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There is the rub. The closest star to the Sun is 25 trillion miles away, and it would take one million years to cover that enormous distance with the fastest rockets known to man.Our science and engineering are not adequate to meet that challenge; a trip to the stars is beyond our reach at the present time. But in another billion years, our descendants -- possessed of highly evolved minds and with a science and engineering far beyond ours -- should be able to undertake an interstellar voyage. And what our descendants can do a billionyears in the future, other races, a billion years older and more evolved than man, should be able to do today.
問題就出在這里。距太陽最近的恒星遠(yuǎn)在25萬億英里之外。用人類最快的火箭也要一百萬年才能跨越這遙遠(yuǎn)的距離。我們的科學(xué)和工程技術(shù)還不足以迎接這樣的挑戰(zhàn)。目前，到其他星球的航行是我們力所不能及的。但過十億年，我們的后代——擁有高度發(fā)達(dá)的頭腦和遠(yuǎn)勝于我們的科學(xué)和工程技術(shù)——應(yīng)該有能力進(jìn)行星際旅行。而我們的子孫后代十億年后方能做到的事，那些比人類古老十億年且更加進(jìn)化的其他星球上的人，今天應(yīng)該就能辦到了。
My conclusion is that UFOs—visitors from another star—are a scientifically sound concept because science tells us that it is reasonable to believe in the existence of forms oflife older and far more intelligent than man.
我的結(jié)論是：不明飛行物——外星的來客——從科學(xué)上來講是一個有根據(jù)的概念，因?yàn)榭茖W(xué)告訴我們，有理由認(rèn)為比人類古老、聰慧得多的其他生命形式是存在的。
Has the Earth already been visited by these older, more advanced beings? The first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel records a remarkable incident that took place several thousand years ago. After an account of what seems to be a landing and an exploration by unusual beings, apparently metallic in construction, verse 24 describes their departure: "And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters ..." Anyone who saw a Saturn V rocket take off will remember that the thunderous roar sounded like Niagara Falls.
這些更古老、更先進(jìn)的生物是否已經(jīng)造訪過地球呢？《以西結(jié)書》第一章記錄了一件發(fā)生在幾千年前的異乎尋常的事件。在描述了某種顯然是金屬結(jié)構(gòu)的不尋常的生物的一次看上去好像是著陸與探索之后，第二十四節(jié)描述了它們的離去："它們離去時，我聽到了它們翅膀的聲響，猶如大海的濤聲。"任何見過土星V火箭起飛的人都會記得它那雷鳴般的轟響，聽上去就像尼亞加拉大瀑布那樣。
