And in an earlier era, his ripping yarns of science gone wrong like Jurassic Park and Congo dominated the departure lounge - as well as the beach, pool, commuter train and bedside table.

在早些年，他拾掇了些科技的针头线脑攒成的《侏罗记公园》和《刚果》，就像那些沙滩、泳池、穿梭列车和床头柜一样牢牢地占据了离境休息室。

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Call it the era of trickle-down science: knowledge emerged from a confined center of rational enlightenment, then slowly became known to the rest of society.

我们把这个叫做滴入式科学时代，即研究成果先从实验室出来，然后再慢慢向社会传播。

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"I rank this as a game changer for lunar science, " he said in the wake of Chandrayaan's findings. "In my mind this is possibly the most significant discovery about the moon since the Apollo era."

“我认为这将彻底改变整个月球科学，”他在月球一号的报告出台后说，“在我看来，这很可能是自阿波罗时代后最重大的发现。”

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"We are entering the golden era of the International Space Station program, and science and technology demonstrations are going to take off here."

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Haphazardly constructed over 40 years, it was based on 1960s, slide-rule era science that the Army Corps of Engineers never bothered to update, even as sophisticated computer models became the norm in engineering circles.

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President Lee Myung-bak praised what he called a "first step towards opening an era of space science in earnest".

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It would be a very positive irony if this decade of economic depression should prove the era in which science at last broke the clammy grip of psychic depression.

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