In the meantime, the prosecutor changed. Didn't the new prosecutor run on a campaign promise he'll not agree to vacate the conviction? Basically making the new outcome influenced by political campaign promises. Which would be deeply flawed in itself.

Putting aside Adnan's guilt or innocence, why does victim's brother being given sufficient notice to attend the hearing change anything? If the court would make exactly same decision if he was present, any remedy would be between Lee's brother and the state, and should not result in defendant being dragged through the court system.

If you think he should be in jail, you can easily turn the tables around and ask yourself would you still support this if it was somebody you truly believed was innocent, and the other side was appealing on immaterial (in the sense they would not have changed outcome) details in the hopes they'll have better luck with some combination of court, judge, or prosecutor shopping in the next round. That's basically the spirit of why there is prohibition on double-jeopardy.

Yes, there are several probes that could (and those that are still active can) see that region of space. Plus any spacecraft that left Earth-Moon system, and had capabilities to take photos as it flew to other planets in the Solar system (or to the Sun itself).

No, there isn't anything there. Several reasons. L3 Lagrange point of Sun-Earth system is there. L3 is unstable point, nothing could hide there for very long, it'd fall out of orbit relatively quickly. Earth is a planet, meaning its gravitational influence is strong enough to clear its orbit of other stuff. This includes stuff attempting to orbit on the opposite side of the Sun from us. I.e. anything in Earth's orbit either gets stuck in one of the two stable Lagrange points (L4 and L5; there's some dust and couple of asteroids stuck there), captured into orbit around Earth (becoming a moon, but so far no luck for capturing that 2nd moon), or eventually flung out.

And as several people mentioned already, even without being able to see, we'd be able to detect gravitational influence of anything sufficiently large, like another planet. In case you were asking if there could be something large (e.g. planet sized) hiding there, the answer is resounding no. Even if there could be something large out there (which it can't, orbital mechanics simply doesn't allow it), we'd figure it out back in the 19th century by simply observing trajectories of other stuff that we can see, long before we started launching stuff in space.

You can not use quantum entanglement for communication.

If you have two entangled particles, and you measure spin of one of them, you'll randomly get a result 50% of the time that it is up, and 50% of the time that it is down. Depending on that measurement, you know that the other particle will have opposite spin 100% of time, once measured by distant observer.

But for the second far away observer, doing that second measurement on the other particle from the entangled pair, they'll also see particle with either up or down spin randomly 50% of the time. Because, and this is important bit, the 1st observer is not forcing the spin to be either up or down. The 1st observer is measuring it and getting random result, and thus the 2nd observer sees random results from their viewpoint too. The 1st observer knows what the 2nd observer will get even before the 2nd observer measures the other particle on their end. But that doesn't communicate any information to the 2nd observer.

What this means is that the two observers can not communicate (i.e. exchange information) using quantum entanglement.

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Think of it this way. Let say we have a set of two "entangled" dice. When I roll my dice, you'll always get the number on the opposite side on your dice.

So, I roll my dice and get 3. This means when you roll your dice, you'll get 4. I roll my dice again, and get 5. You roll your dice and get 2.

For both of us, those are just meaningless sequences of random numbers. I can not set my dice to 3, to force your dice to roll 4. I can only roll my dice, and get some random number; when you roll your dice, you'll get the number on the opposite side. This is what entanglement is.

This means, I can not communicate anything to you using these entangled set of dice. I have no control over what number will appear on my dice when I roll it, and thus I also have no control over what number will appear on your dice when you roll it. From your point of view, the signal you get is simply random noise.

At the beginning, there were no atoms, because densities were too high for atoms to exist. It was some weird quantum soup of particles.

Also, not sure where you are going with knowing the size of hydrogen atom. You can't simply pack those as tight as possible. As you pack those hydrogen atoms more and more tight, at some point protons will capture electrons, turn into neutrons (and release neutrino in the process). This is how neutron stars form. Neutron stars are about densest you can get matter before it collapses into a black hole.

Are you trolling me here? Assuming you are not, the above answers exactly where they'll go. It'll simply take them forever to get there, because space they have to travel through is itself expanding.

To make an analogy, imagine an ant on the surface of a balloon trying to get from the bottom to the top of the balloon. Imagine you can just keep inflating this balloon indefinitely, making it bigger and bigger. If you are inflating balloon fast enough so that it increases in size faster than ant can move over its surface, the ant will make a progress in its journey, but it will never be able to reach the top of the balloon. If ant can keep going infinitely, there's a spot on the balloon it will eventually reach after infinite amount of time has passed.

