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.

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Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking's zero g flight

Peter Diamandis despre Stephen Hawking la gravitaţie zero

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Fondatorul Premiului X, Peter Diamandis, vorbeşte despre cum l-a ajutat pe Stephen Hawking sǎ-şi îndeplineascǎ visul de a merge în spaţiu -- zburând împreunǎ pânǎ în straturile superioare ale atmosferei pentru a trǎi senzaţia de imponderabilitate în gravitaţie zero
- 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 passionatepasionat I am
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Cei care mǎ cunoaşteţi ştiţi cât de pasionat sunt
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about openingdeschidere the spacespaţiu frontierfrontiera.
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de deschiderea frontierei spaţiului
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So when I had the chanceşansă to give the world'slume expertexpert in gravitygravitatie
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Aşa cǎ atunci cǎnd am putut sǎ ofer experienţa imponderabilitǎţii
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the experienceexperienţă of zerozero gravitygravitatie, it was incredibleincredibil.
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principalului expert mondial în gravitaţie, a fost incredibil
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And I want to tell you that storypoveste.
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Şi vreau sǎ vǎ spun aceastǎ poveste.
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I first metîntâlnit him throughprin the ArchonArhonte X PRIZEPREMIUL for GenomicsGenomica.
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L-am cunoscut prin Premiul X Archon pentru Genomicǎ.
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It's a competitioncompetiție we're holdingdeținere, the secondal doilea X PRIZEPREMIUL,
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Este un concurs organizat de noi, al doilea Premiu X,
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for the first teamechipă to sequencesecvenţă 100 humanuman genomesgenomilor in 10 dayszi.
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oferit primei echipe care va cartografia 100 de genomuri umane în 10 zile
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We have something calleddenumit the GenomeGenomului 100 --
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Avem ceva numit Genome 100
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100 individualspersoane fizice we're sequencingsecvențiere as partparte of that.
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100 de persoane cǎrora le cartografiem genomul.
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CraigCraig VenterVenter chairsscaune that eventeveniment.
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Craig Venter este preşedintele acelui eveniment.
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And I metîntâlnit ProfessorProfesor universitar HawkingHawking,
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Şi acolo l-am cunoscut pe profesorul Hawking,
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and he said his dreamvis was to travelvoiaj into spacespaţiu.
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şi mi-a zis cǎ visul lui este sǎ cǎlǎtoreascǎ în spaţiu.
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And I said, "I can't take you there,
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I-am zis cǎ nu-l pot duce acolo,
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but I can take you into weightlessnessimponderabilitate into zero-gzero-g.
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dar pot sǎ-l duc în imponderabilitate, la zero G.
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And he said, on the spotloc, "AbsolutelyAbsolut, yes."
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Şi a zis pe loc cǎ este absolu de acord.
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Well, the only way to experienceexperienţă zero-gzero-g on EarthPământ
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Singurul mod de a trǎi pe propria piele zero G pe Terra
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is actuallyde fapt with parabolicparabolice flightzbor, weightlessusoare flightzbor.
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este prin zbor parabolic, zbor cu imponderabilitate.
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You take an airplaneavion, you flya zbura over the toptop, you're weightlessusoare for 25 secondssecunde.
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Iei un avion, zbori pânǎ la punctul maxim, eşti imponderabil pentru 25 de secunde
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Come back down, you weighcântări twicede două ori as much.
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te întorci, ai de douǎ ori greutatea normalǎ.
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You do it again and again.
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Şi faci asta de mai multe ori.
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You can get eightopt, 10 minutesminute of weightlessnessimponderabilitate --
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Poţi sǎ ai parte de 8-10 minute de imponderabilitate --
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how NASA'sNASA traineddresat theiral lor astronautsastronauti for so long.
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aşa îşi pregǎteşte NASA astronauţii.
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We seta stabilit out to do this.
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Asta am hotǎrât sǎ facem.
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It tooka luat us 11 yearsani to becomedeveni operationaloperațional.
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Ne-a luat 11 ani sǎ devenim operaţionali.
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And we announceda anunțat that we were going to flya zbura StephenŞtefan HawkingHawking.
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Şi am anunţat cǎ vom zbura cu Stephen Hawking.
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We had one governmentGuvern agencyagenţie and one companycompanie aircraftavioane operatoroperatorul say,
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O agenţie guvernamentalǎ şi un operator la o companie aerianǎ mi-au zis:
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you're crazynebun, don't do that, you're going killucide the guy.
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Eşti nebun, nu fǎ asta, o sǎ-l omori.
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(LaughterRâs)
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(Râsete)
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And he wanted to go.
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El a vrut sǎ meargǎ.
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We workeda lucrat hardgreu to get all the permissionspermisiuni.
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Am muncit din greu sǎ obţinem toate aprobǎrile.
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And sixşase monthsluni latermai tarziu, we satSAT down at KennedyKennedy SpaceSpaţiu CenterCentrul.
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Şase luni mai târziu, ne-am dus la Centrul Spaţial Kennedy
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We had a presspresa conferenceconferinţă,
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Am avut o conferinţǎ de presǎ,
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we announceda anunțat our intentscop to do one zero-gzero-g parabolaparabolă,
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şi am anunţat cǎ vom face o parabolǎ de zero G --
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give him 25 secondssecunde of zero-gzero-g.
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îi oferim 25 de secunde de imponderabilitate.
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And if it wenta mers really well, we mightar putea do threeTrei parabolasparabole.
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Şi dacǎ toate merg bine, am putea sǎ facem trei parabole.
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Well, we askedîntrebă him why he wanted to go up and do this.
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L-am întrebat, totuşi, de ce vrea sǎ facǎ asta.
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And what he said, for me, was very movingin miscare.
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Şi a zis un lucru, care, pe mine, m-a emotionat.
