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Asked by sarah2013xxx to Colm, Eoin, Joseph, Lauren, Stephen on 11 Nov 2013.
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colm bracken answered on 11 Nov 2013:
I always enjoyed looking up at the stars as a child, and wondering how the stars worked. When I found out that I could do this as a job I was delighted. I actually find it hard to believe that some people are not interested in science. Science has interested me for as long as I can remember, and it still never stops surprising me. There are still so many important questions to be answered about the universe, and since we are the only intelligent life that we know of, then it is our duty to try to answer them.
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Joseph Roche answered on 11 Nov 2013:
I think everyone is interested in science when they are younger. When you are curious about the world around you that’s basically an interest in science. Sometimes when we get older we think that science is something that we cannot relate to, but really we are all scientists at heart.
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Eoin O Colgain answered on 11 Nov 2013:
Rather than being interested in science, I just kept asking questions and ended up here. 🙂
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Lauren Mc Keown answered on 11 Nov 2013:
I remember the exact moment I became interested in science…I saw on the news that NASA had discovered water on one of Saturn’s moons called Enceladus…this for some strange reason, absolutely fascinated me, the fact that other places out there had similar characteristics to Earth completely drew me in, and I began going on the NASA website day in, day out, reading about new things going on in space science. I was lucky enough that this happened just before I had to choose my Leaving Cert. subjects, so I chose physics and chemistry, the interest grew stronger, and eventually I decided to go into science when I finished school. I’m working on red giant stars at the moment which I find so interesting, but I’m still oddly obsessed with Enceladus…I even have an app for it on my phone :p
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Stephen Scully answered on 14 Nov 2013:
I love to find out how things work. This led me to start in engineering and now I work in astronomy.
Comments
angel866 commented on :
how do you know that we are the only intelligent there could be all kinds of different things we have not seen everything and do not know about all the other planets out there
Joseph commented on :
Very true. There might well be other intelligent beings out there. The distances are so vast between stars that it might be difficult for us to reach them.