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From the Ted Talk by David Gruber: Glow-in-the-dark sharks and other stunning sea creatures

Unscramble the Blue Letters


As I try to get deeper, this is slapping on a one-person submarine suit — some people call this my "Jacques Cousteau meets wdooy Allen" moment.

(Laughter)

But as we explore down here, I was thniikng about: How do we interact with life delicately? Because we're entenirg a new age of exploration, where we have to take great care, and we have to set examples how we explore. So I've teamed up with roboticist Rob Wood at Harvard utnseirviy, and we've been designing squishy underwater robot fingers, so we can delicately icetnart with the marine life down there. The idea is that most of our technologies to exlrope the deep ocean come from oil and gas and military, who, you know, they're not really caring to be gentle. Some corals could be 1,000 years old. You don't want to just go and crush them with a big claw. So my dream is something like this. At night, I'm in a submarine, I have force-feedback gloves, and I could delicately set up a lab in the front of my submarine, where the squishy robot fingers are daceitlely collecting and ptitnug things in jars, and we can cucdnot our research.

Open Cloze


As I try to get deeper, this is slapping on a one-person submarine suit — some people call this my "Jacques Cousteau meets _____ Allen" moment.

(Laughter)

But as we explore down here, I was ________ about: How do we interact with life delicately? Because we're ________ a new age of exploration, where we have to take great care, and we have to set examples how we explore. So I've teamed up with roboticist Rob Wood at Harvard __________, and we've been designing squishy underwater robot fingers, so we can delicately ________ with the marine life down there. The idea is that most of our technologies to _______ the deep ocean come from oil and gas and military, who, you know, they're not really caring to be gentle. Some corals could be 1,000 years old. You don't want to just go and crush them with a big claw. So my dream is something like this. At night, I'm in a submarine, I have force-feedback gloves, and I could delicately set up a lab in the front of my submarine, where the squishy robot fingers are __________ collecting and _______ things in jars, and we can _______ our research.

Solution


  1. thinking
  2. conduct
  3. entering
  4. delicately
  5. putting
  6. interact
  7. explore
  8. university
  9. woody

Original Text


As I try to get deeper, this is slapping on a one-person submarine suit — some people call this my "Jacques Cousteau meets Woody Allen" moment.

(Laughter)

But as we explore down here, I was thinking about: How do we interact with life delicately? Because we're entering a new age of exploration, where we have to take great care, and we have to set examples how we explore. So I've teamed up with roboticist Rob Wood at Harvard University, and we've been designing squishy underwater robot fingers, so we can delicately interact with the marine life down there. The idea is that most of our technologies to explore the deep ocean come from oil and gas and military, who, you know, they're not really caring to be gentle. Some corals could be 1,000 years old. You don't want to just go and crush them with a big claw. So my dream is something like this. At night, I'm in a submarine, I have force-feedback gloves, and I could delicately set up a lab in the front of my submarine, where the squishy robot fingers are delicately collecting and putting things in jars, and we can conduct our research.

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Important Words


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