Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking hits zero g

Prevoditelj: Davorin Jelačić Recezent: Mislav Ante Omazić - EFZG

Those of you who know me know how passionate I am

Oni među vama koji me znaju, znaju koliko sam

about opening the space frontier.

strastven u vezi otvaranja svemirske granice.

So when I had the chance to give the world's expert in gravity

I zato, kada sam dobio priliku svjetskom stručnjaku za gravitaciju

the experience of zero gravity, it was incredible.

pružiti iskustvo nulte gravitacije, bilo je to nevjerojatno.

And I want to tell you that story.

I to je priča koju vam želim ispričati.

I first met him through the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics.

Prvi puta sam ga upoznao na dodjeli nagrade Archon X za genomiku.

It's a competition we're holding, the second X PRIZE,

To je natječaj kojega organiziramo, druga X nagrada,

for the first team to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days.

za prvi tim koji sekvencira 100 ljudskih genoma u 10 dana.

We have something called the Genome 100 --

Imamo nešto što zovemo Genome 100,

100 individuals we're sequencing as part of that.

100 pojedinaca koje sekvenciramo u sklopu toga.

Craig Venter chairs that event.

Craig Venter je predsjedavajući tog projekta.

And I met Professor Hawking,

I upoznao sam profesora Hawkinga,

and he said his dream was to travel into space.

koji mi je rekao kako mu je san oputovati u svemir.

And I said, "I can't take you there,

Rekao sam, ne mogu vas odvesti tamo,

but I can take you into weightlessness into zero-g.

ali vas mogu povesti u bestežinsko stanje nulte gravitacije.

And he said, on the spot, "Absolutely, yes."

I on je na licu mjesta odgovorio, apsolutno da.

Well, the only way to experience zero-g on Earth

No, jedini način da iskusite nultu gravitaciju na Zemlji

is actually with parabolic flight, weightless flight.

je tijekom paraboličnog leta, bestežinskog leta.

You take an airplane, you fly over the top, you're weightless for 25 seconds.

Poletite zrakoplovom, letite preko vrhunca, i nemate težinu 25 sekundi,

Come back down, you weigh twice as much.

spustite se natrag i sada ste dvostruko teži.

You do it again and again.

I ponavljate to iznova i iznova.

You can get eight, 10 minutes of weightlessness --

Možete dobiti osam, deset minuta bestežinskog stanja --

how NASA's trained their astronauts for so long.

tako NASA već dugo trenira svoje astronaute.

We set out to do this.

Odlučili smo to učiniti.

It took us 11 years to become operational.

Trebalo nam je 11 godina da to operacionaliziramo.

And we announced that we were going to fly Stephen Hawking.

I objavili smo da ćemo letjeti sa Stephenom Hawkingom.

We had one government agency and one company aircraft operator say,

Jedna vladina agencija i jedan operater zrakoplovne kompanije rekli su nam,

you're crazy, don't do that, you're going kill the guy.

ludi ste, nemojte to raditi, ubit ćete čovjeka.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And he wanted to go.

A on je želio ići.

We worked hard to get all the permissions.

Ozbiljno smo se naradili da isposlujemo sve dozvole.

And six months later, we sat down at Kennedy Space Center.

I šest mjeseci kasnije, sjeli smo u svemirskom centru Kennedy.

We had a press conference,

Održali smo tiskovnu konferenciju,

we announced our intent to do one zero-g parabola,

objavili svoju nakanu da izvedemo jednu nula G parabolu --

give him 25 seconds of zero-g.

i pružimo mu 25 sekundi nulte gravitacije.

And if it went really well, we might do three parabolas.

A ako stvari budu išle stvarno dobro, možda ćemo izvesti tri parabole.

Well, we asked him why he wanted to go up and do this.

Pitali smo ga zašto želi poletjeti i uraditi ovo.

And what he said, for me, was very moving.

Ono što je rekao, za mene je bilo vrlo dirljivo.

He said, "Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk

Rekao je, „Rizik da će život na Zemlji biti izbrisan

of being wiped out by disaster ...

nekom katastrofom sve je veći i veći...

I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.

Mislim da ljudska vrsta nema budućnost ako ne krene u svemir.

I therefore want to encourage public interest in space."

Zato želim ohrabriti interes javnosti za svemir."

We took him out to the Kennedy Space Center,

Odveli smo ga u svemirski centar Kennedy,

up inside the NASA vehicle, into the back of the zero-g airplane.

u NASA-ino vozilo, u stražnji dio zrakoplova za nultu gravitaciju.

We had about 20 people who made donations --

Nekih dvadeset ljudi je doniralo --

we raised $150,000 in donations for children's charities --

skupili smo 150.000 humanitarnih donacija za djecu --

who flew with us.

i oni su letjeli s nama.

A few TEDsters here.

I nekoliko TED-ovaca koji su ovdje.

We set up a whole ER.

Postavili smo i hitnu službu.

We had four emergency room doctors and two nurses on board the airplane.

U zrakoplovu smo imali četiri liječnika hitne službe i dvije medicinske sestre.

We were monitoring his PO2 of his blood, his heart rate, his blood pressure.

Mjerili smo PO2 u njegovoj krvi, otkucaje srca, krvni tlak.

We had everything all set in case of an emergency;

Sve smo organizirali za hitan slučaj --

God knows, you don't want to hurt this world-renowned expert.

Ne želite, zaboga, naškoditi ovom svjetski poznatom stručnjaku.

We took off from the shuttle landing facility,

Uzletjeli smo s uzletišta,

where the shuttle takes off and lands.

gdje šatlovi uzlijeću i slijeću.

And my partner Byron Lichtenberg and I

Moj ortak – Byron Lichtenberg – i ja

carefully suspended him into zero-g.

pažljivo smo ga podigli u nultoj gravitaciji.

Once he was there, [we] let him go

Zatim smo ga pustili

to experience what weightlessness was truly like.

da iskusi kako to doista izgleda biti bez težine.

And after that first parabola, you know,

Nakon te prve parabole, znate,

the doc said everything is great. He was smiling, and we said go.

doktor je rekao da je sve odlično, on se smijao, i rekli smo može.

So we did a second parabola.

Pa smo izveli i drugu parabolu.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

And a third.

I treću.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

We actually floated an apple in homage to Sir Isaac Newton

Pa smo i jabuku pustili lebdjeti u počast Sir Isaacu Newtonu

because Professor Hawking holds the same chair at Cambridge

jer profesor Hawking drži istu katedru na Cambridgeu

that Isaac Newton did.

koju je držao i Isaac Newton.

And we did a fourth, and a fifth and a sixth.

Pa smo izveli četvrtu, i petu, i šestu.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And a seventh and an eighth.

I sedmu i osmu.

And this man does not look like a 65-year-old wheelchair-bound man.

A ovaj čovjek ne izgleda poput šezdesetpetogodišnjeg čovjeka u kolicima.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

He was so happy.

Bio je presretan.

We are living on a precious jewel,

Svi živimo na vrijednom dragulju,

and it's during our lifetime that we're moving off this planet.

i dogodit će se za našeg života da ćemo se početi seliti s ovog planeta.

Please join us in this epic adventure.

Molim vas da nam se pridružite u ovoj epskoj pustolovini.

Thank you so much.

Hvala vam lijepa.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)