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He said, "Life on EarthPământ is at an ever-increasingtot mai mare riskrisc
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A zis: "Viaţa pe Pǎmânt este din ce în ce mai periclitatǎ"
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of beingfiind wipedşters out by disasterdezastru ...
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de un dezastru ce o poate distruge...
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I think the humanuman racerasă doesn't have a futureviitor if it doesn't go into spacespaţiu.
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Cred cǎ rasa umanǎ nu are un viitor decât dacǎ merge în spaţiu.
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I thereforeprin urmare want to encouragea incuraja publicpublic interestinteres in spacespaţiu."
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Aşadar, vreau sǎ stimulez interesul publicului pentru spaţiu."
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We tooka luat him out to the KennedyKennedy SpaceSpaţiu CenterCentrul,
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L-am dus la Centrul Spaţial Kennedy,
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up insideinterior the NASANASA vehiclevehicul, into the back of the zero-gzero-g airplaneavion.
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într-un vehicul NASA, în spatele avionului ce ne ducea la zero G.
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We had about 20 people who madefăcut donationsdonații --
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Aveam în jur de 20 de oameni care facuserǎ donaţii--
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we raisedridicat $150,000 in donationsdonații for children'scopilăresc charitiesasociaţii de caritate --
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am strâns 150.000 în donaţii pentru copii --
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who flewzburat with us.
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şi care zburau cu noi.
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A fewpuțini TEDstersTEDsters here.
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Câţiva TED-işti de-aici.
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We seta stabilit up a wholeîntreg ERER.
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Am pregǎtit aparate pentru urgenţe
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We had fourpatru emergencycaz de urgență roomcameră doctorsmedici and two nursesasistente medicale on boardbord the airplaneavion.
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Am avut patru doctori de la urgenţe şi douǎ asistente la bordul avionului
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We were monitoringmonitorizarea his POPO2 of his bloodsânge, his heartinimă raterată, his bloodsânge pressurepresiune.
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Urmǎream nivelul oxigenului în sânge, pulsul, presiunea arterialǎ...
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We had everything all seta stabilit in casecaz of an emergencycaz de urgență;
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Aveam totul pregǎtit în caz de urgenţǎ---
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God knowsștie, you don't want to hurtrănit this world-renownedrenume mondial expertexpert.
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Doamne fereşte sǎ rǎneşti un expert de talie mondialǎ.
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We tooka luat off from the shuttlenavetă landingaterizare facilityfacilitate,
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Am decolat de la baza de aterizare a navetei,
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where the shuttlenavetă takes off and landsterenuri.
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acolo unde navetele decoleazǎ şi aterizeazǎ.
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And my partnerpartener ByronByron LichtenbergLichtenberg and I
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Şi partenerul meu -- Byron Lichtenberg -- şi cu mine
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carefullycu grija suspendedsuspendat him into zero-gzero-g.
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l-am ridicat cu grijǎ în zero G.
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OnceO dată he was there, [we] let him go
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Ajuns în poziţia necesarǎ, i-am dat drumul
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to experienceexperienţă what weightlessnessimponderabilitate was trulycu adevărat like.
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sǎ simtǎ pe pielea lui senzaţia imponderabilitǎţii.
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And after that first parabolaparabolă, you know,
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Şi dupǎ acea primǎ parabolǎ,
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the docDoc said everything is great. He was smilingzâmbitor, and we said go.
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doctorul a zis cǎ totul e ok, el zâmbea, şi am zis sǎ-i dǎm drumul mai departe.
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So we did a secondal doilea parabolaparabolă.
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Am fǎcut o a doua parabolǎ.
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(LaughterRâs)
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(ApplauseAplauze)
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(Aplauze)
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And a thirdal treilea.
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Şi o a treia.
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(ApplauseAplauze)
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(Aplauze)
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We actuallyde fapt floatedplutea an applemăr in homageomagiu to SirDomnule IsaacIsaac NewtonNewton
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Am suspendat şi un mǎr în cinstea lui Sir isaac Newton
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because ProfessorProfesor universitar HawkingHawking holdsdeține the samela fel chairscaun at CambridgeCambridge
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deoarece profesorul Hawking ocupǎ aceeaşi catedrǎ la Cambridge
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that IsaacIsaac NewtonNewton did.
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ca şi Isaac Newton în trecut.
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And we did a fourthAl patrulea, and a fiftha cincea and a sixthşaselea.
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Şi am fǎcut şi a patra, a cincea şi a şasea
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(LaughterRâs)
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(Râsete)
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And a seventhal șaptelea and an eighthAl optulea.
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Şi o a şaptea şi a opta
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And this man does not look like a 65-year-old-de ani wheelchair-boundscaun cu rotile-obligat man.
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Şi acestǎ persoanǎ nu aratǎ ca un om la 65 ce foloseşte scaunul cu rotile.
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(LaughterRâs)
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(Râsete)
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He was so happyfericit.
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Era atâta de fericit.
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We are livingviaţă on a preciousprețios jewelbijuterie,
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Trǎim pe o piatrǎ preţioasǎ,
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and it's duringpe parcursul our lifetimedurata de viață that we're movingin miscare off this planetplanetă.
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şi în timpul vieţii noastre, o sǎ începem sǎ ne mutǎm de pe ea.
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Please joina adera us in this epicepic adventureaventură.
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Vǎ rugǎm, alǎturaţi-vǎ acestei aventuri epopeice.
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Thank you so much.
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Vǎ mulţumesc mult
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(ApplauseAplauze)
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Aplauze
Translated by Arnold Platon
Reviewed by Valentin Azoicai

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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