A fugitive is someone on the run from justice, not someone willingly submitting to standard extradition protocol under an extant treaty.

Man, arguments would be so much easier if I were willing to just make up definitions to suit my purposes, like you. Oh well.

Ugh, formatting, the br tags have to be on separate lines.

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Those are insightful comments. Some German and Japanese war criminals were tried, but no one from either side was tried for using systematic rape of as a weapon of war, though it was used on all sides.

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All sides.

He is following extradition procedure under the extradition treaty established between the US and New Zealand. The DoJ is claiming that following a treaty that the US government itself established is criminal. They might as well bring up the NZ courts for aiding a fugitive, since the NZ courts are processing the extradition request.

"Terrorists" did not start the war in Iraq. I'm sure the parent meant to include that conflict in their statement.

They claim MegaUpload rewarded uses for uploading specific copyrighted content. Supposedly they also have internal emails to that effect. They probably would have got him already except for the NZ police conducting an illegally overzealous raid on Dotcom's estate, followed by the scandalous behavior of the US DoJ and NZ police, which drew a lot of ire from the NZ public (and prime minister IIRC).

Right, but since the DoJ is claiming that someone in standard extradition proceedings is actually a 'fugitive,' the parent's point stands.

We're not talking about fission reactors, but radioisotope thermal generators (RTGs).

A 12 kg one, about the same mass as the solar power system. E.g. SNAP-9A, SNAP-19 would be sufficient, and those are 1970s designs.

We have been.

The Russians even launched some satellites powered by actual fission reactors.

It's not a "nuclear power plant," it's a radioisotope thermal generator (RTG). For this particular mission, a RTG would have had a very similar mass to the solar power system used (12 kg for the solar power system, ~12 kg for a 20-30W RTG).

The probe will be destroyed as the comet nears the sun, within a year.

Yet another AC who doesn't understand the difference between nuclear fission and radioisotope thermal generation.

Other considerations aside, it really would not have added appreciable mass. There are existing RTGs producing about the right amount of power (20-30W) with 12 kg masses similar to the ~12 kg mass of Philae's solar system. You can read about them on wikipedia or a bunch of informative comments in this very thread.

Public liabilities are private assets. You can't reduce one without reducing the other - it's an accounting identity. Space exploration isn't the only area where math matters.

There are existing RTGs with nearly the same mass to Philae's solar power system. It's not a big secret or anything, you can even read about them on Wikipedia, you know, if you're in to fact-checking.