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From the Ted Talk by Lucianne Walkowicz: Look up for a change

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One such example of this is the ceitizn science project associated with the mission that I'm part of, called the Kepler Mission. Kepler is a space tlpcoesee and it looks for ptanels around other stars by mnusireag the light from those stars very precisely. And we're looking for the dimmings caused by stars blocking off some of that light. We have an associated citizen scincee project called "Planet Hunters." Planet Hunters gives you, like Galaxy Zoo, a short tutorial, and within a couple of minuets, you're up and running; you're looking at data from the Kepler Mission and looking for planets. The idea behind this is an easy sell, right? But the actual process of planet-hunting involves a lot of looking at graphs, like the one I'm sinhwog you here, and annotating them. I do this all day and that doesn't even sound that insnertetig to me. However, not only are people interested in doing this, but the citizen scientists that work with Planet Hunters have actually found planets in the data that would have gone ueevodsrncid otherwise.

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One such example of this is the _______ science project associated with the mission that I'm part of, called the Kepler Mission. Kepler is a space _________ and it looks for _______ around other stars by _________ the light from those stars very precisely. And we're looking for the dimmings caused by stars blocking off some of that light. We have an associated citizen _______ project called "Planet Hunters." Planet Hunters gives you, like Galaxy Zoo, a short tutorial, and within a couple of _______, you're up and running; you're looking at data from the Kepler Mission and looking for planets. The idea behind this is an easy sell, right? But the actual process of planet-hunting involves a lot of looking at graphs, like the one I'm _______ you here, and annotating them. I do this all day and that doesn't even sound that ___________ to me. However, not only are people interested in doing this, but the citizen scientists that work with Planet Hunters have actually found planets in the data that would have gone ____________ otherwise.

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Original Text

One such example of this is the citizen science project associated with the mission that I'm part of, called the Kepler Mission. Kepler is a space telescope and it looks for planets around other stars by measuring the light from those stars very precisely. And we're looking for the dimmings caused by stars blocking off some of that light. We have an associated citizen science project called "Planet Hunters." Planet Hunters gives you, like Galaxy Zoo, a short tutorial, and within a couple of minutes, you're up and running; you're looking at data from the Kepler Mission and looking for planets. The idea behind this is an easy sell, right? But the actual process of planet-hunting involves a lot of looking at graphs, like the one I'm showing you here, and annotating them. I do this all day and that doesn't even sound that interesting to me. However, not only are people interested in doing this, but the citizen scientists that work with Planet Hunters have actually found planets in the data that would have gone undiscovered otherwise.

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