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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.61,0:00:03.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, last month, the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.100,0:00:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it is going out of print
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.75,0:00:09.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after 244 years, which made me nostalgic,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.57,0:00:15.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I remember playing a game with the colossal encyclopedia set in my hometown library
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.22,0:00:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back when I was a kid,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.47,0:00:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe 12 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.81,0:00:20.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wondered if I could update that game,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.45,0:00:22.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just for modern methods,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.47,0:00:24.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but for the modern me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.17,0:00:25.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I tried.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.31,0:00:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to an online encyclopedia,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.61,0:00:29.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wikipedia, and I entered the term "Earth."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.37,0:00:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can start anywhere, this time I chose Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.04,0:00:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the first rule of the game is pretty simple.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.52,0:00:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just have to read the article
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.01,0:00:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until you find something you don't know,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.59,0:00:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and preferably something your dad doesn't even know.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.70,0:00:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in this case, I quickly found this:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.58,0:00:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The furthest point from the center of the Earth
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.87,0:00:49.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not the tip of Mount Everest, like I might have thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.35,0:00:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the tip of this mountain: Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.64,0:00:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Earth spins, of course, as it travels around the sun,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.16,0:00:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the Earth bulges a little bit around the middle,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.15,0:00:59.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like some Earthlings.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.27,0:01:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even though Mount Chimborazo isn't the tallest mountain in the Andes,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.16,0:01:05.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's one degree away from the equator,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.84,0:01:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's riding that bulge, and so the summit of Chimborazo
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.84,0:01:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the farthest point on Earth from the center of the Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.24,0:01:15.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is really fun to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.19,0:01:16.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I immediately decided,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.13,0:01:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is going to be the name of the game,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.03,0:01:19.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or my new exclamation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.51,0:01:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can use it at TED.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.48,0:01:21.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chimborazo, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.81,0:01:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like "eureka" and "bingo" had a baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.52,0:01:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know that;
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.24,0:01:26.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's pretty cool.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.87,0:01:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chimborazo!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.54,0:01:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the next rule of the game is also pretty simple.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.16,0:01:35.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just have to find another term and look that up.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.05,0:01:37.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now in the old days, that meant getting out a volume
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.22,0:01:38.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and browsing through it alphabetically,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.85,0:01:39.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe getting sidetracked,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.89,0:01:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was fun.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.60,0:01:43.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nowadays there are hundreds of links to choose from.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.23,0:01:45.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can go literally anywhere in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.18,0:01:46.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think since I was already in Ecuador,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.91,0:01:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just decided to click on the word "tropical."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.62,0:01:54.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That took me to this wet and warm band of the tropics
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.86,0:01:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that encircles the Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.04,0:01:58.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that's the Tropic of Cancer in the north
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.50,0:02:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Tropic of Capricorn in the south,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.02,0:02:00.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that much I knew,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.83,0:02:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I was surprised to learn this little fact:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.03,0:02:05.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are not cartographers' lines,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.29,0:02:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like latitude or the borders between nations,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.90,0:02:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are astronomical phenomena caused by the Earth's tilt,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.63,0:02:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they change.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.23,0:02:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They move; they go up, they go down.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.88,0:02:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, for years, the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.08,0:02:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have been steadily drifting towards the equator
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.72,0:02:24.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the rate of about 15 meters per year,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.22,0:02:25.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nobody told me that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.39,0:02:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.21,0:02:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chimborazo!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.63,0:02:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to keep the game going, I just have to find another term and look that one up.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.40,0:02:37.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since I'm already in the tropics, I chose "Tropical rainforest."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.20,0:02:39.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Famous for its diversity, human diversity.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.49,0:02:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are still dozens and dozens of uncontacted tribes living on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.01,0:02:49.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're all over the globe, but virtually all of them live in tropical rainforests.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.49,0:02:54.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the only place you can go nowadays and not get "friended."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.47,0:03:03.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The link that I clicked on here was exotic in the beginning and then absolutely mysterious at the very end.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.33,0:03:10.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It mentioned leopards and ring-tailed coatis and poison dart frogs and boa constrictors and then
