Maybe the story is telling us if we don't look after the planet, a day will come when flowers can only grow on the moon.

也许这个故事告诉我们，如果我们不爱护这个星球，总有一天，花就只能在月球上生长。

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Not only is the planet a gas giant similar to Jupiter or Saturn, the planet follows an orbit that brings it very close to its parent star.

除了因为它是土星和木星那样的巨型气态行星以外，它运行的轨道有些时候和其母星非常靠近。

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But I would ask them this: isn't the death of the planet a price worth paying for the happiness we now enjoy?

但是，我要问他们这一点：为了我们现在享受的幸福，难道不值得我们付出毁灭地球的代价吗？

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A new report says mangrove forests store more planet-warming carbon dioxide than almost any other ecosystem on Earth.

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I--You're just off on a different planet in terms of your capacity to process aural material, but we--I can't do that.

我,大家其实到了另外一个星球,要说咱们对声音材料的处理能力,但是我们,我无法做到那样

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Suppose the planet were hit by a comet-- this happened--something like this happened sixty-five million years ago, so it could happen again.

假设这个星球被一颗彗星击中-,这样的事，大约六千五百万年前,发生过，所以它还可能再发生。

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Eventually, the people with the phones are going to start using these new sites, and I imagine many more listeners to the BBC's Digital Planet - a radio programme devoted to the way technology touches lives around the world - will come online and join in the conversation.

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In their paper, the co-authors argue that gravitational tidal heating caused by the gravitational friction of an earth-like exo-moon on an eccentric orbit around a Jupiter-like planet lying at a Jupiter-like distance from its parent star, could, in fact, create habitable conditions.

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The system could thus provide astronomers with invaluable information about planet-disc interaction, suggests Alan Boss, a leading planet-formation theorist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington.

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