Searching for aliens and the world's most venomous spider
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Ever wondered whether we’re alone in the universe? Could there be life out there that we don’t know about yet – and if so how can we say hello? Sarah Scoles is a science writer and the author of Making Contact and tells us more about the search for extra terrestrial life!
We also learn about why we dream, what the US Navy are doing training dolphins, and discover the world's most venomous spider - uh oh!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from the children's radio station Fun Kids. Listen on DAB digital radio across the UK or online at FunKidsLive.com. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Fun Kids Science Weekly. My name is Dan. This is the show that deals with only the most amazing, curious and dangerous things in the whole universe. And that's absolutely right today because we're looking at the whole universe. |
| 0:24.4 | In a bit, we're talking to a woman who knows everything about the science behind trying to talk to aliens. |
| 0:32.1 | Also, we'll learn about the world's most deadly spider, |
| 0:35.2 | and you can find out what's really going on with all those weird |
| 0:38.2 | dreams you have at night. First, it's time to head to the coolest class in the whole galaxy |
| 0:43.9 | where Professor Pulsar is telling us about solar storms in Deep Space High. |
| 0:49.7 | Deep Space High, the universe handbook with the Science and Technology Facilities Council. |
| 0:57.7 | Entroped to a worm. |
| 0:59.7 | Travel to Deep Space High, the school in space, but hurry, because Leicester are a part to begin. |
| 1:06.2 | Flurry! |
| 1:06.7 | Wait on. |
| 1:08.0 | I can be. |
| 1:16.7 | Few! Phew, glad I'm not on earth today. |
| 1:20.4 | It's terrible weather back there, thunder and lightning. |
| 1:23.9 | I'm so true because it's raining cats and dogs. |
| 1:30.1 | Wow, I didn't know little animals fell out of the sky on earth. How do they get there? |
| 1:37.1 | Not real cats and dogs. It's just a silly way of saying it's... Well, it's really raining. |
| 1:43.1 | At least there isn't weather up here in space. It's lovely and peaceful. Well, that's where you're wrong, Alex. Space has weather, and there's plenty of it to put in your universe handbook. |
| 1:47.5 | If you think storms on Earth are bad, well, the storms you get in space are cataclysmic. |
| 1:52.1 | Don't take your coats off. |
| 1:53.2 | We're going into the eye of some of the biggest space storms to see for ourselves. |
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