• Question: Does anything about science scare you?

    Asked by aminao to Jack, Jon, Tom, Yalda on 8 Mar 2013.
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      anon answered on 8 Mar 2013:

      When I was younger, I used to be scared that gravity might just stop working but then I did some physics & realised that probably wasn’t going to happen.

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      Jon Marles-Wright answered on 8 Mar 2013:

      The fact that we are running out of helium is scary. It’s really useful for cooling things down to really low temperatures, but our supplies are running out. If it does run out, experiments like the LHC won’t be able to run as they need helium to cool the magnets in the particle accelerator.

    • Photo: Tom Branson

      Tom Branson answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      My friend wants to clone himself and then kill everybody else on the planet so there are just millions of copies of him. That is quite scary.

    • Photo: Yalda Javadi

      Yalda Javadi answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      It scares me that new important discoveries may remain undiscovered if money isn’t invested into science.

    • Photo: Jack Heal

      Jack Heal answered on 17 Mar 2013:

      I agree with Yalda. The money situation in science is quite scary. Not in a “killer robots will eat us all” kind of way, but it’s something a lot of scientists are worried about. Often now to get money for science you have to justify how your research is going to make lots of money back. It’s weird though because lots of big money-making science ideas have come up by accident when researching something else. (A good example is the microwave!) So if there aren’t as many scientists working then it’s less likely that these accidental discoveries will happen.
      I’m also scared that killer robots will eat us all.

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