I used a pair of pictures of me as a child, which were taken when I was about 13. They look nearly similar (two shots out of a sequence done by a professional photographer). The AI estimated my age at 26 for the first and 42 for the second one.

No. There is no "both". There is that "innocent until proven guilty". And it's the task of a court, consisting of a jury and a judge, to determine his guilt. For the police, at the most he is a suspect. It's not the police's task to neither judge nor to execute their judgement.

He is the victim. He is a human being with the constitutional right not to have his spine broken by someone. He still has his constitutional rights even if you think he is a bad person. And there is that thing about human rights. You have them as a human, completely independent of you behaviour. I know that some people dream of stripping other people of their human rights because they dislike them. But that's a thinking we usually call totalitarian.

For instance, it would be feasible to use off site storage even for often used data. You could upload your movies to some file service and stream from there. No need for your own backup concept. You could even have your office file stuff on a remote filer and wouldn't notice much of a speed bump.

From the beginning of both the plane and the car.

You can always look at the options. Is it feasible to fly to the local supermarket? If you have a helicopter, maybe it is. Does it make sense? Except for the ego boosting factor, probably not. Is it possible to drive from New York to Paris, France? If you get your car on a freight ship, it is. Does it make sense? In most cases, not, except you want that car to be in Paris for some reason.

So yes, flying and driving by car are comparable. In many cases, there is a clear winner. But in a lot of other cases, there are several factors to consider until the best option can be determined.

Probably no, as about 10 inches of water shield nearly all radiation that comes from the wreck of the plane.

Yes, it is a geological term derived from a german word, but Lagerstätte doesn't mean storage space. That would be Lagerplatz. It is also not to be confused with Lagerstatt, which means bed. The correct translation is natural mineral deposit.

The death penalty solely exists because people want a "just" excuse to kill people. And to tell themselves, that it is justified, they dehumanize the to-be-killed as much as possible.

I actually never listen to music in my car at all, except the radioprogramming is sending some. But I don't listen to music stations. So MP3s are a non-option for me. (In some way, I am a-music at all, as I don't listen to music in general). My preferred radio stations for long drives are news/information broadcasters, but when I was in the U.S., they seem to be missing in general, at least in the regions I was driving around.

If you plot the personal wealth curve of people who "made it big", it does not differ from the personal wealth curve of people who won the lottery. For nearly all of them, there is a big jump somewhere during their life, and before and after that, it's no different than for anyone else in the same wealth range.

The Mercury probes were never called Voyager before, so why start now?

The first space probe to pass Mercury was Mariner 10. Mariner 11 and Mariner 12 were supposed to fly to Jupiter and Saturn, but they were renamed to Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.

The Atacama Desert is definitely at least partly tropical, starting at 18 degrees south. So is the Sahara, whose southern boundary is around 15 degrees north. The Namib extends to the 18 th degree south, it is also at least partly tropical. The only desert that is not in the Tropcis is the Chihuahua desert, but it is at least close to a tropical sea, the Gulf of Mexico.

Actually, yes. At least here the salt for deicing roads is mainly sodium chloride.

This probably explains, why some driest places on Earth are close to tropical oceans, right? The Atacama Desert, the Chihuahua Desert, the Namib Desert or the Sahara.

No, Darwin and Wallace called something else artificial selection: If you set a goal of what you expect from the offspring and then choose the parents accordingly, you are doing selective breeding.

Natural selection is what happens if there is no special breeding goal.