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Impossible without CSIRO

Many of our iconic innovations were once considered impossible. Fast WiFi, Aerogard insect repellent and the plastic Australian banknote, to name a few. Join Team CSIRO and help make the impossible possible.

Join Team CSIRO

[Image appears of two females sitting on the banks of a river and enjoying the sunset and the camera zooms in on them, and text appears: Impossible Without CSIRO] Narrator: Ah beautiful! But did you know that this would be impossible without CSIRO? Mosquito free sunsets; [Image changes to show a female working on a computer] Also super-fast Wi-Fi: [Image changes to show a close view of fairy penguins] Protecting these little waddlers; [Image changes to show a close view of firemen talking together, and then the image changes to show a simulated fire burning] Predicting bushfires; [Image changes to show flexible solar panel film being manufactured] Flexible solar panels; [Image changes to show a view of fish swimming over a coral reef] Restoring our reefs; [Image changes to show a view looking down on people walking through a lab, and then the image changes to show a close view of a researcher looking at a 3D printed medical part] 3D printed medical parts; [Image changes to show a researcher picking up a piece of film with tweezers and looking at it, and then the image changes to show a researcher looking at a piece of film] Can you believe all of this was impossible without people just like you? [Images flash through of various researchers at work, and researchers walking through an office, and then the image changes to show the Earth in Space] So join us and make the impossible happen. [Image shows the Earth morphing into the CSIRO logo and text appears: Join Team CSIRO, CSIRO.AU]

Transcript available from: https://www.csiro.au/CorporateAffairs/Vimeo/Impossible-Without-CSIRO/video-transcript