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The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid - one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence - hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite.
Seth Shostak
Natural
Solar
Moon
Took
Asteroid
Our
Solar System
Earth
Churning
System
Cosmic
Collision
More
Countless
Ball
Were
Years
Years Ago
Existence
Infant
Debris
Very
Hit
Than
Place
Billion
Large
Satellite
Four
Even if the Moon didn't exist - even if it had been vaporized billions of years ago by cantankerous Klingons - there would still be (somewhat lower) tides raised by the Sun. For creatures dependent on the oceans' ebb and flow, life could go on.
Seth Shostak
Life
Moon
Sun
Would
Somewhat
Could
Had
Tides
Still
Oceans
Go
Been
Years
Exist
Years Ago
Dependent
Lower
Billions
Even
Creatures
Flow
Raised
Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy over the Viking lander experiments of nearly 40 years ago, there's still no Exhibit A that points unequivocally to biology in our own back yard.
Seth Shostak
Own
Biology
Back
Despite
Our
Possibly
Atmosphere
Martian
Points
Long-Standing
Puzzling
Over
Yard
Still
Exhibit
Years
Years Ago
Unequivocally
Controversy
Experiments
Nearly
Gas
Suggestions
The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass some honest-to-goodness catastrophe. For example, 700 million years ago, Earth underwent a planet-wide deep freeze, with ice covering the oceans from the poles to the equator.
Seth Shostak
Life
Time
Great
Example
Enough
Earth
Has-Been
Some
Something
Catastrophe
Over
Poles
For Example
Freeze
Oceans
Encompass
Underwent
Been
Years
Covering
Years Ago
Ice
Span
Billion
Deep
Million
Million Years
Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But only in the last 200 thousand years has a species arisen that can fathom the laws of nature and build hardware able to signal its presence.
Seth Shostak
Life
Nature
Build
Swimming
Consider
Fathom
Earth
Signal
Thousand
Thousand Years
Able
Life Forms
Laws
Only
Arisen
Years
Years Ago
Close
Soaring
Forms
Billion
Species
Presence
Four
Hardware
Last
I discovered the Four Seasons brand many years ago. There is a certain magic.
Shahid Khan
Magic
Years
Discovered
Years Ago
Brand
Certain
Many
Seasons
Four
People will stop me on the street, and they know - Jaguars. It's a certain street recognition we didn't have years ago.
Shahid Khan
Me
People
Will
Recognition
Know
Years
Years Ago
Stop
Certain
Street
I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety several years ago, so it's something I've been battling most of my life.
Shannon Purser
Life
Depression
Anxiety
My Life
Several
Battling
Something
Most
Diagnosed
Been
Years
Years Ago
When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe.
Sharon Kay Penman
Women
First
Research
Elsewhere
Status
Laws
More
Greater
Welsh
Years
Years Ago
Discovery
Began
Wales
Than
Moved
Europe
Fascinated
Twenty
Enjoyed
Here
Medieval
Dragons
There are times when I'm super-overwhelmed, and everything feels like it's hitting me in the face at once, but I think what's keeping me calm, and who I am by staying true to myself, is my whole family being so supportive and keeping me grounded. They treat me the exact same way they treated me years and years ago.
Shawn Mendes
Myself
Family
Me
Treat
Face
Calm
Think
Everything
Once
Way
Exact
Staying
True
Feels
Supportive
Like
Am
Years
Years Ago
Years And Years
Times
Same
Hitting
Being
Grounded
Who
Whole
Keeping
Treated
As a wrestling fan, I can remember years ago seeing my first Street Fight between Wahoo McDaniel and Tully Blanchard, and I remember thinking to myself that I will really think I've made it when I can come to the ring in jeans and cowboy boots with my hands taped and stuff like that.
Shawn Michaels
Myself
Fight
Remember
Will
Made
First
Think
Thinking
Boots
Ring
Seeing
Wrestling
Between
Stuff
Come
Like
Years
Years Ago
Cowboy
Hands
Fan
Really
Jeans
Street
Years ago, I was always serious, and now I chuckle and make jokes to create a calm environment because 'WrestleMania' can be a high-pressure atmosphere.
Shawn Michaels
Jokes
Calm
Chuckle
Atmosphere
WrestleMania
Environment
Make
Because
Always
Years
Years Ago
Create
Serious
Now
I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.
