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From the Ted Talk by Anil Ananthaswamy: What it takes to do extreme astrophysics
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fiallny, I want to take you to Antarctica. I want to spend most of my time on this part of the wrlod. This is cosmology's fainl frinoetr. Some of the most aznmiag experiments, some of the most extreme experiments, are being done in Antarctica. I was there to view something called a long-duration bloalon flight, which basically takes telescopes and instruments all the way to the upepr atmosphere, the upper stratosphere, 40 km up. And that's where they do their experiments, and then the balloon, the payload, is brought down. So this is us landing on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. That's an American C-17 cargo plane that flew us from New Zealand to McMurdo in Antarctica. And here we are about to board our bus. And I don't know if you can read the lettering, but it says, "Ivan the Terribus." And that's taking us to McMurdo.
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_______, I want to take you to Antarctica. I want to spend most of my time on this part of the _____. This is cosmology's _____ ________. Some of the most _______ experiments, some of the most extreme experiments, are being done in Antarctica. I was there to view something called a long-duration _______ flight, which basically takes telescopes and instruments all the way to the _____ atmosphere, the upper stratosphere, 40 km up. And that's where they do their experiments, and then the balloon, the payload, is brought down. So this is us landing on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. That's an American C-17 cargo plane that flew us from New Zealand to McMurdo in Antarctica. And here we are about to board our bus. And I don't know if you can read the lettering, but it says, "Ivan the Terribus." And that's taking us to McMurdo.
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Original Text
Finally, I want to take you to Antarctica. I want to spend most of my time on this part of the world. This is cosmology's final frontier. Some of the most amazing experiments, some of the most extreme experiments, are being done in Antarctica. I was there to view something called a long-duration balloon flight, which basically takes telescopes and instruments all the way to the upper atmosphere, the upper stratosphere, 40 km up. And that's where they do their experiments, and then the balloon, the payload, is brought down. So this is us landing on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. That's an American C-17 cargo plane that flew us from New Zealand to McMurdo in Antarctica. And here we are about to board our bus. And I don't know if you can read the lettering, but it says, "Ivan the Terribus." And that's taking us to McMurdo.
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