Space, research and never ending questions
With 2009 being the year of astronomy it is important to underline that Space activities and scientific research in general need curious people who are not afraid to keep asking difficult, awkward questions even if they appear crazy. Space scientists increasingly spend time, and have much fun, explaining in simple terms the nature of their research, often difficult to understand.
This A-Roll and B-Roll provides a lively example of this in an interview with Dr. Anja Andersen, a Danish astrophysicist. She evokes her natural curiosity, in her field own of research and in everyday life, and gives examples of the some times startling questions that space scientists and engineers have to ask themselves.
For more info on this subject please check the script that is online as a PDF file under : http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS61580.pdf
A WMV preview clip is online under :http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/Space_research_TV_07-01-09_wmplow.wmv
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Space, research and never ending questions
Tape starts: 01:00:00
A-Roll starts: 01:01:00
01:01:43
When men strive to push back the frontiers of knowledge, science and dreams often come together in an extraordinary journey of imagination. The Universe we know and our immediate environment are in constant flux. Each new answer on their mechanism entails a flurry of new questions. Scientists are never content.
01:02:04
Clip Anja Andersen, astrophysicist, Dark Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen
""If we were content, I think we would be in the trees eating bananas because, I am sure, life was perfect then. I mean there was no reason to climb out of the trees, right? Except that someone was curious and thought: I wonder how it is like on the ground and maybe I could walk on two legs instead of four. When I can walk on two, I can run fast, I can catch things and, you know, that's some how part of being.""
01:02:29
Dr. Anja Andersen is a Danish astrophysicist working in Heidelberg, Germany. She exemplifies the scientist who