ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Peter Diamandis - Space activist
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.

Why you should listen

Watch the live onstage debate with Paul Gilding that followed Peter Diamandis' 2012 TEDTalk >>

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.

More profile about the speaker
Peter Diamandis | Speaker | TED.com
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Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking's zero g flight

Peter Diamandis tentang Stephen Hawking dalam gravitasi nol

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Pendiri X Prize Peter Diamandis berbicara mengenai bagaimana dia membantu Stephen Hawking mewujudkan impiannya untuk bepergian ke luar angkasa -- dengan terbang bersama ke lapisan atas atmosfir dan mengalami kondisi tanpa bobot dalam gravitasi nol.
- Space activist
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. Full bio

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Those of you who know me know how passionatebergairah I am
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Bagi Anda yang kenal saya tahu seberapa besar kegigihan saya
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about openingpembukaan the spaceruang frontierperbatasan.
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untuk membuka batas luar angkasa.
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So when I had the chancekesempatan to give the world'sdunia expertahli in gravitygravitasi
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Jadi ketika saya berkesempatan untuk memberikan orang paling ahli di dunia dalam gravitasi untuk
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the experiencepengalaman of zeronol gravitygravitasi, it was incredibleluar biasa.
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mengalami kondisi gravitasi nol, itu sangat luar biasa.
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And I want to tell you that storycerita.
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Dan saya ingin menceritakannya kepada Anda.
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I first metbertemu him throughmelalui the ArchonArchon X PRIZEHADIAH for GenomicsGenomics.
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Saya bertemu dengannya saat acara 'Archon X PRIZE for Genomics.'
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It's a competitionkompetisi we're holdingmemegang, the secondkedua X PRIZEHADIAH,
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sebuah kompetisi yang kami adakan, X PRIZE yang kedua,
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for the first teamtim to sequenceurutan 100 humanmanusia genomesgenom in 10 dayshari.
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bagi tim pertama yang menyusun 100 gen manusia dalam 10 hari.
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We have something calledbernama the GenomeGenom 100 --
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Kami mempunyai sesuatu yang disebut Genome 100,
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100 individualsindividu we're sequencingpengurutan as partbagian of that.
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100 individu yang kami urutkan sebagai bagian dari hal itu.
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CraigCraig VenterVenter chairskursi that eventperistiwa.
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Craig Venter mengetuai kegiatan ini.
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And I metbertemu ProfessorProfesor HawkingMenjajakan,
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Dan saya bertemu dengan Profesor Hawking,
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and he said his dreammimpi was to travelperjalanan into spaceruang.
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dan dia berkata bahwa impiannya adalan berpertualang ke luar angkasa.
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And I said, "I can't take you there,
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Dan saya berkata, Saya tidak dapat membawa Anda ke sana,
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but I can take you into weightlessnessbobot into zero-gZero-g.
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tapi saya bisa membawa Anda pada kondisi tanpa bobot dalam gravitasi nol.
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And he said, on the spottitik, "AbsolutelyBenar-benar, yes."
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Dan ia mengatakan pada saat itu juga, ya.
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Well, the only way to experiencepengalaman zero-gZero-g on EarthBumi
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Nah, satu-satunya cara untuk mengalami gravitasi nol di Bumi
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is actuallysebenarnya with parabolicparabola flightpenerbangan, weightlessRingan flightpenerbangan.
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sebenarnya dengan penerbangan parabolik, penerbangan tanpa bobot.
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You take an airplanepesawat terbang, you flyterbang over the toppuncak, you're weightlessRingan for 25 secondsdetik.
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Anda naik pesawat terbang, terbang ke atas, Anda akan berada pada kondisi tanpa bobot selama 25 detik,
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Come back down, you weighMenimbang twicedua kali as much.
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kembali turun, berat badan anda dua kali lebih banyak.
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You do it again and again.
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Anda melakukannya lagi dan lagi.
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You can get eightdelapan, 10 minutesmenit of weightlessnessbobot --
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Anda bisa merasakan delapan, sepuluh menit dalam kondisi tanpa bobot --
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how NASA'sNASA trainedterlatih theirmereka astronautsastronot for so long.
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inilah cara NASA melatih astronot-astronot mereka sejak lama.
