Nuclear annihilation.... 原子毁灭
This would have been an absolutely devastating event. 这绝对是一件毁灭性的事件
...mysterious pyramids... 神秘的金字塔
There are, apparently, these unusual structures there. 很显然，这些都是非同寻常的结构
and evidence of life billions of years ago. 是几十亿年前生命存在的证据
Researchers found objects that looked extremely similar to microorganisms here on Earth. 研究者发现这些物体与地球上的微生物极其相似
Throughout human history, the planet Mars has captured our imagination. 通观人类历史，火星引起了我们的注意
But is it simply because of its striking red color and prominence in the night sky? 但这只是因为它极具鲜红色，在夜晚的天空特别突出么？
Or might we have a more profound extraterrestrial connection? 或者是我们与外星人有着意义重大的连接？
NASA knows there is life on Mars, but for some reason, it does not want that information out. NASA知道火星有生命，但由于某个目的，它不想泄露这个信息
Millions of people around the world believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 世界上数百万人相信，我们在远古曾经被外星人拜访
What if it were true? 如果这是真的呢？
Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 远古外星人真的帮助塑造人类的历史？
And if so, might they have come from the red planet of Mars? 如果这样，他们是否来自这颗红色火星？
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Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 20, 1975. 1975年8月20日，佛罗里达的卡纳维拉尔角
Ignition, we have liftoff! 点火，发射！
The United States launches a Titan rocket carrying the Viking spacecraft. 美国发射了太阳神火箭，携带着北欧海盗宇宙飞船
Viking is embarking on a 420-million-mile journey to one of the most prominent sights in the night sky... 北欧海盗航行了4，200，000，000英里的旅程，到达了黑暗天空中最著名的景点
Mars. 火星
If all goes well, in 11 months, the unmanned probe will touch down on the Martian surface and search for evidence of life. 如果一切正常运转，在11个月内，无人驾驶探测器会接触到火星地面，寻找火星生命证据
Mainstream scientists say Mars is most likely a dead planet because of its incredible temperature swings and high levels of solar radiation. 主流科学家说火星最有可能是一颗毫无生机的行星，因为它剧烈的温差和非常高的太阳辐射
So why is NASA spending a billion dollars to explore it? 可NASA又为什么花10亿美元探索它呢？
The night sky is an astounding thing. 夜晚的天空令人震惊
And to the naked eye, the red planet could be seen with its special color. 对人类肉眼来说，红行星因为它特别的色彩可以被看到
After all, it's the biggest thing you see up there past the moon. 毕竟，它是越过月亮最大的星体
So it's been a special object of fascination and reverence because religious systems often were associated with the planets and the stars, 它是充满魅力令人敬畏的特殊物体，因为地球的宗教体系
the sky in general. 通常与行星、恒星和天空有着千丝万缕的联系
Speculations about what's there, is intelligent life there, 思索一下那里有什么，是智慧生命
are the gods there? That's gone on for a long time. 是诸神？他们已经走了好久
Our dream for life on Mars probably goes back to the ancient times when we were just doing naked eye observation. 我们的金星梦可以追溯到远古时代，那时我们只是用肉眼观察世界
It's the planet that really stands out, 这颗行星真的非常引人注目
that we now know is very close to Earth in terms of physical conditions. 我们现在知道它离地球的物理距离非常近
Even though Venus is much more like Earth in size and gravity, 虽然金星的大小质量非常像地球
it's a hellhole in the solar system. 但在太阳系中它让人感觉不太舒服
But Mars, Mars is out there within our grasp. 但火星在我们的掌握之中
Among the first to record this fiery red ball in the night sky were ancient Egyptian astronomers. 记载夜空中这颗炽热红球的第一人是古埃及的天文学家们
In 1534 BC, they placed Mars on humanity's first chart of the the Senenmut star map. 1534年，他们把火星绘入人类第一部图塞那莫特星图中
Two and a half centuries later, the Egyptians painted the planet Mars on the ceiling of the tomb of Seti I. 二个半世纪后，埃及人把火星雕刻在了塞提一世墓穴的天花板上
But while the Egyptians honored Mars, 埃及人很崇拜火星
many other ancient cultures feared it because they associated the red planet with death, 很多其他古代文明却恐惧它，因为他们把这颗红星与死亡、毁灭和战争联系起来
destruction, and war. According to some anthropologists, 按照一些人类学家的说法
this is because the planet glows red like the color of blood spilled on the battlefield. 因为行星泛着红光，像人类战场上鲜血
The association of the red planet with the gods of war goes way back. 因此这是红行星与诸神之战的起源
In ancient Babylon, Mars was named after Nergal, the god of fire, death, and destruction, 在古巴比伦，火星命名前的名字叫涅伽尔即火神、死神和毁灭之神，即战神
essentially a god of war. The Greeks named Mars after Ares, 希腊原来叫阿瑞斯
their god of war. The Romans, "Mars," 是他们的战神，而罗马则叫玛尔斯
that is their god of war. 是罗马的战神
Rome was a warrior culture, so this martial emphasis, 罗马文化是勇士文化，所以军事重点都与这颗红星有关
all connected to the red planet, is accounting for the great armies that conquered the known world; 它负责庞大的军队征服已知的世界
a very successful story and very much aligned with the planet Mars. 成功凯旋的故事都与火星有关
In 42 BC, the Roman forces of Augustus waged the Battle of Philippi against Marcus Brutus, 在公元前42年，奥古斯都的罗马军队与马库斯 布鲁特斯在腓利比决战
as Augustus tried to avenge the assassination of his adopted father, Julius Caesar. 因为奥古斯都知道敌人想通过暗杀他的养父龙利乌斯 凯撒，他展开了报复行动
Augustus pledged to the god of war, Mars, that if he won this battle, 奥古斯都向战神许诺，如果他赢得这场战争
he would build a great temple for him. 他将为战神建立一所巨大的庙宇
So he won the battle, became Caesar Augustus, 他最终赢得了胜利，成为凯撒奥古斯都
one of the greatest of the Roman emperors, 他是罗马最伟大的皇帝中的一位
and he created the temple of Mars, and whenever Rome would declare war, 他建造了战神殿，不管何时罗马宣战
