My Search for Proof Aliens Exist | Avi Loeb | TED

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When I look up at the sky at night,

Kada pogledam u noćno nebo,

I see 100 billion stars of the Milky Way galaxy.

vidim 100 milijardi zvezda u galaksiji Mlečni put.

They look like lights in cabins of a giant spaceship,

Izgledaju poput svetala u kabinama džinovskog svemirskog broda

The Milky Way, sailing through space.

Mlečni put koji plovi kroz svemir.

And I wonder

I pitam se

if there are other passengers in those cabins.

ima li drugih putnika u tim kabinama.

There are 100 billion of them,

Postoji 100 milijardi njih,

comparable to the number of people who ever lived on Earth.

što je uporedivo sa brojem ljudi koji su ikada živeli na Zemlji.

It would be arrogant to think otherwise,

Bila bi arogancija smatrati drugačije,

that we are alone,

da smo sami,

that we are unique and special,

da smo jedinstveni i posebni,

especially if you read the news every day.

naročito ako svakodnevno čitate vesti.

We are not the pinnacle of creation.

Nismo vrhunac stvaranja.

There is room for improvement.

Ima prostora za unapređenje.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

I'm just a curious farm boy,

Ja sam samo znatiželjni dečak sa sela

and I wonder about the world around me.

i postavljam pitanja o svetu oko mene.

And I hate to behave like the adults in the room,

I mrzim da se ponašam poput odraslih u prostoriji

because they often pretend to know more than we actually know.

jer se oni često pretvaraju da znaju više nego što uistinu znamo.

And that bothered me since I was a young kid.

A to me je nerviralo još od mog ranog detinjstva.

And so I decided to become a scientist

Pa sam odlučio da postanem naučnik

and answer the questions based on evidence,

i da odgovorim na ova pitanja na osnovu dokaza,

not based on prejudice,

a ne na osnovu predrasuda,

not based on the politics

ne na osnovu politike

of getting the largest number of likes on social media.

dobijanja što većeg broja lajkova na društvenim mrežama.

I don't have a footprint on social media.

Nisam prisutan na društvenim mrežama.

I enjoy nature.

Uživam u prirodi.

Whatever it brings to our doorstep is welcome.

Šta god da isporuči na naš prag, dobrodošlo je.

So let's just look around.

Stoga, samo se osvrnimo oko sebe.

And for 70 years,

A tokom 70 godina

we've been searching for radio signals.

tragali smo za radijskim signalima.

This is equivalent to staying at home

To je ravno ostanku kod kuće

and waiting for a phone call that may never come

i čekanju na telefonski poziv koji možda nikad neće stići

because nobody cares that we are lonely.

jer nikog nije briga što smo usamljeni.

It may also be that others are addicted to digital screens

Ili su možda svi ostali navučeni na digitalne ekrane

and they live in a virtual reality,

i žive u virtuelnoj stvarnosti,

as we are at this point in time.

što je slučaj sa nama u ovom trenutku.

A much better approach

Mnogo bolji pristup

is to check if there is any object in our backyard

je da proverimo ima li kakav predmet u našem dvorištu

that may have arrived from a neighbor's yard.

koji je prispeo iz komšijskog dvorišta.

Like a tennis ball,

Poput teniske loptice

that may tell us that the neighbor plays tennis.

koja bi nam saopštila da komšija igra tenis.

And we haven't really checked until the last decade.

A to nismo zaista proveravali sve do poslednje decenije.

The first object to have been reported by astronomers

Prvi objekat o kome su nas obavestili astronomi

that came from outside the solar system looked really weird.

koji je stigao izvan našeg solarnog sistema je izgledao krajnje čudno.

It was discovered by a telescope in Hawaii.

Otkrio ga je teleskop na Havajima.

When it passed close to Earth, it was the size of a football field.

Kada je prošao blizu Zemlje, bio je veličine fudbalskog terena.

What you see behind me is the artist's depiction.