Shelley Berman
Smoking
Over
Well
Years
Years Ago
Quit
Twenty
I actually started making tank tops under the name Kitty Moon many, many years ago, but I just didn't have the time to fully devote to it. Now that we don't go on the road as much, I have a better ability to focus on a line; that's why I started Total Skull.
Sheri Moon Zombie
Time
Better
Focus
Moon
Tops
Ability
Total
Kitty
Road
Name
Devote
Making
Tank
Go
Line
Years
Years Ago
Just
Much
Skull
Fully
Many
Now
Why
Actually
Started
Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.
Shimon Peres
You
People
Stream
Language
Swimming
Bit
East
Nobody
Know
Look
Israel
Were
Continue
Exile
Years
Years Ago
Existed
Maybe
Middle
Middle East
Against
Little
Little Bit
Speaks
Swim
Original
Started
The United Nations was founded 70 years ago, at the end of World War II. Since that time, Japan has steadfastly walked the path of peace and rebuilt a nation. And, since the mid-1950s onward, we have actively worked to share our experience of development with other nations, especially in Asia.
Shinzo Abe
War
Time
Peace
Experience
World
Path
Nation
United Nations
Other
Our
Onward
Share
Development
Since
Years
Years Ago
End
Walked
Nations
Japan
Asia
Worked
Actively
United
Rebuilt
Founded
World War
World War II
In 1957, which is now 57 years ago, my grandfather and then-Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi welcomed Prime Minister Menzies as the first Australian Prime Minister to visit Japan after World War II and drove the conclusion of the Japan-Australia Agreement on Commerce.
Shinzo Abe
War
World
First
Visit
Minister
Prime
Drove
Prime Minister
Welcomed
Conclusion
Years
Years Ago
Australian
Commerce
After
Which
Japan
Grandfather
Agreement
Now
World War
World War II
I discovered the foundations of Ayurveda and Siddha, and more importantly I found that all of Western control systems engineering principles had actually been discovered by the great ancient Indian sages, 5,000 years ago.
Shiva Ayyadurai
Great
Control
Engineering
Ancient
Systems
Indian
More
Had
Principles
Importantly
Been
Years
Discovered
Years Ago
Western
Found
Foundations
Actually
When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.
Simon Callow
Doctor
National
Few
Back
Ran
Topped
Feature
Feature Film
New
Doctor Who
Readers
Years
Years Ago
Poll
Decided
Newspaper
Ask
Should
Who
Film
Bring
As you get older what you think was 10 years ago was actually 15 years ago.
Simon Fowler
You
Older
Think
Years
Years Ago
Get
Actually
Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century has never left me.
Siri Hustvedt
Time
Me
First
Painting
Saw
Emotional
Never
First Time
Years
Years Ago
Left
Century
Works
Whose
Deeply
No I.D. is actually married to my cousin, and my cousin is my manager. So I met him when she met him many years ago. I was in the studio and he hooked me up with a bunch of producers that he knew.
Snoh Aalegra
Me
Met
Hooked
Married
He
Studio
Knew
She
Him
Cousin
Years
Years Ago
Up
Bunch
Manager
Producers
Many
Actually
I wonder what it was like to be an actor years ago. We're so respected now and I don't think it does us any good. We used to be vagabonds. I want to be a vagabond!
Sophie Thompson
Good
Think
Respected
Like
Does
Years
Years Ago
Wonder
Any
Want
Us
Used
Now
Actor
I self-deprecate. When I first got here two years ago, I didn't realise that in America you can't go into the room and put yourself down.
Sophie Winkleman
You
Yourself
First
Down
Put
Got
Go
Years
Years Ago
America
Realise
Room
Here
Two
I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle: people trying to connect with each other.
Spike Jonze
Life
Struggle
People
Other
Like
Know
Years
Years Ago
Trying
Same
Connect
Each
Imagine
Some women are convinced that they are the same size they were 20 years ago. They also wear clothes that are too big in an effort to hide their body. Both cases are unflattering and work against your body. Some women are in denial about changing.
Stacy London
Work
Women
Hide
Denial
Big
Clothes
Too
Changing
Wear
Some
About
Cases
Both
Also
Were
Years
Years Ago
Women Are
Effort
Same
Size
Against
Convinced
Body
Your
Your Body
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