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Asked by tom to Chris, Susan, Rob, Josh, Rebecca on 15 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by jazzy, Emily, Gizmo, Pendall and Izzy, 1s443.
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Chris Armstrong answered on 15 Jun 2015:
Never existed? Hmm well.
Science is either claimed to start with the greek or the babylonians, so if they never bothered. If they kept within what they knew already and never developed the idea of the zero, or postulated what the stars did then I guess a whole host of progress would never have happened. And humanity would likely have fallen to some disease or another.
But if you mean that study science was not an option for me I would have liked to been something involved with literature or history. Massive book nerd, I wouldn’t have minded being a writer.
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Rebecca Dewey answered on 18 Jun 2015:
Before we knew what science was, a lot of people called it the study of philosophy. So I would have probably studied philosophy.
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Susan Cartwright answered on 18 Jun 2015:
Be dead.
When I was about 12, I fell holding a milk bottle, and sliced open my radial artery. Before the mid 20th century, I would probably have died, either from blood loss or from infection (this happened out of doors). As it was, my parents drove me to hospital, where my hand was X-rayed, I was anaesthetised and stitched up, and given antibiotics and an anti-tetanus injection to prevent infection. I have an interesting scar across my right palm, but I’m still alive and everything works.
The internal combustion engine in my parents’ car was produced by science; so were the X-ray machine, the anaesthetic, the antibiotics and the anti-tetanus injection.
I’m a big fan of modern medicine!
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Kevin commented on :
Without science……..I think I’d be hunting down woolly mammoths