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  • People, Videos / September 6, 2019

    What Fossils Will We Leave Behind in 65 Million Years?

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  • People, Videos / March 27, 2016

    Is Human Evolution Dead? – One of 4 Ways Humans Could Evolve in the future

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  • People, Videos / May 18, 2016

    5 Incredible Body Painting Artists Craig Tracy, Cho San, Nikki Shelley, Kay Pike, Gesine Marwedel

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  • People, Videos / August 1, 2017

    Interview with ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano

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  • People, Videos / July 25, 2017

    How Neil Armstrong Cheated Death Multiple times Before Apollo

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Ferdinand Porsche – A Man ahead of His Time

In People, Vehicles, Videos by Paul Shillito25th July 2022Leave a Comment

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Think of the name Porsche and invariably you’ll think of sports cars, the boxter, Taycan and others but ultimately  911, the car which put the modern day Porsche name on the map but the man who founded the brand in 1931 Ferdinand Porsche already had a long and varied history …

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What Fossils Will We Leave Behind in 65 Million Years?

In People, Videos by Paul Shillito6th September 2019Leave a Comment

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65 million years ago the dinosaurs died out, we only know they existed at all because of the tiny amount of their fossilized remains that have been found and they had endured for about 165 million years. We, modern humans, on the other hand, have existed for about only 50,000 …

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Human Crash Test Dummies – Faster than a Speeding Bullet

In People by Paul Shillito6th October 2018Leave a Comment

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Seat belts, air bags even ejector seats in planes, we take these type of safety devices for granted and they have saved thousands of lives. Virtually anything that carries people these days from cars to planes to spacecraft have been tested using sophisticated test dummies but it hasn’t always the …

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How The Real Soviet Rocketmen Changed the World

In People, Rockets, Videos by Paul Shillito18th July 2018Leave a Comment

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Its said that around 400,000 people worked on the Apollo project to land a man on the moon and apart from the astronauts themselves, how many people spring to mind when you think about the who designed and oversaw its construction and operation, With the exception of Werner Von Braun, …

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Evel Knievel and The Reusable X-3 Volksrocket

In People, Rockets, Videos by Paul Shillito27th October 20171 Comment

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In the last year or so, its become almost commonplace to see SpaceX & Blue origin bringing rockets back after a launch for refurbishment and reuse. This has been the goal for billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos backed with NASA knowledge for well over a decade now. But over …

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How the First Spacewalk Nearly Ended in Disaster – Alexei Leonov Voskhod 2

In People, SpaceCraft, Videos by Paul Shillito20th September 2017Leave a Comment

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When Alexey Leonov made the world’s first spacewalk in 1965, it was hailed as yet another great success for the USSR in the space race against America. It was only after the fall of the Soviet Union that the west found out that while it may well have been made …

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Interview with ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano

In People, Videos by Paul Shillito1st August 2017Leave a Comment

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In this episode, I Interview with ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano whilst he was at Star City, Zvyozdny gorodok Звёздный городо́к in Russia about his work with ESA on the ISS (International Space Station) and various aspects of his views about space and working in it and how and why he …

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How Neil Armstrong Cheated Death Multiple times Before Apollo

In People, Videos by Paul Shillito25th July 20171 Comment

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According to legend, the family name Armstrong was bestowed upon a Celtic clan after a leading member displayed an amazing feat of heroism in battle – using just one of his arms. If that’s true, it might suggest where, centuries later, pioneer pilot and astronaut Neil Armstrong got his sense …

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Interview with Ex IBM-NASA Kenneth Roberts talking about Saturn V, Skylab, Spacelab and the Shuttle

In People, Videos by Paul Shillito18th July 2017Leave a Comment

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In this episode, I talk with Ex IBM and NASA contractor Kenneth Roberts who worked on the Saturn V, Skylab, Spacelab, the space shuttle and also helped train the crews and astronauts to understand and use the custom made flight and operational computer systems. This was a result of the …

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A day in the life of the human race

In People, Videos by Paul Shillito27th February 20171 Comment

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In a normal average day, for the vast majority of us, not a lot happens. You get up, go to work, come home, watch the TV, browse the net, maybe go out then it’s back home and bed. However, there 7.5 billion of us, so during a normal average day …

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