SETI doesn't just search for extraterrestrial intelligence. They also conduct valuable research e.g. the search for Earth-sized planets, with much of the data they produce helping us to better understand the universe.
Illegal is a bit harsh, but I would personally never friend any of my professors perhaps until after I graduated and we became colleagues. I feel it violates the student-teacher relationship in an inappropriate way.
@hmm, yes although the average lifespan before modern times was sigificantly shorter (and still is in much of the world), although not necessarily due to a lack of hand sanitiser.
Francis Ford Coppola, who directed The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now also directed Jack, that movie about a child who ages prematurily and has the body of Robin Williams. Hijinks ensue!
Hoagland (famous for all that hoo-ha about the face on Mars) is a notorious anomaly hunter and enjoys making things up out of thin air. He actually believes that some Nazi war criminals escaped into space, and are still up there reaping havoc.
Doctors were baffled? Audiologists would have been all over that.
@Gnarls, block both your ears while eating chips and then you'll know what it sounds like for him.
@Gauldar, unforch only internal sounds are amplified. People with SSCD may experience hyperacusis - an oversensitivity to sounds - which may cause them to percieve more environmental sounds as uncomfortably loud, but that doesn't mean their hearing is actually improved. In fact, they generally have conductive hearing losses.
Hooooaglaaaand *shakes fist*
Australians have the most elbow room - well the third most after Mongolia and Namibia :P
@Gnarls, block both your ears while eating chips and then you'll know what it sounds like for him.
@Gauldar, unforch only internal sounds are amplified. People with SSCD may experience hyperacusis - an oversensitivity to sounds - which may cause them to percieve more environmental sounds as uncomfortably loud, but that doesn't mean their hearing is actually improved. In fact, they generally have conductive hearing losses.