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Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking's zero g flight
Stephen Hawking e la gravità zero: Peter Diamandis@TED
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Peter Diamandis ci parla di come ha aiutato Stephen Hawking a coronare il suo sogno di "andare nello spazio"-- volando insieme a lui negli strati più alti dell'atmosfera e facendogli sperimentare, col volo parabolico, l'assenza di gravità.
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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about opening the space frontier.
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rendere possibili i viaggi nello spazio.
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So when I had the chance to give the world's expert in gravity
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Perciò, quando ho potuto dare al maggior esperto mondiale sulla gravità
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the experience of zero gravity, it was incredible.
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la possibilità di sperimentare la gravità zero, è stato incredibile.
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And I want to tell you that story.
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E voglio raccontarvi quella storia.
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I first met him through the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics.
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La prima volta che lo incontrai fu all'Archon X PRIZE della Genomics.
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It's a competition we're holding, the second X PRIZE,
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Il secondo X PRIZE è una competizione che abbiamo organizzato
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for the first team to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days.
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per premiare il primo team capace di sequenziare 100 genomi umani in 10 giorni.
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We have something called the Genome 100 --
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Abbiamo un progetto chiamato "Genome 100",
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100 individuals we're sequencing as part of that.
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una parte del quale è costituita dal sequenziamento di 100 persone.
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Craig Venter chairs that event.
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L'evento è presieduto da Craig Venter.
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And I met Professor Hawking,
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E lì incontrai il Professor Hawking.
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and he said his dream was to travel into space.
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Mi disse che il suo sogno era viaggiare nello spazio.
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And I said, "I can't take you there,
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E io risposi: "Non posso portarla nello spazio,
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but I can take you into weightlessness into zero-g.
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ma posso portarla dove non c'è peso nè gravità.
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And he said, on the spot, "Absolutely, yes."
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E lui, senza pensarci due volte, disse di sì.
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Well, the only way to experience zero-g on Earth
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Beh, l'unico modo per sperimentare l'assenza di gravità sulla Terra
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is actually with parabolic flight, weightless flight.
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é con il volo parabolico, che annulla il peso.
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You take an airplane, you fly over the top, you're weightless for 25 seconds.
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Prendi un aereo, arrivi in alta quota, resti "senza peso" per 25 secondi,
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Come back down, you weigh twice as much.
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ritorni giù, pesi il doppio.
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You do it again and again.
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Lo fai una volta dopo l'altra.
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You can get eight, 10 minutes of weightlessness --
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Puoi sperimentare 8, 10 minuti di assenza di peso.
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how NASA's trained their astronauts for so long.
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E' così che la NASA ha addestrato i suoi astronauti per così tanto tempo.
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We set out to do this.
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Cominciammo ad organizzarci.
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It took us 11 years to become operational.
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Ci abbiamo messo 11 anni per diventare operativi.
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And we announced that we were going to fly Stephen Hawking.
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E annunciammo che avremmo fatto volare Stephen Hawking.
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We had one government agency and one company aircraft operator say,
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Avevamo un'agenzia governativa ed una compagnia arerea che ci dicevano:
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you're crazy, don't do that, you're going kill the guy.
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"Siete pazzi, non fatelo, lo ucciderete!"
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(Laughter)
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(Risate)
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And he wanted to go.
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Ma lui voleva andare.
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We worked hard to get all the permissions.
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Abbiamo lavorato duro per ottenere tutti i permessi.
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And six months later, we sat down at Kennedy Space Center.
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E sei mesi più tardi, andammo al Kennedy Space Center.
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We had a press conference,
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Abbiamo tenuto una conferenza stampa
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we announced our intent to do one zero-g parabola,
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e annunciato la nostra intenzione di fargli fare una parabola
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give him 25 seconds of zero-g.
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di dargli 25 secondi a Zero G.
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And if it went really well, we might do three parabolas.
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E se la cosa fosse andata davvero bene, avremmo potuto fare tre parabole.
