Dr. Brian Keating

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.

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.

It heats up the water molecules. They start to vibrate and jumble. That causes friction. They heat up and eventually they'll boil, right? So that's why sometimes you can overheat liquid in a microwave. You can't tell, but it's super hot and actually it can be dangerous. But in this case, we don't want a photon coming from the Big Bang perhaps or before the Big Bang with the spark that ignited it.

It heats up the water molecules. They start to vibrate and jumble. That causes friction. They heat up and eventually they'll boil, right? So that's why sometimes you can overheat liquid in a microwave. You can't tell, but it's super hot and actually it can be dangerous. But in this case, we don't want a photon coming from the Big Bang perhaps or before the Big Bang with the spark that ignited it.

It heats up the water molecules. They start to vibrate and jumble. That causes friction. They heat up and eventually they'll boil, right? So that's why sometimes you can overheat liquid in a microwave. You can't tell, but it's super hot and actually it can be dangerous. But in this case, we don't want a photon coming from the Big Bang perhaps or before the Big Bang with the spark that ignited it.

We don't want that to travel for 14 billion years nearly and then get absorbed in a water molecule above the Earth's surface. So the best place to go is space. But space, even with SpaceX, I haven't done any scientific experiments, but it's about maybe a factor of 1,000 to a million times more expensive.

We don't want that to travel for 14 billion years nearly and then get absorbed in a water molecule above the Earth's surface. So the best place to go is space. But space, even with SpaceX, I haven't done any scientific experiments, but it's about maybe a factor of 1,000 to a million times more expensive.

We don't want that to travel for 14 billion years nearly and then get absorbed in a water molecule above the Earth's surface. So the best place to go is space. But space, even with SpaceX, I haven't done any scientific experiments, but it's about maybe a factor of 1,000 to a million times more expensive.

So the same satellite that we were worried was going to scoop us was exactly 100 or almost 200 times more expensive than our experiment at the South Pole.

So the same satellite that we were worried was going to scoop us was exactly 100 or almost 200 times more expensive than our experiment at the South Pole.

So the same satellite that we were worried was going to scoop us was exactly 100 or almost 200 times more expensive than our experiment at the South Pole.

We ended up getting about $10 million.

We ended up getting about $10 million.

We ended up getting about $10 million.

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