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We setset out to do this.
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Kami bertekad untuk melakukan hal ini.
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It tookmengambil us 11 yearstahun to becomemenjadi operationaloperasional.
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Diperlukan waktu 11 tahun untuk mulai beroperasi.
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And we announceddiumumkan that we were going to flyterbang StephenStephen HawkingMenjajakan.
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Dan kami mengumumkan bahwa kami akan menerbangkan Stephen Hawking.
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We had one governmentpemerintah agencyagen and one companyperusahaan aircraftpesawat terbang operatoroperator say,
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Ada satu instansi pemerintah dan satu perusahaan operator pesawat yang mengatakan,
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you're crazygila, don't do that, you're going killmembunuh the guy.
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Anda gila, jangan lakukan itu, Anda akan membunuhnya.
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(LaughterTawa)
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(Tertawa)
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And he wanted to go.
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Dan ia ingin pergi.
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We workedbekerja hardkeras to get all the permissionsizin.
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Kami bekerja keras untuk mendapatkan semua izin.
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And sixenam monthsbulan laterkemudian, we satduduk down at KennedyKennedy SpaceRuang CenterPusat.
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Dan enam bulan kemudian, kami duduk di Kennedy Space Center.
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We had a presstekan conferencekonferensi,
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Kami mengadakan konferensi pers,
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we announceddiumumkan our intentmaksud to do one zero-gZero-g parabolaparabola,
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kami mengumumkan niat untuk melakukan satu parabola gravitasi nol --
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give him 25 secondsdetik of zero-gZero-g.
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memberinya 25 detik kondisi gravitasi nol.
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And if it wentpergi really well, we mightmungkin do threetiga parabolasparabola.
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Dan jika semuanya lancar, kami mungkin akan melakukan tiga penerbangan parabola.
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Well, we askedtanya him why he wanted to go up and do this.
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Yah, kami bertanya mengapa dia ingin melakukan hal ini.
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And what he said, for me, was very movingbergerak.
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Dan apa yang dia katakan, bagi saya, sangat menggugah.
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He said, "Life on EarthBumi is at an ever-increasingterus meningkat riskrisiko
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Dia berkata, "Resiko kehidupan di Bumi akan terhapuskan
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of beingmakhluk wipeddihapus out by disasterbencana ...
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oleh bencana semakin meningkat ...
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I think the humanmanusia raceras doesn't have a futuremasa depan if it doesn't go into spaceruang.
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Saya rasa umat manusia tidak memiliki masa depan jika tidak ke luar angkasa.
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I thereforekarena itu want to encouragemendorong publicpublik interestbunga in spaceruang."
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Karena itu saya ingin mendorong ketertarikan masyarakat pada ruang angkasa. "
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We tookmengambil him out to the KennedyKennedy SpaceRuang CenterPusat,
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Kami membawanya ke Kennedy Space Center,
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up insidedalam the NASANASA vehiclekendaraan, into the back of the zero-gZero-g airplanepesawat terbang.
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di dalam kendaraan NASA, ke bagian belakang pesawat gravitasi nol.
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We had about 20 people who madeterbuat donationssumbangan --
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Ada sekitar 20 orang yang memberikan sumbangan --
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we raiseddibesarkan $150,000 in donationssumbangan for children'sanak-anak charitiesamal --
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kami mengumpulkan 150.000 dolar bagi badan amal anak-anak --
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who flewterbang with us.
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yang terbang bersama kami.
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A fewbeberapa TEDstersTEDsters here.
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Beberapa TEDsters ini.
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We setset up a wholeseluruh ERER.
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Kami merancang ruang gawat darurat.
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We had fourempat emergencykeadaan darurat roomkamar doctorsdokter and two nursesperawat on boardnaik the airplanepesawat terbang.
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Ada empat dokter gawat darurat dan dua perawat yang ikut dalam pesawat.
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We were monitoringpemantauan his POPO2 of his blooddarah, his heartjantung ratemenilai, his blooddarah pressuretekanan.
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Kami memonitor PO2 dalam darahnya, denyut jantungnya, tekanan darahnya.
