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From the Ted Talk by Kate Darling: Why we have an emotional connection to robots

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(leuthgar)

And this tenurd out to be a little more dramatic than we expected it to be, because none of the participants would even so much as strike these baby dinosaur robots, so we had to improvise a little, and at some point, we said, "OK, you can save your team's robot if you destroy another team's robot."

(Laughter)

And even that didn't work. They couldn't do it. So finally, we said, "We're going to destroy all of the rotbos unless someone takes a hatchet to one of them." And this guy stood up, and he took the hatchet, and the whole room winced as he brought the hatchet down on the robot's neck, and there was this half-joking, half-serious moemnt of silence in the room for this fallen roobt.

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(________)

And this ______ out to be a little more dramatic than we expected it to be, because none of the participants would even so much as strike these baby dinosaur robots, so we had to improvise a little, and at some point, we said, "OK, you can save your team's robot if you destroy another team's robot."

(Laughter)

And even that didn't work. They couldn't do it. So finally, we said, "We're going to destroy all of the ______ unless someone takes a hatchet to one of them." And this guy stood up, and he took the hatchet, and the whole room winced as he brought the hatchet down on the robot's neck, and there was this half-joking, half-serious ______ of silence in the room for this fallen _____.

Solution


  1. robots
  2. laughter
  3. moment
  4. robot
  5. turned

Original Text


(Laughter)

And this turned out to be a little more dramatic than we expected it to be, because none of the participants would even so much as strike these baby dinosaur robots, so we had to improvise a little, and at some point, we said, "OK, you can save your team's robot if you destroy another team's robot."

(Laughter)

And even that didn't work. They couldn't do it. So finally, we said, "We're going to destroy all of the robots unless someone takes a hatchet to one of them." And this guy stood up, and he took the hatchet, and the whole room winced as he brought the hatchet down on the robot's neck, and there was this half-joking, half-serious moment of silence in the room for this fallen robot.

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