好吧，”哈利说，“这样看：假设您是一个漂浮在太空中的智能细菌，而您遇到了我们的一颗通信卫星，围绕着地球绕着轨道。您会认为，这是一个奇怪的，外来的对象，让我们探索它。假设您将其打开并在里面爬行。您会发现它在那里非常有趣，还有很多巨大的事情要困扰。但是最终您可能会爬入其中一个燃料电池，氢会杀死您
(Well," Harry said, "look at it this way: Suppose you were an intelligent bacterium floating in space, and you came upon one of our communication satellites, in orbit around the Earth. You would think, What a strange, alien object this is, let's explore it. Suppose you opened it up and crawled inside. You would find it very interesting in there, with lots of huge things to puzzle over. But eventually you might climb into one of the fuel cells, and the hydrogen would kill you)