观点：地球是宇宙中的一处生物保护区，而无法解释的“大气现象”便是前来作分析的无人机

mexinator
What if they have a government (like ours) that stops them from making contact with us. Like they want to, but they’re government is like, “we dont know what they could do to us. We gotta keep studying them”.
 
万一他们像我们一样也有一个政府而且阻止他们同我们接触，那可怎么办？情况可能是：他们本来是想接触的，可他们政府的态度是，“我们并不清楚他们会对我们干出些什么。我们必须继续研究它们。”
 
Exactly. The Prime Directive.
 
（回）正是。有个最高指导原则的。
（译注：最高指导原则，也称为“星际舰队通用法令一号”、“非干涉原则”，是《星际迷航》宇宙中的星际舰队指导原则，内容为禁止星际舰队成员干涉外星文明的自然发展）
 
What if their government doesn't even acknowledge officially that we exist? They explain the radio waves as swap gas and the satellites as natural phenomena so the aliens won't freak out because they can't handle the truth about other life in the universe lol
 
（回）万一他们的政府都不愿意正式承认我们的存在呢？他们会把无线电波解释成沼气，把人造卫星解释成自然现象，这样外星人就不会恐慌了，因为他们没有能力消化“宇宙中还存在其他生命”这个真相呵呵
 
This is likely. I mean, imagine if we found life in a stone age somewhere else? There would be a small group of scientists that would need to make some real moral and ethical decisions.
 
（回）这也是很有可能的。我想说的是，想象一下，如果我们在某个地方找到了尚处在石器时代的生命，到时候该怎么办？到时会组建一个由科学家组成的小组，他们必须作出一些真正的、关乎伦理道德的抉择。
 
Why does this foolish society sound familiar haha
 
（回）为什么这个愚蠢的社会听上去这么熟悉啊哈哈
 
It's more than a story. There are two outcomes for advanced life. One is to use reciprocal altruism. That is, individual greed offset by utilitarian cooperation. The other is close kinship among individuals. That is, true altruism like ants or mole rats. The former requires government. The latter does not provide competition between individuals to drive evolution of intelligence required equally for outwitting others as for cooperation. More to the point, it requires an authoritarian government with fertile individuals being in control.
 
（回）这可不止是一个故事。高级的生命会出现两种结果。一种是践行互惠互利的利他主义。也即是说，个人的贪婪被功利主义下的合作抵消了。另一种则是个体之间紧密的血缘关系。也即蚂蚁或鼹形鼠那种真正的利他主义。前者需要有政府。后者不存在个体间竞争的空间，目的是推动智慧的进化，而智胜他者和合作都同样需要智慧的进化。更确切地说就是，它需要的是一个威权政府，并让有生育能力的个体来管理。
 
mcmohorn
We are a reservoir for DNA of various plant / animal species across the galaxy or universe or something idk but yes I agree with you
 
我们就是整个银河系/宇宙或别的什么我不知道的所在的一个动植物基因库，是的，我同意你的看法。
 
lol great reservoir. Tens or hundreds of species die off every year, because people are like virus.
 
（回）呵呵好伟大的基因库呢。每年都有成千上万的物种消亡，因为人类就像病毒一样。
 
They already have the DNA so they don't care if the ones of earth die off?
 
（回）他们已经掌握了这些基因，所以他们并不在乎地球上的这些动植物灭绝？
 
Scoots1721
“They discovered atomic power!”
“Have they started on FTL travel? We may soon invite them”
“No they just bombed the shit out of some island…Twice”
 
“他们发现了原子能的力量！”
“那他们开始进行超光速旅行了吗？也许我们很快就可以邀请他们(加入星际大家庭了)”
“没有哦，就在刚才，他们把某个岛炸成了稀巴烂，而且炸了两次”
 
“Typical, leave some probes.”
 
（回）“人类就是死性不改，留几个探测器吧”
 
nemli12
I think that is a high possibility. One of the few logical explanations of why an advance civilization is choosing to stay in the margins.
 
我觉得这种可能性很高。是一个先进文明选择待在边缘的少数几个合乎逻辑的解释之一。
 
Zoo
 
（回）动物园
 
More like a safari I think.
 
（回）我觉得更像是游猎
 
makograves
Been saying this for a long time. This obsession with finding life elsewhere when the abundance of life here is overwhelming and at times even alien (cephalopods) it could very well mean that we are some sort of ark, zoo or even a sanctuary for life, as the rest of the universe is inhospitable to it.
 
这话我已经说了很久了。我们星球上的生命可是压倒性得丰富，时不时还能发现外星生物（头足类动物），却痴迷于在别处发现生命，这很可能就意味着我们就是某种方舟、动物园，甚至或是生命的一个避难所，因为宇宙的其他地区是不适合生命栖居的。
 
And we were supposed to grow and take care of it, but we fucked that up and whatever started the project is keeping tabs now more than ever as we may mess up the entire experiment and destroy all remains of life in the universe.
 
