refrigerator, are one and the same. And this was another case where electricity and magnetism became unified into electromagnetism. So now we have two examples: one, gravity being unified, terrestrial and celestial gravity, and then electricity and magnetism.So I'll tell you about some more in a moment, but one thing that's kind of important because the goal is, of course, to
inate sorry I I must have dozed off I brought your mail from the University terrestrial species like us I will never understand
And maybe something like one in 1,000 solar systems is like our own, with a big, cold Jupiter, terrestrial planets the right distance from a Sun-like star to have water on their surface.We know that these things are common.
were the ones that were being very good at being small. Now, during the Cretaceous period, there was this burst of evolution, not just of mammals, but of lots of other species, that we call the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution. It's a bit of a bombastic term, maybe. But in many ways, it was revolutionary because it touched so many aspects of life and of food webs and of ecosystems. And what really triggered it, it seems, was the rise of flowers. So in the world today, flowers are all
It's far more diverse than terrestrial fauna. Though terrestrial fauna is wonderful and I spent many, many years focusing on that, I was just kind of blown away by the animals in the invertebrate realm.
He calculated that at that time, 10,000 years ago, we and our livestock accounted for a fraction of 1% by weight of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass. What do you think the percentage is today?
of these flowering plants. So that humble, what seems like a very humble origin of a flower, it triggered something groundbreaking and something revolutionary. And mammals in particular really blossom during the Cretaceous-Terrestrial revolution. And a lot of the modern groups of mammals, it's not that they quite got their start then, but their immediate ancestors got their start during the Cretaceous-Terrestrial revolution. And one of the key things is that there were all these mammals that were eating bugs, eating fruits and eating flowers. And
Now, of course, two conservation biologists saving half of the Earth sounds like a great idea. But half of terrestrial Earth is already in some form of agriculture. And we have nearly 8 billion people and all of our roads and airports and detritus and the other half.
And chickadees are not exceptions. 96% of our terrestrial birds rear their young on insects, and most of those insects are caterpillars. So let's just say, there's a lot of evidence for this, that birds need caterpillars.
That's the Smithsonian group that said we've lost 3 billion birds in the last 50 years. And we divided the terrestrial birds into the species that require insects and the species that do not. Things like doves and finches can actually reproduce on seeds.
that we've hinted at with this record. But this is a terrestrial setting, and essentially unheard of at this point.
Chimps are terrible, terrible people. So the more terrestrial you are, the more territorial you are, things like that.
you recognized yes as this symbol here refers to uh terrestrial beings so my dreams seem to inform me listen to this passage individuals of the great race of yth have the ability to project
So the highest biodiversity in the world is out in Southeast Asia. This is marine and terrestrial . As you come across the South Pacific, there's a gradual attenuation in biodiversity.
And the talk I'm gonna give today is observations-- things we can learn from autonomy and robotics in extreme environments that are helpful to more terrestrial and everyday environments in which, as you all know, autonomy and robotics are coming. Driverless cars, robotic surgery, practically any place where the human relationship to a particular task is changed or troubled by robots.
process as you know is still we're still in its infancy we don't know how this is all going to end of course we terrestrial people um think it's going to end next week because we're running out of money um but if we can i i describe it as being um i'm sure people have seen the
Squirrels -- as far as speed goes, we're ridiculously slow. We're like on terrestrial animals, squirrels beat us. Just about anything will beat us in the short run.
So the first thing which is always the hardest thing with a new bus design is getting a chance to actually fly it in space. Because flying things terrestrially is much, much easier than flying things in space. You don't have the problems with thermal and you don't have the problems with temperature swings that you do in space.
blossom during the Cretaceous-Terrestrial revolution. And a lot of the modern groups of mammals, it's not that they quite got their start then, but their immediate ancestors got their start during the Cretaceous-Terrestrial revolution. And one of the key things is that there were all these mammals that were eating bugs, eating fruits and eating flowers. And that is involved in the evolution of a new type of tooth, a new type of molar tooth, the type of molar teeth that we have that can both shear food and crush food. These are very distinctive teeth,
But they also house about 80% of our biodiversity worldwide. They store about 80% of the terrestrial carbon. They're the source of-- in Canada, they're the source of almost all of our fresh water.
day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms? So that human condition has its own fears and insecurities and anxieties built into it? White supremacy, male
It's the greatest collection of terrestrial plants.
is the greatest use of terrestrial earth.
of a percent by weight of the terrestrial vertebrae biomass of the animals we're leaving out all the
is a um this is just a terrestrial world at the moment uh but this is showing the
to record and connect the terrestrial to the celestial so happenings on the
a straight logarithmic plot. Because any life that's on a terrestrial planet, we can reasonably assume that the same tropes of intelligence, sociability, languagee--
And that's what really drew me to the marine invertebrate realm as an artist, was the inherent sort of design and elegance expressed in this realm of life. It's far more diverse than terrestrial fauna. Though terrestrial fauna is wonderful and I spent many, many years focusing on that, I was just kind of blown away by the animals
And it's probably the best terrestrial analog that we have on the planet to Mars.
We now fix more nitrogen than all terrestrial ecosystems combined.
Brown bears eat a wide variety of terrestrial foods; they eat berries and various types of vegetation, they eat insects, ground squirrels, and of course they eat fish.
The idea again here that a terrestrial sort of earth-bound governing body, in this case one is an extremely poor track record for dealing
And the reason for that was that solids-- in the terrestrial context, one starts with a solid
But it's the Amazon which is the greatest terrestrial expression of life on Earth.
And we've colonized and come to dominate nearly every terrestrial biomome.
He's basically their lead navigator for airborne terrestrial exploration, not extraterrestrial-- so basically flying, exploring earth in flight.
insects and the worms and the fish and the Sea terrestrial vertebrate
70% of it is covered by water of the terrestrial landscape.
livestock, all the domesticated vertebrates on one side, including us. And you put all the rest of the terrestrial vertebrates on the other side. Animals, not the insects, not the worms, not the fish.
Planetary scientists, much like terrestrial geologists, kind of usually pick a spot, and they say, here's my study area.
I don't know how long it took to do the terrestrial ones.
of it in it a lot in what you might call terrestrial activities and so I would go over to Russia and fly MiG's or 0g
And we found seven planets, seven terrestrial planets.
Human beings had spent nearly the entirety of our existence as low terrestrial creatures, ground dwellers
And the reason why we had the ability to change this to work with terrestrial data is because of a need that came
- We suggest that a resilient national PNT architecture would be signals from space, terrestrial broadcast,
The New Zealand tribes have a very ambitious plan to develop their green economy, both the terrestrial economy-- they're sitting on lots of land that could
then that we otherwise maybe wouldn't be able to consider if we're stuck in a terrestrial mindset and just looking at our societies here on Earth.
Each of these projects now has access to scientific insights and monitoring data anywhere on Earth's terrestrial surface.
And, if they were to disappear, so would most of our flowering plants. And if our flowering plants disappeared, that would drastically change energy flow through our terrestrial ecosystems. That the food webs that support our animals-- the amphibians, the reptiles, the birds, the mammals, even our freshwater fishes-- those food buds would collapse and those animals