• Question: Is part of your job looking for life in outer space?

    Asked by gwedegs01 to Andy, Bill, Grant, Kayleigh, Rain on 19 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Bill Price

      Bill Price answered on 19 Mar 2012:


      No, not at the moment.

    • Photo: Rain Irshad

      Rain Irshad answered on 19 Mar 2012:


      Yup, and we have to be really careful that we don’t contaminate the stuff we send with our own DNA as well – otherwise we could get a false positive, get all excited, then find out the signs of life we found were just our own because we left crumbs on the instruments.

    • Photo: Andrew Hearn

      Andrew Hearn answered on 19 Mar 2012:


      I wish I could say yes for that question!

    • Photo: Grant Cairnie

      Grant Cairnie answered on 19 Mar 2012:


      No, just trying to find a GPS signal for the Sat Nav

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