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Space aliens and extraterrestrials have long been popular subjects of Hollywood movies and science fiction literature. But the idea of intelligent life in outer space is no longer limited to fiction. For the last 50 years, scientists and astronomers

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(十一)月

Space Mysteries 太空搜密 by Kevin Lustig The universe is a big place. In all of that space, humans have discovered many things that both fascinate and mystify us. Tune in to the National Geographic Channel this month to learn about some intriguin

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Is anyone out there? For over 40 years scientists have been searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but theyve found nothing. Now the new Allen Telescope Array, a string of 350 radio telescopes, is being built 300 miles north of San Francisco a

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2008年

Is anyone out there? For over 40 years scientists have been searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but theyve found nothing. Now the new Allen Telescope Array, a string of 350 radio telescopes, is being built 300 miles north of San Francisco a

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Fighting Malaria in Africa From Your Home ComputerBy Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, July 24, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Personal computers can spend a

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By Michael Bowman Montevideo 10 March 2007 Thousands of Uruguayans took to the streets of Montevideo to protest President Bush's arrival in their country late Friday. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from the Uruguayan capital, where Mr. Bush is making t

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By Franz Wild Abidjan 06 July 2006 People from several sides of Ivory Coast's conflict are disappointed at the results of a meeting between the government and rebels that was chaired by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. Franz Wild reports for VOA f

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 23 January 2008 Thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip poured into an Egyptian border town, early Wednesday, after militants blew a large hole in the border wall overnight that separates Gaza from Egypt. VOA's Jim Teepl

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Radio telescopes are not enough, says SETI scientist Art Chimes | Washington, DC 16 April 2010 When the search for extra-terrestrial life began a half-century ago, it was assumed that technological civilizations would broadcast more and more signals

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Space aliens and extraterrestrials have long been popular subjects of Hollywood movies and science fiction literature. But the idea of intelligent life in outer space is no longer limited to fiction. 外星人和天外来客长期以来一直是好莱坞

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Ok, imagine you are at the beach, in order to figure out if there are fish in the ocean, you dip an empty glass into the water and look inside. No fish in the glass? Well, there must be no fish in the ocean. Not too logical, is it? But that's exactly

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And clearly, we are trying to find evidence of ET, and we are trying to do that by looking for a signal, in whats called the electromagnetic spectrum, which is a fancy way of saying the radio dial, at least for us. Let me turn on my radio here, okay,

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Meanwhile, back at the AAAS, ET has not phoned Earth. SETI, situated near San Jose, has not found alien intelligence. So they are, controversially, going for METI, sending messages out instead. Doug Vakoch from the SETI Institute at the press confere

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By Kari Barber Dakar 03 February 2007 Sierra Leone, which was recently forgiven more than $1.5 billion in debt, is now looking at how to spend the extra funds. Some in the impoverished nation say they worry the government will mishandle money set as

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SETI研究员赛斯.肖斯塔克打赌说我们会在接下来的24年里找到外星生物,否则他就免费请你喝杯咖啡。在TED的加州圣何塞拍摄点,他解释了新的科学技术和概率学规律是如何证明寻找外星人很可

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 11 January 2007 Some victims of last year's toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast are staging a hunger strike to demand promised government compensation, while others are joining lawsuits. At least 10 people died, and thousands wer

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Thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip poured into an Egyptian border town, early Wednesday, after militants blew a large hole in the border wall overnight that separates Gaza from Egypt. 成千上万的巴勒斯坦人星期三早些时候从加

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Science and technology 科学技术 Searching for aliens 寻找外星人 The wow factor 防止再次意外 A new citizen-science project will improve the chances of finding ET 一个新的平民科学项目可以增大找到地外智慧的机会 EVER

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Are we alone in the universe? Its a question astronomers have pondered ever since we discovered Earth was not the only planet in the cosmos.我们是宇宙中唯一的智慧生命吗?自发现地球并非宇宙中唯一的星球以来,这个问题就

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

E. T. Phoned. Now What? 外星人来电 Suppose one day scientists pick up a transmission they think is generated by alien s . Now what? Do we build a landing strip and break out the welcome wagon? Well heres the thing about picking up alien broadcas

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abnormal polarization
adherence
allosteric interaction
ashburtonite
assistant pilot
asyndetic, asyndetical
attention key
Belphegor
bracket cap
bubble ladder
bulk sth out
bulk-channel charge-coupled device
bureaucratic capitalism
Caesarea Philippi
centering rod
chaloub
chart system
chlroacetophenone
cloudish
cold-brittleness
collaborative CRM
cronizing
crude oil storage
Cyclobalanopsis pinbianensis
dahanu
Daledan
dark-siding
deep space
design of experiment
detachment
devil's pudding
differential photo-electronic spectrometer
finitor
flexible conductor
genus Pelargonium
graminose
graphite wool
hatching trough
hauling equipment
heavy consumption
humourousness
hydrofoil lift
infinite multiplets
inventory cutoff date
ithiel
ixcer
judicial cognizance
kick something into touch
linomat
little-ease
lobelia erinus
Lord Bishop
love scene
masons level
meningioma of cerebello-pontine angle
Millstone Point
mixogram
mungers
musquaro l. (muskwaro l.)
nationalism of banks
nerve nucleus
non-metal gitology
of a surety
ordovicians
overcompounded
particolour
plain bearing pillow block
pluriliteracy
pneumatic single-pen recorder
populin
receive us
recessus metathalamicus
registered design
rose-hip
rotor-tip speed
runoff retardance coefficient
Samern
satellite(SAT)
scrap dealers
self-heal
semi-skimmed milk
Shasta L
shin pad
society of dyers and colourists(sdc)
solar time
Sorbus wallichii
spring carrier arm
stink bell
Sverker
SwiftKey
Thermo colour
three-parameter solid
tooth fundament
triplopia
underimagined
understerilization
Vaticanologists
veneration
Viansin
wilderman
with a capital letter
wodman