the temple doors would be thrown open. 神殿厦门会突然打开
It was called the temple to Mars the Avenger. 它称作战神复仇者神殿
Famously, we say the "gates of" "war" nowadays, right? 就是我们今天所说的著名的“战神大门”，不是么？
And it was the gates of Mars' temple that were opened or closed depending upon whether there was a war going on. 战神大门的开合取决于是否有战争爆发
From India to Rome, all of the ancient societies had a reverence for Mars, a great closeness to Mars. 从印度到罗马，所有的古代社会都有对战神的崇拜历史，对战神有着巨大的崇拜
Very important in their pantheon, 在万神殿中它非常重要
very important in the imagination of the people that some kind of connection with that red planet be maintained. 在那些与这颗红行星相关的人们的想像中也重要非常
But while many ancient societies felt a bond with Mars, 但当很多古代科学家们感觉到我们与火星有关时
most did not identify it as a planet like Earth. 他们中的绝大多数人并没有去证明它是和地球一样的行星
The ancients thought planets were as uninhabitable as the Sun. 古人认为行星就像太阳一样不宜人类居住
They saw them as wandering stars. 它们被视为游星
In fact, the word "planet" means in Greek "wandering star," planeta. 事实上，在古希腊文中行星的意思是流动的星辰
You have the fixed stars, the constellations, 我们有恒星、星群
but then you have these stars wandering about. 之后又拥有了这些流动的星星
They seem to follow the sun because they appear to move against the background of the fixed stars the same way the Sun does. 它们看起来随着太阳运转，因为看起来它们逆着恒星太阳在转动
It wasn't until the 17th and 18th centuries, 直到17和18世纪
when astronomers finally had telescopes powerful enough to make out features on the surface of Mars, 天文学家们最终发明了威力强大的望远镜，发现了火星表面特征后
that we started to imagine life on the red planet as a real possibility. 我们才开始相信火星上可以存在着生命
By the 1860s, 在18世纪60年代，一个叫Angelo Secchi的意大利天文学家认为
an Italian astronomer by the name of Angelo Secchi thought he saw straight lines crisscrossing the surface of our little ruddy buddy up there, Mars. 通过在我们这位红润的朋友火星的表面看到了直线的十字形
And he called them "canali." The idea was picked up by an American astronomer by the name of Percival Lowell. 他称它们为“肯娜妮”。这个观点被一个美国天文学家Percival Lowell认可
And Percival Lowell built his own observatory down in Flagstaff, Arizona. Percival Lowell建立起了他的个人观察站，地点设在亚利桑那州的斯塔夫
He spent a lot of time looking through a telescope at Mars. And he wrote books about this. 他花了很长时间通过望远镜观察火星，最终写了很多有关它的著作
He was articulate. 他表达能力很好
He was clever and he convinced a lot of the public and some of the scientific establishment 也很聪明，他说服了很多人，包括一些科学机构
that there really was a civilization on Mars busy digging up their planet because they needed to irrigate their crops. 表明火星上确实存在着文明，他们在急于挖掘他们行星灌溉庄稼
But why has Mars fascinated humankind throughout history? 但人类有史以来为什么对火星人非常着迷？
Is it simply due to the planet's proximity to Earth and its striking red color in the night sky? 非常简单，因为它和地球非常接近，在夜晚的星空这颗红星非常明显？，
Or is it possible... as ancient astronaut theorists contend... 但有没有可能，就像远古外星人理论家们所主张的
that Mars really was at one time inhabited by intelligent life? 火星真的在一段时期内曾经是智慧生命的殖民地？
The Cydonia region of Mars, July 20, 1976. 1976年7月，火星塞多尼亚地区
An alien spacecraft sent from Earth touches down on the red planet. 人类发射太空飞船到这颗红行星上
Nav is green for touchdown. Nav对降落没有经验
After a ten-month journey, Viking I has reached its destination. 在10个月的行程中，北欧海盗号到达了目的地
Touchdown. We have touchdown. 着陆。 我们着陆了
To NASA scientists, 对NASA的科学家们来说
it's a momentous event. For the first time in its history, the United States has a probe on another planet. 这是一个重大的时刻。在美国历史上这是第一次在他行星上的探索
Viking was the first spacecraft to actually attempt a soft landing on Mars, and give us an actual feel, 北欧海盗号是第一架宇宙飞船，在火星上软着陆，为我们带来了真实的体验
a taste for what the conditions were on the surface. 和尝试，让我们知道它的表面的状况
We looked out at those pictures of the surface, 我们研究了发来的地表图片
and they looked so much like the Pacific deserts here, 这里他们看到了很多类似太平洋沙漠之地
like Death Valley. We all half expected to see a miner and his burro come walking up over the nearest rise. 象死谷。我们抱着试一试的想法，能否看到一个矿工和他的驴子沿着山坡向前
Scientists knew that finding definitive signs of life on Mars was a long shot. 科学家们知道火星上发现决定性的生命标志是不太可能的
But when the Viking lander performed four tests on the Martian soil looking for microbial life, 但当北欧海盗着陆后，在火星土壤上执行了四个实验，想发现微生物的痕迹
it returned surprising and controversial results. 它带来的是意外发现，也是最具争议的结论
Dr. Gil Levin designed one of the tests that the Viking probe performed. Gil Levin博士设计了其中一个实验让飞船来执行
Microorganisms breathe just like you or I or anything else, 微生物也是呼吸的，就像你我或者其他生物
and then they give off carbon dioxide. 他们吐出二氧化碳
So we got a tiny sample, a thimbleful of the soil, put into a little container. 我们从少量土壤中取一个小样本，放到一个小容器中
It was monitored for seven days continuously to see if there are any bubbles forming in the tube. 准备检测连续七天后，这里是否有泡泡形成
Surprisingly, the tests came up positive for life by the criteria that had been approved by NASA. 非常奇怪，实验证明，在NASA设定的条件下，这里确实适合生命存在
However, the result of another important test... 不管怎样，另一个重要实验的结果想证明
one looking for organic matter on the Martian surface... 是否在火星表面存在着有机物，但结论是否定的。
was negative. But Dr. Levin says the other test wasn't nearly as sensitive as his experiment. 但Dr. Levin说另一个实验并没有接近他的设想
