新墨西哥州的白沙说太空就是那个地方

白沙，新墨西哥州
White Sands, NM

西内SINE

新墨西哥州的白沙，
White Sands, New Mexico.,

科罗纳多CORONADO

这就是白沙。它像粉笔一样白。
So this is White Sands. It’s as white as chalk.

西内SINE

它做粉笔的。石膏做粉笔......不是沙子。
It makes chalk. Gypsum makes chalk... Not sand.

科罗纳多CORONADO

石膏板就是用它来做成的。
So this is what goes into drywall.

奥拉AURA

古人用来雕像的雪花石膏里也有。雪花石膏城亮晶晶。
It’s in the alabaster the ancients used for sculpture. Thine alabaster cities gleam.

科罗纳多CORONADO

肥料中也有。金色麦田。看，我知道这首歌吧。它还在这里，真是个奇迹。
It’s in fertilizer, too. For amber waves of grain. See, I know that song. - It’s a wonder it’s still here.

奥拉AURA

它是国家纪念碑。
It’s a National Monument.

科罗纳多CORONADO

哦。
Oh.

西内SINE

中国的石膏药和豆腐里也都有。
It’s in Chinese shi gao medicine. In tofu, too.

奥拉AURA

真的！
Really!

西内SINE

说到白沙，你告诉我的旅游指南和链接中说，白沙导弹基地就在国家纪念碑旁边，而且有时也是航天飞机降落的地方，但那是在俄罗斯联盟号和马斯克猎鹰号开始之前。建造第一枚液体燃料火箭的人就是在这里启动火箭的。马萨诸塞州消防局长阻止他之后，他搬到了罗斯威尔。
But if we can get back to White Sands for minute: The guidebook and links you told me about say White Sands Missile Range is next to the National Monument, and is where the Space Shuttle lands sometimes. That was before the Russian Soyuz and Musk's Falcon began. The man that built the first liquid-fuel rocket is the man that started rockets here. He moved to Roswell when the Massachusetts fire marshal made him stop.

奥拉AURA

我想知道那个家伙是不是在做实验，关于那个大家认为的不明飞行物。我以前从没听说过。
I wonder if what people thought was a UFO was actually that guy experimenting. I never heard of that before.

西内SINE

我还在读呢。哈！航天飞机之所以在这里是因为他们在猴子和人类身上做的加速和减速测试。我不知道这些。他们把猩猩猴子送入低轨道，然后在这里训练航天飞机飞行员。我以前并不知道。哈！你知道吗？这可不是旅行指南里说的：我知道石膏沙丘是在火星的北极。
I’m still reading. Hah! What got the Shuttle here was acceleration and deceleration tests they did on monkeys and humans here. I did not know that. They launched chimp monkeys into low orbit and then they trained Shuttle pilots here. I did not know that. Hah!. And you know what? And this is not in guidebook: I know that gypsum dunes are at north pole on Mars.

科罗纳多CORONADO

也许你能把她弄进特斯拉。
Maybe you can get her into the Tesla yet.

奥拉AURA

我不觉得......
I don’t think so . . .

科罗纳多CORONADO

它看起来确实像另一颗行星，不是吗......
It does look like another planet, doesn’t it . . .

奥拉AURA

它很漂亮。你们俩到你们的朋友埃隆·马斯克那里去吧。我还是收拾东西开始画画吧。
It’s beautiful. Why don’t you two go to your pal Elon Musk’s place. How about I get my stuff and start up a painting.