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We had everything all setset in casekasus of an emergencykeadaan darurat;
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Kami menyiapkan segalanya untuk keadaan darurat --
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God knowstahu, you don't want to hurtmenyakiti this world-renownedterkenal di dunia expertahli.
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Tuhan tahu Anda tidak ingin melukai ahli yang terkenal di dunia ini.
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We tookmengambil off from the shuttleantar jemput landingpendaratan facilityfasilitas,
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Kami lepas landas dari fasilitas pendaratan pesawat ulang-alik,
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where the shuttleantar jemput takes off and landsTanah.
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dimana pesawat ini lepas landas.
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And my partnerpasangan ByronByron LichtenbergLichtenberg and I
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Dan mitra saya - Byron Lichtenberg - dan saya
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carefullyhati-hati suspendedditangguhkan him into zero-gZero-g.
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dengan sangat hati-hati membawanya ke gravitasi nol.
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OnceSekali he was there, [we] let him go
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Begitu dia sampai di sana, kami melepaskannya
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to experiencepengalaman what weightlessnessbobot was trulysungguh like.
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untuk mengalami apa yang dinamakan kondisi tanpa bobot.
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And after that first parabolaparabola, you know,
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Dan setelah parabola pertama itu, Anda tahu,
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the docDoc said everything is great. He was smilingtersenyum, and we said go.
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dokter mengatakan semuanya bagus, dia tersenyum dan kami boleh meneruskan.
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So we did a secondkedua parabolaparabola.
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Jadi kami melakukan parabola kedua.
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(LaughterTawa)
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(Tertawa)
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(ApplauseTepuk tangan)
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(Tepuk tangan)
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And a thirdketiga.
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Dan ketiga.
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(ApplauseTepuk tangan)
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(Tepuk tangan)
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We actuallysebenarnya floatedmengambang an appleapel in homagepenghormatan to SirSir IsaacIshak NewtonNewton
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Sekarang kami benar-benar membuat sebuah apel melayang sebagai penghormatan kepada Sir Isaac Newton
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because ProfessorProfesor HawkingMenjajakan holdsmemegang the samesama chairkursi at CambridgeCambridge
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karena Profesor Hawking memegang jabatan yang sama di Cambridge
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that IsaacIshak NewtonNewton did.
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sama seperti Isaac Newton dulu.
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And we did a fourthkeempat, and a fifthkelima and a sixthkeenam.
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Dan kami melakukan putaran keempat, kelima, dan keenam.
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(LaughterTawa)
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(Tertawa)
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And a seventhketujuh and an eighthkedelapan.
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Dan ketujuh dan yang kedelapan.
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And this man does not look like a 65-year-old-tahun wheelchair-boundkursi roda man.
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Dan orang ini tidak terlihat seperti orang berusia 65 tahun dengan kursi roda.
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(LaughterTawa)
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(Tertawa)
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He was so happysenang.
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Dia sangat bahagia.
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We are livinghidup on a preciousberharga jewelpermata,
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Kita hidup dalam sebuah permata yang berharga,
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and it's duringselama our lifetimeseumur hidup that we're movingbergerak off this planetplanet.
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dan dalam generasi kitalah, kita berpindah dari planet ini.
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Please joinikut us in this epicepik adventurepetualangan.
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Silakan bergabung dengan kami dalam petualangan hebat ini.
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Thank you so much.
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Terima kasih banyak.
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(ApplauseTepuk tangan)
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(Tepuk tangan)
Translated by Rommy Rustami
Reviewed by Antonius Yudi Sendjaja

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Peter Diamandis - Space activist
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.

Why you should listen

Watch the live onstage debate with Paul Gilding that followed Peter Diamandis' 2012 TEDTalk >>

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.

More profile about the speaker
Peter Diamandis | Speaker | TED.com