• Question: if you could invent something what would you invent

    Asked by Emstar to Alice, Bose, Christian, Emma, Steve on 4 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by kingnoor.a.
    • Photo: Steve Marsden

      Steve Marsden answered on 4 Mar 2016:

      A realistic way of travelling faster than light. I wish I could learn how life developed on other planets. There are so many questions I want to know the answer to. Is DNA the only path for life to follow, or is it one of many? How rare is (intelligent) life? Was Frank Drake correct in thinking that aliens would look a lot like us but with another hand hear or there, or do they look dramatically different?

      We know now that there were seas on Mars that had the potential to support life, and that these were around for longer than it took life to develop on Earth. Even without faster than light travel, we may be able to answer the first question within our lifetimes. 🙂

    • Photo: Benjamin Bose

      Benjamin Bose answered on 6 Mar 2016:

      Right now I’d invent a chemical we could release into the atmosphere which would repair all the damage we’ve done to the ozone and hopefully reverse global warming.

      There are so many pressing problems which need solutions – we really need inventors right now.

    • Photo: Emma Dean

      Emma Dean answered on 6 Mar 2016:

      I would love to invent a teleportation device. I really like the idea of transporting myself to Japan for lunch and the Caribbean at weekends and going on holiday to different galaxies.

      I would also like to develop a way we could break down plastics into organic matter and help solve the world’s waste problems.

    • Photo: Alice Harpole

      Alice Harpole answered on 6 Mar 2016:

      A cold fusion reactor would be cool! It’s still not really understood how such a thing could work (or if it’s even possible), but if we found a way to generate electricity using nuclear fusion at cold temperatures (or at least cooler than the 20 million or so degrees we need currently!) then this could really be a major step forward in powering the world in a much greener, more sustainable way.

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