[General] Could you help me listen to the missing parts in the clip?

[michael147]

Your help will be appreciated.

http://snd.sc/11okdks

clip 1
And again, my welcome is not just to everyone here in the Lady Mitchell Hall, but to everyone in the * the video link and many many thousands of people around the world.

clip 2
Science fiction is the prophecy of our age, and it *, really as far back as Cloud Cuckoo Land as Aristophanes where the scholars bent over to study geophysics while * investigated astronomy. But, I mean seriously, who can think about the Apollo program without * or look even more recently at a repulsively corrupt politician without thinking about *.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Michael, is this homework?

 

[michael147]

Michael, is this homework?

It's just my job. And I need to translate it into another language. The professor is telling a joke in clip 2, which is kind of Greek to me.

 

[michael147]

Michael, is this homework?

The parts I don't understand are not normal words.

 

[5jj]

The parts I don't understand are not normal words.

Well, they are not that abnormal: Lady Mitchell Hall, "it has a pedigree" "with their rumps in the air", "Jules Verne" and "Jabba the Hutt"

 

[michael147]

Well, they are not that abnormal: Lady Mitchell Hall, "it has a pedigree" "with their rumps in the air", "Jules Verne" and "Jabba the Hutt"

rumps or rhumbs?

"with their rumps in the air" what does it mean here?