Can we Create Artificial Gravity?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Do giraffes get struck by lightning? What's the highest number a person could count to? How do animals have sex underwater? Chris Smith teams up with Tim Revell, Richard Hollingham, Chris Basu and Danielle Green to tackle your science questions, which range from the bottom of the ocean to outer space! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.2	Hello.
0:04.2	Hello.
0:05.2	Welcome.
0:06.2	Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	This week, if they began at birth, how high could a person count to in their lifetime.
0:20.0	Also, when lightning hits the sea, do the fish get fried and can we create gravity on a
0:25.7	spacecraft hello I'm Chris Smith and this is the naked scientist the naked scientist
0:30.8	podcast is powered by UK Fast.
0:33.7	K.k.
0:34.7	So first up let's actually meet the team of luminaries we've assembled to answer
0:44.7	your science questions this week. Richard Hollingham is from the Space Boffins
0:48.4	podcast and so you're going to be taking on anything space related.
0:52.1	Richard any space related facts you got for us this.
0:54.2	I don't think I've ever been called a lumbenary before.
0:56.4	Yeah, here's a space fact.
0:57.8	The Opportunity Rover, which has been on Mars,
0:59.9	NASA's Opportunity Rover, since 2004 2004 has travelled 43.94 kilometers, which I reckon
1:06.9	is 6.25 millimeters per hour.
1:10.5	And that's important because...
1:11.5	I don't know, it just cool, isn't it?
1:14.0	No, I think it's amazing that actually that these rovers are still working.
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