• Question: if you could do any experiment what wold it be?

    Asked by to Sarah, Sam, Roberto, Nate, Nat on 17 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Sam Connolly

      Sam Connolly answered on 17 Jun 2014:


      I’d love to do some experiments in space! To see how things like water act when there isn’t any gravity! I don’t think I’ll get the chance to anytime soon though 🙁

    • Photo: Roberto Trotta

      Roberto Trotta answered on 17 Jun 2014:


      I’d build a very powerful telescope and mount it on a satellite, then launch it to space, to look all the way back to the very first instants of time after the Big Bang. This would allow me to understand exactly how the Big Bang happened, and perhaps even understand what powered it!

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      Nate Bastian answered on 18 Jun 2014:


      Since my two favourite answers have already been given (nice one Sam and Roberto!), and assuming that we can ignore any cost or practical impediments, I’d love to visit the deep sea hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the oceans, that are teaming with strange animals. The so called “black smokers”. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent). It’s places like these were we now believe life began on earth, ~3.5 billion years ago.

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      Sarah Casewell answered on 18 Jun 2014:


      I love us to drop more probes into planets to discover exactly what they are made of! So far we’ve done this at Jupiter, and on one of Saturn’s moons, but we still don’t understand how their atmospheres work.

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      Natasha Stephen answered on 18 Jun 2014:


      I’d like to have another rover on Mars that could drill down below the surface much deeper than the few cm that Curiosity can so we could see what the rocks are like below! It would be amazing as well if the rover could somehow send some rocks samples back for us to study on Earth – that would be a really cool experiment!

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