Iza mene vidite njegov umetnički prikaz.

It looked really weird

Izgledao je krajnje čudno

because as it was tumbling every eight hours,

jer dok se prevrtao na svakih osam sati,

the amount of sunlight reflected from it changed by a factor of ten,

količina odbijene sunčeve svetlosti sa njega se menjala desetostruko,

which meant that it has a very extreme shape,

a to je značilo da ima izuzetno ekstreman oblik,

most likely flat, like a pancake.

najverovatnije ravan poput palačinke.

And moreover,

Štaviše,

it exhibited a push away from the sun

pokazivao je da se odguruje od sunca

by some mysterious force

nekakvom tajanstvenom silom

because there was no evaporation,

jer nije bilo isparenja,

no cometary tail around it, no dust, no gas.

nije bilo repa komete oko njega, nije bilo prašine, ni gasa.

So the question was, what is pushing it?

Pa je pitanje glasilo: šta ga odguruje?

And I suggested that maybe it's the reflection of sunlight,

A ja sam predložio da se možda radi o refleksiji sunčeve svetlosti,

but for that, the object had to be very thin, like a sail.

ali za to, objekat bi morao da bude veoma tanak, poput jedra.

And that meant that it was not produced naturally.

A to znači da nije prirodno napravljen.

Maybe it's a surface layer, maybe it's space trash,

Možda se radi o površinskom sloju, možda se radi o svemirskom otpadu,

like a plastic bag tumbling in the wind.

poput plastične kese koja se vrti na vetru.

And so we go back 70 years to a question that Enrico Fermi, the physicist,

Pa se vraćamo 70 godina unazad na pitanje koje je fizičar Enriko Fermi

asked at Los Alamos, "Where is everybody?"

postavio u Los Alamosu: „Gde su svi?”

Well, this is a question that single people often ask.

Pa, radi se o pitanju koje samci često postavljaju.

But if you stay at home --

Međutim, ako ostanete kod kuće -

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

You will not find anyone.

Nećete nikoga naći.

You have to go to dating sites.

Morate da pođete na sajtove za upoznavanje.

At the very least, you need to look through your windows for other people.

Ili bar morate da pogledate korz prozor u potrazi za ljudima.

And he didn't seek the evidence.

A on nije tragao za dokazom.

He was just asking the question and kept repeating it.

Prosto je postavljao pitanje i stalno ga je ponavljao.

And if we don't look for evidence, we will not find anything.

A ako ne tražimo dokaze, nećemo ništa naći.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Radi se o samoispunjavajućem proročanstvu.

It's a way to maintain our ignorance.

To je način održavanja našeg neznanja.

And science is better than politics.

A nauka je bolja od politike.

We can find the evidence if we allocate the funds for it.

Možemo da nađemo dokaze, ukoliko odvojimo sredstva za to.

This is a real image, what you see behind me,

Iza mene vidite stvarnu sliku

it's the Tesla Roadster car

Teslinog automobila rodster

that was put as a dummy payload on the Falcon Heavy launch of 2018.

koji je postavljen kao lažno opterećenje tokom lansiranja Falkona hevi 2018.

It's now moving in an elliptical orbit around the Sun,

Trenutno se kreće po eliptičnoj orbiti oko sunca,

and perhaps in 20 million years, it will collide with Earth.

i možda će se za 20 miliona godina sudariti sa Zemljom.

And if it will do so unexpectedly,

A ukoliko se to desi neočekivano,

some of my colleagues would argue

neki od mojih kolega će tvrditi:

"This is a rock of a type that we've never seen before."

„Ovo je tip stene koji do sad nismo videli.”

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

We cannot see it with our best telescopes because it's too small.

Ne možemo ga videti našim najboljim teleskopima jer je suviše mali.

It doesn't reflect enough sunlight.

Ne reflektuje dovoljno sunčeve svetlosti.

'Oumuamua was the size of a football field, big enough for us to see.

Oumuamua je bio veličine fudbalskog terena, dovoljno velik da ga vidimo.

