A Large Lump of Coal

sghost

I'm late,when I came here, the Great translation was appeared.

baiseniao

Er...Maybe I should say 'Great translation' instead of Chinese above.
But it is really a tough work to translate this scientific article and I'm really excited to see the work done by Kanhf. That's why I gave him 100 ucc and one 'contribution'.[S::P:]

kanhf0514

Thanks very much, but the translation is imperfect, that's for sure.
I don't really understand one of the sentence
"But if the giant planets, which looked nothing like what astronomers had expected, are any indication, those Earths may not be so reassuringly familiar either."

I don't know what the word "indication" is refering to, so my translation is a direct translation. If anyone know the true meaning of this, please teach us.

尼奇怪

回复 13# kanhf0514
I think the "indication" refers to "many planets,like these gas planets,are not like our earth"

qazpl-1

I thought Carbon on earth are almost organism ,it's very strange.
It's too ncredible .Maybe we're from another solar system , or be made .

尼奇怪

回复 15# qazpl-1
Em……that`s the obsessive question:"how lives appear on the earth,or where they come from?"

baiseniao

回复  qazpl-1
Em……that`s the obsessive question:"how lives appear on the earth,or where they come ...
尼奇怪 发表于 2010-3-30 12:31

Nice question, posting a new topic here..

WDragon

we are all carbon base creature