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Hi guys - Martin here telling you about the fishtank with a difference | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
and how to make paper out of poo. It's Newsround. | :00:13. | 3:51:54 | |
and how to make paper out of poo. But first to exciting news about the | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
possibility of the UK one day having its very own spaceport. The | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
Government has backed the idea as part of plans to increase the | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
British space business. Ayshah's been finding out more. | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
The UK space industry is growing with the Government serious about | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
getting more big projects based here. One idea is the possibility of | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
a spaceport right on our doorstep. A spaceport is where we launch | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
spacecraft. We might do that with rockets. Even more excitingly we | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
might do it in the future with space planes which would take off like | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
aircraft. We've never had anything like this in the UK before so it's | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
tremendously exciting. The world's first commercial | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
spaceport officially opened in the US state of New Mexico in 2011 - | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
with the aim of eventually taking ordinary people, albeit very rich | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
ones, up into space. It cost more than ?120 million | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
pounds to build, so creating one isn't easy. | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
Well if you're launching space planes you need some really long | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
runways so it'd look a little bit like an airport. You'd need the | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
buildings to service the planes in. If you're launching ordinary rockets | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
you'd need launch gantries much as you have in Cape Canaveral or in | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
Kazakhstan where the Russians launch. | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
So with that in mind where could we put one in the UK? | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
Well if we're launching space planes and space rockets we need to launch | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
them well away from populated areas so we need to think about the more | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
remote areas of the UK. The North of Scotland is one of the | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
areas being considered as a spaceport base. | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
If it does go ahead, then a UK spaceport could happen as soon as | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
2018. Next, to the paper that's made of | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
elephant poo. Keepers at a safari park in | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
Indonesia have come up with an interesting way of recycling the 2.5 | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
tonnes of dung that the elephants produce every day. The dung's washed | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
and boiled to kill all the germs and get rid of the smell, then it's | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
added to waste paper and blended into sheets. | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
The makers say it's eco-friendly and reminds people about elephant | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
conservation and it's proving to be a hit with shoppers. | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
Next - doing the dishes or tidying your room is the last thing you want | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
to be doing after school. Right? Well the Spanish government want to | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
bring in guidelines that say all young people should help out round | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
the house. And you've been telling us what you think. | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
Craig says, "We should be allowed to enjoy being kids and not have to | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
worry about work till we're at least teenagers." | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
But Erin's told us "Children should do chores because it helps your | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
parents." And finally, take a look at this | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
smart tank that's driven by a fish. It's on wheels and got an in-built | 3:51:55 | 3:51:54 | |
camera that detects the fish's movements and makes it travel | 3:51:55 | 3:51:55 |