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Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars David Deutsch 2006-09-12 /talks/david_deutsch_chemical_scum_that_dream_of_distant_quasars 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。 Weve been told to go out on a limb and say something surprising. 主办方要求我们大胆陈述，做到语不惊人死不休。 So Ill try and do that, 因此我会努力达到这一点。但是 but I want to start with two things that everyone already knows. 我想先从大家都知道的两件事说起。 And the first one, in fact, is something that has been known 第一件事，事实上这是 for most of recorded history, 从有记录的历史以来就众所周知的事。 and that is, that the planet Earth, or the solar system, 这就是地球，或者太阳系， or our environment or whatever, 或者说我们的环境，或诸如此类， is uniquely suited to sustain our evolution -- 独一无二地适合维持我们的进化，或者说创造，正如我们之前所理解的一样-- or creation, as it used to be thought -- and our present existence, and most important, our future survival. 适合我们当下的生存，最重要的是我们未来的生存。 Nowadays, this idea has a dramatic name: Spaceship Earth. 今天这个概念有一个戏剧化的名字：太空船地球。 And the idea there is that outside the spaceship, 在这个概念里，太空船之外 the universe is implacably hostile, 宇宙不可调和地充满敌意， and inside is all we have, all we depend on, 而其内部是我们所赖以生存的一切。 and we only get the one chance: if we mess up our spaceship, 我们只有一次机会：如果我们将我们的太空船折腾坏了， weve got nowhere else to go. 我们将无处可去。 Now, the second thing that everyone already knows 第二件大家都知道的事是 is that, contrary to what was believed for most of human history, 与我们在人类历史中大部分时间所坚信的相反 human beings are not, in fact, the hub of existence. 人类事实上并不是存在的中心。 As Stephen Hawking famously said, 大家都知道Stephen Hawking说过 were just a chemical scum on the surface of a typical planet 我们只是存在于一个典型星球表面的一些化学污垢 thats in orbit around a typical star, 这个典型星球环绕着一个典型恒星绕行太空， which is on the outskirts of a typical galaxy, and so on. 而这个典型恒星位于一个典型银河系的边缘，以此类推。 Now, the first of those two things that everyone knows is kind of saying 大家都知道的两件事当中的第一件 that were at a very untypic