俄罗斯罕见陨石雨
在俄罗斯东部惊现百年来最大陨石雨，或引发淘金热。
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Chelyabinsk
Larry Page
Eric Schmidt
主持：shenyubin
校对：dramatic150
翻译&注解：cjsfight
答疑：赤_月
口语点评：Mornight
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http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201303/201303170835465042404.mp3They say in space no one can hear you scream. But this is what it sounds like when a bit of space comes to us. Yes, that was the moment last month that 15 tonnes of meteorite exploded over eastern Russia. The people of Chelyabinsk were understandably in shock as windows across the city smashed causing hundreds of injuries. It also sparked something of a treasure hunt since then, as local collectors scour for fragments of the biggest meteorite to hit our planet in more than a century.
"I was walking down the road and I found this - at a depth of about 25 or 30 centimetres buried in the snow was this chunk of meteorite. It's great to have. You can bet it will excite people's imaginations for another hundred years. "
Well, pieces of the meteorite have already begun fetching thousands of dollars online, but the real value of other space rocks may be much greater still. One near-Earth asteroid that's a meteorite that hasn't entered our atmosphere was recently valued at some $200 billion in terms of its precious mineral content. Sniffing a potential gold rush, top names in Silicon Valley, Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt among them, have given their personal funding to companies aiming to exploit these resources.人们说在外太空没人听得到你的喊叫声，但下面这些声音却是因为本属于宇宙的东西来到了凡间。（一段嘈杂）没错，这就是上个月15公吨重的陨石坠落到俄罗斯东部后的现场。车里雅宾斯克的人们惊慌失措是原因的，陨石将城市中的窗户砸得粉碎，导致数百人受伤。之后，还引发了一场寻宝。当地的收藏爱好者们争相搜集这一个多世纪以来坠落到地球最大的陨石的碎片。
“当时我正在路上走着，就看到了这个——在大约25或30厘米深的雪坑里埋着一大块陨石。这真是太幸运了。这绝对能激发人们下个世纪的想象。”
正当这些陨石碎片在网上炒到了数千美元的价格时，其他一些外空石块的真正价值可能还要大得多。一个未进入地球大气层的近地小行星陨石因其珍贵的矿物成分近来被估价约为两千亿美元。硅谷的名人们都嗅到了一股潜在的淘金热潮，谷歌执行官拉里·佩奇和埃里克·施密特就是其中的俩人，他们已经以个人的名义投资给寻找这些资源的公司。
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