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Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking's zero g flight
Peter Diamandis habla sobre Sephen Hawking en Cero G
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El fundador del premio X Prize Peter Diamandis habla acerca de como ayudó a Stephen Hawking a cumplir su sueño de ir al espacio, volando juntos a la alta atmósfera y experimentando ingravidez en la gravedad cero.
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. Full bio
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 passionate I am
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Los que me conocen saben cuán apasionado soy
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about opening the space frontier.
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por abrir la frontera espacial.
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So when I had the chance to give the world's expert in gravity
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Así que cuando tuve la oportunidad de darle la experiencia de gravedad cero
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the experience of zero gravity, it was incredible.
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al experto mundial en gravedad fue increíble.
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And I want to tell you that story.
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Y quiero contarles esa historia.
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I first met him through the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics.
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Lo conocí inicialmente por el premio Archon X PRIZE de Genómica.
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It's a competition we're holding, the second X PRIZE,
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Es una competencia que estamos haciendo, el segundo X PRIZE,
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for the first team to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days.
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para el primer equipo que logre secuenciar 100 genomas humanos en 10 días.
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We have something called the Genome 100 --
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Tenemos algo llamado el Genoma 100, que son
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100 individuals we're sequencing as part of that.
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100 individuos que estamos secuenciando como parte de esto.
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Craig Venter chairs that event.
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Craig Venter dirige este evento.
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And I met Professor Hawking,
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Y conocí al Profesor Hawking
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and he said his dream was to travel into space.
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y me contó que su sueño era viajar al espacio.
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And I said, "I can't take you there,
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Y le dije: "No lo puedo llevar hasta allá,
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but I can take you into weightlessness into zero-g.
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pero sí lo puedo llevar a la ingravidez en Cero G".
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And he said, on the spot, "Absolutely, yes."
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Y ahí mismo me dijo: "¡absolutamente sí!"
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Well, the only way to experience zero-g on Earth
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Bueno, la única manera de experimentar Cero G en la tierra
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is actually with parabolic flight, weightless flight.
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es con un vuelo parabólico, un vuelo ingrávido.
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You take an airplane, you fly over the top, you're weightless for 25 seconds.
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Tomas un avión, vuelas hacia arriba y no pesas nada por 25 segundos,
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Come back down, you weigh twice as much.
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bajas de vuelta y pesas el doble.
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You do it again and again.
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Lo haces repetidamente.
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You can get eight, 10 minutes of weightlessness --
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Puedes obtener 8 o 10 minutos de ingravidez,
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how NASA's trained their astronauts for so long.
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así es como la NASA entrena a sus astronautas.
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We set out to do this.
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Nos pusimos como meta hacer esto.
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It took us 11 years to become operational.
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Nos tomó 11 años lograr un nivel operativo.
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And we announced that we were going to fly Stephen Hawking.
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Y anunciamos que haríamos que Stephen Hawking volara.
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We had one government agency and one company aircraft operator say,
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Una agencia del gobierno y una empresa operadora de aviones nos dijeron:
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you're crazy, don't do that, you're going kill the guy.
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"Están locos, no lo hagan, van a matarlo".
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(Laughter)
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(Risas)
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And he wanted to go.
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Y él quería ir.
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We worked hard to get all the permissions.
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Trabajamos duro para conseguir todos los permisos.
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And six months later, we sat down at Kennedy Space Center.
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Y seis meses después nos sentamos en el Centro Espacial Kennedy.
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We had a press conference,
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Hicimos una conferencia de prensa
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we announced our intent to do one zero-g parabola,
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donde anunciamos nuestra intención de hacer una parábola Cero G,
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give him 25 seconds of zero-g.
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de darle 25 segundos de Cero G.
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And if it went really well, we might do three parabolas.
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Y si todo iba bien podríamos llegar a hacer tres parábolas.
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Well, we asked him why he wanted to go up and do this.