而我们本该长大成熟，然后照顾好这个星球，可我们却搞砸了，无论启动这个项目的是什么，现在比以往任何时候都需要密切关注，因为我们可能会破坏掉整个实验，乃至毁掉这个宇宙中剩余的所有生命。
 
Moonwatcher23
Just as long as they enforce the "catch and release" laws...
 
只要他们能强制执行“有捉有放法”就行…
 
Are they going to clip the end off of one ear when they neuter us, before they release us back into the wild? It's what happened to my cat.
 
（回）他们在阉割我们的时候，会不会先剪掉我们的一只耳朵尖再把我们放回野外？我的猫就是这种遭遇。
 
Just_Another_AI
Petri dish
 
就是个培养皿
 
mishie101
That's possible, and if it's true perhaps they're avoiding giving us too much help because we'd lose the will to achieve anything and it would mess us up. Kind of like the mice in the mouse utopia experiment
 
这是有可能的，而如果真是如此，也许他们是在避免给我们提供太多帮助，因为这样我们就会丧失进取心，这样就会害惨我们自己。这就有点像那个老鼠乌托邦实验中的老鼠了。
 
gothicnonsense
Or along those lines, it could be the old home planet to a "superior race" of beings, and they had to flee the planet before an extinction event. But when they took a look back, discovered new sentient inhabitants, and are studying us to see if there is a correlation in our DNA lixing us to them. It could explain abductions too.
 
也可以沿着这些思路发散一下，地球可能是一个“高级种族”从前的母星，他们在一次大灭绝之前不得不逃离这颗星球。可是他们在回头看的时候，发现这里出现了新的有感情有意识的居民，然后就一直在研究我们，想看看我们的基因是否和他们的有关联。这也可以解释各种绑架事件。
 
ScaredValuable5870
We are a Nursery. As in Earth.
 
我们就是个托儿所。也即地球托儿所。
 
ScorchedLife
I could see them coming to the conclusion we're better off alone. In our own experiences when advanced cultures come into contact with less advanced cultures, the latter stagnates. For our own good they could be dodging us.
 
我能理解，他们会得出这样一个结论：我们最好还是保持孤独状态。以我们自己的经验，当先进文化和不够先进的文化发生接触时，后者就会停滞不前。为了我们好，他们可能在躲避我们。
 
ursixx
We'd make great pets
 
我们会成为很棒的宠物的
 
Delimma2112
Maybe they've made contact, just not with YOU..
 
也许他们已经做过接触了，接触的不是你而已。
 
ka0s_
This planet is a fucking prison.
 
这个星球就是个该死的监狱。
 
And your body is your cell.
 
（回）而肉身就是你的单元牢房。
 
Quite comfortable prison for some people.
 
（回）对有些人来说，可是相当舒服的监狱呢。
 
N0SF3RATU
If that were the case they'd stop us from destroying the earth
 
（研究者）如果真是这种情况，他们就会来阻止我们毁掉地球了。
 
DirtiestOFsanchez
The reason humans can conduct energy is because we are the battery source powering a piece of equipment, or something along those lines.
 
人类能传导能量，是因为我们是能为某个设备（或沿线的某物）供电的电池。
 
Ky_kapow
This is actually my theory, too. Various groups of ET’s have been messing with our genetics and observing us forever.
 
这其实也是我的观点。各族群的外星人一直在摆弄我们的基因，而且永远都在观察我们。
 
Pipedreamsarereal
I believe it’s a combination of things. They have made contact but mainly to those that govern our planet. Secondly if there are millions of life forms out in the universe then what we see on Star Trek as in there being a federation of planets that are under some type of galactic law they would need to treat earth under that jurisprudence.
 
我相信这是一个因缘和合的过程。他们已经完成了接触，但主要是和那些统治我们这颗星球的人。其次，如果宇宙中存在几百万种生命形态，那就会有我们在《星际迷航》中所见的那种行星联邦，会受到某种星际法律的约束，他们在对待地球时必须合乎法理。
 
PyramidsOfMemphis
Sometimes I wonder if the whole universe is just part of a living being, and we’re just the microscopic bacteria.
 
有时候我很想知道，这整个宇宙是否只是某个活物的一部分，而我们只是它上面那些只能用显微镜才能看到的细菌。
 
dazmo
The fruit of life isn't ripe yet.
 
生命的果实尚未成熟。
 
Culbal
If you care a wild life preserve you carefull about the health and security of the inhabitant. You put attention at them environment as well. When you see the world today, Aliens do a really bad job or this theory is just false
 
如果你对一个野生动物保护区上心，你就会非常注意那些居民的健康和安全。你也会去关注他们的环境。而当你看到这个世界的现状，那么，不是外星人做得太糟糕，就是这个理论错了。
 
But ivory poachers exist, big game hunters exist, even in our own preserves, we're not able to protect the land and animals in it. Erosion, floods, drought, etc. are all still present. This theory, actually, checks out.
 
（回）但象牙偷猎者是存在的，大型动物猎人也是存在的，连我们自己的保护区中都有。我们没有能力保护其中的土地和动物。水土流失、洪水、干旱等等都还是存在的。这个理论，其实是成立的。