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So in 10, 12 generations, you're going to have
thousands
of offspring, and millions of offspring.
I think this tree is going to be bad news for bigots, because they're going to have to realize that they are cousins with
thousands
of people in whatever ethnic group they happen to have issues with, and I think you look back at history, and a lot of the terrible things we've done to each other is because one group thinks another group is sub-human, and you can't do that anymore.
So I have all these hundreds and thousands, millions of new cousins.
But even with what we've learned so far, we can see that by thinking carefully and by focusing on those problems that are big, solvable and neglected, we can make a truly tremendous difference to the world for
thousands
of years to come.
It's because the modern automobile is the product of more than 100 years of work by hundreds and
thousands
and tens of
thousands
of people.
As a final example, and perhaps my favorite example, is that in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, a woman reached out in one of our singing apps to try to get people to join in to sing with her on a version of "Lean on Me." Now, in these apps, there's this thing that allows any user to add their voice to an existing performance by any other user or group of users, so in some sense, she's created this kind of global ad hoc corral of strangers, and within weeks,
thousands
of people joined in on this, and you can kind of see people coming from all around the world and all these lines converging on the origin where the first rendition of the song was sung, and that's in Tokyo.
It's very simple: Many
thousands
of years ago, we discovered that if we carried on doing the same things, we wouldn't die, because the things that we've done before by definition didn't kill us, and therefore as long as we carry on doing them, we'll be okay, and it's very sensible not to do anything new, because it might kill you.
They supply them to repair workshops like this one in Agbogbloshie and the tens of
thousands
of technicians across the country that refurbish electrical and electronic equipment, and sell them as used products to consumers that may not be able to buy a new television or a new computer.
So Adam Smith starts by asking you to imagine the death of
thousands
of people, and imagine that the
thousands
of people are in a country you are not familiar with.
So this raises the question: Would you sacrifice
thousands
of lives to save your little finger?
It was totally irrational, but the amazing thing, the astounding thing, is that
thousands
of young Japanese-American men and women again went from behind those barbed-wire fences, put on the same uniform as that of our guards, leaving their families in imprisonment, to fight for this country.
In fact,
thousands
of people came out the next day to support the performing arts in Lahore, and this simultaneously thrilled and terrified Faizan, and he ran up to a woman who had come in with her two small children, and he said, "You do know there was a bomb here yesterday, and you do know there's a threat here today."
So within a slime mold you might find
thousands
or millions of nuclei, all sharing a cell wall, all operating as one entity.
The animation will feature data from
thousands
of researchers collected over decades, data on what this virus looks like, how it's able to infect cells in our body, and how therapeutics are helping to combat infection.
The Stasi also shadowed tens of
thousands
of people using specially trained agents and secret cameras to document every step one took.
For
thousands
of years, these stories were called divine right.
Every day, there are
thousands
more like them.
Thousands
of artifacts are packed in white plastic bags just like the ones you see on CSI.
Galaxies merge, they collide at hundreds of
thousands
of miles per hour.
Now,
thousands
of discoveries will come from this project, but I'm just going to tell you about two of the ideas about origins and evolution that may be transformed by our access to data at this scale.
Three years to find 42 supernovae by searching through tens of
thousands
of galaxies.
But if looking through tens of
thousands
of galaxies revealed 42 supernovae that turned our understanding of the universe on its head, when we're working with billions of galaxies, how many more times are we going to find 42 points that don't quite match what we expect?
Like humans at work, they specialize into
thousands
of different cellular careers, or cell types.
Here we're packaging tens of
thousands
of individual cells, each into its own tiny water droplet for its own molecular analysis.
And now, whenever we do an experiment, we analyze tens of
thousands
of individual cells.
And that challenge is that we'd like to learn from the brains of hundreds of
thousands
of living people.
And something as complex as the function of our brains is shaped by the interaction of
thousands
of genes.
So in the course of just a few weeks, tens of
thousands
of people came to see our exhibit, and since that time, we've grown our numbers of supporters both locally and among design enthusiasts all over the world.
And that, if there's no more rain, there'll be nothing to drink, or to eat?" I heard that, and my eyes welled up and I went, "Oh, my! I've been studying this for 20 years, with a super computer, dozens,
thousands
of scientists, and we are starting to get to this conclusion, which he already knows!"
For example, in KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa, they've built tens of
thousands
of these pit latrines.
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