Conversation Class: Tuesday, 10/27

1.) News: personal, national, international?

A. http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/10/26/who-meat-cancer?cmpid=foodinc-fb
B. (Video clip)
2.) The Konkuk Bulletin highlights, especially pages 14~15 and 34~35
3.) Steves presentation: Space!
4.) Talkeoke: scene from Interstellar
A. Brand (woman)
B. Cooper (main man)
C. Doyle (supporting man)
D. TARS (robot)
5.) Activities:
A. 3-minute conversations: Q&A!
B. Tell that story!
C. Alphabet shopping

Most Earth-Like Worlds Have Yet to Be Born,

According to Theoretical Study Oct. 20, 2015
Earth came early to the party in the evolving universe. According to a new theoretical study, when our solar
system was born 4.6 billion years ago only eight percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever form in
the universe existed. And, the party won't be over when the sun burns out in another 6 billion years. The bulk of
those planets - 92 percent - have yet to be born.
This conclusion is based on an assessment of data collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the
prolific planet-hunting Kepler space observatory.
"Our main motivation was understanding the Earth's place in the context of the rest of the universe," said study
author Peter Behroozi of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, "Compared to all
the planets that will ever form in the universe, the Earth is actually quite early."

This is an artist's impression of innumerable Earth-like planets that have yet to be

born over the next trillion years in the evolving universe.
Credits: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

Looking far away and far back in time, Hubble has given astronomers a "family album" of galaxy observations
that chronicle the universe's star formation history as galaxies grew. The data show that the universe was
making stars at a fast rate 10 billion years ago, but the fraction of the universe's hydrogen and helium gas that
was involved was very low. Today, star birth is happening at a much slower rate than long ago, but there is so
much leftover gas available that the universe will keep cooking up stars and planets for a very long time to come.
"There is enough remaining material [after the big bang] to produce even more planets in the future, in the Milky

Way and beyond," added co-investigator Molly Peeples of STScI.

Kepler's planet survey indicates that Earth-sized planets in a star's habitable zone, the perfect distance that
could allow water to pool on the surface, are ubiquitous in our galaxy. Based on the survey, scientists predict that
there should be 1 billion Earth-sized worlds in the Milky Way galaxy at present, a good portion of them presumed
to be rocky. That estimate skyrockets when you include the other 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
This leaves plenty of opportunity for untold more Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone to arise in the future.
The last star isn't expected to burn out until 100 trillion years from now. That's plenty of time for literally anything
to happen on the planet landscape.
The researchers say that future Earths are more likely to appear inside giant galaxy clusters and also in dwarf
galaxies, which have yet to use up all their gas for building stars and accompanying planetary systems. By
contrast, our Milky Way galaxy has used up much more of the gas available for future star formation.
A big advantage to our civilization arising early in the evolution of the universe is our being able to use powerful
telescopes like Hubble to trace our lineage from the big bang through the early evolution of galaxies. The
observational evidence for the big bang and cosmic evolution, encoded in light and other electromagnetic
radiation, will be all but erased away 1 trillion years from now due to the runaway expansion of space. Any farfuture civilizations that might arise will be largely clueless as to how or if the universe began and evolved.
The results will appear in the October 20 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space
Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space
Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is
operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, in Washington.
For images and more information visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/hubble
http://hubblesite.org/news/2015/35

Donna Weaver / Ray Villard

Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland

dweaver@stsci.edu / villard@stsci.edu
Conversation Class: Tuesday, 10/27
1.) News: personal, national, international?
A. http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/10/29/2015102901785.html
B. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/10/116_189701.html
C. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3284587/Learn-dead-day-Suicidal-people-locked-coffins-bizarredeath-experience-schools-South-Korea-40-people-kill-day.html
D. http://usuncut.com/climate/bill-gates-only-socialism-can-save-us-from-climate-change/
2.) Joys presentation: Greed & capitalism
A. Short version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZdclzeF2ZU&feature=youtu.be
B. Long version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mII9NZ8MMVM&feature=youtu.be

C.

DISCUSSION POINTS
. What if this dog (named 'Hope') is one of your family members? Wife? Child?
. Did you know the FRB (federal reserve bank) is private before watching this clip?
.Who do you think owns the FRB?
. Have you ever heard these names? Nathan Rothschild, Rockefeller, JP Morgan But you know
CitiBank, Chase, First Bank... - Who do you think is supreme master?
. Recently, have you bought anything without necessity? What was it?
. How can we resist our greed?
"If everyone is satisfied and happy, then capitalism will shut down, but this cycle of money never stops
because the more you get, the more you want."
3.) Activities:
A. 3-minute conversations: Q&A!
B. Tell that story!

Tell that story!

Seasons Questions

Whats the most refreshing thing on a hot summer day?

Whats the best thing to do on a cold winter day?

Where is the nicest place you have been to in fall?

What is your favorite thing to eat or drink in winter?

Do you prefer summer or winter activities?

What do you like to do in spring?

Did your family take seasonal vacations?

Do you feel like fall and spring are getting shorter?

Which season are you most active in?

Is it better to live where there are four seasons or where one season takes up most of the year?

If you could make a holiday, what would it be like? What traditions would it have? What would people eat on
your holiday?

What is the biggest holiday for your family?

Do you wish there were more or less holidays? Why?

If you had to get rid of a holiday, which would you get rid of? Why?

What is your favorite holiday?

What kinds of food do you usually eat on your favorite holiday?

Does having a day off for a holiday increase or decrease productivity at work?

What holidays have been over commercialized?

If some of the lesser known holidays were commercialized, what would the commercialization look like?

What do you know about the history of some holidays?

Technology Questions

What is your favorite piece of technology that you own?

What piece of technology is really frustrating to use?

What was the best invention of the last 50 years?

Does technology simplify life or make it more complicated?

Which emerging technology are you most excited about?

What problems will technology solve in the next 5 years? What problems will it create?

Will technology save the human race or destroy it?

What piece of technology would look like magic or a miracle to people in medieval Europe?

Can you think of any technology that has only made the world worse? How about a piece of technology that
has only made the world better?

What technology from a science fiction movie would you most like to have?

What scifi movie or book would you like the future to be like?

What do you think the next big technological advance will be?