2018-12-19 TED: full talk and discussion

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes
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p. 20 - Watch the TED talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/brian_cox_why_we_need_the_explorers) and answer the questions
1 b
2 It probably means there’s liquid water under the surface, and that could mean there’s life.
3 b e
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
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p. 21 - What kinds of economic contributions might the Apollo program have made for the US?
Watch the rest of the talk to check your answer.
Then, together with the paragraph, put the scientific discoveries in order.
3 -> 1 -> 6 -> 5 -> 2 -> 4
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What does Cox mean by “curiosity-based science”? Why is it valuable?
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What other things or places (besides space) do we still have left to explore?
What other discoveries or technologies might come from such exploration?
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http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/earth/pale-blue-dot.html

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”