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Asked by hanzhodges to Huma, Jack, Lucy, Miranda, Peter on 5 Nov 2016.
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Peter Boorman answered on 5 Nov 2016:
Brilliant question!
If there was one thing I would love to understand, it would be if there was any life outside our own planet, and in which form that life is. For example, our nearest star outside from the Sun was recently discovered to have a planet orbiting it, at a distance called ‘the habitable zone’. This ‘zone’ is just the right distance for the planet to have liquid water on the surface, which is widely believed to be one of the essential ingredients for human life. However, if we were able to discover actual life on another planet, this could help us understand how life started on our own planet!
For more details on the planet, look at the link below:
http://www.space.com/33834-discovery-of-planet-proxima-b.htmlPeter
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Lucy Oldacre-Bartley answered on 6 Nov 2016:
Great question!
If I could discover anything in the world it would be how to make people healthier for longer. We have an aging population who often get a lot of problems as they age but wouldn’t it be great if the older members of our families could still have a boogie!
Healthiness is key to happiness!
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Huma Shah answered on 7 Nov 2016:
Hello again Hanz Hodges,
Oh crack the ‘natural language’ code so that robots could talk like humans as they do in the movies. Natural or human languages have been very hard to ‘crack’ unlike vision, robot vision is getting better and better, but language remains hard. Big tech companies like Apple, through introduction of its SIRI iPhone speech assistant app in 2011, and IBM’s Watson machine also unveiled in 2011 are major breakthroughs but still far behind the language ability of a two-year-young human child. So discovering exactly how human languages work in the brain would be absolutely amazing.
Huma
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