Summary
Zoe Kleinman visits a satellite earth station from the era of the first moon landings, and a spaceport developing horizontal rocket launches. Find out how tech is being used to communicate deep into space, and launch rockets from jet planes. Also on Tech Life, cyborg jellyfish could soon be swimming the ocean depths, providing valuable data to scientists. And an AI-generated internet radio station keeps you up to date with non-news.
PHOTO: Zoe Kleinman at Goonhilly Earth Station. Credit: BBC.
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. The new series of the infinite monkey cage listen on radio four and BBC sounds hi namolanta combo here with some very exciting news dear daughter is back for a new series I'm putting together a handbook to life for daughters everywhere, |
| 0:38.5 | full of stories and advice to help navigate life. |
| 0:41.3 | That's Dear Daughter from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:44.7 | Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:48.9 | Hello and welcome to TechLife, |
| 0:50.6 | the program about technology and how it affects your life. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm Zoe Kleinman, |
| 0:59.5 | and this week we're looking at space technology. I visit a satellite Earth station, |
| 1:04.0 | which is leading the way in deep space communications, but began its working life, |
| 1:06.3 | beaming news of this to millions. |
| 1:10.4 | Tanguality base here. The eagle has landed. |
| 1:13.9 | Cyborg jellyfish could be a real thing. |
| 1:16.7 | Experts have found a way to adapt jellyfish to research planet Earth's deepest oceans. |
| 1:19.8 | And are the buses running on time in a random part of the world? |
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