DARPA Urgently Needs a Secure Underground Location, And It Sounds Ominous

国防高级研究计划局迫切需要一个安全的地下位置，听起来不太妙。

Sounds like the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was just kicked out of mom's basement.

听起来好像国防高级研究计划局(DARPA)刚刚被赶出了妈妈的地下室。

In an inexplicable tweet, DARPA asked for help finding "commercially managed underground urban tunnels and facilities able to host research and experimentation."

在一条无法解释的推文上，DARPA请求帮助寻找“商业化管理的地下城市隧道和设施，以进行研究和实验”。

And nobody knows why.

没人知道为什么。

Deep Cover

覆盖深

The facilities need to be "currently closed off from pedestrians" and ideally spans "several city blocks with complex layout".

这些设施需要“目前与行人隔离”，理想情况下跨越“多个布局复杂的城市街区”。

Sound creepy? Well, the accompanying images attached to the tweet confirmed our worst nightmares: DARPA is starting a cult or filming the sequel of Blade: Trinity — though we're not entirely sure which.

听起来毛骨悚然吗?推特附带的图片证实了我们最可怕的噩梦:美国国防部高级研究计划局(DARPA)开始了一场邪教活动，或者正在拍摄《刀锋:三一》(Blade: Trinity)的续集——尽管我们不完全确定是哪部。

Short Notice

时间紧

Making matters even more bizarre, DARPA wants replies by Friday, August 30 — that's just two days from the time of writing, so better call your landlord. Or the Crypt Keeper.

更奇怪的是，国防高级研究计划局希望在8月30日星期五之前得到答复——这离写信的时间只有两天，所以最好给你的房东、或者是地下室管理员打个电话。

Jokes aside, our guess is that DARPA's search is related to its upcoming Subterranean Challenge, a contest that challenges teams from around the country to create robots that can map, navigate, and search complex underground environments, such as man-made tunnels, natural cave systems, and subterranean urban infrastructure.

撇开玩笑不提，我们猜测DARPA的搜索与它即将到来的地下挑战有关。这项竞赛向来自全国各地的团队发起挑战，要求他们创造能够绘制地图、导航和搜索复杂地下环境的机器人，比如人造隧道、自然洞穴系统和地下城市基础设施。

An early stage of the competition was held August 15 to 22 inside mining tunnels under Pittsburgh — but it sounds like DARPA might not have the next location quite locked down.

比赛的早期阶段于8月15日至22日在匹兹堡地下的采矿隧道内举行，但DARPA似乎还没有完全锁定下一个地点。