西内SINE

我想既然我们来到了发射地点，我们应该吃土豆午餐来庆祝一下。
I think since we are at the launch site, we should celebrate with potatoes for lunch.

科罗纳多CORONADO

你想出来的，如果你请客，我就吃。
This is your idea. If you’re buying, I’m eating.

西内SINE

当我们第一次见面时，还记得我告诉过你，2019年，中国发射了一枚火箭到月球上种土豆吗?
And when we met that first time, remember I told you that in 2019, the Chinese sent a rocket to the moon to plant potatoes?

科罗纳多CORONADO

那有什么意义呢?
What was the point of that ?

西内SINE

如果有人要在月球上露营，他们必须吃东西。在中国的太空任务中，红薯是列在菜单上的，可以做成汤。
Well if anybody is going to camp on the moon, they will have to eat. Sweet potatoes are on menu in Chinese space missions and get served in soup.

奥拉AURA

所以现在月球上长着土豆?
So there are potatoes growing on the moon ?

西内SINE

没有。他们冻干了。它们需要液态水的。
No. They freeze dried. They need liquid water.

奥拉AURA

我觉得中国想成为新的哥伦布。在哥伦布把土豆带到欧洲之前，没有人在美洲以外的地方听说过土豆。在秘鲁，他们通过冷冻来保存白土豆。但红薯起源于没有冰雪气候的尤卡坦和委内瑞拉。
I guess China wants to be the new Columbus. Nobody ever heard of potatoes outside of America until Columbus brought them back to Europe. They preserve white potatoes in Peru by freezing them. But sweet potatoes started in Yucatan and Venezuela where there’s no freezing.

西内SINE

中国吃掉了世界上一半的红薯，尤其在冬季的街头小吃。在餐馆里有糖水，红薯汤，所以中国宇航员很喜欢吃。
China eats half of world’s sweet potatoes in winter for street food. Tong sui, sweet potato soup, in restaurants, so Chinese taikonauts have it pretty good.

科罗纳多CORONADO

是的。我记得你跟我们说过俄罗斯和美国飞船上冻干的罗宋汤和土豆。如果我们在飞碟里做这个节目，我们还是还原真实场景吧?
Yeah. I remember you telling us about freeze dried borscht and potatoes on the Russian and American spacecraft. If we're doing this show in a flying saucer, we may as well stay true to the program, huh?

奥拉AURA

听起来不错。
Sounds like a plan.

西内SINE

居然有这么多人关注太空。贝佐斯，马斯克，布兰森，甚至还有很多人去特鲁斯的宇航中心体验，还有
Is amazing how many people aiming for space. Bezos, Musk, Branson, even more using Spaceport in Truth or, or

奥拉AURA

康斯昆斯。
Consequences.

西内SINE

政府很支持啊。
And government backing many.

科罗纳多CORONADO

他们领先一步，政府也就领先一步。就像通信卫星，如果只有政府这么做，那么就不会有那么多的通信卫星了。哥伦布也是一样，扛着西班牙的旗帜航行，使他免受敌对方的伤害。看看西班牙从中得到的：整个国家，还有大量的黄金。
The government gets ahead when they get ahead. Like communications satellites. How many would there be if government was the only one doing it. It’s like Columbus. Sailing under the flag of Spain gave him protection from rivals, and look at everything Spain got out of the deal: whole countries, lots of gold.

奥拉AURA

现在变成了整个星球，又一个西部大开发的时代。
Only now it’s whole planets. It’s like the wild west all over again.

西内SINE

你说得好像这事很快就要发生了。
You talk as if this happening fast.

奥拉AURA

特朗普曾经说过太空部队。任何在月球上开店的人，都将占山为王，不是吗?
Well Trump talked about a space force. Anybody that sets up shop on the moon, they’re going to be king of the hill, aren’t they ?

西内SINE

月亮，一点一点地，然后现在是金星、还有火星。
The moon. Little itty bitty. Now Venus, Mars.

奥拉AURA

你说过，美国宇航局花了一年半的时间就画出了大部分的金星地图，那些地方很小很小。
You said yourself NASA made a map of most of Venus in a year and a half. Those places might as well be itty bitty.

西内SINE

还没完呢。许多人还想在外太空找一个稳定的地方放置望远镜，而不是像哈勃望远镜那样一直在摆动。
It's not as if everything is done. Many would be happy just to get a steady place to put telescope outside of the air. Not one that wiggles like on the Hubble satellite.

奥拉AURA

看得更远一点，永无止境的。我甚至希望他们能找到小绿人，尽管可能一辈子也无法理解他们的语言，可能比搞清楚鱼还难。
Got to look even farther out. Never satisfied. I almost hope they find the little green men they probably won’t be able to understand any better than the fish they can’t translate either in spite of having had lifetimes to figure out what they’re saying.

西内SINE

如果他们是鱼，那又怎样呢。我们有更好的事情可以去做，比如:制造我们在地球上无法制造的东西，因为它们需要绝对的纯度。
If they’re fish, so what. We have better things to do like: make things we can’t make on earth because they need absolute purity.

科罗纳多CORONADO

所以私营企业现在有动力去尝试。但是如果只有美国宇航局的话，任何东西最终都将成为公共财产。所以现在呢，值得某些人去努力了。
So private enterprise is motivated to try now. When NASA was the only thing going, anything anybody could think of would end up being public property. So now it’s worth somebody’s effort.

西内SINE

大家可以去尝试。在宇宙中心已经有十几个公司了。澳大利亚也在发射火箭。美国宇航局就像一个工业化城市。因此，它提供很多基础设施，如轨道运输，空间站维护人员等等。你只要看看报纸就知道了。也许你应该买他们的股票，你会开心的。
And many efforts. Dozen companies at Spaceport. There are even rockets starting from Australia. NASA is like a city wanting industry. So it provides infrastructure like transport to orbit, crew for space station maintenance, and so on. All you have to do is read your newspaper to see. Maybe you should buy their stock and maybe then you be happy.

科罗纳多CORONADO

现在可能还为时过早。但我在某个地方读到过你的朋友埃隆发现了一颗由钻石构成的小行星，他想把它拖回来。如果真能做成点什么事，那一定是赢家。
It might be a little too early for that. - But somewhere I read your buddy Elon saw an asteroid made of diamonds he wants to haul back here. That's gotta' be a winner if there's anything happening.

美国宇航局私有化
NASA goes private

太空法
Space law

有空来游泳吧......  (歌词)
C'mon up for a swim sometime . . .   (lyrics)