This is what happens to a photon traveling through Universe. The universe is expanding, and the far regions of space are receding from this photon faster than the photon can travel through space.

Let assume that photon is emitted from Earth, just so we can have convenient frame of reference. The same would be true if it was emitted from anywhere else.

Assuming nothing ever absorbs it, the photon would just keep going forever. However, even if the Universe itself is not infinite, and has an edge, it will never get to that edge. Not even close. I.e. as far as your question goes, the difference between infinite and finite Universe is irrelevant. The final fate of that photon and how far it can get is the same.

As it travels, its frequency will get lower and lower because the space it is traveling through is expanding; it will redshift more and more until its energy becomes so low to be undetectable.

It will only be able to reach a region of space that is finite distance from where it started its journey. This furthest point in space that it can reach is within our currently observable Universe. However, by the time that photon reaches it (after it was traveling for infinite amount of time), that point in space will be far outside of our future observable Universe. Again because space is expanding, and the space beyond observable Universe is moving away from us much faster than the speed of light, it can never get to those regions of space (it actually can't even reach the edge of currently observable Universe, because that region of space is also already moving away from us faster than the speed of light).

This also means that there is a sphere around the Earth from which the photons emitted right now towards us, Earth's current location in space is the furthest they will ever be able to get to. By the time they get here after travelling for trillions of years, they'll be so much red shifted as to be undetectable.

According to Google, there are different requirements for different roles. For commander or pilot, it is 158 to 190cm. For mission specialist it is 149 to 193cm. However, if you are aspiring astronaut, do check with NASA first.

Here's where somebody actually did the math:

https://www.quora.com/In-Interstellar-movie-2014-how-close-exactly-is-Miller-planet-has-to-get-from-the-Gargantua-black-hole-distance-in-km-in-order-to-has-such-extreme-time-dilation-1-hour-equal-7-years-back-on-Earth-Need-accurate/answer/Bill-C-Riemers-1?ch=10&oid=395871518&share=b3c1ff02&srid=tze0&target_type=answer

TL;DR For such extreme time dilation, the planet would need to orbit just outside of photon sphere. There are no stable orbits that close to the event horizon; the planet would either fall into the black hole, or it'd be flung out into space.

The photon sphere is a sphere around the black hole where gravity is so extreme, photons are orbiting black hole in circles.

The black hole would need to be supermassive. Because anything smaller (e.g. solar mass black holes), the tidal forces that close to the event horizon would be so large, they'd shred the planet into tiny pieces... Or basically anything else, such as spaceship or a human.

For entire solar system to be so deep in the gravity well to experience time dilation as extreme as in the movie, and not be either destroyed or stripped of its planets, the black hole would need to be many orders of magnitude larger than anything we have ever observed. From what we know, no such black hole can exist. There was simply not enough time since Big Bang for any to grow that large, and due to the expansion of universe, no black hole will ever be able to grow to such a large size.

It was very over exaggerated in the movie. The effect is real. There's time dilation due to both special relativity (the speed of satellite) and general relativity (how deep in the gravity well the satellite is).

The time dilation in the movie is so extreme, that I'm not sure a planet could even exist so close to the event horizon. There is such thing as innermost stable orbit around black hole; I wouldn't be surprised if for such extreme time dilation, a planet would need to orbit closer than innermost stable orbit (which would be impossible).

The clocks are slowed down by orbital speed, and also slowed down by how "deep" in gravity well they are. This means anything in orbit will experience its clock slowed down depending how fast it moves. Further away, the slower it moves, the less the clock in the satellite is slowed down compared to the surface of the body it orbits. However, the further away the satellite is, higher in the gravity well it is, and faster its clock ticks compared to the clock on the surface of the body it orbits. In case of Earth, there is an orbit where these two effects cancel each other. See this graph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation#/media/File:Orbit_times.svg

Those galaxies moving away from us are not moving through space. They are carried away by expanding space. That's a very important difference. A lot of this stuff applies only to things moving through space.

Those "many other countries" don't have 18,000 police forces like the US has. They have one regular police force, sometime supplemented by gendarmerie.

