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From the Ted Talk by Sarah Rugheimer: The search for microscopic aliens

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I want to find aliens. Finding life on another planet is not just going to be a little hard, it's going to be very hard. But for the first time in human history, we have a chance to detect signs of life on another plaent. Or maybe we've already dcteeted it on vneus. Or maybe not. There are still two big hurdles when it comes to confirming life on another world. The first is building a telescope big enough to do this, and the second is inprreeittng what we will find. When we think of etxarersertitral life, we tend to think of aliens like funny little green men, not alneis as single-celled microbes. But it's actually detecting signs of miociarbl life on another planet that I'm most optimistic about, and what I focus my research on.

Open Cloze

I want to find aliens. Finding life on another planet is not just going to be a little hard, it's going to be very hard. But for the first time in human history, we have a chance to detect signs of life on another ______. Or maybe we've already ________ it on _____. Or maybe not. There are still two big hurdles when it comes to confirming life on another world. The first is building a telescope big enough to do this, and the second is ____________ what we will find. When we think of ________________ life, we tend to think of aliens like funny little green men, not ______ as single-celled microbes. But it's actually detecting signs of _________ life on another planet that I'm most optimistic about, and what I focus my research on.

Solution

  1. extraterrestrial
  2. venus
  3. microbial
  4. aliens
  5. interpreting
  6. planet
  7. detected

Original Text

I want to find aliens. Finding life on another planet is not just going to be a little hard, it's going to be very hard. But for the first time in human history, we have a chance to detect signs of life on another planet. Or maybe we've already detected it on Venus. Or maybe not. There are still two big hurdles when it comes to confirming life on another world. The first is building a telescope big enough to do this, and the second is interpreting what we will find. When we think of extraterrestrial life, we tend to think of aliens like funny little green men, not aliens as single-celled microbes. But it's actually detecting signs of microbial life on another planet that I'm most optimistic about, and what I focus my research on.

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