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Afternoon. Martin here with the mystery of a lost land under the | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
sea, coming up. Plus, how to make paper out of fell fant poo. Keep -- | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
elephant poo. Keep watching. First, to exciting news about the | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
possibility of the UK one day having its own spaceport. The Government | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
has backed the idea as part of plans to increase space business. | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
The UK's sprays industry is growing w the -- space industry is growing. | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
One idea is the possibility of a spaceport on our doorstep. It is | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
where we launch spacecraft. Might do it with rockets. We might do it in | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
the future with space planes that take off like aircraft. We've never | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
had anything like this in the UK before. It is exciting news. The | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
world's first commercial spaceport officially opened in New Mexico in | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
2011, with the aim of eventually taking ordinary people, albeit very | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
rich, up into space. It costs ?120 million to build. If you are | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
launching space planes, you would need long runways. Yes, it would | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
look like an airport. You would need the buildings to service the planes | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
in and so on. If you were launching rockets you would need such as you | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
have at Cape Canaveral and in Kazakhstan. Where could we put one | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
in the UK? If we are launching space planes and rockets, we need to | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
launch them well away from populated areas. We need to think of remote | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
areas of the UK. The north of Scotland is one of the areas being | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
considered as a spaceport base. If it does go ahead then it could | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
happen as soon as 2018. Toen ash shoe which has got -- to an issue | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
which has got plenty of you speaking. | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
What are they talking about? Household chores. The Spanish | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
Government want to bring in guidelines that say all young people | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
should help out around the house. I spoke to one family about the idea. | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
I think it is pathetic because all the kids will think they cannot do | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
what they want and have time with their friends. It is right because | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
people, they sit down so their mums can just do it. I think the | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
Government is right. And here is some more of your | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
thoughts. Next, we all know that Britain is an | :02:38. | :02:55. | |
island. Thousands of years ago that wasn't the case. There was an area | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
called Doggerland that connected it to Europe. Now scientists say they | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
have found out more about how it finally disappeared. | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
The UK, as it is now. Imagine a time when you could have walked on land | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
from here to northern Germany. Well, thousands of years ago it was | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
possible. This area was known as Doggerland and connected us to | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Europe. There were humans living there and alongside them dear and | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
there would have been a lot of fish in the sea that the humans hunted. | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
Also there would have been a lot of vegetation, so fruit, as well as | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
trees, grasslands. Scientists discovered the existence of | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
Doggerland a few years ago. Now they know more about it. A tsunami, | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
similar to the ones that devastated East Asia - these days they are | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
extremely rare in Europe. Researchers believe 8,000 years ago | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
a massive landslide off Norway caused a mass save wave that wiped | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
out the last people to live in Doggerland. We know a tsunami | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
happened because there was sed meant which have been found in Scotland | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
and Norway, as well as Greenland as well. Other scientists have been | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
able to date these samples and figure out this tsunami happened | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
8,000 years ago. Sea levels were already rising causing Doggerland to | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
become islands. This computer-generated image estimates | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
the impact the wave would have had on however much was left. Now we | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
know more about it than ever. There are many mysteries to unearth about | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
the lost land under the sea. To the zookeepers putting poo to good use. | :04:51. | :05:01. | |
These guys have figured out how to transporm elephant poo into -- | :05:02. | :05:03. |