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But what's for sure is that our non-sustainable course will get resolved in one way or another in a few decades.
See, I just recapped the trans movement in America, but Magnus Hirschfeld and his peers in Germany had us beat by a few decades.
And over the decades they started finding some things that were pretty interesting, right on the thin, hairy edge of what they were able to detect.
Things like, "Look, when I'm out in public and I see old people holding hands, couples who have clearly been together for decades, and then I look at them and I imagine all of the things they've been through together, the good things, the bad things, the arguments they've had over who should take out the trash ... I just find my heart filled with rage."
And sometimes, that's the loss of someone they love, sometimes days ago or weeks ago, years ago, even decades ago.
Throughout his career, he would celebrate that day as his anniversary day, his cherry tree day, and he would regularly read and reread the works of Verne and of Wells in order to renew his inspiration and his commitment over the decades of labor and effort that would be required to realize the first part of his dream: the flight of a liquid fuel rocket, which he finally achieved in 1926.
HUBO, from team KAIST out of Korea, is a state-of-the-art robot with impressive capabilities, but this body doesn't look all that different from robots we've seen a few decades ago.
Not surprisingly, people have tried for many decades to replicate the astonishing capabilities of muscle, but it's been really hard.
If you put different communication technologies on this logarithmic graph, television, radio, telephone were adopted in decades.
But then you have the grandparents on the other side, who don't put their final affairs in order, who don't get rid of all the junk they've been hoarding for decades and decades and leave their kids to deal with it.
It took decades of lung cancer research and second-hand smoking studies, but eventually, we reached a tipping point and we passed smoking-ban laws.
The reality is that if we continue this way, we are a few decades away from being completely helpless in front of infections, just like we were before the discovery of penicillin 90 years ago.
For decades, long-distance communications between cities and countries were carried by electrical signals, in wires made of copper.
Because, you know, most people, when they hear that I predict that a lot of people alive today are going to live to 1,000 or more, they think that I'm saying that we're going to invent therapies in the next few decades that are so thoroughly eliminating aging that those therapies will let us live to 1,000 or more.
See, for decades, generations of science students were taught that well over 90 percent of the bird species were monogamous.
And then we flew Alan Shepherd weeks after Gagarin, not months or decades, or whatever.
Decades after its creation, "Guernica" retains its power to shock viewers and ignite debate, and is often referenced at anti-war gatherings around the world.
(Cheers, applause) Es Devlin: With U2, we're navigating the audience over a terrain that spans three decades of politics, poetry and music.
And with their exceptional memories, they can remember multiple hunting grounds, including those they haven’t visited in decades.
As somebody who's spent the last two decades advocating a shift away from industrial meat production, I wanted to believe that this clarion call was going to make a difference.
The thing is, I've seen this sort of thing again and again and again for decades.
The bad news is that technology does not freeze in place, and over the next few decades, their feat will become trivially easy.
And if not? Give it a couple of decades.
And massive numerical advantages do matter, even when a single bad guy can inflict grievous harm, because among many other things, they allow us to exploit the hell out of this: we have years and hopefully decades to prepare and prevent.
We survived the Cold War because every one of us understood and respected the danger, in part, because we had spent decades telling ourselves terrifying ghost stories with names like "Dr.
Decades later, it turned out that the source of their blindness was most likely some sort of bacterial infection.
After he passed away, I thought, I have these tools, this MRI machine, that I have been using for decades to study human decision making and what motivates people, why haven't we used this on other animals?
It's been around for decades.
I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me.
But the truth is, we've had decades of unacceptably high rates of maternal death and life-threatening complications during delivery and decades of devastating consequences for moms, babies and families, and we have not been moved to action.
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