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An apparent nothing can exist, but absolutely nothing does not exist, it has not existed, nor will it ever exist.

Why a wall on the US/Mexico border? What about the idea of having two fences, about 20 feet high topped with barbed wire, with a road between them for the border patrol? The area just south of the border is covered with hidden sensors that tell the guards when people are approaching the fence so a patrol can be sent out to meet them. Can you install sensors along the border that can detect tunnels being dug under the boarder?

Trump didn't fight as a soldier in any wars, like the list of monsters I listed. He is a big, confrontational mouth, but will he go nutty on the world with a big stick? Did he ever say HOW he was going to get Mexico to pay for a wall on the border? Or is that among his list of "executive" secrets he needs to keep so ISIS, Iran, Russia, China, Mexico, etc. won't know what they are in for with Trump as president?

Trump is like a kinder, gentler Hitler. People such as Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Tojo, Saddam Hussein, grew up in vicious war times, so they learned to be ruthless and vicious. Trump is not going to practice genocide, but if he become president, which is a good possiblity, what would this country become, "great" or what? War with Iran?

Has anyone wondered why ETs would have lights on the outside of their spacecrafts? Don't say their propulsion system requires it. If they have the technical ability to travel across such distances, you would think they have better stealth methods than lights on the outside of their ships, as if to say "Hello there, look at us, we are aliens". I think real aliens would not be seen because they are so far beyond us that it would be easy to evade us.

It was disappointing how Trump answered the question in the Fox News debate: "What was his EVIDENCE that the Mexican government is sending their worst people here, rapists, murderers, human traffickers, drug cartel members, etc." At first Trump evaded the question and spoke about something else, and the questioner had to remind Trump of this question. Finally Trump answered that he had been to the border recently and border guards told him so. It would kill him to be a little more specific and give some more details, he had one minute to answer. It is well known that the Mexican government is often corrupt, so to suggest some in the Mexican government are sending aweful people here is not far fetched. And of course, not all the people involved in illegal immigration are bad people, maybe some are "nice people" who got forced into it. Trump looks weaker to me after the debate. All he could say was repeat what he already said, that he is rich and smart and wonderful, and all other politicians are inferior to him.

How successful do you think this additional SETI project will be? If Hawking thinks it is a worthwhile search, I go along with that. It will probably just turn up a whole lot more silence just like the other SETI project. How long does it take an ETI to figure out they have nothing to gain by transmitting to their galaxy at large their location to all interested parties? They would mask their location like a predator.

"For the last thirty years I have woken up at night wondering how life began. why this should happen I don’t know. As a layman I do not have the knowledge..." Then research. As stated above, read up on whatever subject it is that baffles you. Look up anything on wikipedia.org, then google, or youtube to learn more.

In this article they suggest the surface of Pluto may be geologically active, which would erase craters. No mention it could be because of its' location in a very rarified region of the Kuiper Belt. It seems reasonable to me that the inner solar system would be much more battered by meteors, but the outer solar system objects are so far apart that Kuiper Belt dwarf planets would be very small targets and not have the cratering as the inner solar system. Pluto's orbit is eccentric and orbits out of the plane of the solar sytem. Does the entire Kuiper Belt also have this inclination? http://www.businessinsider.com/pluto-surface-photos-no-craters-geologically-active-2015-7

I'm in favor of cutting off the money flowing into ISIS. How can we do that? Maybe precisely targeting key structures, that are easy to rebuild later, will cut the flow of oil for ISIS to sell. After ISIS is finacially crippled, soldiers no longer getting pay checks, no gas for vehicles, less food and supplies, recruiting dwindles, so they can be defeated. Key infrastructure can be rebuilt, but rebuilding it should be JUST beyond the capability of ISIS. Not a scorched earth policy. Does Trump come across to you as resembling Hitler a little bit? He is a political outsider with radical ideas, pompous and grandious, pedantic, except maybe without Hitlers famous hand gestures and hateful rhetoric.

What do you think of this idea by Donald Trump to defeat ISIS? "Bomb the hell out of them" says Trump. Can that be accomplished without too much permanent damage? I doubt that means the oil field fires set by Saddam as he exited Kuwait. It makes sense since the financial support for ISIS is mostly oil revenues. Is there a way to disable that money conduit temporarily, so that it would require expert engineers to fix it, since most of the ISIS fighters are not expert engineers or rocket scientists? Then place an international ban on any expert engineers fixing the money machine of ISIS. "...Trump said the U.S. military should destroy the oil fields in Iraq that are under ISIS control. “You go in and take the oil. (The U.S.) should have never given it up,” Trump said. “ISIS is wealthy. We can take that wealth away from them.”

“...They’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing their problems,” he said. “They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some I assume are good people but I speak to border guards and they tell us what we are getting.” He paints with a very broad brush for dramatic effect. What he is saying, of course, has to do with the flood of illegals coming across the US/Mexico border. The illegals come from all over the world, not just Mexico. "They [the smugglers, drug cartels, in collusion with corrupt Mexican gov't officials who look the other way] are sending people that have lots of problems..." It looks like he wants Mexico to screen the people who are illegally immigrating to the US.

What do you think of Donald Trumps remarks about Mexico? From what I can gather he said something like "Mexico is sending a lot of bad people across the southern border" not that Mexico is a country of bad people. The SMUGGLERS are the bad people, they are the rapists, murderers, and other criminals. Right?

What does the world think of it when 5% of the world's population (USA) controls a disproportionate amount of the world's resources?

