Boaty McBoatface and the deadliest time in history
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Boaty McBoatface - the unmanned yellow submarine, has just come back from his first mission! We chat to Professor Wynn, the chief scientist of robotics at the national oceanography centre, to find out all about it, plus where he's off to next.
We also find out about the bottom of the sea with Marina Ventura and Techno Mum explains about those clever cards banks give us with money on them!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from the children's radio station Fun Kids. |
| 0:03.9 | Listen on DAB Digital Radio across the UK or online at funkidslive.com. |
| 0:10.0 | It's the Fun Kids Science Weekly. Give me your ears. I've got a treatly. |
| 0:15.5 | With science facts, they'll be so sweetly. It's just you and me though, so let's be discreetly. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, welcome to episode four of the Fun Kid Science Weekly. My name's Dan. We're talking about the most amazing, epic |
| 0:28.3 | and dangerous science-y stuff. Today, we'll find out how ducks are changing their diet. |
| 0:34.4 | We'll chat to the man behind Boatty McBoatface's very first mission, and you can find |
| 0:39.2 | out the one century, give or take a few 50 years, that you don't want to go time travelling to |
| 0:45.3 | when that becomes a thing. First, though, we're heading to school, only it's not like any school |
| 0:49.3 | that you know, right? You don't have to put your hand up to ask a question. You don't have to remember |
| 0:53.3 | about 50,000 types of rulers in your pencil case for maths. |
| 0:57.4 | And I'm fairly certain that everyone's homework ends up eaten by a Martian dog from Mars. |
| 1:03.2 | We're going to Deep Space High, where Professor Pulsar is telling us about wormholes. |
| 1:07.4 | Deep Space High, the universe handbook with the Science and Technology Facilities Council. |
| 1:15.6 | Jump into a wormhole and travel to Deep Space High, the school in space, but hurry because lessons are a part to be there. |
| 1:27.1 | Right. Right, sit down you lot. We've got a lot to get through. Where's stats? |
| 1:35.7 | We've got a problem, sir. When Alex came through the wormhole, chirps got sucked in. He's disappeared. |
| 1:42.8 | Look, we can't hang about because some silly old space pigeon's gone awall. |
| 1:46.5 | He's a Pegasus Falcon. |
| 1:49.2 | They have the best eyesight in the galaxy. |
| 1:52.1 | Not that good. He should have looked where he was going. |
| 1:54.8 | Luckily for chirps, we're looking into wormholes today because the lesson is all about |
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