LONELIEST HUMAN
最孤独的人
Q. What is the farthest one human being has ever been from every other living person? Were they lonely?
Q．在这个世界上离其他活人最远的人是谁？他们孤独吗？
——Bryan J McCarter
——布赖恩•J．麦卡特
A. IT 8217;S HARD TO KNOW for sure!
A．这问题很难给出确定的答案！
The most likely suspects are the six Apollo command module pilots who stayed in lunar orbit during a Moon landing: Mike Collins, Dick Gordon, Stu Roosa, Al Worden, Ken Mattingly, and Ron Evans.
最有可能的人是阿波罗登月计划中曾待在位于月球轨道上的指令舱里的6位宇航员了，他们分别是：迈克尔•科林斯、迪克•戈登、斯图尔特•罗萨、阿尔弗莱德•沃尔登、肯•马丁利和罗纳德•埃万斯。
Each of these astronauts stayed alone in the command module while two other astronauts landed on the Moon. At the highest point in their orbit, they were about 3585 kilometers from their fellow astronauts.
在每次任务中都会有一位宇航员留在指令舱中，与此同时另两位宇航员会踏上月球表面。当指令舱位于轨道的最高点时，登陆月球的宇航员离留守指令舱的宇航员约有3585千米。
From another point of view, this was the farthest the rest of humanity has ever managed to get from those jerk astronauts.
换个角度看，这也是其余的地球人和这些宇航员相距最远的时候。
You 8217;d think astronauts would have a lock on this category, but it 8217;s not so cut-and-dried. There are a few other candidates who come pretty close!
也许你以为这些宇航员获此殊荣是板上钉钉的事了，但别这么急着下结论，还有一些人可能离这一殊荣也不远！
Polynesians
波利尼西亚人
It 8217;s hard to get 3585 kilometers from a permanently inhabited place.1 The Polynesians, who were the first humans to spread across the Pacific, might have managed it, but this would have required a lone sailor to travel awfully far ahead of everyone else. It may have happened-perhaps by accident, when someone was carried far from their group by a storm-but we 8217;re unlikely to ever know for sure.
从一个永久居住地往外数3585千米1而碰不到一个活人几乎是不可能的。但第一个跨过太平洋的波利尼西亚人却很有潜力，不过这需要一个孤独的水手比他的队友快出一大截。这种情况是有可能的——也许某个人意外地被风暴卷入大海并远离伙伴——但我们恐怕永远也无法确定。
Once the Pacific was colonized, it got a lot harder to find regions of the Earth 8217;s surface where someone could achieve 3585-kilometer isolation. Now that the Antarctic continent has a permanent population of researchers, it 8217;s almost certainly impossible.
自从太平洋成了人类殖民地的一部分后，便很难在地球表面找到在3585千米内看不见活人的地方了。现在南极洲都有驻留的研究人员，就更别想找到这种地方了。