he used to be like

"We are so used to the world being western, even American, that we have little idea what it would be like if it was not," he writes.

他写道：“我们已经习惯于世界是西方式的，甚至是美国式的，我们不知道，如果不是这样，它会是什么样的。”

He offers many good analogies like this, which can be used to better explain our test plans and coverage to other project members.

书中给出了许多类似这样的类比，它们很好的向其他项目成员解释和说明了我们的测试方案和测试范围。

He argues that radar astronomy, which is used to probe things like asteroids and the surface of Venus, already gives off signals that could be picked up by aliens.

他认为，人类运用雷达天文学探测小行星和金星等天体，早已经发射出可以被外星智慧生物接收到的信号。