Creating A Message Aliens Can Understand!
Fun Kids Science Weekly
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🗓️ 22 January 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Creator of the Golden Record, Jon Lomberg joins us in this week's Science Weekly podcast to chat all about how he created a message that aliens could understand, and we hear from Flex at the We Are Curious Museum in Bristol to find out more about what is on the Golden Record! We catch up with Sidney McSprocket who is teaching us about Great British Scientists - this week its about the inventor of an amazing new type of glue! Whilst a huge hairy and deadly spider is the subject of Dangerous Dan. In Kareena's Chemistry, Kareena takes a deep dive into how oceans absorb CO2 and how we can put things right. Plus in Science in the News, Dan gives us the info on a new rocket that has been sent into space!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. I'm Cressida Cowell, author of How to Train Your Dragon, and I'm just popping |
| 0:04.4 | in to tell you about my new book series, Witchway to Anywhere. It's a story about four children |
| 0:10.0 | who discover that there are alternative worlds beyond our own, and that they can travel to them |
| 0:15.3 | with the help of a magical map and a very special gift. Of course, this leads to epic, unexpected |
| 0:21.9 | adventures. Witchway to Anywhere, and its sequel, Witchway Round the Galaxy, are both available |
| 0:27.5 | to buy now. Happy reading! Hello, Ahoy, welcome along. It's a brand new episode of The Fun Kids |
| 0:35.2 | Science Weekly. My name's Dan. I'm so pleased you found us. You've stumbled upon the smartest |
| 0:41.7 | show in the history of the universe. We search out all the science secrets that no one is brave enough |
| 0:49.7 | to go near. In this episode, you can hear more about Mission Transmission. It's our record-breaking |
| 0:55.2 | radio show where you can send your voice to space, and this week we'll chat to someone who has |
| 1:00.0 | tried something similar before, but a bit more old school. We'll hear from the artist John Lomburg |
| 1:06.4 | who wants sent a golden record to space over 40 years ago. A message in the form of a |
| 1:13.2 | phonograph record, an old-style LP phonograph record that contained music and sounds and |
| 1:21.9 | pictures recorded in a complicated way, but we think of way aliens to figure out |
| 1:28.6 | trying to give a picture of what the Earth was like. Also, you can hear from our science superhero |
| 1:33.6 | Karina, and her superhero alter-ego came mystery. This week they're looking at how Oceans |
| 1:39.3 | absorb carbon dioxide. I go for a reenlife, do their part by eating up those microorganisms and |
| 1:47.6 | pooping them out, where they fall to the ocean floor, trapping the CO2 safely out of harm's reach. |
| 1:55.4 | Hey, poop power! And I'll answer some of your questions as always. This week they're about |
| 2:01.4 | feeling sick and eye-caller. First up, let's catch up with Sasidni Muck Sprocket, he's one of our |
| 2:07.8 | favorite geniuses. Every week he tells us about different inventors, how they've inspired him, |
| 2:14.0 | and the things they've created, which have changed the world. Today it's all about two great British |
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