And the continent of africa on the move the stories about to move a vision of change makers taking their destinies into their own hands. D. W. Multimedia series food for. D. W. B. Dot com africa. Hitchin to the science show on t. W. Well come to you tomorrow today coming up. A look back in time to a flying reptile as big as a truck and. A critical view of Virtual Reality is poised to change our world. And we celebrate the artists return to switzerland and the citizen scientist who was stalking them. But first we head to the dark and mysterious world of the deep sea. Only around five percent of the worlds oceans have been explored their home to a vast range of creatures from delicate jellyfish to terrifying predators. Off the coast of North Western africa a team of researchers has discovered it gigantic structure on the sea bed built by corals. Of this amazing underwater landscape is being researched by a team from the university of braman a reef four hundred kilometers long and up to one hundred meters tall. It was created here in the atlantic off the coast of Mauritania In West Africa by Cold Water Corals. The minute they live in great depth in absolute darkness they rely on currents to deliver tiny particles of food for them to absorb
often. Those particles are plankton which drift like snowflakes through the oceans the supply at those depths is meager so Cold Water Corals grow slowly not more than fifteen meters in a thousand years. Still the team have discovered. Donnish in coral formations. The aphelion found very many reefs especially in the atlantic with coral mounds some more than Three Hundred meters tall. And thats as tall as the eiffel tower all the t. V. Tower and berlin thats really big. Absolut was a huge empty without sin to find out more about how the Reef May Mauritania developed cloudy of him back and her colleagues collected samples of fossil coral from different layers they determined that it had been growing for a million years but then it stopped. To begin their hard
at the end of the ice age ten thousand years ago theres been no new coral growth in this area after areas that coral could not survive because of very low levels of dissolved oxygen in the water. And on the other Hand Video Footage shows that there has been a recent Colonise Ation by coral sent if you dont is youre still the conditions are so bad that the coral is not able to create new reefs needed in the logs of its. Scientists suspect that parts of the worlds oceans with very low levels of oxygen will continue to expand putting pressure on deep Sea Ecosystems in conjunction with climate change. One of the most common species of Cold Water Coral is look. Its branching skeletons form frameworks and eventually extensive reefs. These colonies are home to starfish sea urchins lots of different fish and countless other kinds of animal. Thats why im here in our Cold Water Corals are called the Bio Engineers Of The Deep with a hundred many species of fish including ones at a commercial. We fish to use these coral reefs as Spawning Grounds as a place to feed and also this shelter so they play an Important Role in shaping the deep Sea Ecosystem in nets you see researchers have identified Four Thousand Six Hundred species that live in Cold Water Coral reef ecosystems that each expedition uncovers more but how Cold Water Corals reproduce is still something of a mystery. The world down there in the depths is astoundingly diverse and passing it would be terrible if it were lost before we managed to understand it. From the deep sea we head up into the air with a dragon. These flying creatures are certainly trendy nowadays just look at the popularity of The Game Of ThronesSeries Jenkins may be a purely mythical species but an excavation in romania has an earth something that comes remarkably tell us. The gigantic skeleton being assembled here is about Sixty Six Million years old. These bones belong to a terrorist or an extinct flying reptile this is the Worlds Largest known specimen and its being reconstructed in its entirety here the Spectacular Find was identified by romanian geologist and paleontologist matter of amy and he has found many important Fossil Reptiles but at first he couldnt believe what hed come across. This was the main discover the actual need to realize what that means but
was. Compared with what we knew before the ball. Was so massive the might might breed didnt accept it so its not. Until recently experts thought pterosaurs had a maximum wingspan of around ten meters this. And measures more than fifty meters. Thats about as long as a truck it was a giant creature even in an age of large reptiles. The fossilized bones were first Spotted Protruding from this cliff side in Transylvania Romania in two thousand and nine. Salvaging them was a complex undertaking. Tremont other star for is a paleontologist and experienced fossil hunter. He was part of the Excavation Team and is well aware that the chances of Finding Terrorists or bones are slim. Theyre
much more fragile than dinosaur bones. As the authors of the cottage just said in its own good very thin wall with hardly any organic material inside them just the spongy tissue that was ninety percent but when i was used overall weight and therefore increased its Flight Capability that i knew he cut so very lightweight bones definitely. Here in the Dinosaur Museum and the military island of area the giant pterosaurs reconstructed skeleton goes on display for the first time. How exactly did these creatures move on the ground its not known for sure but they probably got around on all fours with their wing membranes neatly folded up on the sides. Its also not clear how they managed to become airborne some experts believe they needed to take off from an elevated point rather like
a hang glider. But its also possible that larger specimens didnt fly at all because they didnt need to escape from predators. The sensational find has raised many fascinating questions for paleontologists around the world. And drawn quite a crowd to the Dinosaur Museum here in. All these really looking scenes made with hollywoods most cutting edge technology. Where is it all headed. Experiencing an augmented world through Virtual Reality glasses rose tinted or otherwise. Technology giant google is banking on Virtual Reality. And has entire divisions
developing concepts its even converted its renowned google earth maps into Virtual Reality format. That allows users to explore the entire planet in three d. K. Is ahead of the project the Swiss Graphics Wizard leads a huge Developer Team at Google In California in his world those with a head for heights can even land on a new york skyscraper like superman and peer down into the abyss. The point of all this. He thinks we are as one of the platforms that will become Game Changers exerting huge influence like smartphones laptops and computers did were trying out what kind of opportunities it offers googles mission is to enable users to utilize all the worlds information and we are off of enormous potential for that. Case i once worked for
