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From the Ted Talk by Karin Öberg: The galactic recipe for a living planet

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And one of the things we always see when we do look at these clouds is water. You know, I think we have a tendency to think about water as something that's, you know, secipal to us. Water is one of the most abundant molecules in the universe, including in these cludos, these star- and planet-forming clouds. And not only that — wetar is also a pretty robust molecule: it's actually not that easy to dtseroy. So a lot of this water that is in itllenrsaetr medium will survive the rather dangerous, collapsed journey from clouds to disc, to planet. So water is alright. That second ingredient is not going to be a problem. Most planets are going to form with some access to water.

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And one of the things we always see when we do look at these clouds is water. You know, I think we have a tendency to think about water as something that's, you know, _______ to us. Water is one of the most abundant molecules in the universe, including in these ______, these star- and planet-forming clouds. And not only that — _____ is also a pretty robust molecule: it's actually not that easy to _______. So a lot of this water that is in ____________ medium will survive the rather dangerous, collapsed journey from clouds to disc, to planet. So water is alright. That second ingredient is not going to be a problem. Most planets are going to form with some access to water.

Solution

  1. interstellar
  2. special
  3. water
  4. clouds
  5. destroy

Original Text

And one of the things we always see when we do look at these clouds is water. You know, I think we have a tendency to think about water as something that's, you know, special to us. Water is one of the most abundant molecules in the universe, including in these clouds, these star- and planet-forming clouds. And not only that — water is also a pretty robust molecule: it's actually not that easy to destroy. So a lot of this water that is in interstellar medium will survive the rather dangerous, collapsed journey from clouds to disc, to planet. So water is alright. That second ingredient is not going to be a problem. Most planets are going to form with some access to water.

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