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Nature Podcast

Nature Podcast: 26 January 2017

Nature Podcast

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🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week, outer space law, predictive policing and enhancing the wisdom of the crowds.

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0:00.0

Yes! I just can't believe it.

0:02.4

This Christmas, you could be a millionaire.

0:05.2

Get your lotto ticket for tonight's draw.

0:07.0

The National Lottery. Rules and procedures apply.

0:08.8

Players must be 18 or over.

0:15.3

Coming up, we take a look at the Outer Space Treaty, 50 years after its creation.

0:20.4

Look at the Outer Space Treaty as creating after its creation. Look at the Outer Space Treaty as creating

0:22.2

outer space as a national park. And predicting crime to prevent it. What crimes have occurred in the

0:28.8

past? Where did they occur and when did they occur? That's the only information that we use.

0:33.4

Plus enhancing the wisdom of the crowd. This is the Nature podcast for January the 26th, 2017.

0:39.9

I'm Kerry Smith.

0:41.0

And I am Adam Levy.

0:47.1

50 years ago this week, the Outer Space Treaty was opened for signatures.

0:52.6

Adam's been taking a look at how the treaty has evolved

0:55.3

and its origins in the Cold War space race. October 4th, 1957, and the world's press

1:01.1

announces the miracle of the age. The Russians had successfully launched the first satellite

1:05.8

ever to circle the Earth, and Sputnik hurtles its way into space to make a date with history that heralds the dawn

1:12.0

of a new era.

1:18.9

We're now living in that new era, heralded by Sputnik some 60 years ago.

1:24.3

As the space race between America and the USSR developed, it quickly became clear that

1:29.4

the international community needed to agree on what could and could not be done as part of

1:34.3

humanity's endeavours to explore outer space. And so, 10 years after Sputnik and just two years

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