シャドーイング練習: Neil deGrasse Tyson Blasts Maps For Making Africa Look Small I CLUB SHAY SHAY - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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The size of Africa on the map.
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Don't get me started.
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Africa is bigger than what they portray on the map, or they're smaller than what they portray on the map.
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On flat maps, there are distortions in the north and in the south.
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Okay.
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And Africa straddles the equator.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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So on those maps, the most accurate-sized things are along the equator.
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Okay.
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As you move away, things get artificially bigger because of the projection.
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And North America looks huge.
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Do you realize you can fit the continental United States, you can fit five of them into Africa.
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Five.
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Wow.
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And we make a big deal of what state you're from.
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Oh, you're just from Africa.
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You're not going to take the time to learn what countries are in Africa?
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Like, really?
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Yeah.
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You learn every state in the union, and Africa can fit five of those. So, yeah.
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So it's not that Africa is too small or large.
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It's that North America and Europe are distortedly large relative to Africa.
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Oh.
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Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, they are in a race to get the space.
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Have they called you and said, hey, doc, help us out?
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they don't need my help the quickest safest way they don't
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need my help plus they're doing different things bezos he's he's got this you go up
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and you come back right right elon can actually put things into orbit two very different spaces right
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and uh uh bezos is how long is
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that right 20 minutes at most something like
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that you don't need bathrooms on board unless you have bladder problems right
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if you have bladder problems you shouldn't be going up you're going up in space right uh whereas
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Because Elon puts you into orbit.
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And he has a much more significant space operation going on than Bezos or Branson or the billionaire boys space race.
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So yeah, I'm not eager to go into, quote, space.
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Right.
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Because to everybody who asked me that, they're talking about these going up and coming back.
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Right.
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If you shrunk Earth to the size of a schoolroom globe, I ask you, how high above that would you find the International Space Station?
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Just take a guess.
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A couple of miles.
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From the schoolroom globe?
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Yeah.
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OK.
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The space station is 4 tenths of an inch above the surface.
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That's it?
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Bezos and Branson when they send people up in their little rocket?
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Yeah.
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The thickness of two dimes above Earth's surface, if Earth were a schoolroom globe.
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As an astrophysicist, I cannot embrace that as space.
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Right.
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Space, send me somewhere.
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Moon, Mars, beyond.
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Yeah.
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Then I'll go.
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Well, Musk wants to populate Mars.
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You interested in that?
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Well, yeah, provided he sends his mother first.
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You're not going to be the guinea pig.
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I don't want to be anybody a guinea pig.
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Yeah.
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And I would go to visit.
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I wouldn't go to stay.
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Do you realize Antarctica is warmer, warmer, balmier, and wetter than any place on Mars?
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Yet nobody's lining up to build condos in Antarctica.
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Yeah.
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So what is the...
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And I guess I'm asking the wrong person.
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But what's the fascination about putting or having people go to another planet, go to have people to be out of space?
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What is that fascination?
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To go where no man has gone before.
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Star Trek, huh?
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Just because you don't feel it doesn't mean others wouldn't.
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You think people would actually want to live?
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There was already a company called Mars One that would get people to sign up for one-way trips to Mars.
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They went out of business because they couldn't raise money enough to do it
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because it's way cheaper to send somebody there one way than to bring them back. Of course.
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So it'd be like the old Mayflower, you know?
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Yeah.
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And I spoke with the guy, the entrepreneur.
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He was Dutch, by the way, which was a little surreal
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because the Dutch East India Trading Company came right behind Columbus to sell you stuff in the new world.
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So I spoke to him and I said, are people interested in this?
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Yes, there's like a waiting list.
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For my podcast, we interviewed one of the people who had signed up.
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Kind of geeky guy, you know, my type.
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And I said, well, why do you want to go?
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Oh, because it's a fascinating, it's a frontier.
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I'd love to.
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And you're not coming back, you're okay with it?
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Yeah.
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And I said, what does your wife think about this?
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And he said, oh, she's encouraging it.
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I didn't want to give him a lesson in relationships.
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Yeah, but yeah, she over you, bro.
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In that moment, I didn't want to be the one.
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Yes.
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But she's over him, right?
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Right.
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Okay.
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So here's the thing.
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When the Mayflower landed in the New World?
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Yes.
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And they got off the ship?
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Yeah.
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They could breathe the air.
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Yes.
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If there's a broken part of the ship, the trees in the New World are made of wood.
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Right.
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And they could repair it.
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There were other human beings waiting to feed them when they landed.
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That was a one-way trip.
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But the destination was very different than from Mars, where Martians aren't waiting to feed them.
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Right.
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They can't breathe the air.
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There are no trees.
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Not that you would repair a spaceship with wood.
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Right.
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But so, yeah, I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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What is the correlation?
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There seems to be a correlation, or I think there's a correlation, between geniuses and how functioning autism.
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I don't think that's it.
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I would say, by the way, one out of six of my colleagues is probably on the spectrum.
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There may be a correlation, but I have an easier explanation for it.
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Okay?
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If you're on the spectrum, you could focus like it's nobody's business.
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Okay, because you don't have other people distracting you.
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Yes.
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You're not showing up on podcasts.
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Yes You're not hosting your own podcast, right?
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You're not the life of the party, right?
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That you're not going to any party at all at all.
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So another genius Who might be socialized right is not so focused as the unsocialized person on the spectrum.
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Mm-hmm.
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So, it's easy for me to think instead
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that social geniuses never ascend to the highest heights they could have intellectually because they're too distracted living their life.
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Okay.
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So, whereas on the spectrum, you could be in the lab and forget to pee.
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Right.
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Your personal hygiene doesn't even come up as a priority, given how focused you are.
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Einstein.
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Do you believe he was on the spectrum?
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You look back now, because we didn't have that vocabulary back then.
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We didn't know what to call people.
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Plenty of people I grew up with, it's easy to retroactively declare, they're on the spectrum.
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I don't know.
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I don't think he was.
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because he had an awareness and a sensitivity to, well, I don't want to generalize everybody on the autism spectrum.
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It's so, the symptoms are so varied.
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But in terms of seeing what people think and feel and do, when he was at Princeton, Yes.
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Marion Anderson came through town.
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She couldn't stay in the Nassau Inn, which is the hotel in town.
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He put her up.
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He put her up.
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Black opera singer.
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Yes.
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He's written about the plight of black people,
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and he noticed some similarities between the plight of Jews in Hitler Europe and the play to Black people in America,
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and made these correlations.
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You have to be aware of the human condition and the interplay
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and the geopolitics on a level that I've not seen deeper, autistically affected people manifest.
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I just haven't seen it.
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But I don't claim to be an expert there. But, yeah.
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このレッスンでは、アフリカの地図上の大きさに関する誤解について、Neil deGrasse Tysonの話に耳を傾けます。受講者は、アフリカの面積や、地図の投影がどのように物のサイズを歪めるかを理解し、科学的な議論を通して英語のスピーキング力を向上させることができます。また、宇宙旅行についての彼の見解も取り上げられ、異なる宇宙関連のビジネスについても学ぶ機会となるでしょう。

重要な語彙とフレーズ

  • Africa - アフリカ
  • maps - 地図
  • distortion - 歪み
  • equator - 赤道
  • orbit - 軌道
  • space station - 宇宙ステーション
  • projection - 投影
  • continent - 大陸

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