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To gaze upward and know we're part of a vast system of heavenly bodies -- it is simultaneously humbling and utterly thrilling. TEDTalks collects some amazing thinking on our place in the universe. Carolyn Porco takes us on a thrilling flyby of Saturn and its moons, while Burt Rutan, Bill Stone and George Dyson talk about how we could start putting more humans up into orbit and beyond.
Sir Martin Rees and David Deutsch offer throughtful talks worth savoring, on our physical and metaphysical place in space.
And Steve Jurvetson shares the sheer glee of shooting off rockets into the near cosmos.
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Elon Musk: The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity ...
21:04 Posted: Mar 2013
Views: 596,866 | Comments: 246
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Jon Nguyen: Tour the solar system from home
07:53 Posted: Jun 2012
Views: 313,198 | Comments: 59
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Seth Shostak: ET is (probably) out there -- get ready
18:40 Posted: Jun 2012
Views: 337,230 | Comments: 208
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Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe?
21:47 Posted: Apr 2012
Views: 1,230,642 | Comments: 620
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Kirk Sorensen: Thorium, an alternative nuclear fuel
10:03 Posted: Jan 2012
Views: 499,584 | Comments: 289
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Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids
14:16 Posted: Nov 2011
Views: 895,388 | Comments: 126
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Lucianne Walkowicz: Finding planets around other stars
04:24 Posted: Aug 2011
Views: 528,157 | Comments: 129
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Honor Harger: A history of the universe in sound
11:16 Posted: Jun 2011
Views: 300,115 | Comments: 70
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Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse
15:54 Posted: May 2011
Views: 716,155 | Comments: 268
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Anil Ananthaswamy: What it takes to do extreme astrophysics
14:08 Posted: Apr 2011
Views: 278,755 | Comments: 67
