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• Товарознавство продовольчих товарів

The UFO: myth or reality?

1. People have always been interested in contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations. A lot of books were written and a lot of films were shot to make one of the most thrilling dreams of humanity true.

2. When receiving some signals of sufficient strength people are at once getting ready for welcoming our brethren in intellect. How disappointed they are when it turns out that it was just a hindrance from somebody’s cell-phone.

3. Our science and technology haven’t yet attained the level of technological development high enough to build a powerful search system that will help us to set up a contact with civilizations of distant worlds.

4. But, all in all, nowadays many people consider themselves to be eyewitnesses, alleging encounters between humans, usually themselves, and visitors from the outer space.

5. People claim to see disco-like flying saucers, with spherical antennas, slight protuberances and small openings covered with membranes.

6. But some are sure that the stellar ships they saw were ellipsis-shaped, brightly lighted objects that darted back and forth.

7. More than that, some people believe that they took part in a close encounter of the third kind, being taken aboard a UFO.

8. Scientists consider 80% of such information to be a delusion. People often take some conventional things for a UFO. Some objects, like aircraft or weather balloons, together with bizarre atmosphere events like shimmering of sunlight on a wing of an airplane, can easily be taken for something strange even by a specialist.

9. And sometimes information about UFOs is simply a hoax or pure fiction because of love for sensations. Such information is often scientifically invalid and has no acceptable proof.

Section 4: Discussions

Topics for discussion:

1. What do you think about the future of our universe?

2. Is space exploration worth being one of the most important areas of exploration?

3. What are the benefits of space exploration for the mankind?

4. Do you approve of spending so much money on space exploration?

5. Space tourism is predicted to become a thriving business and the most popular attraction.

6. Space exploration should be a global imperative and, therefore, a source of international cooperation.

7.Do aliens exist?

Section 5: Vocabulary

Solar system

The Sun Jupiter

Mercury Saturn

Venus Uranus

Earth Neptune

Mars Pluto

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