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小行星采矿淘铂去 2012-7-3 09:00| 发布者: chuztpah| 查看: 428| 评论: 0QQ空间 新浪微博 腾讯微博人人网更多摘要: 小行星采矿这想法听似疯狂，但行得通吗？4月24日，行星资源公司（Planetary Resources）在西雅图的航天博物馆（Museum of Flight）启动了一项计划——在小行星上采矿并将矿物带回地球。对这项计划，人们一直都在疑惑 ...听写 双语 英文 中文 操作说明：1、空格键=播放/暂停;2、悬停取词加生词本;3、点击选择句子,加入句库和分享 Mining asteroids 小行星采矿 Going platinum 小行星采矿——淘铂去 Mining metals from asteroids seems a bonkers idea, but could it work? 小行星采矿这想法听似疯狂，但行得通吗？ CAN reality trump art? That was the question hovering over the launch on April 24th, at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, of a plan by a firm called Planetary Resources to mine metals from asteroids and bring them back to Earth. 4月24日，行星资源公司（Planetary Resources）在西雅图的航天博物馆（Museum of Flight）启动了一项计划——在小行星上采矿并将矿物带回地球。对这项计划，人们一直都在疑惑：现实能否战胜艺术？ It sounds like the plot of a film by James Cameron—and, appropriately, Mr Cameron is indeed one of the company’s backers. The team behind the firm, however, claim they are not joking. The company’s founders are Peter Diamandis, instigator of the X Prize, awarded in 2004 to Paul Allen and Burt Rutan for the first private space flight, and Eric Anderson, another of whose companies, Space Adventures, has already shot seven tourists into orbit. Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, respectively the chief executive and the chairman of Google, are also involved. So, too, is Charles Symonyi, the engineer who oversaw the creation of Microsoft’s Office software (and who has been into space twice courtesy of Mr Anderson’s firm). With a cast-list like that, it is at least polite to take them seriously. 这听着就像詹姆斯?卡梅隆的电影中的情节——恰好，詹姆斯.卡梅隆实际上就是这家公司的赞助人之一。 但是公司背后的团队宣称小行星采矿这事可不是在开玩笑。 行星资源公司的创始人是X奖（2004年Paul Alle和Burt Rutan因首次实现私人太空飞行而获颁此奖）发起者Peter Diamandis和拥有太空探险公司（Space Adventures）（已将七位游客送上太空）的Eric Anderson。 GOOGLE的总经理Larry Page和董事长 Eric Schmidt也参与其中，曾负责监督开发微软办公软件的工程师Charles Symonyi同样是其中一分子（通过Eric Anderson的公司，他也上过太空两次）。 阵容如此强大，出于礼貌至少也该重视这个想法。 As pies in the sky go, some asteroids do look pretty tasty. A lot are unconsolidated piles of rubble left over from the beginning