World Watcher
世界观察员
Job: See it all with satellites. Hiring: 2030
工作内容:用卫星观天下。 上岗时间:2030年
Trend: Multispectral satellites can already spot buried ancient cities and track how temperature, population and ground cover help spread disease. As imaging improves, more reverse-astronomers will look down at our own planet with something like a super-powered, time-lapse Google Earth.
发展趋势:多光谱卫星已经能够准确定位地下古城,并对温度、人群以及植被如何促进疾病传播进行追踪。随着成像技术的发展,越来越多的“逆向天文学家”将会把视线下投,用功能超强、延时拍摄的“谷歌地球”之类的工具俯瞰我们居住的星球。
Education: Archaeology or geophysics, then grad work in Earth imaging, such as at the University of Wisconsin.
应受教育:攻读考古学或地球物理学专业,毕业后再到威斯康星大学之类的院校学习地球成像方面的研究生课程。
Galactic Architect
银河建筑师
Job: Build cosmic outposts. Hiring: 2025
工作内容:建造宇宙前哨基地。 上岗时间:2025年
Trend: President Obama says that astronauts will reach an asteroid by 2025. Soon we'll be mining precious metals and making rest-stops to Mars, projects that require buildings and vehicles that can withstand everything from subzero temperatures to extreme radiation. Learning to keep people alive in materials-starved space could help Earth-dwellers, too. "Extreme environments provide lessons for everywhere," says Larry Bell, a space architect at the University of Houston. "How do you do more with less? What is recyclable?"
发展趋势:奥巴马总统说,宇航员将在2025年之前到达某个小行星。不久之后,我们就能在小行星上开采贵重金属,并为前往火星建造中途休息站。这类工程所需的建筑物和交通工具要经得住包括超低温和强辐射在内的任何因素的考验。学习如何让人在资源匮乏的太空生存对在地球上居住的人来说同样有帮助。“极端环境带来的教训适用于任何地方,”休斯敦大学太空建筑师拉里·贝尔说,“比如,你如何利用更少的资源做更多的事?哪些东西可循环利用?”
Education: A master's in space architecture, currently available only at the University of Houston.
应受教育:攻读太空建筑专业硕士学位,目前仅在休斯敦大学可以拿到该学位。
词汇学习:
lucrative adj. 合算的,获利的
statistics n. 统计学,统计,统计数字
commodity n. 商品,日用品,有价值之物
swell v.(使)膨胀,(使)鼓起,(使)增长 n. 增大,膨胀,肿胀, 汹涌
portfolio n. 文件夹,公事包,作品集,投资组合,(大臣或)部长职务
bioengineering n. 生物工程(学),遗传工程
galactic adj. 星系的,银河系的, 乳汁的, 巨大的
cosmic adj. 宇宙的,广大无边的, 无限的