1. Space Bubbles

Curious Cases

BBC

Technology, Science

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

While chatting at the back of class, best mates Abi and Sofia got curious about bubbles. How do you make really giant ones? Could you even get one around the entire planet?

Hannah and Dara set out to investigate. They hear from a renowned 'bubbleologist', and learn how NASA helped him blow his way to a world record. They coax a physicist to reveal the secrets of his peer-reviewed bubble-juice formula, and investigate how bubbles work in space and in the ocean.

Our curious duo also discover an audacious project aiming to build a Brazil-sized raft of bubbles... in space!

Contributors:

Dr Helen Czerski, UCL Dr Justin Burton, Emory University Dr Awesome, Bubbleologist Professor Carlo Ratti, MIT

Producer: Ilan Goodman Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem A BBC Studios Audio Production

Transcript

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0:00.0	You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one.
0:06.0	I'm Siddhartha Cesset, an assistant commissioner of Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:11.0	I pull a lot of levers to support a diverse range of
0:13.7	podcasts on all sorts of subjects, relationships, identity, comedy, even one
0:18.9	that mixes poetry, music and inner city life. So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next
0:26.1	fact checking, a feature and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its
0:31.5	audience and maybe that's you. So if you like this
0:34.6	podcast check out some others on BBC Sounds. You're about to listen to a brand
0:39.9	new episode of Curious Cases. Shows are going to be released weekly, wherever you get your
0:44.0	podcast, but if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episodes first on BBC Sounds.
0:49.3	BBC Sounds.
0:51.3	BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts.
0:54.0	I'm Hannah Fry, and I'm Dara O'Brie.
0:59.0	And this is curious cases.
1:01.0	The show will we take your quirkiest
1:02.8	questions, your cruncheest conundrums. And then we solve them.
1:05.6	With the power of science. I mean do we always solve them?
1:08.2	I mean the hit rate is pretty low. But it is with science.
1:11.8	It is with science. It is with science.
1:14.0	Dara, welcome.
1:18.0	Hannah, it's a delight to be here.
1:20.0	Your first curious case.
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