宇宙时空之旅：未知世界（2020）

Cosmos: Possible Worlds S01E13

Part 4 Aug. 24, 2022, 10:56 a.m.

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...
本星系群联邦成员
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
本星系群联邦成员
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