TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(6)

We either draw in a liquid sample, 我们收集液体样本, or we can actually take a solid core from the wall. 或者我们从墙体上直接采集固体岩芯标本。 No hands at the wheel. 这一过程无需人来遥控。 This is all behavioral autonomy here that's being conducted by the robot on its own. 这全都由机器人自己执行。 The real hat trick for this vehicle, though, is a disruptive new navigat...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(3)

We're going to be shooting from minus 2,600 meters that's a little over 8,600 feet down at 30 kilometers from the entrance. 我们要从地下2600米处,大约8600多英尺之下–开始拍摄。那个地方离洞口30千米处。 The lead crews will be underground for pushing 30 days straight. 先头部队将会在地下向前不停地推进30天。 I don't think there's been a mission like that in a ...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(2)

From the entrance, this is nothing like a commercial cave. 从洞口看,这绝不像个商业旅游的山洞。 You're looking at Camp Two in a place called J2, not K2, but J2. 你看到的是二号营地,它搭在J2,不是K2(世界第二高峰),而是J2. We're roughly two days from the entrance at that point. 在那里我们大约距出口两天路程。 And it's kind of like a high altitude mountaineering trip ...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(4)

This gadget you see right here was called the digital wall mapper, 你们在这里见到的这个是电子墙体测绘仪, and it produced the first three-dimensional map anybody has ever done of a cave, and it happened to be underwater in Wakulla Springs. 它制出了世界上第一个山洞的三维地图,那是在瓦库拉泉水下。 It was that gadget that serendipitously opened a door to another unexplored worl...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(7)

What then of manned space exploration? 那载人的空间探索呢? The government recently announced plans to return to the moon by 2024. 美国政府最近宣布了2024重返月球的计划。 The successful conclusion of that mission will result in infrequent visitation of the moon by a small number of government scientists and pilots. 这项任务的成功将使少数的政府雇佣的科学家和飞行员的探访月球活...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(5)

You need an AUV, an autonomous underwater vehicle. 你需要个AUV,一个自行式水下航行器。 It needs to be one smart puppy, able to navigate and make decisions on its own in an alien ocean. 它必须很聪明,能够自己导航在陌生的外星球的大洋里能够自己做决定。 What Jim didn't know when he released that movie was that six months earlier NASA had funded a team I assembled to develop ...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(1)

First place I'd like to take you is what many believe will be the world's deepest natural abyss. 我要带大家去的第一个地方是一个天然的深渊,许多人相信它将会被证明为世界最深之渊。 And I say believe because this process is still ongoing. 我说相信是因为这个探索过程还未结束。 Right now there are major expeditions being planned for next year that I'll talk a little bit...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(9)

We have to beat that. 我们必须克服它。 We can do it because in space there are no aerodynamics. 我们能够这样做是因为太空里没有空气阻力。 We can go and use inflatable systems for almost everything. 我们几乎总是能够使用充气系统。 This is an idea that, again, came out of Livermore back in 1989,with Dr. Lowell Wood's group. 这个设想又是出自1989年在利弗莫尔洛厄尔伍德教授领导...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(8)

What then of manned space exploration? 那载人的空间探索呢? The government recently announced plans to return to the moon by 2024. 美国政府最近宣布了2024重返月球的计划。 The successful conclusion of that mission will result in infrequent visitation of the moon by a small number of government scientists and pilots. 这项任务的成功将使少数的政府雇佣的科学家和飞行员的探访月球活...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(10)

That's not true. 这是错的。 In seven years, we could pull off an industrial mission to Shackleton and demonstrate that you could provide commercial reality out of this in low-earth orbit. 七年之内,我们能够胜利完成一项去沙克尔顿(有水的月球环形山)的工业计划,显示人类能利用月球能源在近地轨道上提供商业活动 We're living in one of the most exciting times in history. 我...

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