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I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.

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Robert Ballard
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 30
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Wichita
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Robert Duane Ballard
Robert D. Ballard
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Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.
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Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.
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Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
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It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
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Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.
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I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!
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Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
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Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.
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I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.
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I can't travel without Sudoku.
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So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
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The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.
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