It needed three million bacteria in a thimbleful of Martian soil to find signs of life, 它需要在极少量的火星土中存在300万的细菌，这样才能够发现生命
while Dr. Levin's test only required 30 bacteria. 而Dr. Levin's的这个实验只有30个细菌
So there was a vast discrepancy in the sensitivity of the two experiments, 因此二个实验在敏感性上存在着巨大的差异
and I immediately said, "Well, you know, they both could be" right. 我立刻说：“好，你知道，这二个都可以是对的”
We detected life, but maybe there aren't enough bacteria per unit of soil for the organic "analysis instrument to find." 我们发现生命，但可能每单位存在的细菌数量不够，有机分析仪根本测量不出来
But NASA was very cautious, 但NASA非常的小心谨慎
and they opted to say no organic matter. 他们选择了火星上不存在有机质的说法
There goes the ball game. No life. 他们玩起了滚球游戏—没有生命
Dr. Levin has fought NASA for almost 40 years on whether the Viking probe found evidence of life on Mars. 是否飞船证明在火星上发现了生命痕迹，Levin博士与NASA展开了长达40年的争论
If he was right about the results of his test, 如果他对实验的结果是肯定的
this would be the first proof accepted by mainstream science that life exists outside our planet, 这可能是第一个能够被主流科学家们接受的证据—我们的行星外存在着生命
but ancient astronaut theorists say an even more profound discovery regarding the red planet has been uncovered right here on Earth... 但远古外星人理论者们认为，有关这颗红行星没有在地球上揭示的秘密
mysterious relics that may reveal an actual visitation of beings from Mars. 可以通过检测很多神秘的遗址被发现，它告诉我们的是那些真正来自火星的探访者
Teotihuacan, Mexico. 墨西哥的迪奥狄华肯
In 2003, archeologists in this ancient city made a startling discovery. 2003年，这座古城的考古学家们有一个震惊的发现
A previously nknown tunnel lies 45 feet beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, 羽蛇神殿下有一个过去没有发现的长45英尺的通道
one of the most sacred pyramids on the continent. 这座神殿是欧洲大陆上最神圣的金字塔之一
Working underground, scientists methodically explored the debris-filled tunnel using a robotic probe with an infrared scanner. 科学家们有步骤地在地下开展搜寻工作，他们用红外扫瞄机器人来探索填充隧道的碎片
After some 250 feet, they reached a side-cave. 探索了约250英尺后，他们到达了一个侧面的洞穴中
The tail end of the tunnel, terminus of the tunnel, was loaded with, um, yellowish metallic-looking orbs, 隧道末端，也就是终点充满了淡黄色看着象金属的魔法球
apparently colored clay. 显然是有色土壤
The orbs are very interesting objects. 这些非常有趣
I've never seen anything like them in any kind of other archaeological context. 我从没看到过像这样的东西，考古文献中根本没有记载
On the inside, they are clay. On the outside, 在内部，它们是粘土
they're coated with some sort of gold flecks, so they look like golden balls. 在外面，包裹着一些类似黄金颗粒的东西，因此它们看起来像是黄金球
What purpose these golden balls served is unknown, 这些黄金球的目的还不得而知
but some archeologists believe the cavern in which they were found was a place of sacred ritual. 但一些考古学家相信他们发现的洞穴是举行某类神圣仪式的场所
Like the clay balls, the walls were also covered in gold flecks, 就像这些粘土球，这些墙面也同样覆盖着黄金颗粒
so if the cavern illuminated it with a torch during a ceremony, 在仪式过程中，如果洞穴被火把照亮
the cavern would have shimmered with a thousand points of light, resembling the cosmos. 洞穴会熠熠发光，就像宇宙一样
These beautiful orbs of yellow material strongly suggests that someone was illustrating planets. 这些美丽的强光黄色金属球说明有些人在图解行星
We do know that the Mayan calendar is heavily calibrated to the orbital parameters of the planets in our solar system, 我们知道玛雅日历与太阳系中的行星轨道参数非常校准
specifically the inner planets. 特别是内行星
The red planet's connection to the Mayan calendar is portrayed in The Dresden Codex. 红星与玛雅历的关系在德雷斯顿抄本中非常密切
This rare book from Mayan antiquity describes the calendar in relation to Mars' movements across the sky. 这个玛雅古遗物珍本说明了火星在天空中的运动与日历非常的密切
The Dresden Codex is one of four remaining books that the Maya wrote. 德雷斯顿抄本是玛雅人四本保存下来的书之一
It is, in many regards, an astronomical almanac. 在许多方面这就是天文历
There are many different sections of the book that talk about different astronomical phenomena. 书中从很多不同方面谈论了不同的天文现象
One of them is the planet Mars. 其中一个就是火星
There is an almanac near the end of the book, 在书的结束部分有一篇年历
that breaks up days into ten groups of 78 days equaling 780 days, 被分成十组，把一年780天分成每月的78天
which is the cyanotic period of Mars, in other words, 换句话说，就是火星上的青紫时期
the time in which it takes Mars to get back to the same place on the horizon from a human perspective. 在这期间，火星重返人类地平线视野看到的起点上
Scholars believe Mars played an important role in the Maya astrology that's described in The Dresden Codex. 学者们相信火星在玛雅德雷斯顿抄本描述占星学的部分扮演了重要角色
Above that almanac is a sky band shown with various aspects of celestial symbols we recognize out of hieroglyphs, 在年历上，通过象形文字看到，天空带显示出天空符号的不同的面向
and hanging off of it is this interesting dragon-like creature. 这个有趣的象龙一样的动物悬在天上
at dragon-like creature is recognized as the face of Mars. 它被认为是火星之面
Why did the planet Mars feature so prominently in Maya astronomy? 在玛雅天文学中，为什么火星特征如此的显著？
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest the answer may be found in a little-known myth surrounding the story of the feathered serpent god, 远古外星人理论学家们认为，透过鲜为人知的羽蛇神神话可以找到答案
whose temple sits above the secret tunnel that contains the golden orbs. 他的神殿坐落在秘密通道之上，里面有黄金球
In the Mayan tradition, their great god, 在玛雅的传统中，这个巨神
often pictured as a feathered serpent, 通常被画成有羽毛的蛇
