exist in the asteroid belt and also on planet Earth?
古代宇航员理论家说 可能
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
并暗示地球上有丰富的另一种商品
and suggest that Earth is rich in another commodity
它对任何希望开采贵金属的先进文明都有巨大的价值 液态水
that would be of great value to any advanced civilization looking to mine for precious metals... liquid water.
如果外星人想要开采小行星带
If aliens wanted to mine the asteroid belt,
他们需要一个基地 一个可以重组和补充燃料的地方
they'd need a base, somewhere to regroup and refuel.
碰巧有一个很接近的星球
As it happens, there's one pretty close,
它叫做地球
and it's called planet Earth.
伯恩斯:外星人来这里的原因很可能是因为我们地球上存在大量水
BIRNES: Why aliens come here might well be because we're mostly water on planet Earth.
它们降落在这里 是因为他们可以把水分解成氢和氧作为燃料
They stop here because they could break down water into hydrogen and oxygen as fuel.
所以 如果你有一艘以某种氢动力作为能源的飞船
So, if you have a craft that somehow uses hydrogen power,
这里有你所有你需要的氢
you have all the hydrogen you'll ever need.
很可能这是一个外星人的中转站
It well could be that this is a way station for extraterrestrials.
外星文明有可能来到地球吗
NARRATOR: Is it possible that extraterrestrial civilizations have come to Earth
他们不仅是从垂死恒星周围的行星上逃出来的难民 而且还可能去开采贵重金属或像水这样丰富的自然资源
not only as refugees from planets orbiting dying stars but also to mine precious metals or abundant natural resources like water?
如果是这样 这是否意味着这些地球访客可能在物理上与我们非常相似?
And if so, would that indicate that these Earth visitors might be physically very similar to ourselves?
拉西拉天文台
NARRATOR: La Silla Observatory.
2009年智利
Chile. 2009.
天文学家发现了一颗可能适合居住的行星 它围绕着格利泽667C恒星运行
Astronomers identify a potentially habitable planet orbiting the star Gliese 667 C.
它是一个巨大的类地行星 牢牢地坐落在宜居带
It's a large Earth‐like planet located firmly in the Goldilocks zone.
虽然生命的证据尚未被发现
While evidence of life has yet to be discovered,
但科学家们仍能够推测出这个星球上的生命将如何进化
scientists are able to speculate as to how life on this planet would evolve.
当我们想象其他星球上的生命时
When we imagine life on other planets,
我们必须想象这些行星上的环境将如何决定生物的样子
we have to imagine that the environment on those planets will determine what the creature may look like.
丹宁:在考虑比地球大的行星时
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