Certainly this is like mid 1990s, we did have the web and the internet but things were slow and it just wasn't really conducive to actually finding things quickly unless you really gave some thought to the problem.

它有些像20世纪90年代，当然我们有网络和互联网,但是做事情很慢,在快速查找东西的时候不是很有效,除非我们对这个问题真正深入思考了。

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You wanted to know your place in the universe, but you don't even have that kind of knowledge either, because you think you're writing novels, finding the cure for cancer, climbing Mount Everest.

你想知道自己在宇宙里的位置，但是你连那种知识都没有，因为你以为自己是在写小说，在寻找治疗癌症的办法，在攀登珠穆朗玛峰。

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If you were asking questions, like, how high does it go, but you don't ask when does it go to the highest point, then you don't have to go through the whole process of finding the time at which it turned around.

如果你想问,例如,它可以到多高,不过你并没有问它何时达到最高点,那么你不用从头到尾再来一遍,来弄清质点何时转向

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