was said to have been responsible for the death of the god of Mars, flayed him to death. 据说他要对火星之神的死亡负责，他剥了他的皮
That's stripping off the skin. It's a horrific ritual that was actually done in other ways in that culture, 这是个可怕的仪式，在那个文化中真的被执行了
but the idea is death by that means absorbs the power of the enemy. 但对死亡的说法是吸收敌人的能量
But the name of their god also is associated with the comets. 但他们的神之名也与彗星有关
There are certain drawings that show comets that look like they have feathers coming off the back. 有一些图画显示出带着羽毛的彗星在他身后
The flames are depicted as feathers. 它的火焰被描述成羽毛
And some scholars believe there's a connection between the look of the flying feathered serpent and these comets. 一些学者相信飞行的羽蛇神与彗星之间肯定有关系
Is it possible that the Mayan myth of the feathered serpent describes an actual event, 有没有可能玛雅羽蛇神的传说描述的就是一个真实事件
a cataclysmic comet strike that destroyed the Martian atmosphere? 这颗灾难性的彗星撞击毁灭了火星的大气？
After studying the red planet for decades, 通过对这颗红星数百年的研究
mainstream scientists admit it's entirely possible this impact occurred on Mars in the distant past. 主流科学家们承认在远古绝对有这种可能
If you look at the Martian landscape, 如果看一下火星景观
it is heavily cratered compared to Earth. 和地球比起来，它上面有很多深坑
Mars is next to the asteroid belt. 火星紧邻小行星带
In fact, in some ways, it defines the inner edge of the asteroid belt. 事实上，在某些方面，它位于小行星带的内边缘
So Mars is constantly being hammered by asteroids relative to earth. 对于地球来说，它不断地被小行星撞击
You always have the risk, and of course we've seen it here on Earth, 你永远都要担风险，当然这是从地球来看
of having large asteroids or comets hit the planet and cause tremendous ecological damage. 大的小行星和彗星撞击到行星造成大范围的生态破坏
The most famous example of that is the Chicxulub asteroid that may or may not have been the final nail in the dinosaurs' coffin. 最有名的例子是希克苏鲁伯小行星，它有可能是恐龙棺材最后的铁钉
And certainly that could've happened at Mars because it doesn't have a large moon to help shield the planet and possibly deflect asteroids. 当然在火星是不可能发生的，因为它没有大月亮帮助阻挡行星和轨道偏转的小行星
In his book, Life and Death on Mars, 在这本《火星生死》的书中
physicist John Brandenburg describes an impact crater in the Lyot region of Mars that's more than 125 miles in diameter. 物理学家John Brandenburg描述了一个在火星里奥区域的陨石坑，直径超过了125英里
He believes this comet strike may have caused a profound disruption to Mars' planetary system. 他确信这颗撞击来的彗星对火星行星系统造成了的重大破坏
It's a large double-ring crater. 这是个大的双环弹口
This happened to a planet that only gets half the sunlight of earth and has one quarter of the surface area, 这发生在一个仅有地球1/4表面积却能获得地球一半阳光的星球上
so this would have been an absolutely devastating planet climate-changing event. 所以这肯定是对这个星球气候产生毁灭性改变的一个事件
There may have been a very dramatic event where some other leftover piece from the birth of the solar system, 曾经发生过一件非常戏剧化的事，太阳系诞生起，一些其他的碎片
some big asteroid, sort of made a close fly-by, 一些大的小行星，有些可以低空飞行
sort of a fender-bender collision with Mars and just stripped off a lot of the atmosphere. 有些可以和火星发生小的碰撞，脱离大气
That's a very popular way to look at what may have gone wrong with Mars. 这是个普遍的方法看待火星到底出现了什么问题
But if Mars fostered life long ago, 但如果火星很久前培育出了生命
before losing its atmosphere, could intelligent life, 此时它还没有失去大气层
and perhaps even civilization, have existed and even flourished on the red planet? 这些智慧生命甚至文明，是否存在并兴盛于这颗红星？
And if so, where would the inhabitants have gone after the cataclysm? 如果这样，在大灾难到达前那些居民去哪里了？
Some say the answers to these questions can be found in the origin story of Earth's first civilization. 对这个问题有一些说答案，它发生在地球最早的文明起源的故事当中
Mosul, Iraq, 1849. 1849年，伊拉克的摩苏尔
During an excavation of the Biblical city of Nineveh, 在对圣城城市尼尼微的挖掘中
a team led by the eminent British archeologist Austen Henry Layard, 一个由英国杰出的考古学家Austen Henry Layard带领的小队
discovers the ruins of the ancient Assyrian library of Ashurbanipal. 发现了古亚述人位于亚述巴尼帕的图书馆废墟
Among the priceless relics Layard recovered from the library is a series of cuneiform tablets called the En a Eli? 在这些无价的遗迹中，Layard又从图书馆中发现了一系列的楔形文字的石碑叫En a Eli
also known as "The Seven Tablets" of Creation." 它的另一个名字是《造物主的七个石碑》
The tablets are, essentially, text in columnar style, no more than eight to ten inches tall, 这些石碑本来是圆柱形的文本，高度超不过8-10英吋
uh, six to seven inches wide, which were made of clay. 6-7英吋宽，由粘土做成
And while the clay was just in the process of setting, 这些粘土只是过程中的一种设置
a stylus would be used by a trained scribe to etch the stories of our existence on this planet. 用铁笔的抄写员经过培训，能够把我们存在于行星的故事很鲜明地描述下来
The Seven Tablets of Creation tell a story about a group of gods called the Anunnaki who came from heaven to give birth to the human race, 七块造物主石碑告诉我们一个故事，一群叫做阿努纳奇的神灵们从天堂来，赋予了人类生命
but some ancient astronaut theorists believe the original translations, 但一些远古外星人理论学家相信，对它最初的翻译工作
completed in the 19th century by some of the best scholars of the day, are flawed. 完成于19世纪，由一些当今最好的学者完成，但却存在着缺陷
The professors' certainly brilliant brains had no idea of space travel, not to speak of extraterrestrials. 教授们完美的大脑没有输入太空旅行的知识，更不用说外星人了
