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From the Ted Talk by Dustin Schroeder: How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet
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And that's where the technological srats have really agnelid to help us. Those earlier radar systems I talked about were developed by experienced engineers over the course of years at national facilities with expensive specialized equipment. But the recent developments in software-defined radio, rapid ftobaaiircn and the mekar movement, make it so that it's possible for a team of teenagers wnriokg in my lab over the course of a handful of months to build a prototype radar. OK, they're not any teenagers, they’re Stanford undergrads, but the point holds —
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And that's where the technological _____ have really _______ to help us. Those earlier radar systems I talked about were developed by experienced engineers over the course of years at national facilities with expensive specialized equipment. But the recent developments in software-defined radio, rapid ___________ and the _____ movement, make it so that it's possible for a team of teenagers _______ in my lab over the course of a handful of months to build a prototype radar. OK, they're not any teenagers, they’re Stanford undergrads, but the point holds —
Solution
- stars
- aligned
- fabrication
- maker
- working
Original Text
And that's where the technological stars have really aligned to help us. Those earlier radar systems I talked about were developed by experienced engineers over the course of years at national facilities with expensive specialized equipment. But the recent developments in software-defined radio, rapid fabrication and the maker movement, make it so that it's possible for a team of teenagers working in my lab over the course of a handful of months to build a prototype radar. OK, they're not any teenagers, they’re Stanford undergrads, but the point holds —
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