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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Navigating the Future

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6958 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week the show comes to you from the Royal Institute of Navigation's annual International Conference, with a look at the future of navigation. From the trousers that can track your every move to the spacecraft charting their way through the Universe. Plus, how does GPS work, and are we ready for driverless cars? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

I have you loud and clear.

0:03.2

Hello.

0:04.2

Hello.

0:05.2

Welcome.

0:06.2

Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.

0:16.1

Hello, welcome to the naked scientist with me, Chris Smith, and with Georgia Mills.

0:20.5

This week we're bringing you the top science from the Royal Institute of Navigation's annual International Conference,

0:27.0

including how to find your way through space, the trousers that can track your every move,

0:32.0

and are we ready for driverless coverage? the trousers that can track your every move?

0:32.6

And are we ready for driverless cars?

0:35.4

The Naked Scientist Podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK. Trade, Travel, Leisure and Sport, from our commute to work to holidays abroad and even setting our eyes

0:55.8

on space.

0:56.8

And Glasgow has just hosted the annual International Navigation Conference, which was opened

1:02.4

by the Princess Royal, and it was to showcase

1:04.8

the science that gets us from here to there.

1:08.6

For the President of the Royal Institute of Navigation, James Taylor, the subject is very close to his heart because he was a

1:15.0

captain of a nuclear submarine at the height of the Cold War.

1:20.6

When you are fully submerged, you're much more conscious of the fact of moving in three dimensions in a huge space, whereas man is by and large a two-plane animal and

1:34.3

Submarining is true navigating because you are moving in three

1:37.8

dimensions but you become entirely accustomed to the fact that your

1:41.9

visual range is limited to a matter of feet and that

1:47.0

you are reliant on your instrumentation and the field you get through the soles of your feet to tell you what the weather is like the sea conditions

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