(单词翻译:单击)
If humanity at some point in the future discovered another alien civilization,
如果人类在未来的某一时刻发现了另一种外星文明
at least mildly comparable to our own, if society as it is now stayed basically the same,
至少跟我们的有点相似，如果社会形态基本不变
how do you think we would react to it, you know: be violent or have a new colonial era,
你觉得我们会有什么反应：是很暴力，还是开启新的殖民时代
or make peace and advance with everyone or something like that? Thank you.
或者和平共处，一起进步？谢谢
What if we found or discovered another alien civilization, would there be colonization?
如果我们找到或发现了另种个外星文明，会出现殖民吗？
I hope not. I just feel that another alien civilization probably couldn’t live on the earth and we probably couldn’t live there.
但愿不会。我觉得另一种外星文明可能无法在地球上生存，我们也不能在他们的星球上生活
There’s too many details that wouldn’t work, unless we’re all wearing spacesuits. But maybe.
很多细节无法磨合，除非我们都穿着太空服。但有可能
I just don’t think that there would be that much interaction.
我觉得人类和外星人之间不会有太多交集
That is to say, I think it’s much more like we will find an alien civilization on a world
就是说，我们会发现一个外星文明
so distant, so remote, that there won’t be going back and forth in spaceships.
但它会在特别遥远偏远的地方，连太空飞船都无法在两地之间穿梭
If it’s, let’s say, 40 lightyears, as it is to these TRAPPIST-1 planets,
假如说，它在40光年以外，就像到TRAPPIST-1星球的距离
the ones they found around this very cold or relatively cold small star—cool star,
它们是人类发现的围绕在那颗小小的冷星周围的星球
then the way we’d communicate with them is by radio or by light, electromagnetic waves.
那么我们与他们交流的方式就是无线电或者光，电磁波
And so there wouldn’t be a chance for colonization or misplaced bank accounts or whatever else would go wrong—or warfare.
所以没有机会出现殖民或错位的银行账户或任何其他问题——或者是战争
That just wouldn’t be possible. Instead though, it would be profound.
那是不可能的。相反，这会很有意义
It would change the way everybody feels about being a living thing in the cosmos.
它会改变人们对作为宇宙中一种生物的感受
It would be extraordinary. And furthermore we do this research looking for alien civilizations at a tiny fraction of our international budget.
真的会超棒。何况，我们寻找外星文明只是国际预算中微不足道的一小部分
It’s a worthy thing to always be doing in the background. Listening and looking for aliens.
这是一件很值得去做的事情。寻找外星人的踪迹
