• Question: Would you ever go to space to exoeriment

    Asked by caoimheneary to Aggelos, Andrew, Eileen, Naomi, Shane on 13 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Eileen Diskin

      Eileen Diskin answered on 13 Nov 2012:

      DEFINITELY! I would love to go into space, although I think that blasting off would be really scaring. Do you see what happens to those astronauts faces because of the G-forces (since they’re going so fast)?! They look really funny. But once I got up there, I think it’d be okay.

      Then I would like to do some experiments. I would like to see what its like to be without the gravity like we’ve got on Earth. I might want to do an experiment to see how it would work having the olympics in space. How much slower would people run? Or how much further could they jump!?

      Also, I’d like to see what Earth looks like from space, since you get a totally different view! Although I think it would be sad in some ways, because places like the rainforest are disappearing, and would look much different to one of us going up into space now than they would to astronauts who first went up into space.

    • Photo: Andrew Jackson

      Andrew Jackson answered on 13 Nov 2012:

      absolutely, but the chances of me getting up among the stars is pretty slim. Unless i win the lotto and can buy a ticket up there someday then it might have to wait for my kids who might get a trip up! Who knows, you might get up there in your lifetime… i hope you do if thats what you would like

    • Photo: Naomi Elster

      Naomi Elster answered on 13 Nov 2012:

      I would absolutely love to go to space, but I don’t think it will happen unfortunately. Luckily I have nerdy movies like Star Wars to satisfy my space cravings! I’d love to see the Earth from space for myself, and to experience what it feels like to be completely weightless. Have you ever felt really exhausted, and it’s like there’s something weighing down on you?? I wonder if it would feel the same to be tired in space as it would here? Would it be easier or harder to exercise?

      If you really want to get to space, you can get there. And when you do, I hope you’ll take a picture and send it to me 🙂

    • Photo: Aggelos Zacharopoulos

      Aggelos Zacharopoulos answered on 14 Nov 2012:

      Space is a great place for solar panels! I would love to go and check the solar panels on the satelites.

      The first solar panels ever used were on the first satelites launched in the 1950’s. The satelites needed an inexhaustible energy supply and it was not practical to use fossil fuels (maiinly beacuse of weight restrictions). So the scientists came up with the idea of using solar panels to capture the energy of the sunlight which is inexhaustible (well, practically inexhaustible).
      🙂

      Because you are outside earth’s atmosphere you also get more intense sunlight compared to the surface of the earth which the means more electricity produced!

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