When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong.

当飞机从空中坠落，比如2009年6月30日的一架也门客机在飞往印度洋的科摩罗群岛时那样，黑匣子是找出问题所在的最佳选择。

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They were holding what looked like ropes that led, via some kind of mechanical system, to a giant bird in the sky.

他们拿着一些看起来像绳子的东西，这些“绳索”通过一些机械系统，延伸向天空中的一只“巨鸟”。

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What is more, I skied against the snowflakes dancing with my parents in the sky.

更重要的是，我与父母在雪花飘舞之时翩跹而起，徜徉于天际。

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"Actually,her soul has gone up in the sky that is what we believe and whenever I come here I think of the time she passed away and we were seeing her face.

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And when they aimed at Sirius they could see the dim white-dwarf which orbits what is the brightest star in the night sky.

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In order to understand what we are seeing up in the sky, we have to look down at its reflection.

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While American strikes against al- Qaeda's empty training camps are easy to deride, the Pentagon could perhaps have secured useful information by using its eyes-in-the-sky to observe what happens after the strikes: who comes, in which vehicles, to inspect the damage, and where they go afterwards.

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