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Tai Asks Why

What is at the bottom of the ocean?

Tai Asks Why

CBC

Kids & Family

4.21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The ocean covers over 70% of our planet, and yet, we’ve only mapped about a tenth of it. We know more about the far side of the moon than we know about our own ocean! In this episode, Tai explores the deep ocean to learn about its mysteries and what survives in its darkest corners. This week Tai spoke with: - Verena Tunnicliffe, a marine biologist who has spent 30 years studying all the weird and wacky animals that thrive on the bottom of the ocean - Melissa Omand, Assistant Professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. She’s an explorer who uses robots to explore the ocean depths - Bob Dziak, NOAA’s acoustic engineer, who has dropped sound recorders into places like the Mariana Trench. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/tai-asks-why-transcripts-listen-1.6747759

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0:00.0

This is a CBC podcast.

0:04.0

Whenever we hang out, me and my friends love to argue about that really important scientific questions.

0:11.0

Is cereal soup?

0:13.0

Yes, cereal is a soup.

0:14.0

If it's using powdered milk, yes.

0:16.0

The water hasn't been boiled at some point.

0:19.0

Cereal is not soup.

0:20.0

Cereal is a different kind of cereal.

0:22.0

If you pour cereal into tea, that is soup.

0:25.0

Your description of soup is wrong.

0:27.0

If you were to make cold cereal, that is not soup.

0:30.0

If you boil it, he is brought.

0:33.0

We still haven't come up with a definitive answer.

0:35.0

And we've been debating this for months.

0:38.0

But of course, for the record, cereal is 100% a soup.

0:41.0

And I hope you guys are all on my side about that.

0:45.0

Here's another one we've been fighting over.

0:48.0

Do crabs think fish can fly?

0:51.0

No, yeah, probably.

0:53.0

What?

0:54.0

The crab thinks, wow, that fish can float.

0:56.0

And I'm confined to the ground.

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