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Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking's zero g flight
Peter Diamandis à propos de Stephen Hawking en zéro g.
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Le fondateur du X Prize, Peter Diamandis, raconte comment il a aidé Stephen Hawking à accomplir son rêve d'aller dans l'espace. Ils ont volé ensemble dans la haute atmosphère et goûté à l'apesanteur.
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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Ceux qui me connaissent savent comme je suis passionné
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about opening the space frontier.
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par le recul des frontières de l'espace.
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So when I had the chance to give the world's expert in gravity
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Alors, quand j'ai eu la chance d'apporter à l'expert mondial de la gravité
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the experience of zero gravity, it was incredible.
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l'expérience de la gravité nulle, ça a été incroyable.
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And I want to tell you that story.
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Je vais vous raconter cette histoire.
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I first met him through the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics.
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Je l'ai rencontré grâce au X Prize Archon pour la génomique.
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It's a competition we're holding, the second X PRIZE,
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C'est une compétition que l'on organise, le 2nd X Prize,
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for the first team to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days.
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pour la première équipe qui séquencera 100 génomes humains en 10 jours.
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We have something called the Genome 100 --
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On a ce qui s'appelle Génome 100 :
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100 individuals we're sequencing as part of that.
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100 individus que l'on séquence à cette occasion.
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Craig Venter chairs that event.
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Craig Venter préside à l'événement.
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And I met Professor Hawking,
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J'ai rencontré le Pr. Hawking
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and he said his dream was to travel into space.
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qui m'a avoué son rêve de voyager dans l'espace.
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And I said, "I can't take you there,
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Je lui dit que je ne pourrai pas l'y emmener
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but I can take you into weightlessness into zero-g.
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mais que je pourrai l'emmener en apesanteur - à zéro g.
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And he said, on the spot, "Absolutely, yes."
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Il a dit oui tout de go.
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Well, the only way to experience zero-g on Earth
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La seule façon de ressentir zéro g sur Terre,
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is actually with parabolic flight, weightless flight.
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c'est au cours d'un vol parabolique, un vol en apesanteur.
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You take an airplane, you fly over the top, you're weightless for 25 seconds.
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Vous prenez un avion, vous grimpez, vous êtes en apesanteur pendant 25 s,
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Come back down, you weigh twice as much.
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vous descendez, vous pesez 2 fois votre poids.
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You do it again and again.
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Vous recommencez.
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You can get eight, 10 minutes of weightlessness --
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Vous obtenez 8, 10 minutes d'apesanteur
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how NASA's trained their astronauts for so long.
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comme la NASA a entraîné ses astronautes.
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We set out to do this.
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On a dit qu'on le ferait.
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It took us 11 years to become operational.
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Cela nous a pris 11 ans pour être opérationnels.
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And we announced that we were going to fly Stephen Hawking.
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On a annoncé qu'on allait faire voler Stephen Hawking.
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We had one government agency and one company aircraft operator say,
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Une agence gouvernementale et un opérateur aérien nous ont dit :
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you're crazy, don't do that, you're going kill the guy.
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vous êtes fous, ne le faites pas, vous allez le tuer.
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(Laughter)
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(Rires)
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And he wanted to go.
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Il voulait y aller.
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We worked hard to get all the permissions.
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On a trimé pour obtenir toutes les autorisations.
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And six months later, we sat down at Kennedy Space Center.
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6 mois plus tard, on était au centre spatial Kennedy.
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We had a press conference,
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On a tenu une conférence de presse,
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we announced our intent to do one zero-g parabola,
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on a annoncé notre intention de faire 1 parabole à zéro g :
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give him 25 seconds of zero-g.
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de lui offrir 25 s de zéro g.
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And if it went really well, we might do three parabolas.
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Si tout allait bien, on ferait peut-être 3 paraboles.
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Well, we asked him why he wanted to go up and do this.
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On lui a demandé pourquoi il voulait aller là-haut faire ça.
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And what he said, for me, was very moving.
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Ce qu'il a dit, pour moi, a été très émouvant.
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He said, "Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk
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Il a dit : "La vie sur Terre risque de plus en plus
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of being wiped out by disaster ...
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d'être anéantie par un désastre...
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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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Je pense que la race humaine n'a pas de futur si elle ne va pas dans l'espace.
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I therefore want to encourage public interest in space."
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C'est pourquoi j'encourage l'intérêt de tous pour l'espace."
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We took him out to the Kennedy Space Center,
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On l'a emmené au centre spatial Kennedy,
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up inside the NASA vehicle, into the back of the zero-g airplane.
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dans le véhicule de la NASA, à l'arrière de l'avion zéro g.
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We had about 20 people who made donations --
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Une vingtaine de personnes qui ont fait des dons
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we raised $150,000 in donations for children's charities --
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(on a levé 150 000 $ en dons pour des associations d'enfants)
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who flew with us.
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ont volé avec nous.
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A few TEDsters here.
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Quelques membres de TED ici.
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We set up a whole ER.
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On a mis en place un centre d'urgences.
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We had four emergency room doctors and two nurses on board the airplane.
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On avait 4 médecins urgentistes et 2 infirmières à bord de l'avion.
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We were monitoring his PO2 of his blood, his heart rate, his blood pressure.
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On surveillait sa saturation en oxygène, son rythme cardiaque, sa pression artérielle.
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We had everything all set in case of an emergency;
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Tout était prêt en cas d'urgence.
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God knows, you don't want to hurt this world-renowned expert.
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Dieu sait qu'on ne voulait pas blesser cet expert mondial !
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We took off from the shuttle landing facility,
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On a décollé d'une piste où
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where the shuttle takes off and lands.
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la navette atterrit et décolle.
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And my partner Byron Lichtenberg and I
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Mon associé, Byron Lichtenberg, et moi
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carefully suspended him into zero-g.
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l'avons harnaché pour la zéro g.
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Once he was there, [we] let him go
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Une fois arrivé, on l'a laissé
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to experience what weightlessness was truly like.
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ressentir ce que l'apesanteur était vraiment.
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And after that first parabola, you know,
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Après la première parabole, vous savez,
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the doc said everything is great. He was smiling, and we said go.
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le toubib a dit que tout allait bien, il souriait et on a dit : go.
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So we did a second parabola.
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On a fait une 2ème parabole.
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(Laughter)
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(Rires)
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(Applause)
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(Applaudissements)
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And a third.
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Une 3ème.
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(Applause)
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(Applaudissements)
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We actually floated an apple in homage to Sir Isaac Newton
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On a fait flotter une pomme en hommage à Isaac Newton
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because Professor Hawking holds the same chair at Cambridge
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parce que le Pr. Hawking tient la même chaire à Cambridge
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that Isaac Newton did.
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qu'avait tenue Isaac Newton.
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And we did a fourth, and a fifth and a sixth.
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Une 4ème. Une 5ème. Une 6ème.
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(Laughter)
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(Rires)
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And a seventh and an eighth.
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Une 7ème. Une 8ème...
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And this man does not look like a 65-year-old wheelchair-bound man.
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Cet homme n'a pas l'air d'un vieillard de 65 ans sur son fauteuil roulant.
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(Laughter)
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He was so happy.
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Il était si heureux.
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We are living on a precious jewel,
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Nous vivons sur un joyau
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and it's during our lifetime that we're moving off this planet.
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et c'est pendant notre existence que nous quitterons cette planète.
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Please join us in this epic adventure.
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Rejoignez-nous dans cette aventure épique.
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Thank you so much.
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Merci beaucoup.
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(Applause)
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(Applaudissements)
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