My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.
I try to pick interesting projects, the kind of projects that I would want to watch.
Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.
I've always been interested in UFOs.
In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world.
I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.
I'm a big technology individual. I love science and technology, and anything that has to do with capturing events so that they can be experienced later.
I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it.
The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.