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The surprise minute can be found in an ambulance.
I was playing tennis and I didn’t feel well after playing tennis.
Halfway to the health center the siren went on.
I’m lying there taking a look at the.
Stealing the ambulance and very first thing I believed, you gotta be joking me.
I have not invested any of the cash yet and work that tough.
You can take me out now.
Second thing I believed was no, I’m not going.
I still have things to do.
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My name is Hank Rogers.
I’m retired from the video game company and now I’m dealing with my objective in life.
initially objective is to end making use of carbon based couple of seconds to develop a moon base upon the moon by the end of the next years.
How much time do you wind up costs here?
About half the time that I’m in Why I’m here.
If I had my option, I will be here all the time.
Yeah.
I can see why.
I was born in Netherlands, and I can trace back my interest in video games, method back.
I suggest I utilized to play monopoly when I was still in grade school.
When I was 11, my familly relocated to Newyork city and I had my possibility, To touch a computer system for the very first time.
And generally I fell for computer technology.
I wound up going to University of Hawaii, learnt computer technology and I minored in Dungeons and Dragons.
And individuals utilized to inform me just how much of a wild-goose chase that was.
And I can state today, do you have any concept just how much cash I made by being that method?
So I studied computer technology, and after that I chased after a lady to Japan.
And I was residing in Japan for 6 years prior to desktop computers in fact came out.
And I chose to compose a function playing video game.
That’s like Dungeons and Dragons.
So I composed the very first function playing in Japan.
In the meantime, I began taking a trip all around the world trying to find video games to give Japan.
The 4th time I was standing at the Tetris maker, I understood I was type of connected to this video game.
It was a really easy video game.
It was method easier than any other video game so I pursued the rights and type of the rest is history.
Change begins Here it begins with with yourself.
So I purchased the cattle ranch due to the fact that I required, well, I made some cash and this is my dream.
When someone asked me what am I going to be when I mature when I was 7 years of ages, I stated I wish to be a cowboy.
There are no cowboys in Holland, however I wished to have a cattle ranch with horses.
And so that’s how I got the cattle ranch prior to I figured that that part of it out and when I had the cattle ranch I stated well I’ve type of made the modification to myself initially therefore I discovered my objective in life after that.
And my very first objective is to end making use of carbon based fuel.
So we began the structure here in Hawaii to end usage of carbon based fuel in Hawaii their greatest legislation today has actually been that we have the ability to Have a required in Hawaii to go 100% eco-friendly by 2045 renewable resource, or initially I gotta go hundred percent renewable.
And then I can talk from a position of how simple it is or how tough or whatever, a minimum of I’m talking from experience.
After I offered my business my next automobile was expected to be an Aston Martin.
James Bond.
And then I began the structure and my real next automobile was a Prius.
[LAUGH] Then I need to live, stroll the walk and talk the talk.
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There are a great deal of individuals that are currently updated.
They’re off grid utilizing lead acid batteries which is a truly nasty chemical and you need to change them every 3 years.
Our batteries last 20 to 30 years so we’re changing lead acid batteries due to the fact that our batteries however our greatest consumers today is they remain in Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico is recuperating from.
Big cyclone and all that cyclone damage.
And even if you had panels in Puerto Rico when the grid decreases, they do not enable you to utilize your panels due to the fact that it might feed electrical energy into the grid when they’re repairing it.
So solar installers and photovoltaic panels we and we teach them how to set up the batteries.
and now they have sufficient stone energy in the evening so all the emergency situation shelters can be emergency situation shelters.
and we need to be doing the exact same thing here due to the fact that we’re going to get struck, its simply a matter of time and theres absolutely nothing various about the facilities we have here From Puerto Rico.
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So, my objective now is to make a backup of life on Earth by going to other worlds by the end of the next years.
I’m a computer system researcher, you make backups.
You do not like put all your eggs in one hard drive and after that when that hard drive decreases, you lose whatever.
I believe it has to do with making a backup of life, not always a backup of human life.
The most convenient world to get to from here is the moon.
It’s not even a world however So call it a world.
And then obviously Mars is the most comparable to our world.
So I began going to conferences and gradually I got more included, and now I’m really included.
And we did a series of, we dealt with NASA, and did a series of long period of time objectives And it’s not an unreasonable amount of time.
We have great deals of innovations that we didn’t have in the old days.
We have 3D printing.
We have multiple-use rockets.
We have AI.
We have robotics.
So these are all innovations that we didn’t have When we went to the moon in the very first location.
If you have, all of life on one location and a rock from area comes and damages all of it, that would be a catastrophe.
Period.
If we are, on 2 worlds, the possibility of termination of all of life, basically decreases to no.
So we require to have at least among the location where life as we understand would exist.
I believe I will be done when the world is relocating the best instructions, when I see that we are decreasing carbon based flooring.
We’re decreasing the quantity of co2 we took into the environment, and we have a method forward to no.
Then I feel alright, we’re relocating the best instructions.
It’s gonna take more time than the rest of my life to draw down all of the co2 from the environment that we have actually set up there.
But I’ll enjoy.
If it’s Happening.
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