Summary
This week on Tech Life we are looking at the problem of space junk, the man-made debris hurtling around our planet. Could it threaten some of the everyday tech we all rely on?
Also this week, don't you just hate it when stuff doesn't work? Are internet and social media outages becoming more frequent ? A doctor in Argentina has created a video game to help calm the nerves of children facing a hospital operation. And what weighs three tonnes and is the size of a mini-van ? It's the world's largest digital camera.
Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer: Tom Quinn
(Photo: A NASA illustration of space debris around Earth. Credit: Nasa/Getty)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:28.1 | Hello and welcome to TechLife, the programme about technology making an impact on your life. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm Chris Valence and this week we're looking at the problem of space junk, the man-made |
| 0:38.2 | debris hurtling around the planet. Could it threaten some of the everyday tech we all rely on? |
| 0:44.2 | Also this week, don't you just hate it when stuff doesn't work? Internet, computer and social |
| 0:49.5 | media outages, are they getting more frequent? We want to know if you've been affected. |
| 0:55.9 | Turning a scary hospital visit into an adventure, a doctor in Argentina has created a game to help calm the |
| 1:02.0 | nerves of children facing an operation. And what weighs three tons and is the size of a minivan? |
| 1:08.6 | We focus on a really big digital camera. |
| 1:12.6 | I think we could see a golf ball from, you know, |
| 1:15.0 | if it was illuminated by the sun, |
| 1:19.0 | from the distance of the moon or something. |
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