How We Can Send YOUR VOICE TO SPACE!
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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NASA's Astronaut Candidate Jack Hathaway joins us in this week's Science Weekly podcast to chat all about his journey to become an astronaut and we also hear how you can go to space with Mission Transmission! We catch up with Sidney McSprocket who is teaching us about Great British Scientists - this week its about William Jenkins and Lucy Hughes. Whilst there is a deadly comet that gets closer each time it visits us in Dangerous Dan. In Kareena's Chemistry, Kareena takes a dive into new and innovative ‘Green Chemistry’ which is helping to tackle the challenge of climate change in innovative new ways. Plus in Science in the News, Dan talks about new dinosaur footprints found in the UK!
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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 |
| 0:10.1 | who discover that there are alternative worlds beyond our own and that they can travel to |
| 0:15.2 | them with the help of a magical map and a very special gift. Of course, this leads to epic, |
| 0:20.9 | unexpected adventures. Witchway to Anywhere and its sequel Witchway Round the Galaxy are both |
| 0:26.9 | available to buy now. Happy reading! Hello, welcome along. It's a brand new year. Time for a brand |
| 0:34.4 | new episode of The Fun Kids Science Weekly. My name is Dan. Thank you for being there. Thank you |
| 0:40.8 | for finding us. Thank you for listening. Hope you're having a brilliant 2022. This is the only show |
| 0:46.9 | that searches out all the science secrets lurking around the universe. We leave nothing to chance. |
| 0:53.7 | We look at all the nooks, all the crannies, all the hiding spots floating around the galaxy. |
| 0:59.3 | Now this week, we're looking across the universe at one of the most dangerous objects known to humanity. |
| 1:06.1 | That's us. But if it ever does hit the earth, they say it'll almost be as big of an impact as a |
| 1:11.5 | crash as the one that finished off the dinosaurs. Also, we'll inspect some dinosaur footprints found |
| 1:17.6 | in the UK, tried to figure out how old they are, and it's believed that they're from an early |
| 1:22.4 | ancestor of the giant diplodocus. And this is serious and it's amazing. You have got the chance |
| 1:30.8 | to travel in space. You have got the chance to get your voice in space. Maybe it could be the very |
| 1:37.2 | first thing an alien ever hears from planet earth. Give this a lot of thought. If you met an alien, |
| 1:43.6 | what would be the first thing that you would say to them? His mind is recording. Nice heads, |
| 1:51.2 | but why have you got three of them? You can find out more about that in a bit. First, |
| 1:56.5 | let's get cracking with one of our favourite experts on the show. It's an episode from our |
| 2:00.5 | Sydney McSprocket series where he talks about genius inventors from history. This week, |
| 2:06.3 | it's about William Jenkins and Lucy Hughes. |
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