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From the Ted Talk by Tomás Saraceno: Would you live in a floating city in the sky?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I remeembr when I was at NASA in 2009 with 120 eeirnnges. You guys know, too, when you go up in a plane, the control panels are gnigaitc. And what we're doing is really cmpelox, and when I started coming in with the plastic bags, saying, "But we have a different way ..." people had a hard time understanding the concept. Seeing the power of this idea, we sratetd to initiate a new era; one that would leave behind the violence of the Anthropocene and give way to a new era, which we call the "Aerocene" — an era of ecological awareness, in which we learn to float together, live together in the air, and come to an ethical commitment with the atmosphere and with planet earth. That's why I've brought this bckaapck today. Let's see ...

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I ________ when I was at NASA in 2009 with 120 _________. You guys know, too, when you go up in a plane, the control panels are ________. And what we're doing is really _______, and when I started coming in with the plastic bags, saying, "But we have a different way ..." people had a hard time understanding the concept. Seeing the power of this idea, we _______ to initiate a new era; one that would leave behind the violence of the Anthropocene and give way to a new era, which we call the "Aerocene" — an era of ecological awareness, in which we learn to float together, live together in the air, and come to an ethical commitment with the atmosphere and with planet earth. That's why I've brought this ________ today. Let's see ...

Solution


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  2. complex
  3. gigantic
  4. engineers
  5. started
  6. backpack

Original Text


I remember when I was at NASA in 2009 with 120 engineers. You guys know, too, when you go up in a plane, the control panels are gigantic. And what we're doing is really complex, and when I started coming in with the plastic bags, saying, "But we have a different way ..." people had a hard time understanding the concept. Seeing the power of this idea, we started to initiate a new era; one that would leave behind the violence of the Anthropocene and give way to a new era, which we call the "Aerocene" — an era of ecological awareness, in which we learn to float together, live together in the air, and come to an ethical commitment with the atmosphere and with planet earth. That's why I've brought this backpack today. Let's see ...

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