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.09,0:03:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coleoptera,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.03,0:03:15.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which turn out to be beetles.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.27,0:03:17.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I clicked on this on purpose,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.49,0:03:19.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if I'd somehow gotten here by mistake,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.04,0:03:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it does remind me, for the band, see "The Beatles,"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.14,0:03:22.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the car see "Volkswagon Beetle,"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.75,0:03:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I am here for beetle beetles.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.48,0:03:29.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the most successful order on the planet by far.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.35,0:03:33.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something between 20 and 25 percent of all life forms on the planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.60,0:03:35.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including plants, are beetles.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.41,0:03:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means the next time you are in the grocery store,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.59,0:03:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take a look at the four people ahead of you in line.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.80,0:03:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Statistically, one of you is a beetle.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.81,0:03:48.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if it is you, you are astonishingly well adapted.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.41,0:03:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are scavenger beetles that pick the skin and flesh off of bones in museums.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.44,0:03:56.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are predator beetles, that attack other insects
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.52,0:03:58.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and still look pretty cute to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.31,0:04:01.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are beetles that roll little balls of dung
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.81,0:04:05.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,great distances across the desert floor to feed to their hatchlings.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.11,0:04:08.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This reminded the ancient Egyptians of their god Khepri,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.89,0:04:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who renews the ball of the sun every morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.20,0:04:14.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is how that dung-rolling scarab
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.23,0:04:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,became that sacred scarab on the breastplate of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.60,0:04:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beetles, I was reminded, have the most romantic flirtation in the animal kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.52,0:04:28.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fireflies are not flies, fireflies are beetles.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.11,0:04:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fireflies are coleoptera, and coleoptera communicate in other ways as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.42,0:04:34.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like my next link:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.79,0:04:37.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The chemical language of pheromones.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.73,0:04:43.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the pheromone page took me to a video of a sea urchin having sex.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.79,0:04:47.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.47,0:04:50.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.55,0:04:52.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the link to aphrodisiac.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.63,0:04:54.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that's something that increases sexual desire,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.29,0:04:56.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,possibly chocolate.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.49,0:04:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a compound in chocolate called phenethylamine
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.99,0:05:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that might be an aphrodisiac.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.36,0:05:03.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as the article mentions,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.62,0:05:04.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of enzyme breakdown,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.83,0:05:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's unlikely that phenethylamine will reach your brain if taken orally.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.00,0:05:12.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So those of you who only eat your chocolate, you might have to experiment.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.11,0:05:15.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The link I clicked on here,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.92,0:05:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"sympathetic magic," mostly because I understand what both of those words mean.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.12,0:05:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But not when they're together like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.28,0:05:26.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do like sympathy. I do like magic.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.27,0:05:27.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when I click on "sympathetic magic,"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.61,0:05:32.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get sympathetic magic and voodoo dolls.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.42,0:05:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the boy in me getting lucky again.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.56,0:05:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sympathetic magic is imitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.08,0:05:39.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you imitate something, maybe you can have an effect on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.49,0:05:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the idea behind voodoo dolls, and possibly also cave paintings.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.92,0:05:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The link to cave paintings takes me to some of the oldest art known to humankind.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.00,0:05:51.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would love to see Google maps inside some of these caves.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.01,0:05:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got tens-of-thousands-years-old artwork.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.51,0:05:59.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Common themes around the globe include large wild animals and tracings of human hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.51,0:06:01.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,usually the left hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.83,0:06:06.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have been a dominantly right-handed tribe for millenia,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.29,0:06:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so even though I don't know why a paleolithic person would trace his hand
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.63,0:06:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or blow pigment on it from a tube,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.61,0:06:16.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can easily picture how he did it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.20,0:06:20.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I really don't think it's that different form our own little dominant hand avatar
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.71,0:06:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right there that I'm going to use now to click on the term for "hand,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.04,0:06:30.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go to the page for "hand," where I found the most fun and possibly embarrassing bit of trivia