And so the next Copernican revolution

Pa će sledeća kopernikanska revolucija

would be that we are not at the intellectual center

biti to da nismo u intelektualnom središtu

of the universe.

univerzuma.

Not only that we are not at the physical center of the universe,

Ne samo da nismo u fizičom središtu univerzuma,

but actually, you know, we arrive to the play relatively late.

već u stvari, znate, stižemo na scenu relativno kasno.

We are not at the center of stage.

Nismo u središtu scene.

The play is not about us.

Predstava nije o nama.

We should be modest.

Trebalo bi da budemo skromni.

We keep thinking that it's about us, but it's not.

Stalno mislimo da je o nama, ali nije.

And we better find other actors that will tell us what the play is about.

I valjalo bi da nađemo druge glumce koji će da nam kažu o čemu je predstava.

And people often say extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,

A ljudi često kažu kako izuzetne tvrdnje zahtevaju izuzetne dokaze,

but they are not seeking the evidence.

ali ne traže dokaze.

Actually, extraordinary evidence requires extraordinary funding.

Zapravo, izuzetni dokazi zahtevaju izuzetno finansiranje.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

Elon Musk argued recently,

Nedavno je Ilon Mask tvrdio:

"I don't see any aliens."

„Ne vidim nikakve vanzemaljce.”

But new scientific knowledge does not fall into our lap.

Međutim, novo naučno znanje nam neće pasti u krilo.

We had to invest 10 billion dollars

Morali smo da uložimo 10 milijardi dolara

in the Large Hadron Collider in order to find the Higgs boson.

u Veliki hadronski sudarač kako bismo otkrili Higsov bozon.

We had to invest 10 billion dollars in the Webb telescope

Morali smo uložiti 10 milijardi dolara u teleskop Džejms Veb

in order to find the first generation of galaxies.

kako bismo otkrili prvu generaciju galaksija.

This is the way science is done.

Tako se radi nauka.

You need to put the effort in order to find something new.

Morate da uložite trud kako biste otkrili nešto novo.

And only over the past decade,

I tek smo tokom prošle decenije

we discovered objects that came from outside the solar system.

otkrili objekte koji su stigli izvan našeg solarnog sistema.

The first one was actually a decade ago.

Prvi je zapravio bio pre jedne decenije.

It was a meteor, an object half a meter in size

Radilo se o meteoru, objektu veličine pola metra

that collided with Earth

koji se sudario sa Zemljom

and burned up in the atmosphere.

i izgoreo u atmosferi.

It was spotted by US government satellites.

Primetili su ga sateliti vlade SAD-a.

The fireball that it generated

Ognjena lopta koju je stvorio

released a few percent of the Hiroshima atomic bomb energy,

oslobodila je energiju nekoliko procenata atomske bombe koja je bačena na Hirošimu,

and it was moving too fast to be bound to the Sun's gravity.

i kretao se suviše brzo da bi bio sputan sunčevom gravitacijom.

And so we concluded it's interstellar.

Stoga smo zaključili da je međuzvezdani objekat.

It came from outside the solar system.

Stigao je izvan solarnog sistema.

Could it be a Voyager-like meteor?

Da li bi mogao da bude meteor nalik Vojadžeru?

Imagine our own spacecraft colliding with a planet like Earth.

Zamislite naš svemirski brod kako se sudara sa planetom sličnom Zemlji.

In the future, it would appear as a meteor of unusual material strength

U budućnosti bi se činio poput meteora neobične materijalne snage

and unusual speed,

i neobične brzine,

which are exactly the properties of this meteor from 2014.

a upravo to su svojstva ovog meteora iz 2014.

And then 'Oumuamua was discovered in 2017,

A onda je Oumuamua otkriven 2017,

and finally a comet appeared,

i naposletku se pojavila kometa,

also from interstellar space, was moving too fast.

takođe iz međuzvezdanog prostora, krećući se suviše brzo.

