霍金的第三条微博

Thank you so much for your generous response to my new Weibo page! I was overwhelmed and delighted by your enthusiasm and grateful for the respect you showed me.

　　I had an extraordinary week. I visited New York where I met Placido Domingo at the Metropolitan Opera. I am a life long opera fan and it was a great privilege for me to meet one of my musical heroes.

　　I was in New York for a serious purpose. With my collaborators Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg, I launched a project to redesign long distance space travel. We propose sending a fleet of light beam powered nanocrafts to our nearest star, Alpha Centauri. This would be a revolution in space travel – the tiny spacecraft would be able to travel fast enough to relay information to us within a life time. We could learn so much about our galaxy – and ultimately ourselves. It is a huge project but we all agree it is time to boldly go. I look forward to telling you more!

　　感谢大家对我的微博如此积极的响应！你们的热情让我万分激动和开心。我也很感激你们对我的尊重。

　　我这次的纽约之行圆满地结束了。我在大都会歌剧院见到了普拉西多·多明戈。作为一个铁杆歌剧迷，这次能够见到我的音乐英雄之一，我感到非常荣幸。

　　不过我这次在纽约是来干正经事儿的。我和合作伙伴尤里·米尔纳以及马克·扎克伯格，一同启动了一个全新设计的长距离太空旅行项目。我们提议，通过发射一支舰队的光束，来推动“纳米飞行器”到达离我们最近的半人马座阿尔法星。这可能成为太空旅行的一次革新——一艘微型太空飞船可以实现极速飞行，并且在我们这辈子内将信息传递回来。由此，我们能够更深入地了解我们的星系——最终了解我们自己。虽然工程巨大，但我们都一致决定冒这次险。我期待在今后告诉你们更多消息！