Hello you this is the podcast version of Inside Science from BBC Radio 4 first

broadcast on the 29th of December 2016 it's our end of year special this is the one

where we turn the content over to you.

Dear listener and you've been sending in questions in droves.

We've been filtering through all of them for the ones that really got us thinking.

And we only deal with experts in this here scientific

parish and I have summoned a team of my very favorite scientific experts to answer your

questions basically were the Avengers but but with science superpowers.

So scientists assemble, Andrew, you're first.

Hi, I'm Andrew Ponson, I'm a cosmologist and a Royal Society University Research Fellow.

Helen.

I'm Helen Cheriskey and I'm a physicist at University College London.

Helen's been on almost all of our question time specials over the last few years on

inside science but yeah and this is your first time it is so I'm really pleased to be

here I'm an evolutionary biologist currently I work at the Welcome Trust for Human, Center for Human Genetics in

Oxford. And that's Jan Wong who didn't actually introduce himself. I didn't.

Sorry, do you want me to introduce myself? No it's fine. Let's just go with the first question, which is in space, so I guess this is a question

primarily for Andrew, but do chip in if you've got anything interesting to add.

This question is from Kenneth Berenzen and it goes like this.

Would the super spaceships we see in movies, Star Wars Wally, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, etc?

He does stop naming them at that point.

Would they be big enough to have notable gravity?

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