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Fun Kids Science Weekly

How On EARTH Do You Weigh The EARTH?!

Fun Kids Science Weekly

Fun Kids

Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Science

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week Scientist and author Isabel Thomas joins us to answer some of the strangest questions around. We hear about the deadly blood sucking Vulture Bee in Dangerous Dan and as always we are joined by our friends Professor Hallux and Amy's Aviation to hear all about the water you shouldn't drink and how propellors work! In Science In the News, we hear of 53 silent sea creatures that can actually talk and a fantastic froggy discovery!

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0:00.0

Hello! Welcome along. It's the part of the week where we take a humongous tour around the universe.

0:05.8

We discover all the science secrets lurking inside. This is the Fun Kids Science Weekly.

0:12.4

My name is Dan. Thank you for being there, for finding, for following, and for listening to us

0:16.8

and joining in on this journey to search out everything sciencey that's lurking anywhere.

0:24.8

We will cover the whole thing. This week, we'll try and actually get the answer to every hard question

0:31.6

ever. Do you ever stay up at night? And you've got different questions running around your brain.

0:37.4

Why does this happen this way? Why does this do this? Why does that do that? We'll try and

0:41.1

sort it all out by chatting to the author Isabel Thomas, who's got a brand new book out.

0:46.0

It's the bedtime book of impossible questions, explains exactly what it does, and she'll tell us more.

0:53.7

How heavy is the earth and how on earth would you weigh the earth? So, obviously it's impossible

1:00.0

to pop the entire earth onto a pair of scales. That's the impossible part of this impossible question.

1:07.4

But scientists have had a go at working out the answer to this, almost weighing the planet using.

1:15.2

And we'll check in with Amy's aviation. Amy is an aeroplane genius. She knows everything about

1:21.5

what gets them up and what keeps them in the sky. This week is all about how they power planes

1:27.2

with propellers. This plane's about to get going. The pilot is turning the ignition.

1:35.4

And I've got your questions. As always, this week they are on plants that grow underwater.

1:40.4

And what would happen if we went to the biggest planet in the solar system?

1:45.8

You can find out in a bit. It's this week's Fun Kids Science Weekly.

1:51.6

Let's start with this week's Science in the News. A scientist has found that 53 sea creatures

2:04.2

that they thought were silent can actually talk. Not properly talk, but they communicate with each

2:09.5

other that they can make sounds. Gabrielle, Georges Wish Cohen, used microphones to record sea

2:15.8

species like turtles and found out they talked to each other. They tell their friends when they

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