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These little insects, it's the same ones we see out here [in India], two inches long, five centimeters long, flying in their millions, 400 miles across the ocean, at 2,000
meters
up.
Flying at night over the Indian Ocean 2,424
meters.
For that, unfortunately, four
meters
wingspan is not enough.
And with 200 square
meters
of solar power on our plane, we can produce the same energy than 200 little lightbulbs.
The goal is to take off, end of this year for the first test, but mainly next year, spring or summer, take off, on our own power, without additional help, without being towed, climb to 9,000
meters
altitude.
Canopied trees as tall as 40 meters, 130 feet, grow densely in the area.
So what we calculated was that the limbs were moving at the peak speed ranging from 10
meters
per second all the way up to 23
meters
per second.
This is just to show you that if you have cameras or different types of sensors, because it's 1.8
meters
tall, you can see over obstacles like bushes and those kinds of things.
And over the tops of them is 3,000 to 4,000
meters
of water creating enormous pressure, forcing water down through the cracks toward the center of the earth, until it hits a magma chamber where it becomes superheated and supersaturated with minerals, reverses its flow and starts shooting back to the surface and is ejected out of the earth like a geyser at Yellowstone.
Then, 20 years later, the same company built a cement factory 100
meters
from where they live now.
But what is really amazing, because of this deepness here, Emperor penguins can go down more than 500
meters
and they can hold their breath for 23 minutes.
Magellanic penguins, the ones that I work on, they can dive to about 90
meters
and they can stay down for about 4.6 minutes.
Humans, without fins: 90 meters, 3.5 minutes.
Oh, by the way, if you think you're very far from some of this oil, 1000
meters
below where you're all sitting is one of the largest producing oil fields in the world.
This is Mount Visoke, with a small crater lake in its summit at 3,700
meters.
Now, with regard to the resources, we've developed the first wind map of the world, from data alone, at 80
meters.
So when dolphins are separating by less than 20 meters, less than half the time they need to use whistles.
But all of the time when they separate by more than 100 meters, they need to use these individually distinctive whistles to come back together again.
But it turns out that when just a single boat is approaching a group of dolphins at a couple hundred
meters
away, the dolphins will start whistling, they'll change what they're doing, they'll have a more cohesive group, wait for the boat to go by, and then they'll get back to normal business.
Well, in a place like Sarasota, Florida, the average interval between times that a boat is passing within a hundred
meters
of a dolphin group is six minutes.
Tony, the expedition manager, he said, "Look Ben, you've got to find 500
meters
of flat, thick safe ice."
I wanted to do the swim at 5,300
meters
above sea level.
I swam as quickly as I could for the first hundred meters, and then I realized very, very quickly, I had a huge problem on my hands.
He believed that there was a vast, deep, and living microbial biosphere underneath all the world's oceans that extends hundreds of
meters
into the seafloor, which is cool, but the only problem is that nobody believed him, and the reason that nobody believed him is that ocean sediments may be the most boring place on Earth.
This is at about 60 feet or 18 meters, depth.
Now, West Antarctica is the part of the continent where the ice is grounded on sea floor as much as 2,000
meters
deep.
When that ice melts, sea level rises by six
meters.
We drilled through a hundred
meters
of floating ice shelf then through 900
meters
of water and then 1,300
meters
into the sea floor.
And now we know that in our recent past it melted back and formed again, and sea level went up and down, six
meters
at a time.
We do expect to see a sea-level rise on the order of one to two
meters
by the end of this century.
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