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Ryan Bridge: What a week of news · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: This week, NASA found the clearest sign yet of ancient
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  Speaker 1: life on Mars. I know, did you see that? We
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  Speaker 1: learned it for the first time in human history. There
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  Speaker 1: are more obese children on Earth than underweight children. How
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  Speaker 1: sad In the Middle East, missiles bomb peace talks over
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  Speaker 1: the skies of Europe. We got drones, we got fighter jets,
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  Speaker 1: and the US, supposedly the first among free nations, another
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  Speaker 1: political assassination. And as times like this, you stop and
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  Speaker 1: think what a strange species we are. If those Martian
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  Speaker 1: aliens ever turned up here, God help us, what would
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  Speaker 1: they think of us? How would we explain ourselves and
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  Speaker 1: our behavior. Religion is about loving thy neighbor, but we
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  Speaker 1: fight in the name of it. Food is scarce, but
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  Speaker 1: some have too much and others have too little. Democracy
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  Speaker 1: means freedom until you're shot in the head for speaking
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  Speaker 1: your mind. Of course, none of this is unusual. We
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  Speaker 1: have done this, this weird species. We have done this
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  Speaker 1: since the beginning of time. We fight, we wore, and
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  Speaker 1: we rint. Some repeat. Animals fight for territory, for food,
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  Speaker 1: and for survival. We do that too, But we also
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  Speaker 1: fight just because we can't agree with each other. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think What it all boils down to is the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we are social beings. It can work for us,
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  Speaker 1: but it can also work against us. Arguably, social media
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  Speaker 1: is making all of this worse. So what are we
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  Speaker 1: to conclude from all of this? How are we to
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  Speaker 1: explain ourselves to an alien? What if they landed tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: in some big spacecraft and said, take me to your leader?
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  Speaker 1: Who would you take them to? Donald Trump? You know?
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  Speaker 1: Do you tell them to Antonio Gutiraz, the Pope, the King?
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  Speaker 1: I honestly don't know the answer to any of these questions.
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  Speaker 1: I thought about it last night. Maybe we'd be better
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  Speaker 1: off asking a question. Hey, you've got any room up
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