Its just them being cheap. They probably set every one to a max of 720p, hope most people do not realise (cutting down bandwidth costs) and let them set max quality themselves.
Id rather hire a senior dev as a reviewer and a mid dev as the coder at a company. pay the reviewer more since they will be dealing with shit practices and having to train the dev.
From what I remember, They really wanted to find a way to do this without introducing organisms from earth. - e.g. drilling into the ice and the probe itself.
Why would you use this on the frontend? anything that requires auth tokens should never be used on the front end, You would be using this on your own server
Yeah they should probably learn to code.. I mean using a WYSIWYG to make this page is just messy. its using WordPress, Its more than just this page however so I can understand why. but host it on a git repo MD file. easier to allow Pull requests and edits.
You should look up the way that Japan filters streams for Iron. I cant find anything on it at the moment but essentially they would find/make bends in the river and set up ways to capture it since metal is heavier it would get caught in the bends.
You can leave the fruits on the ground, But If you would not eat an apple, why would you drink it. Dont use fruit with pests in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jRMK3dA2kI