What's up with the barrier?

I assume the seats are just the usual 737max seats where the "cushions" are just a layer of spongy stuff spray painted on, but spaced slightly further apart.

My life is complete

Someone’s going to make the video, right? Please?

What kind of slime would commit a crime like this

Complicated adjustments - sending supportive thoughts

GQuuux? And I’d love another Ariel?

“Mobile battery pack to sustain critical field experiments “

Ha! Ok, somewhow that’s utterly terrifying how completely I was fooled

When you say “AI” here does that mean something that learned / was trained, or rebranding a PID controlle r while maybe adding an extra term or two?

I would hope that trolling the chair of the Senate health commitee like this would negative consequences for Kennedy but that would require Cassidy to have a spine

Scientists are also hard to have as players, so a science journalist like you is probably the very worst case.

Special exception for people who work in quantum optics

Nexus

I won't be attend because my life/schedule is an ongoing nightmare, but I am very sorry to miss seeing you receive your award - congratulations again!

(And as you note you'd also need to know how much nitrogen is in the home planet atmosphere; though if it's even remotely earth like it would be mostly nitrogen, and the difference between 60% N and 90% N would not be the biggest uncertainty in C14 production.)

How old is this hypothetical alien spacecraft? Carbon 14 is good tens of thousands of years back - there are other radio-dating methods that work on longer timescales.

It'd be somewhat hard. On Earth, carbon-14 is created by cosmic rays impacting the Earth's upper atmosphere. The cosmic ray rate could be different on another planet depending on where in the galaxy it is, strength of its magnetic field, etc, so the initial amount of C-14 could be different