쉐도잉 연습: The Goofiest Space Experiment In History - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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Did you know that this is the biggest object humans have ever sent into space?
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It may not look like it, but this is actually a 20 kilometer long piece of wire.
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That's as tall as the Empire State Building.
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Well, 45 of them.
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But what's he doing there?
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It must be the universe's longest string telephone!
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Hello?
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Hello?
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Prepare for invasion of Earth- Oh, that's not good.
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To actually understand what it's for, we need to look at Faraday's Law of Induction.
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If I move this loop of wire through this magnetic field, a small current is produced.
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You can increase the power generated by using more wire and moving it faster.
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In fact, stick a propeller on the end and now you have yourself a wind turbine.
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This concept made the big brains at NASA go...
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You know how, like, the Earth is like, basically a giant magnet?
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Yeah, bro, totally.
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What if we use like.. a super long wire, bro?
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Huh?
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So 400 million dollars later, this is the plan they came up with.
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Earth has big magnetic field, so we send spaceship with big wire.
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But Earth magnetic field very weak, so we send even bigger wire.
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Then we move spaceships super fast to generate power.
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Then we rule the galaxy.
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The system was called the TSS-1, or Tethered Satellite System.
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1. It had a base satellite, a sub-satellite, and a 20 kilometer long conductive tether connecting them both acting as the wire.
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Now you may have noticed something wrong here.
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In our original example we used a loop of wire because electricity needs a closed loop to flow, and this tether is not a loop.
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But electricity is really just the flow of electrons, and turns out there's a layer of the Earth's atmosphere called the ionosphere, which has a bunch of free electrons just floating around.
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So using a fancy electron collector and emitter, NASA designed a system to create electron flow using the ionosphere, completing the loop.
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In 1992, TSS-1 was launched aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.
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It successfully reached the ionosphere, and it was finally time to unfurl the 20 kilometer long tether.
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Uh, Houston, we have a problem.
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This screw isn't gonna cut it.
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Okay, swap them out then.
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Hey, we should test everything again to make sure it works, right?
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Nah, it should be good.
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It was not good.
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That beefy screw caused the tether reel to jam up but a whopping 260 meters.
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Pretty much 1% of its maximum length.
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Moral of the story, always test and retest after making any design changes.
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Quite the expensive lesson to learn, but surely they'll get it next time, right?
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Right!
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Ooh, we made it past 260 meters this time! and the tether successfully deployed to its full length of 20 kilom- Um,
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Houston, we have a pro- It was so close, but when the tether reached 19.7 kilometers,
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a small defect in the insulation near the bottom led to a large arc that melted it.
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And that's how we ended up here.
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A giant space noodle floating in the sky.
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It was sighted all over the world, like in Australia, in Hawaii, in Southern USA...
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And a few weeks later, it re-entered the atmosphere, cooking the space noodle once and for all.
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But the big question is, did the experiment work though?
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Well, NASA managed to collect some data, and the tether generated almost 3.5 kilowatts of electrical power.
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Enough to run three toasters at once!
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Okay, that doesn't seem like much, but for context, most small satellites only need one toaster amount of power.
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But despite this, the tethered satellite system missions were abandoned.
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And the results weren't publicized.
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Well, apart from being roasted by the media.
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I guess it is kind of embarrassing to have your mistake plastered in the sky for the whole world to see, but I really hope they try again.
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Because I imagine a night sky in the future where space noodles hang from every spaceship and satellite.
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Hashtag, bring back space noodles.
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Please, I haven't seen the sun in years.
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See you next time!
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이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트

이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 61개와 단어 678개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 4:33입니다. 화자는 분당 약 149단어의 일정한 속도로 말해서 섀도잉하기에 편한 속도입니다. 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속하는 단어가 76%뿐이라 어휘가 어려운 편입니다.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에 나오는 익혀 둘 만한 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어발음뜻
wire 명사/ˈwaɪɚ/철사
satellite 명사/ˈsætəlaɪ̯t/위성
loop 명사/luːp/고리
magnetic 형용사/mæɡˈnɛtɪk/자석의
atmosphere 명사/ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/대기, 대기권
meter 명사/ˈmitəɹ/계량기
electron 명사/ɪˈlɛk.tɹɑn/전자
lesson 명사/ˈlɛs.ən/수업, 과
telephone 명사/ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/전화
layer 명사/ˈleɪ̯ɚ/층
string 명사/stɹɪŋ/끈
connect 동사/kəˈnɛkt/잇다, 연결하다
experiment 명사/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/실험
collect 동사/ˈkɑlɪkt/수집하다
galaxy 명사/ˈɡæl.ək.si/은하, 은하계

이 영상의 문법

화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.

문형영상 속 표현
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점is produced · was called · was launched
현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때have ever sent · haven't seen

주의할 발음

화자는 doesn't, gonna, haven't 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 6번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

  • “sh”와 “zh” 소리: invasion /ɪnˈveɪʒən/, hashtag /ˈhæʃˌtæɡ/, insulation /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/
  • 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: successfully /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/, electricity /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/, electrical /ɪˈlɛktɹɪkəl/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, insulation /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/

이 영상으로 연습하는 방법

  1. 먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
  2. 보통 속도로 한 문장씩 섀도잉하고, 화자의 리듬과 맞을 때까지 반복합니다.
  3. 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, wire, satellite, loop 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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