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  • I was privvy to info about prosecutors vs public defenders. It may not be true in every region, but it is at least in my town.

    Prosecutors actually get less money to handle cases, but get to push off or decline to prosecute depending on severity and caseload.

    Public defenders get more funding from many different levels of government, but even with that funding they are overworked with twice the staff.

    I think prosecutors already have the case presented to them as well, and they are pressing charges. Defenders need to pick up where the police and prosecutors left off and either find a legal out or bargain with what the defendant has to get the best position.

    Also, from what I have heard about pro se defendants is that it frustrates the court because the proceedings grind to a crawl to ensure the defendant understands enough of what is going on to not have them claim they were railroaded.

















  • I think we would need to consider more than terraforming. Somehow, we would need to add mass to the planet to get out to hold water. That probably means deorbiting the Martian moons as well as heavy planetoids from the asteroid belt.

    This would need to be done in a way that does not alter the Martian orbit, but doing this may also permanently destroy the current planetary balance.

    My theory is that the planet would need to be reliquified. If glassing it by deorbiting mass onto it doesn’t cut it, we would probably need to use solar reflectors to increase the planet’s temperature. This also has the possibility of destabilizing the orbit.

    Finally, as the planet finally begins cooling, we could lob ice chunks at it until there is sufficient water. At that point, if humans still exist, we could consider forming the planet into a proper habitat.

    My thought is that we would have already figured out artificial gravity and left the planet due to falling rocks.