I wonder what kind of safety precautions they used. Many landfills have to have vents drilled deep into the ground to keep methane from building up or it can cause an explosion (the vents look like tubes sticking out, they're usually tipped green). I'm kinda curious how far down they had to dig. They kind of skimp on the details. The picture of the guy holding up the game doesn't look like a typical landfill I'm used to seeing, I wonder if it really was a landfill, or just a junk yard dumping ground.
To be fair, his qualifications are minimal compared to some of his peers. He has no significant published work and was a jock in college according to his wiki page. I'd rather listen to Ed Witten, Greene or Kaku talk and popularize science. One is a fields medal winner and the other two have advanced their field with published work.
> who are actively broadcasting toward Earth.
Perhaps they're doing the same thing we are - that is, they detected a planet inside the habitable zone around our sun, detected the presence of water in our atmosphere and decided to shoot us a friendly "hello".
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I wonder what kind of safety precautions they used. Many landfills have to have vents drilled deep into the ground to keep methane from building up or it can cause an explosion (the vents look like tubes sticking out, they're usually tipped green). I'm kinda curious how far down they had to dig. They kind of skimp on the details. The picture of the guy holding up the game doesn't look like a typical landfill I'm used to seeing, I wonder if it really was a landfill, or just a junk yard dumping ground.
The Hangover part 4. They'll find the missing martian pictures on a thumb drive near Spirit.
To be fair, his qualifications are minimal compared to some of his peers. He has no significant published work and was a jock in college according to his wiki page. I'd rather listen to Ed Witten, Greene or Kaku talk and popularize science. One is a fields medal winner and the other two have advanced their field with published work.
> who are actively broadcasting toward Earth. Perhaps they're doing the same thing we are - that is, they detected a planet inside the habitable zone around our sun, detected the presence of water in our atmosphere and decided to shoot us a friendly "hello".
Well, that and the inverse square law.