西内SINE

如果在弗拉格斯塔夫建立洛厄尔天文台的人今天还活着，他可能会像现在的天文学家一样，在空气清新的地方寻找放置望远镜的好地点，或者更好的是，在没有空气的地方，比如在月球上。这甚至比哈勃望远镜还要好，哈勃望远镜在太空中漂浮时摇摆不定，而不像在月球或行星上那么稳定。
If the man who set up Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff was alive today, he could be like current astronomers seeking a good spot for a telescope where the air clear or, even better, where there is no air, like on moon. That's even better than the Hubble that wiggles during float through space, not solid base of moon or a planet.

还有一个问题是制造药物，硅胶和许多其它东西必须是纯净的，而且在失重的地方更容易制造，比如在空间站上。甚至是地球上无法生产的产品。他们说在80年代之前，他们不能做这样的事情事因为美国宇航局是一个公共项目。所以以前做的任何事情都属于公众，而不是发明者。
Then there is also the problem making drugs, silicone and many other things that must be pure and more easy to make where there is weightlessness, like on space station. Even products impossible to produce on earth. They say before the l980s, they could not do such things because NASA is a public program. So anything done before would belong to the public, not the inventor.

科罗纳多CORONADO

有道理，反向说明问题。
Makes sense, in a backwards kind of way.

西内SINE

现在规则不同了，所以发明家可以成功了。
Now the rules are different, so an inventor can succeed.

科罗纳多CORONADO

他们确实花了很长时间才明白这一点。
It sure took ‘em a long time to figure that out.

西内SINE

中国才刚刚开始弄明白这一点……美国宇航局就像一座工业城市，所以它提供基础设施，比如轨道运输，空间站具体事务的工作人员，等等。
China has just started to figure that out . . . .where NASA is like a city that wants industry, so it provides infrastructure like transporting to orbit, crew for space station specific chores, and so on.

但即便如此，对于世界各地的车辆和人员来说，这也不是那么必要。就连澳大利亚也有埃隆·马斯克的卫星发射，以及理查德·布兰森的游乐项目。你认为亚马逊的杰夫·贝佐斯会让他的“蓝色起源”做些什么?
But even this is not so necessary with vehicles and crews starting all over the world. Even Australia had satellite launch by Elon Musk and crazy things like tourist joy rides by Richard Branson. What do you think Amazon Jeff Bezos will make his Blue Origin do?

奥拉AURA

我觉得他能想到的一切事情。
Everything he can think of I’ll bet.