Marie Noorani

James says: "Give me all of your Euros! I'm doing it!" Grandma says: "Climbing Everest used to be a unique achievement. But, now, it hardly is! If you are rich, you can just pay sherpas to take you to the top. Should everyone--even those without experience--be allowed to climb the mountain? Seems dangerous."

James says, "Give me a ticket; I want to go!" Grandma says, "Space is an awesome mystery! I love when scientists learn just a little bit more to understand it better."

James says: "Can I pet it??" Grandma says: "This snake was longer than my kitchen and sitting room COMBINED! When I was a kid, I had a boa constrictor for a pet. It ate mice."

James says: "I wonder how closely they have to look for problems in the chip." Grandma says: "I think the things that technology and medicine can do are phenomenal. When I was young (many years ago) such thing were unthinkable. Advance in technology are astounding and so fast."

James says, "I wonder when they'll make vehicles like in Star Wars." Grandma says, "If everyone gets a flying car, the traffic jams will eventually be in the air. And what happens when a flying car has an accident with another flying car? Doesn't everyone fall to the ground???"

if it was slow and gradual or just in a few days." Grandma says: "Archeologists are very lucky that environmental conditions allowed the artifacts to be preserved."

James says: "It's like the soldiers could see into the future." Grandma says: "This is a form of time travel, isn't it? This shows the miraculous importance of written language!"

James says: "I wonder how long the spiders took to make the enormous spider web." Grandma says: "I hope no non-scientists find the cave and ruin the spiders' home."

James says: "I wonder how many times people thought Claude was dead because he was laying there not moving." Grandma says: "It's a little sad, but all things die eventually. If you are born, you have to die. And it's OK. Everyone should just enjoy every day with people you love."

James says: "It would be really cool if we found alien life on this supposed "new moon". Grandma says: "I want to find out if it is an asteroid or a piece of space junk."