Could this have been dangerous in the wrong hands?
Oh hell yeah, if by wrong hands you mean ones without a glove.
Other than that not really, since you still need 100cc of high grade plutonium, which is near impossible to make if you aren't an industrialized nation.
It's a tough problem,
No it isn't. It is a very simple one, charge based on harm. child porn=abuse, abuse=harm, harm=jail.
Yes it's bad to have those sorts of pictures made and distributed,
Again, no it isn't. That's your opinion. It isn't the job of the state to enforce your moral opinion. These were pictures made by individuals of their own volition. Prosecuting them in anyway is a gross violation of their most basic liberties.
I'm not really sure that this is the sort of crime that the lawmakers writing the legislation had in mind when they passed it
This is exactly the kind of prosecution they hoped for. The goal of laws like this is to control human behavior that certain groups dislike, namely pornography and sexuality. it has very little to actually do with CP. They just come through the back door riding the CP train and started bending the law as they always wanted to. They don't feel that people can make decisions for themselves.
You shouldn't look at the law as a means to enforce what is "right" and "wrong" from a moral stance, but as a means of protecting peoples rights. If you don't, more laws like this will come out of the woodwork.
No body is forcing me to go you say? well, they are forcing me to pay for it. I'd rather NASA spent my money figuring out how to mine the sky rather than how to plant a flag on a useless rock.
When the population of Earth hits 15 billion and you and 100 people on mars are freezing, starving, and suffocating, you can look at the sky and wonder how others will be getting on.
We'll be siting at the L5 Lagrange point with a few asteroids and a beer living it up, laughing at all the money you wasted.
Yeah, I have no doubt people will move to space like I said "an average near earth object has more high quality metal ore than human society has produced in the last 10 years"
Mars OTOH, has practically no resources, is far away, and down a gravity well.
So why? Why Mars? In 30 years we will not be getting Iron ore or energy off Mars if we sink trillions of dollars into getting there. We would get that from things closer to home if we utilize our resources to actually accomplish something useful like securing resources rather than a gigantic publicity stunt.
The biggest problem to me is: how are they going to get off the rock?
In order to get them off they will need to ship a man rated rocket, and its launch facilities, down to the planets surface, assemble it, pray one slight flaw from operating in a completely alien environment without prior testing doesn't blow it up. As I recall, rocket science on earth isn't without it's mistakes, even with back up parts, high tech facilities, and maintenance crews. And they are going to do that on the martian surface?
My generation has gotten a few monumental failures, some publicity stunts, and space robots (which are pretty cool, but not a whole lot of that man to the moon excitement stuff).
Gee way to describe what it feels like growing up under bush. Well if it's any consolation the space robot will be out of office in a few days
If it's any further consolation, they may have had the whole moon shot, and all that economic prosperity and social revolution, sex, drugs, and rock and roll, But at least their 401k's are taking a dive.
Usually they are served with Soju, which is Korean distilled rice wine. Take a drink and follow it with some greasy fried silk worms. At least that's how my roommate eat them.
It's not that disgusting really, I put it on par with eating chicharrones.
What was disgusting is when he made chicken giblet stir fry.
8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss
