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VV: No, we actually spend quite a bit of time.
If I'm down there for four days, something's gone so wrong I'm probably not going to use it, but it's about three hours down to the deepest part of the ocean and then we can spend usually three or four hours and then another three hours up.
We spend valuable time putting on make up, choosing the right picture and Instagram filter, and composing ideas that will undoubtedly change the world in 140 characters or less.
For example, what value is being broadcasted when we spend more time smiling at our phone than smiling with other people?
The more time we spend with people that we're predicted and programmed to like, the less we can connect with people who are different from ourselves.
I thought I would spend 20 bucks.
Now, submersibles are great, wonderful things, but if you're going to spend 30,000 dollars a day to use one of these things and it's capable of going 2,000 feet, you're not going to go farting around up here in a couple of hundred feet, you're going to go way down deep.
We're up to seven new species per hour of time we spend at that depth.
They visit an average of one and a half times a day, spend an average of 35 minutes a visit, and look at 50 pages a visit.
What I do is I bring together scientists and artists of all kinds, and we spend a week in the forest on these little platforms; and we look at nature, we look at trees, we look at the canopy, and we communicate, and exchange, and express what we see together.
But there are hundreds of other companies, small- to medium-size companies around the world, that need to do this work, but they either: 1) can't imagine that their platform would be used for abuse, or 2) don't have the money to spend on something that is not driving revenue.
We spend billions and billions of dollars on clothing, on makeup, on the latest trend of glasses, but what we don't spend money and time on is connecting with each other in a way that is truthful and honest and stripped of those visual receptors.
And if you spend a lot of time in hospital, you'll see a lot of types of irrationalities.
Or: There are several people who own originals, and I have been attempting to contact them and reach them, hoping that they will let me spend a few minutes in the presence of one of the real birds, maybe to take a picture, or even to pull out the hand-held laser scanner that I happen to own that fits inside a cereal box, and could maybe, without even touching their bird, I swear, get a perfect 3D scan.
And if you spend as enough time as I have looking at misinformation, you know that this is just one example of many that taps into people's deepest fears and vulnerabilities.
If we can give each other worlds, experiences at scale where we can spend a meaningful amount of our time, we can change what it means to be an individual.
We can get this information from the Internet, from The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, lots of sources like that, or we can get it from asking experts who spend their lives studying places and problems, because those experts know this information.
The people of the wall spend their days gathering up works of art and literature, from all across the land.
Another very sad example is that in the US, we spend between seven and eight hundred million dollars a year on what's called "financial literacy."
You know, in the US people spend crazy amounts of money on weddings?
People spend up to a year or two years of income on funerals.
I've been privileged to spend my career catalyzing and connecting these movements throughout the tropics, and I've learned that as conservationists, our goal must be to win at scale, not just to lose more slowly.
On average, a consumer would spend one hour on their mobile phone shopping.
When you spend so much time with a sport, it ceases to be just that and becomes a mirror.
Many of you may not spend hours swimming non-stop.
But who do you spend the most amount of your time with?
They spend suppertime summarizing the story they read in ninth-grade English that day, or explaining how Newton's laws of motion work.
Looking at our primate relatives, we can see that the palmaris longus is sometimes absent in those that spend more time on the land, but always present in those that spend more time in trees.
She only wants to spend time with her friends.
But when I was growing up in Minnesota, one of my favorite things to do on a summer evening was grab my old Raggedy Ann sleeping bag and take it out into a field behind my house, where I would spend hours looking at the night sky.
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