Perhaps willfully, it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future.

不过很有意思的是推测一万年后的事物往往比推测明天要发生什么容易得多。

That's a long time for humanity but negligible in relation to planetary and galactic  timescales.

这对人类来说是一段很长的时间，但与行星和银河系的时间尺度相比可以忽略不计。

I remember the day that because that was made possible, in our minds everything else was possible as well on the same or shorter timescale.

因为登月成功了，认为，在同样或更短的时间里也能做成其他一切事情。

All of these applications of base editing have taken place in less than the past three years: on the historical timescale of science, the blink of an eye.

在科学的历史时间尺度上，仅仅是转眼间的功夫。

With AGI, something like this could happen again, but on a shorter timescale.

AGI的出现使得类似的事情可能会再次发生，但变化所需的时间会更短。

On a geological timescale, life appeared very quickly.

在质时间尺度上，生命出现得非常快。

It shows you connectivity potentially on yearly timescales, which is what genetics information doesn't.

“这展示了每年潜在的联系时间表，这是基因信息无法做到的。”

It gives you a kind of timescale to follow through.

它给了你一种完成工作的时序表。

It swings wildly, increasing and decreasing its rate by huge amounts on very short timescales.

它剧烈，在极短的时间尺度上大幅度增加或减少它的速率。

I think especially on like sub-seasonal timescales, like multiple months out, we're going to be able to frame the statistical question with a lot more specificity and probably a much better quantification of the uncertainty.

认为，特别是在像次季节性的时间尺度上，比如几个月后， 将能够更具体构建统计问题， 并且可能更好量化不确定性。

Timescales in the cosmos seem so unimaginably vast, it's almost impossible to relate to them.

宇宙里的时间尺度非常大，几乎没有任何东西能与之相提并论。

Often, the evolution of this kind of camouflage is detectable on a shorter timescale too - the populations of dark-coloured peppered moths grew in England, for example, as sooty pollution increased in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution.

通常来说，在较短一段时间内也能观察到伪装的进化发展——例如，19世纪工业革命期间，烟尘污染增加时，英国深色胡椒蛾的数量有所增加。

The timescale problem is that cause and effect may be separated by milliseconds (switching on a light bulb and experiencing illumination), minutes (having a drink and feeling tipsy) or even hours (eating something bad and getting food poisoning).

时间方面的问题在于，因果可能以毫秒（打开灯泡并感受到照明）、分钟（喝饮料并感到醉意）甚至小时（吃坏肚子并食物中毒）为单位出现。

We no longer have to wait for Mother Nature's sensory gifts on her timescales, but instead, like any good parent, she's given us the tools that we need to go out and define our own trajectory.

不必等待大自然母亲 按照她自己的时间尺度和节奏来赐予感官的礼物。相反，像任何称职的家长， 她已经给了需要的工具，让能够走出来 定义自己的人生轨迹。

So we're getting more information on shorter timescales about how those thunderstorms are changing, which is important because thunderstorms occur on, you know, pretty quick timescales over the course of minutes or so.

因此，获得了雷暴在更短的时间内变化的更多信息——这一点很重要，因为雷暴发生的时间段非常短，大概几分钟左右。

But the timescale is alarmingly variable. One senior government figure thinks this and other public-sector reforms will take “between five and 15 years” to bear fruit nationally.

但是时间跨度之多变令人警觉。一位高级官员认为，这项以及其他的公共领域改革将需要“五到十五年”来使全国受益。

The two really big things are that they are independent of the timescales that we have up at the surface, which creates for some crazy long lived things.

一是下微生物独立于的表时间尺度，而这创造了一些超长寿命的东西。

Dr Alexander Farnsworth, at the University of Bristol, said plutonium is a radioactive element and decays over time, so might not persist over geological timescales of millions.

布里斯托尔大学的亚历山大·法恩斯沃思博士说，钚是一种放射性元素，会随着时间的推移而衰变，因此可能不会在数百万年的质时间尺度上持续存在。

Just very briefly, these attosecond pulses allow us to visualise chemistry in action, they allow us to see things at the timescale of the electron.

简单说，这些阿秒脉冲让看到化学的作用，它让看到电子时间尺度上的东西。

This problem of how to send messages over long distances and across hugely varying timescales is one that's likely even older than multicellular life.

这个如何长距离并跨越巨大变化的时间尺度发送信息的问题可能比多细胞生命更古老。