And so my colleagues argued,

Pa su moje kolege tvrdile:

"Well, this one looks familiar.

„Dakle, ovo izgleda poznato.

Doesn't it convince you that the others are natural in origin?

Zar te to ne uverava da su i drugi objekti prirodnog porekla?

Rocks of a type that we've never seen before?"

Tip stene koju do sad nismo videli?”

And I say, if I go down the street and I see a weird person,

A ja kažem, ako šetam ulicom i vidim čudnu osobu,

and after that I see a normal person,

i nakon toga vidim normalnu osobu,

it doesn't make the weird person normal.

čudna osoba zbog toga neće postati normalna.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Now the US --

Sad SAD -

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Director of National intelligence --

Direktor Nacionalne obaveštajne agencije -

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

Avril Haines delivered three reports

Avril Hajns je dostavio tri izveštaja

to the US Congress, talking about unidentified anomalous phenomena.

američkom kongresu, koji su govorili o neidentifikovanim anomalnim fenomenima.

The good news is the sky is not classified.

Dobre vesti su da nebo nije poverljiva informacija.

We don't need to wait for the US government to tell us

Ne moramo da čekamo da nam vlada SAD-a kaže

what lies outside the solar system.

šta se nalazi izvan solarnog sistema.

Their day job is national security.

Njihov dnevni posao je nacionalna bezbednost.

My day job is figuring out what lies beyond the solar system.

Moj posao je da otkrijem šta se nalazi izvan solarnog sistema.

And the sky is not classified.

A nebo nije poverljiva informacija.

We can answer the question ourselves.

Sami možemo da odgovorimo na pitanje.

So I'm leading the Galileo project.

Stoga predvodim projekat Galileo.

We built an observatory at Harvard University

Sagradili smo opservatoriju na Univerzitetu Harvard

that monitors the sky 24/7,

koja neprekidno posmatra nebo,

looking for objects that are not familiar,

tragajući za nepoznatim objektima,

not birds, balloons, drones, airplanes, satellites.

ne pticama, balonima, dronovima, avionima, satelitima.

So far, we monitored half a million objects.

Dosad smo pratili pola miliona objekata.

Haven't found anything unusual yet,

Još nismo otkrili ništa neobično,

but we keep looking

ali nastavljamo da tragamo

and we are using machine-learning software to figure out

i koristimo softver mašinskog učenja da saznamo

what we are looking at.

u šta gledamo.

But the most exciting endeavor that I was involved in

Međutim, najuzbudljiviji poduhvat u koji sam bio umešan

is an expedition to the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea,

je ekspedicija na Tihom okeanu blizu Papue Nove Gvineje,

to look for the materials from this meteor that I described before.

gde smo tragali za materijalima sa meteora koji sam vam ranije opisao.

And the US Space Command issued a letter to NASA

A Svemirska komanda SAD-a je poslala pismo Nasi

confirming at the 99.999 percent

potvrđujući sa 99,999 procenata

that this object indeed originated from outside the solar system.

da ovaj objekat uistinu potiče izvan solarnog sistema.

Based on its high speed, it was moving faster than 95 percent of all stars

Na osnovu njegove brzine, kretao se brže nego 95 procenata svih zvezda

in the vicinity of the Sun.

u blizini Sunca.

It exploded in the lower atmosphere,

Eksplodirao je u troposferi,

about 90 kilometers away from Manus Island in Papua New Guinea,

oko 90 kilometera od ostrva Manus u Papui Novoj Gvineji,

and that meant that the object had material strength

a to je značilo da je objekat imao materijalnu snagu

tougher than even iron meteorites.

čvršću i od železnih meteorita.

And so I led an expedition in June 2023.

Pa sam u junu 2023. predvodio ekspediciju.

You can see the team on the ship that was fittingly called Silver Star,

Vidite ekipu na brodu koji je prikladno nazvan Srebrna zvezda,

and we used the sled with magnets on both sides

i koristili smo sanke sa magnetima na obe strane

to search for droplets left over from the explosion of this meteor.

kako bismo tragali za zaostalim zrncima od eksplozije ovog meteora.

