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Asked by Aj to Gavin, Karen, Mark, Michel, Roisin on 11 Nov 2016.
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Roisin Jones answered on 11 Nov 2016:
In science, I think one of the weirdest things I’ve gotten to watch is the process of sublimation, where a gas forms a solid without any in-between liquid phase, it’s always weird to watch, looks like something out of a sci-fi movie!
Outside of science, I’m not really sure…I once saw what appeared to be a dog taking a cat for a walk, had a lead and everything! I thought that was pretty weird!
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Karen answered on 11 Nov 2016:
I’ve seen some weird stuff in my time, probably best not to share here though?
Some of the coolest stuff I’ve seen includes the Geysers in Yellowstone park in America, icebergs in Alaska, a patient who was infected with 3 different types of malaria at the same time, a leopard eating a gazelle in a tree in the Serengeti… -
Mark Kennedy answered on 12 Nov 2016:
In February of this year, the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) launched an X-ray space telescope called Hitomi. When it got to orbit, and they turned it on, a programming error caused the spacecraft to begin rotating faster and faster and faster…
…until it was spinning so fast it tore itself to pieces…
…and all we could do was sit here on Earth and watch as it broke up and burnt up in our atmosphere.
The spacecraft cost $290 million to build and launch. So watching it tear itself apart was pretty weird. And upsetting.
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