Oceans: What Remains to Be Discovered?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Oceans: what remains to be discovered? Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Andy Hamilton, Professor Jon Copley and marine biologist Helen Scales, as they look at the riches still remaining to be discovered deep within our oceans. The deep ocean remains the last great unexplored frontier of our planet, and as Brian and Robin discover, what we might find there could provide us with some extraordinary insights and applications. We've only just begun to touch the surface, literally, in terms of identifying and learning about the huge and varied life forms that live in our oceans -from the microbes that could inspire and generate new drugs to fight antibiotic resistant diseases, to the deep sea snails with iron clad shells, that may lead to the development of new super-strong materials. Even the humble limpet is providing inspiration to material scientists and engineers: the limpets' teeth, it turns out, are made from the strongest natural substance on the planet.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Robin in and I'm Frank ox and in the moment you're going to be hearing me saying hello |
| 0:03.9 | I'm Robin in and I'm Frank ox because this is the longer version of the infinite monkey cage |
| 0:08.9 | This is the podcast version which is normally somewhere between 12 and 17 minutes longer than that that is broadcast on radio |
| 0:16.6 | For it's got all the bits that we couldn't fit in with Brian over explaining ideas of physics |
| 0:21.4 | I do object to the use of the word longer though because that's obviously a frame specific state |
| 0:26.8 | We haven't got time to deal with that because even in the longer version we can't have a longer intro |
| 0:30.1 | Can we let them listen? I got an idea coming to have a podcast version of this intro to the podcast |
| 0:34.9 | Which can be longer than the intro to the podcast? |
| 0:36.9 | Yeah, and then we can have a podcast version of the podcast in just a podcast started by now |
| 0:40.8 | But if you're still hearing this and I'm what's going on? And then we can have a podcast podcast podcast version of the podcast and then it would be a podcast |
| 0:46.1 | Hello, I'm Robin in and I'm Frank ox now today's show is about oceans a subject that's actually had us engaged in intense |
| 0:53.0 | Research and this is entirely true at one point Brian went I really need to know a lot more about this and so he decided to actually check with an |
| 1:01.1 | Expert and went to the internet and downloaded his own book |
| 1:07.2 | Which as he down a lot of it when oh this is a rip off isn't it? |
| 1:12.7 | Anyone who's done that is an old one. It was one does a solar system from 2009 or something and it was about seven quid |
| 1:19.4 | I thought it was going to be a pound by this time |
| 1:22.6 | It's obviously there's cliches about yourself. I opened it in the first page with me staring at the sky |
| 1:30.3 | Look at those lovely stars |
| 1:32.3 | It's no you weren't even pointing who being enigmatic. I'm looking at a thing, but you don't know what it is |
| 1:38.0 | Shiny shiny. Are is it a black hole filled with danger? |
| 1:43.2 | Anyway, so |
| 1:45.2 | It's not me. It's that it's an awful |
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