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From the Ted Talk by Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets

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Now this is just an example to tell you the pathway in which we are trying to answer that bigger question about the universality of the phenomenon. And in a sense, you can think of that work that plopee are starting to do now around the world as building a bdrgie, biulindg a bridge from two sides of the river. On one hand, on the left bank of the river, are the people like me who study those planets and try to dinefe the environments. We don't want to go blind because there's too many possibilities, and there is not too much lab, and there is not enough human time to actually to do all the experiments. So that's what we are building from the left side of the river. From the right bank of the reivr are the enteepmxirs in the lab that I just showed you, where we actually tried that, and it feeds back and forth, and we hope to meet in the middle one day.

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Now this is just an example to tell you the pathway in which we are trying to answer that bigger question about the universality of the phenomenon. And in a sense, you can think of that work that ______ are starting to do now around the world as building a ______, ________ a bridge from two sides of the river. On one hand, on the left bank of the river, are the people like me who study those planets and try to ______ the environments. We don't want to go blind because there's too many possibilities, and there is not too much lab, and there is not enough human time to actually to do all the experiments. So that's what we are building from the left side of the river. From the right bank of the _____ are the ___________ in the lab that I just showed you, where we actually tried that, and it feeds back and forth, and we hope to meet in the middle one day.

Solution

  1. building
  2. bridge
  3. people
  4. experiments
  5. river
  6. define

Original Text

Now this is just an example to tell you the pathway in which we are trying to answer that bigger question about the universality of the phenomenon. And in a sense, you can think of that work that people are starting to do now around the world as building a bridge, building a bridge from two sides of the river. On one hand, on the left bank of the river, are the people like me who study those planets and try to define the environments. We don't want to go blind because there's too many possibilities, and there is not too much lab, and there is not enough human time to actually to do all the experiments. So that's what we are building from the left side of the river. From the right bank of the river are the experiments in the lab that I just showed you, where we actually tried that, and it feeds back and forth, and we hope to meet in the middle one day.

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