Dr. Brian Keating

There's just literally a five-gallon bucket and a shower curtain. There are no windows on it because why do paratroopers need windows? And then there's enormous crates of bananas. There's 12 tons of bananas. I have not touched a banana in 12 years because of that. I know I'm missing potassium or whatever.

But the point is you land on the coast and then if you're lucky, you take a flight the next day and it's a ski plane. It's the only plane that the US does not export. In other words, we export the F-35. This is a strategic asset that we will not export. So it's hard to get to.

But the point is you land on the coast and then if you're lucky, you take a flight the next day and it's a ski plane. It's the only plane that the US does not export. In other words, we export the F-35. This is a strategic asset that we will not export. So it's hard to get to.

But the point is you land on the coast and then if you're lucky, you take a flight the next day and it's a ski plane. It's the only plane that the US does not export. In other words, we export the F-35. This is a strategic asset that we will not export. So it's hard to get to.

You're right. A slight deviation from that is it's not light that we're looking for. We're not looking for optical light. We're looking for heat. So it's heat pollution. You're exactly right. We're looking to avoid heat pollution. So we want to be somewhere cold.

You're right. A slight deviation from that is it's not light that we're looking for. We're not looking for optical light. We're looking for heat. So it's heat pollution. You're exactly right. We're looking to avoid heat pollution. So we want to be somewhere cold.

You're right. A slight deviation from that is it's not light that we're looking for. We're not looking for optical light. We're looking for heat. So it's heat pollution. You're exactly right. We're looking to avoid heat pollution. So we want to be somewhere cold.

We want to be somewhere that's far away from man-made sources of RF interference and microwave interference and communications, obviously. But the South Pole has a couple of other properties. One, the sun is below the horizon and the sun is 5,500 Kelvin. And we're looking for something that's a fraction of a Kelvin, maybe a few milli or nano Kelvin at most.

We want to be somewhere that's far away from man-made sources of RF interference and microwave interference and communications, obviously. But the South Pole has a couple of other properties. One, the sun is below the horizon and the sun is 5,500 Kelvin. And we're looking for something that's a fraction of a Kelvin, maybe a few milli or nano Kelvin at most.

We want to be somewhere that's far away from man-made sources of RF interference and microwave interference and communications, obviously. But the South Pole has a couple of other properties. One, the sun is below the horizon and the sun is 5,500 Kelvin. And we're looking for something that's a fraction of a Kelvin, maybe a few milli or nano Kelvin at most.

So it's billions of times that we want to get a void. Even the Earth itself is still 300, almost 300 Kelvin down there. Freezing is 273. So it does have that property. But the best part about it, it's above a lot of the Earth's atmosphere because it's at 9,000 feet above sea level.

So it's billions of times that we want to get a void. Even the Earth itself is still 300, almost 300 Kelvin down there. Freezing is 273. So it does have that property. But the best part about it, it's above a lot of the Earth's atmosphere because it's at 9,000 feet above sea level.

So it's billions of times that we want to get a void. Even the Earth itself is still 300, almost 300 Kelvin down there. Freezing is 273. So it does have that property. But the best part about it, it's above a lot of the Earth's atmosphere because it's at 9,000 feet above sea level.

And it's so cold, you don't know this because you're a California baby, but on the East Coast, when I would grow up, some days the bane of my existence would be you'd listen on the radio and they'd announce school closures due to snowfall in the winter. And sometimes they'd say, oh, you're out of luck because it's too cold to snow.

And it's so cold, you don't know this because you're a California baby, but on the East Coast, when I would grow up, some days the bane of my existence would be you'd listen on the radio and they'd announce school closures due to snowfall in the winter. And sometimes they'd say, oh, you're out of luck because it's too cold to snow.

And it's so cold, you don't know this because you're a California baby, but on the East Coast, when I would grow up, some days the bane of my existence would be you'd listen on the radio and they'd announce school closures due to snowfall in the winter. And sometimes they'd say, oh, you're out of luck because it's too cold to snow.

Sometimes the air temperature cannot saturate and perform precipitation. And the South Pole is like that. It's so cold that if you took this glass, I'm holding a glass here, and it was empty on the table here. And I extend this glass up to outer space.

Sometimes the air temperature cannot saturate and perform precipitation. And the South Pole is like that. It's so cold that if you took this glass, I'm holding a glass here, and it was empty on the table here. And I extend this glass up to outer space.

Sometimes the air temperature cannot saturate and perform precipitation. And the South Pole is like that. It's so cold that if you took this glass, I'm holding a glass here, and it was empty on the table here. And I extend this glass up to outer space.

The amount of water, if I took all the water in the atmosphere, the humidity in the atmosphere above the South Pole and condensed it into a liquid, it would be 0.3 of a millimeter. Here in Los Angeles, it's about an inch or 25 millimeters or more. And so you'd like to not go there. Now, why is that important? Well, water absorbs microwaves. That's how your microwave oven works.