Bill Stone: The caves and the moon

http://www.ted.com Bill Stone, a maverick cave explorer who has plumbed Earths deepest abysses, discusses his efforts to mine lunar ice for space fuel and to build an autonomous robot for studying Jupiters moon Europa.

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[Za7a7aZ]

It is so stupid to see governments planning wars,billions and triljons of dollars being invested in machines that can kill people more efficient as the machine before and so on.Why can governments not leave other nations in peace and respect their way of living?Let them do as Bill Stone does.Use those brilliant scientist and money for exploring space,oceans,Earth and finding ways to help poverty and other problems that need to be solved for a better world. Who wants war besides the greedy scum?

[Memington]

Just look out for Creepers down there...

[ax2kool]

My goodness what a brave soul. We need more men like him - bold, daring and with an immense spirit of adventure that completely shatters the conventions of the society! Hero indeed

[unkleskratch]

great- first stunt we'll pull on europa is to pollute the ocean with nuclear waste when that nuclear drill is dumped- yay. go team.

[MrUniversality]

He is amazing, they had success in final trial in Antarctica last yr. Next he will start building his team after the probe is otw. I had to fight back tears when he first made the announcement. Anyone on that team is mythic. I mean Astronauts risk their lives all the time going up on machines; But this is beyond their ability. This guy and his team is going on a 1 way trip in order to give humanity its first real foothold in space. I don't even know how to put words to that. God damn hero.... 

[SporeZoo]

You are right, I ment forgotten in my comment instead of nobody, bad English from my side, i love this guy and his spirit for adventure.

[hinckleyconstruction]

Bill is a dreamer, an inventor, an explorer, and a pioneer. I have worked for the man over the last four years......He is as far from a "nobody" as it gets. You should stick to talking about things that know.

[Kakksakkamaddafakka]

Im a rope access climber. Was sitting home with a friend watching some ted talks. Told him i think a college of mine is climbing caves like this, and then BAM! 1:45 there he is in the center. Think my friend believed me? Turns out hes doing some work for NASA down there.

[chimemonster]

when these guys dive in , don't they find gold , diamonds , arkenstone , balrogs etc ??

[MohammadX101]

take it easy, explore the inner earth first before you go outside of it. it looks like you might've been through the polar opening and you shit in your pants so much that you vowed not to leave home without wearing a big pair of baggy pants.

buy a gas station in a small little town and forget about everything