the Legendary Pixar studio he knows the thrill is what counts. People in california developed for the Movie Industry using light color sound and animation can be used to tell stories and create virtual experiences which people can immerse themselves in her friend. Facebook is also taking an active interest in via oculus one. The leading global producers of headset it sees p. R. As a new benchmark which could replace the computer monitor facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has big plans. We want to get a billion people. For a billion users even futurologists stephen isnt certain of that kind of take up but with most Global Players now in the race change is afoot. With lots of money are investing heavily in the market theyre under pressure to come up with the next great game changer theres nothing revolutionary going on with smartphones anymore but people have high hopes for the arch and we can be sure that pressure money and a passion for innovation are driving the Technology Forward but at the end of the day its the Practical Applications that will be decisive innovation only makes sense if users accept it. On the back of a couple of years ago mentored reality in the form of go to the world by storm. Reality allows users to interact with virtual objects in the real world but its uses go far beyond games. So it Industrial Company has been experimenting with Augmenting Reality. Is wearing whats called a hollow lens that combines the real world with the virtual. Virtual projection of a machine manufactured by being embedded within real space. It can be physically explored interactively controlled using a control box and finger movements the system offers a totally new opportunities. Its good for training combining the real with the virtual we can completely trying. Form for occasional training and we can approach Industry Exhibitions in a totally different way we dont need to take entire machines along with us we can plan carefully what we want to present physically and what virtually but were only just beginning to grasp what it all means for us. Builders working together with Software Specialists from the net setter a company the technology also works on mobile devices and its becoming increasingly easy to create virtual objects as you try its much easier today
because the Hardware Producers effectively take it out of our hands are ever more Developer Tools that do the mathematical work for three d. Object displays. Nowadays it takes just a morning or one day to devise a small application of. Clean up to. The hollands are still in development for now but augment reality is bursting with potential. The latest Generation Mobile phones and systems come with a our kids already installed. Virtual interactive worlds already taking shape on our mobile devices. What will the future be like as we face an ever increasing onslaught of information. Video artist Keiichi Masuda envisage this possible scenario. I mean were already exposed to massive sensory overload people cant even keep up with emails and the overload will grow with Augmenting Reality youre out shopping say
looking at whats on offer and suddenly an acquaintance pops up in the past you could act as if you didnt see them so now you have to acknowledge them because your friends on facebook that it leads to is more precious more social interaction the necessity to process information and i think thats one of the main challenges on us and it means the technology will be used selectively but not in blank. Deployment of god and the opportunity to cut but least offering some words of hard from the noise. Of. The Nineteenth Century mathematician ada lovelace is credited with writing the first Computer Code in history long before computers in the modern day sense existed however the programming pioneer took a dim view of machine intelligence. But nowadays we dont need side five series like westworld to convince us that algorithms have become
a lot smarter since lovelaces time and more disturbing. Someones reaching for their smartphone going on line purrfect. Was in fact i already know her. Thats a dana shes twenty six years old lives in cologne and comes from seguin she trained to work in Office Communication management but shes now studying business. She told me everything voluntarily. But i know even more about her i know her biggest secrets how well i dont want to reveal everything but ill tell you this much i collect data i am facebooks database. I know what a demon likes the rapper. Shes a fan of labor whos in Football Club and she enjoys working out. I know which
posts she likes the one she shares with her friends and those she comments on who she sends private messages to and what she writes in them. I can watch her away from facebook to edina has my Location Service activated i know when she goes where and i know where she regularly spends her time all the world three times a week she uses the wife i have a particular. F. A. She probably works that maybe its how she finances her studies or something else. And Movement Profile also tells me which of the facebook users are around her and who she hangs out with even in the real world thats what colleague. Was built. Around this guy spends practically every night with her you must be her boyfriend but every now and again another profile comes up
even at night i will i recognize him. Her other apps also give her secret away. This is where a demon likes to shop which she prefers to log on with her email address or with her facebook account its an easy Decision Just one click and idina can show up to her Hearts Content and i can collect even more date information like this. Again and no longer orders wine instead she buys smoothing frozen pizza and jars of pickled gherkins. And when i show her a baby photo from her friend on her facebook app she poses slightly no longer than usual. So what could all this mean. Well her boyfriend has no idea but dana are you coming. Nor does her
