Fifty years ago this week, a young Cornell University scientist named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at a distant star, hoping to hear transmissions from an alien civilization.

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So that's how distant I am from all of this but let's listen to a little of this.

这就是我和流行音乐的距离,但我们还是来听一下

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And it means the people in Los Angeles who were eating their food, a lot of it shipped in from far away have a distant relationship with it.

这意味着曾自给自足的洛杉矶人,所吃的食物要从远处运来,所以人与食品间的关系被拉远了

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