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So to see the planet, we have to do something about all of that light.
If we can feather the edges, soften those edges so we can control diffraction, well then we can see a planet, and in the last 10 years or so we've come up with optimal solutions for doing that.
So the whole planet needs a lot of energy, and so far we've been running mostly on fossil fuel.
And if the whole planet would run on fusion, we could extract the fuel from the ocean.
What we'd ideally want is images of the whole planet every day.
Satellites like these have done an amazing job at helping us to understand our planet.
It's the largest constellation of Earth-imaging satellites in human history, and it's going to provide a completely radical new data set about our changing planet.
The Earth rotates every 24 hours, so we scan every point on the planet every 24 hours.
It's a line scanner for the planet.
We don't take a picture of anywhere on the planet every day, we take a picture of every single place on the planet every day.
We'll see crops as they grow in all the fields in every farmer's field around the planet every day.
We can track all of these things, every tree on the planet every day.
We want to empower NGOs and companies and scientists and journalists to be able to answer the questions that they have about the planet.
In short, we want to democratize access to information about our planet.
And what I would like to leave you with is the following question: If you had access to imagery of the whole planet every single day, what would you do with that data?
Temperatures this low give scientists a window into the inner workings of matter, and allow engineers to build incredibly sensitive instruments that tell us more about everything from our exact position on the planet to what’s happening in the farthest reaches of the universe.
The different scales that give you these kinds of patterns range over an enormous range of magnitude, roughly 14 orders of magnitude, from the small microscopic particles that seed clouds to the size of the planet itself, from 10 to the minus six to 10 to the eight, 14 orders of spatial magnitude.
And if I think about a weather model, that spans about five orders of magnitude, from the planet to a few kilometers, and the time scale from a few minutes to 10 days, maybe a month.
That changed the radiation balance of the whole planet.
There was less energy coming in than there was before, so that cooled the planet, and those red lines and those green lines, those are the differences between what we expected and what actually happened.
And to do this, ants solve the problem of collective search, and this is a problem that's of great interest right now in robotics, because we've understood that, rather than sending a single, sophisticated, expensive robot out to explore another planet or to search a burning building, that instead, it may be more effective to get a group of cheaper robots exchanging only minimal information, and that's the way that ants do it.
It addresses one of the biggest health issues on the planet, the number one cause of death in children under five.
TED.com launched, later that year, with a bunch of videos from past talks, including mine, and I started receiving "four in the morning" citations from what seemed like every time zone on the planet.
So it's fortunate that my career as a biologist lets me dive deeply into the lives of some truly wondrous creatures that share our planet: fireflies.
As you know, there are already more than a billion hungry people on this planet.
It turns out fish is the most cost-effective protein on the planet.
And I do feel a little ridiculous that I'm up here on this stage and I'm choosing to use my time to tell you about a 100-year-old story about the invention of a squishy kid's toy, but I'd argue that the invention of the teddy bear, inside that story is a more important story, a story about how dramatically our ideas about nature can change, and also about how, on the planet right now, the stories that we tell are dramatically changing nature.
We're here living in the eye of a great storm of extinction where half the species on the planet could be gone by the end of the century, and so why is it that we come to care about some of those species and not others?
Now, society's reach has expanded all the way to the top of the world, and it's made even these, the most remote, the most powerful bears on the planet, seem like adorable and blameless victims.
Some of the largest vessels ever constructed on planet Earth were built right at the end of my street.
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