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From the Ted Talk by Bill Stone: Inside the world's deepest caves

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One of the things that's ceanghd here, in the last 150 years since Jules Verne had graet science-fiction concepts of what the underworld was like, is that technology has enabled us to go to these places that were previously completely unknown and speculated about. We can now descend thousands of mrtees into the Earth with relative impunity. Along the way we've discovered fantastic abessys and chambers so large that you can see for hundreds of meters without a break in the line of sgiht. When you go on a thing like this, we can usually be in the field for anywhere from two to four months, with a team as small as 20 or 30, to as big as 150.

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One of the things that's _______ here, in the last 150 years since Jules Verne had _____ science-fiction concepts of what the underworld was like, is that technology has enabled us to go to these places that were previously completely unknown and speculated about. We can now descend thousands of ______ into the Earth with relative impunity. Along the way we've discovered fantastic _______ and chambers so large that you can see for hundreds of meters without a break in the line of _____. When you go on a thing like this, we can usually be in the field for anywhere from two to four months, with a team as small as 20 or 30, to as big as 150.

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  1. abysses
  2. meters
  3. sight
  4. great
  5. changed

Original Text

One of the things that's changed here, in the last 150 years since Jules Verne had great science-fiction concepts of what the underworld was like, is that technology has enabled us to go to these places that were previously completely unknown and speculated about. We can now descend thousands of meters into the Earth with relative impunity. Along the way we've discovered fantastic abysses and chambers so large that you can see for hundreds of meters without a break in the line of sight. When you go on a thing like this, we can usually be in the field for anywhere from two to four months, with a team as small as 20 or 30, to as big as 150.

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