And at the bottom left you see the filming crew of Netflix.

A dole levo vidite ekipu snimatelja sa Netfliksa.

They are preparing a documentary about this research,

Pripremaju dokumentarac o ovom istraživanju,

and the director asked me,

i reditelj me je pitao:

"Avi,

„Avi,

it looks like you are running," because I was jogging at sunrise,

izgledaš kao da trčiš,” jer sam džogirao tokom izlaska sunca,

as I often do on land for a few miles.

kao što često radim na kopnu po nekoliko kilometara.

And he said, "Are you running away from something or towards something?"

Pitao je: „Da li bežiš od nečega ili trčiš u susret nečemu?”

And I said, "Both.

Rekao sam: „Oboje.

I'm running away from some of my colleagues

Bežim od nekih svojih kolega

who have strong opinions without seeking evidence,

koji imaju snažna mišljenja bez traženja dokaza,

and I'm running towards a higher intelligence in interstellar space."

i trčim u susret višoj inteligenciji u međuzvezdanom prostoru.”

Now we used this sled and collected magnetic particles

Sad, koristili smo ove sanke i sakupili magnetske čestice

from the ocean floor about a mile deep.

sa okeanskog dna na dubini od oko kilometar i po.

And then I brought them to my colleagues at Harvard University.

I potom sam ih doneo mojim kolegama na Univerzitetu Harvard.

They look like metallic spheres,

Izgledaju poput metalnih sfera,

very distinct from the background of sand in which they were collected.

veoma su različite od peščane pozadine sa koje su sakupljene.

And my colleague at Harvard, Stein Jacobsen,

A moj kolega sa Harvarda, Stajn Džejkobson,

is a world-renowned geochemist.

ugledni je svetski geohemičar.

He used the electron microprobe, a mass spectrometer, in his laboratory.

Koristio je elektronsku mikrosondu, masivni spektrometar,

u svojoj laboratoriji.

The person on the other side of me in this picture

Osoba sa moje desne strane na ovoj slici

is a summer intern, Sophie Bergstrom,

je pripravnica tokom leta, Sofi Bergstrom,

who found most of our molten droplets.

koja je pronašla većinu naših livenih zrnaca.

And so I called her the spheral hunter.

I zato sam je nazvao lovcem na sfere.

And most of our spherules were actually of a type familiar from the solar system,

A većina naših sferula su zapravo bile poznate prirode iz našeg solarnog sistema,

but about 10 percent of them looked unusual,

ali oko 10 procenata njih je izgledalo neobično,

and they had a chemical composition

i imale su hemijski sastav

very different from solar system materials.

veoma različit od materijala iz solarnog sistema.

They had abundances of elements like beryllium, lanthanum, uranium,

Imale su obilje elemenata poput berilijuma, lantama, uranijuma,

that are up to a factor of 1,000 more

koji su i do 1 000 puta veći

than found in solar system materials.

od onih otkrivenih u materijalima iz solarnog sistema.

They were not from the Earth, not from the moon, not from Mars,

Nisu bile sa Zemlje, nisu bile sa Meseca, niti sa Marsa,

not from asteroids.

kao ni sa asteroida.

And so now the question arises,

Pa to povlači sledeće pitanje:

was this a rock from another star?

da li je ovo kamen sa druge zvezde?

And of course, one possibility

I naravno, jedna mogućnost

is that there was a natural process that produced it.

glasi da je postojao prirodni proces koji ih je proizveo.

For example, most stars are dwarf stars, 10 percent of the mass of the sun,

Na primer, većina zvezda su patuljci, mase 10 procenata sunca,

and they are 100 times denser than the sun.

i stotinu puta su gušće od sunca.

