Marie Noorani

James says: "I wonder what would happen if you put a school bus in the sea when the Tylosaurus Rex was alive! That would be an interesting field trip, but you wouldn't have time to tell anyone about it because you would be eaten in 5 seconds! Grandma says: "I live in a small city that has no major museums. I would love to go to a natural science or natural history museum to see these kinds of fossils! So, if you have these types of museums where you live...GO CHECK THEM OUT! They probably have amazing things inside."

James says: "I wish rich people gave more to poorer countries." Grandma says: "It is poverty and lack of opportunity that causes people to take dangerous risks to get the money for basic needs."

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."