Planet in sentence

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In the past century, flight connected our planet, in the next, it will reconnect our local communities, and I hope it will reconnect us to each other.

This shining delta in landlocked Botswana is the jewel of the Kalahari, more valuable than diamonds to the world's largest diamond producer and celebrated in 2014 as our planet's 1000th UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This is the largest undeveloped river basin on the planet, spanning an area larger than California.

Home to the largest remaining population of elephants on the planet.

Over 80 percent of our planet's land surface is now experiencing measurable human impact: habitat destruction and illegal wildlife trade are decimating global wildlife populations.

Downstream, this represents water security for millions of people and more than half of the elephants remaining on this planet.

Somewhere in some other planet, orbiting some very distant star, maybe in a another galaxy, there could well be entities that are at least as intelligent as we are, and are interested in science.

But the most amazing thing is that there are three billion billion billion of these tiny cells on the planet, and we didn't know they existed until 35 years ago.

There was no life on the planet, there was no oxygen in the atmosphere.

So what happened to change that planet into the one we enjoy today, teeming with life, teeming with plants and animals?

So these tiny phytoplankton, collectively, weigh less than one percent of all the plants on land, but annually they photosynthesize as much as all of the plants on land, including the Amazon rainforest that we consider the lungs of the planet.

They are the smallest and most abundant photosynthetic cell on the planet.

One of those test tubes has a billion Prochlorococcus in it, and as I told you earlier, there are three billion billion billion of them on the planet.

So Prochlorococcus has been my muse for the past 35 years, but there are legions of other microbes out there maintaining our planet for us.

And wasn't it reason that gave us the means to despoil the planet and threaten our species with weapons of mass destruction?

And we're doing this because so many of the countries rich in natural resources like oil or diamonds or timber are home to some of the poorest and most dispossessed people on the planet.

Now we've come up against anonymous companies in lots of our investigations, like in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where we exposed how secretive deals involving anonymous companies had deprived the citizens of one of the poorest countries on the planet of well over a billion dollars.

LP: Yeah, but it turns out, we did some weather simulations which probably hadn't really been done before, and if you control the altitude of the balloons, which you can do by pumping air into them and other ways, you can actually control roughly where they go, and so I think we can build a worldwide mesh of these balloons that can cover the whole planet.

Soon the majority of people on the planet will have one, and the idea of connecting everyone to both knowledge and each other will endure.

But a cautionary note: We also need to periodically pry them away from their modern miracles, the computers, phones, tablets, game machines and TVs, take them out into the sunlight so they can experience both the natural and design wonders of our world, our planet and our civilization.

And at the grand scale, time lapse allows us to see our planet in motion.

And decades of data give us the view of our entire planet as a single organism sustained by currents circulating throughout the oceans and by clouds swirling through the atmosphere, pulsing with lightning, crowned by the aurora Borealis.

It's not hard to imagine placing a DBC on another planet.

Scientists on Earth could then send the digital instructions to that DBC to make new medicines or to make synthetic organisms that produce oxygen, food, fuel or building materials, as a means for making the planet more habitable for humans.

Astronomers now believe that every star in the galaxy has a planet, and they speculate that up to one fifth of them have an Earth-like planet that might be able to harbor life, but we haven't seen any of them.

I want to take that of an Earth-like planet about another star.

Here we are out at the Oort Cloud, outside the solar system, and we're starting to see the sun move into the field of view and get into where the planet is.

Now we're at Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor star, and the planet is gone.

All we're seeing is the big beaming image of the star that's ten billion times brighter than the planet, which should be in that little red circle.

It's scattering inside the telescope, creating that very bright image that washes out the planet.

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