Planet B: Can We Colonise Space?
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I have you loud and clear. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:06.0 | Science. |
| 0:09.0 | And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, the brain, life, the universe. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello, this week we're leaving planet Earth in the search of a new home. |
| 0:21.0 | Is there a planet B? How could we get there and I take a spin at astronaut training? |
| 0:27.0 | And you can talk to us? |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, it's okay. I was expecting it to be like quite intense but it's actually just like a massive |
| 0:35.0 | roller-go-to-ride. I'm Isie Clark and this is the Naked Scientists. |
| 0:40.3 | The Naked Scientist podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. Last year one very prominent Cambridge scientists made a rather shocking prediction. |
| 1:04.0 | I strongly believe we should start seeking alternative planets for possible habitation. |
| 1:10.0 | We are running out of space on Earth and we need to break through the technological limitations, |
| 1:17.0 | preventing us living elsewhere in the universe. |
| 1:20.0 | Professor Stephen Hawking stated that to secure the future of us humans we need to colonise another planet. |
| 1:27.0 | But would you want to go? |
| 1:30.0 | Three, two, one, zero zero ever |
| 1:34.4 | and a net stop |
| 1:37.0 | knife. |
| 1:38.0 | I definitely not know. |
| 1:39.8 | Yeah it would be an adventure and something new exciting. |
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