我要把侏罗纪时空胶囊藏在哪里?

威尔:嗯，我是说，如果我可以选择的话，我肯定不会选择侏罗纪，我想我活不了多久。

克里斯-但我认为他想表达的意思是他想要恐龙的照片?

威尔-嗯，我在金发姑娘区找到了家。我当然会选择大陆地壳。我们有两种地壳，大陆地壳和海洋地壳。海洋的浮力较小，密度更大。所以当两者相遇时，是海洋地壳俯冲。所以虽然我的相机是防水的，但它可能无法在俯冲到地幔后存活下来。可能有点太热了。所以我会选择土地。也许我会选择一座山。我们之前说过，山是会侵蚀的。 I wouldn't know where my camera would end up. So I'd probably be heading towards Earth's more lowland environments. I'll introduce a term here: sedimentary basin. These are essentially depressions in earth's landscape where sedimentary rocks, sedimentary piles, can build up, they can accrue. So I'd find somewhere that was actively depositing such that my camera has a chance of making it into the record. I'd need it not to be connected to the oceans. If I put it in a river basin, long after I've been eaten by the T-Rex, the river shifts, reworks where my camera was and takes it off to the ocean and abducts it to the mantle, that's not doing us any good. I'd probably try and find, a lake, ideally a hydrologically closed lake, a lake that's not connected to the ocean in any way, but sort of disconnected by some sort of resistant topographic upland, something with high preservation potential, this sort of very low energy environment with no chance of my camera sort of heading out anywhere. This is the case where my sediment could sort of gradually over time build up around it and preserve it. But we've still got a problem then: we might preserve the camera, but we still need to expose it in the present day for a modern geologist who is wandering around. Where geological outcrops exist, it's very stochastic. It's very random. We need a road cut in a nice area or a beach where waves are bashed and exposed our rock.

Chris -当你说曝光时，我想的是相机曝光，它可以是数码的，你没事。但我猜你的意思是它必须以某种方式浮出水面，这样像你这样的人才能偶然发现它?

威尔——当然。而这种情况发生的可能性非常小。我想，如果所有这些梦想都成真，而我是发现照相机的地质学家，我会对时间机器是如何发明的更感兴趣。

克里斯-你内心的物理学家会介入的。当然，这个问题的一个很好的答案是，你会去找到所有化石的位置，然后回到化石资源丰富的地方，把化石放在化石可能来自的地方，因为很有可能有人会去那个地区挖掘，那个地区将从那个时期保存下来。

威尔-没错。我想我也得相信古大陆重建，试着追溯我的地质足迹。

克里斯-但你们知道自己在做什么，不是吗?

威尔——我信任我的同伴。我自己不做苍白的大陆重建。