What is clearly happening inside this glass capsule is happening less clearly at a great scale on Earth in the closing years of this millennium.

这个太空玻璃实验舱里正在真真切切发生的事情，在这个千禧年末的几年里，将会在地球上大规模地上演，但不会如此真切地上演。

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I chose Jim Polshek and his firm as my architects, largely because of his design for the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York, a huge glass-and-steel structure with a massive globe inside.

我选择了吉姆·波尔谢克及其公司作为建筑设计师，主要是因为他设计了纽约的专门展示地球与太空历史的玫瑰中心，一个钢筋玻璃的建筑里飘浮着巨大的球体。

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But recent studies have found that samples of volcanic glass, brought back from the moon on the Apollo missions, contain as much water as magma found here on Earth.

但是近期的研究发现，阿波罗计划从月球上带回来的火山玻璃含有与地球岩浆一样多的水分。

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The conventional explanation for this arrangement is that the glass fell to Earth first, then giant waves caused by the impact covered them with sediment, then iridium-containing dust settled out of the atmosphere over the course of a few weeks and formed the clay.

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From the start, they astounded viewers with the unexpected color of their work: To emulate the effects of stained glass and daylight, they abandoned the academic practice of initial underpainting in dark earth-tones.

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