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And NASA have calculated that the sea level will rise, it is definite, by one meter in the next 100 years, the same time that my mum has been on
planet
Earth.
We want to limit the increase of the average temperature of the
planet
to two degrees.
As an Indian-born French national who lives in the United States, my hope is that we transcend this artificial North-South divide so that we can harness the collective ingenuity of innovators from around the world to cocreate frugal solutions that will improve the quality of life of everyone in the world, while preserving our precious
planet.
And if you have more consideration for others, you are not going to ransack that
planet
that we have and at the current rate, we don't have three planets to continue that way.
There are thousands if not millions of them on the
planet.
EE: I think that if you think about women, women are the primary resource of the
planet.
If you think that the U.N. now says that one out of three women on the
planet
will be raped or beaten in their lifetime, we're talking about the desecration of the primary resource of the planet, we're talking about the place where we come from, we're talking about parenting.
You are looking at the three happiest people on the
planet
that day, because I am leaving.
Vaccines eradicated terrible diseases such as smallpox from the
planet
and succeeded in significantly reducing mortality due to other diseases such as measles, whooping cough, polio and many more.
As a scientist, I've been a crew commander for a NASA Mars simulation last year, and as an artist, I create multicultural community art all over the
planet.
But also, it's the driest location on the planet, and that makes it extremely interesting to build our project, because suddenly, sustainability is something we have to explore fully.
But all the time I was out there doing these strange kayak voyages in odd, beautiful parts of this planet, I always thought in the back of my mind about Project Orion, and how my father and his friends were going to build these big ships.
Military weapon versions that carried hydrogen bombs that could destroy half the
planet.
So snakes have heat pits with which to detect infrared, and the ghost knifefish has electroreceptors, and the star-nosed mole has this appendage with 22 fingers on it with which it feels around and constructs a 3D model of the world, and many birds have magnetite so they can orient to the magnetic field of the
planet.
And what we're seeing is, can we expand the human umvelt so that he comes to have, after several weeks, a direct perceptual experience of the economic movements of the
planet.
We're at a tipping point in human history, a species poised between gaining the stars and losing the
planet
we call home.
Unfortunately, at the same time as we're discovering this treasure trove of potentially habitable worlds, our own
planet
is sagging under the weight of humanity.
I study planetary habitability as influenced by stars with the hopes of finding the places in the universe where we might discover life beyond our own
planet.
Now, as somebody who is deeply embedded in the search for life in the universe, I can tell you that the more you look for planets like Earth, the more you appreciate our own
planet
itself.
Each one of these new worlds invites a comparison between the newly discovered
planet
and the planets we know best: those of our own Solar System.
Consider the extent to which we have not colonized the deserts of our own planet, places that are lush by comparison with Mars.
You use gravitational flybys, slingshots, where you pass by a
planet
at very low altitude, a few thousand kilometers, and then you get the velocity of that
planet
around the sun for free.
That's one of the cameras on the lander, and it just looks under the solar arrays, and you see the
planet
Mars and the solar array in the distance.
What this tells you is this is the concentration of these two materials at the time the solar system was formed, so we learned things about which materials were there when the
planet
was made.
And we can ask all those questions because there has been a revolution in our understanding of what a habitable
planet
is, and today, a habitable
planet
is a
planet
that has a zone where water can stay stable, but to me this is a horizontal definition of habitability, because it involves a distance to a star, but there is another dimension to habitability, and this is a vertical dimension.
Think of it as conditions in the subsurface of a
planet
where you are very far away from a sun, but you still have water, energy, nutrients, which for some of them means food, and a protection.
And you know, it's getting worse, because we won't be able to find the physical evidence of where we are coming from on this planet, and the reason being is that anything that is older than four billion years is gone.
Only then will we be able to know where those signatures are hiding, and only then will we be able to send our rover to the right places where we can sample those rocks that may be telling us something really important about who we are, or, if not, maybe telling us that somewhere, independently, life has appeared on another
planet.
You only need to go back 3.5 billion years ago in the past of a
planet.
Geologists are using it to go back in the past of our own
planet.
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