Science Down Under 2010

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2010

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, we go back down under to explore the latest science from the land of kangaroos, bandicoots and the world's largest radio telescope - the square kilometer array. Chris goes on a tour of the universe from the comfort of the SciTech Planetarium, meets Nobel Prize-winning scientist Barry Marshall and the fluffy marsupials under protection at Project Eden. We find out why Australia is the perfect place to look further in to space than ever before, witness the battles between bee sperm and examine how tempting sharks with the scent of food can change their behaviour. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Boldly going where no science show has gone before.
0:05.0	The Naked Scientists
0:10.0	This week science from the land of kangaroos, koalas, bandicoots and the square
0:17.9	kilometer array.
0:19.6	Hello I'm Chris Smith and I've just touched down from a tour of Australia and I've brought back with me a sample of some of the colourful characters that I met along the way and where better to begin a nationwide tour than with a ride around the universe.
0:33.7	My name is Carly Tillett.
0:35.0	I work here at Horizon The Planetarium at Cytec
0:38.0	in Perth, Western Australia.
0:40.1	And every day we get to introduce people to the universe which is a fantastic job.
0:45.6	Now I'm going to make a confession to you Carly I've never been in a planetarium.
0:50.0	And I can't believe that.
0:52.0	You're robbing me of my planetarian virginity.
0:55.0	For people who like me have never set foot in something like this,
0:59.0	can you paint a picture of where we are, what we're seeing, what's in front of us?
1:02.0	Okay, so you would have to imagine a really big 18 meter like a dome screen so rather than a flat
1:09.4	television screen this thing is like half a sphere and you get to sit underneath it and we
1:15.1	project images of the night sky and beyond up onto this big gigantic screen.
1:21.0	So basically for the 150, 200 seats that are in here, there's a white screen above us.
1:27.0	That is going to become a surrogate night sky that you can put stars on.
1:31.6	Not just a night sky, we can show the entire universe.
1:34.0	Should we do it?
1:35.0	Yeah, I think we should.
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