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From the Ted Talk by Clara Sousa-Silva: The fingerprints of life beyond Earth
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Either way, as much as I love phosphine, I don't think that's how we'll find life. The detection of life will likely not come from a sgilne molecule. No matter how special it is. We'll have to detect a whole biosphere producing a complex network of gases that together form a message that reads: “We’re alive!” As the Venus story shows, the detection of life will likely be uncertain, but Venus is the perfect lab for us to test our theories of bhisproees and how to intrpeert them. If we learn to udentansrd the atmosphere of vnues and the message it contains, then we can find out if we got it right by going there and chcinekg. And we'll do that at the end of the decade.
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Either way, as much as I love phosphine, I don't think that's how we'll find life. The detection of life will likely not come from a ______ molecule. No matter how special it is. We'll have to detect a whole biosphere producing a complex network of gases that together form a message that reads: “We’re alive!” As the Venus story shows, the detection of life will likely be uncertain, but Venus is the perfect lab for us to test our theories of __________ and how to _________ them. If we learn to __________ the atmosphere of _____ and the message it contains, then we can find out if we got it right by going there and ________. And we'll do that at the end of the decade.
Solution
- biospheres
- venus
- understand
- interpret
- single
- checking
Original Text
Either way, as much as I love phosphine, I don't think that's how we'll find life. The detection of life will likely not come from a single molecule. No matter how special it is. We'll have to detect a whole biosphere producing a complex network of gases that together form a message that reads: “We’re alive!” As the Venus story shows, the detection of life will likely be uncertain, but Venus is the perfect lab for us to test our theories of biospheres and how to interpret them. If we learn to understand the atmosphere of Venus and the message it contains, then we can find out if we got it right by going there and checking. And we'll do that at the end of the decade.
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