English II
Lab 3
Group 4
Go to the
following link: https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/amazon-reaches-for-the-stars/4566917.html
Part I Complete with the missing terms.
1. Amazon is in talks with
Chilean officials to store and ____________________ what is
called astrodata -- information gathered by the telescopes.
2. If an agreement is
reached, the company may be able to use the information to develop _______________
_______________
(AI) tools.
3. This means the
information would be stored over the internet instead of a computer
______________ _______________.
4. The government has yet
to provide details of the __________________possibilities.
5. Amazon has been talking
with Chile for two years about a possible _______________ ________________.
6. Smith was involved in
email exchanges between
7. _____________________ and Chilean officials
over the past six months. At the time, Smith was with AURA observatory, which
leads three of the U.S. financed telescope projects in Chile.
8. He said the Chilean
telescopes “can ______________________ from the cloud” by
easing the difficulty of dealing with information technology.
9. Many of the world’s
most powerful telescopes operate in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the _______________ _______________on earth.
10. They said there are
ways such data could help with more Earth- _________________ issues.
11. Pertuze spoke at an
event announcing Chile’s aim to build a __________________ observatory
on the cloud.
12. The Giant Magellan
Telescope is expected to give humans a ________________ of the
edge of the universe. The project will cost $1 billion to complete.
13. The huge device will
have seven round _____________________ that will be 24 meters
around.
14. The telescope and its
computer will make the Giant Magellan Telescope 10 times as
____________________________________________
as the American
space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Part II Answer these questions.
1.
What is Amazon hoping to store and mine?
2.
Why is Northern Chile considered a perfect place to
observe the night sky?
3.
When will Chile's Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
be fully operational?
4.
How much more accurate will the Giant Magellan
Telescope be than the Hubble Space Telescope?
Part III
Write a summary of about 150 words of the video.
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Part I
Amazon is in talks with Chilean officials to store and mine what is called astrodata -- information gathered by the telescopes.
2. If an agreement is reached, the company may be able to use the information to develop artificial intelligence
(AI) tools.
3. This means the information would be stored over the internet instead of a computer hard drive.
4. The government has yet to provide details of the astrodata possibilities.
5. Amazon has been talking with Chile for two years about a possible data center.
6. Smith was involved in email exchanges between AWS and Chilean officials over the past six months. At the time, Smith was with AURA observatory, which leads three of the U.S. financed telescope projects in Chile.
8. He said the Chilean telescopes “can benefit from the cloud” by easing the difficulty of dealing with information technology.
9. Many of the world’s most powerful telescopes operate in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the driest desert on earth.
10. They said there are ways such data could help with more Earth- bound issues.
11. Pertuze spoke at an event announcing Chile’s aim to build a virtual observatory on the cloud.
12. The Giant Magellan Telescope is expected to give humans a view of the edge of the universe. The project will cost $1 billion to complete.
13. The huge device will have seven round mirrors that will be 24 meters around.
14. The telescope and its computer will make the Giant Magellan Telescope 10 times as accurate as the American space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Part II
1. Amazon hopes to store and use information collected by huge space telescopes in the South American nation.
2. Because have clear skies, not much rain, and large areas without bright city lights.
3. It will be fully operational in 2022.
4. The telescope and its computer will make the Giant Magellan Telescope 10 times as accurate as the American space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Part III
The American company Amazon.com is one of the biggest businesses in the United States and around the world. Actually, the company is negotiating with the Chilean government on a plan to reach for the stars. The Reuters news agency reports that Amazon hopes to store and use information collected by huge space telescopes in the South American nation.
Amazon is in talks with Chilean officials to store and mine what is called astrodata -- information gathered by the telescopes. Chile government is planning to store all the information gathered from the telescopes and put it in a cloud computing system. But there is no actual information of which companies would have access to this cloud. Chris Smith said the negotiations have included talk about the possibility of Amazon Web Services (AWS) storing astrodata, but there isn't a clear announcement about it.
Why Chile? seventy percent of the money spent on astronomy in the world goes to Chile. Chris Smith said that within five years, three of the world’s four next-generation billion-dollar telescopes will be in the South American country.
Google also has a data center established in the country. Just last month, crews started work on the telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. The Giant Magellan Telescope is expected to give humans a view of the edge of the universe.
The huge device will have seven round mirrors that will be 24 meters around. The telescope and its computer will make the Giant Magellan Telescope 10 times as accurate as the American space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope.