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That's the contract where ARPA gave the first million dollars to get this thing started.
Some of the sizes of the ships, ranging all the way up to ship mass of 8 million tons.
And pulse-system yield: we're looking at 20-kiloton yield for an effective thrust of 10 million newtons.
Mo took a contrarian bet on Africa when he founded Celtel International in '98 and built it into a mobile cellular provider with 24 million subscribers across 14 African countries by 2004.
In 2013, Midol took in 48 million dollars in sales revenue.
You've got a long snout that has 200 million scent receptors in it, and you have wet nostrils that attract and trap scent molecules, and your nostrils even have slits so you can take big nosefuls of air.
One gossip website had over five million hits for this one story.
In fact, it took Mother Nature 540 million years of hard work to do this task, and much of that effort went into developing the visual processing apparatus of our brains, not the eyes themselves.
In 2009, the ImageNet project delivered a database of 15 million images across 22,000 classes of objects and things organized by everyday English words.
In a typical neural network we use to train our object recognition model, it has 24 million nodes, 140 million parameters, and 15 billion connections.
Over the last decade, seven million foreigners gained American citizenship.
If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.
And you can see over 30 million people died from that epidemic.
Now, when we got out of hibernation in January 2014, we started arriving at a distance of two million kilometers from the comet in May.
So we had to know the velocity of Rosetta much better than one centimeter per second, and its location in space better than 100 meters at 500 million kilometers from Earth.
That's 100 million kilos a day.
From these drawings, we know that this creature, which lived about 100 million years ago, was very big, it had tall spines on its back, forming a magnificent sail, and it had long, slender jaws, a bit like a crocodile, with conical teeth, that may have been used to catch slippery prey, like fish.
Way too many, of course, but it does mean that every year, there's eight million kids who don't have to die from poverty.
Experts tell us that there's about 35 million people in slavery today.
This project has been very modestly funded at about a million dollars a year, and the kind of bang you can get for your buck in terms of leveraging a criminal justice system that could function if it were properly trained and motivated and led, and these countries, especially a middle class that is seeing that there's really no future with this total instability and total privatization of security I think there's an opportunity, a window for change.
He said, "Seventy million rice farmers are having trouble growing rice."
Last year, with the help of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, three and a half million farmers grew Sub1 rice.
This to me looks like a thing that is well worth doing and I can imagine that if things turn out okay, that people a million years from now look back at this century and it might well be that they say that the one thing we did that really mattered was to get this thing right.
MR: Yeah, well, every year we pay them 10 percent of 1.5 billion, 150 million dollars, last year 100 million dollars.
The only cure for pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis, emphysema, COPD, what Leonard Nimoy just died of, is a lung transplant, but sadly, there are only enough available lungs for 2,000 people in the U.S. a year to get a lung transplant, whereas nearly a half million people a year die of end-stage lung failure.
And to do a capsule, there's an amazing amount of complexity that goes into it, and it weighed about 3,000 pounds, and to raise 3,000 pounds to an altitude of 135,000 feet, which was my target altitude, it would have taken a balloon that was 45 to 50 million cubic feet.
It's over 300 million molecular weight.
We now, from our discovery around the world, have a database with about 20 million genes, and I like to think of these as the design components of the future.
We have the ability now to build a large robot that can make a million chromosomes a day.
When you think of processing these 20 million different genes or trying to optimize processes to produce octane or to produce pharmaceuticals, new vaccines, we can just with a small team, do more molecular biology than the last 20 years of all science.
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