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Whose speaker will be here in the future?
The Press Briefing Room in the White House
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Who will be the next president of the USA?
The world has yet to wait for an answer.
In five states, both Donald Trump and Joe Biden have further chances to win.
"It will take a while," announced the Democratic challenger.
And the current president can apparently wait so badly that he claimed the election victory for himself ahead of time.
Wrongly.
Not all votes have been counted yet.
So what to do with the time until the result is certain?
We talked to people who are familiar with waiting, for example because they are waiting for a scientific question to be resolved, for a victory in sport or for a party membership survey.
We asked all of them just one question:
How
do you
endure the wait?
Waiting for ... the capital's airport
Head of the airport company Lütke Daldrup
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"Doing is definitely easier than waiting. It is not easy for me to be inactive and to wait. But I have learned to deal with the fact that others have to do something so that I can do my job. And the more I trust my people the better it went. "
Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, head of the Berlin Airport Company
Waiting for ... a black hole
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Astronomer Falcke
Photo: Boris Breuer
“To endure the wait is one of the elementary qualities a scientist needs. But that is exactly what makes research exciting and fulfilling. I waited 25 years for the first image of a black hole. It took years to get from my first idea To come to this picture. Together with colleagues from all over the world we had to build a global network of telescopes, develop a common vision, collect data, analyze it, and review it again and again. In April 2019 the time had finally come and we were able to give the world that Present the picture. That was a moving moment. The waiting and the uncertainty make the moment of seeing and discovering even bigger. "
Heino Falcke, astronomer at Radboud University in Nijmegen
Waiting for ... a member survey
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Politician Chebli
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"Only recently I had to wait for the decision of the members of the SPD in my constituency. That was the horror. There are people who can distract themselves well so as not to go crazy while waiting. I can't. I think about it all the time. I keep checking the cell phone. Talk about it all the time. I find waiting unbearable and I'm happy when it's over. "
Sawsan Chebli, SPD State Secretary in the Berlin Senate
Waiting for ... a victory
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Racing driver Röhrl
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"I hate waiting. I have to be quick. The longest waiting time in my life? For my first victory at the Monte Carlo Rally. Whoever wins here is the rally king. In 1972 I made the decision after I as an amateur in the Olympic rally against the stars of the time like Hannu Mikkola and Björn Waldegaard in the lead. The rally led from Kiel to Munich, we drove in a Ford Capri and were laughed at because of our "disco slingshot" we consistently deleted from the ratings because everyone thought it must be a miscalculation that the starting number 23 drove away from the rally stars with an unknown crew. In the end I retired with a technical defect, but thought: If it is that easy, I can You win the Monte too. It took eight years, a long time for me. But I remember exactly the moment when the wait came to an end. It was early in the morning, we were resting the last kilometers of the route
down the mountains to Monte Carlo to the destination.
The rising sun bathed everything in a blazing light.
For the first time in my life, I was completely satisfied. "
Walter Röhrl, racing driver and two-time rally world champion
Waiting for ... the right opportunity
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Professional cyclist smock
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"In the past, waiting for the sprints in my bike races always meant tension for me. In cycling races, I often had to wait for the right moment. A moment that immediately pops into my head is my first race for Team QuickStep 2016 in Dubai : I got off to a perfect sprint. I had so much tension and will in me to win the race that I was tempted to start too early. You are sitting on the rear wheel of your driver and have to wait. 350 meters, 320 Meters, 250 meters and then just before 200 meters you drive off. I won and all tension was gone and the wait was worth it. "
Marcel Kittel, former professional cyclist
Waiting for ... equality
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AI researcher Ait Si Abbou
Photo: Henrik Gerken
"Waiting passively is something I don't like to do. I had to learn to be more relaxed when I couldn't influence what was happening. When I had to wait for an interview after my engineering degree, despite my top qualifications, I felt powerless Despite being very self-confident, I started to doubt myself. But all I could do was keep applying. I still meet people from diverse cultural backgrounds who have the same experience. Our society is diverse, inclusive But they don't. Especially in the tech sector, the diversity of the team is very manageable. We teach the machines our cultural prejudices and they increase them even further. I am waiting for the day when the cultural background is not an exclusion criterion when filling tech- Jobs is more, and I actively wait by advocating for more diversity in the tech industry
I advocate that artificial intelligence be built in such a way that it neutralizes our prejudices and suggests the best applicants for a position, regardless of where they come from. "
Kenza Ait Si Abbou, manager for robotics at Deutsche Telekom
Waiting for ... a move
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Ex-world chess champion Anand
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"In chess there are several types of waiting: There are many situations when you are waiting for your opponent to move and nothing dramatic happens. Then there are moments when the pressure is high. In those moments you have to use your emotions as best you can control, because concentration is very important. The worst waiting for me is probably when I have messed up and I know it. I suspect my opponent knows it too, but I don't want to reveal anything. You hold your breath, it's almost a bit of terror. "
Viswanathan Anand, former world chess champion
Waiting for ... a movie
Actress and producer Ferres
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"I wait my whole life: on the set, on scripts, on my dog doing the heap. I waited from March to September for us to be able to continue shooting the Netflix film" Unforgiven ", which I am producing, with Nora Fingscheidt as director and Sandra Bullock in the lead role. Because of Corona, of course, we stopped filming in Canada. In fact, patience is not exactly the strength of the Ferres family. But with some things, unfortunately, only waiting helps, such as the result of the last corona test before I was allowed to go to the studio. "
Veronica Ferres, producer and actress
Waiting for ... a blossom
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Rare flower of the titan arum
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"Anyone who deals with Titan Arums has to be very patient. Normal plants bloom once a year. Titan Arums only manage to flower every few years - and only if you care for them properly. They come from the tropics and like them Warm and humid. We regularly check how big and heavy the bulbs of our Titan Arum are, because when the flower is about to bloom, you have to react quickly. The plant only flowers for a few hours. That would also be my tip for waiting: You have to be while you wait Keep busy. Then it won't get boring. When the flowering starts, it's a spectacle. Scientists and spectators then flock to the garden. The plant grows several meters in a short time. When its flower opens, you can By the way, not only see - but also smell. The boys smell a lot. "
Dr. Carsten Schirarend, scientific director at the Hamburg Botanical Garden
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