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1. What was your favorite book when you were a kid?
That’s a very long list, and it depends on what age you’re talking about.
Picture book: The Sneeches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss.
Middle Grade: The Children of Green Knowe by LM Boston.
YA (though it’s really more “A”): Moonraker by Ian Fleming.
2. If you had the chance to go on a mission to space, would you go? Where do I sign up? I’m a kid of the sixties. I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up. But bad vision and lack of math skills scuttled that.
3. If you could only take one thing with you on a mission into space, what would you bring? Aladdin’s lamp. Actually, I’d want to bring that along no matter where I went.
4. What one invention would you like to see in the next 50 years? A practical battery that would allow the long-term and massive storage of solar and wind energy to get us off fossil fuels.
5. If you could communicate with a creature from another planet, what one question would you ask? I’d ask if any of the science fiction written here on Earth even comes close to reality. In other words: Did anybody get it right?
1. What was your favorite book when you were a kid? A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle.
2. If you had the chance to go on a mission to space, would you go? 100% yes. Where do I sign up?
3. If you could only take one thing with you on a mission into space, what would you bring? Oxygen.
4. If you could befriend one fictional character, who would it be? Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables.
5. What one invention would you like to see in the next 50 years? Teleportation chamber.
6. If you were forming a team to save the earth, who would you choose first to join you? My Voyagers editor, Michelle Nagler. Or possibly The Rock.
7. If you were tasked with naming your own planet, what would you call it? Wasserman.
8. If you could travel at the speed of light, where would you go first? Tahiti. And then Alpha Centauri.
9. If you could communicate with a creature from another planet, what one question would you ask? Where have you been?
10. Which one food would you never want to live without? Spaghetti.
1. What was your favorite book when you were a kid? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nymh
2. If you had the chance to go on a mission to space, would you go? When I was a kid I would have said YES! Now, as an adult, I think I'd miss my family too much and be worried I'd die in space alone.
3. What one invention would you like to see in the next 50 years? Self driving cars. That would be so handy on tour!
4. If you were forming a team to save the earth, who would you choose first to join you? My wife. She's much smarter and more organized than I am. Also she's good at patching up cuts and bruises.
5. Which one food would ou never want to live without? Pizza! And ice cream. And doughnuts.
1. What was your favorite book when you were a kid? Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
If you had the chance to go on a mission to space, would you go? Absolutely!
If you could only take one thing with you on a mission into space, what would you bring? A journal in which to make notes about the trip.
If you could befriend one fictional character, who would it be? Charlotte, from Charlotte's Web.
If you were tasked with naming your own planet, what would you call it? It depends on what it looks like. I'd have to see it and get a feeling for its character before I could choose a good name.
Which one food would ou never want to live without? Ice cream.
1. What was your favorite book when you were a kid? I had many favorites, but C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books were high on the list.
2. If you had the chance to go on a mission to space, would you go? Absolutely not. I don’t even like being stuck in an airplane for more than an hour.
3. What one invention would you like to see in th enext 50 years? I’d like to see small inexpensive batteries that can store enormous amounts of electric power, so everyone can have 24/7 rooftop solar.
4. If you could travel at the speed of light, where would you go first? This would be great, since I could go anywhere on Earth in much less than one second. If I had to go out into space, I would choose to go just far enough so I could look back at the Earth and see that view of it as a blue and green jewel.
5. If you could communicate with a creature from another planet, what one question would you ask? I would ask this being to describe its people’s greatest achievements.
1. What was your favorite book when you were a kid? The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis.
2. If you had the chance to go on a mission to space, would you go? ABSOLUTELY!! (Granted, I get carsick on any road with the slightest curve, but surely technology will have found a way to abolish motion sickness by then. ;o)
3. If you could only take one thing with you on a mission into space, what would you bring? CANDY! And a library card that would get me into any library in the universe.
4. If you could befriend one fictional character, who would it be? Does Captain Jack Sparrow count?
5. What invention would you like to see in the next fifty years? One of those gizmos from Star Trek that lets you zap people and cure any illness or injury.
6. If you were forming a team to save the earth, who would you choose first to join you? My giant cat, Bubba. I’m pretty sure he’s already an alien ninja warrior masquerading as a lazy house cat.
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