So they all, without exception, made the translations in the belief that the stories had to do with the Almighty God. 因此他们毫无例外地在翻译工作中根本没有和万能上帝建立任何关系
In the old texts, we have, for example, a word like "heaven." 在老的文本中，比如我们有一个词叫“天堂”
So, for example, Abraham was taken up to heaven nd brought back to Earth. 因此举个例子，亚伯拉罕被带到天堂，之后又被带回地球
a So we should change the word" heaven" into the word "space" so it makes sense. 因此我们可以把“天堂”这个词改为“空间”很有道理
Using what they say is a more accurate translation of this origin myth, 用他们说的可以更加精确翻译这个原始的故事
ancient astronaut theorists believe the tablets tell a story about the Anunnaki coming from space to colonize both Mars and Earth. 远古外星人理论家们相信，石碑告诉我们的是阿努纳奇人从空中来到地球和火星殖民的故事
According to some researchers, 按照一些研究者的说法
the Sumerians had a number of myths about Mars, 苏美尔人也有着许多有关火星的神话
including that the Anunnaki used Mars as a supply base to come here to Earth. 包括阿努纳奇人把火星作为来地球的补给基地
And subsequently the Anunnaki then ruled the earth as these extraterrestrial god-kings, 随后阿努纳奇人作为外星的神之王统治了地球
while humans began to create the many civilizations on our planet. 此时正当人类正在开始在地球创造众多的文明
And eventually the Anunnaki left to go back to their own planet. 最终，阿努纳奇人离开回到他们的行星人
Or did they? 是么？
Is it possible that the Anunnaki gods in our ancient origin stories were actually extraterrestrial beings 有没有可能在我们古代原始的故事书中，阿努纳奇诸神真的就是外星人
and that they created the structures that some believe they see on Mars? 他们在这里创造了类似于火星的结构？
And if so, did they then journey to Earth? 如果属实，他们还会再来地球么？
We see multiple references in the cuneiform tablets that are allegedly the records of the Anunnaki. 我们看到在楔形石碑上有很多参考帧，据说记录的就是阿努纳奇人的事
That, in fact, they did originate from Mars, 事实上，他们确实起源于火星
that this is not a dead, isolated, rocky world 它不是死星、孤独的、无人烟的石头世界
with nothing on it, but there was life. 它有生命
But according to the modern translation of Sumerian and Babylonian origin myths, 按照苏美尔人的现代译文和巴比伦起源神话
a cataclysmic event occurred on Mars, 火星上发生了大灾难
an event that sounds remarkably similar to ancient Mesoamerican myths about a feathered serpent flaying the red planet. 这个事件听起来非常像古代的美索美洲神话，讲述的是羽蛇神对这星行星实施了剥皮术
While the Anunnaki were using Mars as a supply base for earth, 当阿努纳奇人把火星作为来地球的供给基地时
at some point there was a catastrophe. There was some asteroid or comet strike on Mars. 在某一时刻发生了这场大灾难，有一些小行星或彗星撞击了火星
It ripped the atmosphere from Mars. 它撕裂了火星的大气
It changed the climate, and Mars couldn't be used as a habitable space base for the Anunnaki anymore. 改变了气候，火星不再适于阿努纳奇人居住
And so therefore, as we explore Mars more and more, 因此，当我们越来越揭示火星的秘密时
we may find structures, pyramids, ziggurats, 我们会发现其上的结构、金字塔、金字形神塔
even giant statues carved into rock on Mars, 甚至在火星的石头上雕刻的巨大的石像
which are really relics of the Anunnaki and the time when they occupied that planet. 这些是阿努纳奇人占领这颗行星时真正的遗址
Some have suggested that Mars may have had an atmosphere, 有一些人说火星有大气层
and it got annihilated about 65 million years ago. 但在6.5亿年前就已经废止了
What some have suggested is that before this annihilation occurred, 一些人说在废止前
that that civilization was able to escape to Earth. 行星上的人逃往地球
Now, according to this view, we might, in fact, be the Martians. 现在，按照这个观点，我们事实上可能就是火星人
Some scientists say they've found powerful evidence of this lost civilization. 一些科学家说他们发现了这个失落文明的有力的证据
They believe they may have discovered a nuclear signature in the Martian atmosphere that matches Earth's after a nuclear test. 他们相信可能会在火星大气发现核迹象，类似于地球核爆后的情况
During the height of the Cold War, 在冷战的顶点
we were detonating very large hydrogen bombs in the open air, 我们在旷野中引爆了非常巨大的氢弹
and it produces a lot of a gas called xenon 129. 它产生了大量的氙气129
On Mars, we've also found a lot of xenon 129. 在火星上，我们还发现了大量的氙129
The only process we know to produce this xenon 129 is a nuclear explosion. 而我们仅知道制造它的过程就是核爆
So apparently, a very large nuclear weapon or weapons was detonated on Mars. 因此很显然，火星上巨大的核武器或兵器被引爆
If we look at the Sumerian cuneiform tablets there are very clear references to a variety of advanced forms of technology. 如果我们看一下苏美尔的楔形文字石碑，它上面非常清楚地指出了不同形式的先进技术
And it would seem pretty clear that if we were able to get a nuclear bomb, 这看起来非常清楚了，如果我们可以引爆核弹
then why couldn't a civilization that was superior to our own have developed the same technology? 为什么比先于我们拥有这些先进技术的文明不能呢？
There is a Sumerian myth concerning the planet Mars having to do with some colossal battle of the gods, 苏美尔神话中有一个与火星有关，描述的是诸神之间激烈的战争
so there is elements in mythology that look very much like descriptions of nuclear war. 因此在这个神话中有个要素看起来非常像核爆
Signs of a possible nuclear blast, 是核爆炸的迹象
myths of a comet flaying the planet... 一颗彗星剥去了行星的表皮的神话
and a controversial NASA experiment that may have found life. 非常有争议的发现生命的NASA实验
Could these really be traces of an ancient alien civilization on Mars? 这些真是远古外星文明曾经存在于火星上的痕迹么？
And if so, is it possible there are artificial structures buried beneath the surface even to this day? 如果这样，有没有可能直到今天那些人工建筑被埋在地下？
The Ares Vallis region of Mars, July 4, 1997. 1997年7月4日，火星阿瑞斯峡谷
NASA's Pathfinder spacecraft lands on the red planet. NASA的探路者宇宙飞船在这颗红星着陆
