With a fearless spirit I went to the place and got close enough to the ruined cabin to throw a stone against it.

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They thought, for example, if you could do something with one element, if you looked at an element very close to it, it would be similar enough that you could maybe replace it with that.

他们认为，比如，用一种元素可以做的，用它邻近的元素，代替它的位置,也应该能做到。

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And I thought it's close enough to go, close enough to travel to other parts of Europe,

我还认为这里去欧洲其他地方旅游会很近，

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So you want it close enough to make it relevant, but far enough away that they can perform at their best.

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But is it close enough to be productive?

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"When you have stars in a binary or triple system, and one of them burns all its hydrogen and becomes a red giant, if it's close enough it can start to dump some of its material onto that other star, " he explained to BBC News.

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