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Ever thought about piloting your own aircraft?
有沒有想過駕駛自己的飛行器翱翔于天際？
Well, you're in luck—soon thinking might be all that's needed to take to the skies.
好的，你還挺幸運的—或許再過不久你的飛天夢想真的能變為現實。
A team of German scientists is researching ways to let pilots control aircraft using only brainwaves.
一組德國科學家們正在研究讓飛行員只用腦電波就可以駕駛飛行器的方法。
It might be easy to dismiss this as pure science fiction, except that seven people were able to use the scientists' hands-free control setup to fly successfully in a flight simulator.
科幻小說中出現這種事情或許是家常便飯，但現實中有7個人真的使用科學家們制作出的免操縱方式成功操作在飛行模擬器中成功飛行。
Some of them were even able to land their virtual aircraft in a dense, albeit simulated, fog and would have passed part of the test needed to get a pilot's license.
雖然是模擬的情況，但其中有些人甚至可以在高密度濃霧條件成功操控模擬飛行器著陸，并且還通過部分飛行器駕駛資格考試中的測試。
Each test pilot wore a white skullcap loaded with dozens of electroencephalography sensors.
每位測試飛行員都是頭戴配有著很多腦電圖傳感器的白色無邊頭盔。
These electrodes measured electrical signals created by the pilot's brain cells.
這些電極會測量飛行員的腦細胞產生的電信號。
That information was sent to a computer, which converted signal patterns into commands to control the virtual aircraft.
隨后這些信息被傳到電腦中，再被轉換成命令語言來控制模擬飛行器。
The researchers are now trying to figure out how to get their EEG system into a real airplane.
研究人員們現在正嘗試解決如何將腦電圖系統傳輸到飛機當中。
Comforting to think that if your pilot becomes incapacitated, the kid sitting next to you playing video games could take over.
值得欣慰的想一下，如果你所乘坐那班飛機的駕駛員恰好失靈，你旁邊正在玩視頻游戲的某個孩子也許能接手駕駛這班飛機。
