Cosmic Dust

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince find out about dust that is raining down on Earth from space. They are joined by planetary scientists Matthew Genge and Penny Wozniakiewicz and comedian Alan Davies. They learn how billions of tiny micrometeorites land on the surface of the Earth every year, hidden amongst pollution particles and household dust. Where does cosmic dust come from and what can it tell us about the birth of the solar system? New episodes are released on Saturdays. If you're in the UK, listen to the full series first on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3K3JzyF Producer: Caroline Steel Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.3	Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
0:06.3	I'm Robin Inz and welcome to the final episode
0:08.3	of the 27th series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:11.2	Now, if you're listening to the Monkey Cage in order,
0:13.3	you'll be expecting an episode on AI.
0:16.2	But due to unforeseen circumstances,
0:18.7	that's not what we're doing.
0:20.4	But we couldn't edit it out of the introduction we did last week.
0:24.6	And therefore, I've got some mention it
0:26.2	to explain to you why we're not doing AI.
0:28.2	Though actually what happened was the super intelligent AI
0:31.6	we used to create this show couldn't deal
0:34.0	with the self-referential nature of the demand
0:35.7	of writing a show on AI, using AI,
0:39.0	and dispeared up its own serial port.
0:42.0	Actually, I guess, wasn't available.
0:43.6	So we'll be returning to it next week.
0:44.8	That's not actually why our guest was available.
0:47.0	But there's not yet become sentient, which again,
0:49.3	is one of those annoying things.
0:51.2	This AI business, right?
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