Remember that every single one of those 18,000 police departments is a fully independent police force that has nothing to do with any of the other police departments in the country. They each answer to and only to their local city council. And we all know how "competent" and corrupt an average "small town USA" city council is. So you get police force to match. Many of these small towns use their police departments as money making machine.

If you are angry at your police department but keep voting same people in for mayor and city council (or worse don't bother to vote, or have no idea who the people running for those offices are and just skip that part of the ballot)... You are totally missing your target. The mayor and city council are 100% responsible for every single thing that the police department does. They are the ones who appoint and command the police chief.

> My guess is the DA drops the charges.

Per the article, he was acquitted in the case brought by the police against him. The supreme court decline to allow the case where he sued the police for violating his rights.

These are two different things.

It's exactly zero threat. The headline is a clickbait.

About 25 million meteorites enter Earth's atmosphere daily. Most of these are tiny, but there's larger chunk of rock here and there among them. Almost all burn up in the atmosphere, depositing some 1000 tons of dust. Every single day.

For something to survive trip through the atmosphere all the way down to the surface, it'd need to be at least 5 meters in diameter. About 5 times wider than this thing. Give or take, about 2 make it to the surface every single day.

If somebody lives in northern France, they should enjoy the show. Not panic. This thing is way too small. It's likely not even the largest one to hit the Earth today.

I'm not saying this is ideal. Ships shouldn't be simply scuttled at the end of their life. They should go to scrap yards. However, an isolated incident far from any fishing areas far out in the sea isn't going to be environmental disaster. There are many large ships at the bottom of the oceans. E.g. just count sunk WW1 and WW2 battleships.

At least there was attempt to do it properly with this one ship, but it didn't work out.

There are also couple of US and Russian nuclear reactors on the bottom of the various oceans. Plus a selection of nuclear warheads. From various submarines that sunk after catastrophic accidents, or were scuttled intentionally.

That's what they were trying to do. But no country is accepting her, because the ship is in a such a bad shape that it can sink at some point en route. Nobody wants to risk her sinking in their territorial waters.

Apollo 1. Challenger. Columbia. Soyuz 11. Soyuz 1. And the list goes on. The exploration continues.

There's memorial left on the Moon by Apollo 15 mission, to all astronauts and cosmonauts who died before 1971: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents#/media/File:Fallen_Astronaut.jpg

You are wasting time on me.

In short, you don't know much about how nuclear power plants operate, and the infrastructure behind it? You were told "nuclear bad", and you run with it.

EDIT: Also, thanks for confirming the fast pace of building infrastructure centered on renewables in Germany. As I said, you folks want stuff now; no pace is fast enough for you, unless it is instant. Reality doesn't work that way.

Yeah, they've been spamming all social platforms for the past week. No surprises there. Omitting the fact the said village is collection of empty dilapidated buildings that were boarded up years ago. Also omitting the fact about all the concessions they already got, among other that the coal burning plants will be closed 8 years sooner than originally planned, and that the expansion of the mine is much smaller than originally planned.

1. is BS. The plants were closed by political fiat. In particular to bring Green party into the ruling coalition in the late 1990's. Nothing to do with their safety. In fact, Germany's nuclear power plants are perfectly safe to operate. If they were not closed, Germany would not need to operate a single coal burning power plant today. Not a single one.
2. is also BS. Germany was fast building renewable energy infrastructure. You may not be happy with the pace, but building large infrastructure takes time. They were also shutting down nuclear reactors, to appease Greens. Further increasing today's need for bringing back previously closed coal burning plants back online.
3. There are other sources of uranium. Once fueled, nuclear power plant operates for about 3-6 years before its fuel rods need to be replaced. Putin could decide not to sell you more uranium, but effects of that would not be felt for many years. Unlike cutting off gas shipments, effects of which are felt very fast.

There's a place you can do that in the US too: https://www.drivetanks.com/prices/

Spoiler alert, it's expensive.

Unfortunately, most videos on YouTube along the lines "I built a rocket motor" are made by clueless people who got lucky not to hurt themselves, others, and not burn to the ground their or other people's property in the process. They should be only used as an example how to not make rocket motors. Not saying every single one, but vast majority of those.

They are becoming a scourge of the hobby. Similar how quadcopter idiots did serious harm to model airplanes hobby recently.

I hear Red River is great place to park trucks in Winnipeg. Just don't tell these dudes they should move them off the river before spring.