How many organs could you donate and remain alive? How many planet Earths could fit inside the Sun? How high is a giraffe's blood pressure? Why is the sea blue? To find out, Ask The Naked Scientists!
Ask the Naked Scientists
Claim This PodcastHosted by Chris Smith, Clarence Ford, Relebogile Mabotja, Saskia Falken
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How many organs could you donate and remain alive? How many planet Earths could fit inside the Sun? How high is a giraffe's blood pressure? Why is the sea blue? To find out, Ask The Naked Scientists!
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Recent Episodes
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Where did water come from, and why doesn't it go off?
Dr. Chris Smith and Relebogile Mabotja explore the origins of water and its enduring nature in this interview episode.
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Where did water come from, and why doesn't it go off?
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[…] We've got water bottles, for example, that you put water in there. Nothing's going to happen to the water apart from possibly some leaching of what's in the plastic. But if you're worried about that, use a glass bottle and then the water will be fine. The water we've got on Earth is billions of years old, some of it, and we're still drinking it. That's scary. I never even thought about that. Yeah, I mean, where did the Earth come by all its water? When the Earth first formed about 4.55 billion years ago, it had some water, which was intrinsic to the material that formed the planet. But the planet was forming around a lot of hot material circulating around the sun. […]
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