And so if you bring a planet like the Earth close to them,

Stoga, ukoliko primaknete planetu poput Zemlje blizu njih,

they spaghettify the planet,

one će tu planetu da špagetiraju,

make a stream of rocks

napraviće mlaz kamenja

that could be ejected at a speed similar to that of this meteor.

koji može da se izbaci brzinom sličnoj onoj koju je imao ovaj meteor.

But it's also possible that this object was of artificial origin,

Međutim, moguće je i da je ovaj objekat veštačkog porekla,

in which case,

u tom slučaju,

if we look for bigger pieces of the object,

ukoliko potražimo krupnije delove objekta,

we might find a gadget with buttons on it.

možda ćemo oktriti spravu sa dugmadima.

And I asked students in my class,

I upitao sam studente na mom predmetu:

"If we find such a gadget, should we press a button?"

„Ukoliko pronađemo takvu spravu, da li da pritisnemo dugme?”

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Now, some of my critics argued, maybe it's coal ash.

Sad, neki moji kritičari su tvrdili da se možda radi o pepelu od uglja.

So we looked at 55 elements from the periodic table

Pa smo posmatrali 55 elemenata iz periodnog sistema

and found that the abundances of elements are very different from coal ash.

i otkrili smo da je ovo izobilje elemenata izuzetno različito od pepela od uglja.

So it's not coal ash.

Te se ne radi o popelu od uglja.

Others argued,

Drugi su tvrdili:

"Maybe it was not a meteor, maybe it was a truck."

„Možda to nije bio meteor, možda je to bio kamion.”

Well, the data came from US government satellites.

Pa, stigli su podaci od satelita vlade SAD.

We actually based our search region

Zapravo smo bazirali naše područje istraživanja

on the Department of Defense coordinates,

na koordinatama Ministarstva odbrane,

and we went 26 times back and forth, searching that region.

i 26 puta smo išli tamo i ovamo, pretražujući tu oblast.

So the next expedition, hopefully within the year,

Pa će sledeća ekspedicija, nadamo se ove godine,

will search for bigger pieces of the object,

tragati za krupnijim delovima objekta,

maybe even the core of the object,

možda čak i jezgrom objekta

because that could have a huge impact on humanity.

jer bi to moglo da ima ogroman uticaj na čovečanstvo.

We all know the biblical story about Moses,

Svima nam je poznata biblijska priča o Mojsiju,

who looked at the bush

koji je posmatrao žbun,

that was burning without being consumed,

koji je bio u plamenu, ali nije sagorevao,

with religious awe, and that gave Moses the sense

sa religijskim strahopoštovanjem, i to je ispunilo Mojsija osećajem

that there is a superhuman entity,

da postoji nadljudski entitet,

God, out there.

Bog, tamo negde.

Now, Friedrich Nietzsche in 1882

Sad, Fridrih Niče je 1882.

argued, "God is dead."

tvrdio: „Bog je mrtav.”

And that gave rise to the modern period

I to je iznedrilo savremeni period

of science and technology,

nauke i tehnologije

where humans have this hubris,

u kome ljudi imaju ovu oholost,

they lack modesty.

nedostaje im skromnosti.

Nobody is smarter than us,

Niko nije pametniji od nas,

we are at the top of the food chain.

na vrhu smo lanca ishrane.

Maybe AI will do a little better.

Možda će VI ići malo bolje.

But AI is just a digital mirror.

Međutim, VI je samo digitalno ogledalo.

It reflects our faults.

Odražava naše mane.

It's nothing better than us.

Nije bolja od nas.

It's not a digital species.

Ne radi se o digitalnoj vrsti.

It's just us.

Ona je prosto mi.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

And if we find a partner out there, of course,

A ako pronađemo partnera tamo negde, naravno,

that will give a new meaning to our existence.

to će da da novi smisao našem postojanju.

And it's a whole different ball game.

I radi se o skroz neistraženom terenu.

Something from another star has nothing to do with us.

Nešto sa druge zvezde što nema nikakve veze s nama.

And we better be ready for that.

