Tetrahedrite

As I have said before, would those of you who are pro-death be willing to personally administer the lethal dose to a criminal who has been sentenced to death???

To quote a famous Australian song: "the rich get richer, the poor get the picture....."

Are you seriously suggesting that your government would release a convicted serial killer who had murdered 10 people back into society? The USA must be worse than I first thought!

Who is Associated Press owned by?

This is rubbish and you know it. Any person who "kills 10 different people" is going to be locked up for the rest of their lives, they're not going to be roaming around the street. "Should the world be safer place for your children or murderers?" This is just emotive BS as well. The above applies here just as much. Revenge so you can feel better is not an excuse to murder anybody, at any time.

Welcome to politics!!

Reason for my abhorance of the death penalty are summed up below in points taken from this UNHCHR website: As a method of preventing crime, there is no evidence to suggest that the threat of the death penalty will deter the commission of a criminal act. International comparisons of crime rates in different countries suggest that the threat of execution has no effect on the rates of capital crime. The protection of society from serious and violent crime is crucial also, but Pax Christi believes that the death penalty will not solve the deficiencies in society that can be traced to the causes of serious crime. The death penalty will not prevent crime or compensate victims, and is a misleading solution to a complicated problem. Capital punishment is often imposed in societies that are not capable of, or willing to consider the complex causes or roots of criminal behaviour. The death penalty tends to promote a harmful attitude of revenge amongst peoples. Those countries that have the death penalty enshrined in their law have hardened the views of society, creating a mentality of intolerance, vengeance and retaliation in relation to criminal offenders. In many cases, the imposition of the death sentence is inconsistent with previous sentences for analogous crimes. Often the death penalty discriminates against social, political and racial minorities. Historical and contemporary evidence shows that the death penalty is borne unjustly by the poor, minorities and underclasses in general. It is alleged that those who can afford good legal representation have less chance of being sentenced to death. There is always a risk that, even in the most carefully constructed legal system, human error, emotions or misjudgements could lead proceedings to become unfairly biased against the accused. History can recall numerous cases of wrongfully convicted prisoners being freed in light of new evidence, sometimes many years after being sentenced. In cases such as these, the finality of death makes the sentence irreversible if it has already been carried out. It is a sad irony that nations that proclaim that the taking of human life is an intolerable crime, can punish the perpetrator in the same method thought so intolerable. The death penalty not only ends a life, it also subjects the convicted to inhuman and degrading treatment, and mental torture. Waiting many years for imminent death is a cruel punishment. However, this should not be an encouragement for Governments to shorten the time period between sentencing and death, leaving less time for the appeal process, and for new evidence to come to light.

I believe those who support state sanctioned murder are almost as bad as those who commit the crimes. I also find it highly ironic that the people who are most likely to support state sanctioned murder are conservative christians, who you would expect to be less violent. It is also ironic that the USA, which raises itself atop the pillar of democracy and human rights, is the only major developed country (other than Japan) in the world that retains the death penalty.

I think you've got the atomic number mixed up with the mass number. Bismuth (Bi) has an atomic number of 83, which means it has 83 protons. All naturally occurring Bi has a mass number of 209, meaning it has 126 neutrons. mmmmmm........astatine........very tasty!

How come everyone keeps saying that! Get your facts right! It costs around three times more to kill a person than to keep them in gaol for the rest of their natural lives! This is not a justification for murder http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/NY-RCD-Test.pdf

I find it funny when people who have such strong opinions about politics can't even spell politics. Must be from Texas! *ducks*

Ahh yes....the rest of the world.......the unimportant people.

Yes, but every now and then the rest of us unimportant people have to put up with the policies of a trigger-happy, blithering idiot of a global cowboy making the rest of the world unsafe.

There is a difference between not trying to please everyone and making enemies out of the rest of the world. 80% of us in the rest of the world(poll taken just before the US election) wanted Bush out! He is making the world more unsafe for all of us, not just the US. *cue: but he's making the world safer!*

I believe this has been done over and over before, however I am vehemently opposed to state sanctioned murder.

Nuking NK would cause a nuclear holocaust!! Remember China is NK's biggest ally and they do have nuclear weapons, and enough of them to put a sizable hole in many, many American cities, including for example, Philadelphia. China also has the biggest army in the world. America using a nuke would also cause an instant arms race, and all non-proliferation treaties would be instantly forgotten. I'll repeat, nuking NK could possibly cause armegedon!!

Some right leaning people believe Bush can do no wrong. And its sad for them, and sad for their country.

Olivine is one of those minerals, what do you mean by "test", a physical test, a chemical test, a diffraction test?

Nearly every single rock forming mineral (around 99.9%) of them have oxygen in their composition.

Yes, I have. It is incredible how big the moon looks when when it has risen just after the sun has set.

Heres an overview of the meteorite: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/AAO/local/www/jab/astrobiology/murchison.html There is mountains of stuff on the net if your interested. Here is an overview of how the SHRIMP works: http://wwwrses.anu.edu.au/gig/Probe/SHRIMP.html

It starts.......This is how GW Bush is going to repay those in rural areas who got him into office so comfortably. Community programs, the sick, and the poor don't really matter because they were probably democrat voters anyway. As long as the rich have their tax cuts everything's alright! To all you right wingers out there, I say try and defend what Bush is doing!

Yes, we do have lots of impact craters, especially in the ancient Yilgarn Craton in Western Australia. I actually spent three months over the summer at the Australian National University (ANU) studying the Murchison Meteorite that fell in Victoria. I was involved in separating each of the mineral components in the meteorite so that they could be dated by isotope methods on a machine called a SHRIMP. Lots and lots of very strange mineral phases in that thing!!!!