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Of course, Sol is a big ball of hot gas, but one that - thanks to its endlessly boiling innards - shakes and vibrates. By studying patterns on the Sun's surface, astronomers can learn much about Sol's internal construction.
~ Seth Shostak
About
Ball
Big
Boiling
Construction
Course
Endlessly
Gas
Hot
Internal
Learn
Much
Patterns
Shakes
Studying
Sun
Surface
Thanks
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On Mars, where the air is spare - a hundred times less dense than on Earth - someone could hear you scream. But you'd have to really strain to get anyone's attention. On the Red Planet, where the wind is high-pitched and faint, even a symphony orchestra will sound as thin as cheap gruel.
~ Seth Shostak
Air
Anyone
Attention
Cheap
Could
Dense
Earth
Even
Faint
Get
Hear
Hundred
Hundred Times
Less
Mars
Orchestra
Planet
Really
Red
Scream
Someone
Sound
Spare
Strain
Symphony
Symphony Orchestra
Than
Thin
Times
Where
Will
Wind
You
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Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people.
~ Seth Shostak
American
Average
Average American
Environment
Every
Household
Human
Indispensable
Infected
Living
Living Room
More
Once
People
Room
Sets
Television
Than
Typecast
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One of the jovian moons, Europa, is coated with twice as much liquid water as is sloshing around our planet.
~ Seth Shostak
Around
Liquid
Much
Our
Our Planet
Planet
Twice
Water
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Our brains are continuing to evolve, and perhaps a few tens of thousands of years from now, our descendants will walk around with five pound brains, allowing them insights that we can't imagine.
~ Seth Shostak
Allowing
Around
Brains
Continuing
Descendants
Evolve
Few
Five
Imagine
Insights
Now
Our
Perhaps
Pound
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Them
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Walk
Will
Years
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Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.
~ Seth Shostak
Artificial
Behind
Believe
Capability
Century
Computers
Decades
Develop
Double
Few
Handful
Happens
Hardly
Leave
Machines
Most
Only
Our
Outrageous
Quickly
Scales
Successfully
Thinking
Time
Two
Us
Will
Within
Years
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Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape. This helps us to recognize prey and predators.
~ Seth Shostak
Been
Brains
Complex
Evolution
Find
Helps
Hundred
Landscape
Million
Million Years
Our
Outlines
Predators
Prey
Recognize
Us
Wired
Years
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People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.' But on the other hand, movies are instrumental and influential in getting young people interested in science.
~ Seth Shostak
Afternoon
Getting
Go
Hand
Hope
Influential
Instrumental
Interested
Learn
Mechanics
Movies
Other
People
Quantum
Quantum Mechanics
Science
Some
Thinking
You
Young
Young People
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Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any world that aspires to a rich diversity of life.
~ Seth Shostak
Any
Currently
Diversity
Life
Mars
Might
Planets
Plate
Requirement
Rich
Scarcely
Sport
Venus
World
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Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth's temperatures would cool dozens of degrees below your comfort zone.
~ Seth Shostak
Atmosphere
Back
Below
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Continents
Cool
Cycle
Degrees
Destruction
Dissolved
Dozens
Earth
Floors
Havoc
Movement
Ocean
Oceans
Plate
Slow
Speed
Temperatures
Without
Would
Your
Zone
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Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy.
~ Seth Shostak
Billions
Could
Galaxy
Gravitational
Hundreds
In Other Words
Least
Numerous
Occasional
Orphan
Other
Our
Planets
Recent
Results
Stars
Study
Suggest
Through
Unknown
Who
Words
Worlds
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Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics. Stars and planets were cooked up as huge clouds of matter collapsed and coalesced.
~ Seth Shostak
Bang
Big
Big Bang
Clouds
Collapsed
Cooked
Established
Everything
Explanations
Figure
Huge
Inevitable
Laboratory
Matter
Once
Physics
Planets
Prefer
Scientists
See
Stars
Subject
Tests
Today
Up
Were
Who
Wrinkles
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Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter in Florida, and in 2008, NASA beamed a Beatles song to the North Star (Polaris), on the assumption that any putative Polarians would appreciate the Fab Four's 1960s-genre compositions.
~ Seth Shostak
Alien
Any
Appreciate
Assumption
Beatles
Broadcast
Cards
Florida
Four
Greeting
Hardly
Idea
Messages
NASA
New
New Idea
North
Sending
Song
Space
Star
Would
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Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts.
~ Seth Shostak
Accumulate
Baked
Beasts
Been
Build
Case
Concept
Endlessly
Experience
Experiment
Founded
Has-Been
Knowledge
Our
Past
Progress
Rather
Relive
Renaissance
Science
Separates
Since
Society
Than
Through
Us
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Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered them incapable of reproducing within their own species. But do extraterrestrial infants toddle through your neighborhood?
~ Seth Shostak
Alien
Apparently
Bike
Breed
Come
Extraterrestrial
Here
Incapable
Infants
Much
Neighborhood
Own
Proposed
Pundits
Rendered
Riding
Similar
Some
Something
Species
Them
Through
Too
Too Much
Us
Within
Your
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Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks to warp drive and some winsome space cadets.
~ Seth Shostak
Cosmos
Descendants
Drive
Face-To-Face
Intelligent
Interact
Our
Premise
Some
Space
Species
Star
Thanks
Them
Trek
Warp
Will
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Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research area that uses sound as a probe of our home star.
~ Seth Shostak
Active
Area
Face
Home
Interior
Known
Largely
Looking
Our
Patterns
Probe
Research
Sound
Star
Studying
Uses
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Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to know.
~ Seth Shostak
About
Bang
Big
Big Bang
Everyone
Figure
Fortune
Happened
Just
Know
Like
Make
Nobody
Out
Sure
Why
Will
Would
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Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.
~ Seth Shostak
Brains
Build
Enough
Good
Inadequate
Just
Might
Our
Perhaps
Something
Sure
Understand
Universe
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Television is ephemeral, a fact that some will find reassuring. But earthlings will continue to pump the kilowatts into the ether. And eventually, when those signals have washed over a few hundred thousand star systems, someone may notice.
~ Seth Shostak
Continue
Ephemeral
Ether
Eventually
Fact
Few
Find
Hundred
May
Notice
Over
Pump
Reassuring
Signals
Some
Someone
Star
Systems
Television
Those
Thousand
Washed
Will
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