爱，死亡和机器人-S01E06-当酸奶统治世界_爱,死亡和机器人

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When the yogurt took over we all made the same jokes.

当酸奶接手政权后我们都在说着同样的笑话

"Finally our rulers would have culture.

我们的统治者终于有文化[培养基] 了

Our society is curdled.

我们的社会凝固[结成凝乳] 了

Our government is now the cream of the crop " and so on.

我们的政府都是百里挑一的精英[乳脂] 了

But when we weren't laughing about the absurdity of it all

但当我们没在嘲笑这一切的荒谬时

we asked ourselves "How did we ever get to the point where we were

我们会问自己我们是如何沦落至此

in fact ruled by a dairy product "

被乳制品统治的

Oh as a matter of record we knew how it happened.

根据记录我们知道是如何发生的

Researchers took one of their most computationally advanced strains of DNA

研究人员把他们计算能力最强的DNA菌株之一

and grafted it onto Lactobacillus delbrueckii

移植到通常用于发酵酸奶的

commonly used to ferment yogurt.

德氏乳酸菌上

Initial tests appeared to be failures.

开始的测试并不顺利

However one of the researchers sneaked some of the bacillus out of the lab

然而一位实验员偷偷从实验室带走了一些菌种

to use for her homemade yogurt.

用于自制酸奶

The night of June 27th it became sentient.

6月27日晚上它产生了意识

The yogurt declared it had arrived at solutions

酸奶声称它已经找到了

to many of the country's problems.

许多国民问题的解决方案

But it wanted payment for that.

但它想要回报

We.

我们

Want.

想要

Ohio.

俄亥俄州

That's fine we will just go to China.

没关系我们还可以去中国

They promised us a whole province.

他们承诺给我们一整个省

The yogurt was crafty and shrewd...

酸奶很狡猾很精明

and got a century long lease on Ohio

并得到了俄亥俄州长达一个世纪的租约

with the promise that it would respect the human and constitutional rights

它承诺尊重俄亥俄州居民的

of those who lived within its borders.

人权和宪法权利

There it kept evolving and soon

它在那里不断进化很快

it handed over a complex formula

它给出了一个复杂的公式

to eradicate the national debt within one year.

可以在一年内消除国债

Follow it exactly.

严格执行它

Any deviation will bring complete economic ruin.

任何的偏差都会给经济造成毁灭性打击

We will.

我们会的

Naturally the politicians didn't follow instruction.

当然政客们没有听从指示

Within six months the global economy collapsed.

在六个月之内全球经济崩溃

I am going to eat your little toes.

我要吃掉你的小脚趾

Only Ohio remained unscathed.

唯有俄亥俄州幸免于难

We told you not to deviate from the plan.

我们告诉过你们不要偏离计划

Your experts are too close to the problem to solve it.

你们的专家都是当局者迷

Any. Human. Is.

任何人类都是

The government declared martial law

政府宣布实行军事管制

and gave the yogurt supreme executive power.

并赋予酸奶最高执行权

Of course some people weren't pleased at first.

当然一开始有些人并不高兴

Down with yogurt down...

酸奶下台下台...

The anti government demonstrators...

反政府示威者...

Now ten years later humanity is happy healthy and wealthy.

现在十年过去了人类变得快乐健康富有

No one argues with the yogurt no one tweaks its formulas.

没人再去与酸奶争论没人试图去改变公式

That's how it happened but we still ask ourselves

就是这么发生的但我们还在问自己

if the yogurt was smart enough to solve our debt problem

如果酸奶已经智能到可以解决我们的债务问题

wasn't it also smart enough to realize that human intellectual vanity

它不也可以意识到人类智力上的虚荣心

would keep us from following the formula exactly

会让我们不完全遵循公式吗

Then there's this.

结果就是

In the past several weeks the yogurt... has initiated several space launches.

在过去几周里酸奶... 进行了几次太空发射

Life from earth is going to the stars

地球孕育的生命即将前往浩瀚星辰

it just may not be human life.

但却并不是人类生命

What happens if the yogurt goes to the stars without us

如果酸奶不带我们飘向星空会发生什么

what happened if it goes and leaves us behind...forever

如果它走了把我们永远留在地球会发生什么...