Journey Towards The Center Of The Earth

Google TechTalks July 27, 2006 Bill Stone, Ph.D., President Stone AeroSPACE. Bill will be a speaker at the TED conference next year. ABSTRACT We live in an era when Earth has been considered long-conquered. The highest mountains, darkest rain forests, the Arctic and Antarctic wastelands have all been explored and mapped. The ocean's deepest points have been plumbed and detailed isobenthic maps exist. These former frontiers are now relegated to places for ever more detailed scientific investigations (especially the oceans for their bio-diversity), extreme sports, and for commercial exploitation. But as places for true exploration they are a part of history. While truly known only to a...