This isn't 'Nam, there are rules...

With the proliferation of video and photographic 'evidence', people seem much more ready to believe an event didn't happen nowadays if there isn't visual 'smoking gun' evidence to prove it.

That's ok. I'm being lazy because of my skin colour.

I mean color.

Pardon?

Yarrr.

The one with the Ninjas.

The person (Natasha MacBryde) whose tribute site he defaced had committed suicide by throwing herself under a train. She had committed suicide because of online cyber bullying.

He defaced her family's memorial page with the altered train photo knowing that her family would see the connection between the altered train and the cause of her death. A reasonable person could be expected to know that would be grossly offensive to her family.

In the UK sending a message that is grossly offensive is considered an offence under the Communications Act 2003 section 127.

That is why the parody has legal significance.

First British copyright law: 1709
The British Statute of Anne 1709, full title "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned".

Mozart: 27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791

The fact it was Thomas the tank engine rather than Thomas the tank has legal significance when the person's face plastered on the front of it died by being run over by a passenger train.

Perhaps the same algorithm that identifies the gender of a tweet could also be used to 'girl-ify' a tweet from male to female language.

Feed in your tweet. Press 'Girl-ify'. Hey presto, all your macho male grunting is converted to fluffy, girly, gender-skewed language.

By 'book', Einstein meant a physical, printed, unchangeable book.

When we're relying on the internet for unchanging 'facts', we're at the mercy of information storage that can be changed at will.

In George Orwell's 1984, history was re-written by destroying books and creating new ones.

But when our brains don't remember 'facts' because we think the internet will remember for us, those facts can be changed without us realising.

We're reliant on a system of logging, caching and revision-history to tell us otherwise.

But not every stored fact on the internet has the revision-history of wikipedia et al.

The ISS is slightly larger than a full-sized football field. So 335 meters is only about 3 time the length of the ISS lengths away.

You mentioned Chernobyl in the context of an explosion.

The explosion at Chernobyl was caused by rapid steam production and an increase in pressure.

At least filming police is legal in Arizona, even if frowned upon.

In the UK we now have the Kafkaesque Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 which considers civillian filming of police to be 'eliciting or attempting to elicit information about (members of the police)' as 'likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'. Maximum penalty: 10 years inside.

Thorium reactors run at low pressure. There's no high-pressure steam component, or risk of steam explosion.