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Well, we asked him why he wanted to go up and do this.
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Gli abbiamo chiesto perché volesse farlo.
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And what he said, for me, was very moving.
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La sua risposta mi commosse profondamente.
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He said, "Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk
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Disse: "La vita sulla Terra corre un crescente rischio
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of being wiped out by disaster ...
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di essere spazzata via da un disastro...
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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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Penso che la razza umana non abbia un futuro se non va nello spazio.
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I therefore want to encourage public interest in space."
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E quindi voglio incoraggiare l'interesse della gente per lo spazio."
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We took him out to the Kennedy Space Center,
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L'abbiamo portato al Kennedy Space Center,
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up inside the NASA vehicle, into the back of the zero-g airplane.
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dentro il veicolo della NASA, nel retro dell'aeroplano Zero G.
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We had about 20 people who made donations --
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Abbiamo avuto circa 20 donatori
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we raised $150,000 in donations for children's charities --
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--abbiamo raccolto 150.000 dollari a favore di organizzazioni di beneficenza per l'infanzia --
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who flew with us.
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che hanno volato con noi.
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A few TEDsters here.
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Ecco un po' di TEDsters, qui.
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We set up a whole ER.
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Abbiamo allestito un pronto soccorso completo.
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We had four emergency room doctors and two nurses on board the airplane.
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Avevamo quattro dottori e due infermiere a bordo.
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We were monitoring his PO2 of his blood, his heart rate, his blood pressure.
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Tenevamo d'occhio la saturazione del sangue, la frequenza cardiaca, la pressione sanguigna.
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We had everything all set in case of an emergency;
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Avevamo predisposto tutto in caso di un'emergenza
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God knows, you don't want to hurt this world-renowned expert.
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Dio sa se avremmo mai voluto far del male a quel luminare.
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We took off from the shuttle landing facility,
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Siamo decollati dalla struttura
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where the shuttle takes off and lands.
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dove lo shuttle decolla ed atterra.
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And my partner Byron Lichtenberg and I
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Il mio partner Byron Lichtemberg ed io
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carefully suspended him into zero-g.
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lo abbiamo delicatamente sospeso in assenza di gravità.
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Once he was there, [we] let him go
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Una volta che fu stabile, lo lasciammo andare,
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to experience what weightlessness was truly like.
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per fargli sperimentare la vera assenza di peso.
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And after that first parabola, you know,
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E dopo quella prima parabola
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the doc said everything is great. He was smiling, and we said go.
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il dottore disse che tutto andava bene. Lui sorrideva. E noi: "Andiamo"
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So we did a second parabola.
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E così abbiamo fatto una seconda parabola.
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(Laughter)
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(Risate)
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(Applause)
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(Applausi)
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And a third.
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E una terza.
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(Applause)
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We actually floated an apple in homage to Sir Isaac Newton
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Abbiamo fatto fluttuare una mela in omaggio a Sir Isaac Newton,
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because Professor Hawking holds the same chair at Cambridge
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perché il Professor Hawking ricopre la stessa cattedra
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that Isaac Newton did.
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che fu di Newton a Cambridge.
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And we did a fourth, and a fifth and a sixth.
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Poi abbiamo fatto una quarta parabola, una quinta e una sesta.
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(Laughter)
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(Risate)
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And a seventh and an eighth.
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E una settima e un'ottava.
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And this man does not look like a 65-year-old wheelchair-bound man.
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Non sembra un 65enne costretto su una sedia a rotelle.
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(Laughter)
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(Risate)
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He was so happy.
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Era così felice.
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We are living on a precious jewel,
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Viviamo sopra ad un gioiello prezioso,
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and it's during our lifetime that we're moving off this planet.
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ma nell'arco di una vita ce ne dovremo allontanare.
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Please join us in this epic adventure.
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Per favore, unitevi a noi in questa epica avventura.
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Thank you so much.
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Grazie infinite.
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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