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.33,0:06:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've found in a long time. It's simply this:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.36,0:06:36.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The back of the hand is formally called the opisthenar.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.55,0:06:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that's embarrassing, because up until now,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.22,0:06:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every time I've said, "I know it like the back of my hand,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.42,0:06:45.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've really been saying, "I'm totally familiar with that,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.78,0:06:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just don't know it's freaking name, right?"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.36,0:06:52.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the link I clicked on here,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.02,0:06:56.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, lemurs, monkeys and chimpanzees have the little opisthenar.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.17,0:07:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I click on chimpanzee, and I get our closest genetic relative.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.42,0:07:04.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pan troglodytes, the name we give him, means "cave dweller."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.41,0:07:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.92,0:07:07.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He lives in rainforests and savannas.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.74,0:07:10.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just that we're always thinking of this guy as lagging behind us,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.95,0:07:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,evolutionarily or somehow uncannily creeping up on us,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.01,0:07:17.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in some cases, he gets places before us.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.68,0:07:22.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like my next link, the almost irresistible link, Ham the Astrochimp.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.91,0:07:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I click on him, and I really thought he was going to bring me full circle twice, in fact.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.08,0:07:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's born in Cameroon,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.28,0:07:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is smack in the middle of my tropics map,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.04,0:07:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and more specifically his skeleton wound up in the Smithsonian museum getting picked clean by beetles.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.27,0:07:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In between those two landmarks in Ham's life,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.22,0:07:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he flew into space.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.76,0:07:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He experienced weightlessness and re-entry
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.99,0:07:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,months before the first human being to do it,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.56,0:07:52.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.43,0:07:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I click on Yuri Gagarin's page,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.58,0:07:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get this guy who was surprisingly short in stature,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.50,0:07:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,huge in heroism.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.04,0:08:03.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Top estimates, Soviet estimates, put this guy at 1.65 meters,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.38,0:08:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is less than five and a half feet tall max,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.38,0:08:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,possibly because he was malnourished as a child.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.18,0:08:11.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Germans occupied Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.73,0:08:14.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Nazi officer took over the Gagarin household,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.83,0:08:17.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he and his family built and lived in a mud hut.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.63,0:08:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Years later, the boy from that cramped mud hut
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.18,0:08:24.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would grow up to be the man in that cramped capsule
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.68,0:08:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the tip of a rocket
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.30,0:08:29.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who volunteered to be launched into outer space,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.79,0:08:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first one of any of us to really physically leave this planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.14,0:08:35.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he didn't just leave it,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.49,0:08:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he circled it once.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.01,0:08:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fifty years later, as a tribute,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.24,0:08:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the International Space Station, which is still up there tonight,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.16,0:08:48.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,synced its orbit with Gagarin's orbit,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.24,0:08:49.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the exact same time of day,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.41,0:08:50.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and filmed it,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.97,0:08:54.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you can go online and you can watch over 100 minutes
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.55,0:08:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what must have been an absolutely mesmerizing ride,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.06,0:08:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,possibly a lonely one,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.20,0:09:01.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first person to ever see such a thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.48,0:09:02.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then when you've had your fill of that,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.91,0:09:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can click on one more link.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.52,0:09:06.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can come back to Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.87,0:09:09.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You return to where you started.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.03,0:09:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can finish your game.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.24,0:09:14.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just need to find one more fact that you didn't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.83,0:09:17.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for me, I quickly landed on this one:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.31,0:09:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Earth has a tolerance of about .17 percent from the reference spheroid,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.33,0:09:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is less than the .22 percent allowed in billiard balls.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.30,0:09:28.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the kind of fact I would have loved as a boy.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.73,0:09:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found it myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.98,0:09:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's got some math that I can do.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.25,0:09:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm pretty sure my dad doesn't know it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.38,0:09:39.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What this means is that if you could shrink the Earth to the size of a billiard ball,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.87,0:09:45.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you could take planet Earth, with all its mountain tops and caves
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.88,0:09:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and rainforests, astronauts and uncontacted tribes and chimpanzees, voodoo dolls,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.56,0:09:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fireflies, chocolate, sea creatures making love in the deep blue sea,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.08,0:09:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you just shrink that to the size of a billiard ball,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.28,0:10:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would be as smooth as a billiard ball,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.18,0:10:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,presumably a billiard ball with a slight bulge around the middle.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.80,0:10:10.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's pretty cool.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.59,0:10:12.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know that.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.53,0:10:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chimborazo!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.76,0:10:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.64,0:10:16.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)