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Who gets to make that decision, and what are the objective metrics / thresholds when doing so? What does this look like in practice? Is there like a pill you can give them, maybe shock therapy, cut out parts of the brain? How do you operationalize it?

Here is an interesting discussion about the effect of entry angle. It is intended for rocket capsules, but also discusses meteor(ites). https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/avs/offices/aam/cami/library/online_libraries/aerospace_medicine/tutorial/media/iii.4.1.7_returning_from_space.pdf @Bazil_SW I see you are a new member of 7 hours standing. Welcome. Just to warn you that new members are allowed only 5 posts in the first 24 hours. This is nothing personal, just a very effective measure against spammers who try to flood sites like this with junk. After 24 hours the restriction ends. If you really need to say something before that the private message system can be used.

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Biological structures have been known to arise from some orgasms. Could some meteorites come in at a very shallow angle and therefore skip along, picking up some material from the ground, then bouncing? ....or even skipping like a stone does on the surface of a lake or sea? If so, this might result in unusual deposits on the surface.

Then it would depend on your coworkers and students... customers... suppliers... and all other relevant variables. You're looking for a binary answer to a question which lives on a spectrum.

(my emphasis.) Huh? The atmosphere sounds like a fun place --I don't mean the bacteria.

Then we know we got it wrong, feel free to throw away the key or put them down, like you would a dangerous dog (with the lament "it's kinder"). What if we got the wrong guy in the first place and vent our spleen's on them, again we got it wrong; but now we're happy to let it happen to a plethora of other innocents in the certain knowledge, that our vented spleen makes the world a better place. How do you prevent a disease you don't know you have? "The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain.

No not really, but we do have some knowlegable folk who are probably crawling out of bed now, and they maybe able to help. ps: Thanks for your well presented thread...nice photos.

I'm not sure everyone could find peace in forgiveness. I'm not a religious person, I don't believe in god or an afterlife or any other mythical/supernatural condition. I do however believe in morals and fairness, goodness, looking after the planet, animals, people and society. But I'm also pretty tough when it comes to right and wrong within my culture and even have opinions on other cultures, but I won't go there. I believe in natural selection and that nature, sometimes cruelly has a way of ridding the weak. We as civilized humans have the capability to control this and rightly/morally in general do so. I struggle in my mind though to comprehend forgiveness for a mindless atrocity that severely harms, or worse, another human being. Especially if that human being is an innocent child! I think maybe in this situation I'd be more at peace with "an eye for an eye".

Some one will be along to help in time with your maths query. I'm only a rank amateur with a poor grasp of maths, but just a comment on the above. The Sun is approximately 400 times further away then the Moon, and also coincidently 400 times larger in radius than the Moon. The Moon has over the course of time, gradually moved further and further away from Earth [at present about 2 cm or so every year] We can then deduce that in the past when the Moon was closer, all eclipses [discounting partial eclipses] were just that, total eclipses irrespective of aphelion or perihelion, and in the distant future when it is further away, all "total eclipses" will all be Annular eclipses. the following shows an Annular eclipse that presently occurs when the Moon is at aphelion. That same eclipse would be total if the Moon had been at perihelion.

Wouldn't know the mathematics involved but would guess it has something to do with the amount of sunlight falling on the Moon, the angle involving the Sun, and the albedo of the Moon. From memory, the albedo of the Moon is 12, meaning it reflects 12% of the sunlight falling on it. Hope that might help somewhat.

I was speaking of the Pit Bull, not any incorrigible evil criminal element. As far as mental illness is concerned, my pity would be with the poor parents in the case of the little girl that was tied up, raped and tortured to an extreme degree, and their mental torture and anguish...just as that which was portrayed in the movie I mentioned, "A Time to Kill" by the Father of that little black girl. Was Hitler mentally ill? Probably. Does that mean I give him equal consideration [if he had not cowardly killed himself] as the 6 million Jews, and countless other deaths and trauma, he put the world through? I don't think so. None of that by the way, eliminates the fact that some people are simply evil and that prisons need to exist. Bingo! and thankfully, will remain so simply out of necessity. Yes, near exactly what I have said throughout this thread, and which has simply been ignored in favour of pushing some unachievable extreme political position, imo. I have thought about what I would do in a similar situation. While hopefully I would let justice take its course, [living in a reasonable westernised society that for all its faults, still recognises justice] no one can say for sure. I raised a movie called "A Time to Kill" Mathew McCaunaghy and Sandra Bullock, that portrayed a near exact copy of the "real life" scenario I raised when a low life criminal, on parole tied up, tortured and raped a little 7 year old girl. The Father of the little girl, shot and killed the two redneck evil perpetrators in that movie.

Both of those are largely cultural matters. Whether people who have been wronged by their fellow citizens desire revenge or restitution or penitence or redemption of the wrongdoer depends on the belief-system of the community in which their mind-set and relationships were formed. Even within a complex and diverse large society, local communities may vary considerably in their attitudes. Society at large is best served, not by validating a viewpoint - that is, beyond its constitutional principle - but by finding the most practical solution to its problems. No solution will consist of a single legislation (unless it's a monster omnibus bill) or a uniform response to the different manifestations of lawbreaking. I do make a distinction between those words, lawbreaking and wrongdoing. To label them all "crime" is to obfuscate the subject beyond any hope of discovering its causes, and without understanding of the cause, there can be no solution. I also make a distinction among different types of lawbreakers and wrongdoers. The legal system does make such distinctions, but doesn't have nearly enough scope even to define, let alone discover the differences and implement the appropriate procedure in each situation. That AAF study is worth glancing at.

Justice according to the crime commited.