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BBC星球系列《月亮之谜》（themoon），讲述一个关于人类与月亮的爱情故事，人类是如何从迷恋到倦极生厌，而为何重新爱上它的历程。节目带领观众回溯远古时期，人们用卡拉尼什立巨石阵表达对月亮的礼赞，它既是圣地亦是古代的观测站。同时游走世界各地观察各种自然现象，从中总结出月亮的变化规则及月亮对于地球活动的影响，并一一解答关于月亮的各种迷踪。
v. 探险，探测，探究
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- And it'll be a permanent presence
- 这将会是长程计划
- where each mission adds more capability and eventually
- 每次登月任务都会增强我们在月球上的作业效能
- we'll just have people living there.
- 最后会有人住在月球上
- This time the aim is to turn the moon into a home from home.
- 这次他们打算把月球打造成人类的第二个家
- And when this new lunar base is established,
- 月球基地建立之后
- the moon will become our launchpad to the rest of the solar system.
- 月球将会成为我们征服太阳系的出发点
- The exciting thing about the moon is,
- 月球的好处是
- is it's near it's three days away.
- 它很近，三天就到了
- And we can go and practice and perfect all the techniques
- 我们在探索第一颗行星之前
- and the tools and the kind of things
- 可以到月球磨练、改善
- that we need to do to really go off
- 可以到月球磨练、改善
- and explore our first foreign planet.
- 我们所需的技术和工具
- We'll bring tools and we'll bring er some basic machineries
- 我们可以带着工具和基本的机械设备过去
- and then we'll use those machineries along
- 然后用这些机械设备
- with the lunar resources to make what I refer to as the brute force
- 和月球上的资源，制造我所谓的
- and ignorance materialsbricks,
- “有勇无谋”的物料
- one of the first uses of lunar material will be to make bricks
- 比方说我们可以用月球上的资源来制造砖块
- so you can have someplace to live without getting zapped
- 让我们建造可以遮蔽宇宙射线的
- by galactic cosmic rays.
- 容身之处
- But there doesn't seem to be quite the same urgency
- 但现在少了1960年代的那种急迫性
- as in the 1960's - NASA's plan is to get back to the moon by 2018.
- 航太总署预计在2018年重返月球
- We have to develop a new lunar lander,
- 我们必须设计新的登月小艇
- we have to, to develop and establish the, the,
- 设计、建造
- the infrastructure on the surface of the moon
- 月球表面的基础建设
- that will allow us to live there for long periods of time.
- 让我们在那里长期居住
- So as we start the development process,
- 所以我们现在还在研发阶段
- if we could develop it all at one time
- 如果所有的东西可以同时研发
- we could do it much quicker,
- 当然可以
- we could get to the moon much quicker than 2018
- 不用等到2018年才登月
- but given that we have to do this somewhat serially
- 但整个研发阶段必须循序渐进
- that we have to build the infrastructure for travel first,
- 我们得先建造交通工具
- then we have to, to build the, the lunar pieces of it,
- 然后再研发登月组件
- it's going to take us between now and about 2018 to get there.
- 所以差不多要到2018年才行
- But NASA's public sector plod to
- 但航太总署牛步化的登月计划
- the moon isn't quick enough for some.
- 让许多人耐不住性子
- Now the moon is back in fashion, NASA have got competition.
- 月球再度成为当红炸子鸡，航太总署也有了竞争对手
- The players in the new space race are a mixture of dreamers,
- 这波太空竞赛的玩家，包括了梦想家
- hard headed businessmen, and publicity seekers.
- 精明的生意人和哗众取宠的人
- But they've got one thing in common.
- 他们的共通点就是
- They want action now.
- 现在就要采取行动
- This barren desert in a remote corner of Utah
- 这个位于犹他州偏远角落的荒芜沙漠
- is the site of a unique experiment.
- 正在进行一项十分特殊的实验
- For one week it's standing in for the surface of the moon
- 这片沙漠将在一个星期内充当月球的替身
- complete with mock up moon base.
- 甚至还有一座仿制的月球基地
- This is the Moon Society.
- 这是“月球协会”
- A collection of scientists and space enthusiasts
- 其成员包括科学家和热爱太空的人士
- who are already preparing for a commercial mission to the moon.
- 而他们已经开始着手计划商业登月任务
- Putting on a spacesuit is a two person job.
- 穿太空衣需要两个人
- And er, not only because it's difficult,
- 不光是因为很困难
- it also is an opportunity to have somebody else verify
- 同时也可以让旁人确认
- that you have all your connections secure and safe.
- 所有接头都衔接妥当
- Hmm, not sure what this is here.
- 我不确定这是什么
- Their aim is to establish not just a human colony on the moon,
- 他们的目标不只是在月球上建立人类聚落
- but a full scale industrial complex.
- 而是打造一个，完整的工业建筑群
- So they spend their days in the Utah desert
- 所以他们花时间在犹他州沙漠
- testing out the technology that could one day
- 测试任何在未来月球任务上
- be part of their mission to the moon.
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