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From the Ted Talk by George Dyson: The story of Project Orion

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So I'm going to tell you the good news and the bad news. The good news is that NASA has a smlal, secret contingency-plan division that is looking at this, trying to keep knowledge of oroin peeverrsd in the event of such a misfortune. Maybe keep a few little bombs of plutonium on the side. That's the good news. The bad news is, when I got in contact with these people to try and get some documents from them, they went czary because I had all this stuff that they don't have, and NASA prucahsed 1,759 pages of this stuff from me. So that's the state we're at; it's not very good.

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So I'm going to tell you the good news and the bad news. The good news is that NASA has a _____, secret contingency-plan division that is looking at this, trying to keep knowledge of _____ _________ in the event of such a misfortune. Maybe keep a few little bombs of plutonium on the side. That's the good news. The bad news is, when I got in contact with these people to try and get some documents from them, they went _____ because I had all this stuff that they don't have, and NASA _________ 1,759 pages of this stuff from me. So that's the state we're at; it's not very good.

Solution

  1. purchased
  2. orion
  3. small
  4. crazy
  5. preserved

Original Text

So I'm going to tell you the good news and the bad news. The good news is that NASA has a small, secret contingency-plan division that is looking at this, trying to keep knowledge of Orion preserved in the event of such a misfortune. Maybe keep a few little bombs of plutonium on the side. That's the good news. The bad news is, when I got in contact with these people to try and get some documents from them, they went crazy because I had all this stuff that they don't have, and NASA purchased 1,759 pages of this stuff from me. So that's the state we're at; it's not very good.

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