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Possibility 2) The galaxy has been colonized, but we just live in some desolate rural area of the galaxy. The Americas may have been colonized by Europeans long before anyone in a small Inuit tribe in far northern Canada realized it had happened. There could be an urbanization component to the interstellar dwellings of higher species, in which all the neighboring solar systems in a certain area are colonized and in communication, and it would be impractical and purposeless for anyone to deal with coming all the way out to the random part of the spiral where we live.
2）银河系已经被殖民，我们在银河系的落后地区。在小型因纽特人部落觉察到之前，加拿大那里可能已经被欧洲人殖民。星际中更高级物种的住处也许正在城市化，太阳系附近正在被殖民并有所交流，我们这里就像一个旋涡，走出这里是不现实且无益的。
Possibility 3) The entire concept of physical colonization is a hilariously backward concept to a more advanced species. Remember the picture of the Type II Civilization above with the sphere around their star? With all that energy, they might have created a perfect environment for themselves that satisfies their every need. They might have crazy-advanced ways of reducing their need for resources and zero interest in leaving their happy utopia to explore the cold, empty, undeveloped universe.
3）物理式殖民对更高级文明来说是可笑的概念。看看上面那张II型文明周围的恒星图片，用那些能源，他们可能已经为自己创造出可以满足自己需要的环境。他们用非常先进的方法减少了对资源的需求，生活在他们的乌托邦中对探索寒冷空旷又落后的宇宙不会感兴趣。
An even more advanced civilization might view the entire physical world as a horribly primitive place, having long ago conquered their own biology and uploaded their brains to a virtual reality, eternal-life paradise. Living in the physical world of biology, mortality, wants, and needs might seem to them the way we view primitive ocean species living in the frigid, dark sea. FYI, thinking about another life form having bested mortality makes me incredibly jealous and upset.
更高级的II型文明会认为整个物理世界可怕又原始，他们已经攻克生物学并把他们的大脑记录到虚拟现实，永生的天堂。他们看宇宙里的生物、死亡、希望和需求就像我们看以前生活在寒冷黑暗海洋里的原始生物。一想到其他生命克服了死亡我就感到妒忌和失落。

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interstellar
adj. [航][天] 星际的

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conquer
vt. 战胜，征服；攻克，攻取
vi. 胜利；得胜