translation.en: They're going to be ahead of us, maybe by a few thousand years, maybe by a few millions years, but substantially ahead of us, and that means, if you can understand anything that they're going to say, then you might be able to short-circuit history by getting information from a society that's way beyond our own.
translation.zh: 他们比我们先进很多，也许几千年 也许几百万年，但总之是 比我们先进，这就意味着如果你能理解 他们说的任何事情，你就可能有能力 缩短历史进程，因为你从一个先进得多的社会 获取了信息