If you check the location of this installation you'll find it's right next to Mojave, so pretty much desert not productive farmland. I'm not saying that's always the case but they are usually sited in areas where farming isn't possible, or marginal, not on prime agricultural land.

It's not a black material printed onto white ceramic, it just looks like that from the electron microscope image. They used ion beam etching to engraved the qr code into a flat ceramic surface. Assuming it's not subject to weathering it should last a pretty long time given what's know about ancient ceramics.

Just noticed nospam007 beat me to it but missed the gag. Maybe I should read the comments

.. was it an antarctic? Oh dear, my jokes are really getting bad. At least I baryon trying.

Chuck will be roundhouse kicking that drum

Iin seems everyone has failed their comprehension test. Note it says 128 MORE. There are actually 129 events in the data set.

Just 128, or any 2^n number?

And back to grades being decided 100% on in person invigilated exams. It's hard to see how continual assessment can realistically survive this.

Besides, English English doesn't really trip of the tongue

Just wondering how you'd collect on winning a bet on nuclear war.

But.....It can effectively compress space and time

You missed out the intermediary step where somebody pre-masticates your pizza for you

According to this the Lazuli diameter should be 3m (118 inches)

It probably makes no difference wrt litigation. What matters primarily in any court case is the relevant information/laws at the time of the offense. Defense lawyers would argue the paper was published science at the time. Note that Bayer AG share price is up 5% today, so the "market" doesn't think it's going to negatively affect any court case.

We're getting into semantics here but my understanding is that when talking about heat transferrence between bodies by infra red, or any type of radiation for that matter, the radiation acts as the intermediary by which heat flows from one body to the other. The radiation itself isn't usually described as heat.

Regardless of this, the point I'm making still stands, in that light and heat are not considered the same thing in physics.