• Question: did you ever ask unanswerable questions as a kid e.g; why is the sky blue.....

    Asked by 296grte38 to Steve, Emma, Christian, Bose, Alice on 7 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Alice Harpole

      Alice Harpole answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      All the time! I was very curious as a child (perhaps to the point of being a tad annoying!) and always wanted to know why things were as they were. Fortunately, my parents quickly found they could get me to be quiet by giving me books so I could find out the answers for myself!

    • Photo: Emma Dean

      Emma Dean answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      Yes definitely and I still do! There are so many questions that we don’t know the answer to, it would be hard not to ask them.

      It is this inquisitive nature of humans that has lead to the development of science. Finding questions that no-one has ever been able to answer is what drives research today. If we didn’t ask questions then we wouldn’t learn anything new.

      The good news is we now know why the sky is blue! NASA have explained it with colourful pictures here http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/blue-sky/en/

    • Photo: Benjamin Bose

      Benjamin Bose answered on 14 Mar 2016:

      I don’t think I did too often. My parents said I was always very quiet and would just say random things sometimes. I suppose that makes sense given I’m not too dissimilar today 🙂

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