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Planet Earth, photographed by the Voyager probe, from 4 billion
kilometers
away.
Usually not more than two
kilometers
in width.
We walked, each of us, three months, two and a half thousand
kilometers.
This was a seven-week cruise, and this is us, having made our own maps of about 75,000 square
kilometers
of the seafloor in seven weeks, but that's only a tiny fraction of the seafloor.
The ocean covers roughly 71% of our planet's surface, some 360 million square kilometers, an area in excess of the size of 36 U.S.A.'s.
Speaking of space, the ocean currently holds over 1.3 billion, that's billion with a "b", cubic
kilometers
of water.
Put another way, that's enough water to immerse the entire United States under a body of salt water over 132
kilometers
tall, a height well beyond the reach of the highest clouds and extending deep into the upper atmosphere.
At roughly 65,000
kilometers
long, this underwater range is some 10 times longer than the longest mountain chain found purely on dry land, the Andes.
Then, since we're picking on poor Everest, let's consider the world's deepest canyon, the Challenger Deep, existing 11
kilometers
below the ocean's surface, some six times deeper than the Grand Canyon.
That's deep enough to sink Mount Everest into and still have over 2.1
kilometers
of water sitting atop its newly submerged peak.
In fact, with roughly 50% of the world's population living within 100
kilometers
of the coastline and with most of the remainder living close enough to lakes, rivers, or swamps, all of which ultimately lead to the ocean, virtually every single person on the planet has the opportunity to influence the general health and nature of the world ocean.
First, you have to be going eight
kilometers
a second.
Well, first, much of the continent is more than three
kilometers
above sea level, and temperature decreases with elevation.
The first of these numbers is associated with the discovery that was made a few
kilometers
from this hall, at CERN, home of this machine, the largest scientific device ever built by the human race, the Large Hadron Collider.
You know, despite all my scientific skepticism, I found myself hiking into the jungle, guided by my aunt, over 700
kilometers
away from the nearest volcanic center, and well, honestly, mentally preparing myself to behold the legendary "warm stream of the Amazon."
It flows hot for 6.24
kilometers.
It's neither magmatic or volcanic in origin, and again, over 700
kilometers
away from the nearest volcanic center.
Earth's diameter is about 400
kilometers
larger, but essentially the same size.
The problem is, all the interesting physics happens in the core, and the core is hidden behind thousands of
kilometers
of iron and carbon and silicon.
This particular balloon, our latest balloon, can navigate a two-mile vertical stretch of sky and can sail itself to within 500 meters of where it wants to go from 20,000
kilometers
away.
This ever-expanding infrastructural matrix already consists of 64 million
kilometers
of roads, four million
kilometers
of railways, two million
kilometers
of pipelines and one million
kilometers
of Internet cables.
We have less than 500,000
kilometers
of borders.
And these are not mere little dots on the map, but they are vast archipelagos stretching hundreds of
kilometers.
For example, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory predicted where the asteroid Toutatis was going to be four years in advance to within 30
kilometers.
In those four years, Toutatis traveled 8.5 billion
kilometers.
That object was about 10
kilometers
across, and 10
kilometers
is roughly the cruising altitude of a 747 jet.
The man's sons were banished to live three
kilometers
away, in a cowshed.
That is your itinerary, you will probably travel 53,000 kilometers, visit around, I think, 46 institutions, and just FYI, you might release 10 tons of CO2 emissions.
It's 27
kilometers
in circumference.
At that speed, they go around that 27
kilometers
11,000 times a second.
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