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From the Ted Talk by Will Marshall: Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time

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This is not a slcae model, this is the real size. It's 10 by 10 by 30 ctetemierns, it weighs four kilograms, and we've stuffed the latest and greatest eeccintlros and sensor sesmtys into this little package so that even though this is really small, this can take pictures 10 times the resolution of the big satellite here, even though it wehigs one thousandth of the mass. And we call this sletltaie "Dove" — Thank you. (alupaspe) We call this satellite "Dove," and we call it "Dove" because satellites are typically named after birds, but normally birds of prey: like Eagle, Hawk, Swoop, Kill, I don't know, Kestrel, these sort of things. But ours have a humanitarian mission, so we wanted to call them Doves. And we haven't just built them, though. We've launched them. And not just one, but many.

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This is not a _____ model, this is the real size. It's 10 by 10 by 30 ___________, it weighs four kilograms, and we've stuffed the latest and greatest ___________ and sensor _______ into this little package so that even though this is really small, this can take pictures 10 times the resolution of the big satellite here, even though it ______ one thousandth of the mass. And we call this _________ "Dove" — Thank you. (________) We call this satellite "Dove," and we call it "Dove" because satellites are typically named after birds, but normally birds of prey: like Eagle, Hawk, Swoop, Kill, I don't know, Kestrel, these sort of things. But ours have a humanitarian mission, so we wanted to call them Doves. And we haven't just built them, though. We've launched them. And not just one, but many.

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  1. centimeters
  2. systems
  3. scale
  4. satellite
  5. weighs
  6. applause
  7. electronics

Original Text


This is not a scale model, this is the real size. It's 10 by 10 by 30 centimeters, it weighs four kilograms, and we've stuffed the latest and greatest electronics and sensor systems into this little package so that even though this is really small, this can take pictures 10 times the resolution of the big satellite here, even though it weighs one thousandth of the mass. And we call this satellite "Dove" — Thank you. (Applause) We call this satellite "Dove," and we call it "Dove" because satellites are typically named after birds, but normally birds of prey: like Eagle, Hawk, Swoop, Kill, I don't know, Kestrel, these sort of things. But ours have a humanitarian mission, so we wanted to call them Doves. And we haven't just built them, though. We've launched them. And not just one, but many.

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