Pareidolia

Doesn't take into account:   Differences in materials in a Nimitz and a survivable spacecraft   Differences in atmospheres and other factors affecting the weapons platforms they chose   Cost of research and development   Oxygen   Food   Water   Filtration and waste management   Guidance systems and avio...more

What is easy to do for one is not automatically easy to do for all.

One should always keep in mind that everyone has different capacities, tendencies, genetics, degrees of addiction (it isn't a binary, zero sum thing where you're either addicted or you're not; it comes in flavors and magnitudes,) and underlying issues contributing to addiction.   Because a thing is relatively easy f...more

That is true, unfortunately.

The open door policy wasn't restricted to children. The children's parents - who were frequently present while the children were in his bedroom - were able to enter whenever they felt like it.   Question: if you're molesting a child, and their parent is right outside, do you leave the door unlocked and tell them to ...more

Yes, but that's part of my point. "He kept secret until he was imprisoned."   Where was MJ's effort to keep his pedophilia a secret? All the testimony in the trial stated that he had an open door policy. That there was never a time when his bedroom door was locked. That guests were allowed to enter at their leisure, ...more

That's reportedly true, yes. Well, she and many others around him were concerned about the impact it was having on his health. Whether one buys that is anybody's call. It did seem to take a toll.   I suspect he would have won the case had he persisted. Even when brought to criminal trial there just wasn't substantive...more

If by duck you mean pedophile, he doesn't bear the hallmarks of one at all.   He was never secretive about his interactions with children. If anything, he made it an overt part of his public persona (even after the allegations.) There have not been the hundreds of victims that a pedophile with his privacy, security, ...more