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From the Ted Talk by Seth Shostak: ET is (probably) out there -- get ready


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That's one thing. Another thing that's for sure going to hapepn is that it will calibrate us. We will know that we're not that miracle, right, that we're just another duck in a row, we're not the only kids on the block, and I think that that's philosophically a very profound thing to learn. We're not a miracle, okay?

The third thing that it might tell you is somewhat vague, but I think interesting and iomprnatt, and that is, if you find a signal coming from a more advanced society, because they will be, that will tell you something about our own possibilities, that we're not inevitably doomed to self-destruction. Because they survived their technology, we could do it too. Normally when you look out into the universe, you're looking back in time. All right? That's interesting to cogliomsotss. But in this sense, you actually can look into the fuutre, hazily, but you can look into the future. So those are all the sorts of things that would come from a detection.

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That's one thing. Another thing that's for sure going to ______ is that it will calibrate us. We will know that we're not that miracle, right, that we're just another duck in a row, we're not the only kids on the block, and I think that that's philosophically a very profound thing to learn. We're not a miracle, okay?

The third thing that it might tell you is somewhat vague, but I think interesting and _________, and that is, if you find a signal coming from a more advanced society, because they will be, that will tell you something about our own possibilities, that we're not inevitably doomed to self-destruction. Because they survived their technology, we could do it too. Normally when you look out into the universe, you're looking back in time. All right? That's interesting to ____________. But in this sense, you actually can look into the ______, hazily, but you can look into the future. So those are all the sorts of things that would come from a detection.

Solution


  1. happen
  2. future
  3. cosmologists
  4. important

Original Text


That's one thing. Another thing that's for sure going to happen is that it will calibrate us. We will know that we're not that miracle, right, that we're just another duck in a row, we're not the only kids on the block, and I think that that's philosophically a very profound thing to learn. We're not a miracle, okay?

The third thing that it might tell you is somewhat vague, but I think interesting and important, and that is, if you find a signal coming from a more advanced society, because they will be, that will tell you something about our own possibilities, that we're not inevitably doomed to self-destruction. Because they survived their technology, we could do it too. Normally when you look out into the universe, you're looking back in time. All right? That's interesting to cosmologists. But in this sense, you actually can look into the future, hazily, but you can look into the future. So those are all the sorts of things that would come from a detection.

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Important Words


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