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From the Ted Talk by George Smoot: The design of the universe

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So it's a big design job, but we'll see about how things are going on. So the way these measurements were done, there's been a set of stleetlais, and this is where you get to see. So there was the COBE siettalle, which was launched in 1989, and we discovered these variations. And then in 2000, the MAP satellite was launched — the WMAP — and it made somewhat better pictures. And later this year — this is the cool stealth voiersn, the one that actually has some beautiful design features to it, and you should look — the pnlcak satellite will be launched, and it will make very high-resolution maps. And that will be the sequence of utnddinaserng the very beginning of the universe.

Open Cloze


So it's a big design job, but we'll see about how things are going on. So the way these measurements were done, there's been a set of __________, and this is where you get to see. So there was the COBE _________, which was launched in 1989, and we discovered these variations. And then in 2000, the MAP satellite was launched — the WMAP — and it made somewhat better pictures. And later this year — this is the cool stealth _______, the one that actually has some beautiful design features to it, and you should look — the ______ satellite will be launched, and it will make very high-resolution maps. And that will be the sequence of _____________ the very beginning of the universe.

Solution


  1. satellites
  2. version
  3. planck
  4. understanding
  5. satellite

Original Text


So it's a big design job, but we'll see about how things are going on. So the way these measurements were done, there's been a set of satellites, and this is where you get to see. So there was the COBE satellite, which was launched in 1989, and we discovered these variations. And then in 2000, the MAP satellite was launched — the WMAP — and it made somewhat better pictures. And later this year — this is the cool stealth version, the one that actually has some beautiful design features to it, and you should look — the Planck satellite will be launched, and it will make very high-resolution maps. And that will be the sequence of understanding the very beginning of the universe.

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Important Words


  1. beautiful
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  4. cobe
  5. cool
  6. design
  7. discovered
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  10. launched
  11. map
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  13. measurements
  14. pictures
  15. planck
  16. satellite
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  18. sequence
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  21. understanding
  22. universe
  23. variations
  24. version
  25. wmap
  26. year