Moving to Mars? - Life Lab, Pt 2
Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
Tumble Media
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Should we make the move to Mars? And how would we live there? Join us as we pack our bags for Mars with the help of synthetic biology. We’ll find out how astronauts could grow their own food, medicine, and even building materials on the Red Planet. But when Lindsay and Marshall start to disagree about moving to another planet, some tricky questions threaten the mission…
Welcome to Life Lab! This is the first part of our five part series about how tiny life can change our world. In Life Lab, we explore the incredible power of synthetic biology to solve some of our biggest challenges - and asking how it could change our future.
This episode features Adam Arkin and Kris Prather.
Life Lab is supported by the Engineering Biology Research Consortium, a non-profit committed to educating the next-generation and building a community dedicated to solving big challenges with engineering biology. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
We have two bonus interviews for you this week, featuring Christina and Kris! They’re available to Tumble Patrons who pledge just a dollar or more a month, on patreon.com/tumblepodcast.
You can find a transcript and other educational materials about this episode on the blog on our website, sciencepodcastforkids.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Lindsay. |
| 0:05.2 | And I'm Marshall. |
| 0:06.2 | Welcome to Tumble, the show where we explore stories of science discovery. |
| 0:10.1 | This is the second part of Life Lab, our five-part series about how tiny life can change everything. |
| 0:16.8 | Last time on Life Lab, we heard about how a new field called synthetic biology came |
| 0:22.5 | to be and where it could be going. |
| 0:25.8 | If you haven't heard it yet, you probably should go back and listen to it before this episode. |
| 0:30.2 | Because in this episode, we're bringing Life Lab to Mars. |
| 0:34.0 | Wait, is there life on Mars? |
| 0:36.2 | The question is, should we bring our life there? |
| 0:39.6 | In this episode, we'll be making a packing list, the red planet. |
| 0:55.1 | Before we get to Mars, there's one more thing I keep thinking about that we heard in the |
| 0:59.5 | last episode. |
| 1:01.1 | Which is? |
| 1:02.1 | Well, remember how Chris Prather, the synthetic biologist from MIT, defined the difference |
| 1:08.0 | between scientists and engineers? |
| 1:11.0 | If you talk to scientists, then their driver is what question am I trying to answer? |
| 1:18.9 | If you talk to engineers, their driver is what problem am I trying to solve? |
| 1:23.4 | Yeah, I mean, I thought that was an interesting way to put it. |
| 1:26.2 | So like, the goal of science is to answer questions and the goal of engineering is to solve |
| 1:30.8 | problems. |
| 1:31.8 | They're different. |
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