• Question: whats the weirdest questain you have ever been asked?

    Asked by cshiels to Adam, Chris, Eleanor, Jessamyn, Sinead on 13 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Eleanor Holmes

      Eleanor Holmes answered on 13 Nov 2013:

      During a workshop I was giving on balance and your centre of gravity I was once asked how a students dog managed to walk upright on it’s front paws only. The student even did a demonstration. We worked together to explain how this could happen and how he could stay balanced, but I’ve never seen a dog do that, have you?

    • Photo: Adam Murphy

      Adam Murphy answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      I was once asked what I was doing “wasting” silver for my work when it could have been in pretty jewellery

      I would have thought trying to detect cancer was a teensy bit more important

    • Photo: Sinead Cullen

      Sinead Cullen answered on 16 Nov 2013:

      Well honestly,
      I don’t really think any question is weird. I remember in school sometimes I wouldn’t ask a question because I thought some people would think it was weird, and now I wish had. One thing Science teaches you is that no question is ever too weird or too silly to ask. Because at the end of the day being a scientist is about questioning everything, no matter how weird it is 🙂

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