The first probe to reach the Martian surface since Viking, 这是北欧海盗号着陆后对火星表面进行的第一次探测
Pathfinder will look for signs of water. 探路者将寻找水的迹象
Since the Viking missions in the 1970s, 自从19世纪70年代北欧海盗号完成了使命后
mainstream scientists have come to the conclusion that he planet may have once boasted oceans full of water and complex life. 主流科学家得到结论，过去夸耀过这颗行星充满了水和复杂的生命
Billions of years ago, earlier in the history of the solar system, 几亿年前，在太阳系形成前
Mars probably looked, in many ways, the way the Earth did. 火星可能从很多方面看来就像地球
It did build up an atmosphere and oceans. 它确实拥有大气层和海洋
The atmosphere probably would have been equivalent to Earth's atmosphere at that time. 大气层可能在当时与地球的大气相当
Life could well have formed in the oceans. 海洋中生命开始孕育
One day after the Pathfinder touched down, 那天探路者触地
the Sojourner rover began exploring the Martian surface for signs of these ancient life-forms using an X-ray spectrometer 探测器开始探索火星表面，用x射线分光计和高性能照相机
and a high-powered camera. 寻找古代生命的痕迹
What they discovered was, yes, Mars, in certain places, looks like the high desert on Earth. 是的，发现的结果是在火星某些地方看起来像地球上的荒漠
And maybe there are areas which do seem to be dried-out riverbeds. 有一些地方看起来像是干涸的河床
Maybe there's water under the surface. 可能在表面下隐藏着河流
The thing we've learned from the rovers that's most interesting, 从这些巡游者我们得到的结果非常有趣
I think, is the fact that Mars once had a wet past. 我想应当是火星过去曾经非常湿润
And if there was liquid water on the surface of Mars long enough, 如果火星地面有充足的液态的水
not just for a couple of weeks, a couple of years, 不是维持几周，几年
a couple of thousand years, but for millions of years, 几千年，而是数百年
hundreds of millions of years, maybe something cooked up in that liquid, maybe life. 数亿年的水，那些在液体中会有什么冒出，可能是生命
As the Pathfinder rover snapped photographs of the Martian surface, 当探路者对火星表面进行拍照
it captured images of something that puzzled some scientists... 它捕获了一些让科学家们迷惑的事
a mountain range they nicknamed The Twin Peaks.
In his book, Life and Death on Mars, Dr. John Brandenburg says that because Mars has limited volcanic and tectonic activity, 在John Brandenburg的书《火星生死》中，说到火星都是有限的火山岩和其构造性活动
it's an open question as to how these mountains were formed. 这是一个公开的问题—这些山是如何形成的？
This interesting formation is the tallest thing for hundreds of miles. 最有趣是几百英里的最高山峰的成因
Most of the volcanic activity on Mars is concentrated in the Tharsis region. 火星上很多火山活动都集中在萨希斯区
How many miles away is that approximately? 大约有多少英里？
Oh, it's, like 2,000 miles away, to the west. 哦，到西边有2000多英里的距离
All right, so, this area is not known for any volcanoes or anything like that? 好，因此，这个地区的火山和其他东西都不为人知
No, no. And because we now know so much more about the climate of Mars than we did 20 years ago, 不，不。因为我们现在比过去20年越来越多地了解了火星的气候
it had an ocean. It had long periods, 它拥有过海洋，还有长期明显的液态水
apparently, of liquid water flowing on its surface, 流经了火星的地表
so all of this causes us to look at everything on Mars with new eyes. 所有这些让我们对火星有了新的视角
Mm-hmm. 嗯
And so we have these two interesting objects. 我们有二个非常有趣的物体，它们结合起来
They're conjoined. Not only are they the tallest things for 200 miles but they're linked to each other. 200英里，不仅是最高的，还彼此连接
And this reminds me of what we have found on planet Earth. 这让我想起我们在地球上发现的东西
Now, there's alignment. 现在这二件事联系起来了
Mm-hmm. 嗯
And what's interesting, this is the Giza Plateau from Egypt. 有趣的是，这是埃及的吉萨高原
And it is near Cairo, which, name in Arabic derives from the name in Arabic... 接近开罗，阿拉伯语称之为阿拉伯的起源
Al-Qahirah, which means Camp of Mars, Al-Qahirah开罗即是火星营地的意思
Place of Mars. 火星之地
- Very interesting. - Fascinating. 非常有趣，太棒了
Huh. 嗯
And we also have found out recently that at one time, 我们最近同样发现在一个时期
the Sphinx was covered with red paint. 斯芬克斯被涂成了红色
So, imagine we are looking at the Giza complex and the Sphinx. 因此，想像一下吉萨与斯芬克斯的复合体
And a million years of erosion has happened. 一百万年前，侵蚀已经开始
Wouldn't these things all look kind of rounded and mounded like this? 难道这些事物看起来不都是圆形半埋状物么？
It's conjectural. 这是个推测
Mm-hmm. Now I notice over here, 嗯，现在我注意到那儿了
because it's the Giza Plateau, we have the Sphinx. 因为这是吉萨高原，有斯芬克斯
Has something similar been discovered on Mars, specifically around the Twin Peaks area? 火星上发现的有和地球有相似的没有？特别是双峰地区？
Well, we have this strange object which is nearby, 好，我们在附近得到了一个奇怪的物体
and we see that from space and also in the picture. And look at this. 可以从太空中看到，也可以从这张图片看。看这里
At this alignment. Here is the Sphinx on Earth. 在这个结合部，这是地球上的司芬克斯像
Here is the pyramid. Here is this object. 这是金字塔，这里就是这个物体
And there is what looks like a mound of stuff. 这看起来像一堆东西的堆积
Who knows if it is degraded archeology? 如果这是退化的考古，谁知道这是什么？
We must look at everything on Mars now with new eyes. 我们现在一定要用新眼光来看火星上的每件事物
In fact, when the Sphinx was originally found in modern times, 事实上，当今第一次发现司芬克斯像时
it was buried up to its neck in rubble 它被碎石埋到了颈部
- and had to be excavated. - So something 很难被挖掘，因此
similar could be going on right here. 在这里我们也可能会遇到相似的事物
There could be a much larger structure buried beneath. 可能它下面埋藏着更为巨大的结构
