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The Naked Scientists Podcast

How High Can We Build?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6958 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week, we put your questions to our expert panel of scientists - What's the tallest possible building? Do female animals flirt? And what can we do if an asteroid ends up heading for earth? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

So, so, so skin.

0:02.0

Keep your good going and breeze through busy days with mullah lights.

0:08.0

Now with a new thicker recipe with Vitamin B6 and Vitamin D. Or go on then? Mull a light, get the good going. I have you loud and clear.

0:25.0

Hello.

0:28.0

Welcome.

0:29.0

Sorry.

0:32.0

And that is the say, physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.

0:40.0

Hello, this week, what's the tallest possible building are underground cities where we're going to be living in future

0:47.1

And what can we do if an asteroid ends up on an earthbound course?

0:51.6

This week we're tackling the science questions that you have

0:54.5

been sending in so sit tight and buckle up for a fast and furious ride. I'm Chris

0:59.3

Smith and this is The Naked Scientists. The Naked Scientist podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.

1:07.0

Okay. Let me introduce the panel of people who are here to help me answer your

1:16.2

science questions today. Alan McCroby is an engineer at Cambridge University.

1:21.4

What exactly Alan do you engineer? I'm a structural engineer, Chris. I tend to do large

1:25.6

things like bridges, towers, skyscrapers, dams. I can't do small things like houses very well.

1:31.7

Even though structural engineering does apply to bacteria and

1:34.1

DNA and things like that.

1:36.0

And when you say you do those things, is that actually coming up with the techniques and the

1:40.6

processes that people will use on the ground to build them, is it designing them?

1:44.4

What's your role?

1:45.4

It's all of those things.

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