Do Rocket Stages Ever Hit Ships? (w/ NASA’s Cody Chambers)

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🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Learn about how saying no to kids makes them more resourceful and why humans aren’t the only animals capable of deception. We’ll also answer a listener question about whether rocket stages ever hit ships in the ocean, with a little help from Cody Chambers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Saying no to kids makes them more resourceful by Anna Todd

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Humans aren't the only animals capable of deception by Cameron Duke

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“NOVA | Kings of Camouflage | Mating Trickery | PBS.” Pbs.Org, 2020, www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/camo/mati-nf.html
Squirrels “fake it” to fool would-be thieves. (2020). New Scientist. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726395-400-squirrels-fake-it-to-fool-would-be-thieves/
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Stevens, M. (2016, March 14). Nature’s cheats: how animals and plants trick and deceive. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/natures-cheats-how-animals-and-plants-trick-and-deceive-55323

Do rocket stages ever hit ships? Listener question from Steve in Tennessee, answer by Cody Chambers, Flight Safety Lead at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Watch the recorded broadcast of the Commercial Crew SpaceX Falcon 9 Crew-1 launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_FIaPBOJgc
NASA Range Flight Safety Program: https://kscsma.ksc.nasa.gov/RangeSafety
News article about 2019 rocket launch mishap in China: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/chinese-rocket-crushes-houses-after-government-warning-to-residents.html

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:07.0	I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.0	And I'm Natalia Reagan.
0:10.0	Today you learn about how saying no to kids makes them more resourceful and why humans aren't
0:14.3	the only animals capable of deception.
0:17.1	We'll also answer a listener question about whether rocket stages ever hit ships in the ocean,
0:22.2	with help from Cody Chambers at NASA's
0:24.1	Kennedy Space Center. Let's satisfy some curiosity. I've got good news for the
0:30.1	kids who don't get everything they want and for the parents who aren't made of money.
0:35.2	Saying no to kids can make them more resourceful.
0:38.6	So think back to being a child.
0:41.0	When left to your own devices, any household object could be transformed into a doll house, a
0:46.4	spaceship, or an awesome pillow fort. But what if instead of turning a shoebox into a dollhouse, your parents just bought you a
0:54.5	dollhouse?
0:55.9	It probably seemed amazing at the time, but in retrospect, not quite as fun.
1:01.3	For at least half a century, psychologists have been researching the difference in creativity
1:05.7	between children who had to be resourceful and those just given what they wanted.
1:10.6	In a 1999 study, researchers had a group of elementary school children help Bobo the Bear reach his toy lion by using a random object, including building blocks, a toy car, a pencil, a magnet, and a wooden box.
1:26.0	The best solution, of course, is to use the large wooden box as a step to help Bobo reach his friend.
1:32.0	As you might expect, the children aged six and seven solved the problem faster than the five-year-olds,
1:38.8	most of the time. If the wooden box was used as a container for the other items, the older kids struggled to expand it to anything beyond a container.
1:49.0	But for the younger children, the box was still a flexible resource.
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