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Peter Diamandis
Peter Diamandis runs the X Prize Foundation, which offers large cash incentive prizes to inventors who can solve grand challenges like space flight, low-cost mobile medical diagnostics and oil spill cleanup. He is the chair of Singularity University, which teaches executives and grad students about exponentially growing technologies.
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Peter Diamandis is the founder and chair of the X Prize Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is simply "to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity." By offering a big cash prize for a specific accomplishment, the X Prize stimulates competition and excitement around some of the planet's most important goals. Diamandis is also co-founder and chairman of Singularity University which runs Exponential Technologies Executive and Graduate Student Programs.
Diamandis' background is in space exploration -- before the X Prize, he ran a company that studied low-cost launching technologies and Zero-G which offers the public the chance to train like an astronaut and experience weightlessness. But though the X Prize's first $10 million went to a space-themed challenge, Diamandis' goal now is to extend the prize into health care, social policy, education and many other fields that could use a dose of competitive innovation.
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00:11
Those of you who know me know how passionate I am about opening the space frontier. So when I had the chance to give the world's expert in gravity the experience of zero gravity, it was incredible. And I want to tell you that story. I first met him through the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics. It's a competition we're holding, the second X PRIZE, for the first team to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days. We have something called the Genome 100 -- 100 individuals we're sequencing as part of that. Craig Venter chairs that event.
00:43
And I met Professor Hawking, and he said his dream was to travel into space. And I said, "I can't take you there, but I can take you into weightlessness into zero-g. And he said, on the spot, "Absolutely, yes." Well, the only way to experience zero-g on Earth is actually with parabolic flight, weightless flight. You take an airplane, you fly over the top, you're weightless for 25 seconds. Come back down, you weigh twice as much. You do it again and again. You can get eight, 10 minutes of weightlessness -- how NASA's trained their astronauts for so long.We set out to do this. It took us 11 years to become operational. And we announced that we were going to fly Stephen Hawking. We had one government agency and one company aircraft operator say, you're crazy, don't do that, you're going kill the guy.
01:24
(Laughter)
01:25
And he wanted to go. We worked hard to get all the permissions. And six months later, we sat down at Kennedy Space Center. We had a press conference, we announced our intent to do one zero-g parabola, give him 25 seconds of zero-g. And if it went really well, we might do three parabolas. Well, we asked him why he wanted to go up and do this. And what he said, for me, was very moving. He said, "Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space." We took him out to the Kennedy Space Center, up inside the NASA vehicle, into the back of the zero-g airplane.
02:15
We had about 20 people who made donations -- we raised $150,000 in donations for children's charities -- who flew with us. A few TEDsters here. We set up a whole ER. We had four emergency room doctors and two nurses on board the airplane. We were monitoring his PO2 of his blood, his heart rate, his blood pressure. We had everything all set in case of an emergency;God knows, you don't want to hurt this world-renowned expert. We took off from the shuttle landing facility, where the shuttle takes off and lands.
02:45
And my partner Byron Lichtenberg and I carefully suspended him into zero-g. Once he was there, [we] let him go to experience what weightlessness was truly like. And after that first parabola, you know, the doc said everything is great. He was smiling, and we said go. So we did a second parabola.
03:08
(Laughter)
03:10
(Applause)
03:16
And a third.
03:18
(Applause)
03:19
We actually floated an apple in homage to Sir Isaac Newton because Professor Hawking holds the same chair at Cambridge that Isaac Newton did. And we did a fourth, and a fifth and a sixth.
03:32
(Laughter)
03:33
And a seventh and an eighth. And this man does not look like a 65-year-old wheelchair-bound man.
03:38
(Laughter)
03:39
He was so happy. We are living on a precious jewel, and it's during our lifetime that we're moving off this planet. Please join us in this epic adventure. Thank you so much.
03:50
(Applause)
参考翻译
00:11
认识我的人可能都知道我对 探索空间新领域充满了激情 我有一个机会给世界上最伟大的重力学专家 一次体验零重力的机会,很让人难以置信 现在我想讲给大家这个故事 我第一次见到他是在阿康艾克斯基因研究大奖上 那是一个我们组织的比赛。第二届艾克斯基因研究大奖 颁发给第一个在10天内把一百位人类基因组排序小组。 我们管他们叫基因100 那是一百位我们排序的不同的人 当时是Craig Venter主持的会议
00:43
我遇到了霍金教授 他说他的梦想是空间旅行 我说,我不能带你到那儿去 但是我可以让你体验失重的状态 他说,太好了,当然可以 那么,在地球上体验零重力的唯一方法就是 用抛物线飞行来体验你坐在飞机上,飞到最高处的时候你大概能体验25秒 然后下来,你体重会加倍 然后如此反复 你最多可以体验八次10分钟的无重力状态 那是NASA一直用来训练他们航天员的办法 我们就计划这么做了 我们花了11年时间才使得计划成功 当我们宣布我们要跟史蒂芬霍金一起飞的时候 我们有个政府部门和一位公司的飞行员说 你们疯了么?别啊,你们会要了他的命的
01:24
(笑)
01:25
但是他很想去 我们经过很多努力才得到了许可 6个月后,我们在肯尼迪航天中心坐下来 我们举行了一个记者会 我们宣布说我们准备做一次零重力抛物线飞行 让他体验25秒的零重力 如果一切顺利的话,我们可能会做三次 我们其实问了霍金先生为什么想上去做这件事 他说的话让我很感动 他说:“地球上的生命正在经历着与日俱增的 被灾难灭绝的危险 如果不到宇宙空间去,人类就没有未来 所以我想鼓励大众对宇宙的兴趣。“ 我们带他到了肯尼迪空间中心 进了NASA的车子,然后到了那架飞机上
02:15
和我们同行的还有20位捐款的人们 我们共为儿童慈善基金募集到了十五万美金 他们将跟我们一起飞行 有一些TED会员 我们准备好了一切的急救措施 飞机上还有四位急救室的医生和两位护士 我们时刻监视着他血液中PO2的含量,他的心跳率还有血压 我们准备好了一切的应急措施 天知道你可不想伤害到这位世界级的专家 我们从宇宙飞船着陆点起飞 就是宇宙飞船起飞和降落的地方
02:45
我跟我的搭档 Byron Lichtenberg 小心翼翼地扶着他进入零重力 到了顶点我们就松手 让他真正体验无重力是什么感觉 第一次抛物飞行之后,你们知道么 医生说一切正常,他就笑了,然后我们说继续 然后我们就做了第二次抛物飞行
03:08
(笑)
03:10
(鼓掌)
03:16
第三次
03:18
(鼓掌)
03:19
为了表示对爱萨克牛顿爵士的敬意,我们还实验了漂浮一个苹果 因为霍金教授也有剑桥大学的那个席位 就是爱萨克牛顿的那个 然后我们做了第四次,第五次,第六次
03:32
(笑)
03:33
第七次,第八次 这时候他看上去可不像一个被绑在轮椅上的65岁男人
03:38
(笑)
03:39
他看上去非常高兴 我们生活在一块珍贵的宝石上 在我们的有生之年我们离开了这个星球 让我们一起来加入这场壮丽的探险吧 谢谢大家
03:50
(鼓掌)