The man moving to Mars and could humans turn invisible?
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Ryan MacDonald is one of 100 candidates for the Mars One project, that hopes to set up a human community on Mars. If it all goes to plan, Ryan will be leaving Earth in 2031 - and never coming back! We call up Ryan to find out more about his ambitions.
We also learn about some of the sea life that was alive in the age of the dinosaurs, meet a tiny creature with a big sting and wonder if humans could turn ever invisible - and whether that's a good idea or not!
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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. |
| 0:09.9 | Welcome along. Here it is then what we've all waited for another glistening new episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
| 0:18.0 | My name's Dan and if you're like me, if you're amazed and you're baffled, |
| 0:21.9 | why you're on this planet right now and if you're curious about everything weird, wild and |
| 0:27.7 | wonderful that's in the universe all around you, this is the show for you. We try and get the |
| 0:32.8 | answers to all of those questions. In today's show, we'll discover how the computer was invented. |
| 0:38.9 | Also, in a set called chat to a person who's in the running to win a one-way ticket to Mars. |
| 0:45.6 | And in today's weekly Dangerous Dan feature, we'll learn about the most painful sting known to man. |
| 0:51.3 | First, we're jumping into the past to learn about some brutal, brutal beasts |
| 0:56.0 | from history with the Age of the Dinosaurs. Travel back in time to the Age of the Dinosaur |
| 1:01.6 | at the Natural History Museum. Imagine going back in time, not 100 years, or 1,000 years, |
| 1:09.5 | but millions of years. |
| 1:11.6 | To the age of the dinosaur. |
| 1:20.6 | Welcome to the Cretaceous period, which existed between 65 and 144 million years ago. |
| 1:29.2 | More varieties of animals and plants lived than ever before. |
| 1:33.1 | From the dinosaur on the land to the plants they ate, things were getting pretty busy |
| 1:37.8 | underwater too. |
| 1:42.5 | Dinosaurs didn't go into the oceans, but that didn't mean they were empty, far from |
| 1:47.0 | it. |
| 1:48.0 | Much of the sea life from the Jurassic period remained, including Ictheosaurus, agile dolphin-like |
| 1:54.0 | creatures as well as starfish and ammonites, soft shellfish with long streaming tentacles. Wow, he's massive! Let's get out of this way! |
| 2:04.6 | He certainly is! Some Cretaceous Ammonites were enormous! |
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