The nearest star to earth is about 4 light years away.

地球离最近的恒星大约为4光年。

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That takes the focus away from the natural variations in the earth climate, like the Ice Age, right?

那就把人们的注意力从地球气候的自然变化上转移开了，比如冰河时代，对吧？

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If the Sun was at the center of the universe, things would fall toward the Sun and away from the Earth, which of course they didn't.

如果太阳在宇宙的中心，物体就会离开地球向太阳落去，但事实显然没有。

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As he walked over the battlefield, he saw where rains had washed away the earth covering many of the fallen soldiers.

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It's dangerous to want to get away from earth awhile, to get your feet entirely off the ground.

想要逃离地面一会，让自己的双脚同时离开地面很危险。

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And Abraham's reaction comes as something of a surprise. He objects to the plan, and he starts to argue with God. "Will you sweep away the innocent along with the guilty? Shall not the judge of all the earth justly?" That's in Genesis 18:23-25. The question is of course rhetorical.

亚伯拉罕的反应时一种惊奇，他反对,这个计划，他开始与上帝争论，“无论善恶,你都要剿灭吗？审判全地的主岂能不行公义么？“，这在,《创世纪》第18章第23至25章，这个问题当然是夸张的。

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Early of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, proposed siting a vast, 2000 km-wide glass deflecting panel at the "inner Lagrange point" between the Earth and the sun, the latter diverting the sun's rays away from the Earth's atmosphere.

CNN: The shield of Ra: Could solar reflection save the planet?

The idea is to inject clouds of material into the stratosphere, creating a thin haze and deflecting some of the sun's rays away from the Earth, at least temporarily.

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The basic concept is the same as that underpinning the "white roads" idea -- the development of a technology that can reflect a proportion of the sun's radiation away from the earth's surface and back out into space, thereby cooling the atmosphere and slowing, or even reversing the damaging effects of global climate change.

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