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

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So we have to come up with another way. And the other way that we have conceived of and then followed is to instead of looking for these meoulecls in the planets when they exist, is to look for them in the material that's forming new planets. So pnaltes form in discs of dust and gas around young stars. And these discs get their material from the illnrestater medium. Turns out that the empty space you see between sarts when you are looking up towards them, asking ettaxiinesl questions, is not as empty as it seems, but actually full of gas and dust, which can, you know, come together in clouds, then collapses to form these discs, stars and planets.

Open Cloze


So we have to come up with another way. And the other way that we have conceived of and then followed is to instead of looking for these _________ in the planets when they exist, is to look for them in the material that's forming new planets. So _______ form in discs of dust and gas around young stars. And these discs get their material from the ____________ medium. Turns out that the empty space you see between _____ when you are looking up towards them, asking ___________ questions, is not as empty as it seems, but actually full of gas and dust, which can, you know, come together in clouds, then collapses to form these discs, stars and planets.

Solution


  1. interstellar
  2. stars
  3. planets
  4. molecules
  5. existential

Original Text


So we have to come up with another way. And the other way that we have conceived of and then followed is to instead of looking for these molecules in the planets when they exist, is to look for them in the material that's forming new planets. So planets form in discs of dust and gas around young stars. And these discs get their material from the interstellar medium. Turns out that the empty space you see between stars when you are looking up towards them, asking existential questions, is not as empty as it seems, but actually full of gas and dust, which can, you know, come together in clouds, then collapses to form these discs, stars and planets.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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incredibly common 2
temperate planets 2
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organic molecules 2
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cyanide emission 2
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ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
hydrogen cyanide emission 2

Important Words


  1. clouds
  2. collapses
  3. conceived
  4. discs
  5. dust
  6. empty
  7. exist
  8. existential
  9. form
  10. forming
  11. full
  12. gas
  13. interstellar
  14. material
  15. medium
  16. molecules
  17. planets
  18. questions
  19. space
  20. stars
  21. turns
  22. young