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We found our first Blue Zone about 125 miles off the coast of Italy, on the island of Sardinia.
We found our second Blue Zone on the other side of the planet, about 800 miles south of Tokyo, on the archipelago of Okinawa.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine miles went well, the last mile's proving incredibly stubborn.
They are saying, "This is 35 miles per gallon.
I'm going to do the environmentally right thing, I'm going to buy the Prius, 50 miles per gallon."
Another person walks into the lot, and they're about to buy a Hummer, nine miles per gallon, fully loaded, luxury.
I'm going to take off some of that weight, and I'm going to buy a Hummer that's 11 miles per gallon."
Because we don't care about miles per gallon, we care about gallons per mile.
Miles per gallon is the way we present things.
See what's really puzzling and frustrating about the last mile, to me, is that the first 999 miles are all about science.
Inside, there's a dedicated student living some 60 miles away from home.
This is energy farming, so you're talking about many square miles, thousands of times more area than you think of as a normal energy plant.
And for those of you who prefer miles per hour, that's over 45 miles per hour in water.
When King Henry of England died, he had 18,000 things in his house, but that was the entire wealth of England, so ... (Laughter) And with that entire wealth of England, King Henry could not buy any antibiotics, he could not buy refrigeration, he could not buy a trip of a thousand miles, whereas this rickshaw wallah in India could save up and buy antibiotics and he could buy refrigeration.
And the only problem with that was that I lived in a little village in Canada, 600 miles from the nearest ocean.
Because we actually created a reality where six months later, I find myself in a Russian submersible two and a half miles down in the north Atlantic, looking at the real Titanic through a view port.
And I walked 10 miles or so, all morning, to get there, to the medicine man.
You stare out at a horizon that is a million miles away, and all you see are flooded canals and this thick, rich marshland.
They brood in a town 150 miles away, where the soil conditions are better for building nests.
Every morning, they fly 150 miles into the farm.
And every evening, they fly 150 miles back.
I said, "Miguel, do they fly 150 miles to the farm, and then do they fly 150 miles back at night?
You can have winds 20 to 40 miles an hour.
This is 2,000 miles across.
We're looking at Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system, superimposed on a map of the United States, 3,000 miles across.
We believe that the oceans were in the northern hemisphere, and this area in blue, which shows a depression of about four miles, was the ancient ocean area on the surface of Mars.
We cover hundreds of miles, and we fly about 450 miles an hour.
It's going 18 thousand miles an hour.
Ten miles, 100 miles, 1,000 miles later, they find themselves in dirty, dangerous, demeaning work.
The mid-ocean ridge is a huge mountain range, 40,000 miles long, snaking around the entire globe.
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