THE SKY'S THE LIMIT: Secrets behind Aerospace Engineering✈️

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 5 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!

This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly we continue our bigger and better podcast where we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about Paramotorists in Peru collecting threatened plants.

Dan starts with the latest science news where we learn all about the space capsule that's been sent to the International Space Station to rescue the two stranded astronauts has finally docked, how the UK has stopped creating electricity from burnt coal and Kew Royal Botanical Garden's Carolina Tovar tells us all about why paramorists in Peru have been soaring across the remote desert to collect threatened plants

Then we delve into your questions where Dan explains what would happen if we didn't sleep for 3 weeks & Marjorie Lundgren from Lancaster University answers Tom's question on where the first plant seed came from.

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Maricopa Harvester Ant.

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Tasmin Mynett from Kingston University about why Aerospace Engineering is the best kind of science?

What do we learn about?

The capsule sent to save the stranded astronauts has docked
How England have stopped needing coal for electricity
The threatened plants of the Peruvian desert
Where did the first plant seed come from?
Is Aerospace Engineering the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Well, hello, Explorer. Look at this! It's that time every week where we get bored of life down here on little old planet Earth and we go big.
0:10.0	We explore the entire universe around us.
0:12.7	Set it's a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:18.6	My name is Dan, this is the place where we search out all those science secrets, and this week we're trying to answer a big question
0:26.3	which came first the plant or the seed? A long time ago these plants were using spores to get around and then this one lineage of plants
0:36.6	started using seeds and they had these special little cups on their leaves that protected the seeds in the very
0:42.3	beginning until seeds kind of
0:44.2	evolved to what we know they look like today.
0:46.5	Shh!
0:47.5	Also our Battle of the Sciences this week looks at the immense power of gravity.
0:54.0	Gravity is affected by mass, you know, objects like moon and we all have mass, you know, the
1:02.4	amount of stuff we have in them, and the more stuff you have in you,
1:06.6	the bigger the gravity field that you create.
1:09.6	Shh!
1:10.6	And for our danger stand, we're taking a peek at one of the meanest looking ants ever
1:14.9	it's gruesome it looks evil find out more it's on the way let's get to it a brand new
1:20.4	episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly. And we start with our science in the news,
1:29.4	with the start of some good news, I think.
1:32.2	A SpaceX capsule sent to bring back two astronauts
1:35.2	stranded on the international space station has docked up there. It's the dragon
1:40.0	capsule it lifted off from Cape Canaveral which is in Florida last week it's carrying the in It's got two empty seats on it as well. This is for Butch Wilmore and
1:54.4	Sunni Williams. We've spoken about these two so many times in the last couple of
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