Could the Twin Peaks be evidence that an ancient civilization may have once existed on Mars? 双峰山能够成为古代文明存在于火星的证据么？
A civilization whose structures appear to resemble those on Earth? 这个文明的结构类似于地球上的结构？
Ancient astronaut theoristssay yes, 远古外星人理论学者认为，答案是肯定的
and that evidence for this startling conclusion has been accumulating for four decades. 这个令人吃惊的结论证据已经持续了四个世纪了
When Viking orbiters originally started taking pictures of the surface of Mars, 当北欧海盗人造卫星首次开始拍照火星表面时
they took pictures of very intriguing features on the plain of Cydonia. 他们在塞多尼亚拍到了非常有趣的特征
On July 25, 1976, they took a picture of something that looked for all the world like a human face. 1976年7月25日，他们拍到了金星全貌，其中一张图片看起来像是人脸
The whole thing kind of blew up when a NASA project scientist named Toby Owen put a magnifying glass over a frame number named "35A72," and said, 当NASA的一位叫托比欧文的项目科学家把放大镜对准一张编号“35A72”的照片后，让他完全被震惊了
"Hey, look at this." 他说：嘿，快来看这个
NASA actually held a press conference the next day, NASA真的在第二天举行了记者操行会
where Owen and Gerald Soffen, who was the chief Viking project scientist said, 欧文和北欧海盗项目科学家杰拉尔德 索芬说
"You know, isn't it peculiar what tricks of light" “大家知道，这可不是光与影的特殊作品”
and shadow can do? The whole thing kind of went "away a couple hours later when we took another picture." 事情在我们照下一张照片时发生了
The problem with that is that a couple hours later, 问题在于数小时后
the Viking orbiter was nowhere near Cydonia and it was dark, 北欧海盗卫星离塞多尼亚附近，但它全黑了
so there's no way that picture could have ever existed. 因此这张照片再也不存在了
Some believe they found not only a human face carved into Martian rock, but also a pyramid, a cliff. 一些人相信，他们发现的不仅是雕刻在火星岩石上的人脸，它同样也是一座金字塔悬崖
In fact, an entire city buried by thousands of years of sand and soil. 事实上， 到19世纪80年代
By the late 1980s, 整个城市被埋藏在土壤下有几千年的历史 357 one researcher had even discovered what he thought were mathematical relationships among the features of Cydonia. 一位研究者甚至发现了他认为是在这个物体和塞多尼亚之间的数学方程式
A cartographer and satellite imagery expert from the Defense Mapping Agency named Erol Torun took a look at the pyramid 从防御地图代理商Erol Torun那里，制图师和卫星图片专家查看了这个金字塔
and concluded that it was what he called the Rosetta Stone of Mars. 认为这是火星上的罗塞塔石
He found a bunch of mathematical relationships that pointed to other objects in the area that he thought were artificial- looking. 他发现了一系列的数学关系，指出其他在这一地区的物体看起来像是人造的
They included the face, an object called the cliff, 还包括这张脸和悬崖物体
which is a straight line that goes on for hundreds of meters, 这是一条直线，有数百米长
a rounded mound called the tholos which appears to have a pathway that goes up to the top. 一个叫圆屋的圆丘显示出来的是通往顶部的路径
More than 20 years after the Viking mission, 在北欧海盗任务完成20多年后
NASA rephotographed the Cydonia region in 1998 and again in 2001. 1998年和2001年，NASA重新拍摄了塞多尼亚地区
The face no longer looked human, but some scientists believe that was because of when 那张脸不再像一张人脸了，但一些科学家相信那取决于
and how NASA took the newer pictures. NASA拍摄的时间和方式
They shot it from the side. They shot it at morning. 他们是从侧面拍摄的，时间在早上
It was as much a different viewing geometry and lighting geometry as possible from the original pictures. 从原始画面来看，视觉几何学和光几何学得出的结论非常不同
Based on that evidence, the face on Mars, 基于火星人脸的这个证据
evidence of past climate on Mars, a past ocean, 发现了过去火星的气候、海洋证据
I have concluded that Mars was apparently the home of a civilization in the past. 我的结论是火星很明显地在过去存在过文明
Is it possible that an alien civilization existed on Mars in the distant past, 有没有可能，外星文明在火星的过去存在过
and built the structures that recent Martian probes have photographed? 他们建造了火星探测器拍摄的这样的建筑？
If so, does the government know more than it's telling us about life and death on the red planet? 如果这样，政府会比为我们带来这颗红星生死的图片，告诉我们更多的信息
Washington, D.C., August 7, 1996. 1996年8月7日，华盛顿
On the South Lawn of the White House, 白宫南墙草坪上
30 years after NASA announced the Viking mission had not found evidence of life on Mars, NASA宣告北欧海盗号没有在火星上发现生命30年后
President Bill Clinton held an historic press conference to announce some momentous news: 比尔 克林顿总统召开了历史性的记者招待会，宣布了重要新闻：
microbial life may exist on the red planet after all. 在这颗红星上存在着微生物
Scientists had found what they believed to be fossilized remains on a Martian meteorite that crashed to Earth 12,000 years ago. 科学家们已经发现他们确信的石化的火星陨星在120000年前冲向了地球
It must be confirmed by other scientists, 需要其他的科学家确定
but clearly the fact that something of this magnitude is being explored is another vindication of America's space program 但非常清楚的是，这个量级的正在被探索的物体是针对美国的另一个太空计划嘛？
and our continuing support for it, even in these tough financial times. 我们一直在支持它，即使在这些顽固的金融时代
There was enormous excitement over this discovery. 在这个发现中，人们异常兴奋
Based on the chemical composition of the meteorite, 基于陨石的化学成份
we could tell that it was from Mars. 我们可以断定它是否来自于火星
Inside the rock, researchers found different chemicals and, 在岩石内部，研究者们发现了不同的化学物质
in particular, different physical shapes of objects that looked extremely similar to microorganisms here on Earth. 特别是不同的物理特征，看起来非常类似于地球上的微生物
Soon after the president's press conference, 美国总统召开新闻发布会不久