colleagues. Many people are worried about what happens to their data in social media networks. We asked you do you share everything on facebook. Usher barbara to me observed clear rules he says he wont post anything from his workplace a little personal information and no family photo. Because there is the preconditions for living in peace with facebook. Chris raised and he says good things and educational things on facebook. He doesnt want the world to know anything too personal to find out about bad experiences. Beer also posted an opinion saying i contrail all my data for Privacy Reasons so i keep some to myself. Still were glad that the parents of these cute babies didnt keep their pictures to themselves just look at them testing those lemons. One of our viewers observed a reaction like this in his nephew hes been a doer of from timo in guyana and he sent in a question about it. Why do babies put everything in their mouth. No matter what they see in front of them they want to suck it lick it all chew on it even the Camera Filming them could it be that theyre simply hungry. No they dont want to eat the objects they want to examine them and babies can do that best with their mouths. Newborns the highest density of sensory receptors
cells is on the tongue. Other senses like seeing hearing smelling all feeling are not so well developed in babies. The ability to pick up a small object between farm and index finger called a pincer grasp is a developmental milestone at around nine months of age. Until then a babys tongue and lips get most of its information about. The shape and texture of objects. Researchers believe that babies have an image of what they have in their mouth and may even recognize it by sight later. The mouth not only provides information about the world it of course also helps to still hunger and first satisfy the desire for intimacy. The socalled oral phase lasts until the child is about two years old exploring their
surroundings with their mouths helps babies develop a personality the mouth is the gateway to the world. But only very few pages. Do you have a Science Question that youve always wanted answered it were happy to help out send it to us as a Video Text Ovoid Smell if we answer it on the show well send you a little surprise as a thank you can i just ask. To find as i did have a Dot Com Slash Science Drop us a line at d. F. W. Undisclosed site tech on facebook d w dot science. Now we head back to the water in switzerland where otters are making a comeback the dextrous animals have many clever happens for example they sleep Holding Hands so they dont drift away in the river. Just scientists have been
watching them. Through. A camera trap took this footage of an alternate the all river in switzerland. With the rest of the family. It takes resources and time to capture such images its hardly feasible to set up traps across large areas. But there are other ways to find out why after saw. Conservationists of such a project to monitor the animals here in Central Switzerland its headed by every new vine backa bit transparent photo is one of thirty six volunteers involved in the effort. Pulses leave traces often in the shadow of a bridge. The smells rather fishy bit of angst and he looks very fresh fish. To smoke that territory by leaving piles of excrement that say this part of the river belongs to me. The piles help the researchers track down the
animals. Such as could well be living in this stream to. Buttress paris phyllis going to check the structure for to once a year. She already keeps track of beavers and is thrilled the authors might show up to. What may exist for me as a real highlight when a Species Reappears or colm toibin especially when it was basically our fault that it disappeared in the first place authors left because the conditions werent right for them anymore. Although switzerland had to catch the ultra protected species none had been sighted in the wild since the one Nine Hundred Eighty s. These ones live in a zoo. One theory is that toxins in the environment had rendered wild autism far tyler its exciting that several baby alters have now been seen in the region
a few autism one to be living in the come to terms of solitude and bam but other more and where. Well until to truckers have already been signed up in the areas marked in red. That the south. Is looking for those telltale signs on the banks of the river come to. This might or might not be relevant evidence but the Volunteer Trucker takes a photo just in case. This structure for if it was cleaned overnight shift as its called more than a decade ago the environment is now also friendly. To the position of the river it was rain nature that weve conducted regular inspections meant that six species of fish have returned home also its nice to see all these various kinds of habitats and its good for me as an angler its also good for the also has. Some mindless
dont agree they say otters eat too many fish. The project is not only about observation its also about selling the opto to the public and that includes hostile anglers. Its also about explaining the office behavior and possible impact on fish stocks. If. They could of course the bush daughters will affect some fish populations thats how it is with predators i can play it but i dont think theyll devastate them martyrs can only thrive where they can fish sustainably if There Arent Enough Fish Hunting gets to be hard work and the otters move somewhere else to. Feel pity for the class that. The main threats to fish pollution and rising Water Temperatures really not sure ation of rivers certainly relieves the pressure on them thats also good for autos the question is if humans will welcome more of them and their midst. Next week we look at the astonishing
capabilities of this shrew. In winter they shrink their body size to get by with less food even their bones get smaller and they regress in spring. Medicine learn from shrooms. More on that next week make sure to join us see you then cut by. The. Law. In the land is hoping to be laid off its obamas time in may im looking forward to the fun rides and parties and and of course i want to try a typical october first beer journey into the best of all history. And see what its like tell me lad come on the map this is that. Land shit as i am sure he loves to. Tear up at the morgue rubrics camp theres a terrible suspicion cool seen through one of europes largest Refugee Camps on the island of. Followers has said to be terrorizing the refugees some say theyve created criminal structures we meet witnesses and victims in an excuse. Today in reports. Who have been fighting for the case to take you seriously in the world of what heres whats coming up womens talk. For sure women smart talks Smart Station the legend frank recently dangerous time for w. The form of. An unusual friendship. Is the story of paul and he. Is a student from cameroon the other a filmmaker from germany hes read or not likely never be able to say whether he chose me or i chose him whatever the case this is the story of how he met me. On europes most dangerous. What began as a documentary. About the hooks my parents sacrificed everything for i cant go back and. Became a story about those seeking refuge. And those two know. When paul came over the sea from cameroon to berlin starts october fourth on t w e