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500 years ago we had to give up the idea that we are the center of the universe when the earth started to go around the sun; 150 years ago, with Darwin, we had to give up the idea we were different from animals.
Recently we've been battered with the idea that maybe we didn't even have our own creation event, here on earth, which people didn't like much.
We have a second-coolest record: we have been ranked three times as the unhappiest country on earth.
The mighty fell, the meek inherited the earth, and here we are.
It is the major difference between birds and any other animals we have on earth, and if you can't make a feather, you cannot call yourself a bird.
And just like us humans who have managed to live in virtually all habitats of this earth, birds have also conquered the world.
Carrying the blood of her people in her veins, adorned with the teachings, ways, even the land on her very skin, Binti leaves the earth.
Like humans, octopuses are some of the most intelligent creatures on earth.
It is in the mud, the dirt, the earth, in the fond memory of the soily cosmos.
And the estimate is that in 2050, there'll be three billion squatters, better than one in three people on earth.
I was once told that an attorney who worked there referred to the defendants as "the scum of the earth" and then had to represent them.
Cities of 10, 20, 30 million people or more are literally going to be wiped off the face of this earth.
Horizontal glaciers are formed when farmers redirect glacier meltwater into channels and pipes, then carefully siphon it off into a series of basins made from stones and earth.
And, in fact, at the TED talk I gave in 2014, I came out with one sentence: "Biodiversity underpins life on earth."
I want to understand how to make the Earth and the Moon and why the Earth is so different from other planets.
The Moon's special connection to Earth is because the Moon formed inside the Earth when Earth was a synestia.
What really bugs my UCLA undergraduate students is, how on earth did these societies not see what they were doing?
And I would expect that, if our human civilization carries on, then maybe in the next century people will be asking, why on earth did these people today in the year 2003 not see the obvious things that they were doing and take corrective action?
After all, we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors.
Of course, none of these technologies would be as helpful as simply looking deep inside the earth itself.
And it was this attention to detail, or to "verisimilitude," as he called it, that would influence the next great story: Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon," written in 1865.
The two great pioneers of liquid fuel rocketry in Russia and in Germany, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Oberth, both traced their own commitment to the field of spaceflight to their reading "From the Earth to the Moon" as teenagers, and then subsequently committing themselves to trying to make that story a reality.
So it was while reading "From the Earth to the Moon" and "The War of the Worlds" that the first pioneers of astronautics were inspired to dedicate their lives to solving the problems of spaceflight.
There's more change going on than ever has occurred in the history of human life on earth.
And in that 50 years, if you look at the population curve, you find the population of humans on the earth more than doubles and we're up three-and-a-half times since I was born.
When you have a new baby, by the time that kid gets out of high school more people will be added than existed on earth when I was born.
Humans, livestock and pets are now 97 percent of that integrated total mass on earth and all wild nature is three percent.
I personally think the surviving intelligent life form on earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.
If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.
And Hawkes: "it’s not earth, stupid, it’s ocean."
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