• Question: have you ever considered travelling to a different place to find new medicens or cures (e.g space ) ?

    Asked by Millie to Paul, Mobeen, Greg on 8 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Paul O'Mahoney

      Paul O'Mahoney answered on 8 Mar 2016:


      I would love to travel to space! There are lots of people who travel the world cataloging plant species and such in an attempt to find new medicines, I’m not sure how much you would find in space though! IT would certainly be an interesting job to do but I think I am much more interested in physics than biology and chemistry, so it maybe isn’t the best job for me

    • Photo: Greg Melia

      Greg Melia answered on 8 Mar 2016:


      Well I’ve travelled to Switzerland and France to work with some scientists there, and I’ve travelled to conferences in Poland, Italy and Turkey to talk with other scientists and find things out – does that count?

      Some scientific experiments are done in space, because they need to be done in zero gravity to work properly. That’s a lot of the reason why space stations are built, and astronauts are usually scientists too. I’d love to go to space but I think I’m too late to become an astronaut, so I’ll stick to doing what I do now.

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