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Author:     Rita Wright
Subject:    Questions on Ask A Scienctist Answers
Text:       How do the scientists know the answers to all of the questions 
people ask?

Response #:  1 of 1
Author:      Joe Schultz
Text:        Sometimes the questions are so good, we do not have an answer.  
They are things that just make you go `Hmmm'.  Otherwise, after years of doing 
a certain area of science, many of the answers are stashed away deep in the 
brain and they just pop out when someone asks.  And also, we know where to 
look up an answer!  That is probably the most common way we are able to get a 
reply to you.  Keep asking those questions...we learn just as much answering 
as you do getting an answer.