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Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking's zero g flight
Peter Diamandis帮助史蒂芬霍金体验零重力
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X Prize创始人Peter Diamandis讲述如何帮助史蒂芬霍金先生进入大气层体验零重力来实现霍金先生进入宇宙空间的梦想。
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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探索空间新领域充满了激情
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So when I had the chance to give the world's expert in gravity
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我有一个机会给世界上最伟大的重力学专家
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the experience of zero gravity, it was incredible.
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一次体验零重力的机会，很让人难以置信
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And I want to tell you that story.
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现在我想讲给大家这个故事
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I first met him through the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics.
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我第一次见到他是在阿康艾克斯基因研究大奖上
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It's a competition we're holding, the second X PRIZE,
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那是一个我们组织的比赛。第二届艾克斯基因研究大奖
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for the first team to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days.
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颁发给第一个在10天内把一百位人类基因组排序小组。
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We have something called the Genome 100 --
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我们管他们叫基因100
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100 individuals we're sequencing as part of that.
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那是一百位我们排序的不同的人
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Craig Venter chairs that event.
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当时是Craig Venter主持的会议
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And I met Professor Hawking,
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我遇到了霍金教授
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and he said his dream was to travel into space.
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他说他的梦想是空间旅行
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And I said, "I can't take you there,
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我说，我不能带你到那儿去
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but I can take you into weightlessness into zero-g.
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但是我可以让你体验失重的状态
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And he said, on the spot, "Absolutely, yes."
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他说，太好了，当然可以
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Well, the only way to experience zero-g on Earth
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那么，在地球上体验零重力的唯一方法就是
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is actually with parabolic flight, weightless flight.
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用抛物线飞行来体验
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You take an airplane, you fly over the top, you're weightless for 25 seconds.
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你坐在飞机上，飞到最高处的时候你大概能体验25秒
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Come back down, you weigh twice as much.
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然后下来，你体重会加倍
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You do it again and again.
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然后如此反复
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You can get eight, 10 minutes of weightlessness --
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你最多可以体验八次10分钟的无重力状态
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how NASA's trained their astronauts for so long.
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那是NASA一直用来训练他们航天员的办法
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We set out to do this.
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我们就计划这么做了
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It took us 11 years to become operational.
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我们花了11年时间才使得计划成功
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And we announced that we were going to fly Stephen Hawking.
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当我们宣布我们要跟史蒂芬霍金一起飞的时候
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We had one government agency and one company aircraft operator say,
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我们有个政府部门和一位公司的飞行员说
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you're crazy, don't do that, you're going kill the guy.
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你们疯了么？别啊，你们会要了他的命的
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(Laughter)
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（笑）
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And he wanted to go.
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但是他很想去
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We worked hard to get all the permissions.
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我们经过很多努力才得到了许可
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And six months later, we sat down at Kennedy Space Center.
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6个月后，我们在肯尼迪航天中心坐下来
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We had a press conference,
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我们举行了一个记者会
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we announced our intent to do one zero-g parabola,
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我们宣布说我们准备做一次零重力抛物线飞行
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give him 25 seconds of zero-g.
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让他体验25秒的零重力
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And if it went really well, we might do three parabolas.
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如果一切顺利的话，我们可能会做三次
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Well, we asked him why he wanted to go up and do this.
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我们其实问了霍金先生为什么想上去做这件事
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And what he said, for me, was very moving.
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他说的话让我很感动
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He said, "Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk
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他说：“地球上的生命正在经历着与日俱增的
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of being wiped out by disaster ...
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被灾难灭绝的危险
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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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如果不到宇宙空间去，人类就没有未来
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I therefore want to encourage public interest in space."
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所以我想鼓励大众对宇宙的兴趣。“
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We took him out to the Kennedy Space Center,
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我们带他到了肯尼迪空间中心
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up inside the NASA vehicle, into the back of the zero-g airplane.
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进了NASA的车子，然后到了那架飞机上
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We had about 20 people who made donations --
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和我们同行的还有20位捐款的人们
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we raised $150,000 in donations for children's charities --
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我们共为儿童慈善基金募集到了十五万美金
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who flew with us.
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他们将跟我们一起飞行
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A few TEDsters here.
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有一些TED会员
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We set up a whole ER.
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我们准备好了一切的急救措施
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We had four emergency room doctors and two nurses on board the airplane.
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飞机上还有四位急救室的医生和两位护士
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We were monitoring his PO2 of his blood, his heart rate, his blood pressure.
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我们时刻监视着他血液中PO2的含量，他的心跳率还有血压
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We had everything all set in case of an emergency;
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我们准备好了一切的应急措施
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God knows, you don't want to hurt this world-renowned expert.
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天知道你可不想伤害到这位世界级的专家
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We took off from the shuttle landing facility,
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我们从宇宙飞船着陆点起飞
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where the shuttle takes off and lands.
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就是宇宙飞船起飞和降落的地方
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And my partner Byron Lichtenberg and I
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我跟我的搭档 Byron Lichtenberg
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carefully suspended him into zero-g.
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小心翼翼地扶着他进入零重力
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Once he was there, [we] let him go
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到了顶点我们就松手
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to experience what weightlessness was truly like.
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让他真正体验无重力是什么感觉
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And after that first parabola, you know,
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第一次抛物飞行之后，你们知道么
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the doc said everything is great. He was smiling, and we said go.
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医生说一切正常，他就笑了，然后我们说继续
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So we did a second parabola.
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然后我们就做了第二次抛物飞行
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(Laughter)
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（笑）
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(Applause)
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（鼓掌）
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And a third.
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第三次
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(Applause)
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（鼓掌）
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We actually floated an apple in homage to Sir Isaac Newton
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为了表示对爱萨克牛顿爵士的敬意，我们还实验了漂浮一个苹果
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because Professor Hawking holds the same chair at Cambridge
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因为霍金教授也有剑桥大学的那个席位
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that Isaac Newton did.
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就是爱萨克牛顿的那个
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And we did a fourth, and a fifth and a sixth.
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然后我们做了第四次，第五次，第六次
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(Laughter)
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（笑）
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And a seventh and an eighth.
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第七次，第八次
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And this man does not look like a 65-year-old wheelchair-bound man.
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这时候他看上去可不像一个被绑在轮椅上的65岁男人
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(Laughter)
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（笑）
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He was so happy.
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他看上去非常高兴
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We are living on a precious jewel,
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我们生活在一块珍贵的宝石上
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and it's during our lifetime that we're moving off this planet.
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在我们的有生之年我们离开了这个星球
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Please join us in this epic adventure.
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让我们一起来加入这场壮丽的探险吧
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Thank you so much.
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谢谢大家
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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