Based in the worlds coldest region. Right at the very south of our planet lies antarctica the continent of snow and ice. In 1911 the norwegian Roald Amundsen became the 1st person ever to reach the south pole the last region of earth that was still unexplored and uninhabited by humans. In 195912 nations signed the antarctic treaty pledging to use the beach and only for peaceful purposes and particularly for scientific research. Today there are around 80 research stations in the antarctic used by 4000 scientists from all over the world we wanted to know what its like to spend months in the cold and ice and so we headed there starting at the airport close to the russian polaris the. Station. Sky at. Antarctica from the air. On board this aircraft are scientists from 10 different countries. Will be spending the polar summer doing their research here. This year the team from bellaver is especially large. Billow says would be a program for science and sibylla just cost more and. Enjoy a few
A typical star there are hundreds of millions of stars like that in our own galaxy and so astronomers can monitor the life cycle of stars like our sun and we know the sun is about 4 and a half 1000000000 years old and it stars like the sun last around 9 or 10000000000 years so dont lose any sleep over it but its true that some day the earth will be destroyed by our own star well look at the world well live in nj and i mean the growing number of conflicts on the Climate Change is recognised as another existential threat were facing what makes you think that will survive for even another 1000 years before you have billions. Thats a great question i mean fundamentally im an optimist i think that weve already seen well i know that weve already seen just incredible advances in science and Technology Medicine communication transportation just in the last few 100 years and i think that you know thats whats going to help us survive as a species thats whats going to help us learn to live in a S
Visionary. Not interplanetary flights maybe just decades away. But what will they be like and are we ready to embrace interstellar a well i asked. Researcher professor. Jimbo welcome to the show its great to have you with us so jim Scientists Say that they sun will expand into red giant and eventually destroy last on earth how much time do we have. Well so if thats actually true and but i wouldnt worry about it its going to take at least maybe 5000000000 years or so the sun is a typical star there are hundreds of millions of stars like that in our own galaxy and so astronomers can monitor the life cycle of stars like our sun and we know the sun is about 4 and a half 1000000000 years old and it stars like the sun last around 9 or 10000000000 years so dont lose any sleep over it but its true that some day the earth will be destroyed by our own star well look at the world well live in nj and i mean the growing number of conflicts on the Climate Change is recognized as another existential
Technology medicine communication transportation just in the last few 100 years and i think that you know thats whats going to help us survive as a species thats whats going to help us learn to live in a Sustainable Way on this very precious and rare planet that we live in to maintain the environment that is conducive for for a good quality of life so so im an optimist i believe in science and technology and and that the Scientific Method can make our lives better and it has and will continue to do so as we go into the future you know im sure you know this asked a physicist and just marching rees i was speaking to him recently and he told me that there was no plan b. For us. Do you think there were east or there is not. Well i mean right now thats true thats absolutely true but we we are made for this planet for this environment we have evolved to for this life around in this kind of an atmosphere with this temperature and this pressure and this composition so you know earth is our hom
Jimbo welcome to the show its great to have you with us so jim Scientists Say that they sun will expand into red giant and eventually destroy last on earth how much time do we have. Well so if thats actually true and but i wouldnt worry about it its going to take at least maybe 5000000000 years or so the sun is a typical star there are hundreds of millions of stars like that in our own galaxy and so astronomers can monitor the life cycle of stars like our sun and we know the sun is about 4 and a half 1000000000 years old and it stars like the sun last around 9 or 10000000000 years so dont lose any sleep over it but its true that some day the earth will be destroyed by our own star well look at the world well live in nj and i mean the growing number of conflicts on the Climate Change is recognised as another existential threat were facing what makes you think that well if there arrived for even another 1000 years before you have billions thats a great question i mean fundamentally im an