http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motive_(law)
Motive (law)
In law, especially criminal law, a motive is the cause that moves people to induce a certain action. Motive in itself is seldom an element of any given crime; however, the legal system typically allows motive to be proven in order to make plausible the accused's reasons for committing a crime, at least when those motives may be obscure or hard to identify with.
The law technically distinguishes between motive and intent. "Intent" in criminal law is synonymous with mens rea, which means no more than the specific mental purpose to perform a deed that is forbidden by a criminal statute, or the reckless disregard of whether the law will be violated.[citation needed] "Motive" describes instead the reasons in the accused's background and station in life that are supposed to have induced the crime.
Motive is particularly important in prosecutions for homicide. First, murder is so drastic a crime that most people recoil from the thought of being able to do it; proof of motive explains why the accused did so desperate an act.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20091007/D9B6F0VG0.html
NASA downgrades threat of large asteroid
Oct 7, 3:48 PM (ET)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Earth can breathe a sigh of relief.
NASA on Wednesday downgraded the odds of an 885-foot asteroid striking the planet in 2036.
Scientists initially believed there was a 1-in-45,000 chance that Apophis could hit the planet on April 13, 2036. But the threat was lowered to a 1-in-250,000 chance after researchers recalculated the asteroid's path.
"It wasn't anything to worry about before. Now it's even less so," said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Chesley and his colleagues refined the asteroid's orbit after an astronomer in Hawaii analyzed previously unreleased images that gave scientists a better idea of Apophis' position.
Earth got a scare in 2004 when initial measurements suggested the newly discovered Apophis seemed to have a chance of hitting the planet in 2029. Further observations ruled out any possibility of an impact.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20051111&slug=beam11
Friday, November 11, 2005
Astronauts say "beam" would divert asteroids
By Guy Gugliotta
The Washington Post
Two NASA astronauts have figured out a way to create a real version of a "Star Wars" "tractor beam" to keep an asteroid from crashing into Earth.
By hovering nearby for perhaps a year, the astronauts say, the spacecraft's gravity could minutely slow the asteroid's progress or speed it up, a process that 10 or 20 years later would cause the rogue rock to miss Earth by a comfortable margin.
"The beauty of this idea is that it's incredibly simple," astrophysicist-astronaut Edward Lu said. Since momentum doesn't dissipate in space, with enough time, only a small early nudge is needed to cause a major orbital change.
Lu, who has made three trips to space, including a six-month stint aboard the international space station, and fellow astronaut Stanley Love, who has not yet flown there, describe the design of their "gravitational tractor" Thursday in the journal Nature.
The two are in the middle of a spirited debate among space buffs, astronomers and space agencies worldwide over what to do about "near Earth objects": incoming comets and asteroids such as the one many scientists say caused the catastrophic "extinction event" that finished off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
This discussion, for years a sci-fi giggler among fans of movies such as "When Worlds Collide" and "Deep Impact," suddenly became serious late last year when astronomers detected an incoming asteroid whose probability of hitting Earth on April 13, 2029
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Armageddon
:16:05
- Whoa, whoa, Harry. It's gettin' real.
- Harry! Come on, Harry!
:16:07
- You shot me!
- You shot him.
:16:10
That bullet never got close.
Just a ricochet.
:16:12
You know, it's all funny
till somebody gets shot in the leg!
:16:14
Hey, pucker up.
We got clients incoming.
:16:19
Uh, b-back in-in-- in 1974,
:16:22
we-we first got the idea--
the-the possibility that-that
a meteor or an asteroid--
:16:26
I need somebody who's had a little less
caffeine this morning. Doc, translate.
:16:28
Yes, sir. Our first feasibility plan was
to use a spread-focus laser generator...
:16:33
to heat the object
to the point of fracture.
:16:35
That's like shooting a B.B. gun
at a freight train, Doc.
http://www.cswap.com/1991/Flight_of_the_Intruder/cap/en/2_Parts/a/00_03
Flight of the Intruder
:03:17
Hey, Morg.
:03:19
Did you ever notice how...
:03:21
how some nights you could see
more stars
:03:23
than other nights?
:03:25
Huh? You ever notice that?
:03:27
Hmm?
:03:29
The stars.
:03:31
Oh, yeah.
:03:34
I've got an update.
:03:35
I'm cycling to
the coast-in point.
:03:37
You're getting
in a rut.
:03:39
You're getting in a rut.
:03:41
I mean, did you ever
stop to think
:03:42
you're taking your job just
a little bit too seriously?
:03:45
Look at me--
I enjoy my work.
:03:46
Yeah, I'll bet.
:03:47
See, I'm happy.
:03:48
See? Look.
:03:53
Enemy search radar
:03:54
looking for company.
:03:55
Okay...
:03:58
Time to get on down.
:03:59
Here we go.
:04:13
Black Eagle, Devil 5-0-5.
Feet dry.
:04:16
That's a roger, 5-0-5.
:04:26
Look at that small-arms fire
down there, Morg.
:04:28
Every peasant with a rifle, huh?
:04:35
Jesus, you call that a rifle?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701229/
"The Simpsons"
The Canine Mutiny (1997)
Original Air Date: 13 April 1997 (Season 8, Episode 20)
Plot Outline:Using Santa's Little Helper's name, Bart is able to fraudulently obtain a credit card. Unaware that he needs to eventually pay for everything, Bart makes outlandish purchases - including a specially breeded collie he names Laddie. He manages to evade Lisa's demand for an explanation but can't keep back the creditors, who eventually repossess everything. When the creditors as for the dog, Bart - who has fallen in love with Laddie - sends Santa's Little Helper with the repo men. Later, Bart grows bored with Laddie and gives her to Chief Wiggum; in the aftermath, Bart is forced to explain everything and is sent to get Santa's Little Helper back any way he can. Bart eventually tracks down the pooch to a blind man's house and upon collecting Santa's Little Helper begins to leave. However, the blind man is able to trap burglar Bart in the closet. When Chief Wiggum comes to arrest Bart, Laddie sniffs out marijuana in the blind man's pocket. Santa's Little Helper goes home with Bart, while Wiggum holds a huge party at the man's house.
