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Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:06:05 PM
And in late 2000 branson expanded into world diplomatic affairs.
00:51:54 His water-skiing stunt behind the blimp was more than a publicity prank.
00:51:59 It had become the birth of mineseeker, an international project to remove landmines from countries around the world.
00:52:08 >> We were discussing this and the possibility, if we can pull richard behind an airship at 60 miles an hour across a lake and across the ocean, then couldn't we drag something over these mine fields and explode them?
00:52:19 >> Working with the united nations, virgin airship developed a system to strap radar to a blimp.
00:52:25 >> We discovered the radar would actually pick p up the mines and position them exactly, even if they were plastic mines.
00:52:33 >> In november 2000 the system was tested at kosovo.
00:52:37 It mapped a field at 1,000 square feet per second, about 2,000 times as fast as humans.
00:52:45 Branson helped use the system to remove the more than 60 million land mines buried throughout the world.
00:52:50 >> The exciting thing for virgin now is there's a lot we can achieve, both in a business sense and I suppose in a social sense as well.
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