Hello, welcome to the naked scientists at the Cambridge Science Center.

I'm Chris Smith and this is another of our live events.

Welcome. The whole point of these programs is that this is where you, the audience, become the interviewers.

It's your opportunity to give our guest panel, who we will meet in a minute a really good

grilling.

This week we're going to talk about space science.

All of our guests this week are connected in

some way by the field of space or space science and space exploration. And it's quite

pertinent because in recent years we've actually heard stories about people planning to mine asteroids.

We've also heard about people trying to build a hotel, an orbiting hotel in space.

We've had a call for people to join a manned mission to Mars.

They only want elderly people though.

It's amazing the length the government will go to

to cut the care in the community bed, isn't it?

And more recently, they've actually announced just last week a proposal was put forward to build a barber's on the moon.

It's going to be called E-Clips.

Now it is to course nearly Christmas time, but there is some concern this year

over whether Father Christmas is going to be able to make all his deliveries because

there was a bit of a sleigh accident recently during a test flight to Father Christmas collided with an asteroid and

NASA did catch this with the Hubble Space Telescope and when they first saw it they

said they think it's a UF-ho-ho-ho. Now of course during this program we will be obeying all of the laws of physics.

Very important because the penalties for not doing so are extremely harsh.

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