Democracy in Space
BBC Inside Science
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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week a US based billionaire launched a giant space rocket and sent a car vaguely in the direction of Mars. As a space mission it was to say the least unconventional, and for those involved in promoting space science it presents a quandary. Is such a mission largely a publicity stunt or is it useful for engaging people in the potential of space exploration? Gareth Mitchell looks at one project which enables schoolchildren to programme computers on the International Space Station and he talks to the European Space Agency about why a rock concert might be a good avenue for exploring space science.
As more and more of our everyday lives are conducted online we ask what are the cyber-security threats of today, and how can science be used to counter them. Do we now need new kinds of science to locate, understand and stop new kinds of threat?
Can bat science help human ageing research? New findings have show that some long lived bat species do not age in the same way as other mammals. They don't even seem to posses the DNA repair enzyme most commonly found in the animal kingdom. We look at the mystery of why bats seem to have evolved in this way.
And have you lost a satellite? Don't worry: a computer geek will find it for you. That's exactly what's happened - an amateur space sleuth has detected signals from a NASA satellite thought to have been 'lost' for years.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service. |
| 0:04.7 | Join me as I serve up personal conversations with my sensational guests. |
| 0:08.8 | Do a leap interviews, Tim Cook. |
| 0:11.2 | Technology doesn't want to be good or bad. |
| 0:15.0 | It's in the hands of the creator. |
| 0:16.7 | It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room. |
| 0:20.7 | If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes, |
| 0:24.6 | you're doing the wrong thing. |
| 0:25.9 | Julie, but at your service. Listen to all episodes on BBC Sales. |
| 0:31.6 | Hello, I'm Gareth Mitchell again and this is the podcast edition of Inside Science from the BBC for Thursday the 8th of February 2018. |
| 0:40.0 | Yes, that's when it started out as a radio program and then we put a different top on it and called it a podcast. |
| 0:44.4 | That's how we roll here at the BBC. A bit of reaction from you on the Twitter sphere from last week when we talked about the science of the arches. |
| 0:51.7 | Johnny M says, oh, inside science, looking at the science of the archers exciting. Paul Webster |
| 0:56.9 | said he was surprised so we presume happy that we had the archers |
| 1:00.1 | agricultural advisor on but David John Thompson says, |
| 1:04.0 | Stop advertising the archers on other radio four programs. |
| 1:07.7 | Inside Science should be about science, |
| 1:10.0 | not just pushing failing shows. |
| 1:12.2 | Although he didn't write that in capital letters, so it's probably not. not just |
| 1:15.0 | notice failing shows. he didn't write that in capital letters, |
| 1:17.0 | so it's probably not quite as shouty as I made it sound. Oh, I've just noticed this, a lovely one from Claire, |
| 1:19.0 | who seemed to enjoy the programs, |
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