Today's book is how did whales get so big by minute Earth before we begin, I just want to say this is a great book for both kids and adults.

今天的書是《鯨魚是如何按分鐘變大的》，在我們開始之前，我只想說這是一本適合兒童和成人閱讀的好書。

It is a collection of questions and answers about our natural world.

這是一個關於我們自然世界的問題和答案的集合。

It's a great coffee table book or Bedtime book that you can just skim through and read one little chapter or story or you can go through the whole thing from cover to cover, if you'd like today, we're going to be reading from the first question of the book, where did earth's water come from?

這是一本很好的茶几書或睡前讀物，你可以略過，讀一個小章節或故事，或者你可以從頭到尾看一遍，如果你願意的話，今天我們將從這本書的第一個問題開始讀，地球上的水從哪裡來？

Unlike every other planet in our solar system, Earth surface is 70% liquid water that's useful for sustaining life.

與我們太陽系中的其他行星不同，地球表面有70%的液態水，對維持生命很有用。

But it's also weird because our planet didn't start off with water.

但這也很奇怪，因為我們的星球一開始並沒有水。

The early in our solar system was far too hot for frozen water and any water vapor, it would have been blasted away by the solar wind.

我們太陽系的早期對於冰凍的水來說太熱了，任何水蒸氣，它都會被太陽風吹走。

So how did we end up with such splendid oceans?

那麼，我們怎麼會有如此燦爛的海洋呢？

Rivers, ice caps, and clouds, like the ones that are making the rain today.

河流、冰蓋和雲層，就像今天的雨。

Natural processes like burning and breathing do create water through chemical reactions, but other natural processes like photosynthesis use up that water.

燃燒和呼吸等自然過程確實通過化學反應產生了水，但其他自然過程，如光合作用，也會消耗掉這些水。

Plus these amounts are so tiny that we can be confident that earth's water wasn't made here over the eons.

再加上這些數量是如此之小，以至於我們可以確信，地球上的水並不是在漫長的歲月中在這裡形成的。

So water must have arrived here on meteoroids, comets or other objects that originated far enough from the sun for frozen water to survive.

是以，水一定是通過流星體、彗星或其他起源於離太陽足夠遠的物體到達這裡的，以使冰凍的水能夠生存。

Since comments are pretty much just dirty ice balls.

因為評論幾乎就是骯髒的冰球。

There are logical candidate for the source of Earth's water, but they're far richer in a special kind of hydrogen called heavy hydrogen hydrogen with a neutron as well as a proton in its nucleus than earth water.

地球上的水的來源有合理的候選，但它們在一種特殊的氫氣中的含量要比地球上的水豐富得多，這種氫氣被稱為重氫，其原子核中有一箇中子和一個質子。

So calm, it's probably weren't the source.

所以要冷靜，這可能不是來源。

The more likely sources, a kind of stony meteorite known as a carbonaceous Conned, right.

更可能的來源，是一種被稱為碳質康奈德的石質隕石，對。

These meteoroids formed far enough from the sun that they can hold water and the water, they do have has similar levels of heavy hydrogen as earth's water, like the water raining outside.

這些流星體的形成離太陽足夠遠，它們可以容納水，而且這些水確實具有與地球上的水相似的重氫含量，就像外面下雨的水一樣。

So it seems as though the water that turned our planet into a blue marble came quite literally out of the blue.

是以，似乎把我們的星球變成藍色大理石的水，就像從字面上來的一樣。

And if you want a copy of this book To come into your hands out of the blue, it comes out on October 12 and is available for preorder now, wherever books are sold, another thing about this is that I was obviously involved in the creation of this book and made lots of the videos on which this book is based and it's still a delight to have these things actually in your hands.

如果你想讓這本書突然出現在你的手中，它將於10月12日出版，現在就可以預購，只要有書賣，還有一件事是，我顯然參與了這本書的創作，並製作了很多這本書所基於的視頻，能把這些東西真正拿到你手中，還是很高興的。

I think minute Earth videos or maybe some of the best videos to be converted into a book because the illustrations that the Minister of illustrators do are just amazing and in particular in book form where we actually kind of tone down the narration in the text, so to speak and you just have more pictures is just great.

我認為分鐘地球的視頻，或者說一些最好的視頻可以被轉換成一本書，因為插畫師部長所做的插圖實在是令人驚歎，特別是在書的形式上，我們實際上有點淡化了文本中的敘述，可以說，你只是有更多的圖片，實在是太好了。

It's just really fun to flip through.

翻閱起來真的很有趣。

Even though I know all these pictures and I know these science stories.

儘管我知道所有這些圖片，我知道這些科學故事。

I am just super enjoying this book.

我只是超級喜歡這本書。

So I highly highly recommend it.

是以，我高度高度推薦它。

It's a great gift for anybody.

這是給任何人的一份好禮物。

Or just for yourself to enjoy the world around you.

或者只是為了自己，享受周圍的世界。

Again, October 12 comes out, order it now wherever books are sold, get yourself lots of copies and thank you for joining us for story time with minute physics.

同樣，10月12日出來了，現在就訂購吧，哪裡有賣書的，就給自己買很多份，謝謝你參加我們的分鐘物理學的故事時間。

Okay.

好的。

Mhm.

嗯。

And it has a glossary in the back for those science words you might not be as familiar with.

它的後面有一個詞彙表，用於那些你可能不太熟悉的科學詞彙。