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关于行星殖民英语作文

ColonisingMars:Forlife,notforanafterlife殖民火星：

为了现在而非后世

SeekingtomakeEarthexpendableisnotagoodreasonto

settleotherplanets想方设法用尽地球资源不是人类移民到别的

星球的好借口

MARShasbeenmuchpossessedbydeath.Inthelate19th

centuryPercivalLowell,anAmericanastronomer,persuadedmuch

ofthepublicthattheredplanetwasdyingof

desertification.H.G.Wells,in“TheWarofthe

Worlds”,imaginedMartianinvadersbringingdeathto

Earth;in“TheMartianChronicles”RayBradburypictured

humanslivingamongMartianghostsseeingEarthdestroyedin

anuclearspasm.Sciencewasnotmuchcheerierthanscience

fiction:spaceprobesrevealedthathavingoncebeenwarmerand

wetter,Marsisnowcold,crateredandall-but-airless.火星一

直被死亡所笼罩。19世纪末期，美国天文学家PercivalLowell曾告

诉大多数媒体说，由于荒漠化，这个红色的星球已经濒临垂死的边缘

了。H.G.Wells在《星际战争》中设想了火星入侵者将死亡带向地球

的故事;在《火星编年史》中，RayBradbury描绘了活在火星人鬼魂

下的人们眼睁睁看着地球毁于核爆的画面。科学现实并不比这些科幻

小说要乐观多少：航天探测器显示，火星曾经温暖而湿润，但现如今

一片冷寂，到处都坑坑洼洼，空气少得可怜。

Persuade：v.说服，劝说Invader：n.侵略者Chronicle：n.编

年史，年代记;记录spasm：n.一阵发作

PerhapsthatiswhythedreamoftakingnewlifetoMars

issuchastirringone.ElonMusk,anentrepreneur,hasbuilta

rocketcompany,SpaceX,fromscratchinordertomakethisdream

cometrue.OnSeptember27thheoutlinednewplansforrockets

thatdwarftheApolloprogramme’sSaturnV,andforspaceships

withroomforaround100passengersthatcanberefuelledboth

inorbitandonMars.Suchinfrastructure,hesays,would

eventuallyallowthousandsofsettlerstogettherefor$200,000

each—roughlythemediancostofanAmericanhouse.Todeliver

suchmarvelsinadecadeorsoisanordertallenoughtoreach

halfwaytoorbititself(seearticle).Butasavision,its