scientists began to backpedal on whether the meteorite actually showed signs of life. 有关是否这些陨星真的显示了生命的迹象，科学家们开始退让
They said the original team of experts may have been wrong. 他们说原始专家团队可能错了
The image certainly looks like some kind of a microorganism, 图像看起来像是某类微生物
but the opponents said the microorganism remains are too small to have DNA to be inside it. 但对手们说微生物太婆，不可能检测到里面的DNA
And therefore, it can't be a fossil. 因此，这不可能是化石
Since then, microorganisms have been found that small, 从那时开始，已经发现微生物内部存在着DNA
which have DNA in them, but it has not been resolved. 但如何发现还没有得到解决
But given the controversy surrounding the possibility that life may have been discovered on Mars, 但在19世纪70年代，北欧海盗使命完成后，
starting with the Viking mission of the 1970s and continuing to - the present day... 围绕着火星是否存在着生命这个问题还存在很多争论，持续到当今
- Liftoff. 发射
some scientists say NASA almost seems to be avoiding the issue. 一些科学家说NASA几乎一直在避免这个话题
The space agency has never retried Gil Levin's test for signs of life on the red planet. 航天局从没有再次尝试过吉尔 列文在这颗红星上存在生命的实验
It is very puzzling as to why NASA has refused to send life detection experiments back to Mars. 为什么NASA拒绝往火星发送生命探测器，这让我们非常迷惑
My experiment discovered the most remarkable thing yet known about Mars. 我的实验发现了火星最有力的证据
That there is something highly reactive in the soil, chemical or biological. 在火星的土壤中存在着非常高的化学或生物反应
But we really should find out what it is. 但我们需要发现这到底是什么
It is startling that NASA has made no attempt to determine that issue. NASA并不想尝试证实这些事件，这很让我们吃惊
I truly think NASA knows there is life on Mars, 我真的认为NASA已经知道在火星上存在着生命
but for some reason unbeknownst to me, it does not want that information out. 但由于一些我可能不知道的原因，他们并不想把这个信息公布于众
Has NASA found definitive signs of life on Mars that they're intentionally keeping from the public? NASA发现了火星生命的确切证据，而故意不想公之于众，真的么？
And if so, have they found evidence that an advanced civilization once lived on the red planet? 如果这样，他们是否真的发现在这颗红星上存在着先进文明的证明？
Some ancient astronaut theorists believe they have, 一些远古外星人理论学家认为这是肯定的
and as evidence, point to a report commissioned by NASA in 1960... 一份1960年的NASA委任报告可以作为证明
that offers advice for how to reveal the news if the American space program should ever find proof of extraterrestrial life. 如果美国太空计划发现外星生命的证明，这就是一个揭示性的信息
The so-called Brookings Report essentially said that in your travels throughout the solar system, 称作布鲁金斯报告的文本根本上说明在穿越太阳系的旅程中
there is a distinct possibility that you will discover artifacts, 发现史前器物的可能性非常明显
that you will actually discover evidence of an ancient alien presence on Venus, 我们真会发现远古外星人在金星、月亮和火星上
on the moon or on Mars. 存在过的证据
And the implications of such an announcement, if it were made, 这个宣言的隐义是
would be potentially devastating to the human race. 如果被发现，它对地球人类存在着潜在的危险，也可能是灾难性的
It could be catastrophic. In fact, it used the word "disintegrate." 事实上，可能用“瓦解”这个词来形容
I would imagine that it would be something that would be kept secret for awhile. 我可以想像这是一段时期需要保密的
I don't think it's a bunch of men sitting in a room and smoking cigarettes and saying we're gonna keep this secret. 我不认为一群坐在室内的人们，抽着雪茄烟说：要保密
But it is a responsibility, and I think that they would certainly be very, 这是个责任，他们会非常非常小心地
very careful as to how to let out this knowledge. 对外释放这样的信息
Is it possible that not just microbial life, 有没有可能，不仅是微生物
but also intelligent beings, once called the red planet their home? 还有其他的智慧生命，把这颗红星称为自己的家园？
And if so, what would that mean for the existence of life elsewhere in the cosmos? 如果这样，宇宙的其它地方也存在着生命，这对我们来说意谓着什么？
If life used to exist on Mars, particularly if it formed independently of Earth life, 如果火星过去存在过生命，特别是如果它独立地存在于地球生命
life in the universe is all over the place. 那么宇宙的任何地方都有可能存在着生命
That means that of the billions of planets discovered now similar to Earth, 这就是说，宇宙中数亿的类似地球的星球上
through our universe, many of them would have life on them. 都有可能存在着生命
And if there is life different from life on Earth that has evolved, 如果不同于地球的生命体被发现
there would be every reason to suspect such evolution would have gone on on countless other Earths. 我们就非常充分的理由怀疑，进化会在无数的其他地球上发生着
And that there would be intelligent life out there as well. 在其他的地方也存在着智慧生命
We want there to be life on Mars. 我们希望火星上也有生命
We want there to be life somewhere beyond here. 我们希望在宇宙其他地方也有生命
We want that transcendent connection to the heavens. 我们希望与天堂有着非凡的联系
We don't want it to be invaders, but we don't want to be alone in the universe. 我们不想成为入侵者，在宇宙中我们不想身单力孤
Are tales of life on Mars, found in cultures across the world, simply mythology? 在世界各地文化有关火星存在生命的神话，仅仅是一个神话么？
Or might Martians really have visited Earth in the distant past, 就如同远外外星人理论学家认为的
as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 火星人真的在远古就拜访了地球？
If so, could there be evidence waiting to be discovered on the red planet? 如果这样，在这颗红星上是否还存在着更多的证据等待我们发掘？
Perhaps with further missions to Mars we'll find that not only was it home to alien beings thousands of years ago, 可能伴随着对火星更多的挖掘任务，我们会发现在数千年前，火星不仅是外星存有的家
but it still is today. 现在仍然是