Can we can agree that Dylann should do something productive that earns money that can be given to the victims families? If he gets life in prison, then he should be motivated to do something of value that he knows is going to his victims families for the rest of his life. The motivation for such a detestable task for a racist, will be different levels of confinement, some of which are much less pleasant than the others, which all depends upon his willingness to work for his victims families. Any psychologist that is worth his salt will be skillful in handling unusual people. All the psychologist needs to do is show empathy, something alien to Dylann, and I assure you the boy will become cooperative, since the alternative is solitary confinement.

If he doesn't get the death penalty, obviously Dylann must be isolated from the general public, but also isolated from the other prisoners. But why must he just vegetate in a solitary cell for 23 hours a day? I suppose that hard labor is now considered cruel and unusual punishment. There must be something productive Dylann can do there all day long. He would probably look forward to being interviewed, especially by someone friendly and sympathetic. That interviewer will become his best friend, so Dylann would likely tell all he really thinks and believes to his only friend, the psychologist. His father did some terrible parenting and should be an example of how to create a monster. Dylann was driven by his second mom to his Dad's place almost every weekend. And during that time the father didn't have a clue his son was a ticking time bomb and decided his loner son should have a handgun. Shame on him.

How large a telecope would it take to be able to see a person standing on an exoplanet? Suppose you can coodinate one hundred space telescopes that each has a lense one hundred feet across. Working together how fine a resolution would they have? Could they see an exoplanet? Could they see details on such a planet?

That is the question, "Why do some kids that had abusive fathers become spree shooters, and others don't? Psychology is not a pseudoscience. Let's figure out Dylann, and take our time doing it, even decades. I volunteer to interview him. In advance I will study up on white supremist groups, and then I will befriend Dylann and try to convince him that I agree with him, that I am also a racist like him, that I don't think what he did was so bad after all, you know, good cop strategy. Dylann's father was a piece of work. His second mom, the one that raised him with father absent most of the time, took Dylann to his father's place "almost every weekend". Sounds like a great opportunity for father-son bonding. Were there any confederate flags in or around the father's house? It takes a piece of work to create a piece of work.

"When Dylann Roof was 14, the rocky marriage of his father and stepmother began to unravel, according to court records. It was 2008. His dad Bennett Roof had recently moved the family back to South Carolina after three years in Florida. Bennett Roof’s small construction company had fallen on hard times. And his stepmom, Paige Hastings, accused her husband of being controlling and physically abusing her, according to court records. She filed for divorce that year. The 10-year marriage was over..." "About the same time his parents divorced, he dropped out of school in the ninth grade. Court filings in the 2008 divorce case include photos of bruises and scrapes Paige Hastings says she suffered after being beaten by Bennett Roof. “I was so scared of him that I knew I had to get out of this violent situation,” Hastings wrote in court papers. Bennett Roof and Paige Hastings had one child together, a young girl named Morgan, plus two children — Dylann and his older sister Amber Roof — from Bennett Roof’s previous marriage. The court record did not shed light on Dylann and Amber Roof’s relationship with their biological mom. Paige Hastings said she was the primary caregiver for the children. “I raised his kids from a very young age, took them to all of their activities and Benn’s kids have spent almost every weekend with me,” she wrote in a February 2009 affidavit. “Benn travels a great deal, usually 4 days a week, so I would always care for and raise his kids.” "A friend wrote in a letter that Hastings was involved in Dylann’s life — even after the couple separated in 2008. “She always made sure Dylann was able to visit his father, even taking him to and from his house almost every weekend. She has been very active in all of the children’s lives for the past 10 years...." http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/06/22/dylann-roofs-teenage-years-marked-by-fathers-bitter-divorce/

Defense attorney's try for life in prison, rather than the death penalty, for their clients. What's cruel and unusual about life in prison with continual, occasional interviews, brain scans, and other tests to find out what makes racist, domestic terrorists? What's so cruel about that? Is it more humane to leave him in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day? Maybe in 10 years they will have better methods for examining criminal minds. Since they forgave him why not set him free? Because they are devout Christians, they are required by their religion to forgive or they will look bad to their fellow Christians. We don't know their TRUE feelings.

Don't exaggerate, you are not "the problem". I'm only taking issue with your gratuitous use of the N word, twice, not in a very clever manner, not a "teachable moment" like when Obama used the N word recently.

Of course they should seek the death penalty, but will the jury give it? After more comes out about the kind of guy he was, testimony from his family and friends, people may consider him less an adult. Imagine the science about domestic terrorism we can get from psychoanalyzing Dylann. They should analyze him long term, and make sure he lives a long life in prison so he is always handy for another interview or brain scan, or whatever test using better and better technology. Or they may give him the death penalty, but postpone it for a few decades, same as above to learn as much about him as possible.

That is gratuitous use of the n word above. Even the context is bad, making you appear to be racist. I'm just saying, it may not remain for long in that form once the moderators see it.

How "adult" is he? From what's leaked out already, a 9th grade dropout, unemployed, full time drug user, waving confederate flags, noted as having become isolated by family members, asking suspicious questions in a mall while carrying drugs, arrested twice, and now is a good time for this youngster to have a hand gun.

Those in favor of the confederate flag because it reminds them of their ancestry, great grandparents who served honorably, and whatever noble qualities you can think of (I can't think of any) must ALSO remember that it ALSO has always represented hatred, fear, terror, racism, discrimination, etc. They cannot have one without the other. So it is becoming equivalent to the swastika or using the n word, and cannot stand much longer with the intense scrutiny that flag is now getting, ONLY because of Dylann Roof. Does anyone think that Dylann can get the death penalty? My hope is that he will get life in prison so psychologists can analyze what happened to him for the rest of his life. He is a textbook example. All we have been hearing about is foreign terrorism coming to us, now we must also come to grips with homegrown, domestic terrorism.