What comes after rockets that can land?
What happened, Mark?
Why don't we have a space elevator today?
We don't have a space elevator today,
and I really wouldn't hold your breath about getting one in the near future.
Could you keep up on a test made for a goat?
And then finally I picked up, you know, all the goats had sort of these yellow tags on their ears.
Oh my gosh, you cheated like an AI.
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For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feltman. 5.5 trillion tons.
That's how much ice has melted out of the Greenland ice sheet since just 2002.
It's a number almost too large to wrap your head around.
But if you took that much water and used it to fill Olympic-sized pools, which hold 600,000 gallons,
by the way, you'd have a lap pool for every person living in Africa and Europe,
all 2.2 billion of them.
The reason we know this is that for more than 20 years,
satellites have been watching and measuring the so-called mass loss from Greenland's ice sheet,
one of only two ice sheets in the world.