Astronauts

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince look back at Planet Earth from the unique perspective of space with the help of astronauts Nicole Stott and Chris Hadfield, Space scientist Carolyn Porco and comedian and author Katy Brand. What can we learn about our own planet by looking back at it from space? The panel talk about the emotional response of looking back on earth, either from the ISS or via amazing photographs like Voyager's Pale Blue Dot, and the importance of realising our own place and significance in the vast cosmos.

Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.1	Hello, I'm Robin Hicks.
0:06.0	And I'm Brian Cox, and this is the Infinite Monkey Cage,
0:08.7	and we are floating in space.
0:11.3	I mean, we're not, but it's radio, so imagine.
0:13.9	We can't. We imagine we're floating in space now.
0:15.9	As listeners probably know, anyway, regular listeners will know
0:18.5	that basically we cooked up the rules of this show
0:21.5	predominantly to me astronauts.
0:23.9	We pretend we're interested in other things.
0:26.1	Obviously we've done shows about bats and flies and black holes
0:28.6	and infinity, why pandas are overrated,
0:31.7	the psychic abilities of fungi,
0:34.1	whether crows are cleverer than physicists,
0:37.4	but basically all of that is just a ruse,
0:40.9	so we can meet astronauts and Brian
0:42.8	can wear his hand stitch space 1999.
0:45.9	I got a minute. The psychic abilities of fungi
0:48.9	are crows cleverer than physicists.
0:52.7	I remember the crow show.
0:54.8	I was on that crow show, and you set that crow on me.
0:57.9	You put stuff near me that it liked,
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