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Bueno, le preguntamos por qué quería ir para allá y hacer esto.
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And what he said, for me, was very moving.
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Y lo que dijo, para mí, fue muy emocionante.
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He said, "Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk
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Dijo: "La vida en la tierra sufre un riesgo cada vez mayor
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of being wiped out by disaster ...
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de ser eliminada por un desastre...
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I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.
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Creo que la raza humana no tiene futuro si no va al espacio.
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I therefore want to encourage public interest in space."
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Por lo tanto quiero crear interés público en el espacio."
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We took him out to the Kennedy Space Center,
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Lo llevamos al Centro Espacial Kennedy,
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up inside the NASA vehicle, into the back of the zero-g airplane.
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subiendo en el vehículo de la NASA hasta dentro del avión Cero G.
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We had about 20 people who made donations --
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Teníamos como 20 personas que habían donado,
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we raised $150,000 in donations for children's charities --
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recaudamos 150 mil dólares en donaciones para beneficencias de niños,
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who flew with us.
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y que volaron con nosotros.
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A few TEDsters here.
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Unos pocos TEDsters de aquí.
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We set up a whole ER.
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Establecimos una sala de emergencias completa.
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We had four emergency room doctors and two nurses on board the airplane.
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Teníamos cuatro doctores de emergencia y dos enfermeras en el avión.
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We were monitoring his PO2 of his blood, his heart rate, his blood pressure.
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Monitoreábamos el PO2 de su sangre, su ritmo cardíaco y su presión sanguínea.
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We had everything all set in case of an emergency;
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Teníamos todo dispuesto en caso de una emergencia,
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God knows, you don't want to hurt this world-renowned expert.
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porque Díos sabe que no queríamos lastimar a este experto mundial.
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We took off from the shuttle landing facility,
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Despegamos del complejo de los transbordadores espaciales
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where the shuttle takes off and lands.
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donde estos aterrizan y despegan.
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And my partner Byron Lichtenberg and I
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Y mi socio, Byron Lichtenberg, y yo
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carefully suspended him into zero-g.
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lo suspendimos cuidadosamente en cero G.
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Once he was there, [we] let him go
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Cuando ya estaba arriba lo soltamos
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to experience what weightlessness was truly like.
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para que experimentara como se sentía realmente la ingravidez.
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And after that first parabola, you know,
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Y después de la primera parábola, saben,
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the doc said everything is great. He was smiling, and we said go.
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el doc dijo que todo estaba perfecto, él sonreía y dijimos vamos.
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So we did a second parabola.
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Así que hicimos una segunda parábola.
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(Laughter)
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(Risas)
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
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And a third.
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Y una tercera.
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
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We actually floated an apple in homage to Sir Isaac Newton
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De hecho, también hicimos flotar una manzana en homenaje a Sir Isaac Newton
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because Professor Hawking holds the same chair at Cambridge
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ya que el Profesor Hawking tiene la misma investidura en Cambridge
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that Isaac Newton did.
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que tuvo en su momento Isaac Newton.
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And we did a fourth, and a fifth and a sixth.
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E hicimos una cuarta, una quinta y una sexta.
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(Laughter)
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(Risas)
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And a seventh and an eighth.
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Y una séptima y una octava.
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And this man does not look like a 65-year-old wheelchair-bound man.
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Y este hombre no parece tener 65 y estar inmovilizado en silla de ruedas.
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(Laughter)
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(Risas)
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He was so happy.
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Estaba tan feliz.
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We are living on a precious jewel,
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Estamos viviendo en una joya preciosa
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and it's during our lifetime that we're moving off this planet.
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y saldremos de ella durante nuestras vidas.
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Please join us in this epic adventure.
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Por favor únanse a nosotros para esta aventura épica.
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Thank you so much.
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Muchas gracias.
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(Applause)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Peter Diamandis - Space activistPeter 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.
Peter Diamandis | Speaker | TED.com