I bolje bi nam bilo da budemo spremni za to.

Not look at the mirror and imagine something like it,

Da ne gledamo u ogledalo i zamišljamo nešto slično tome,

as science fiction stories do.

kao što rade priče naučne fantastike.

Now the good news is, next year,

Dobre vesti su da će sledeće godine

the Rubin Observatory in Chile

Opservatorija Rubin u Čileu

will survey the southern sky every four days

da pretražuje južno nebo na svaka četiri dana

with a camera that is the size of a person,

kamerom koja je veličine čoveka,

3.2 billion pixels,

ima 3,2 milijarde piksela,

a thousand times more than your cell phone camera.

hiljadu puta više od vaše kamere na mobilnom telefonu.

And so if we find more objects like 'Oumuamua,

Te stoga, ukoliko otkrijemo još objekata poput Oumuamua,

it might give us a sense of modesty.

možda će nam to podariti osećaj skromnosti.

We might bring back this sense of awe that Moses had.

Možda ćemo povratiti osećaj strahopoštovanja koji je imao Mojsije.

Except in this time, it will be based

Samo što će ovaj put biti zasnovan

on something that was delivered from interstellar space, from a neighbor.

na nečemu što je prispelo iz međuzvezdanog prostora, od naših komšija.

And that is quite promising, actually, because it may change our priorities.

A to je prilično obećavajuće, zapravo, jer bi moglo da izmeni naše prioritete.

Instead of spending four trillion dollars a year on military budgets,

Umesto potrošnje četiri biliona dolara godišnje na vojne budžete

killing each other for territories on this rock,

i međusobno ubijanje zbog teritorija na ovom kamenu,

the tiny rock, left over from the formation of the sun,

sićušnom kamenu, otpatku od stvaranja sunca,

we might realize that there is a smarter kid on the block,

možda shvatimo da postoji pametniji klinac u našoj ulici,

and that kid may provide a better role model than our politicians.

a taj klinac možda bude bolji uzor od naših političara.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

And if we allocate four trillion dollars a year to space exploration,

A ukoliko izdvojimo četiri biliona dolara godišnje na istraživanje svemira,

we could send a CubeSat towards every star in the Milky Way galaxy,

mogli bismo da pošaljemo „Kjubsat” ka svakoj zvezdi u Mlečnom putu,

hundreds of billions of them, within one century.

ka stotinama milijardi njih, tokom jednog veka.

And it gets better than that,

A još je i bolje od toga,

because if we find a superhuman intelligence out there ...

jer ukoliko otkrijemo nadljudsku inteligenciju tamo negde...

We might learn new physics.

Možda ćemo otkriti novu fiziku.

The first question I would ask is, "What happened before the Big Bang?"

Prvo pitanje koje bih postavio glasi: „Šta se desilo pre Velikog praska?”

And they might have quantum gravity engineers

A oni možda imaju inženjere kvantne gravitacije

that are capable of creating a baby universe in the laboratory.

koji su u stanju da stvore univerzum u povoju u laboratoriji.

And this job of creating a new universe can be perfected.

I ovaj posao stvaranja novog univerzuma je moguće usavršiti.

And that would help us actually,

A to bi nam zapravo bilo od pomoći,

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

given that there is a lot of room for improvement

s obzirom na to da ima mnogo prostora za unapređenje

in the world that we inhabit.

u svetu koji naseljavamo.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

Chris Anderson: Thank you, Avi.

Kris Anderson: Hvala ti, Avi.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

Ovde sam poput posetioca sa druge planete.

Jer nam je isteklo vreme.

Ali samo da bih ti postavio jedno pitanje sa da ili ne.

Ukoliko bi se kladio, u narednih 10 godina,

da li misliš da imamo šanse

da otkrijemo uverljive dokaze

koji bi ubedili kritičnu masu tvojih kolega

da postoji neko tamo negde.

I samo želim da ili ne.

AL: Da.

KA: Da.

Avi Lob.

(Aplauz)