[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- An Asteroid Field Would Actually Be Quite Safe to Fly Through
- [Misconception Junction - daven]
The reality is that the asteroids in asteroid fields are incredibly far apart and most of the objects in these fields are very tiny. There’s generally hundreds of thousands of miles between the objects and most of these objects are no bigger than a tennis ball …
…even if the asteroid belt is initially packed with debris that’s colliding everywhere and basically is like what is depicted by Hollywood, this would quickly (on a galactic time scale) sort itself out with most of the mass being ejected from the belt, due to these collisions. Eventually, the system would stabilize itself to something like what our asteroid belt is. So you’d need to find a system that was just forming…
- Foreign Policy: Arrest Assange, Arrest Woodward? : NPR
- While some are calling for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be prosecuted, others point out that notable reporters who release classified material, such as veteran reporter Bob Woodward, face no such threats. Stephen M. Walt of Foreign Policy argues that government elites will tolerate prestigious reporters who publish leaks, but not upstarts like Assange.
[See also the two links at the bottom of this short article.]
- Strength to Love: A Challenge to the Private Prison Industry
- [Change.org - Marian Wright Edelman]
…ex-offenders who now each hold one share of stock in the same prison company that once held them captive, and they attended the [shareholders'] meeting in the hopes of sharing their perspective on how the privatized prison industry can better serve society by rehabilitating inmates, rather than just serving its own profits by perpetuating the prison cycle…
…America [has] less than five percent of the world’s population but over a quarter of the world’s prisoners.
[Links to Children's Defense Fund's campaign, Cradle to Prison Pipeline®. -L]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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