Planet
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We live in the United States, it has the greatest health care system on the
planet.
But what we know is, out of the top 50 countries on the
planet
with organized health care systems, we rank 37th.
If palliative care were a cancer drug, every cancer doctor on the
planet
would write a prescription for it.
When astronauts live aboard the International Space Station, they're orbiting the
planet
250 miles high.
If we were to go 400 years into the past to Western Europe, which even then, was one of the more literate parts of the planet, you would see that about 15 percent of the population knew how to read.
We have now entered in the 6X, the sixth major extinction on this
planet.
The Earth invented the computer Internet for its own benefit, and we now, being the top organism on this planet, are trying to allocate resources in order to protect the biosphere.
The largest organism on the
planet
is a mycelial mat, one cell wall thick.
So, we build the carbon banks on the planet, renew the soils.
I'd like to show you some maps, which have been drawn by Ben Hennig, of the
planet
in a way that most of you will never have seen the
planet
depicted before.
It's only been a few centuries since we've actually, most of us, thought of our
planet
as spherical.
In my own little discipline of human geography, a cartographer called Waldo Tobler was drawing new maps of the planet, and these maps have now spread, and I'm going to show you one of them now.
Everybody on the
planet
is given an equal amount of space.
It was very low until around about 1850, and then the rate of population growth began to rise so that around the time I was born, when we first saw those images from the moon of our planet, our global population was growing at two percent a year.
If it had carried on growing at two percent a year for just another couple of centuries, the entire
planet
would be covered with a seething mass of human bodies all touching each other.
Our
planet
is stabilizing.
This is a map showing where the water falls on our
planet.
And you see the monsoons moving around the planet, and the
planet
almost appears to have a heartbeat.
This is the map produced by taking satellite images, if you remember those satellites around the
planet
in the very first slide I showed, and producing an image of what the Earth looks like at night.
I can give you good news story after good news story about what is getting better in the planet, but we tend to concentrate on the bad news that is immediate.
And we in Exeter today are on the far edge of the
planet.
He said, imagine that we received a message from an alien civilization, which read: "People of Earth, we will arrive on your
planet
in 50 years.
It's actually much more similar in size to our
planet
Jupiter and its moons, even though it's seven Earth-size planets orbiting a star.
And so that means for every two orbits of the outer planet, the next one in orbits three times, and the next one in four, and then six, nine, 15 and 24.
One beat, say, for every time a
planet
goes around.
The first thing you'll hear will be a note for every orbit of each planet, and just keep in mind, this music is coming from the system itself.
But part of the reason I found this interesting is, I started noticing that we're very aware of all the species that are going extinct on the
planet
as a result of human habitation expansion, and no one seems to be paying attention to all the species that are actually living; they're surviving.
They're found everywhere on the
planet
except for the Arctic and the southern tip of South America.
We know more about other planets than our own, and today, I want to show you a new type of robot designed to help us better understand our own
planet.
The first reason is just how vast oceans are, covering 70 percent of the planet, and yet we know they drive complex planetary systems like global weather, which affect all of us on a daily basis, sometimes dramatically.
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