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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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Speaker 1: there for me? For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,

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