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🗓️ 10 December 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:00.0 | World Football in Qatar is the podcast taking you behind the scenes with all 32 teams at the World Cup. |
0:08.0 | We're hearing from the players, the fans and people in Qatar telling the truly global story of the competition. |
0:16.0 | That's World Football in Qatar from the BBC World Service. Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
0:24.0 | Welcome to Living in Space on the BBC World Service with me, David Baker. |
0:31.0 | We're the World's radio station and today we're going to be taking that idea even further. |
0:38.0 | Step outside one night and look up into the sky. |
0:42.0 | We need to sit down and have a dialogue with regards to the future of space. |
0:47.0 | In amongst the stars, you should be able to see a tiny red dot, Mars. |
0:53.0 | When a crisis comes, you cannot live on the earth. Probably space would be the better choice. |
0:59.0 | 200 million kilometres away, the next planet in our solar system feels impossibly distant. |
1:06.0 | And everybody will be under a lot of pressure there because of the way we're living so far from home. |
1:11.0 | But we've already landed robotic crafts on its surface and in the not too distant future, we'll be building human settlements there. |
1:20.0 | It's time for a new kind of astronaut, the younger generation. |
1:26.0 | It's time for them to go out and not only explore the new worlds but to settle new worlds. |
1:34.0 | And when that happens, stepping out on an evening won't just mean gazing up at the heavens. |
1:41.0 | It will mean people in the heavens gazing down at us. |
1:45.0 | The company vision is to build the infrastructure and the foundation that enables eventually millions of people to live and work in space. |
1:57.0 | In this programme, I'm going to be asking what human settlements in space will be like, who will be living in them and how will they be organised? |
2:05.0 | We have to think of a solution that is good for the entire human race, not just for one race or for one country. |
2:16.0 | Our first stop is a lot closer to home, Bristol, a city in the south-west of Britain, among the crowds milling around on the harbour side on a sunny September afternoon. |
2:37.0 | The plants are being grown hydroponically without soil, which might be a way that you would grow plants on Mars. |
2:46.0 | We're in our hydroponics research area, so we're surrounded by a few plants that have been grown here and they've all been chosen for their sensory qualities. |
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