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| Chapter 8 | 8. |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times over many years and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travelers and researchers. | Autostoperski vodič kroz Galaksiju je izuzetna knjiga. Prerađivana je i prekrajana mnogo puta tokom mnogih godina i pod mnogo raznih urednika. Sadrži doprinose nebrojenih putnika i istraživača. |
| The introduction begins like this: | Uvod u ovu knjigu počinje na sledeći način: |
| “Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen …” and so on. | 'Svemir je', kaže se tamo, 'veliki. Stvarno mnogo veliki. Naprosto da ne poverujete koliko je neverovatno, divovski neshvatljivo veliki. Hoću da kažem, možda vi mislite da morate dugo da pešačite do one radnje tamo, ali to su vam samo trice u poređenju sa kosmosom. Pazite ovako...' I tako dalje. |
| (After a while the style settles down a bit and it begins to tell you things you really need to know, like the fact that the fabulously beautiful planet Bethselamin is now so worried about the cumulative erosion by ten billion visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete while on the planet is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory there it is vitally important to get a receipt.) | (Posle izvesnog vremena stil se malo sređuje i počinju stvari koje su vam stvarno neophodne, kao na primer činjenica da se na nezamislivo divnoj planeti Betselaminu sada toliko brinu zbog kumulativne erozije koju izaziva deset milijardi turista godišnje, da vam svaku razliku između iznosa koji pojedete i koji izlučite dok ste na planeti hirurški uzimaju od tela prilikom polaska: zbog toga, svaki put kada tamo odete u toalet, neophodno je da dobijete potvrdu.) |
| To be fair though, when confronted by the sheer enormity of the distances between the stars, better minds than the one responsible for the Guide’s introduction have faltered. Some invite you to consider for a moment a peanut in Reading and a small walnut in Johannesburg, and other such dizzying concepts. | Istini za volju, prilikom suočenja s golom ogromnošću međuzvezdanih rastojanja poklekli su i bolji umovi od onih koji su odgovorni za uvodni deo Vodiča. Neki vas pozivaju da na trenutak zamislite kikiriki koji raste u Redingu, mali orah u Johanesburgu i druge, slične zbunjujuće stvari. |
| The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination. | Jednostavna je istina da se međuzvezdana rastojanja ne uklapaju u ljudsku maštu. |
| Even light, which travels so fast that it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars. It takes eight minutes to journey from the star Sol to the place where the Earth used to be, and four years more to arrive at Sol’s nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Proxima. | Čak i svetlosti, koja toliko brzo putuje da su većini rasa potrebne hiljade godina da bi uopšte shvatile da putuje, treba vremena za putovanje između zvezda. Potrebno joj je osam minuta da od zvezde Sol doputuje do mesta na kome se nekada nalazila Zemlja, a još četiri godine da stigne do Sunčevog najbližeg zvezdanog suseda, Alfe Proksime. |
| For light to reach the other side of the Galaxy, for it to reach Damogran, for instance, takes rather longer: five hundred thousand years. | Da bi svetlost dospela do drugog kraja Galaksije, recimo do Damograna, potrebno je još podosta: pet stotina hiljada godina. |
| The record for hitchhiking this distance is just under five years, but you don’t get to see much on the way. | Rekord stopiranja na tolikom rastojanju iznosi nešto manje od pet godina, ali se na taj način uz put ne može videti Bog zna šta. |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy says that if you hold a lungful of air you can survive in the total vacuum of space for about thirty seconds. However, it does go on to say that what with space being the mind-boggling size it is the chances of getting picked up by another ship within those thirty seconds are two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand, seven hundred and nine to one against. | Autostoperski vodič kroz Galaksiju kaže da, ukoliko ste se prethodno nadisali vazduha, u potpunom svemirskom vakuumu možete preživeti oko trideset sekundi. On zatim kaže da, budući da je svemir tako vrtoglavo prostran, vaši izgledi da vas tokom tih trideset sekundi pokupi neki drugi brod iznose jedan prema dva na dvesta šezdeset sedam hiljada sedamsto devet. |
| By a totally staggering coincidence, that is also the telephone number of an Islington flat where Arthur once went to a very good party and met a very nice girl whom he totally failed to get off with—she went off with a gate-crasher. | Zapanjujućom igrom slučaja, to je takođe telefonski broj jednog stana u Ajzlingtonu u kome je Artur jednom bio na stvarno dobroj žurki i gde je sreo jednu vrlo slatku devojku, ali mu nikako nije pošlo za rukom da je bolje upozna - otišla je s nekim tipom koji je nepozvan upao na žurku. |
| Though the planet Earth, the Islington flat and the telephone have all now been demolished, it is comforting to reflect that they are all in some small way commemorated by the fact that twenty-nine seconds later Ford and Arthur were rescued. | Iako su sada planeta Zemlja, stan u Ajzlingtonu i taj telefon uništeni, umirujuće deluje činjenica da su na izvestan način ostali zapamćeni zbog toga što su posle dvadeset devet sekundi Ford i Artur spaseni. |