How much does the sky weigh?

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Why can't we see in the dark? How do we make something hotter than the sun? Dr Hannah Willet joins us to tell us about how she is making a reactor 6 times hotter than the sun and what this means for the future of energy. We take to the skies in age of the dinosaurs to discover how dinosaurs first gained flight! And we catch up with Professor Hallux who takes us through some of the amazing medical professionals that help save lives, this week its about what happens when you get your appendix removed! The Abelisaur is the subject of this weeks Dangerous Dan and in Science in the News, we hear why a dog kennel has sold for 32k and another theory on how the dinosaurs died!

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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! Well, hello. Welcome along. It's a brand new episode of The Fun Kids Science
0:36.7	Weekly. My name is Dan. Thank you for finding us for pressing play for streaming and telling
0:42.8	all your mates, of course. This is the smartest show in the universe. Together, you and I, we will
0:49.7	travel all around, we'll search around the solar system, we'll go through the galaxy,
0:54.2	to find all the most amazing science things that's lurking about.
1:00.0	Alright, and this week, we're travelling back in time to the age of the dinosaurs,
1:04.9	looking at the Cretaceous period, and we'll find out what happened when a new creature began to take
1:10.7	off. Quick, that's not a bird. It's a flying reptile. Let's get out of here.
1:18.6	I think we're safe here. Also on the show this week, you can hear from a
1:26.4	genius physicist about a new sun that we've made here on Planet Earth, and why it's making
1:32.4	scorching temperatures. And eventually, we kind of want to get even hotter than that,
1:37.1	so as a milestone on the way, getting to kind of six, seven, ten times hotter than the
1:42.4	center of the sun. And I've got your questions as always. This week, they are on why we can't see
1:49.2	in the dark, and we'll try to weigh the sky as well. Yeah, it's a big old thing. It's a big deal
1:55.2	that it's happening this week on the Fun Kids Science Weekly. Stay there, loads to come for you.
2:00.9	It's time for this week's Science in the News.
2:06.2	And now experts have finally figured out when the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs
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