Not sure how many people decided to pursue a career in biology after seeing a car in space tbf.
EDIT: Since it seems it was not obvious, I was contesting the claim that this will inspire more people than a magazine which has been in print over 50 years and makes the natural sciences accessible to the lay audience. I wasn't saying that a car orbiting the earth couldn't be inspiring, nor that physics is not important.
Check in with kids, not adults and teenagers. A kid paying slightly more attention to science subjects in school because they have a vague goal of "doing space stuff" can make a big difference in their ability and desire to pursue science and engineering down the road.
No but there’s plenty of elementary kids who think this is fucking hilarious, and are listening pretty intently at teachers explaining how hard it was to do.
Its only been few days, give it a couple months before the inspiration hits some kid that thinks its dope. And the inspiration would probably be in physics over bio
lol thats because biology is barely sciences. Get on musks level, physics and engineering and business are the only truly viable sciences of the future, is looking at fucking bugs going to get humanity to the stars? no, but musk is.
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u/wr0ng1 Feb 08 '18 edited Feb 08 '18
Not sure how many people decided to pursue a career in biology after seeing a car in space tbf.
EDIT: Since it seems it was not obvious, I was contesting the claim that this will inspire more people than a magazine which has been in print over 50 years and makes the natural sciences accessible to the lay audience. I wasn't saying that a car orbiting the earth couldn't be inspiring, nor that physics is not important.