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From the Ted Talk by Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking's zero g flight

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Those of you who know me know how passionate I am about opening the space feornitr. So when I had the chance to give the world's eprxet in gravity the experience of zero gravity, it was incredible. And I want to tell you that story. I first met him through the acrhon X PRIZE for Genomics. It's a cmitiopoten we're holding, the second X PRIZE, for the first team to sqeeunce 100 human genomes in 10 days. We have something called the gonmee 100 — 100 individuals we're sequencing as part of that. Craig Venter chairs that event.

And I met possoferr Hawking, and he said his daerm was to travel into space. And I said, "I can't take you there, but I can take you into weightlessness into zero-g. And he said, on the spot, "Absolutely, yes." Well, the only way to epirneecxe zero-g on Earth is actually with parabolic flight, weightless flight. You take an airplane, you fly over the top, you're wglhseties for 25 scdneos. Come back down, you weigh twice as much. You do it again and again. You can get eight, 10 minutes of weightlessness — how NASA's trained their astronauts for so long. We set out to do this. It took us 11 years to become operational. And we announced that we were going to fly Stephen Hawking. We had one government agency and one company aircraft operator say, you're crazy, don't do that, you're going kill the guy.

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Those of you who know me know how passionate I am about opening the space ________. So when I had the chance to give the world's ______ in gravity the experience of zero gravity, it was incredible. And I want to tell you that story. I first met him through the ______ X PRIZE for Genomics. It's a ___________ we're holding, the second X PRIZE, for the first team to ________ 100 human genomes in 10 days. We have something called the ______ 100 — 100 individuals we're sequencing as part of that. Craig Venter chairs that event.

And I met _________ Hawking, and he said his _____ was to travel into space. And I said, "I can't take you there, but I can take you into weightlessness into zero-g. And he said, on the spot, "Absolutely, yes." Well, the only way to __________ zero-g on Earth is actually with parabolic flight, weightless flight. You take an airplane, you fly over the top, you're __________ for 25 _______. Come back down, you weigh twice as much. You do it again and again. You can get eight, 10 minutes of weightlessness — how NASA's trained their astronauts for so long. We set out to do this. It took us 11 years to become operational. And we announced that we were going to fly Stephen Hawking. We had one government agency and one company aircraft operator say, you're crazy, don't do that, you're going kill the guy.

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Those of you who know me know how passionate I am about opening the space frontier. So when I had the chance to give the world's expert in gravity the experience of zero gravity, it was incredible. And I want to tell you that story. I first met him through the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics. It's a competition we're holding, the second X PRIZE, for the first team to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days. We have something called the Genome 100 — 100 individuals we're sequencing as part of that. Craig Venter chairs that event.

And I met Professor Hawking, and he said his dream was to travel into space. And I said, "I can't take you there, but I can take you into weightlessness into zero-g. And he said, on the spot, "Absolutely, yes." Well, the only way to experience zero-g on Earth is actually with parabolic flight, weightless flight. You take an airplane, you fly over the top, you're weightless for 25 seconds. Come back down, you weigh twice as much. You do it again and again. You can get eight, 10 minutes of weightlessness — how NASA's trained their astronauts for so long. We set out to do this. It took us 11 years to become operational. And we announced that we were going to fly Stephen Hawking. We had one government agency and one company aircraft operator say, you're crazy, don't do that, you're going kill the guy.

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